Behemoth
| Behemoth | |||
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| First appearance | Final Fantasy II (1988, Final Fantasy franchise) Mario Sports Mix (2010, Super Mario franchise) | ||
| Latest appearance | Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy (2026, Final Fantasy franchise) Mario Sports Mix (2010, Super Mario franchise) | ||
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The Behemoth is a recurring enemy from the Final Fantasy series, and is the first of two bosses in Mario Sports Mix. If the player defeats the Final Fantasy team (composed of Ninja, White Mage, and, if the matches played are in 3-on-3 mode, Black Mage) at the end of a Star Cup, an extra challenge is given to the player, where they must face off against Behemoth. This will not happen unless the player has won the Star Cup tournament in each of the four available sports at least once.
Before the start of the fight the characters travel to a mysterious dimension, the entire arena takes place on a crumbly, rocky platform with no view downwards as it is surrounded by a thick fog. Glowing, purple crystals can be seen around the arena with floating rocks of various sizes, surrounding it all is a night sky full of stars and a bright moon shining down. Players can only walk freely inside a circle in the center of it all.
The fight consists of various elements out of the four available sports. Each character on the player's team has a life meter and, just like Dodgeball, the players get knocked out when their life meter runs out. A regular attack can be done by each of the players by summoning what looks like a Hockey stick, used to whack Behemoth when up close. When a meteor is found from ?-Panels the player holds it like a Basketball, it can be passed around and, while mid-air, be spiked like a Volleyball. If the special meter is full each player dunks the meteor on Behemoth's head, resembling a regular Basketball dunk.
Two or three players, depending on whether 2-on-2 or 3-on-3 was picked, have to fight against Behemoth. Once the player's team fully deplete its health, it gets knocked out and vanishes, which gives the player an extra mode for winning: Sports Mix mode.
A harder version of Behemoth, known as Behemoth King, can be fought at the end of the Star Cup in Sports Mix mode.
Battle[edit]
During the battle, players must work together to fully deplete Behemoth's health. If anyone on the player's team gets knocked out they lie unconscious on the ground before standing back up after a while, however if everyone gets knocked out the fight is lost and the player gets a Game Over with the chance to retry the match.
? Panels appear throughout the arena, player's can receive a meteor, a Coin, a Green Shell, or a Bob-omb. These do not follow the regular item probability distributions as the rest of the game does as the probability changes based on specific factors. Following are the chances of each item when walking over a ? Panel:
| No item held | Any Item held | |||
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| No meteor in play | 17.5% 17.5% 65% |
  
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100% |
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| Meteor held by character | 100% | 
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100% |
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| Meteor held by another character / Meteor being passed |
50% 50% |
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50% 50% |
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Meteors are exclusive to this fight, they can be used to attack Behemoth and fill the Special Shot meter. When a meteor is held ? Panels will only give out coins, similarly the meteor can be passed which will give one additional coin and fill the Special Shot meter slightly for every single pass, the initial throw will give a coin but not fill the meter. The meteor can be used to attack both while the meteor is held, which will cause it to be thrown, and also when the meteor is approaching for a pass in which case the player can jump mid-air to spike the meteor towards Behemoth, both will deal the same amount of damage. Meteors always break the moment they touch the ground.
Coins behave differently in this fight, their usage is entirely connected to meteors as coins will exclusively affect the meteors attack power. Additionally, coins can only be gotten while a meteor is in play and if a meteor breaks, even after using it to attack, all coins will be removed in the process. After the meteor is used to attack Behemoth it will use up all coins available to deal extra damage and then break, however if at least five coins are collected the meteor turns fiery and can be thrown at Behemoth to cause a rebound which allows the players to pass it around as usual, this only works when throwing the meteor as spiking it causes it to break as usual.
Green Shells and Bob-Ombs can be thrown at Behemoth to deal some damage, the latter dealing more damage than the former.
Once the Special Shot meteor is filled up by passing a meteor at least 10 times, it can be executed as long as a meteor is still in play. During the Special Shot each player gets handed a fiery meteor to dunk on Behemoth, one after another. However, despite a meteor being using during the Special Shot, coins do not actually increase the damage of a Special Shot. After the Special Shot is executed both the meteor and all coins will be removed.
Statistics[edit]
Behemoth starts with 2400 life while each player starts with 100 life, however after a teammate lies unconscious for 20 seconds they stand back up with 15 life. The following is the amount of damage each attack deals to Behemoth:
| Attack | Damage |
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| Hockey stick | 20 |
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30 |
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50 |
| Special Shot | 555 |
| + 0 coins
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5 |
| + 1 coin
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10 |
| + 2 coins
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25 |
| + 3 coins
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50 |
| + 4 coins
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75 |
| + 5 coins
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100 |
Each additional coin past five adds 10 additional damage.
Gallery[edit]
White Mage, Pink Yoshi, and Toad prepare to fight Behemoth
White Mage, Yoshi, and Toad during the battle
The Special Move gets executed
The Behemoth's icon
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Note(s) | Ref. |
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| Japanese | ベヒーモス Behīmosu |
Behemoth | [?] | |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 貝西摩斯 Bèi xī mó sī |
Behemoth | [?] | |
| German | Behemoth | English name | [?] | |
| Italian | Behemoth | English name | [?] | |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Bégimo | Origins from Behemot[1] | [?] |
