Pixelator

"You ready, son? I'll zap you to the Gloomy Manor with my new and largely untested Pixelator! Let's hope all of the pixels make it this time. Heh heh..."

- Professor Elvin Gadd

The Pixelator (known as the Pixelshifter in PAL versions) is one of Professor Elvin Gadd's many inventions. It is of great importance during Luigi's quest to piece together the Dark Moon in Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon. The Pixelator is used to teleport people from one place to another. Whoever it is used on is temporarily transformed into multiple pixels and pulled through a Pixelator Screen; the pixels are then sent out of a Pixelator camera in another location, where the person who traveled through it is reassembled. At the start of the game, E. Gadd uses the Pixelator to transport Luigi through his TV to the Bunker. Throughout the remainder of the game, E. Gadd uses it to teleport Luigi to and from the five different mansions in Evershade Valley: Gloomy Manor, Haunted Towers, Old Clockworks, Secret Mine, and Treacherous Mansion.

There are several Pixelator cameras found in front of and within each of these mansions, and Luigi is usually sent out of a different one in each mission. At the end of each mission, a large Pixelator Screen appears and displays the records for the mission, after which Luigi is pulled through it and back to the Bunker. Prototype Pixelator Screens are also found in every mansion after Gloomy Manor. As these screens cannot be controlled from the Bunker, Luigi must activate them manually. E. Gadd asks Luigi to find these prototype Pixelator Screens and use them to send each of his five Toad assistants back to the Bunker. At the end of the game, E. Gadd pixelates himself to Treacherous Mansion's Terrace to show Luigi that he must use the Dark-Light Device to free Mario from the painting he's trapped in. E. Gadd's Toad assistants, carrying the Dark Moon pieces, are also pixelated here shortly after.

Trivia

 * For some reason, Luigi is always positioned in midair by the Pixelator when arriving at a mansion. This causes him to fall to the ground in a comical fashion nearly every time he is teleported, though during a few missions in the Treacherous Mansion, he lands on his feet.
 * Luigi's pixelation, with the breaking apart into small shapes and re-forming every time he is transported, bears similarity to Mario's breaking into dots and re-forming whenever he enters a Color Portal in Super Mario Sunshine.