Proto Shopkeepers are an entity in Spelunky 2.
Behavior[]
Proto Shopkeepers are produced from Generators in the Mothership, among the occasional normal Shopkeeper. They come out of the generator stumbling around left and right.
If damaged for 1 HP, they begin to flop around on the ground. After some time passes, their head will enlarge before they pop into gibs. Damaging a full health Proto Shopkeeper for anything more than 1 HP will simply kill them, preventing them from reaching this stage.
Proto Shopkeepers do not deal any damage to or even stun entities if picked up and used as a throwing object while stunned.
Trivia[]
- Proto Shopkeepers are shown to be a failed clone of "The Original Man", who is strongly implied to be the giant old man in the Mothership.