Bat (Super Mario Galaxy)

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Bat First Appearance Super Mario Galaxy (2007) Latest Appearance Super Mario Galaxy 2 (2010) Parent Species Swoop Derived Species Ice Bat Bats are Swoop-like enemies from Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2. They resemble brown bats with pig-like noses and bulging, glowing eyes with faint rings on them, causing them to resemble Keese from the Legend of Zelda series, particularly a cartoonish version of their Twilight Princess incarnation; the two games were in development at overlapping times, so this may be intentional. Initially, Bats are found either hanging from the ceiling or flying around aimlessly. When Mario approaches, they fly in close to him, before attempting to fly straight into him. If they succeed, they will laugh at him. They can be defeated with a spin or jump, and will release either three Star Bits or one coin, respectively, depending of which way they're defeated. They can be found in many dark places, with the first being the cave in the Beach Bowl Galaxy. They are also found flying around the arm of Heavy Metal Mecha-Bowser. Icy locations such as the cold portion of the Freezeflame Galaxy sometimes contain an icy variant called an Ice Bat, which will freeze Mario if he makes contact with it, and can only be defeated with a Fire Flower. It is worth noting that the internal filename for this enemy in both games is a romanization of the Japanese name for Swoop. This indicates that early in development for the first game, the enemy was intended to be a traditional Swoop, and it kept the internal name when the files were ported over to the sequel. The official Japanese name for Bat, Batton, is shared with Enigma, another pig-nosed bat; however, due to the rights for Enigma being held by Square Enix, coupled with Enigma's distinct hive-minded behavior being different from Bats, it is unlikely that this was intentional. Names in other languages Language Name Meaning Japanese バットン Batton Variation on the English word "Bat" References [Edit] Super Mario Galaxy Characters Mario • Luigi • Princess Peach • Rosalina • Bowser • Luma • Polari • Lumalee • Lumacomète • Toad Brigade • Ray • Gearmos • Guppy • Cosmic Mario • Boards • Queen Bee • Honeybees • Coach • Penguru • Penguins • Spooky Speedster Items and objects ? Coin • ? Block • 1-Up Mushroom • Bee Mushroom • Boo Mushroom • Brick Block • Coin • Crate • Crystal • Dark Matter • Fire Flower • Flip Tile • Floating Mine • Golden Treasure Chest • Ground-Pound Switch • Grand Star • Green Power Star • Ice Flower • Koopa Shell • Launch Star • Life Mushroom • Power Star • Pull Star • Purple Coin • Rainbow Note • Rainbow Star • Red Power Star • Red Star • Silver Star • Sling Star • Space Junk • Springboard • Spring Mushroom • Star Ball • Star Bit • Star Chip • Star Crystal • Stone Wheel • Treasure Chest • Warp Pad Enemies Amp • Banzai Bill • Bat • Blooper • Bob-omb • Bomb Boo • Bomp • Boo • Bullet Bill • Burner • Cataquack • Cheep Cheep • Chibi Wanwan • Chomp • Clam • Cluckboom • Crabber • Dry Bones • Fire Bar • Fire Cannon • Fish Bone • Flipbug • Goomba • Goombeetle • Grand Goomba • Gringill • Ice Bat • Jack O'Goomba • Jammyfish • Jellyfish • Koopa Troopa • Lava Bubble • Lava Geyser • Li'l Brr • Li'l Cinder • Magikoopa • Mandibug • Mechakoopa • Monty • Octoguy • Octoomba • Octopus • Piranha Plant • Pokey • Pokey Head • Porcupuffer • Prickly Piranha Plant • Scuttlebug • Sentry Beam • Slurple • Spiky Topman • Spring • Spring Topman • Starbag • Thorny Flower • Thwomp • Topmini • Torpedo