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-{{species-infobox
+{{italic title|Worm (''Super Mario Galaxy'')}}
-|title=Big Green Caterpillar
+__NOTOC__
-|image=[[File:WormSuperMarioGalaxy.png|220px]]<br>The caterpillar bursting from the first apple
+{{character infobox
+|image=[[File:WormSuperMarioGalaxy.png|220px]]<br>Screenshot from ''Super Mario Galaxy''
+|species=Caterpillar
 |first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' ([[List of games by date#2007|2007]])
 |latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario 3D All-Stars]]'' ([[List of games by date#2020|2020]])
 }}
-[[File:Apple planets.png|thumb|left|The caterpillar burrowing through some apple planets]]
+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.
-The '''Big Green Caterpillar'''<ref>''Super Mario Galaxy'' internal filenames (<tt>GreenCaterpillarBigBody</tt>, <tt>GreenCaterpillarBigBodyLow</tt>, <tt>GreenCaterpillarBigFace</tt>, <tt>GreenCaterpillarBigFaceLow</tt>)</ref> (erroneously and generically referred to by [[Prima Games|Prima]] as a "'''worm'''"<ref>Fletcher Black, ''Super Mario Galaxy'' PRIMA Official Game Guide. Pages 35 and 172.</ref>) is a giant harmless insect only appearing in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''. Specifically, it appears in the [[Gusty Garden Galaxy]]'s mission called [[The Dirty Tricks of Major Burrows]], where it is found after [[Mario]] uses a [[Ground Pound]] on a specific [[stump]] on a giant apple planet. Once Mario does this, the caterpillar bursts out before crawling into another apple planet. After repeating this process two more times, the caterpillar instead leads to a [[Launch Star]], which Mario can use to continue. The caterpillar is most likely based on the larva of the codling moth, due to its tendency to burrow into apples.
-{{br}}
+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.
-==Names in other languages==
+{{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>
+==Additional names==
+===Internal names===
+{{internal names
+|game1=''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''
+|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
+}}
+===Names in other languages===
 {{foreign names
-|Jap=ムイムイ<ref>Shogakukan. 2015. ''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'', ''Super Mario Galaxy'' section, page 126.</ref>
+|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
-|JapM=Possibly from「無為無為」(''mui-mui'', innocent) or「無為」(''mui'', idleness); the "mu" may also come「虫」(''mushi'', insect) or specifically「毛虫」(''kemushi'', caterpillar)
+|JapM=A {{wp|Kansai dialect}} slang term equivalent to「虫」(''mushi'', "worm" or "larval insect")
-|Ger=Muimui<ref>''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''; page 126</ref>
+|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=(Japanese name)
+|GerM=Romanization of the Japanese name
-|Ita=Millepiedi<ref>''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''; page 126</ref>
+|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=Centipede
+|ItaM={{wp|Millipede}}
 }}
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 {{SMG}}
-[[Category:Insects]]
+[[Category:Butterflies and caterpillars]]
-[[Category:Allies]]
+[[Category:Platforms]]
-[[Category:Super Mario Galaxy species]]
+[[Category:Super Mario Galaxy characters]]