King Watinga

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King Watinga
King Watinga as seen in Super Mario Maker
Sprite from Super Mario Maker
Species Fly
First appearance Mario Paint (1992)
Latest appearance Super Mario Maker (2015)

King Watinga[1] is the boss of the minigame Gnat Attack in Mario Paint. He is a large, robotic fly who appears at the end of each level, as well as Super Mario Maker, where he only appears in the third and final level. In Mario Paint, King Watinga is capable of flight, spawning Fly Children, and shooting out stinger missiles, while in Super Mario Maker, he only spawns Fly Children and flies off-screen, returning when all the Fly Children are swatted. In Mario Paint, he turns slightly red after taking 10 hits from the flyswatter, and turns redder after taking 15 hits. After taking 20 hits, he convulses and explodes.

Following the release of the version 1.20 update for Super Mario Maker, King Watinga can also appear on the level editor screen if a Muncher is shaken after flies have already spawned. Angering him by swatting him repeatedly will start a more challenging mode of Gnat Attack. Two King Watingas appear in the final level of this mode.

King Watinga appears in Fly Swatter, a minigame that is a remake of Gnat Attack appearing in WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!.

King Watinga also makes a small appearance in volume 5 of Super Mario-kun, in which he is brought out of the Mario Paint game by Lemmy. After colliding with Yoshi, King Watinga fuses with him to become Hae Yoshi. In the end, he is destroyed, and Mario is able to redraw Yoshi.

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Game File Name Meaning

Super Mario Maker content/Pack/Edit.pack/Cmn_fly_boss.szs Cmn_fly_boss Fly Boss

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.

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ハエたたきゲームのボス[2]
Haetataki Gēmu no Bosu
Gnat Attack Boss
Dutch Koning Watinga[3] King Watinga
Finnish Valtava jättihyönteinen[4] Huge giant insect
French (Europe) Roi Watinga[5] King Watinga
German König Watinga[6] King Watinga
Mückenkönig Watinga[7] Gnat King Watinga Mario Paint
Italian King Watinga[8] -
Portuguese (Europe) King Watinga[9] -
Spanish (Europe) King Watinga[10] -
Rey Watinga[11] King Watinga Mario Paint

References[edit]

  1. ^ 1992. Mario Paint Instruction Booklet. Redmond: Nintendo of America. Page 29.
  2. ^ Yukio Sawada (25 Jan. 1993). Super Mario-kun Volume 5. CoroCoro Comic (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-141765-5. Page 140.
  3. ^ Nintendo Nederland (3 Aug. 2025). 🎨 Tijd voor creativiteit in Mario Paint met Nintendo Switch Online!. YouTube (Dutch).
  4. ^ "Siitä voi olla arvaamatonta hyötyä, kun tulee aika kohdata lopussa valtava jättihyönteinen." – Saarva, Petteri, Mikael Ekroos, Kieku Salo, and Markus Selin, editors (1992). "Mario Paint" in Nintendo-lehti (no. 11–12). Finnish. Page 6.
  5. ^ Nintendo France (3 Aug. 2025). 🎨 Libérez votre créativité dans Mario Paint via Nintendo Switch Online !. YouTube (French).
  6. ^ Nintendo DE (3 Aug. 2025). 🎨 Kreiert Kreationen in Mario Paint mit Nintendo Switch Online!. YouTube (German).
  7. ^ 1992. Mario Paint Spielanleitung. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). Page 29.
  8. ^ NintendoItalia (3 Aug. 2025). 🎨 Mostra il tuo lato artistico in Mario Paint con Nintendo Switch Online!. YouTube (Italian).
  9. ^ Nintendo Portugal (3 Aug. 2025). 🎨 Mario Paint chega ao Nintendo Switch Online!. YouTube (European Portuguese).
  10. ^ Nintendo España (3 Aug. 2025). 🎨 ¡Dad unas buenas pinceladas en Mario Paint con Nintendo Switch Online!. YouTube (European Spanish).
  11. ^ 1992. Mario Paint Manual de Instrucciones. Madrid: Nintendo (European Spanish). Page 29.