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"Bros. Battle"
"Bros. Battle" in Super Mario Bros. 3
The image for "Bros. Battle" from Super Mario Bros. 3 on Nintendo Music
Image from Nintendo Music
Composed by:
Koji Kondo
Key C major
First appearance Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988)
Latest appearance Super Mario Bros. Wonder (2023)

"Bros. Battle"[1] is a musical theme composed by Koji Kondo for Super Mario Bros. 3, where it plays during Enemy Course battles and the game's Battle Mode.

Reuses[edit]

The following list does not include ports or remakes of Super Mario Bros. 3.

Game Description
Super Smash Bros. Brawl The opening four notes of "Bros. Battle" play at the beginning of the "Famicom Medley," which can play in the Mario Bros. stage.
Super Mario Maker / Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS / Super Mario Maker 2 "Bros. Battle" plays when the "Boss Music" sound effect is triggered in Super Mario Bros.-style courses.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder "Bros. Battle," now titled "Break Time! Trottin' Piranha Plants" in the Nintendo Music app, plays in the level of the same name.

Arrangements[edit]

The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3[edit]

Two arrangements of "Bros. Battle" can be heard throughout The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3. The first arrangement only plays in the episode "The Beauty of Kootie", specifically in the scene where Mario struggles to aim a jacuzzi faucet at the Doom Ship. The second arrangement, which resembles the one from Super Mario Bros. 3, is heard more often than the previous arrangement, playing in episodes such as "Never Koop a Koopa" and "A Toadally Magical Adventure".

Super Mario series[edit]

Super Mario All-Stars[edit]

In Super Mario All-Stars and its Wii port, Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition, an arrangement of "Bros. Battle" plays during the Enemy Courses in the game's remake of Super Mario Bros. 3. Moreover, the opening four notes are incorporated in the theme that plays during the boss battles against fake Bowser in the game's remake of Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels.

Icon of an audio speaker. Bros. Battle - The arrangement heard in Super Mario All-Stars
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Super Mario Advance[edit]

In Super Mario Advance, a chiptune arrangement of "Bros. Battle" plays during Battle mode, excluding every fourth round, in the game's remake of Mario Bros. This arrangement returns alongside the Mario Bros. remake in Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.

Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3[edit]

In Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, the Game Boy Advance remake of Super Mario Bros. 3, an arrangement of "Bros. Battle" plays in the Enemy Courses, just like in the original game.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii[edit]

In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, an arrangement of "Bros. Battle," titled "Enemy Course,"[2] plays in the Enemy Courses. This arrangement is played on a keyboard with brass, bass guitar, cowbell, and drum kit accompaniment. This arrangement, now titled "Sudden Encounter" in the Nintendo Music app, returns in New Super Mario Bros. U, New Super Luigi U, New Super Mario Bros. U + New Super Luigi U, and New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe for the same purpose.

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Super Mario Bros. Wonder[edit]

In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, after clearing Break Time! Trottin' Piranha Plants, the ending eight notes of the theme are played on the glockenspiel as coins appear at the corresponding note positions on the staff, with the final note being a Wonder Seed.

Paper Mario[edit]

In Paper Mario, an arrangement of "Bros. Battle," titled "Attack of the Koopa Bros." in the game's official soundtrack and arranged by Yuka Tsujiyoko, plays during the boss battles against the Koopa Bros.

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Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS[edit]

In Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, an arrangement of "Bros. Battle" is incorporated in the "Super Mario Bros. 3 Medley," which can play in the 3D Land stage. This arrangement returns in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, where it can play in the Mushroom Kingdom U and Super Mario Maker stages, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, where it can play in any Super Smash Bros.-series and Super Mario-series stage.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie[edit]

In, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, an arrangement of "Bros. Battle" is incorporated in "Level Complete," the film's credits theme.

