Big Bob
| Big Bob | |
|---|---|
 Big Bob in the Nintendo Switch remake | |
| First appearance | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004) |
| Latest appearance | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024) |
| Variant of | Cannon |
- “Hut! Leave it to me! Now, men! You know the drill! Load Big Bob!”
- —General White, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)
Big Bob (originally known as the big bomb cannon) is a massive cannon that appears in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. According to Professor Frankly, it is capable of shooting anything to anywhere. It is located in Fahr Outpost and stored in a huge underground chamber. When Mario goes to Fahr Outpost in hopes of finding a way to the moon, he is informed that he must seek out Goldbob to gain permission to use the cannon and General White to have him operate it. After he locates them, Mario speaks to the Fahr Outpost mayor once more, and Big Bob is activated. A hatch underneath Mario and his partner opens to load them into the barrel. Then a larger hatch and a number of shutters open, and Big Bob rises from its storage chamber. A large number of Bob-ombs are then loaded into a chamber at the bottom of the cannon. After Mario is shot towards the moon, all of the Bob-ombs parachute back down.
The cannon additionally appears in volume 34 of Super Mario-kun, but it is destroyed by Bowser before it can be used to launch Mario, Goombella, and Koops to the moon; Bowser has to throw them instead.
Gallery[edit]
The cannon, ready to fire
The cannon firing Mario to the Moon
Big Bob aiming for the moon in the Nintendo Switch remake
The cannon in Super Mario-kun
Naming[edit]
"Big Bob" is a wordplay on "Bob-omb," as the cannon is loaded with a large number of Bob-ombs and fired with a powerful explosion, as well as "Big Bertha," a famous large artillery model.
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Note(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ビッグ・ボム Biggu Bomu |
Big Bomb | [1] | |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 大炸弹 Dà Zhàdàn |
Big Bomb | [?] | |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 大炸彈 Dà Zhàdàn |
Big Bomb | [?] | |
| Dutch | Bolle Bob | Round Bob | [?] | |
| French | Big Boum | Big Boom | [2] | |
| German | Große Kanone | Big Cannon | [?] | |
| Italian | Grande Boom | Big Boom | [3] | |
| Korean | 빅폭탄 Bik Poktan |
Big Bomb | [?] | |
| Spanish | Gran Cañón | Grand Cannon | [?] |
References[edit]
- ^ 「ホワイトしょうぐん！
ビッグ・ボムの じゅんびは よいかね？」— Fahr Outpost mayor, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Japanese) - ^ «Général Blanc! Big Boum est prêt?» — Fahr Outpost mayor, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (French)
- ^ «Generale Bucaneve, a che punto sono i preparativi del Grande Boom?» — Fahr Outpost mayor, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Italian)
