Gish is an unlockable guest character in Meat Boy, its map pack expansion,and Super Meat Boy, exclusive to the console versions of the latter game.
General information[]
Appearance[]
Gish is a ball of tar with yellow eyes and teeth.
Origin[]
Gish originates as the titular character of Gish, a 2004 platform game and Edmund McMillen's first major project. It is a physics-based action platformer starring Gish as he uses various abilities to save his girlfriend Brea. One of these abilities is to stick to walls.
Gameplay[]
Meat Boy (+ Map Pack)[]
Gish plays identically to Meat Boy in Meat Boy and its map pack expansion.
Super Meat Boy[]
Movement[]
Compared to Meat Boy, Gish:
Ability[]
How to unlock[]
Trivia[]
- The PC counterparts are the Headcrab from Half-Life (Steam) or Goo Ball from World of Goo (PC & Steam). Out of these three, Gish and Goo Ball have the best vertical jump, while Headcrab has the best horizontal jump. This can be proved on 1-3 (The Gap).
- Gish appears in The Demo chapter.
- He appeared as a character in the original Meat Boy.
- He also appears as an unlockable boss in another game called The Binding of Isaac (Steam) and its remake The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (Steam, PS4, PSVita, 3DS, and Nintendo Switch) by the same creator of Super Meat Boy, Edmund McMillen.
Related achievements[]
| Sticky Fingers G5 | |
| Collect 10 bandages. | ||
References[]
| Super Meat Boy characters | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All versions | ||||||
 Meat Boy |
 Bandage Girl |
 8-Bit Meat Boy |
 4-Bit Meat Boy |
 4-Color Meat Boy |
 Meat Ninja |
 Brownie* |
 Commander Video |
 Jill |
 Ogmo |
 Flywrench |
 The Kid |
 Alien Hominid |
 Tim** |
| Console exclusives | ||||||
Gish |
 Spelunky |
 Pink Knight |
 The Ninja | |||
| PC exclusives | ||||||
 Headcrab |
 Josef |
 Naija |
 RunMan |
 Captain Viridian |
 Steve |
 Goo Ball* |
 Tofu Boy* | ||||||
| Other/Unselectable | ||||||
 Potato Boy |
 Dr. Fetus | |||||
| * = Requires code input ** = Requires code input on PC only | ||||||