Other arrangements[edit]

Nintendo Live 2023[edit]

Nintendo Live 2023 in Seattle, Washington, USA featured a live performance by the Super Mario Super Big Band of themes from various Super Mario games, including an arrangement of the "Bros. Battle" portion of "Level Complete" from The Super Mario Bros. Movie.[3]

Gallery[edit]

List of Super Mario appearances[edit]

Games[edit]

Work System Year Type Title Credits
Super Mario Bros. 3 Nintendo Entertainment System 1988 Original "Bros. Battle"[1] Koji Kondo
Super Mario All-Stars Super Nintendo Entertainment System 1993 Arrangement
Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World Super Nintendo Entertainment System 1994 Past arrangement (Super Mario All-Stars)
Paper Mario Nintendo 64 2000 Arrangement "Attack of the Koopa Bros."[4] Yuka Tsujiyoko
Super Mario Advance Game Boy Advance 2001 Arrangement
Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 Game Boy Advance 2001 Past arrangement (Super Mario Advance)
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 Game Boy Advance 2002 Past arrangement (Super Mario Advance)
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 Game Boy Advance 2003 Arrangement Taiju Suzuki
Past arrangement (Super Mario Advance)
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga Game Boy Advance 2003 Past arrangement (Super Mario Advance)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl Wii 2008 Original "Famicom Medley" Koji Kondo
New Super Mario Bros. Wii Wii 2009 Arrangement "Enemy Course"[2] Shiho Fujii[5]
Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition Wii 2010 Past arrangement (Super Mario All-Stars)
New Super Mario Bros. U Wii U 2012 Past arrangement (New Super Mario Bros. Wii) "Sudden Encounter"[1] Shiho Fujii
New Super Luigi U Wii U 2013 Past arrangement (New Super Mario Bros. Wii) Shiho Fujii
New Super Mario Bros. U + New Super Luigi U Wii U 2013 Past arrangement (New Super Mario Bros. Wii) Shiho Fujii
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS Nintendo 3DS 2014 Arrangement "Super Mario Bros. 3 Medley" Shota Kageyama
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Wii U 2014 Past arrangement (Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS) "Super Mario Bros. 3 Medley" Shota Kageyama
Super Mario Maker Wii U 2015 Original Koji Kondo
Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS Nintendo 3DS 2016 Original Koji Kondo
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Nintendo Switch 2018 Past arrangement (Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS) "Super Mario Bros. 3 Medley" Shota Kageyama
New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe Nintendo Switch 2019 Past arrangement (New Super Mario Bros. Wii) Shiho Fujii
Super Mario Maker 2 Nintendo Switch 2019 Original "Boss Music" Koji Kondo
Super Mario Bros. Wonder Nintendo Switch 2023 Original "Break Time! Trottin' Piranha Plants"[1] Koji Kondo
Arrangement

Film and television[edit]

Work Year Type Title Credits
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 1990 Arrangement Michael Tavera
The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2023 Arrangement "Level Complete" Brian Tyler

Albums[edit]

Work Year Type Title Credits
Super Mario World 1991 Original 「敵バトル」 (Teki Batoru) Koji Kondo
Paper Mario Game Music Soundtrack CD 2001 Arrangement "Attack of the Koopa Bros." Yuka Tsujiyoko
Game Sound Museum: Super Mario Bros. 3 2004 Original 「敵バトル」 (Teki Batoru) Koji Kondo
Famicom Sound History Series: Mario the Music 2004 Original 「アスレチックBGM～ワーニング～アスレチックBGM ハリーアップ！」
(Teki Batoru ~ Wāningu ~ Teki Batoru Harī Appu!) 		Koji Kondo
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 2023 Arrangement "Level Complete" Brian Tyler

Other media[edit]

Work Format Year Type Title Credits
New Super Mario Bros. Wii: Simplified / Intermediate–Advanced Piano Solos Book 2010 Arrangement "Enemy Course" Shinobu Amayake

Live performances[edit]

Event Year Location Type Title Credits
Nintendo Live 2023 2023 Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, Washington, USA Arrangement Super Mario Super Big Band

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese 敵バトル[1]
Teki Batoru 		Enemy Battle

