Cactus Jack

Cactus Jack
Species Origin	Needlenose
First Appearance	Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (1995)
Latest Appearance	Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 (2002)

Cactus Jacks are large, spike covered Pokeys with targets on their chests. They can only be moved by being shot by an Yoshi Egg. If they come into contact with anything when rolling, they explode and shoot out coins. Cactus Jacks appear only in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and its remake Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3.

They are a paler sub-species of Needlenoses.

Names in other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	マトサンボ Mato Sanbo	Target Pokey

Trivia

• Cactus Jacks are named after politician John "Cactus Jack" Garner.

References

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Characters	Baby Mario • Baby Luigi • Yoshi • Baby Bowser • Kamek • Stork • Poochy • Huffin' Puffin • Muddy Buddy
Worlds	Welcome to Yoshi's Island • World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6
Items & Objects	Coin • Flower • Hint Block • Key • Red Coin • Super Star • Winged Cloud • Yoshi Egg • 10-Point Star • 20-Point Star • Full Egg • Magnifying Glass • POW Block • Special Blue Watermelon • Super Green Watermelon • Super Red Watermelon
Bosses	Burt the Bashful • Salvo the Slime • Bigger Boo • Roger the Potted Ghost • Prince Froggy • Naval Piranha • Marching Milde • Hookbill the Koopa • Sluggy the Unshaven • Raphael the Raven • Tap-Tap the Red Nose • Tap-Tap the Golden • Baby Bowser
Enemy Classes	Edibilis Boringus • Harrassimentia Phlyoverus • Projectilia Ritebakatchia • Ucantia Defeatus • Dudim Phreykunoutonthis • Mostosti Vomitonus
Enemies	Aqua Lakitu • Bandit • Baron von Zeppelin • Baseball Boy • Barney Bubble • Beach Koopa • Big Boo • Biting Bullet Bill • Blargg • Blow Hard • Boo Balloon • Boo Blah • Boo • Boo Guy • Boo Man Bluff • Bouncing Bullet Bill • Bowling Goonie • Bubble Dayzee • Bullet Bill • Bumpty • Burt • Cactus Jack • Caged Ghost • Chain Chomp • Chomp • Chomp Shark • Clawdaddy • Cloud Drop • Coin Bandit • Crazee Dayzee • Dancing Spear Guy • Dangling Ghost • Dizzy Dandy • Dr. Freezegood • Eggo-Dil • Fang • Fat Guy • Fishin' Lakitu • Flightless Skeleton Goonie • Flightless Goonie • Flopsy Fish • Flutter • Fly Guy • Frog Pirate • Fuzzy • Gargantua Blargg • Georgette Jelly • Goomba • Goonie • Green Glove • Grim Leecher • Grinder • Grunt • Gusty • Harry Hedgehog • Hootie the Blue Fish • Hot Lips • Jean de Fillet • Kaboomba • Kamek • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Lantern Ghost • Large Milde • Lava Drop • Lemon Drop • Little Mouser • Little Skull Mouser • Loch Nestor • Lunge Fish • Mace Guy • Melon Bug • Milde • Mini-Raven • Mock Up • Mufti Guy • Naval Bud • Needlenose • Nep-Enut • Nipper Plant • Nipper Spore • Paratroopa • Piranha Plant • Piro Dangle • Piscatory Pete • Podoboo • Potted Spiked Fun Guy • Preying Mantas • Pyro Guy • Raven • Rip Van Fish • Seedy Sally • Short Fuse • Skeleton Goonie • Slime • Slugger • Sluggy • Solo Toady • Spear Guy • Spike (enemy) • Spike (obstacle) • Spiked Fun Guy • Spooky • Spray Fish • Stilt Guy • Stretch • Tap-Tap • Tap-Tap the Golden • Thunder Lakitu • Toady • Train Bandit • Very Goonie • Wall Lakitu • Whirly Fly Guy • Wild Ptooie Piranha • Woozy Guy • Zeus Guy

Pokeys
Characters	Mummipokey • Pokey Triplets • Tower Power Pokey
Species	Blow Hard • Bramball • Cactus Jack • Dark Pokey • Drool Hard • Hanging Blow Hard • Mad Pokey • Mini Pokey • Needlenose • Poison Pokey • Pokey • Pokey Mummy • Pokey Sprout • Potted Spiked Fun Guy • Seedy Pod • Skellokey • Spiked Fun Guy • Toothy