He represents the sin of gluttony, so not surprisingly he is extremely gluttonous.

Melvin wears a gold crown and uses a gold fork to attack the player and his minions. He seems to like singing, implying he may be a bard, though, as Gnarl says, he has a better taste in food than in music. Melvin is the king of the halflings and ruler of Mellow Hills. He will dropВ a gold crown and a gold fork that both can be picked up by your minions. After a few rollings he will stop moving, in this moment send all your minions to strikeВ him until he starts toВ roll again. He will move in a straight line when is rolling, making it easy to determinate where he will go. When he gets to half health, he switches tactics to rolling around like a bowling ball, this rolling movement does a lot of damage to your minions, so try to make your minions not stay on his trail. Be aware that he will try to hit your minionsВ using his fork, that does moderate damage, so the best is not to send all your minions all at once, just enough to cover his back.В ContinueВ doing this until he get to his SecondВ phase. To defeat him, make your brown minions go on his back and stab him,В when he prepares to jump, callВ all of them to you, if your minions get hit by that movement, a lot of them will die. In the beginning he fights exactly like a troll. He is battled in Melvin's Kitchen and has two main phases. Here he must go on a permanent diet of mud and earthworms. He is ultimately defeated when he rolls at the player, but is dodged and rolls down a hole. He is used frequently in the Mellow Hills Abyss by the Overlord to destroy defences and blow up blocked passages.

He is punished by being fed too much food for him to handle and explode, then to come back for the cycle to repeat again. When he is defeated, he pops, splattering fat all over the kitchen, but the Overlord is rewarded with a portion of concentrated evil, which in turn brings him closer to his goal of conquest. Throughout the battle, Melvin displays an extreme level of gluttony verging on cannibalism, as he constantly tries to kill and devour the minions. After freeing the Red Minions the Overlord and his minions face Melvin in battle and his size makes him a formidable opponent. Perhaps unsurprisingly Melvin is found inside his kitchen, where it was revealed his minions were using Red Minions to start his cooking fires (it was also revealed the glutton had enough food to feed over a hundred minions). However the titular Overlord was less impressed and killed the musician to put a stop to such foolishness before pursuing Melvin. The Overlord's minions sent to destroy the halfling hero quickly became entranced by a magical song (along with Gnarl himself) - allowing Melvin to run (or, rather, waddle) away to his house.

The player then discovers that there is a party taking place for Melvin. They ask for your help to defeat the remaining halflings in the area. The player finds Melvin soon after helping the human village of Spree defeat the halflings that have attacked their lands. He started eating large amounts of food, causing him to grow taller than a normal halfling and become morbidly obese (To the point where his flesh must be held together by golden pin-like objects resembling stitches). He was originally small for a halfling, but after being convinced by the Wizard that, after becoming a hero, he could have all the food he wanted.

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