Old Red

Old Red is an NPC in Enter the Gungeon, and it's spinoff Exit the Gungeon. In both games, he appears as a merchant, setting up shop within the Gungeon and offering passing Gungeoneers a variety of goods in exchange for . His wares are Blank themed (ammolets, Elder Blank, etc), given that Old Red himself largely resembles a blank.

Old Red is blind (or at the very least heavily visually impaired), and though his allegiance lies with the Gundead, he is unable to see clearly enough to tell who he is selling to- leading to him merely empowering the Gungeoneers he desires to stop. As such, many of his lines of dialogue are sagely advice for younger Bullet Kin, rather than anything pertinent to a Gungeoneer.

Enter the Gungeon[]

In Enter the Gungeon, Old Red will appear in the Gungeon at random after being saved from a locked cell in the Gungeon Proper, Black Powder Mine, or Hollow using a Cell Key obtained on the same floor.

Old Red also appears in the Bullet's Past as a dialogue NPC, giving The Bullet a wooden, unpowered Blasphemy and explaining his inability to wield the weapon. Despite heavily resembling Old Red, this depiction of the character is coloured Grey, and was unconfirmed to be Old Red until Exit the Gungeon, in which Old Red has a line of dialogue relating to an 'old head wound', alluding to the place in the head that he has been stabbed by Blasphemy.

Items Sold[]

Guns

Icon	Name	Quote	Type	Notes
	Huntsman	Axes Of Evil	Semiautomatic	Fires a shotgun blast of bullets. Reloading swings the gun, destroying nearby bullets. Increases curse while held.

Items

Name	Type	Quote	Effect
Chaos Ammolet	Passive	What Can Will	Blanks have a chance to poison, freeze, and ignite enemies.
Copper Ammolet	Passive	Blanks Ignite	Blanks have a chance to ignite enemies.
Elder Blank	Active	Excommunicate Bullets	Activates a blank. Increases curse.
Frost Ammolet	Passive	Chance To Freeze	Blanks have a chance to freeze enemies.
Full Metal Jacket	Passive	Automated Defenses	Automatically uses one of the player's blanks if they are about to take damage, preventing it.
Gold Ammolet	Passive	Blank Damage Up	Increases blank damage.
Holey Grail	Passive	Withered Vessel	Upon taking damage, triggers a full screen Blank effect and refills 50% of the ammo of all the player's guns. Increases curse.
Lodestone Ammolet	Passive	Blank Knockback Up	Increases the knockback of blanks.
Owl	Passive	Hoots And More	Follows the player, firing bullets at enemies and occasionally using short-ranged blanks.
Relodestone	Active	Magunetic North	While active, attracts nearby bullets and converts them to ammo.
Table Tech Blanks	Passive	Flip Clarity	Flipping a table activates a free blank.
Uranium Ammolet	Passive	Blanks Poison	Blanks have a chance to poison enemies.

Old Red will also occasionally stock Armor or Blanks. Interestingly, if Old Red and Bello are selling Blanks in the same room, Bello will apply Old Red's discount to his own Blanks.

Dialogue[]

Dialogue

Exit the Gungeon[]

Old Red's appearance in Exit the Gungeon is almost identical to his role in Enter. After being freed from a cell via the purchase of a Rat Key from the Resourceful Rat, he will appear to the player in NPC Rooms to sell a variety of blank-themed wares. He does not appear in the Underbreach.

Trivia[]

It can be inferred that Old Red is a living Blank, as he sells items mostly related to blanks, he appears on Blank Shrine, and the Blank Generation synergy turns the blank companion into a small version of Old Red.
It is possible that Old Red's blue appearance is due to him being a ghost. As seen with Ser Manuel, Blockner, and Gungeoneers in Co-op mode, ghosts in the Gungeon universe are often portrayed as Blue. Additionally, the fact that Old Red seems to 'die' during the events of the Bullet's Past would support this- though ultimately it remains unconfirmed.