His core is immune to damage from spikes and traps and if it falls in lava, it simply teleports back to his body with no damage.

Complete Immortality: While his bodies can (and will) die, the mass of cells that make up his consciousness can't.

While he is shown to get to get progressively more badass with each trailer, he inevitably dies at the end in an pathetic way, culminating in him accidentally impaling himself on a rock while attempting to kill a mushroom child.

Butt-Monkey: The trailers treat him as kind of a chump.

He is capable of possessing the body of the King, who is alive albeit in a vegetative state, but that might be a special case since that's his original body. It's uncertain whether the bodies have to be dead or not, as he can't possess any of the living (or undead) enemies. This is key to unlocking the Unholy Shores, as well as the true ending. Body Surf: His core can possess other bodies besides the prisoner at the start of the game.Blob Monster: Basically, a sapient, parasitic slime mold puppeteering a dead body.He's the King, the very person he'd been trying to kill from the start. And Then John Was a Zombie: One of the most unusual examples.His species is never specified in game, but The Heart of Dead Cells book refers to him as a homunculus. All There in the Manual: A minor example.

His main goal is to discover the secrets of the island and kill the King in hopes to end the continuous cycle. The Beheaded is a clump of sentient cells capable of possessing bodies. The protagonist and playable character of the game.

Humunculous blueprints dead cells