Trouter

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Trouter
Trouter
Artwork from Super Mario Advance
First appearance Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic (1987, overall)
Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988, Super Mario franchise)
Latest appearance Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition (2024)
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Trouters are red fish enemies that jumps straight up out of water near waterfalls in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2.

Their English name derives from "trout," an animal that ascends rapids during its life cycle to spawn. Its design is invocative of a celestial eye goldfish, a species of carp, which potentially indicates it conceptually derives from Chinese legends of carps trying to ascend waterfalls to turn into dragons.

History

Super Mario series

Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic / Super Mario Bros. 2

A Trouter from Super Mario Bros. 2

Trouters are found many times throughout Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2 as platforms in which to jump across a large body of water. Stopping time with the Stop Watch makes it much easier to cross them. Although not deadly from below, they are dangerous if touched from the sides. Not only this, but if Mario, Luigi, Toad, or Princess Toadstool ride the Trouter back to the watery depths, they lose a life. In the original versions, their fin, tail, and eyelids are black. In subsequent remakes, they are white with lavender shading.

BS Super Mario USA

Trouters made return in BS Super Mario USA, when they have the same role in the predecessor.

Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up

Mario as a marine biologist.
A Trouter in the Marine Biologist page of Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up

In the coloring book game Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up, the coloring page for Marine Biologist has a Trouter swimming with other underwater enemies and Frog Mario.[1]

The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

Trouter
A Trouter from the The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode "Mario and Joliet"
“Watch out for killer Trouter fish!”
—Mario, "King Mario of Cramalot"

On The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, Trouters make appearances in numerous episodes, where they are portrayed as being far more vicious than they are in Super Mario Bros. 2. Their eyelids are orange, instead of yellow, have a shark-like dorsal fin, and are shown to have purple lips with yellow teeth. Rather than merely hopping in and out of water, Trouters are shown to be fairly carnivorous with sharp teeth, and try to eat anyone who fall into their water. In this, they behave more like Cheep-Cheeps (especially the flying variant), and are likely a combination of the enemies. A running gag throughout the show was that Trouters are usually swimming in whatever body of water that Mario and his friends either have to cross or fall into, often appearing as an unwanted surprise and scaring the group. Sometimes, to show their appetite, Trouters are depicted by wearing bibs, and holding knives and forks.

Trouters are not shown to be minions of King Koopa, as they attempt to eat him if given the opportunity. However, it is not uncommon for King Koopa to use Trouters to his advantage, as he sometimes has them guard the waters surrounding his bases in certain episodes. In The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Boss Bass is given a similar role, and in the Super Mario World episode "Mama Luigi," a Blurp is also given a similar role and design.

Nintendo Comics System

In Nintendo Comics System, Trouters appears in the stories "The Fish That Should've Gotten Away" and "Beauty and the Beach." In the comics, the Trouters featured resemble and act like their cartoon counterparts, but are also depicted as capable of speaking. Stanley the Talking Fish seems to be a Trouter himself, as he is drawn the same other than fin color and expression.

Other appearances

In Ultimate NES Remix, Trouters appear in challenges based on Super Mario Bros. 2, behaving identically as in their original appearance.

Profiles and statistics

Super Mario Bros. 2 / Super Mario Advance

  • Instruction booklet bio: It's a fish which lives in the world of dreams. You'll find it in waterfalls and rivers. He interferes with Mario.[2]
  • Instruction booklet bio (Game Boy Advance version): Trouters inhabit the waters in the land of dreams. They'll try to block your path near rivers and waterfalls.[3]:12

Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten

トトス (JP) / Trouter (EN)
A Trouter from Super Mario Bros. 2.
Original text (Japanese) Translation
種族しゅぞく アクア族ぞく Tribe Aqua clan
性格せいかく いきがいい Disposition Fresh
登場とうじょうゲーム ＵＳＡユーエスエー Game appearances USA
踏台ふみだいにしてジャンプだ

滝たきの中なかから垂直すいちょくに飛とび出だしてくる魚さかな。かなりのスーピドで飛とび上あがってくるので、注意ちゅういが必要ひつようだ。飛とび上あがってきたトトスを踏台ふみだいにしてジャンプすることもできる。[4]

Step up, and jump.

Fish jumping vertically out of the waterfall. It jumps up with considerable speed, so one must be careful. It is also possible to use the Trouters that jumped up as a springboard.

