Morpheel

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Morpheel
Title	Twilit Aquatic
Game(s)	Twilight Princess
Dungeon(s)	Lakebed Temple
Weakness(es)	Clawshot
Reward(s)	Heart Container, Fused Shadow

Twilit Aquatic: Morpheel (覚醒多触類 オクタイール, Kakusei Taifure Rui Okutaīru^?, lit. "Awoken Many-feelered Creature: Octaeel") is the third boss found in Twilight Princess, and is located in the Lakebed Temple. At first, it is an anemone- or Charybdis-like creature with a single eye that constantly moves through the tentacles and must be extracted via Clawshot. After some time it will shoot out Bombfish which you have to throw at it and take them with your Clawshot to defuse them. Morpheel erupts out of the ground, revealing that it is an enormous, eel-like creature, and that the tentacles were only its feelers.

The manner of which Morpheel is fought in its first form is identical to that of Morpha from Ocarina of Time. Morpheel's tentacles resemble Morpha's ability to extend a tentacle-like water funnel from its watery body. Morpheel can also move its single eye through its many tentacles, in the same way Morpha can move its nucleus throughout the funnel of water, and both have to be removed with their represented game's hook device. Morpheel's American name is a combination of "morph" and "eel", and shares the same prefix, "morph", with Morpha. Its Japanese name is simply a reference to the fact that it has eight feelers.

Strategy

Morpheel's first form is simple to defeat. Equip the Iron Boots, avoid the Bombfish it releases, then grab its eye with the Clawshot. Attack it immediately. Repeat. After two times, its tentacles will retract. Morpheel's eye will get swallowed, ending up on his back. Swim above it and use the Clawshot to latch onto the eye (the Critical Point). Slash away again, and Link will be thrown off. Do this a few more times, and it will go down. Then Morpheel will crash into the wall, draining all the water in the room.

Upon defeating Morpheel, Link will receive the third and final Fused Shadow and another Heart Container.

Trivia

• Morpheel is possibly the largest boss Link has ever fought, along with Molgera, Dark Dragon, Bongo Bongo, Twinmold, Stallord, Cragma, and Eox.
• The strategy for defeating Morpheel incorporates the strategies for defeating both Morpha and Molgera.
• It is possible that Morpheel is a Bari that came into contact with the Fused Shadow; they both have tentacles, both have weak spots only accessible by the clawshot, and both have electricity flowing through their body

Morpheel Wallpaper	Morpheel	The lock on the door to Morpheel's lair has a different appearance from those of many other bosses.	Morpheel's stage 2 cut-scene
Link grabbing Morpheel's eye with the Clawshot	Link slicing Morpheel's Critical Point	Morpheel defeated	Morpheel's eye turns into a Heart Container

Names in Other Regions
Language	Region	Name
French	Canada	Octolacanthe
French	France	Octolacanthe, poisson fossile du Crépuscule