Red Shotgun Kin

Red Shotgun Kin
Statistics and Information
ETG Health:	1 O 2 A 3 4/R 5/6 30 40 39 50 48 55.5 63
XTG Health:	1 2 3 4 5 33 36.75 39 42 45
Location:
Ammonomicon Entry
Red, Dead.
Shells of the Red Kin are the beefiest and most durable of the Shotgundead. In Bullet society, Shotgun Kin often serve as enforcers to their smaller brethren.

Red Shotgun Kin are Shotgun Kin variant enemies that appear in Enter the Gungeon, Exit the Gungeon, and Enter the Gungeon: House of the Gundead.

Behaviour

Enter the Gungeon

Red Shotgun Kin slowly walk towards the player, occasionally firing a tight spread of 5 bullets. Upon death, they have a chance to fire 6 bullets in all directions.

Red Shotgun Kin are also one of the few enemies capable of riding in minecarts, and will prioritise walking to available carts over following the player.

A Red Shotgun Kins attack pattern

Exit the Gungeon

Red Shotgun Kin walk back and forth across the elevator platform, periodically pausing to fire a tight spread of 5 bullets. Unlike their appearance in Enter the Gungeon, Red Shotgun Kin do not fire bullets upon death.

Jetpack Variant

Variants of Red Shotgun Kin using Jetpacks will occasionally spawn, especially in later elevators and elevators with minimal or no floor space. These Shotgun Kin behave mostly the same to their grounded counterparts, slowly flying towards the player and occasionally shooting a shotgun spread of 5 bullets in their direction.

Other Appearances

• Several portraits in the Abbey of the True Gun depict Red Shotgun Kin.
• A plushie depicting a Red Shotgun Kin was, for a time, sold on the official Devolver Digital Merch Store along with Bullet Kin plushies and an Executioner plushie.
• A pin set including a Red Shotgun Kin pin was, for a time, sold on the Devolver Digital Merch Store.
• A Red Shotgun Kin is the subject of Enter the Gungeon Steam Trading Card 7, titled Shotgun.
• Several Red Shotgun Kin appear in the animated launch trailer for Enter the Gungeon.
• A Red Shotgun Kin appears in early key art for Enter the Gungeon, illustrated by Maximo Lorenzo.
• A Red Shotgun Kin appears in key art for the A Farewell To Arms Update, illustrated by Max Grecke.
• Several Red Shotgun Kin are shown on the side art for the Enter the Gungeon: House of the Gundead arcade cabinet.
• The business card of Dodge Roll Games resembles a Red Shotgun Kin.
• The Shell skin of The Bullet, exclusive to the physical Nintendo Switch version of Enter the Gungeon, is a Red-Caped Red Shotgun Kin.
  • This physical Nintendo Switch edition of Enter the Gungeon also comes with an exclusive sticker sheet, where one of the stickers is a Red Shotgun Kin.
• Several Red Shotgun Kin appear on the inside of the pop-up sleeve for the 2022 special edition vinyl release of the Enter the Gungeon soundtrack, illustrated by artist Joseph Harmon.
• On 5/04/2017, to celebrate the one year anniversary of Enter the Gungeons release, Dodge Roll Games posted a gif of a Red Shotgun Kin with the Devolver Digital 'D' logo emblazoned on its shell.
• Red Shotgun Kin appear in the STRAFE mini-game Enter the Gungeon 3D Blast, as enemies.

Unused and Cut Content

Unused Exit the Gungeon Steam trading card, by Miroko

• Exit the Gungeon does not have Steam trading cards, however a collection of trading card portraits was created by XTG artist contributor Miroko, but never used. The fifteenth and final of these unused XTG trading cards depicted a Red Shotgun Kin.
• On 17/03/2016 (before the release of Enter the Gungeon) Dodge Roll posted the artwork of the Shotgun Kin trading card with the caption "More amazing Gungeon fanart from John Cipriani!". The term fanart being used suggests that John Cipriani (The illustrator of the Enter the Gungeon steam trading cards) created the illustration outside the scope of his official work with Dodge Roll, potentially resulting in them going to him to complete the set.
  • This early version of the Shotgun Kin trading card is, incorrectly, holding a revolver. This is rectified in the official card.
• A twitter post from Dodge Roll on 19/01/2015 shows a Red Shotgun Kin appearing to spontaneously pop without firing any bullets. The text of the tweet was simply "Pop pop". Whether this was part of a scrapped behaviour for the Red Shotgun Kin, or if it was a development showcase of the animation is unknown.

