Big Koopa Paratroopa
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| First appearance | Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen! (1986) | ||
| Latest appearance | Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition (2024) | ||
| Variant of | Koopa Paratroopa Big Koopa Troopa | ||
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Big Koopa Paratroopas (also known as Colossal Koopa Paratroopas[1] or Colossal Koopa Para-Troopas[2]) are gigantic Koopa Paratroopas.
HistoryEdit
Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen!Edit
A big Paratroopa appears in Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen! She captures Mario, and later Luigi and Kibidango, and takes them to her nest, where she attempts to feed them to her babies, which resemble large green baby birds. Mario avoids being eaten by feeding the babies the laughing mushrooms he had been picking; he saves Luigi and Kibidango by pretending to taste Luigi and saying he has gone rotten. The babies then persuade the mother to go get them some dessert. She is last seen waving goodbye to the heroes with her babies after they acquire the mushroom from the freed Toads.
Super Mario seriesEdit
Super Mario Bros. 3Edit
Colossal Koopa Paratroopas, also referred to as Mega Koopa Paratroopas,[3] appear in Giant Land in Super Mario Bros. 3, and do not act differently than other Koopa Paratroopas. Like Giant Koopas, their large shells can be used to smash Big Blocks, and can be picked up. Only hopping green-shelled ones appear.
Super Mario Maker / Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS / Super Mario Maker 2Edit
In Super Mario Maker, Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS and Super Mario Maker 2, they can be produced if the player puts a Super Mushroom onto normal Koopa Paratroopas; another way of creating them is to attach a pair of wings to a Big Koopa Troopa. In addition to their original green color, Big Koopa Paratroopas now come in red-shelled varieties, and each behave differently akin to their smaller relatives: green-shelled ones make consequent hops on the ground, heading towards the direction they are facing, and red-shelled ones fly in a straight pattern up and down. However, in the Super Mario Bros. 3 style, they do not have their distinct sprite; instead, they look like double-sized versions of ordinary Koopa Paratroopas, as in the other styles.
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven StarsEdit
In Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, the Tub-O-Troopa enemies that are only found in Bowser's Keep bear a resemblance to Colossal Koopa Paratroopas.
Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. EditionEdit
In Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition, they are known as Big Green Koopa Paratroopas, and have a variant known as Big Yellow Koopa Paratroopas.
Big Green Koopa ParatroopaEdit
Big Green Koopa Paratroopas are Water-attribute enemies. In battle, in addition to attacking normally, they may occasionally use Big Shell to nullify Fire and Dark attribute damage for three turns, and may also use Frenzied Blows to deal a large amount of damage. When defeated, they may randomly drop Super Water Blocks of Green Koopa Paratroopas, while defeating them with 10+ Combo attacks guarantees they will drop Rare Fruits. As Water enemies, they take extra damage from Wood attribute attacks and less from Fire damage. Only three appear as enemies in the entire game: in the last regular battle in World 4-
Airship and its Special World counterpart, and in the first battle of Course 2 of the Fixed Challenge mode in Score Attack. A Big Green Koopa Paratroopa also appears in the demo version of Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition, as the boss of Intro.
As teammates, Big Green Koopa Paratroopas gain a Light sub-attribute (being Water/Light teammates), and have an HP rating of 6/6, an ATK rating of 2/6, and a RCV rating of 3/6. Their Big Shell Skill changes any Fire and Wood Orbs on the player's Orb field into Water Orbs, while their Awoken Skill Health Boost raises the HP of the player's entire team. Big Green Koopa Paratroopas use Fruits and Rare Fruits to raise their Skill Levels. The player can create a Big Green Koopa Paratroopa by transforming a Green Koopa Paratroopa with five Super Mushrooms.
