Worm (Super Mario Galaxy): Difference between revisions

← Older edit

Worm (Super Mario Galaxy) (edit)

Revision as of 11:44, June 27, 2024

1,392 bytes added , 11 days ago

no edit summary

Super Mario RPG

12,797

edits

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-{{delete}}
+{{italic title|Worm (''Super Mario Galaxy'')}}
-{{redirect|Worm|the worm character from ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]''|[[Worm (character)]]}}
+__NOTOC__
-{{species-infobox
+{{character infobox
-|title=Worm
+|image=[[File:WormSuperMarioGalaxy.png|220px]]<br>Screenshot from ''Super Mario Galaxy''
-|image=[[File:WormSuperMarioGalaxy.png|220px]]<br>A giant Worm from ''Super Mario Galaxy''
+|species=Caterpillar
-|related=[[Belly Blech]]<br>[[Creepy]]<br>[[Ick Worm]]<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!]]") (1989)
+|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario 3D All-Stars]]'' ([[List of games by date#2020|2020]])
-|notable=[[Chuck Quizmo]]<br>[[Worm (character)|Worm]]<br>[[Wormwould]]
-|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' ([[List of games by date#2007|2007]])
-|expand=expandable
 }}
+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.
-'''Worms''' are long, thin, tube-shaped creatures that inhabit the [[Earth]]. In the ''[[Mario (franchise)|Mario]]'' world, they often appear as either enemies, characters or gameplay elements.
+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.
+{{br|left}}
+==Gallery==
+<gallery>
+GDC07Scene11.png|Prerelease screenshot from the 2007 {{wp|Game Developers Conference}}
+SMG E3 2007 Early Gusty Garden Galaxy.png|Prerelease screenshot from {{wp|E3 2007}}
+Apple planets.png|Screenshot from ''Super Mario Galaxy''
+</gallery>
-==History==
+==Additional names==
-===''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!''===
+===Internal names===
-{{quote|I've never been so insulted in my whole life!|Worm|The Bird! The Bird!}}
+{{internal names
-[[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.
+|file1=<tt>StageData/ObjNameTable.arc/ObjNameTable.tbl</tt>
+|name1=GreenCaterpillarBig
+|meaning1=Big Green Caterpillar
+|game2=''Super Mario Galaxy''
+|file2=<tt>StageData/ObjNameTable.arc/ObjNameTable.tbl</tt>
+|name2=虫食い惑星オオムイムイ (''Mushikui Wakusei Ōmuimui'')
+|meaning2=Planet-Eating Bug, Big Muimui
+}}
-===''Super Mario Bros.'' film===
+===Names in other languages===
-[[File:LenaEatingWorm.png|110px|thumb|Lena, drinking a worm]]
+{{foreign names
-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, is seen drinking a worm.
+|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>
+|JapR=Muimui
-===''WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!''===
+|JapM=A {{wp|Kansai dialect}} slang term equivalent to「虫」(''mushi'', "worm" or "larval insect")
-In ''[[WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!]]'', 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.
+|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>
+|GerM=Romanization of the Japanese name
+|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>
+|ItaM={{wp|Millipede}}
+}}
-===''Super Mario Galaxy''===
+==References==
-[[File:Apple planets.png|thumb|left|A worm from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' burrowing through some apple planets]]
+<references/>
-In ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'', a giant, friendly, green worm appeared in the [[Gusty Garden Galaxy]], where it snacks on some giant [[apple]] planetoids. [[Mario]] can 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.
-[[Category:Allies]]
+{{SMG}}
-[[Category:Mario Food]]
+[[Category:Butterflies and caterpillars]]
-[[Category:Real World Animals]]
+[[Category:Platforms]]
-[[Category:Super Mario Galaxy Species]]
+[[Category:Super Mario Galaxy characters]]
-[[Category:Worms|*]]