Head Statue
Head Statues are enemies found in Kung-Fu Theater in Gex: Enter The Gecko. They usually remain stationary, levitating around a specific area instead of pursuing Gex. However, despite this Floating Heads can be dangerous due to a tendency of blocking important pathways or being located in the middle of a small platform. Once approached, they will breathe fire in Gex's direction, always facing him while doing so within a 360° area. The Scream TV levels feature ghostly counterparts, the Floating Skulls, which attack in the same pattern.
Appearance and inspiration[]
Eponymous to its name, the Head Statues are depicted as a disembodied head that levitates a few feet over the floor. It has Asian facial features and displays a scowl or annoyed expression, accentuated by thick eyebrows. Floating Heads wear a golden headress with a large inscripted medallion prominently featured on top. It closely resembles the Ōkubi, a death spirit that manifests itself as a giant floating head, and that serves as a forebearer of calamity and disaster in Japanese Folklore. Another inspiration might be the vampiric krasue, a ghostly disembodied female head that wanders around surrounded by an spectral and incandescent flame, which is found in several Southeast Asian cultures and is believed to be a source of diseases and misfortune.
Behaviour and strategy[]
Like most enemies of this type, similar to the Floating Skull. They can taken out with a simple tailwhip and tailbounce which is preferred, when youre out of the range of the fire, it will give an opening to attack. Thus, defeating the enemy.