Editing Vincent Van Gore

|full_name=Vincent Van Gore, the Starving Artist

|room=[[The Artist's Studio]]

'''Vincent Van Gore, the Starving Artist''', is a [[portrait ghost]] who appears in the game ''[[Luigi's Mansion]]'' and [[Luigi's Mansion (Nintendo 3DS)|its remake]]. He has teal skin, white hair, a white mustache and pointed beard, and glowing green eyes. He wears a red beret, a deep green overcoat over a red and yellow striped shirt, and often carries his palette and paintbrush. Vincent Van Gore can bring his paintings to life.<ref>{{cite|quote=I know that artists strive to give life to their canvasses, but this guy brought ghosts to life every time he picked up a brush!|author=[[Professor E. Gadd]]|date=2001|title=''Luigi's Mansion''|publisher=Nintendo|language=en}}</ref> Only his English name suggests him to be a parody of {{wp|Vincent van Gogh}}, despite having a stereotypical French accent instead of Vincent van Gogh's nationality of Dutch, but Vincent Van Gore's unlocalized name does not base him on any famous painter. His portrait number in [[Professor E. Gadd]]'s gallery is 21.

Vincent Van Gore resides in [[The Artist's Studio]], on the third floor of the mansion. When Luigi enters the room, the ghost expresses his anger at seeing his creations being vacuumed. In battle, Van Gore uses sets of seven ghosts to attack Luigi; each group consists of three (five in the [[Luigi's Mansion#PAL Differences|PAL Hidden Mansion]] and [[Luigi's Mansion (Nintendo 3DS)|remake]]) ghosts. In order, the seven following types of ghosts are [[Gold Ghost]]s, [[Purple Puncher]]s, [[Blue Twirler]]s, Red [[Grabbing Ghost]]s, Red [[Ghost Guy]]s, [[Garbage Can Ghost]]s, and [[Purple Bomber]]s. After all of the ghosts are vacuumed, Vincent Van Gore becomes very angry by the loss of his artwork. In this state, his heart is exposed and Luigi can easily suck up the spirit with his [[Poltergust 3000]]. He is eventually sucked inside the Poltergust and drops the [[Secret Altar]] [[Key]]. He is the only non-boss ghost to give away a special key. After being sucked up, standard enemy ghosts such as [[Purple Bomber]]s no longer spawn in dark hallways, though smaller ghosts like [[Bat (Luigi's Mansion series)|bats]] do continue to spawn.

|Jpn=セニョール・プジイ

|JpnR=Senyōru Pujī

|JpnM=Spanish word ''señor'' ("mister") + possibly from「プー」(''pū'', an onomatopoeic word for "poof") and「爺」(''jī'', "old man")

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|GerM=Pun on "Vincent van Gogh" and ''Geist'' ("ghost"); Insatiable artist

|ItaM=Pun on "Vincent van Gogh" and ''gong''; The wacky artist

|SpaAM=Play on "{{wp|Leonardo da Vinci}}" and ''ente'' ("entity")

|SpaE=Pablo Psicasso, el artista muerto de hambre

==Notes==

*There is a glitch where if Luigi leaves the room without collecting the key and goes out to the [[Balcony (3F)|Balcony]], the key vanishes. If he heads back into the hallway, the key respawns, with the sound of it dropping being audible. However, if Luigi goes back outside to the Balcony once more before returning to The Artist's Studio, the key is duplicated.<ref>{{cite|author=GlitchDoctor|date=October 29, 2021|title=Luigi's Mansion Glitches and Exploits|url=youtube.com/watch?v=n-arUDijsEI|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=October 19, 2024}}</ref>