Underground Monkey: Difference between revisions

*** There was a much greater difference between the Green and Red Paratroopas. Green ones tended to hop along in a straight line ([[Goddamned Bats|leading to major headaches]] as you were forced to decide whether to try to dash beneath them or hop over them, and more often than not wound up in the wrong place at the wrong time); red ones just flew back and forth, "patrolling" a specific area without changing elevation. Sometimes the red ones instead flew up and down without any horizontal movement, and occasionally the green ones did that too. In any event, once you stomped on a Paratroopa and knocked its wings off, it would revert to the AI of its ground-bound counterpart (not that you'd notice if said former Paratroopa fell into a [[Bottomless Pit]]).

** In ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'', Shy Guys came in ''pink'' and red, with pink being the marginally smarter. However, Snifits came in a rainbow of colors, each with different behavior.

** The ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'' games are prone to this in the later areas. Although each chapter tends to have its own set of themed enemies, a few will return as recolours.

** ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'' has four colors of Koopas. Yellow drops from ledges like green, moves faster, drops a coin when taken out of its shell, and can jump into a shell to make it into an "invincible" flashing shell (or [[Fan Nickname|"disco shell"]]). Blue doesn't fall from ledges, and recovers much faster than the others after getting knocked out of their shells (they're also much thicker, implying they're stronger) and usually kick the shell away instead of reentering it.

 

=== Turn-based Strategy ===

* [[Shining Force]] uses this extensively in all of its games.

 

 

=== [[Web Comics]] ===

* As mentioned in the trope description, the [[Trope Namer]] is [[RPG World]], and was originally a [[Lampshade Hanging]] by showing a number of "Underground (animal not usually found in caves)" enemies in succession.

 

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