Blurp
- This article is about the species of goggle-wearing fish from Super Mario World. For the Cheep Cheep-like enemies from Yoshi's Story, misnamed as "Blurp", see Big Cheep Cheep.
- Not to be confused with Bukubuku or Glurp.
| Blurp | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Artwork from Super Mario World | |||
| First appearance | Super Mario World (1990) | ||
| Latest appearance | Super Mario Maker 2 (2019) | ||
| Variant of | Cheep Cheep | ||
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Blurps are enemies introduced in Super Mario World. Their name is based off of the onomatopoeia of a bubbling sound. They are green colored, goggle-wearing fish that sometimes appear in underwater levels alongside Cheep Cheeps, of which they seem to be relatives, judging by their similar names in Japanese.
HistoryEdit
Super Mario seriesEdit
Super Mario World / Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2Edit
Blurps are enemies in Super Mario World and its remake. They act as a behavioral variant for Cheep Cheeps, which in this game have only one coloration. Blurps swim endlessly in one direction, injuring Mario if one collides with him. They typically bob up and down a small bit as they swim. As Blurps are fairly weak, they can simply be defeated by shooting a fireball at them as Fire Mario or by bashing them with a cape as Caped Mario. Blurps lack pectoral fins on their sprites in this game, but have them on their artwork. They sweat while they swim, implying that swimming as fast as they do puts some amount of strain on them. In the remake, they can be held in Yoshi's mouth and spat out if Luigi rides him, which in their case can be used to defeat Urchins.
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden CoinsEdit
Blurps are enemies in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. Much like their Super Mario World counterparts, Blurps aimlessly swim in one direction and can be defeated by a fireball. In this game, they occasionally pause in their swimming. Blurps are found primarily in the Turtle Zone, and also appear in Pumpkin Zone alongside statues of them and Cheep Cheeps. They again lack pectoral fins in-game, but still have them on the artwork. Additionally, their artwork depicts them as light teal with pink goggles and white lips instead of the normal grassy green with orange goggles and golden lips.
Super Mario Maker seriesEdit
- See also: Cheep Cheep#Super Mario Maker series
Blurps, simply referred to as Cheep Cheeps, reappear in Super Mario Maker, Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS, and Super Mario Maker 2, where they act as the green Cheep Cheeps in the Super Mario World style, being the most basic of the two colors, swimming forward through the water or hopping along the surface, both endlessly in one direction. The behavior of all swimming Cheep Cheeps in this game is reminiscent of Blurps in Super Mario World due to gently bobbing as they swim, though they animate slower than Blurps did in that game.
Super Mario World television seriesEdit
What appears to be a Blurp appears in the Super Mario World television series episode "Mama Luigi" where Luigi is attacked by one, but defeats it with a single stomp. The appearance of the Blurp is closer to that of a Trouter from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!. Like its game appearance, the Blurp is green in color, has orange fins, and red lips, but the goggles are replaced with large white rings around yellow eyes, it lacks the white on its belly, and it has four sharp teeth.
Mario & WarioEdit
Blurps cameo in Mario & Wario as a background element of Pukupuku Kai, the sixth stage.
Mario Party 3Edit
In Mario Party 3, a Blurp can be seen in the scenery for Deep Bloober Sea, alongside some similar-designed Cheep Cheeps.
Mario & Luigi seriesEdit
A sand-dwelling variety of Blurp known as the Sand Cheep appears in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga and its remake. It appears to be a normal Blurp with a fake shark fin strapped to its back. It later appears in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time where it is thrown by Shrooba Divers.
Super Princess PeachEdit
Blurps are enemies in Super Princess Peach. Some of them are affected by the rage vibe of the Vibe Scepter and are called Mad Blurps. They will pursue Peach if she is in front of them. They are mainly encountered in groups. In this game, they have pectoral fins, but are colored white.
