Movie:Ghast

Ghasts are strange supernatural organisms ridden by piglins in A Minecraft Movie.

Ghast

Details
Status	Extant
Designation	Non-sapient
Classification	Unknown
Habitat	The Nether
First appearance	Uproar in Midport Village
Latest appearance	A Minecraft Movie

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Appearance

These giant cube shaped monsters, coming in approximately 4 meters tall and wide, resemble floating deep sea creatures such as octopus and jellyfish. Ghasts possess dry pale white skin and nine long but useless tentacles, they have been compared to "huge white marshmallows with dangling tentacles". Their faces are surprisingly humanoid-like, having the ability to visually indicate their emotions via facial expressions. Ghasts appear to lack eyes within their eye sockets, yet they do expel a poorly understood liquid, called ghast tears, out of these sockets which have been likened to to the ghast crying. The inside of a ghast's body is filled with active flames, making it seem as if it is hollow.

Powers and abilities

Ghasts mysteriously have the capability to float in the air, though it is unclear if this is a supernatural ability or if the heat within ghasts allow them to float like a hot air balloon. They also have the ability to expel fire charges from their mouths, causing fiery explosions in the process.

According to the film, and the happy ghast mob in Minecraft, ghasts make for great mounts. Piglins are often seen using ghast blimps as a form of transport and aerial based combat.

Biography

After Steve first entered the Nether, ghasts can be seen in establishing and background shots. Ghasts continue to cameo in most Nether scenes.

General Chungus' forces would arrive at Midport Village via ghast blimps, and would later chase after Henry, Garrett, and Steve using them. During said chase, the group would outsmart the piglins and cause a ghast to shoot its fire charge at the rest of the piglin forces, causing a fiery explosion that killed all the piglins in the area.

After Henry, Garrett, and Steve escape the Woodland Mansion with a new Earth Crystal, Malgosha arrives on a ghast blimp alongside a large group of piglin reinforcements including a freshly baked Great Hog. Malgosha steals the Orb of Dominance from the group, before ordering her piglin troops to blow them up using TNT. Henry and Steve barely make it out alive by hopping onto a ghast blimp to escape, whereas Garrett initially seems to have been killed by the explosion after fighting off piglins. As Henry and Steve escape on the ghast, the ghast loses control and crash lands, presumably killing the ghast.

Utilizing ghast blimps, Travis places the Orb of Dominance within a beacon placed atop a massive Nether Portal at Malgosha's request.

As Henry falls to his demise, Garrett swoops in on a ghast blimp to save Henry. Using the ghast's fire charge, the two are able to knock the Orb of Dominance out of the beacon, and save the Overworld.

Trivia

• Concept art for Minecraft Legends previously used the concept of piglins taming and weaponizing ghasts, however the idea didn’t make it into the finished game.

Gallery

Screenshots

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  Ghasts in the Nether.

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  Piglins riding ghasts into an invasion.

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  Ghasts arriving at Midport Village.

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  A ghast shooting a fireball.

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  The fireball about to collide with a neighborhood.

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  The destroyed block.

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  A ghast about to fire a fireball

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  Ditto

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  Ditto

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  A ghast firing a fireball.

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  A ghast chasing Henry.

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  The explosion from a fireball.

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  Garrett surrounded by ghasts.

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  Ghasts behind Garrett.

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  Garrett running from ghasts.

Production images

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  Concept art of a fleet of ghasts.

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  Concept art of chained ghasts.

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  A statue of a ghast.

In other media

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  Ghast themed Doritos.

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  A LEGO Ghast.

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  Action figure of a chained ghast.

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  Chained Ghast on A Minecraft Movie Live Event.

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  Ghast Balloon on A Minecraft Movie Live Event.