Hoppycat

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Hoppycat
First appearance	Super Mario Bros. Wonder (2023)
Comparable Spiny Skipsqueak

Hoppycats are green, spiky-shelled creatures resembling snails that appear in Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Similar to Skipsqueaks in Super Mario Maker 2, they attack by jumping when the player(s) also jump. There is also a red log-like lift that shoots out a Hoppycat from the side whenever the player jumps while riding it, which can be used to hit blocks. Their name is a portmanteau of "hop" and "copycat". One Wonder Effect turns the characters into Hoppycats, though this form is shown to have four spikes instead of three.

Gallery

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  Mario under the Wonder Flower Hoppycat transformation

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ホッピン Hoppin	From "hopping"; may involve "pin" (referring to their spikes)
Chinese	哈蹦 Hābèng	Transliteration of the Japanese name;「蹦」also means "to jump".
Dutch	Hoppycat	-
French	Bondiss	From "bondisse", an inflection of "bondir" (to jump)
German	Hüpfer	Hopper
Italian	Salterino	From "salte", an inflection of the Portuguese/Spanish verb "saltar" (to leap), and the Italian diminutive "-ino"
Portuguese	Pulusco	Portmanteau of "pular" (to jump) and "molusco" (mollusk)
Spanish	Saltamanta	Portmanteau of "saltar" (to hop) and "manta", as well as a play on "saltamontes" (grasshopper)