Notes

• Red Shotgun Kin wield Regular Shotguns.
• ^ETG If the challenge modifier Final Attack is active, the on-death bullet burst of the Red Shotgun Kin will always trigger, but no extra bullets will be created. This makes Red Shotgun Kin considerably easier to dodge than other enemies with the Final Attack modifier.
• The subtitle "Red, Dead." may be a reference to the phrase people use in real life to determine whether their gun has the safety on.
• Despite the Ammonomicon entry stating that they are the sturdiest and most durable, they have lower health than all other varieties of Shotgun Kin.
• Red Shotgun Kin are currently the only Shotgun Kin type to appear as an enemy in Exit the Gungeon.
• ^CMV Bug In the Chinese Mobile Version of Enter the Gungeon, the corpses of Red Shotgun Kin are tinted a deep red all over, even the parts of their body which are normally tinted yellow. This is presumably due to shader changes in the Chinese Mobile Version not taking the corpse into account.

In Other Media

• A Red Shotgun Kin (written in the game as Shotgunkin) is an unlockable character in the Devolver Digital mobile game Devolver Tumble Time. It has the ability Exploding bullet clears out toys!, which fires a red shotgun kin at the toy tumbler from off screen, popping all toys caught in its path and exploding in the center to pop even more.
  • Like all unlockable characters in Devolver Tumble Time, while playing as Shotgunkin, 'toy' tokens shaped like the character can appear in the toy tumbler.
• The Friends of Jimbo 3 update for Balatro added special reskins of the diamond suited face cards based on Enter The Gungeon. The Queen of Diamonds Enter the Gungeon skin is a Red Shotgun Kin.

Gallery

Ingame

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  A Red Shotgun Kin about to burst into 6 shots.
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  A Red Shotgun Kin and a Bullet Kin riding Minecarts.
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  The appearance of a Red Shotgun Kin in EtG: HoTG
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  The Shell alt skin of The Bullet, exclusive to the Nintendo Switch physical release of ETG
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  A portrait of a Red Shotgun Kin wearing a ruff, from the Abbey
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  A portrait of a pale Red Shotgun Kin, also from the Abbey
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  Several Bullet Kin and Red Shotgun Kin in Enter the Gungeon 3D Blast

Supplementary Media

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  The official Red Shotgun Kin plush.
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  Ditto, from the side.
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  Ditto, from the back.
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  Steam Trading Card
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  Steam Trading Card, Full Art
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  An early form of the Shotgun Kin trading card, incorrectly holding a revolver.
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  Official pin set, including a Red Shotgun Kin pin
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  A Red Shotgun Kin in the launch trailer for Enter the Gungeon, appearing to hold a pistol.
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  A Red Shotgun Kin in key art for ETG, by Maximo Lorenzo.
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  A Red Shotgun Kin in key art for A Farewell To Arms, by Max Grecke
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  Red Shotgun Kin as shown in the ETG:HotG cabinet art
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  An unused XTG Steam trading card of a Red Shotgun Kin
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  Dodge Roll business card circa 2017, resembling a Red Shotgun Kin
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  Nintendo Switch physical release sticker sheet, including a sticker of a Red Shotgun Kin
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  Red Shotgun Kin on the pop-up diorama inside the 2022 soundtrack vinyl's sleeve. Illustration by Joseph Harmon.
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  Several Gundead in the promotional art for Devolver Digital's 15th Anniversary sale in 2024
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  A Red Shotgun Kin with the Devolver Digital logo, posted to celebrate ETGs 1st anniversary
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  A Red Shotgun Kin spontaneously popping in an early development gif

In Other Media

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  Shotgunkin unlockable character in Devolver Tumble Time
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  Ditto, in the character select menu
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  Ditto, on a couch in the main menu
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  Ditto, after failing a level
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  The toy tumbler in Devolver Tumble Time, containing Shotgun Kin shaped tokens.
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  The special ability of Shotgunkin in Devolver Tumble Time
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  The queen of diamonds Red Shotgun Kin reskin in Balatro.

See also

• Enemies

Shotgun Kin Variants
Red Shotgun Kin Blue Shotgun Kin Veteran Shotgun Kin Ashen Shotgun Kin Mutant Shotgun Kin Executioner Shotgrub Pirate Shotgun Kin Western Shotgun Kin Infested Shotgun Kin

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Portugese	Escapeta Vermelho	Red Shotgun Demon Escapeta is a portmanteau of the words escopeta (meaning shotgun) and capeta (meaning devil or demon).
Polish	Czerwony strzelbiak	Red Shotgun Strzelbiak is an altered form of the word strzelba (meaning shotgun), with the suffix -ak, which renders it a noun.