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| {{italic title|Worm (''Super Mario Galaxy'')}} | | {{Species-infobox |
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| | |image=[[File:WormSuperMarioGalaxy.png|220px]]<br>A giant '''Worm''' from ''Super Mario Galaxy''. |
| |image=[[File:WormSuperMarioGalaxy.png|220px]]<br>Screenshot from ''Super Mario Galaxy'' | | |sub_species=[[Belly Blech Worm]]<br>[[Ick Worm]] |
| |species=Caterpillar | | |related=[[Creepy]]<br>[[Silky]]<br>[[Sworm]] |
| |first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' ([[List of games by date#2007|2007]]) | | |first_appearance=''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'' (''"[[The Bird! The Bird!]]"'') |
| |latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario 3D All-Stars]]'' ([[List of games by date#2020|2020]]) | | |notable=[[Bookworm]]<br>[[Chuck Quizmo]]<br>[[SandWorm]]<br>[[Wormwould]] |
| | |latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' ([[List of games by date#2007|2007]]) |
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| The '''worm'''<ref>{{cite|author=Black, Fletcher|title=''Super Mario Galaxy: PRIMA Official Game Guide''|format=Collector's Edition|location=Roseville|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|date=November 9, 2007|page=35, 172|isbn=978-0-7615-5713-5|language=en-us}}</ref> is a giant caterpillar from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''. It is harmless and has its own [[gravity|gravitational pull]], allowing [[Mario]] (or [[Luigi]]) to walk along its body as if it is a planetoid. It lives in [[Gusty Garden Galaxy]], where it can be found inside one of the three [[apple]]-shaped planets during [[The Dirty Tricks of Major Burrows]]. Each apple has at least one [[stump]] on its surface that disturbs the worm once [[Ground Pound|ground-pound]]ed, causing it to tunnel into the next nearest apple. This forms a permanent bridge between these planets that ultimately connects all three apples. Striking the stump in the final, red-colored apple causes the worm to poke its head out of the surface, allowing Mario to reach a nearby [[Launch Star]]. The worm does not appear anywhere else in the game. The spots on its body suggest it may be related to [[Wiggler]]s.
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| The character is likely based on the culturally ubiquitous {{wp|Trope (literature)|trope}} of the "worm in an apple,"<ref>"{{cite|url=tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WormInAnApple|title=Worm in an Apple|publisher=TV Tropes|language=en|accessdate=November 10, 2023}}</ref> itself potentially influenced by the apple-eating larvae of widespread pest insects such as ''{{wp|Cydia pomonella}}'', ''{{wp|Grapholita lobarzewskii}}'', and ''{{wp|Rhagoletis pomonella}}''. A [[Worm (Donkey Kong 64)|similar character]] from ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'' is also derived from this trope.
| | '''Worms''' are long, thin, tube-shaped creatures that inhabit both [[Mushroom World]] and [[Earth]]. They often appear as either enemies, characters or gameplay elements. |
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| ==Gallery==
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| GDC07Scene11.png|Prerelease screenshot from the 2007 {{wp|Game Developers Conference}}
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| SMG E3 2007 Early Gusty Garden Galaxy.png|Prerelease screenshot from {{wp|E3 2007}}
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| Apple planets.png|Screenshot from ''Super Mario Galaxy''
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| </gallery>
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| ==Additional names== | | ==History== |
| ===Internal names=== | | ===''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!''=== |
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| | [[File:WormTBTB.png|120px|thumb|left|The worm from "[[The Bird! The Bird!]]"]] |
| |game1=''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''
| | A single worm first appeared in the ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'' episode "[[The Bird! The Bird!]]". After the Mario bros. defeated [[Bowser]] and saved their new friend [[Cheepy]] and his [[Cheepy's mother|mother]], they were invited over to Cheepy's house for dinner as thanks for their help, however they were unaware that the dinner was actually a large, talking, grumpy worm, after seeing it they ran out of the house. |
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| |name1=GreenCaterpillarBig
| | ===''Super Mario Bros. film''=== |
| |meaning1=Big Green Caterpillar
| | [[File:LenaEatingWorm.png|110px|thumb|left|Lena, drinking a worm.]] |
| |game2=''Super Mario Galaxy''
| | In the ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' film, worms were used as sustenance and drink toppings for the [[Dinosaur#"Dino World"|people]] of [[Dinohatten]]. [[Lena]], one of the main antagonists of the film was seen drinking a worm as it screamed for mercy, showing that the worms of Dinohatten are indeed intelligent. |
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| |name2=虫食い惑星オオムイムイ (''Mushikui Wakusei Ōmuimui'')
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| |meaning2=Planet-Eating Bug, Big Muimui | |
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| ===Names in other languages=== | | ===''WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!''=== |
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| | In ''[[WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!]]'', one of the playable [[microgame]]s in the [[Nature]] folder is known as [[Worm Squirm]] where the player has to find out which worm is the one under the player's control and guide it towards the water. |
| |Jap=ムイムイ<ref>{{cite|author=Sakai, Kazuya (Ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors.|language=ja|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|date=October 19, 2015|title=『[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|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]]』|location=Tokyo|page=126|isbn=978-4-09-106569-8}}</ref>
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| |JapR=Muimui
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| |JapM=A {{wp|Kansai dialect}} slang term equivalent to「虫」(''mushi'', "worm" or "larval insect")
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| |Ger=Muimui<ref>{{cite|author=---|language=de|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Encyclopedia - Die ersten 30 Jahre]]''|format=Deutsche Ausgabe|location=Hamburg|publisher=Tokyopop|date=October 12, 2017|page=126|isbn=978-3842036536}}</ref>
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| |GerM=Romanization of the Japanese name
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| |Ita=Millepiedi<ref>{{cite|author=---|date=November 15, 2018|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia: La guida ufficiale Nintendo]]''|location=Milano|format=Edizione italiana|publisher=Magazzini Salani|language=it|isbn=889367436X|page=126}}</ref>
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| |ItaM={{wp|Millipede}}
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| ==References== | | ===''Super Mario Galaxy''=== |
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| | [[File:Apple planets.jpg|thumb|left|A worm from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' burrowing through some apple planets.]] |
| | In ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'', a giant, friendly, green worm appeared in the [[Gusty Garden Galaxy]], where it was found snacking on some giant [[apple]] planetoids. [[Mario]] could use this worm to cross between the three apple planetoids in the area by [[Ground Pound]]ing [[Stump]]s in the planetoids, causing the worm to burrow through one apple and into the next. |
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| | [[Category:Species]] |
| [[Category:Butterflies and caterpillars]] | | [[Category:Super Mario Galaxy]] |
| [[Category:Platforms]] | | [[Category:Allies]] |
| [[Category:Super Mario Galaxy characters]] | | [[Category:Mario Food]] |
