Vade Retro is an unlockable active item in The Binding of Isaac, added in the Repentance DLC.

While heldEnemies leave behind small, red ghosts upon death.

On useCauses all red ghosts to explode, dealing damage to nearby enemies and destroying projectiles.

The explosion cannot hurt Isaac or damage the environment.

The explosion deals damage equal to 3 + 0.04 × EnemyMaxHealth + (CurrentFloor - 1) × 0.5. Each explosion can hit the same enemy up to 4 times.

The blast radius scales with how powerful the explosion is.

Instantly kills any enemy that has the "ghost" tag and is at 50% or less HP, including bosses. This can even be used to kill Delirium if it transforms into such an enemy. Enemies that are currently not visible on screen are not detonated.

Detonates Isaac's ghost after his death, dealing 200 damage to nearby enemies.

Ghosts can be slightly pushed around by shooting at them.

This page shows the latest information as of the new Repentance+ (Online Co-op) DLC.
To see information about this item for the previous Repentance version, check this page instead.

Defeat Ultra Greedier as Bethany.

Vade Retro can be found in the following item pools:

The following tags are applied to this item:

The following special synergies and interactions for Vade Retro have been documented.

* Note that not all possible synergies and interactions are listed here.

Below is the Internal Item Description as shown in-game.
Note that some stat changes are not displayed here. Please see the main description for the full effects.

Vade Retro

• While held, enemies leave behind red ghosts on death
• Activation explodes all red ghosts on the screen, damaging enemies near them
• Activation can also instantly kill ghost-type enemies and bosses that are at less than 50% HP
• Abyss: x1 locust .75x Isaac's damage
• Book of Virtues: Ghosts fire tears

• Check out the item description on the external Isaac Wiki.