Vincent Van Gore

"Eet eez you, no?"

- Vincent Van Gore

Vincent Van Gore, the Starving Artist, is a Portrait Ghost who appears in the game Luigi's Mansion. He has the ability to bring his paintings to life, and is responsible for creating the minor ghosts present inside the mansion.

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. However, instead of fighting Luigi directly, Van Gore brings his latest works of art to life to attack him. As such, Luigi has to vacuum seven sets of minor ghosts (with three ghosts per set) before he can capture Vincent Van Gore himself.

After Luigi eliminates all of his ghost creations, Vincent Van Gore becomes deeply saddened 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. The barely struggling Van Gore is eventually sucked inside the Poltergust and drops the Secret Altar Key. The minor ghosts in the hallways stop appearing after his capture.

Van Gore's ghosts
In battle, Van Gore used sets of ghosts to attack Luigi; each group consisted of three (five in the PAL Hidden Mansion) ghost. In order, the seven following types of ghosts are:
 * Gold Ghosts
 * Purple Punchers
 * Blue Twirlers
 * Red Grabbing Ghosts
 * Red Shy Guy Ghosts
 * Garbage Can Ghosts
 * Purple Bombers

Trivia

 * Vincent Van Gore is a parody of the artist Vincent van Gogh. However, Van Gore speaks with a stereotypical French accent, even though van Gogh was Dutch.
 * Vincent Van Gore is the only non-Boss ghost to give away a "special key".
 * When Luigi defeats all the ghosts Vincent Van Gore creates, Vincent mentions that only one of his creations remain. The only other ghost in the mansion at this point is King Boo, meaning it's possible Vincent created King Boo from his paintings (though this is most likely isn't true since it seeing how King Boo doesn't disappear with the other ghosts in the game, who disappear after Van Gore is defeated).
 * There is a glitch where if Luigi leaves the room before he gets the key, it will vanish. The only way to fix this is by resetting the console.
 * Vincent Van Gore looks and acts similar to Adeleine from Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards as they both have similar designs and can summon paintings to life.