Big Yellow Koopa ParatroopaEdit
Big Yellow Koopa Paratroopas are Light-attribute enemies. In battle, they may occasionally use Shining Shell to nullify Dark attribute damage for three turns, and may also use Frenzied Blows to deal a large amount of damage. When defeated, they may randomly drop Super Light Blocks of Yellow Koopa Paratroopas, while defeating them with a 10+ Combo attacks guarantees they will drop Rare Fruits. As Light enemies, they take extra damage from Dark attribute attacks and normal damage from any other attribute. Only two appear as enemies in the entire game: as the bosses of World 7-7 and its Special World counterpart.
As teammates, Big Yellow Koopa Paratroopas gain a Light sub-attribute (being Light/Light teammates), and have an HP rating of 6/6, an ATK rating of 3/6, and a RCV rating of 3/6. Their Shining Shell Skill changes any Fire and Dark Orbs on the player's Orb field into Light Orbs, while their Awoken Skill Health Boost raises the HP of the player's entire team. Like their green-shelled counterparts, Big Yellow Koopa Paratroopas also use Fruits and Rare Fruits to raise their Skill Levels. The player can create a Big Yellow Koopa Paratroopa by transforming a Yellow Koopa Paratroopa with five Super Mushrooms.
Yoshi's Woolly WorldEdit
In Yoshi's Woolly World, a regular Koopa Paratroopa named Knot-Wing is transformed by Kamek into a giant-sized Koopa as a boss of World 2, World 4, and World 6.
GalleryEdit
Super Mario Bros: Peach-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen!
Super Mario Bros: Peach-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen!
NamingEdit
EtymologyEdit
Since the introduction of large-sized enemies as a concept in 1988, the Japanese monikers applied to individual variants has been varied, as have the localizations of these names. Standardization occurred around 2010, after which the localized adaptations of these names have also largely been consistent with the following schemes:
- 「でか」(Deka) is the preferred prefix applied to large enemies in most of the mainline Super Mario series of platformers and RPGs. In English, this name is usually adapted as "Big" (e.g, 「でかパタパタ」(Deka Patapata) is translated as "Big Koopa Paratroopa"). Big Koopa Paratroopa have not appeared in these games, but they do in Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition, which derives most of its aesthetics from the mainline platformers.
- 「巨大」(Kyodai) is the preferred prefix applied to large enemies from Giant Land in Super Mario Bros. 3. In English, this name is usually adapted as "Mega" (e.g, 「巨大パタパタ」(Kyodai Patapata) is translated as "Mega Koopa Paratroopa").
- 「ビッグ」(Biggu), a transliteration of the English "Big," is the preferred prefix applied to the large enemies in the Yoshi series. Some of these were normal-sized enemies that have been increased in size by Kamek, as is the case with Koopa Paratroopa. In English, the bosses are not given uniformed names, instead granted unique ones reflective of their roles (e.g, 「ビッグパタパタ」(Biggu Patapata) is localized as "Knot-Wing the Koopa").
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.
Big Koopa ParatroopaEdit
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | でかパタパタ[4][5][6] Deka Patapata |
Big Koopa Paratroopa | |
| 巨大パタパタ[7][8] Kyodai Patapata |
Giant Koopa Paratroopa | Super Mario Bros. 3 | |
| French | Maxi-Paratroopa[9] | Maxi-Paratroopa | |
| German | Maxi-Paratroopa[10] | Contraction of "maximum" with Paratroopa ("Koopa Paratroopa") | |
| Riesen-Flugkoopa[11] | Giant Flying Koopa | Super Mario Bros. 3 | |
| Italian | Paratroopa gigante[10] | Giant Koopa Paratroopa | |
| Spanish (NOE) | Gran Paratroopa[10] | Giant Koopa Paratroopa | |
| Paratroopa gigante[12] | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia |
Big Green Koopa ParatroopaEdit
"Big Green Koopa Paratroopa" refers to a specific type of Big Koopa Paratroopa in Super Mario Bros. 3 and Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition. In the former, it is the only type of Koopa Paratroopa in the game, in which is bounces along the ground like normal-sized Green Koopa Paratroopas. In the latter, it is a Water-attribute enemy and teammate. On the Mario Portal page for Super Mario Bros. 3, it is referred to as "Green Mega Koopa Paratroopa" as of 2025, and as "Mega Koopa Paratroopa (Green)" in previous versions.
