Battle Beetle
| Battle Beetle | |||
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 Artwork from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins | |||
| Appears in | Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (1992) | ||
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A Battle Beetle[1] is an enemy in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. These Japanese rhinoceros beetles[2] (identified as Atlas beetles internationally)[1] walk forward until reaching a ledge, after which they fly straight up, then slowly hover down towards Mario. A Battle Beetle can be defeated from either being stomped or from a fireball. Battle Beetles appear in the Leaf Course of the Tree Zone and the Flower Course of the Macro Zone. They look much like Hercules beetles, but are roughly Mario's size.
In Kodansha's Super Mario manga, a beetle caught by Mario during his childhood and raised as his pet grows into a giant Battle Beetle after Wario takes over Mario Land, but Wario's hypnosis does not affect him. During the first volume of Super Mario Land 2, the Battle Beetle helps Mario and Princess Peach locate the first three Golden Coins, traverse the Tree Zone, and defeat the sewer rat and the Witch. While fighting the latter, the Battle Beetle breaks its horns and dies shortly after in Mario's arms.
A Battle Beetle also appears in volume 7 of Super Mario-kun, where Mario gets robbed by it and, while engaging a battle with it, the Battle Beetle hits a branch from which a Heavy Zed falls, squashing and defeating it. In volume 9, another Battle Beetle appears as one of the many enemies affected by the chaos and is defeated by Bunny Mario.
ProfilesEdit
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden CoinsEdit
- Instruction booklet description:
- English:
This is an Atlas beetle that stomps around as it comes after Mario.[1]
- English:
Perfect Ban Mario Character DaijitenEdit
| ヘラクレス (JP) / Battle Beetle (EN) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Original text (Japanese) | Translation | ||
| クリープ族 | Tribe | Creep clan | |
| ニ重人格 | Disposition | Split personality | |
| ランド2 | Game appearances | Land 2 | |
| 2つの顔をもつかぶと虫 はっ葉の上をのんびり歩いている時はやさしい顔をしているのだが、歩くところがなくなると突然恐い顔をして飛び出し、攻撃してくる。飛び出す前に踏んずけてしまおう。[3] |
The two-faced rhinoceros beetle When they are walking leisurely on the leaves, they have a gentle face, but when they run out of places to walk, they suddenly turn scary and jump out to attack. Try to step on them before they jump out. | ||
GalleryEdit
Sprite from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
Shogakukan artwork
Website artwork
Commercial
Names in other languagesEdit
The contemporaneous name for each language is listed first. Subsequent names are listed in chronological order for each language, from oldest to newest, and have the media they are associated with in the "notes" column.
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ヘラクラス[2][4][5] Herakurasu |
Corruption of「ヘラクレス」(Herakuresu, "Heracles"), in reference to「ヘラクレスオオカブト」(Herakuresu ōkabuto, "Hercules beetle") | |
| ヘラクレス[6] Herakuresu |
Heracles | ||
| Dutch | Strijdkever[7]:31 | Battle Beetle | |
| French | Scarabée-Guerrier[7]:13 | Warrior Scarab | |
| Hercules[8] | Heracles | Super Mario-kun | |
| German | Kampf-Käfer[9] | Fighting Beetle | |
| Italian | Battle Beetle[10][11] | - | |
| Coleottero da guerra[12] | War(rior) beetle | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia | |
| Spanish (NOA) | Ciervo Volante[13] | Stag Beetle | |
| Spanish (NOE) | Battle Beetle[14] | - |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ a b c 1992. Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins instruction booklet. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 12.
- ^ a b 1992. Super Mario Land 2: 6-tsu no Kinka instruction booklet. Nintendo (Japanese). Page 16.
- ^ 1994. 「パーフェクト版 マリオキャラクター大事典」 (Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten). Shogakukan (Japanese). Page 201.
- ^ Motoyama, Kazuki (6 Jul. 1993). Super Mario Land 2 - 6-tsu no Kinka 1, Super Mario, vol. 18. Kodansha (Japanese). Page 6.
- ^ 2011. 『スーパーマリオランド２ ６つの金貨』 (Electronic Manual). Nintendo Co., Ltd. (Japanese). Page 32.
- ^ Itoi, Shigesato, Takashi Watanabe, Hiroyuki Jinnai (APE), Jin Kobayashi, Ryuji Osawa, and Shigeo Tanabe, editors (1992). 『スーパーマリオランド2: 6つの金貨任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan. ISBN 4-09-102413-0. Page 11.
- ^ a b 1992. Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins Instruction Booklet / mode d'emploi. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (French, Dutch).
- ^ Sawada, Yukio (2018). Super Mario Manga Adventures, vol. 9. Translated by Florent Gorges. Toulon: Soleil Productions (French). ISBN 978-2-30206-555-0. Page 12.
- ^ 1992. Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins Spieleanleitung. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). Page 14.
- ^ 1992. Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins Manuale di istruzioni. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (Italian). Page 13.
- ^ 2011. Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins (Electronic Manual). Nintendo of Europe GmbH (Italian). Tab 13.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2018). "Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins" in Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Translated by Marco Amerighi. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 76.
- ^ 2011. Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins (Electronic Manual). Nintendo of America (Latin American Spanish). Tab 13.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2017). "Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins" in Enciclopedia Super Mario Bros. 30ª Aniversario. Translated by Gemma Tarrés. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, S.A. (European Spanish). ISBN 978-84-9146-223-1. Page 75.