Gallery

For this subject's image gallery, see Gallery:Trouter.

Names in other languages

The contemporaneous name for each language is listed first. Subsequent names are listed in chronological order for each language, from oldest to newest.

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese トトス[5][6][7]
Totosu 		From「とと」(toto), a childish word comparable to "fishie," and possibly "toss"
トラウター[6]
Torautā 		Transliteration of English name Super Mario USA
Chinese (simplified) 拖拖斯[8]
Tuō Tuō Sī 		Transliteration of the Japanese name; related to「抛」(pāo, "toss")
Dutch Trouter[9] -
French Trouter[9][3]:52 -
Italian Trotone[12][13] Portmanteau of trota ("trout") and tritone ("triton")
Trouter[14] - Super Mario Bros. 2
Trota assassine[15] Killer trout The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
Piranha[15] Piranha
Trotano[3]:112 Portmanteau of trota ("trout") and totano ("squid" or "tattler") Super Mario Advance
Korean 토토스[16]
Totoseu 		Transliteration of the Japanese name; derived from "토스" (toseu, "toss")
Polish Trouter[17] -
Portuguese Trouter[18] -
Truta[19] Trout The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
Spanish Trouter[20][3]:92 -

References

  1. ^ "Mario the marine biologist has just discovered some new life forms living at the bottom of the sea: Cheep-Cheeps, Jelectros, Bloobers, and Trouters, to name a few." – Marine Biologist description. Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up.
  2. ^ 1988. Super Mario Bros. 2 Instruction Booklet (PDF). Redmond: Nintendo of America. Page 25. Retrieved June 26, 2024.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e 2001. Super Mario Advance Instruction Booklet (PDF). Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian).
  4. ^ 1994. Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten. Shogakukan (Japanese). Page 128.
  5. ^ 1987. 『夢ゆめ工場こうじょうドキドキパニック 取扱説明書』. Kyoto: Nintendo Co., Ltd. (Japanese). Page 33.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b 1993. 『Super Mario USA 取扱説明書』 (PDF). Kyoto: Nintendo Co., Ltd. (Japanese). Page 28.
  7. ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2015). "Super Mario USA" 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 67.
  8. ^ From the ending scenes of Super Mario Advance as localized by iQue. 无敌阿尔宙斯 (August 28, 2013). 神游 超级马力欧2敌人官译. Baidu Tieba (Simplified Chinese). Archived February 26, 2017, 16:11:09 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved August 6, 2024.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b 1989. Super Mario Bros. 2 Handleiding / mode d'emploi. Brussels: Nintendo (Dutch, French). Page 28.
  10. ^ 1990. Super Mario Bros. 2 Speilanleitung. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). Page 26.
  11. ^ Matsumoto, Atsuko, Rie Ishii, and Claude Moyse, editors (1992). Der Spieleberater Super Mario Power. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). ISBN 3-929034-02-6. Page 118.
  12. ^ 2010. Super Mario All-Stars – Edizione per il 25° Anniversario Manuale di Istruzioni. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (Italian). Page 38.
  13. ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2018). "Super Mario Bros. 2" in Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Translated by Marco Amerighi. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 67.
  14. ^ 1989. Super Mario Bros. 2 Libretto di Istruzioni. Oleggio Castello: Nintendo (Italian). Page 25.
  15. ^ Jump up to: a b Super Mario bros super show ita 1x02 Re Mario di Cramalot
  16. ^ 2010. "슈퍼 마리오 컬렉션". Seoul: Nintendo of Korea Co., Ltd. (Korean). Page 40.
  17. ^ Super Mario Bros. Super Show! - Episode 5 | Rolling Down the River (Polish Voice-Over). Retrieved September 7, 2024.
  18. ^ Gaglianone, Arthur, and Francisco Pellegrini Jr., directors (1991). Super Mario Bros. Livro Ilustrado. Rio de Janeiro: Multi Editora (Brazilian Portuguese). Page 12.
  19. ^ July 2, 2021. Super Mario Bros. Super Show! - Os Piratas de Koopa / Você Acredita em Mágica? (Dublado) (9:54). YouTube (pt=br). Retrieved June 26, 2024.
  20. ^ 1989. Super Mario Bros. 2 Libro de Intrucciones. Madrid: Nintendo (Spanish). Page 25.
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