Charvaargh
| Charvaargh | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Artwork from Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker | |||
| First appearance | Super Mario 3D World (2013) | ||
| Latest appearance | Mario Kart World (2025) | ||
| Variant of | Magmaargh | ||
| |||
- “Beware the lord of lava, Charvaargh! This monster's obsessed with gobbling up Mario!”
- —Narrator, Super Mario Maker 2 Direct 5.15.2019
Charvaarghs are a type of fish-like Magmaargh that attack by jumping out of lava. Compared to Magmaarghs, they are lengthier and have appendages resembling wings or fins. On occasion, the Charvaargh enemy has also been referred to as the Lord of Lava.[1][2][3]
History[edit]
Super Mario series[edit]
Super Mario 3D World / Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury[edit]
Charvaarghs make their first appearance in Super Mario 3D World and reappear in the game's Nintendo Switch port Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury. They appear in only one level, World Castle-7, Simmering Lava Lake where players must make it past them. If a character touches them while not invincible, a life is lost, regardless of the character's form. Charvaarghs cannot be defeated by any method. They are also one of the only two enemies (including bosses) that can defeat the player in one hit, the other being Fuzzy Hordes. These are the only games where the player loses a life upon touching Charvaarghs.
However, most Charvaarghs only show up when the player enters a Clear Pipe for aesthetic purposes.
Super Mario Maker 2[edit]
Charvaarghs reappear as placable course elements in Super Mario Maker 2. They are exclusive to the Super Mario 3D World game style. Up to three Charvaarghs can be placed in a single course section. When placed, they will follow the player throughout the level and occasionally leap out in one of two ways. Either it will leap from the background, go high above the player's head, and then back down into the foreground, or it will leap from the bottom of the screen on the playable ground, and fly in an arc back down. If the Player's course is a Castle, Charvaarghs will start their ascents from the lava's surface, even when the lava level changes, a trait also shared by Lava Bubbles. Unlike in their debut appearance, Charvaarghs can be defeated with a Super Star, and like in Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, touching one will simply hurt players instead of defeating them instantly.
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker[edit]
Charvaarghs return in Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker and its Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS ports. They appear in lava stages either coming out of grates which Captain Toad must walk across, or blocking his path where he must run across Dash Panels. They debut in Rolling Inferno and are seen again in Magma Road Marathon. In this game, they simply damage Captain Toad instead of instantly defeating him.
Mario Party 10[edit]
Charvaarghs made their Mario Party debut in Mario Party 10. They appear in Chaos Castle in the Unlucky Spaces to take away Mini Stars in Mario Party Mode or Hearts in Bowser Party Mode.
Mario Kart World[edit]
Charvaarghs made their Mario Kart debut in Mario Kart World. They can be found in Big Donut near Bowser's Castle. Additionally, a Sandmaargh-like variant appears in the route between Desert Hills and Shy Guy Bazaar.
Profiles[edit]
Super Mario Maker 2[edit]
- North American website bio: "Beware the lord of lava, Charvaargh. This monster’s obsessed with gobbling up Mario."[1]
Naming[edit]
The English "Charvaargh" is a portmanteau between "char" and "Magmaargh", a naming convention shared with Sandmaargh. "Char" has duel meanings: it refers to the verb "to char", meaning "to burn", as well as the noun "char", a type of cold-water salmonoid. The latter interpretation is comparable to the Japanese name「ウーガンフィッシュ」(Ūgan Fisshu, "Magmaargh Fish").
Internal names[edit]
| Game | File | Name | Meaning
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Super Mario 3D World Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker |
content/ObjectData/MagmaFish.szs | MagmaFish | Magma Fish |
| Super Mario Maker 2 | romfs/Sound/ResourceList/3W_UganFish.barslist | UganFish | Ugan Fish |
Names in other languages[edit]
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 with which they are associated in the "Notes" column. Names exclusive to localizations of the Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia are not prioritized due to concerns about circular reporting, and are only listed first for their respective languages if they are the only ones available.
