It Lives

It Lives
Base HP
950
Stage HP
0
Found In
Dropped Items
Gateway to Sheol/Cathedral

It Lives is an unlockable alternative form of Mom's Heart. After being unlocked, it will always appear as the boss of The Womb/Utero 2, permanently replacing Mom's Heart. It is a stronger version of Mom's Heart that summons bosses alongside regular Womb/Utero enemies.

Killing It Lives doesn't drop any items, just hearts. However, it does open up entrances to both Sheol and the Cathedral, as well as the Blue Womb if beaten in under 30 minutes.

Behavior

It Lives behaves exactly like Mom's Heart, with the addition of being able to summon Bosses including:

• Teratoma
• Polycephalus
• Chub
• The Duke of Flies

Notes

• Just like Mom and Mom's Heart, using The Bible against It Lives will kill it instantly.
• Isaac can still encounter It Lives in Greed Mode if it has not been unlocked.

Unlockable Achievements

• A Halo - Defeat Mom using The Bible.

• Lost Baby - Defeat Mom's Heart on hard mode as Isaac.

• Cute Baby - Defeat Mom's Heart on hard mode as Magdalene.

• Glass Baby - Defeat Mom's Heart on hard mode as Cain.

• Shadow Baby - Defeat Mom's Heart on hard mode as Judas.

• Dead Baby - Defeat Mom's Heart on hard mode as ???.

• Crow Baby - Defeat Mom's Heart on hard mode as Eve.

• Fighting Baby - Defeat Mom's Heart on hard mode as Samson.

• Wrapped Baby - Defeat Mom's Heart on hard mode as Azazel (possible accidental switch as Lazarus).

• Begotten Baby - Defeat Mom's Heart on hard mode as Lazarus (possible accidental switch as Azazel).

• Glitch Baby - Defeat Mom's Heart on hard mode as Eden.

• -0- Baby - Defeat Mom's Heart on hard mode as The Lost.

• Goat Head Baby - Defeat Mom's Heart on hard mode as Lilith.

• Super Greed Baby - Defeat Mom's Heart on hard mode as Keeper.

• Smelter - Defeat Mom's Heart or It Lives! as Apollyon.

• Godhead - Beat Mom's Heart, Isaac, Satan, ???, and The Lamb and complete the Boss Rush on hard mode as The Lost
  Earn all 9 Completion Marks on hard mode as The Lost.

Gallery

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  It Lives ingame.

Trivia

• The music that plays during this fight is titled Ventricide . Ventricide is a made-up word formed from the word ventricle (chamber of the heart) and the suffix -cide, which denotes an act of killing. This theme is used in other tracks, such as Matricide, Hericide, and Infanticide.
  • Ventricide could also be a junction of the prefix ventr-, which could denote "belly", "stomach", or "womb" with the suffix -cide.
• It Lives, according to the developers, takes the shape of what Isaac looked like as a fetus.
• It Lives makes the same sounds as Mom's Heart.

Bugs

Bug! Sometimes, if the boss intro is skipped, the game will not teleport Isaac into the center of the bottom of the room, resulting in immediate contact damage with one of the Eyes or Mom's Heart, depending on the direction of the room's entrance.