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | でかみどりパタパタ[5] Deka Midori Patapata |
Big Green Koopa Paratroopa | |
| みどり巨大パタパタ[13] Midori Kyodai Patapata |
Green Mega Koopa Paratroopa | Super Mario Bros. 3 | |
| 巨大パタパタ（緑）[14] Kyodai Patapata (Midori) |
Mega Koopa Paratroopa (Green) | ||
| French | Maxi-Paratroopa vert[9] | Green Big Koopa Paratroopa | |
| German | Grüner Maxi-Parakoopa[10] | Green Big Koopa Paratroopa | |
| Italian | Paratroopa verde gigante[10] | Big green Koopa Paratroopa | |
| Spanish (NOE) | Gran Paratroopa verde[10] | Green Big Koopa Paratroopa | |
| Paratroopa verde gigante[12] | Big green Koopa Paratroopa | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia |
Big Yellow Koopa ParatroopaEdit
"Big Yellow Koopa Paratroopa" refers to a specific type of Big Koopa Paratroopa that is Light-attributed in Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition.
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | でかきいろパタパタ[6] Deka Kiiro Patapata |
Big Yellow Koopa Paratroopa | |
| French | Maxi-Paratroopa jaune[9] | Yellow Big Koopa Paratroopa | |
| German | Grüner Maxi-Parakoopa[10] | Green Big Koopa Paratroopa | |
| Italian | Paratroopa giallo gigante[10] | Big yellow Koopa Paratroopa | |
| Spanish (NOE) | Gran Paratroopa amarillo[10] | Yellow Big Koopa Paratroopa |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ June 1990. Nintendo Power Volume 13. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 8.
- ^ Hodgson, David S J. (October 21, 2003). Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Prima Games (American English). ISBN 0-7615-4425-9. Page 54 and 58-59.
- ^ English Super Mario Bros. 3 entry on the official Mario Portal. nintendo.co.jp. Retrieved August 13, 2022. (Archived August 13, 2022, 14:26:17 UTC via archive.today.)
- ^ In-game name from Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition.
- ^ a b Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition - All Playable Characters (Green) (03:20). YouTube. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
- ^ a b Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition - All Playable Characters (Yellow) (03:48). YouTube. Retrieved May 22, 2024.
- ^ Itoi, Shigesato, Ryo Kagawa (APE), Hideaki Nishitani, Masatoshi Watanabe, Koichi Sugiyama (Supersonic), Junichiro Okubo, and Shigeo Tanabe (Shogakukan), editors (1993). 『任天堂公式ガイドブック スーパーマリオコレクション』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-102444-0. Page 211.
- ^ 2003. 『スーパーマリオアドバンス4パーフェクトガイドブック』. Tokyo: Kadokawa. ISBN 4757715889. Page XX.[page number needed]
- ^ a b c In-game name from Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition. (Archived 21 Sept. 2024 via Imgur.)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i In-game name displayed during battle in Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition. (Stored internally under
\Magnum\list\EU_[Language]\Cards.bin.) - ^ Matsumoto, Atsuko, Rie Ishii, and Claude Moyse, editors (1992). Der Spieleberater Super Mario Power. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). ISBN 3-929034-02-6. Page 14.
- ^ a b Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2017). "Super Mario Bros. 3" in Enciclopedia Super Mario Bros. 30ª Aniversario. Translated by Gemma Tarrés. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, S.A. (Spanish). ISBN 978-84-9146-223-1. Page 36.
- ^ スーパーマリオブラザーズ3 | ヒストリー | マリオポータル. Nintendo (Japanese). Retrieved March 26, 2025.
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