List of appearancesEdit
| Title | Description | Release Date | System/Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| Super Mario World | Enemy | 1990 | Super Nintendo Entertainment System |
| Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins | Enemy | 1992 | Game Boy |
| Mario & Wario | Background element | 1993 | Super Nintendo Entertainment System |
| Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World | Enemy | 1994 | Super Nintendo Entertainment System |
| Mario Party 3 | Background element | 2000 | Nintendo 64 |
| Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 | Enemy | 2001 | Game Boy Advance |
| Super Princess Peach | Enemy | 2005 | Nintendo DS |
| Super Mario Maker | Enemy | 2015 | Wii U |
| Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS | Enemy | 2016 | Nintendo 3DS |
| Super Mario Maker 2 | Enemy | 2019 | Nintendo Switch |
ProfilesEdit
Perfect Ban Mario Character DaijitenEdit
| ブクブク (JP) / Blurp (EN) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Original text (Japanese) | Translation | ||
| アクア族 | Tribe | Aqua clan | |
| せっかち | Disposition | Impatient | |
| ワールド、ランド2 | Game appearances | World, Land 2 | |
| ゴーグルをつけて大忙し ゴーグルをつけたへんな魚。汗をかきながらいつも大忙しといった感じ。ななめに泳いだりせず、一直線に泳ぐので、安全な場所で通りすぎるのを待ってから進むといい。[1] |
Busy wearing goggles A strange fish wearing goggles. They are always very busy and sweating. They do not swim diagonally but in a straight line, so it is best to wait for them to pass by in a safe place before proceeding. | ||
Super Princess PeachEdit
| Blurp | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Vibe | Vibeless | Levels | Hoo's Wood 2-9 Wavy Beach 5-2 Wavy Beach 5-3 Wavy Beach 5-5 Bowser's Villa 8-4 |
| Glossary number | 40 | Glossary entry | Wears goggles and approaches in the water. |
GalleryEdit
SpritesEdit
Super Mario Maker
ScreenshotsEdit
Super Mario World
MiscellaneousEdit
Super Mario World Special Zone artwork, where Blurps are shown jumping out of water like Cheep Cheeps
Artwork used for a Super Mario puzzle.
Mario Undōkai trading card
A size chart for a 1996 Nintendo Character Manual
Super Mario Picture Book with Peel-and-Release Stickers 1: Get Yoshi Back
Sticker sheet from Super Mario Picture Book with Peel-and-Release Stickers 1: Get Yoshi Back
Super Mario Picture Book with Peel-and-Release Stickers 3: Dolphin's Ball
Super Mario Story Quiz Picture Book 4: Rescue of Princess Peach
NamingEdit
EtymologyEdit
The English name "Blurp," likely derives an informal term for a belch. It is applied to the enemy in the ending of Super Mario World. However, the name "Blurp" has occasionally been misapplied to Cheep Cheeps and similar fish enemies, including the English Super Mario World guidebook Mario Mania,[2] the large Cheep Cheep enemies in Yoshi's Story, and the Nintendo Power Advance guide for Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2.[3] In Super Mario Maker and Super Mario Maker 2, the Green Cheep Cheeps in the Super Mario World style take on the appearance of Blurps and behave as they did in the original game, but the these games only refer to them as "Cheep Cheeps."
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 | ブクブク[4][5][6][7] Bukubuku |
An onomatopoeia for a bubbling noise and an allusion to「プクプク」(Pukupuku, "Cheep Cheep"); shared with an enemy from Donkey Kong and officially romanized as "Buku Buku" | |
| Chinese (simplified) | 泡泡怪[8] Pàopào Guài |
Bubble Monster; shared with Cheep Cheep | |
| French | Blurp[9][10] | - | |
| German | Blurp[11][12][13] | - | |
| Italian | Pesce Gulp[14][15] | Gulp Fish; in line with Cheep Cheep's Italian name, the name contains an onomatopoeia: "Gulp", which stands for swallowing | |
| Pesce Blurp[16] | Blurp Fish | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia (Star Road 2 description) | |
| Spanish | Blurp[17][18] | - |
NotesEdit
- This iteration of the Cheep Cheep found in Super Mario 64, known in English as "Bub," appears to be primarily visually based off Blurp, but orange instead of green. This design is additionally used in the first three Mario Party games. Super Mario 64 also introduces another eyewear-wearing fish called Bubba with a similar Japanese name to Blurp, Bakubaku. In fact, Bubba's name in source assets is simply "buku," indicating that at some point in development it may have been intended to be a Blurp.
