Octopus (boss)

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Octopus
Artwork of octopuses, from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins.
Artwork from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
First appearance Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (1992)
Latest appearance Mario vs. Wario (1993)

The octopus[1][2] is a boss in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. It looks like a Gunion, though no connection has been explicitly made.

History

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

The octopus is the boss of Turtle Zone in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, and is located in the belly of a whale. It will attack Mario by swimming around releasing its offspring. The little ones slowly home in on Mario and pass him by, while the parent swims left and right across the arena. In order to defeat the octopus, Mario has to hit its head three times, which can be difficult, as the entire battle with the octopus takes place underwater. Alternatively, Fire Mario can defeat the octopus with six fireballs. The smaller octopodes cannot be harmed, and are the most dangerous threat in the battle. Once defeated, Mario will gain one of the six Golden Coins needed to take back his castle from Wario.

Mario vs. Wario

Octopus vs. Mario, from "Mario vs. Wario"
The octopus in Mario vs. Wario

The octopus (referred to by Mario as a monster octopus) also appears in the Mario vs. Wario comic, which is a loose adaptation of Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. It attempts to attack Mario while he is crossing a lake, but is stopped when Mario asks what an octopus, a saltwater creature, is doing in a freshwater lake. The octopus ponders this and then exclaims that must be why it has not been feeling well. Mario offers to pour some salt in the water for the octopus, but accidentally pours sugar instead. It is last seen lying face down in the water, unmoving.

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Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten

パコ&ポコ (JP) / Pako & Poko (EN)
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Original text (Japanese) Translation
種族しゅぞく アクア族 Tribe Aqua clan
性格せいかく 乱暴者 Disposition Thug
登場とうじょうゲーム ランド2 Game appearances Land 2
恐怖!タコの親子タッグ

マリオランド2のタートルゾーンにボスとして登場する巨大タコの親子。親ダコ・パコの口から子タコ・ポコがはき出される。親子タッグによる、体当たり攻撃は非常に手ごわいぞ。[3]

Terror! Octopus parent-child tag team

A giant octopus parent and child appear as bosses in the Turtle Zone of Mario Land 2. A baby octopus, Poko, is ejected from the mouth of the parent octopus, Pako. The parent-child tag team's physical attacks are extremely formidable.

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Names in other languages

Unless they are the only ones available, names unique to the Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia are denoted as such in the "notes" column.

Octopus

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese パコ&ポコ[4]
Pako & Poko
Pako & Poko
French Calmar[5] Squid
German Qualle und Söhne[6] Jellyfish and Sons
Qualle & Sohn[7] Jellyfish & Son
Spanish Pako y Poko[8] Pako and Poko
Swedish Bläckfisk[9] Octopus

Pako

"Pako" refers to the parent octopus.

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese パコ[4][10]
Pako
Likely from「オクトパス」(okutopasu, "octopus") and「蛸」(tako, "octopus")
おおタコ[11]
Ō Tako
Big Octopus
French Calmar géant[5] Giant squid
German Qualle[7][6] Jellyfish
Italian Polpo[12][13] Octopus
Octopus[14] - Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia
Spanish Pako[8] -
Swedish Bläckfisk[9] Octopus

Poko

"Poko" refers to the parent octopus.

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ポコ[4][10]
Poko
From「ポコポコ」(pokopoko, "bubbling") and「子」(ko, "child")
タコ[11]
Ko Tako
Child Octopus
French Petit calmar[5] Little squid
Italian Piccolo polpo[14] Little octopus
Spanish Poko[8] -

References

  1. ^ August 1993. Nintendo Magazine System (AU) Issue #5. Page 55.
  2. ^ English Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins entry on the official Mario Portal. nintendo.co.jp (English). Retrieved August 13, 2022. (Archived August 13, 2022, 13:51:45 UTC via archive.today.)
  3. ^ 1994. 「パーフェクト版 マリオキャラクター大事典」 (Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten). Shogakukan (Japanese). Page 151.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c Itoi, Shigesato, Takashi Watanabe, Hiroyuki Jinnai (APE), Jin Kobayashi, Ryuji Osawa, and Shigeo Tanabe, editors (1992). 『スーパーマリオランド2: 6つの金貨任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan. ISBN 4-09-102413-0. Page 9.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c Smith, Mark, editor (1993). "Super Mairo Land 2" in Club Nintendo, vol. 1, ed. 7. Nintendo Co., Ltd. (French). Page 28.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Moyes, Claude M., Andreas G. Kämmerer, and Marcus Menold, editors (1994). "Super Mario Land 2" in Offizielle Game Boy Spieleberater 2. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). Page 22.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b Pohlmann, Susanne (1994). "Super Mario Land 2" in Club Nintendo, vol. 6, is. 1. Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). Page 55.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b c Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2017). "Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins" in Enciclopedia Super Mario Bros. 30ª Aniversario. Translated by Gemma Tarrés. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, S.A. (European Spanish). ISBN 978-84-9146-223-1. Page 76.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b Bjarneby, Tobias (1993). "Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins" in Power Player, no. 30. Atlantic Förlags AB (Swedish). Page 4. Supplemental for Nintendo-Magasinet, vol. 1.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b Motoyama, Kazuki (6 Jul. 1993). Super Mario Land 2 - 6-tsu no Kinka 1, Super Mario, vol. 18. Kodansha (Japanese). Page 7Media:KC Mario Super Mario Land 2 Enemies.jpg.
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b Kazuki, Motoyama. KC Deluxe vol. 20 - Super Mario Land 2: 6-tsu no Kinka 2. Page 3.
  12. ^ Fletcher, John, editor in chief (1993). "Super Mario Land 2" in Club Nintendo, vol. 1. Linea Gig S.p.a., Nintendo Co., Ltd. (Italian). Page 25.
  13. ^ "Woah! Un polpo mostruoso!" – Kentaro Takezuma (2017). Super Mario Adventures. Translated by Federico Salvan. Edizioni BD (Italian). Page 106.
  14. ^ Jump up to: a b Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2018). "Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins" in Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Translated by Marco Amerighi. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 76.