Goomba Wheel
| Goomba Wheel | |||
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 A Goomba Wheel in Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam | |||
| First appearance | Paper Mario: Sticker Star (2012) | ||
| Latest appearance | Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam (2015) | ||
| Variant of | Goomba Paper Goomba | ||
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A Goomba Wheel is a variant of Goombas that debuted in Paper Mario: Sticker Star, interrupting Mario in World 1-2, Bouquet Gardens. It is a group of five Goombas stacked on top of each other, forming a vertical line, then formed into a wheel. It rotates and circles Mario, while wheel and motor sound effects can be heard throughout. In battle, however, the Goomba Wheel is fought as single Goombas. Battle Spin is introduced by Kersti in this fight. The music that plays during the chase is called "Unstoppable Fury", a more aggressive arrangement of "Don't Call Me Flunky".
In Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam, Mario and Luigi first encounter a Goomba Wheel in Sunbeam Plains (just before Paper Mario joins the party), formed together by nine Paper Goombas. The Goombas will then roll and chase after the bros; during this sequence, the player must press 
and 
repeatedly to make the bros run away from it, but they are not able to escape since, even if the player outruns the wheel initially, it will circle back around and plough through the Bros and defeat them. Right at that moment, Paper Mario comes down from the sky, defeats the Goomba stack and is introduced. After Paper Mario joins the party, stacks of Paper Goombas occasionally turn into Goomba Wheels to attack Paper Mario, which can be avoided using his high jump.
Smaller variants called Small Goomba Wheels appear in Paper Mario: Color Splash.
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A Goomba Wheel in Paper Mario: Sticker Star
Paper Mario: Sticker Star
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