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e Nintendo Music
  2. ^ a b New Super Mario Bros. Wii: Simplified Piano Solos
  3. ^ Hitbox Hero (September 3, 2023). Nintendo Live 2023 - Super Mario Super Big Band uncut full show (44:39). YouTube (English). Retrieved November 2, 2023.
  4. ^ Paper Mario Game Music Soundtrack CD
  5. ^ やさしくひける New スーパーマリオブラザーズ Wii. yamaha music media (Japanese). Retrieved July 25, 2023.
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Recurring themes
Donkey Kong franchise Donkey Kong "Game Start" • "Hammer BGM" • "Round 1 BGM" • "Round Start BGM" • "Title BGM"
Donkey Kong Jr. "Game Start" • "Round 1 BGM" • "Title BGM"
Donkey Kong Country "Aquatic Ambiance" • "Bonus Room Blitz" • "Cave Dweller Concert" • "Cranky's Theme" • "The Credits Concerto" • "DK Island Swing" • "Fear Factory" • "Forest Frenzy" • "Funky's Fugue" • "Gang-Plank Galleon" • "Life in the Mines" • "Lost a Balloon" • "Mine Cart Madness" • "Northern Hemispheres" • "Simian Segue" • "Treetop Rock" • "Voices of the Temple" • "Well Done"
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest "Crocodile Cacophony (K. Rool's Theme)" • "Lockjaw's Saga (Lockjaw's Locker)" • "Run, Rambi! Run! (Parrot Chute Panic)" • "Stickerbush Symphony (Bramble Blast)"
Donkey Kong 64 "DK Rap"
Donkey Kong Country Returns "Mine Menace"
Mario Bros. series Mario Bros. "Game Start" • "Title BGM"
Wrecking Crew series Wrecking Crew "Bonus Phase" • "Phase BGM"
Super Mario series Super Mario Bros. "1-Up" • "Castle BGM" • "Course Clear" ("Power Up") • "Ending" • "Ground BGM" ("Game Over" · "Player Down") • "Invincibility BGM" • "Timer Warning" • "Underground BGM" • "Underwater BGM" • "World Clear"
VS. Super Mario Bros. "Gyōmu-yō Mario Namae-ire"
Super Mario Bros. 2 "Boss BGM" • "Ground BGM" • "Please Select Player" • "Underground BGM"
Super Mario Bros. 3 "Airship BGM" • "Athletic BGM" • "Bros. Battle" • "Ending" • "Fortress BGM" • "Fortress Boss" • "Game Over" • "Ground BGM" • "King of the Koopas" • "P Switch BGM / Toad's House" • "Player Down" • "Slot Game BGM / Memory Game BGM" • "Underwater BGM" • "Warp Zone" • "World 1 Map (Grass Land)" • "World 2 Map (Desert Land)" • "World 3 Map (Water Land)" • "World 4 Map (Giant Land)" • "World 5 Map (Sky Land) - On the Ground" • "World 5 Map (Sky Land) - In the Sky" • "World 6 Map (Ice Land)" • "World 7 Map (Pipe Land)" • "World 8 Map (Dark Land)"
Super Mario Land "Main Theme" • "Underground Theme"
Super Mario World "Bowser BGM" • "Donut Plains (Map Screen)" • "Ending" • "Ground BGM" ("Athletic BGM" · "Bonus Game BGM" · "Castle BGM" · "Course Clear" · "Ghost House BGM" · "Underground BGM" · "Underwater BGM") • "Koopalings BGM" • "P Switch BGM" • "Star World (Map Screen)" • "Title BGM" • "Vanilla Dome (Map Screen)" • "Yoshi's Island (Map Screen)"
Super Mario 64 "Bowser's Road" • "Bowser's Theme" • "Dire, Dire Docks" • "File Select" • "Main Theme" ("Cool, Cool Mountain" · "Slider") • "The Merry-Go-Round" • "Peach's Castle" • "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" • "Staff Roll"
Super Mario Sunshine "Isle Delfino" ("Ricco Harbor") • "Secret Course"
New Super Mario Bros. "Course Clear" • "Fortress Theme" • "Main Theme" ("Athletic Theme") • "Mega Mario" • "Switch On!"
Super Mario Galaxy "Egg Planet" • "Enter Bowser Jr.!" • "Gusty Garden Galaxy" • "Luma" • "Overture" • "Purple Comet" • "Rosalina in the Observatory" • "The Toad Brigade" • "Waltz of the Boos"
