A hostile mob in Minecraft that approaches players quietly and then explodes. Its green mottled body and distinctive face have made it one of the game’s defining icons.
Minecraft's Creeper began as a bug. In 2009, Notch was modeling a pig but swapped its height and width by mistake, leaving it standing tall. Rather than fix it, he painted it green, gave it hostile AI, and kept it — a coding error became gaming's most iconic monster.