Boss Bass
From the Super Mario Wiki
A Boss Bass is a huge Cheep-Cheep found in Super Mario Bros. 3. They swim on the surface of the water trying to lunge out and eat Mario when he gets too close. In some of the levels, platforms rise and fall, making Mario an easy target. Throwing blocks and fireballs can defeat them, but they'll eventually come back. However, in the GBA version, if the player has set on the e-reader card that will make enemies hit by fireballs turn into coins, and the player successfully hits Boss Bass with a fireball and collects the coin, Boss Bass will not return for the rest of the level.
The Cheep-Chomp from New Super Mario Bros. has similar qualities to the Boss Bass. Another enemy in New Super Mario Bros., Spike Basses, patrol the surface of water levels, similar to the Boss Bass. However, Spike Basses will not try to eat Mario.
Boss Basses are also found in Yoshi's Island DS, where they behave much as they do in SMB3. There is also a mid-boss known as Bessie Bass, who, although she behaves like a Boss Bass, is really a Big Bertha, since she is a female of the species.
Boss Bass apparently eat Cheep-Cheeps, despite being a relative of it. They also have trouble distinguishing them from something else, as proven in Super Paper Mario when a Shayde said that he fell into the ocean once, but luckily could swim as well as a Cheep-Cheep. Unfortunately, a Boss Bass thought that since he swam like a Cheep-Cheep, the huge fish ate him.
Boss Basses are similar in both appearance and behavior to the Big Red Blurps from Yoshi's Story.
The female variety of Boss Bass is Big Bertha.
[edit] Names in Other Languages
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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| Japanese | Kyodai Pukupuku ♂ |
| Cheep-Cheeps | |
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| Characters | Bessie Bass • Cheep-Cheep Pufferfish • Cheepskipper • Chef Shimi • Sashimie • Sushie • Stewart |
| Species | ???? • Air Cheep • Baby Cheep • Blurp (SMW) • Blurp (YS) • Big Bertha • Boss Bass • Bub • Bubba • Cheep-Chomp • Deep-Cheep • Flopsy Fish • Jean de Fillet • Mega Cheep-Cheep • Mega Deep-Cheep • Mr. Kipper • Porcu-Puffer • Puffer-Cheep • Rip Van Fish • Sad Cheep Cheep • Spiny Cheep-Cheep |
| Super Mario Bros. 3 | |
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| Protagonists | Mario • Luigi • Princess Toadstool • Toad • Mushroom Kings |
| Bosses | Boom Boom • Larry Koopa • Morton Koopa Jr. • Wendy O. Koopa • Iggy Koopa • Roy Koopa • Lemmy Koopa • Ludwig Von Koopa • Bowser |
| Items | Super Mushroom • Fire Flower • Super Leaf • Star • 1-Up Mushroom • Frog Suit • Hammer Suit • Coin • Tanooki Suit • P-Wing • Goomba's Shoe • Music Box • ? Ball • Boomerang* • Cape Feather* |
| Switches* | Yellow Switch • Green Switch • Red Switch • Blue Switch • Blue Green Switch • Cyan Switch • Orange Switch |
| Worlds | Grass Land • Desert Land • Water Land • Giant Land • Sky Land • Ice Land • Pipe Land • Dark Land • Warp Zone • World-e* |
| Enemies | Angry Sun • Baby Blooper • Baby Cheep • Big Bertha • Blooper Nanny • Blooper • Bob-omb • Boo • Boomerang Bro. • Boss Bass • Bullet Bill • Buster Beetle • Buzzy Beetle • Cannonball • Chain Chomp • Cheep Cheep • Dry Bones • Fire Bro. • Fire Chomp • Fire Snake • Goomba • Hammer Bro. • Hot Foot • Jelectro • Koopa Paratroopa • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Lava Lotus • Micro-Goomba • Missile Bill • Muncher • Nipper Plant • Para-Beetle • Paragoomba • Pile Driver Micro-Goomba • Piranha Plant • Podoboo • Ptooie • Rocky Wrench • Roto-Disc • Sledge Bro. • Spike • Spiny Cheep-Cheep • Spiny • Stretch • Thwomp • Venus Fire Trap |
| * Appears only in Super Mario Advance 4 | |
| Yoshi's Island DS | ||
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| Babies | Baby Mario • Baby Luigi • Baby Peach • Baby Donkey Kong • Baby Yoshi • Baby Wario • Baby Bowser • Star Children | |
| Worlds | World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 | |
| Items & Objects | Baby Coin • Coin • Hint Block • Key • Number Ball • Red Coin • Super Star • Stork Stops • Winged Cloud • Yoshi Egg | |
| Bosses | Big Burt Bros. • Gilbert the Gooey • Hector the Reflector and the Invisighouls • Big Bungee Piranha • Bessie Bass • Priscilla the Peckish • Six-Face Sal • Big Guy the Stilted • Moltz the Very Goonie • Baby Bowser • Bowser | |
| Enemies | Airbone Enemies | Baron Von Zeppelin • Cloud Drop • Fang • Flightless Goonie • Goonie • Gusty • Lakitu • Rocket Guy • Wall Lakitu |
| Aquatic Enemies | Blooper • Boss Bass • Egg-Enut • Flopsy Fish • Nep-Enut • Pirate Guy • Piscatory Pete • Spray Fish • Tube Guy | |
| Botanical Enemies | Blow Hard • Bungee Piranha • Crazee Dayzee • Drool Hard • Eggo-Dil • Needlenose-Plant • Nipper Dandelion • Nipper Plant • Pointey • Swing Hard • Wild Piranha • Wild Ptooie Piranha • Windbag | |
| Giant Enemies | Chomp Shark • Crusher Blargg • Incoming Chomp • Stompin' Chomp • Super Big Tap-Tap | |
| Haunting Enemies | Big Boo • Boo • Boo Guy • Flightless Skeleton Goonie • Ghost Piranha • Invisighoul • Potted Ghost • Skeleton Goonie | |
| Land Enemies | Bandit • Bumptie • Burt • Crabble • Debull • Fleeper • Green Glove • Grinder • Koopa • Para-Koopa • Slugger • Snap Jaw • Tap-Tap | |
| Shy Guy Enemies | Dancing Spear Guy • Fat Guy • Fly Guy • Glide Guy • Mufti Guy • Shy Guy • Shy Stack • Spear Guy • Stilt Guy • Woozy Guy | |
| Subterranean Enemies | Bill Blaster • Blargg • Dizzy Dandy • Gobblin • Gooey Goon • Hot Lips • Lantern Ghost • Podoboo • Super Big Blargg • Zeus Guy | |
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| Protagonists | Luigi | Mario | Princess Toadstool | Toad | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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