Super Mario (franchise)/Characters/Assorted Nasties

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Assorted Main Series Villains

Wart

"I am the great and powerful Wart! Ha HA!"
Debut: Super Mario Bros. 2

The first real villain Mario fought after Bowser (and little more than a blip on the radar since then), Wart is a big, nasty frog-like creature who took over the dreamworld of Subcon with an army of Shy Guys and monsters spawned from his Nightmare Machine. The fairy-like Subcon people contacted Mario and friends through their dreams, and soon Wart was undone thanks to his allergy to turnips and onions.

Tropes associated with Wart:

"Adding it all up, it's perfectly clear--Wart snatched the king... again!"

  • Off-Model: In his comic debut, he looked like a Kremling. His second appearance was more accurate... yet still kind of off looking.
  • Requisite Royal Regalia: Crown, bracelets, a robe, and a medallion.
  • Suddenly Voiced: Along with the other bosses, Wart was given a voice in the Super Mario Advance remake of Super Mario Bros. 2.
  • Tactical Suicide Boss: You kinda have to wonder why, if his only weakness is vegetables, Wart keeps a machine that constantly spits out veggies in his throne room.
    • The machine produced nightmares, and it may have turned against him or malfunctioned, and started producing his worst nightmare - vegetables.
  • Tears of Blood: Disturbingly enough, in some versions of the game, it looks like he's bleeding from the eyes after he's been beaten.
  • Totally Radical: He's reimagined as a skater punk in the book Doors to Doom.
  • Verbal Tic: In Link's Awakening, he had a habit of saying of "ribbit" a lot. In an apparent Continuity Nod, he also says it a lot in Super Mario Advance.
  • Villains Out Shopping: Literally in the comic story Tanooki Suits Me, where he shows up to buy some artwork Bowser had stolen, and when Mario and Luigi run into him in Doors to Doom, he's busy playing a Game Boy.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: Vegetables.
    • Not that much of a Weaksauce Weakness since the same vegetables he's weak to can be used as effective throwing weapons, though.

The 8-Bits

Mouser: "Here, have some bombs!"
Tryclyde: "Step right up if you're ready to get toasted!"
Fryguy: "I'm too hot to touch!"
Clawgrip: "Arrr, you'll make a tasty treat!"
Robirdo: "You've come a long way!"
Debut: Super Mario Bros. 2

Wart's followers in Super Mario Bros.. 2. The rank and file are simple Shy Guys and Shy Guy variants (like Snifits and Beezos), but they're led by Wart's five generals: Mouser, Tryclyde, Fryguy, Clawgrip, and Robirdo. Like Wart, the leaders have never appeared in another game since, although they did reappear as minions for Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! and the Valiant comics (save for Robirdo, who wasn't added to the group until Super Mario Advance). The Shy Guys, on the other hand, continue to pop up as common enemies in the Mushroom Kingdom.

Tropes associated with the quartet include:

Birdo

"Oh I'm never gonna let ya go. You're just too...CUTE!"
Debut: Super Mario Bros. 2

A pink dinosaur that Mario fought several times. In Super Mario Bros. 2, Birdo has the power to spit projectile eggs out of his... her... errr... its mouth. S/he's never seen without his/her distinctive pink hair ribbon. The SMB 2 player's manual notes that Birdo is biologically male but views itself as female (though later games--and localizations--tend to go back-and-forth on his/her gender stats). Nowadays Birdo occasionally shows up in the Mario Kart and Mario sports games, where s/he's usually paired off with fellow dinosaur Yoshi. The credits of SMB 2 mistakenly switched his/her name with another baddie, Ostro the ostrich. In Japan, s/he's called Catherine.

Tropes associated with Birdo:

Tatanga

Debut: Super Mario Land

Tatanga the Mysterious Space Man is a little purple alien who flies around in his own personal battleship, the Pagosu. He first appeared in Super Mario Land, in which he kidnapped Princess Daisy of Sarasaland with an army of baddies. He was defeated by Mario, but he made one more appearance, this time guarding one of Wario's six golden coins. When Mario returned to the Mushroom Kingdom, he found it overtaken by Wario and was forced to take on Tatanga yet again. The spaceman hasn't been seen since.

Tropes associated with Tatanga include:

Enemies and Bosses (Super Mario Land)

King Totomesu

A sphinx creature who lives in the pyramid. Breathes fire.

Dragonzamasu & Tamau

A seahorse at the end of the submarine level. Accompanied by Tamau, a ball of protoplasm or something.

Hiyoihoi

A moai head with cool shades who hurls boulders at Mario.

Biokinton

A cloud that shoots birds at you in the airplane level.

Tatanga

See above


Enemies and Bosses (Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins)

Radonkel

Ricky

Sabasa

The Three Little Pigheads

Octopus

Wario

See here

Mario & Luigi Villains

Cackletta

"I shall dispose of you quickly, and then eat you for lunch!"
Debut: Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

A wicked witch who has long bedeviled the Beanbean Kingdom, Cackletta learned that only one with a beautiful voice could use the wish-granting artifact known as the Beanstar... so she and her eccentric henchman, Fawful, turned to the neighboring Mushroom Kingdom to steal the voice of its monarch, Princess Peach. Big mistake--the Mario Brothers were on the case in a heartbeat.

Tropes associated with Cackletta:


Fawful

"I have fury!!!"
Debut: Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

A crazed inventor who constantly spouts strange similes and garbled English, he first appeared as Cackletta's right-hand man, aiding her in her schemes. He was seemingly killed near the end of Superstar Saga, but in fact survived, laying low in the sewers of Peach's Castle, running a badge shop while plotting his return to glory. He carried out these plans in Bowser's Inside Story, returning as the main antagonist, causing the Blorb outbreak and taking control of both Bowser's and Peach's castles, as well as unearthing an ancient evil in order to use its power for his own ends. Of course, in taking Bowser's Castle he angered the Koopa King; a mistake that ultimately led to his downfall.

Tropes associated with Fawful:

Princess Peach's sweet voice will soon be the bread that makes the sandwich of Cackletta's desires! And this battle shall be the delicious mustard on that bread! The mustard of your doom!


The Shroobs

Debut: Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time

A militant race of mushroom-like aliens who abandoned their dead, barren planet in favor of greener pastures, laying their eyes on the Mushroom Kingdom of the past. When they attacked Peach's Castle while the adult Princess Peach happened to be visiting in E. Gadd's time machine, they took her prisoner, driving the Mario Bros. to travel back in time and team up with their younger selves in order to defeat the invaders.

Tropes associated with the Shroobs:

Dark Star

"Soon this kingdom will vanish along with all who dwell within. And you, too, will sleep eternally in the dark power's embrace!"
Debut: Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story

A being of pure evil that terrorized the Mushroom Kingdom in the distant past, but was eventually sealed away. Fawful unearthed it and attempted to drain its power, but it proved too powerful for him to handle...

Tropes associated with the Dark Star:

Midbus

"Now it is time! Now we will fight! Then you will lose! And you will cry!"
Debut: Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story

With Fawful's ascension to primary villain, it's only natural that he'd get a lackey of his very own. This porcine brute may be a rather dim bulb, but his strength rivals even that of the King of Koopas himself. He antagonizes Bowser throughout the game on his master's orders, until he is at last defeated for good in the final stages.

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