Editing Tryclyde

{{character infobox
|image=[[File:SMA Tryclyde Artwork.jpg|120px]]<br>Artwork for ''Super Mario Advance''.
|species=[[Cobrat]]
|first_appearance=''[[Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic]]'' ([[List of games by date#1987|1987]], overall)<br>''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' ([[List of games by date#1988|1988]], ''Super Mario'' franchise)
|latest_appearance=''[[Ultimate NES Remix]]'' ([[List of games by date#2014|2014]])
|latest_portrayal=[[Charles Martinet]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041214201633/http://archive.gamespy.com/interviews/august02/mario/index2.shtml The Voice of Mario]. ''GameSpy''. Retrieved January 6, 2024.</ref> ([[List of games by date#2001|2001]])
}}
{{quote2|Step right up... if you're ready to get... toasted!|Tryclyde|[[Super Mario Advance]]}}
'''Tryclyde''', also known as '''Triclyde''', is a large, three-headed snake capable of breathing balls of fire. He is also an inhabitant of [[Subcon]], the land of dreams. His design is based on the mythical {{wp|Lernaean Hydra}}, a giant, multi-headed serpent.

==History==
===Background===
Not much of Tryclyde's past is revealed, though it is mentioned that he was originally an outcast; he was recruited by [[Wart]] due to his "cunning brain and offensive capabilities which are three times normal strength".<ref name=SMB2>''Super Mario Bros. 2'' English instruction booklet. Page 27.</ref>

===''Super Mario'' series===
====''Super Mario Bros. 2''====
[[File:SMB2 Tryclyde.png|thumb|x200px|Tryclyde's original appearance from ''Super Mario Bros. 2'']]
In ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'', Tryclyde acts as the guardian of both [[World 2 (Super Mario Bros. 2)|World 2]] and [[World 6 (Super Mario Bros. 2)|World 6]]. Upon sighting the player, he shoots [[fireball]]s at them. Tryclyde can take damage from a [[Mushroom Block]] being thrown at it, and they are resistant to Tryclyde's fire breath. After being hit by three Mushroom Blocks, Tryclyde is defeated. In this incarnation, he is red with black stripes or wrinkles. Only the front two heads actually move and spit fire; the back one stays still and only reacts to getting hit.

While Tryclyde reprises his role in the version of ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' included in ''[[Super Mario All-Stars]]'', he is only the boss of World 2 in the ''[[Super Mario Advance]]'' version, his rematch in World 6 having been replaced by [[Mouser]]'s own (originally from [[World 3 (Super Mario Bros. 2)|World 3]]). His color changes in the remakes, coloring him turquoise and orange. Upon defeat in ''Super Mario Advance'', Tryclyde can be heard shouting, "Impossible!" In both reissues, Tryclyde is recolored turquoise, yet official artwork still depicts him the usual red. Most official artwork related to ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' shows Tryclyde with visible bottom fangs, yet in-game, the upper fangs are visible instead. He is also depicted in artwork with plain smooth skin rather than stripes.

There are some unused sprites in ''Super Mario Advance'' of [[Cobrat]] with Tryclyde's palette. Presumably, if they were used, he would act like [[Fryguy]] and [[Clawgrip]] and start out as a regular enemy type before undergoing a transformation.<ref>TCRF. [[tcrf:Super Mario Advance#Unused Enemies|Super Mario Advance § Unused Enemies]]. ''The Cutting Room Floor''. Retrieved October 25, 2013.</ref>

====''BS Super Mario USA''====
Tryclyde returned as a boss in ''[[BS Super Mario USA]]'', and was fought similarly as in his battle from ''Super Mario Bros. 2''. Tryclyde's mugshot depicts him having a green coloration, slightly closer to his in-game sprite reused from ''Super Mario All-Stars'', but is colored red in cutscenes that he appears in.

===''Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up''===
[[File:ZooKeeper.png|thumb|left|Tryclyde on the left side of the Zookeeper coloring page]]
In the coloring book game ''[[Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up]]'', the coloring page for Zoo Keeper features Tryclyde in a cage. The description for the job is as follows:

