Doomtrain

Runaway Train 138Tqvwas2g Doomtrain (Japanese: グラシャラボラス Gurasharaborasu (Glasya-Labolas); French: Helltrain; Italian: Kharonte; Spanish: Glasya La Bola) is a summon appearing only in Final Fantasy VIII, as a Guardian Force. Its attack, Runaway Train, is Poison-elemental and can inflict several abnormal statuses on the enemy: Sleep, Poison, Darkness, Silence, Slow, Stop, Berserk and Vit 0. Doomtrain's starting level is 28, and its starting HP is 2,521.

Abilities
Abilities learned from Doomtrain are listed below:

Obtaining Doomtrain
To obtain Doomtrain, the player must have the Solomon Ring, 6 Steel Pipes, 6 Remedy+, and 6 Malboro Tentacles. Once all the items have been collected, Doomtrain will join automatically when Solomon's Ring is selected in the inventory. This can be accomplished as early as Disc 3.

Solomon's Ring can be found in Tears' Point, near the foot of the giant statue. Steel Pipes can be mugged from Wendigos, Remedy+ can be obtained by refining 10 Remedys with Alexander's Med-Lv Up ability (must learn Med Data first), and Malboro Tentacles are obtained by defeating or mugging Malboros. One can also use Quezacotl's Card Mod ability to refine a Malboro Tentacle from 4 Malboro cards.

When the Solomon's Ring is selected in the inventory, Doomtrain will call out:

'You called upon me?'

'I am...' (at which point the player names the GF)

'I shall become your ally'

Reference
Doomtrain resembles, and some have speculated that it may have been inspired by, the Phantom Train boss in Final Fantasy VI. Besides the obvious similarities in name and appearance, the two also have the same power to inflict many detrimental status ailments on enemies.

The 6 Malboro Tentacles, 6 Steel Pipes, and 6 Remedy+ are a reference to the "Number of the Beast."

Its Japanese name, Glasya-Labolas, refers to a demon count/president mentioned in the the 17th century Grimoire, The Lesser Key of Solomon. Note that Doomtrain is obtained from the Solomon's Ring.

The concept of a living, and evil train is possibly a reference to, or at least bears a strong resemblance to the character, "Blaine the Mono", from Stephen King's Dark Tower book series.

In the Debug Menu, accessible only via a cheat device, a menu refers to Doomtrain as "Death Express". This may suggest that it was Doomtrain's intended name, but it was over the character limit - likewise, Pandemona is referred to as "Pandemonium", and that is slightly over the character limit as well.