ReferencesEdit
- ^ November 20, 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). ISBN 4-09-259067-9. Page 189.
- ^ Pelland, Scott, George Sinfield, Leslie Swan, and Dan Owsen, editors (1991). The Nintendo Mario Mania Player's Guide. Redmond: Nintendo of America. Page 51.
- ^ Averill, Alan, Jessica Folsom, Steven Grimm, George Sinfield, and Jennifer Villarreal (2002). Nintendo Power Advance V.4. Redmond: Nintendo of America. ISBN 1-930206-21-6. Page 48.
- ^ Kagawa, Ryo (APE/Shigesato Itoi), Koichi Toda (100 Percent), Masaki Kuramochi (100 Percent), Shigeo Tanabe, Naomaru Asao, and Ryuji Osawa, editors (1991). "UNIT 2 CHARACTER" in『任天堂公式ガイドブック スーパーマリオワールド』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-104117-5. Page 30.
- ^ 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 12.
- ^ Okamoto, Daisuke, and Norio Ando (STF) (2006). 『スーパー プリンセスピーチ任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-106268-7. Page 27.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2015). 『スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 978-4-09-106569-8. Page 56, 76.
- ^ In-game name from the ending of the iQue version of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2. (Archived 28 Aug. 2013 via Baidu Teiba by 无敌阿尔宙斯.)
- ^ In-game name from the ending of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 (French). (Archived 19 Nov. 2010 via YouTube by Diddy64wii.)
- ^ Glossaire (26 May 2006). Super Princess Peach by TOSE Software Co. Nintendo of Europe GmbH (French). (Archived via JeuxVideo by avav.)
- ^ Menold, Marcus, Claude M. Moyse, and Andreas G. Kämmerer, editors (1993). Der offizielle Nintendo Spieleberater "Super Mario World". Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). Page 19.
- ^ In-game name from the ending of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 (German). (Archived 15 Oct. 2011 via YouTube by Spendem.)
- ^ Glossar (26 May 2006). Super Princess Peach by TOSE Software Co. Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). (Archived via YouTube by PonyPlays2014.)
- ^ Glossario (26 May 2006). Super Princess Peach by TOSE Software Co. Nintendo of Europe GmbH (Italian). (Archived via Mario's Castle.)
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2018). Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Translated by Marco Amerighi. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 56, 78.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2018). Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Translated by Marco Amerighi. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 59.
- ^ In-game name from the ending of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 (European Spanish). (Archived 12 Sept. 2021 via YouTube by El Tiempo Es Ahora.)
- ^ Glosario (26 May 2006). Super Princess Peach by TOSE Software Co. Nintendo of Europe GmbH (European Spanish).
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| Species | Air Cheep • Baby Cheep • Big Cheep Cheep • Big Deep Cheep • Big Eep Cheep • Blurp • Cheep Cheep • Cheep Cheep (Snow Kingdom) • Cheep Chomp • Deep Cheep • Eep Cheep • Fish Bone • Gold Cheep Cheep • Honebon • Jean de Fillet • Lava Cheep Cheep • Mad Blurp • Mecha Cheep • Mega Cheep Chomp • Mr. Kipper • Needle Bomb • Porcupuffer • Puffer-Cheep • Rip Van Fish • Sad Cheep Cheep • Sand Cheep • Small Cheep Cheep • Spike Bass • Spiny Cheep Cheep |
| Vehicles | Cheep Blimp • Cheep Charger • Cheep Snorkel • Fish Bone Ferry • Gold Cheep Charger • Gold Cheep Snorkel • Gold Fish Bone Ferry • Green Cheep Charger |