Presume he had just ate a power pellet, of course.
Followup matchups for your consideration:
- Slimer, from “Ghostbusters”
- Sadako, from “The Ring”
- Freddy Krueger, from “Nightmare on Elm Street”
- The clown from “It”
- A ring wraith from “Lord of the Rings”
They are clearly not pellet-shaped, since they need arms to carry weapons.
An eel is a fish that isn’t fish-shaped.
Is eel a pellet then?
They’re not definitively not pellets.