Namakubi

Namakubi is the playing character of the infamous Nintendo game Zombie Nation.

He has a very strange appearance: he is the giant zombie head of a samurai, with the ability to fly and to spit fireballs.

It seems that his nature is due to an error of translation among the American and the Japanese who worked on it; Namakubi is referred in the written introduction of the game as "the great head of the samurai". It is possible that some of the designers took the "head" meaning literally instead as "leader".

"Namakubi" is a Japanese word that is used to refer to sliced off heads.