Tail Boo

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Tail Boo
Artwork of a Tail Boo from Super Mario 3D Land
Artwork for Super Mario 3D Land
First appearance Super Mario 3D Land (2011)
Latest appearance Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey (2018)
Variant of Boo

Tail Boos are enemies introduced in Super Mario 3D Land. They are Boos with white and gray tails granted by Super Leaves.

History[edit]

Super Mario 3D Land[edit]

Tail Boos are enemies in Super Mario 3D Land. They are first encountered in World 4-4. Tail Boos follow the player and when the player looks at one to stop it, it will perform a tail whip as it stops. Its bio on the North American website for the game erroneously claims that they will swing their tail while pursuing the player. Like regular Boos, Tail Boos can be defeated only from invincibility granted from either a Super Star or an Invincibility Leaf. Certain Tail Boos drop either a Super Leaf or a Statue Leaf upon defeat.

Mario & Luigi series[edit]

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions[edit]

Sprite of a Tail Boo from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions

Tail Boos reappear as both enemies and usable minions in the Minion Quest: The Search for Bowser mode of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions. Tail Boos are flying troopers, and attack by running into enemies. Their special attack, Spin Cycle, allows them to attack enemies by spinning their tails.

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey[edit]

Tail Boos reappear in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey, where they are allies and enemies in the Bowser Jr.'s Journey mode. They return as flying troopers, and they use Spin Cycle again. They are weak against Ninjis.

Profiles and statistics[edit]

Super Mario 3D Land[edit]

  • Website description:
    • English:
      The Tanooki-tailed Boo may still be scared of you when you're facing him—but if you turn around, he'll charge head on, tail swinging.

Mario & Luigi series[edit]

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions[edit]

  • Minion Quest: The Search for Bowser profile: A rare type of boo with a tail. Getting hit with said tail really smarts!

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey[edit]

  • Bowser Jr.'s Journey profile: "A rare type of boo with a tail. Getting hit with the swinging tail really smarts!"

Gallery[edit]

Names in other languages[edit]

The contemporaneous name for each language is listed first. Subsequent names are listed in chronological order for each language, from oldest to newest, and have the media with which they are associated in the "Notes" column. Names exclusive to localizations of the Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia are not prioritized due to concerns about circular reporting, and are only listed first for their respective languages if they are the only ones available.

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese しっぽテレサ[1]
Shippo Teresa
Tail Boo; comparable to「しっぽマリオ」(Shippo Mario, "Raccoon Mario")
Dutch Tail Boo[2] -
French Boo à queue[3][4][5] Tailed Boo
German Schweif-Buu-Huu[5] Tail Boo
Tanuki-Buu-Huu[6] Tanooki Boo Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia
Italian Boo Giracoda[7][5] Tail-twirl Boo
Korean 꼬리부끄부끄[8]
Kkorli Bukkeu-bukkeu
Tail Boo; comparable to "꼬리마리오" (Kkorli Mario, "Raccoon Mario")
Spanish (NOA) Boo tanuki[9] Tanooki boo
Bú Tanuki[10] Tanooki Boo Super Mario 3D Land
Spanish (NOE) Boo Tanuki[11][5] Tanooki Boo

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2015). "Super Mario 3D Land" in『スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 978-4-09-106569-8. Page 180.
  2. ^ In-game name displayed on the Minion list in Minion Quest: The Search for Bowser (Dutch). (Stored internally as mon_name_215 within the b_sys.msbt string in the archive Msg\EU_du\BMsg.dat.)
  3. ^ 2011. Histoire et personnages. Super Mario 3D Land (Canadian French). Archived July 21, 2017, 03:15:52 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine.
  4. ^ Ardaillon, Joanna, and Victoria Juillard-Huberty, editors (2018). "Super Mario 3D Land" in Super Mario Encyclopedia. Translated by Fabien Nabhan. Toulon: Soleil Productions (French). ISBN 978-2-3020-7004-2. Page 180.
  5. ^ a b c d In-game name displayed on the Minion list in Bowser Jr.'s Journey (European release). (Stored internally as Steresa within the b_sys.msbt string in the archive Msg\EU_[language]\BMsg.dat.)
  6. ^ Scholz, Sabine, and Benjamin Spinrath, editors (2017). "Super Mario 3D Land" in Super Mario Encyclopedia - Die ersten 30 Jahre : 1985-2015. Translated by Yamada Hirofumi. Hamburg: Tokyopop (German). ISBN 978-3-8420-3653-6. Page 180.
  7. ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2018). "Super Mario 3D Land" in Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Translated by Marco Amerighi. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 180.
  8. ^ In-game name displayed during battle from Minion Quest: The Search for Bowser (Korean). (Archived 14 May 2018 via YouTube by 김용녀.)
  9. ^ In-game name displayed in Bowser Jr.'s Journey (Latin American Spanish). (Archived 30 Mar. 2019 via YouTube by Red Shock Inc.)
  10. ^ 2011. La Historia y Los Personajes. Super Mario 3D Land (Latin American Spanish). Archived August 4, 2019, 04:45:10 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine.
  11. ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2017). "Super Mario 3D Land" 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 180.