New Super Mario Bros. Wii "Bonus Area" • "Castle Theme" • "Coast Theme" • "Desert Theme" • "Forest Theme" • "Ghost House Theme" • "Lava Cave / Underground Ruins Theme" • "Lava Theme" • "Title Theme" ("Game Over") • "Toad House Minigame" • "Underwater Theme"
Super Mario Galaxy 2 "Theme of SMG2"
Super Mario 3D Land "Castle Theme" • "Ground Theme" • "Snow Course" • "Underwater Theme"
New Super Mario Bros. U "Ground Theme"
Super Mario 3D World "A Boss Approaches" • "Chainlink Charge" • "Piranha Creeper Creek" • "Super Bell Hill"
Super Mario Maker "Title Theme"
Super Mario Odyssey "Fossil Falls" • "Jump Up, Super Star!"
Dr. Mario series Dr. Mario "Chill" • "Fever" • "Game Over" • "Selection Screen" • "Title Screen"
Mario Kart series Super Mario Kart "Award Ceremony" • "Donut Plains" • "Mario Circuit" • "Rainbow Road" • "Super Mario Kart Title Screen"
Mario Kart 64 "Battle Arenas" • "Choco Mountain" • "Frappe Snowland" • "Kalimari Desert" • "Koopa Troopa Beach" • "Luigi Raceway" • "Moo Moo Farm" • "Rainbow Road" • "Results (1st − 4th Place)" • "Starting Grid (Time Trials / Battle)" • "Toad's Turnpike"
Mario Kart: Super Circuit "Koopa Castle Course" • "GBA Mario Circuit"
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! "GCN Baby Park" • "GCN Daisy Cruiser" • "GCN Yoshi Circuit"
Mario Kart DS "DS Waluigi Pinball"
Mario Kart Wii "Wii Coconut Mall" • "Luigi Circuit/Mario Circuit" • "Wii Maple Treeway" • "Wii Moo Moo Meadows" • "Mushroom Gorge" • "Wii Wario's Gold Mine"
Mario Kart 7 "Mario Kart 7 Title Screen" ("Neo Bowser City" · "Toad Circuit") • "Piranha Plant Slide"
Mario Kart 8 "Cloudtop Cruise"
Yoshi franchise Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island "Athletic BGM" • "Bowser" • "Flower Field BGM" • "Opening Melody" • "Powerful Mario" • "Stage Start" • "Yoshi's Island"
Yoshi's Story "Yoshi's Song" • "Yoshi's Story!" • "Yoshi's Tale"
Luigi's Mansion series Luigi's Mansion "Title Theme (Humming)"
Wario franchise WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! "Drifting Away" • "Pyoro" • "WarioWare, Inc." ("Dr. Crygor")
WarioWare: Twisted! "Mona Pizza"
WarioWare: Touched! "Ashley's Theme"
Other The Legend of Zelda "Important Item Acquired" • "Overworld Theme"
Mario Paint "Save & Load"
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars "Beware of Forest Mushrooms" • "Hello, Happy Kingdom"
Miscellaneous "Le Galop infernal d'Orphée aux Enfers" • "Totaka's Song"
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Obstacles Bowser Statue • Candy ring • Cannon • Cannonball • Diagonal cannon • Falling spikea • Fire-Bara • Giant cannon • Giant cannonball • Lava • Pit • Quartet-cannon • Rocket Engine • Shifting wall • Spike • Tornado • Turtle Cannon
World-e mini-gamesa Blue Mushroom House • Orange Mushroom House • Red Mushroom House
Music "Airship BGM" • "Athletic BGM" • "Bros. Battle" • "Ending" • "Fortress Boss" • "Game Over" • "Ground BGM" • "King of the Koopas" • "P Switch BGM / Toad's House" • "Player Down" • "Slot Game BGM / Memory Game BGM" • "Underwater BGM" • "World 1 Map (Grass Land)" • "World 2 Map (Desert Land)" • "World 3 Map (Water Land)" • "World 4 Map (Giant Land)" • "World 6 Map (Ice Land)" • "World 8 Map (Dark Land)"
Miscellaneous Game Over • Extra life • P-Meter • Time Limit
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