:''Mario the zoo keeper thinks he's one lucky fellow. After all, not many zoos in the world have such unusual creatures as Birdo, Tryclyde and Pidgit.''
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===''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!''===
{{quote2|Three heads are better than one!|Tryclyde|</span>"[[The Adventures of Sherlock Mario]]"<span>}}
[[File:CartoonTryclyde.jpg|thumb|200px|Tryclyde in the episode "[[Raiders of the Lost Mushroom]]" in ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'']]
Tryclyde (voiced by [[Harvey Atkin]]) is featured in several episodes of ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'', which depict him as being quite powerful, though somewhat unintelligent. He is shown to have a pale yellow belly as opposed to white. Instead of working for Wart, he works for [[Bowser|King Koopa]] as a member of his [[Koopa Troop|Koopa Pack]], often appearing to help him, [[Mouser]] and [[Koopa Troopa]] in their plots. His middle head could talk, but he rarely did so. He most often battled [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]], who was usually able to defeat him. In "[[The Great Gladiator Gig]]", Tryclyde assumes the alter ego of "Tryclydius" to fit with King Koopa's [[King Koopa's alter egos#Emperor Augustus Septemberus Octoberus Koopa|Roman motif]], and in "[[Koopa Klaus]]", he assumes the moniker of "Randolph the Red-Nosed Tryclyde", going with King Koopa's Santa Claus motif [[King Koopa's alter egos#Koopa Klaus|of the same name]].

In the series' writer's bible, it mentions that there are more than one Tryclyde.<ref>[https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/super-mario-bros-show-ad-promo-mario-1999518618 ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' writer's bible]. worthpoint.com. Retrieved October 5, 2020.</ref>

===''Nintendo Comics System''===
Though Tryclyde never made a direct appearance in any issues of ''[[Nintendo Comics System]]'', one of the comics' ''[[Dear Princess Toadstool]]'' features had him writing to Princess Toadstool in a thinly veiled attempt to get a date with her. In the letter, Tryclyde refers to himself using words such as "we" and "we're."

===''Nintendo Adventure Books''===
In one of the [[Game Over|bad ending]]s of ''[[Pipe Down!]]'', [[Ludwig von Koopa]] plays a mournful tune on a harmonica to summon Tryclyde to attack [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]]. Before the heroes can react, Tryclyde grabs them both by their rears and drags them off to his lair.

===''Super Mario-kun''===
[[File:Tryclyde SuperMarioKun.jpg|thumb|left]]
Tryclyde appears in volume 8 of ''[[Super Mario-kun]]''. Tryclyde's heads are given distinct personalities: the middle one is big and a bully to the other heads, the left one is smart, and the right one is dumb. The three heads always bicker with each other, causing one of them to bite the other. When this happens, the middle head (having the pain receptors) always hurts itself. This bickering eventually helps them be defeated. Mario, Luigi, and [[Yoshi]] encounter Tryclyde in a pyramid. Tryclyde burns Mario and Yoshi, but Luigi has a [[Frog Suit]]. He gives Mario a [[Magical Potion]]. Tryclyde steals it from him, but drops it on Mario, enabling Mario to recover from a Mushroom. Mario then defeats Tryclyde by throwing Mushroom Blocks at him.

Tryclyde has appeared as part of Wart's ultimate form during the fight. He appears to be jutting from Wart's head.
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==Profiles and statistics==
===''Super Mario Bros. 2''===
*'''Instruction booklet bio:''' ''He was once an outsider, but now he is one of Wart's helpers since he impressed Wart with his cunning brain and offensive capabilities which are three times normal strength.''<ref name=SMB2/>

===''Super Mario Advance''===
*'''Instruction booklet bio:''' ''Once an outsider, Tryclyde was enlisted by Wart because of his evil planning and triple-strength attack.''<ref>''Super Mario Advance'' European instruction booklet (English). [https://www.thegameisafootarcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Super-Mario-Advance-Game-Manual.pdf Page 12].</ref>

===''[[Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten]]''===
'''<big>ガプチョ</big>'''<br>
'''{{ruby|種族|しゅぞく}}''' ビースト族<br>
'''{{ruby|性格|せいかく}}''' 荒々しい<br>
'''{{ruby|登場|とうじょう}}ゲーム''' USA<br>
'''<big>ガラゲーロたちのボスかな</big>'''<br>
火を吹く3つ首ヘビ。USAのワールド2の中ボスとして登場する。どちらもキノコブロックで壁を作り、あまったブロックを3回当てれば倒せる。<ref>''Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten''. [https://imgur.com/a/UvABP Page 54]. ''Imgur''. Retrieved April 6, 2022.</ref>

'''''<big>Tryclyde</big>'''''<br>
''Tribe: Beast clan''<br>
''Disposition: Gruff''<br>
''Game appearances: USA''<br>
'''''<big>Maybe the boss of the Cobrats</big>'''''<br>
''A fire-breathing three-necked snake that appears as a mid-boss in World 2 of USA. You can defeat both snakes by building a wall with Mushroom Blocks and hitting them with the spare blocks three times.''

