The Gatecleaner made his first appearance in The Spoony One's review of "Nightmare", where he introduced himself as the "nephew" of the Gatekeeper, and demanded that Spoony review the rest of the "Atmosfear" games. Afterwards, in Spoony's second review of Pumpkinhead, the Gatecleaner forced Spoony to complete said game (with the help of LordKat), in order to leave the "blag-ole". After Spoony was re-merged with his black lantern self, he was sent back to the "blag-ole", where the Gatecleaner forced him to watch an alternate ending to the Pumpkinhead game.