Presume he had just ate a power pellet, of course.

Followup matchups for your consideration:

  1. Slimer, from “Ghostbusters”
  2. Sadako, from “The Ring”
  3. Freddy Krueger, from “Nightmare on Elm Street”
  4. The clown from “It”
  5. A ring wraith from “Lord of the Rings”
  • Stern@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 months ago

    Even if they could, the only effect is to weaken the ghosts, so they have no reason to.

    But, this establishes that the pellets have to be acted upon by an outside force to affect the ghosts. It might also be reasonable to assume that this action may be exclusive to the Pac family.

    If the pellet changed Pacman, it makes no sense that he could eat one ghost and not another. And yet, when a ghost respawns, Pacman is unable to eat that one, even as he manages to eat the others.

    It makes sense if the usage of the power pellet allows Pac-Man to affect the ghosts material form temporarily.

    I like to imagine a situation where Pac-Man set off a paint bomb in a room covering everyones clothes with blue paint that makes those clothes edible. He eats a dudes now blue shirt, dude freaks out, goes home, changes his shirt and comes back. Everyone else still has edible shirts but not dude. Maybe someone else goes to the bathroom and washes off the paint on their shirt after a bit under the faucet. Their shirt is also no longer edible.

    Whether those ghosts react to a power pellet? Insufficient data for meaningful answer.

    Good thing you’re not submitting this to a journal for peer review then. ;)