===''[[Encyclopedia Super Mario Bros.]]'' bio===
{{Multilang profile
|Jap=W2とW6のボス。3つの頭を持ち、口から炎を吐いてくる。<ref>Shogakukan. 2015. ''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook''. ''Super Mario USA'' section. Page 67.</ref>
|JapM=The boss of W2 and W6. It has three heads and spits fire from its mouth.
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==Gallery==
<gallery>
TriclydeFDS.png|''[[Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic]]''
DokiTriclyde.png|''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic Hisshō Kōryakuhō''
Tryclyde SMB2 NES sprite.png|''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]''
SMUSA Tryclyde.png|''Super Mario USA'' instruction booklet
SMB2 Tryclyde Nintendo Power.jpg|''Mario Mania
SMB2 Club Nintendo Magazine.jpg|''[[Club Nintendo (magazine)|Club Nintendo]]''
SMB2 Nintendo Promotional Artwork.jpg|''[[Club Nintendo Classic]]''
Tryclyde SMAS SMB2 sprite.png|''[[Super Mario All-Stars]]''
Tryclyde BS SuperMario.png|''[[BS Super Mario USA]]''
Tryclyde SMA1 sprite.png|''[[Super Mario Advance]]''
SMB2 World 6-3 Tryclyde Battle.png|''Super Mario Bros. 2''
World2-3SMB2.png|''Super Mario All-Stars''
Tryclydius.jpg|"[[The Great Gladiator Gig]]"
BicycleTryclyde.jpg|"[[The Great BMX Race]]"
BritGuardTryclyde.jpg|"[[The Adventures of Sherlock Mario]]"
PriestTryclyde.jpg|"[[Do You Princess Toadstool Take this Koopa...?]]"
JawsTryclyde.jpg|"[[On Her Majesty's Sewer Service]]"
ReindeerTryclyde.jpg|"[[Koopa Klaus]]"
CriminalTryclyde.jpg|"[[The Unzappables]]"
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ガブチョ<ref>''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic'' instruction booklet. Page 36.</ref> <small>(''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic'')</small>
|JapR=Gabucho
|JapM=Possibly from「ガラゲーロ」(''Garagēro'', "[[Cobrat#Names in other languages|Cobrat]]") and「{{ruby|部長|ブチョウ}}」(''buchō'', "chief"); may involve「ガブッと」(''gabutto'', onomatopoeia for chomping)
|Jap2=ガプチョ<ref name=SMUSA>[https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/ja/pdf/CLV-P-HAADJ.pdf ''Super Mario USA'' instruction booklet]. Page 30. nintendo.co.jp. November 17, 2022.</ref> <small>(''Super Mario USA'')</small>
|Jap2R=Gapucho
|Jap2M=An alternate reading of「ガブチョ」(''Gabucho'')
|Jap3=トライクライド<ref name=SMUSA/> <small>(''Super Mario USA'')</small>
|Jap3R=Toraikuraido
|Jap3M=Transliteration of the ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' name
|Chi=三头蛇<ref>From the ending scenes of ''[[Super Mario Advance]]'' as localized by [[iQue]]. Reference: 无敌阿尔宙斯 (August 28, 2013). [http://tieba.baidu.com/p/2559790043 神游 超级马力欧2敌人官译]. ''Baidu Tieba''. Retrieved February 2, 2017.</ref>
|ChiR=Sān-Tóu Shé
|ChiM=Three-Headed Snake
|Dut=Tryclyde<ref>''Club Nintendo'' (Netherlands) ''Classic''. Page 35.</ref>
|Fre=Tryclyde
|Ger=Triclyde
|Ita=Tryclyde<ref>''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' Italian manual. Page 27.</ref><ref>''[[NES Remix 2]]'' ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' level 7-2, "Sconfiggi Tryclyde!"</ref>
|Ita2=Triciclo <small>(''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'')</small>
|Ita2M=Trike/Tricycle
|Ita3=Tritesta<ref>''[[Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition]]'' Italian manual. Page 38.</ref>
|Ita3M=Three-heads
|Ita4=Trezucche<ref>''[[Super Mario Advance]]'' European manual (Italian). Page 112.</ref>
|Ita4M=Three-heads, lit. "three-pumpkins"; ''zucca'' ("pumpkin") is figuratively used for "head"
|Kor=삼두사
|KorR=Samdusa
|KorM=Three-Headed Snake
}}

==References==
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