King Ka-thunk
King Ka-thunk[1] (known as King Kathunk in the British English version) is a boss that appears in Super Mario 3D World as the boss of World 5-Castle: King Ka-thunk's Castle. He is a small, blue metal square with red shoes and detached red hands. He also has five spikes on the front (one of which is positioned like a beak) and his back is pink and fleshy with a bandage on it. King Ka-thunk floats in the middle of another, larger Ka-thunk frame.
He serves as the boss of World 5. His main attack is moving around the Ka-thunk before finally stopping in one of the corners. After this, the ground that King Ka-thunk will fall on glows red before he crashes into the ground, damaging any players caught under the Ka-thunk. To damage King Ka-thunk, the player has to jump on his backside while he is face down. Oddly enough, he is not damaged if a player is thrown onto his weak spot by another player. After each hit, two of the arena's corners will fall off, and King Ka-thunk will become faster and more erratic. Once three hits are landed, King Ka-thunk is defeated, and the Warp Box to the Goal Pole is revealed.
King Ka-thunk later reappears as one of the bosses in World Flower-12: Boss Blitz with the exact same strategy from his first battle in World 5.
Names in other languages
Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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Japanese | Boss Wackun[2] (internal) ガッチンキング Gacchin Kingu |
Clanging King |
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German | König Klonk[?] | King Klonk | |
Italian | Re Clompo[?] | From Re (King) and the the sound of crushing objects (CLOMP!) | |
Portuguese | Rei Quadrapumba[?] | Rei means "king"; Quadrapumba comes from quadrado (square) and pumba (thumping sound) | |
Russian | Кар-Кас[?] Kar-Kas |
From каркас (karkas, means "frame, carcass") and кар (kar), the sound of a crow | |
Spanish | Rey Marcoplás[?] | King Frameplaf. Marco means frame and plas means plaf; Marco is also a name (Mark) |
Trivia
- King Ka-thunk's method of attacking is very similar to that of the Whomp King.
References
- ^ Level name: King Ka-thunk's Castle
- ^ Super Mario 3D World internal filename (BossWackun)