Patches and Mendy

Patches and Mendy
"Bwa ha! It DID work! Take that, HM Medical Academy!"
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Dialogue:	Patches and Mendy/Dialogue
Location:	At random throughout the Gungeon
Aliases:	Patches: Dr Smash (Internal) Mendy: Dr Greet (Internal) Both: Médecins Sans Diplôme

Patches and Mendy are NPCs that can be encountered in a unique room in the Gungeon. They will completely heal the player unless you are playing as The Robot, in which case they will give you either one Junk, the Bottle, or one piece of Armor.

Notes

• In order to be healed, the player must speak to the nurse on the right and answer 'Great' to her offer.
• Patches and Mendy heal the player character by simply smashing a glass bottle containing a fairy over their head.
• They will only perform their function once per encounter; a player cannot be healed once and later return to the same room and be healed again.
• The room containing Patches and Mendy is indicated on the map by two red bullets forming a cross within a green square. If the room is not yet discovered, this symbol will be visible at the end of the hallway leading to the room.
• If the Lord of the Jammed is reaching the player while being healed, he can still deal damage during the animation and the player will get stuck in the tent and continuously take damage. The only way out is to use a teleporter.
• In Co-op the Player who talks to them gets healed.

Trivia

• The method of healing employed by the nurses is a reference to The Legend of Zelda series, in which the player can heal themselves using bottled fairies.
• Patches appears to be wearing a clown nose, which may be a reference to the real life doctor, Patch Adams. This also could be a Robin Williams reference about his movie of the same name and his TV Shows Mork and Mindy.

See also

• NPCs