Ghouly

A Ghouly is supernatural creature that Grabbed By The Ghoulies is named after.

Several Species of Ghoulies with the Characters

They are created by Dr. Krackpot in his Ghouly-making lab. Ghoulhaven Hall is crawling with them. They are the main enemy in the game and must be fought constantly.

Status

There are a variety of different ghoulies encountered in the game. All ghoulies have a certain amount of Heart Points specific to their own species. All ghoulies, except Ninja Imps, cannot gain more Heart Points, cannot use Soup cans and cannot use weapons around the house, with the Skeleton as the only exception. After a ghouly dies, their body will melt into a green imprint in the floor.

Skeletons, Imps, Zombies, Mummies and Spiders are probably the most commonly encountered ghoulies in the game.

Special Ghoulies

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A Mummy disintergrating upon death.

Some ghoulies cannot be destroyed by normal combat but by Special Weapons given to Cooper by Ghoulhaven Hall residents. These ghoulies include:

Mummies need fire to be defeated, so the Candle is used. Since the candle is used so rarely, for most of the game, Mummies cannot be defeated.

Fire Imps are fire creatures, so the Fire Exsquisher is needed to destroy them.

Vampires and Vampire Chicken need Ol' Edna to be slain.

Zombie and Zombie Pirates, even though they can be beaten with normal combat, can be easily drained of Heart Points with the Holy Water Squirter since they have quite alot of health.

It should be noted that Special ghoulies don't always need special weapons to be killed. Mummies and Vampire chicken can be thrown into fire or out a window in certain levels. The Reaper can also instantly kill any Special Ghouly it touches.

Behaviour

Ghoulies have been shown to engage in a variety of different activities other than terrorising the residents of Ghoulhaven Hall. Skeletons and zombies have shown to particularily enjoy dancing, as seen in the Ballroom Embassy and the Lower Corridoors. Skeleton have even taken jobs as maids in the Grand Hallway, and even worn female maid's outfits.

Ghoulies tend to work in groups to defeat Cooper and ghoulies pefer to stay in groups with their own breed. Some parts of the mansion are even infested with particular breeds of Ghouly, for example, zombies have been seen to mostly reside in the Lighthouse while vampires are mainly central in the Greenhouse. Ghoulies can group in large numbers and different breeds have different numbers at a time. Small ghoulies like ninja imps, flying imps and spiders can have over 30 of themselves at room, human-sized ghoulies like skeletons, zombies, mummies and zombie pirates can have around a dozen of them at a room, Vampires tend to wander in pairs, Jessie and Clydes can have at most 3 of themselves in a room and Cursed Mummies will only appear one at a time in any room except the Workshop, where they can be at least 2 at a time.

Zombie Pirates, probably some of the most intelligent ghoulies, have their own hierarchy. First lead by their Captain untill he was defeated in the first visit to the Diner, then Roger the Cabin Boy, a imp who was killed by Cooper for attacking Fiddlesworth (which called upon a horde of ghoulies). Even at the start of the first visit to the Walled Garden, a regular zombie pirate had Skeleton slaves to dig for treassure.

Friendly Imps

Not all ghoulies get along, in some levels, ghoulies will go into warfare with each other, as first shown in the first visit to the Lighthouse Living Quarters, where two zombies start a fight because one suspected the other of cheating in a game of cards. These Ghoulies are known as friendly ghoulies. Friendly Ghoulies will have a smiley face icon on to of their heath number instead of a heart. Some ghoulies will become friendly with Cooper and defeat other Ghoulies if Cooper does something nice like freeing a trapped mummy in the Ballroom Embassy or defeating the zombie pirate in the Walled Garden will make the skeletons help Cooper. Whenever there are no other ghoulies in the room, the smiley face will turn into a question mark and the friendly ghoulie will attack Cooper. The soup can Traiter Fever causes all Ghoulies (apart from the Reaper) to attack each.

Boss Ghoulies

Boss Ghoulies are particularly strong ghoulies that can only have one of them in a room at a time. Unlike other ghoulies that can be bypassed with defeating them in a challenge, boss ghoulies must be fought in every room they appear in, meaning there is always a challenge, purely about battling them. During these types of challenges, no other ghoulies is required to defeat by rules can be added. All the types of boss ghoulies include, the Haunted Door, theHunchback and the Warlock.