Movie:Creeper

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Creeper

Details
Status	Extant
Designation	Non-sapient
Classification	Plant-like organism
Habitat	Overworld
Prey	Humans
First appearance	Welcome to the Overworld
Latest appearance	A Minecraft Movie

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A creeper is a plant-like creature featured as secondary antagonists who prowl and stalk the Overworld at night. When provoked, they detonate after a short delay.

Appearance

Coming in at approximately 1.7 meters, these tall rectangular plant-like quadrupeds possess a lush green filament-like covering that appears to consist of mosses, clovers, and grasses. However creepers also possess a layer of hide-like skin alongside this coat of foliage, as seen on their padded elephant-like feet. While the orifices located on their heads looking as if it could be a face with eyes and a mouth, their heads are actually completely hollow, lacking any recognizable internal features or organs. Despite the lack of eyes, however, creepers appear to be able to see and sense their environment, but it is unknown how they do so. Creepers also possess an internal skeleton, meaning they are at least analogous to vertebrate animals.

Behavior

Despite their nefarious reputation, creepers are often portrayed as half-witted and anxious creatures. They do not seemingly provoke others because they want to, but rather because they instinctively have to. Often times creepers will simply observe or stalk others, but after their fuse is lit they will relentlessly track down their quarry as the clock ticks for their inevitable combustion. While they are able to react to pain in their normal state, after their fuse is lit they no longer will react to any damage take to their body, seemingly causing the creeper to become completely mindless.

Powers and abilities

Creepers possess the unique ability to spontaneous combust, and achieve this by setting off some sort of chemical reaction within their bodies akin to lighting a TNT fuse, causing the creeper to explode violently into sparks. Any creatures caught in this explosion run the risk of death, though many are able to barely survive the blast. Though the capability to explode is a famous aspect of creeper biology, it is not actually known why they do this. It is however theorized that this action is a natural part of a creeper's life cycle, as the explosion could be the creeper spreading its spores to create new creepers.

Biography

During Henry, Natalie, Garrett, and Dawn's first night in the Overworld, a creeper can be seen sneaking up on Garrett after he narrowly escaped the spider jockeys. Garrett accidentally hits the creeper incorrectly assuming it to be one of the skeletons sneaking up on him, and after realizing that he hit what he assumed is a innocent bystander he immediately apologizes to the whimpering creeper. Despite this though, the creeper's fuse instinctively lights itself, and the creeper explodes mere feet in front of Garrett, sending him flying backwards. Soon afterwards the same night, a second creeper is seen with a horde of zombies and skeletons attacking Henry's first base. A skeleton shoots the creeper with a flame arrow causing it to detonate faster, causing it to blow up a considerable chunk of Henry's base whilst also killing a majority of the zombies in the process.

Later in the film, after Henry, Garrett, and Steve visit the Redstone Mines, they are ambushed by piglins and the Great Hog and are forced to flee on an old minecart track. This track leads them directly to Steve's old creeper farm, where he presumably bred generations of creepers as livestock for gunpowder. The three are able to just narrowly escape the creeper farm before the creepers all simultaneously detonate, killing the pursuing piglins and Great Hog in the process.

Quotes

History

March 4, 2025							Creepers first appear appear in A Minecraft Movie Official Coloring Book.
							A description of creepers appears in Welcome to the Overworld.
March 24, 2025							Creepers appear in A Minecraft Movie Happy Meal, helping the player return to McDonald's.
March 30, 2025							Creepers appears in A Minecraft Movie.
April 8, 2025							Creepers' role in the story is retold in A MINECRAFT MOVIE The Junior Novelization.
Bedrock Edition
1.21.70							Creepers appear in A Minecraft Movie Live Event as enemies in the Mining with Henry minigame.
							Players can purchase the Creeper Plush item for 500 . It plays a hissing sound when used.
March 28, 2025							Creepers appear in A Minecraft Movie DLC.​
Minecraft Education
March 25, 2025							Creepers appear in Wheel of Steve as part of the Nook it Off minigame.
							Creepers hold up a golden target, which awards more points than normal red ones.

Trivia

• The film's depiction of creepers being covered in foliage aligns with the idea that creepers are plants. Markus Persson, the creator of Minecraft, has previously said he considered creepers as being plants; as their texture was made using the original design of oak leaves and stacking them onto a white background.^[1][2]
• Steve's creeper farm is similar to player-made creeper farms in the actual game, albeit in concept rather than design.

Gallery

Ofiicial artwork

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  The film's teaser poster, depicting a close-up of a creeper's face
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  Ditto, albeit in portrait view
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  Wallpaper of a creeper, similar to the poster
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  Creeper poster.

Screenshots

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  A creeper lurking in the foliage
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  A creeper sneaking up behind Garrett
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  A creeper about to explode
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  A creeper explosion
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  Garrett being sent flying from the explosion
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  A creeper about to explode in front of zombies
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  A creeper exploding in front of zombies
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  Creepers in a mine
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  Creepers blowing up near the Great Hog

Production images

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  Daniel Middleton posing in front of a creeper
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  Early creeper exploration concept art
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  Ditto
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  Ditto
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  Early creeper exploding sequence exploration concept art
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  Ditto
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  Creeper fuse lighting up concept art
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  Ditto
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  Ditto
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  Creeper exploding concept art
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  Creeper concept art
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  A variant
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  B variant
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  D variant
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  H variant
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  J variant
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  M variant
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  T variant

In other media

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  Plush of a creeper
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  An action figure of a creeper
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  A large, irritated action figure of a creeper
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  A creeper face on a mug
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  Creepers on the wrappers for Oreos
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  Creeper-flavored Doritos
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  A creeper T-shirt
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  A shirt featuring a creeper
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  Creepers on Red Sox memorabilia
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  An official creeper drink cup
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  Creeper metalfig
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  A McDonald's creeper figure

Videos

References

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