Editing Boss Bass

[[Image:BossBass_SMB3.jpg|thumb|Artwork of Mario escaping from the '''Boss Bass''' swallowing him.]]
[[Image:Bossbass.jpg|thumb|left|A '''Boss Bass'''.]]
A '''Boss Bass''' is a huge [[Cheep-Cheep]] found in ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]''. They swim on the surface of the water trying to lunge out and eat [[Mario]] when he gets too close. In some of the levels, platforms rise and fall, making Mario an easy target. Throwing blocks and [[fireball]]s can defeat them, but they'll eventually come back. However, in the GBA version, if the player has set on the e-reader card that will make enemies hit by fireballs turn into coins, and the player successfully hits Boss Bass with a fireball and collects the coin, Boss Bass will not return for the rest of the level.

The [[Cheep-Chomp]] from ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' has similar qualities to the Boss Bass. Another enemy in ''New Super Mario Bros.'', [[Spike Bass]]es, patrol the surface of water levels, similar to the Boss Bass. However, Spike Basses will not try to eat Mario.

Boss Basses are also found in ''[[Yoshi's Island DS]]'', where they behave much as they do in SMB3.  There is also a mid-boss known as [[Bessie Bass]], who, although she behaves like a Boss Bass, is really a [[Big Bertha]], since she is a female of the species.

Boss Bass apparently eat [[Cheep-Cheep]]s, despite being a relative of it. They also have trouble distinguishing them from something else, as proven in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' when a [[Shayde]] said that he fell into the ocean once, but luckily could swim as well as a Cheep-Cheep. Unfortunately, a Boss Bass thought that since he swam like a Cheep-Cheep, the huge fish ate him.

Boss Basses are similar in both appearance and behavior to the [[Blurp (Yoshi's Story)|Big Red Blurps]] from ''[[Yoshi's Story]]''.
[[Image:BossBassDS.png|thumb|Big Bertha as seen in ''Mario Kart DS''.]]
A Boss Bass made a small cameo in ''[[Mario Kart DS]]'', where it jumped out of the water and over the course in [[Banshee Boardwalk]]. This fish replaced the [[Cheep Cheep]] from the original ''[[Mario Kart 64]]'' version.

The female variety of Boss Bass is [[Big Bertha]].

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