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weirdmarioenemies · 3 years

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Name: Nabbit

Debut: New Super Mario Bros. U

Nabbit! You all know him, you love him, you asked for him! By which I mean we got an Ask asking to cover Nabbit, and I had previously no intention of doing so but it made me think, hey, I WOULD like to talk about Nabbit! Thanks @oddity-txt!

Nabbit! Like. Nab it. Cause he’s a rab-a thief, he’s a rabbit thief you get it yeah. This guy is a real piece of work, let me tell you! He steals items from Toad Houses and runs off with them! Those are for Mario! Can you believe not everyone in this economy agrees with hoarding power-ups to give them away to Mario in wacky chance-based minigames? So its up to you to chase him down. And chase him down you do!

But why does Nabbit want these items? Does he just enjoy the thrill of the chase? Or is he just trying to provide for his family? Can he sell them on the item black market? Why would there be an item black market when you can find this stuff anywhere on the street? Mario doesn’t care. Mario wants to attack the symptom of the problem rather than addressing the systemic cause.

Still, I feel like we need to have a good talk about what Nabbit is... other than a hooligan, obviously! Earlier I called him a rabbit but taking a look at him, it’s fairly clear he’s wearing some kind of rubbery rabbit suit, with only the black arms and feets sticking out... So of course we need to speculate all the possibilities! Possibility A is that he is a human or some other known character in disguise, which isn’t fun. Next! Possibility B is that he’s an actual rabbit wearing a rabbit-shaped bodysuit, which I quite like because it is absurd. Possibility 3 is none of the above and he is some mystery creature, which I’ll leave up to YOU to imagine because I’m not entirely sure what that would be.

Point number 2 about Nabbit’s ambiguous identity: the bandanna! It has a similar (but not identical) design to Bowser Jr.’s bandanna, and even though he does not work for Bowser, it just feels like a strangely specific design choice! I can get why Junior wants to look ferocious, but Nabbit is more of the stealthy type right? Because of this I’ve always envisioned Nabbit as having actual fangs under the bandanna, like the Impostor from Amongus, which you can’t disprove because he’s never been seen without it.

Or maybe it’s just fashion. It’s probably just fashionable.

This isn’t the last we’ll see of Nabbit of course! The developers of New Super Mario Bros. U had precisely three (3) new ideas, and damn if they weren’t gonna milk them for all they’re worth! I could get upset that characters from the New Super series get this treatment when other more beloved characters from spin-offs don’t, but also, come on... look at the guy! I can’t stay mad at him! He’s purple!

So in Nabbit’s next ever appearance, New Super Luigi U... he became playable! Wow, that was quick! With Mario gone, they scrambled around the office for anyone they could find to fill his place, and they settled on Nabbit! They’re not paying Nabbit extra though, so he kind of had to phone it in.

In this game, Nabbit is totally invincible! Why? Maybe he is like Wario and simply does not care enough to get hit. He can’t use power-ups because they didn’t have the budget to design new costumes for him and he can’t pick up items or ride Yoshis. The game frames this as an “easy mode”, but what kind of easy mode forces one player to always use it? Let’s be honest, it’s because they didn’t want to make a brand new character. The Year of Luigi was a tough time for Nintendo!

So rather then collect power-ups he just puts them in his bag, and they get converted into 1-Ups at the end of the level. Is THIS what he was stealing those items for? Is Nabbit’s ultimate goal to reach immortality through illegally trading 1-Up mushrooms? Maybe something like that probably. It’s kinda fun that he’s a ‘bad guy’ but Luigi and friends don’t really mind keeping him around.

Nabbit also appears in spin-offs of course. Enough spin-offs that he feels like a proper modern Mario character, but sparsely enough that you think “wow, they put Nabbit in this game?” when they put Nabbit in the game. Here he is in the Rio Olympics, and you could make a very easy joke about him being a thief in Rio de Janeiro, which I won’t. Instead I will ask: why the heck is he carrying his sack in a marathon! Just let go dude! Don’t they have changing room lockers in the Olympics?

Here he is in Golf! As DLC, for all the six people out there who loved Mario Golf World Tour so much they simply had to get new characters for it. This picture labels him as an Eagle but I’m pretty sure he isn’t one, though I might be wrong.

Here is Nabbit, well known thief, outlaw, and general ne'er-do-well as a doctor! I mean, I know the healthcare system is a scam but this is a little on the nose don’t you think? He just put a pill sticker on his thief sack and called it a day! Can we even be sure there are pills in there? What if he is prescribing patients with stolen Super Acorns from Acorn Plains 5 - Rise of the Piranha Plants? Oh no!

Nabbit Mario Kart? It is more likely than you think! Of course only in the mobile game with a gacha. They could’ve done it in Mario Kart 8 but they know people will pay good money for Nabbit! Well jokes on them because I got him in the gacha for free. Nyeeh.

Nabbit is also in Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam! Did you know this? I didn’t play Paper Jam, so I didn’t. I’m sorry. You need to catch him in order to get Bros. Attack items. At one later point, you even fight him! Or rather, fight enemies he kept in his bag, while he naps in the background. Is that legal? He can also pop out behind you and steal your hammers to whack you with. Yeouch!

However, he also fights ALONGSIDE you for some fights against Bowser’s minions, acting basically like a fourth party member, except you can’t control him or anything. He gives the Bros. healing items from his bag or will occasionally bonk an enemy himself. Hooray for morally ambiguous characters! I guess he’s cool with anything as long as he gets what he wants.

