Morphina

Morphina
""Not bad looking for a dead chick."
Gender	Female
Species	Human (possessed)/Skeleton
Appears in	Gex
Status	Deceased
Location	Cemetery
Level	Spin-n-Puke

Morphina (also known as Graveyard Witch) is the first boss of Gex.

Background

Morphina was an associate of Rez and she was given the order to guard the Cemetery (and thus had a New Toonland remote on her). She takes the appearance of a pretty young orange-haired, white-clad girl, but when hit enough times, she reveals her true self; an old, skeletal crone!

"I'll pass on the pea soup".

Design and inspiration

She appears to be a parody of the possessed Regan MacNeil of The Exorcist.

Involvement

Morphina is the game's first boss, with her boss level "Spin-n-Puke" becoming accessible once Gex finds the remote for it in "Disco Inferno" and completes that level.

Strategy

When the fight starts, Morphina rises from a mound of skulls she hides in. She'll then use her powers to raise some of the skulls, which she surrounds herself with (preventing Gex from attacking her) then launches at Gex. This repeats until Morphina has taken 3 hits, after which point she changes form and attacks; she'll use projectile vomit. She'll first spew vomit to either side of her three times (left then right, from the player's viewpoint), then two upwards and repeats. 3 more hits after that will do away with her, and Gex will earn the New Toonland remote for Twin Towers.

Trivia

• So far, if not counting the Anime Channel's School Girl enemies (and the Fat Ladies who appear as part of Toon TV's Falling Objects hazards), Morphina is the only notable female enemy-type character in any Gex game to date.
  • Likewise, both Morphina and Xtra are the only known female characters in the Gex series to have a physical appearance (Gex's mother wasn't seen physically, and the cameo of Nikki from Pandemonium! in the ending of ETG doesn't count as she isn't native to his series).
• Morphina is the only boss in the first game to have three sets of quotes from Gex for each phase.