Does John Romero's head count as a monster in kill stats?
In Doom [II], does John Romer's head count towards the end-level kills statistic?
I finished a level and I'm one kill short, but I checked everywhere and there aren't any monsters left. I even tried setting the map to show entities and used noclip to fly around, trying to find an entity moving, even shooting as I moved to prompt any monsters to start moving, but still found nothing. I can only assume that John Romero's head counts as a monster, but it's not registering it as a kill. 🤔
Bizarrely, I can't find any information on this; I'd have thought that it had been asked before, but a web search comes up completely empty (the wiki page for "the final boss" says it doesn't count, but that's because it's not a thing; the page for John Romer's head doesn't mention it at all). 🤨
Best Answer
According to the Doom wiki, it does not
The final boss is not a monster in the technical sense, since it does not count towards the KILLS percentage at the end of a level, and is not affected by the command line parameters that affect standard monsters.
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Who is the head Doom 2?
The final level, Icon of Sin, contains an easter egg where two of the artists put the decapitated head of John Romero as the sprite hidden behind the icon on the wall which must be damaged by rocket splash damage three times to win the game.Fallen Genius | The John Romero Story
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