Finally, I would like to talk about Nabbit in Super Smash Bros.! As one of the few original things to NSMBU, he of course appears in the Mushroom Kingdom U, alongside equally iconic characters like Beanstalk and Water Geyser! In this game he’ll grab people and stuff them in his bag, and then proceed to just... fly away, so they are killed. Wait a minute. A thief who kidnaps characters only to kill them and himself...? That sounds familiar!

I knew it! This wasn’t really Nabbit at all, but rather Tac from Kirby Super Star sneakily disguised as Nabbit! Sakurai thought he could sneak you into this stage to satiate his never-ending lust for Kirby Super Star references in Smash... He wasn’t even content just having you in Smash Run and Smash Tour!

Well, mystery solved everyone! I think we can go ahead and end this post while we arrest Tac for his crimes of identity theft, and not regular theft, which isn’t really an actual crime after all.

#mario #mario enemies #mario allies?#nabbit #new super mario bros u #mod f boy #this post is very long but i will not add a read more because i am feeling evil muahahah

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game-boy-pocket · 5 years

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I hope when I get onto the subject of preferring classic Yoshi and disliking the modern design, people don’t just dismiss it as a nostalgia thing. That’s always felt extremely reductive to me. I can’t stand how people toss around that word.

Yoshi ranting again under the readmore.

I like Yoshi’s original design more because it more clearly illustrates what Yoshi is, as well as his purpose.

He’s a dinosaur. His posture, long tail and neck, and dorsal spines convey that pretty clearly.

You ride him. Again, the posture combined with him wearing a saddle.

I’ve seen my share of people confused as to what modern Yoshi is. He’s got big tree frog hands, a turtle shell, he stands upright and has a body shaped more like a ducks than a dinosaur, and his dosal spines are round and don’ go down his...spine. If I didn’t know Also his perfectly spherical nose is a dumb leftover from the mid 90′s CG renders.

And if I didn’t already know Yoshi, and I saw him in a Mario game with his current design and posture, I wouldn’t know I was meant to ride him at first. He just kinda looks like some wierd upright fraggle creature.

It’s true Yoshi is probably upright with because he’s his own series now and not just a ride for Mario, and his hands are huge so he can hold and throw eggs but like... he’s still Yoshi. People still would have loved a game about a dinosaur who has the posture of a dinosaur. And did he really need to throw eggs? He could spit them out of his mouth... that was kind of his signature in SMW. He doesn’t even really need the eggs, his thing used to be spitting enemies out. He can’t even do that anymore.

I know we’re never going back and current Yoshi has his fans.

I just need people to know i’m not some grumpy old guy who hates new Yoshi just because he’s new and not what I grew up with. The “Nostalgia” defense is so irritating to me.

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weirdmarioenemies · 6 years

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What the heck is up with Super Mario Sunshine?

Originally, I was planning on this being a post about “enemies that look weird in other Mario games,” and I might still pick up that someday. However, something occurred to me as I was writing the post...

Lots of enemies look really weird in Super Mario Sunshine.

Not talking about new additions here, (of which there are plenty), but rather, common enemies that just really decided to get full makeovers for one game that were never seen again. It’s down-right baffling, and I think a perfect topic for this blog to cover! Without further ado, let’s-a go!

Name: Blooper

For instance, look at this Blooper! I believe they were opting for a bit more detail, hoping to make their games look “more realistic” or something, but the final result is a bit jarring! Like those bizarrely detailed eyes! The siphon-mouth full of teeth! Are those teeth? I think they are. The suction cups are also a lot more visible here, something usually only reserved for boss variants of this enemy. However, this game’s Gooper Blooper still opts for less detailed suction cups and a lack of teeth and irises!

Name: Bullet Bill

And the Sunshine Bullet Bill! There are a number of games where Bullet Bills swap their arm for some teeth, like Super Mario 64, Super Mario Land 2, and even the recent Yoshi’s Wooly World, but usually, those teeth are still scowling. Here, Bullet Bill has a cross-eyed grin, and a shape far more reminiscent of the Torpedo Teds seen in other titles!

Name: Cheep Cheep

I guess they really wanted to go all-out on the fish-lips here. Honestly? This Cheep Cheep is pretty charming. Not exactly a Cheep Cheep, no, but it’s got this weird blobbiness that I just kinda love. Sorta reminds me of that blobfish picture, but like Cheep Cheep, blobfish usually doesn’t look like that either.

Name: Bob-omb

I guess this design does a lot more to suggest Bob-ombs are mechanical with those feet and that LED face, though I find it peculiar that the wind-up key is placed on the top of the head rather than on its back! It ends up replacing where I assumed the fuse would be, but doing research for this post, I learned Bob-ombs weren’t shown with fuses in-game until New Super Mario Bros..

Name: Boo

Game: Super Mario Sunshine

Look at those eyes! I guess the Boos really wanted to relax during their summer vacation! Boos from Isle Delfino must be really lazy, as this game introduces a variant called “Sleepy Boo” as well! In fact, it seems they decided to relax so much they became corporeal, as Boos can be jumped on in this title, a trait only otherwise seen in some Paper Mario titles.

Name: Wiggler

Aside from mildly different versions of Pokey and Chain Chomp, the only other enemy to return in Mario Sunshine is Wiggler, who returned as a boss instead. Being green rather than yellow, the angry Wiggler is what we really want to focus on, getting that hilariously off-putting scowl. It’s hard to exactly put a finger on what’s wrong here, maybe it’s the eyes or nose being just too big, or the face being shaped wrong, but as a whole, it ultimately is just another point to confirm what I’ve been saying all along: Sunshine is a really really weird game!

#super mario sunshine #mario #mario enemies #long post #mod hooligon

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