Pac-Man (The Ghostly Adventures)

Pacster "Every time I think this day couldn't get any worse..." Gender: Male Type: Extremely Gluttonous and Immature Protagonist Species: Pac-Worlder/Pac-Person Portrayed by: Erin Mathews Status: Alive Media of origin: Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures First appearance: The Adventure Begins, Part I (flanderized version) Last appearance: New Girl in Town (flanderized version)

Pac-Man (also referred to as Pac and Pacster) is the main character of Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures. In this show, he's supposed to be portrayed as a teenager. His real name is Pacster, but became known as "Pac-Man" after he became a hero. He is close friends with Cylindria and Spiral. We all know that Pac-Man is referred to as a gaming icon, but this version of Pac-Man is not like the other. He is voiced by Erin Mathews, who also voices Ms. Globular throughout the series.

Bad Qualities that aren't Pac

Note: This page will only talk about Pac-Man as he appears in Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures. His other appearances are fine.

1. Pac-Man has suffered from flanderization in the show. In the original 2D-3D games, Pac-Man is depicted as an iconic video game character who is lovable, charitable, and heroic. In this show, however, he becomes a glutton who cares more about food rather than helping others. No wonder food is his weakness.
   • An instance involving Pac-Man becoming a full-on glutton was when he wants better self-control in "Mission ImPacable!" This is proof that even Pac is aware of this.
2. He has a very unhealthy diet in the series. He usually eats a balanced meal in the games, such as cherries, strawberries, oranges, apples, melons, Galaxian Flagships, bells, and keys, but here he goes far from it.
3. He is also shown to be rather disgusting at times, like whenever he burps after eating either food or ghosts. Often in their face with no manners whatsoever.
4. Pac could somehow have a relationship with Pinky (who is a ghost) as seen in some of the show's scenes. This means that he is committing spectrophilia and it gets very awkward to watch.
5. Speaking of the episode "That Smarts!", Pac-Man ingests a berry that increases his intellect thus turning him into a stereotypical nerd who's conventionally competent and intellectual but socially awkward, clumsy, and has a love for inventing and showcasing his high brainpower, which is often seen as cliche or culturally offensive to nerds anywhere.
6. Like many of the characters from the show, he is often seen as a flat character who tries to get depth. However, this all fails thanks to the writers.
7. There are times when his occasional antics can cause havoc and trouble, often to the point of mostly humiliating Skeebo either intentionally or unintentionally.
8. Sometimes, he is disobedient. "In All You Can Eat", President Spheros limits Pac to three meals a day. What happened next? Betrayus manipulates Pac to eat Netherworld food which makes him too full thanks to Pac's obsession with food and ignoring Spheros (though Clyde burps Pac and eats the ghosts).
9. He is a terrible singer as seen in the episode "Robo Woes".
10. His new redesign from this series was poorly received by many fans alike. This is because it forgoes the cartoony features from his older designs in favor of more realistic and human-like eyes, which doesn't suit the character at all since Pac-Man wasn't meant to look realistic and considering that he was watered down into a kid in this series, the new redesign has been labeled by many fans as one of the worst character redesigns of all time because of this.
    • While it may be true that his character design somewhat stays true via updates, Pac-Man can still sometimes look uncanny when he shows his teeth and looks pretty cheesy compared to his Smash Bros appearance which was way better.
11. That aside, in the show he can sometimes make some very weird (and sometimes nightmare-inducing) facial expressions in an over-the-top manner because of the way he's animated, which can make him look ugly and strange. The best example is the episode "That Smarts!".
12. Even if he was updated in the PMATGA games, he's still flanderized.
13. He is probably at his worst in "Spooka-Bazooka!", where he is jealous of when the entirety of Pacopolis gets a Spooka-Bazooka to protect themselves from ghosts, and claims it "isn't fair", even though he did need that break, but wants to save the world because he's a glutton. He also doesn't like using the gun itself, all because he wants to eat the ghosts because, again, he's a glutton.

Good Qualities that can't be beat

1. Despite what was mentioned in BQ#10, his character design stays true to the original Pac-Man design (his yellow color, circular body, big mouth, orange gloves, and red shoes), and some may find his design in the show cute. He still looks pretty unique when he takes on different forms like Ice Pac-Man, Chameleon Pac-Man, Pac-Kong, etc.
2. The line, "Aw man, I'm a meme.", That is such a hilarious and memorable line.
3. He's brave and much like a certain blue speedy hedgehog who also hails from the gaming industry, usually wants to make the world a better place while having fun doing it.
4. There are plenty of episodes here and there where he's likable and has his original personality. even he can be likable with no original personality
5. There could be some people who could Root for him, But that depends on your opinion.
6. Despite his being gluttonous, he still shares some friendships with some characters such as Spiral and Cylindria. Surprisingly enough, he's still shown to have friendships with Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde due to how the 4 ghosts are somehow allies to Pac-Man as seen in the show.
7. Despite the cheesy voice acting, at least you can still tell that Erin Matthews, Erica Mendez, and Yuka Terasaki still did their best to voice Pac-Man.
8. While annoying, he has a right to not like Skeebo because he's a bully.
9. Much like his video game counterpart, he can still eat ghosts which is something you would expect Pac to do.
10. He was a much better character in all other forms of media and massively redeemed himself in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS & Wii U.
11. He can be quite relatable, especially if you have an eating disorder.

Trivia

• Masahiro Sakurai (the creator of Super Smash Bros) did mention that he would drop Pac-Man from the roster if he used the Ghostly Adventures version of Pac-Man rather than the old-school design as seen in this article.
• According to an E3 2013 interview with Namco Bandai's Mike Chang, he stated that this version of Pac-Man is the son of the original Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man, making him the Ghostly Adventures version of Jr. Pac-Man.

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