Ted • Tox Box • Tweester • Undergrunt • Urchin • Water Shooter • Wiggler Bosses Dino Piranha • King Kaliente • Bugaboom • Megaleg • Kamella • Tarantox • Topmaniac • Bouldergeist • Major Burrows • Baron Brrr • Undergrunt Gunner • Kingfin • Fiery Dino Piranha • Bowser Jr. • Bowser Minigames Bob-omb Blasting • Bubble Blowing • Manta Ray Surfing • Star Ball Rolling Further Info Staff • Glitches • Pre-release and unused content • Mario Galaxy Orchestra • Super Mario Galaxy: Original Soundtrack • Super Mario Galaxy 2 [Edit] Super Mario Galaxy 2 Playable characters Mario • Luigi • Yoshi Non-playable characters Bill Board • Black Jibberjay • Bob-omb Buddies • Bowser • Bowser Jr. • Coach • Cosmic Spirit • Co-Star Luma • Fluzzard • Gearmo • Gold Gearmo • Honeybees • Jibberjays • Lubba • Luma • Lumalee • Penguin • Penguru • Princess Peach • Queen Bee • Rosalina • Silver Gearmo • Star Bunny • The Chimp • Toad • Toad Brigade • Whittle Items and objects + Clock • ? Block • ? Coin • 1-Up Mushroom • Balloon • Bee Mushroom • Berries • Blimp Fruit • Blue Switch • Boo Mushroom • Brick Block • Bronze Star • Bulb Berry • Chance Cube • Checkpoint Flag • Cloud Flower • Coin • Comet Medal • Cosmic Platform • Crate • Crystal • Dark Matter • Dash Pepper • Spin Drill • Flip-Out Wall • Floaty Fluff • Flower Grapple • Fire Flower • Floating Mine • Flying ? Block • Grand Star • Grate • Green Power Star • Ground-Pound Switch • Key • Launch Star • Leaf Raft • Life Mushroom • Meteorite • Portal • Power Star • Pull Star • Purple Coin • Purple Coin Ball • Rainbow Note • Rainbow Star • Red-Blue Panel • Rock Mushroom • Silver Star • Sling Star • Snake Block • Snowball • Spring • Spring Mushroom • Star Ball • Star Bit • Star Chip • Star Crystal • Teleporter • Tip Network • Treasure Chest • Warp Pad Enemies Amp • Banzai Bill • Bat • Big Boo • Big Koopa Troopa • Big Paragoomba • Big Piranha Plant • Big Thwomp • Big Wiggler • Boo • Boulder • Boomerang Bro • Blooper • Bob-omb • Bomb Boo • Bomp • Bullet Bill • Cheep Cheep • Chibi Wanwan • Chomp • Choppah • Clam • Cluckboom • Crabber • Cosmic Clone • Digga • Dry Bones • Electric Pressure • Elite Octoomba • Fire Bar • Fire Cannon • Fizzlit • Flaptack • Flipbug • Flomp • Fuzzy • Golden Chomp • Goomba • Goombeetle • Grand Goomba • Gray Bowser Statue • Grinder • Gringill • Gummit • Hammer Bro • Jack O'Goomba • Jammyfish • Jellyfish • Kleptoad • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Lava Bubble • Lava Bubble (blue) • Lava Geyser • Ledge Hammer • Li'l Brr • Li'l Cinder • Mattermouth • Starbag • Octoboo • Octoomba • Octoguy • Octopus • Magikoopa • Magmaargh • Magmaw • Mandibug • Mechakoopa • Paragoomba • Pinhead • Piranha Plant • Pokey Head • Porcupuffer • Prickly Piranha Plant • Pupdozer • Rhomp • Scuttlebug • Sentry Beam • Silver Chomp • Skeeter • Slurple • Smeech • Snoodle • Spiky Topman • Spiny • Spiny Hermit • Spiny Piranha Plant • Stretch Plant • Swaphopper • Thorny Flower • Thwomp • Topman • Topmini • Tox Box • Twirlip • Undergrunt • Undergrunt Gunner • Urchin • Venus Flower Trap • Water Shooter • Whimp • Whomp • Wiggler Bosses Peewee Piranha • King Lakitu • Digga-Leg • Gobblegut • Bugaboom • Rollodillo • Sorbetti • Megahammer • Glamdozer • Squizzard • Prince Pikante • Boomsday Machine • Whomp King • Fiery Gobblegut • Giant Bowser • Dino Piranha • King Kaliente • Major Burrows • Bouldergeist • Fiery Dino Piranha Minigames Crate Burning • Fluzzard Gliding • Star Ball Rolling Further Info Staff • Glitches • Pre-release and unused content • Mario Galaxy Orchestra • Super Mario Galaxy 2: Original Soundtrack • Quotes