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ウーガンフィッシュ[4][5] Ūgan Fisshu |
Magmaargh Fish | |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 乌卡鱼[5] Wūkǎyú (Mandarin) Wūkāyú (Cantonese) |
Portmanteau between "乌卡熔岩" (Wūkǎróngyán / Wūkāyùhngngàahm, "Magmaargh") and "鱼" (yú, "fish") | |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 烏卡魚[5] Wūkǎyú (Mandarin) Wūkāyú (Cantonese) |
Portmanteau between「烏卡熔岩」(Wūkǎróngyán / Wūkāyùhngngàahm, "Magmaargh") and「鱼」(yú, "fish") | |
| Dutch | Charvaargh[5] | - | |
| French (Canada) | Poissalave[5] | Portmanteau between poisson ("fish") and Avalave ("Magmaargh") | |
| French (Europe) | Poissalave[5] | Portmanteau between poisson ("fish") and Avalave ("Magmaargh") | |
| Charvaargh[6] | - | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia | |
| German | Glutfisch[7][5] | Ember Fish; comparable to Glutsauger ("Magmaargh") | |
| Italian | Pesce Magma[8][5] | Magma Fish | |
| Pesce Lava[9] | Lava Fish | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia | |
| Korean | 짜자어[5] Jjaja'eo |
Portmanteau between "짜자용" (Jjajayong, "Magmaargh") and "어" (eo, "fish") | |
| Portuguese (Europe) | Charvaargh[10] | - | |
| Russian | Магмалет[5] Magmalet |
Магма (magma) with the suffix -лет (-let, "flying"); comparable to магмалет (magmarod, "Magmaargh") | |
| Spanish | Lavonciopez[11][5] | Portmanteau between Lavoncio ("Magmaargh") and pez ("fish") |
References[edit]
- ^ a b Make - Super Mario Maker™ 2 for the Nintendo Switch™ system – Official site. nintendo.com. Retrieved September 4, 2020. (Archived June 18, 2020, 19:42:03 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
- ^ "Beware the Lord of Lava! This monster is obsessed with gobbling up Mario." — Super Mario Maker 2 Trivia Quiz. Play Nintendo. Retrieved September 4, 2020. (Archived July 22, 2020, 01:59:45 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
- ^ NintendoAmerica (July 19, 2019). Head into the weekend with 3 courses from the #SuperMarioMaker2 community! Raid a tomb in “Technically Archaeology” by PltypusMan, ride the rafts past the lord of lava in “Charvaargh’s Lava Lair” by Guppy 015, and ascend a perilous castle in “Chomp’s Cloud Castle” by dollenjwz! Twitter. Retrieved September 4, 2020. (Archived May 18, 2020, 22:09:44 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2015). "Super Mario 3D World" in『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 225.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k In-game name from Super Mario Maker 2 (stored internally under
ReferenceMsg/PartsIconName/MagmaFish). - ^ Ardaillon, Joanna, and Victoria Juillard-Huberty, editors (2018). "Super Mario 3D World" in Super Mario Encyclopedia. Translated by Fabien Nabhan. Toulon: Soleil Productions (French). ISBN 978-2-3020-7004-2. Page 225.
- ^ Scholz, Sabine, and Benjamin Spinrath, editors (2017). "Super Mario 3D World" in Super Mario Encyclopedia - Die ersten 30 Jahre : 1985-2015. Translated by Yamada Hirofumi. Hamburg: Tokyopop (German). ISBN 978-3-8420-3653-6. Page 225.
- ^ «Attenzione agli spazio malasorte! Chi viene colpito da un Pesce Magma, perderà 5 ministelle!» – Toad on Chaos Castle (20 Mar. 2015). Mario Party 10 by NDcube. Nintendo of Europe GmbH (Italian).
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2018). "Super Mario 3D World" in Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Translated by Marco Amerighi. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 225.
- ^ Nintendo Portugal (15 May 2019). Super Mario Maker 2 Direct (11:19). YouTube (European Portuguese). Retrieved 14 Nov. 2025.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2017). "Super Mario 3D World" in Enciclopedia Super Mario Bros. 30ª Aniversario. Translated by Gemma Tarrés. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, S.A. (European Spanish). ISBN 978-84-9146-223-1. Page 225.
