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Blastophage
The blastophage is a complete fabrication of Shaz's mind, created after he caught glimpses of a wildlife documentary on the Dead Zone. The phage plague, emerged somewhere around the late 2010s, caused vast portions of Ireland to be abandoned and the wall cities of St. Patrick SHIELD and Correa DOME to be hastily built. Fifty years later, phages are now an endangered species - and yet an invasive one that cannot be easily uprooted. While several types of phages exist (including hematophages, noctiphages, lymatophages, siderophages, and so on), blastophages are nowhere to be seen in real life. Thus, the blastophage in the Exploding Judo dream trip that befell Shaz is a sort of amalgam of everything he knows about phages - and everything he *didn't want to know* about notorious phage evangelist Paddy O'Rilley.
The blastophage's ability to spit acid is a unique feature of noctiphages and lymatophages, even when it wears the appearance of another species. Phages are also not known to power-bomb their prey on the mat and explode them, but that's par for the course for Shaz's absolutely wildest dream.
The fact that Paddy O'Rilley shows up whenever the phage wins, gushing over its health and prowess, is a direct consequence of her real-life counterpart's enthusiasm when dealing with the subject of phages... and of a "problematic incident" involving a male phage that happened to kickstart her world-wide notoriety. Said "problematic incident" can't be reported in this log in its detailed entirety, lest the game's age rating goes up a notch or two. As a consequence of it, though, the dream version of Paddy is skirting the line between a genuine phage enthusiast and... *a different kind* of phage appreciator.
The poor blastophage has no role in this, as it is just a pure cinnamon bun. A deadly, man-eating, slaughtering cinnamon bun that almost caused mankind to leave Ireland behind, sure, but a pure one with no dirty thoughts on the subject matter.
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