| Fryguy | |
|---|---|
 Artwork for Super Mario Advance | |
| First appearance | Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic (1987, overall) Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988, Super Mario franchise) |
| Latest appearance | Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition (Player Icon cameo) (2024) |
- “I'm too hot to touch!”
- —Fryguy, Super Mario Advance
Fryguy[1][2] (also spelled Fry Guy[3][4] or FryGuy[5]) is the boss of World 4 in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2. He is a ball of fire given life by Wart in Subcon.[1]
HistoryEdit
Super Mario seriesEdit
Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic / Super Mario Bros. 2Edit
In Super Mario Bros. 2, Fryguy is the boss of World 4, an icy arctic ocean; he is stationed in a tall fortress at the end of World 4-3. When confronted by Mario and his friends, Fryguy spits fireballs down to attack the heroes. Since Fryguy is made of fire, the heroes take damage if they touch him. To defeat Fryguy, Mushroom Blocks (masks in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic) must be thrown at him. After three hits, the battle enters the second phase, as Fryguy splits into four Small Fry Guys,[6][7] also known as mini-FryGuys.[8] They jump toward the player, and can also be destroyed with Mushroom Blocks. After one Small Fry Guy is destroyed, the remaining Small Fry Guys become progressively faster. Later versions redraw Fryguy's sprite heavily, with his eyes being more open, his mask being light blue instead of black, and his fire having twice as many animation frames. Additionally, his face is a separate graphic from his body in the later versions.
The original "PRG0" release of Super Mario Bros. 2 has a glitch where if any Small Fry Guys are hit with a Mushroom Block while the player is shrinking from being reduced to 1 HP, they will fall offscreen instead of disappearing in a puff of smoke. The glitch is that they must disappear in a puff of smoke in order for the game to count them as defeated, so the player ultimately gets softlocked due to the game still thinking there are Small Fry Guys left. A later revision of the game fixed this by setting the Small Fry Guys to always disappear in a puff of smoke.[9]
In Super Mario All-Stars, Small Fry Guys are redesigned to remove the white portion of their eyes. This makes them resemble Fryguy less. These changes are kept in Super Mario Advance.
In Super Mario Advance, Fryguy is shown being seemingly created on-screen by four of Wart's giant bubbles; however, instead of fire (as mentioned in the original manual), the bubbles form him from an empty version of his mask.
BS Super Mario USAEdit
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Fryguy appears once again as a boss in the pseudo-sequel, BS Super Mario USA. He makes his first appearance in the third broadcast, helping Wart and the other 8 bits attack Subcon once more, but is eventually defeated by Mario and the other heroes once again. Like the predecessor, he is found in the snowy lands of Subcon and he is fought in the same way to that of Super Mario Bros. 2. He also shows up to attack 19 minutes into the broadcast, regardless of the player's location. In this game, he has the personality of a cultured samurai and speaks with an archaic, formal speech. He will give a discourse about bushido or recite haiku.
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!Edit
- “You owe me 60 gold coinsssss! Pay up by sundown, or I'll turn you into fried fungussssssss!”
- —Fryguy, "The Great BMX Race"
Fryguy is a character in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Like many antagonists on the show, he works for King Koopa, as opposed to Wart (as in the video games). Fryguy does not appear as much as other Super Mario Bros. 2 antagonists on the show. Fryguy is implied to be a species on the show, as in "Raiders of the Lost Mushroom," the terminology "a Fryguy" is used. Additionally, in "Hooded Robin and His Mario Men," the heroes try to distract Fryguy by disguising Toad and Hooded Robin as a "Frygal."
- List of episodes featuring Fryguy
Super Mario Bros. (Valiant Comics)Edit
Fryguy also appears in the Super Mario Bros. comics. In the comics, there is not just one Fryguy, but an entire species. They have minor roles in many stories, starting with "The Fish That Should've Gotten Away" in the first issue. They are also the focus of a one-page comic called "Fryguy High Yearbook -- Activity Page!" which depicts students of Fryguy High taking part in events such as a "hot baseball team that threw sixteen consectutive no-hitters," though it is also shown the school eventually burned down. The first time Fryguys are a major focus of a full story is "Beauty and the Beach," where King Koopa (under the alias "Ka-Hoopa") attempts to create some by forcing a volcano to erupt onto an island village of Mushroom People. In another story, "Duh Stoopid Bomb!," Bowser is expelled to "Fryguy Kindergarten" after an intelligence-boosted Snifit takes over his kingdom.
Nintendo Adventure BooksEdit
Fryguy and some of his GLOM-spawned clones try to attack Mario as he is exploring the Mushroom Kingdom in Double Trouble, but he avoids them.
Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow UpEdit
In Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up, the description of the Firefighter career page reveals that Fryguy has started a fire. This Fryguy lacks a mask, instead having bushy eyebrows.
Super Mario Bros. filmEdit
In the Super Mario Bros. film, the Fireball guns used by President Koopa and his minions have multiple names. One such name is the "Fry Guy Flamethrower", a reference to the enemy. This name can be seen in a sign at the Boom Boom Bar that reads "These premises are protected by Fry Guy Flamethrowers".[10]
Super Mario-kunEdit
Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi encounter Fryguy in volume 8 of Super Mario-kun. He and his minions attempt to cook them in a soup, but Toad and Birdo arrive by breaking through the sky, riding on a whale, which then flattens Fryguy and his minions.
Super Paper MarioEdit
A Sammer Guy in Super Paper Mario is called Guy Who Fry.
Profiles and statisticsEdit
Super Mario seriesEdit
Super Mario Bros. 2Edit
- Instruction booklet: Wart gave life to this entity which is created from fire. He spits fireballs when he is mad.
Super Mario AdvanceEdit
- Instruction booklet: This flaming fiend was brought to life by Wart. When it gets angry, it will attack by hurling fireballs.
Perfect Ban Mario Character DaijitenEdit
| ヒーボーボー (JP) / Fryguy (EN) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 | |||
| Original text (Japanese) | Translation | ||
| ゴースト族 | Tribe | Ghost clan | |
| すぐカッとなる | Disposition | Gets angry easily | |
| USA | Game appearances | USA | |
| 炎のかたまりヒーボーボー 恐い顔をした大きな火のかたまり。こいつを倒すには、上のブロックを1つ外してから、下のブロックを上に運んで投げる。3回当てると4つに分裂し、もう1回当てれば倒せる。[11] |
Fryguy, a mass of flames A big mass of fire with a scary face. To defeat it, remove one of the upper blocks, then carry the lower block up and throw it. 3 hits will cause it to split into 4 pieces, and another hit is all it takes to defeat it. | ||
GalleryEdit
- For this subject's image gallery, see Gallery:Fryguy.
Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic Hisshō Kōryakuhō
Super Mario Bros. 2 artwork
Super Mario USA instruction booklet
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario All-Stars (Super Mario Bros. 2)
Small Fry Guy sprite from Super Mario Bros. 2
Small Fry Guy sprite from Super Mario All-Stars
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.
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ヒーボーボー[12][13][14] Hībōbō |
Compound of「火」(hi, fire) and「ボーボー」(bō-bō, onomatopoeia for something flaring up); may also incorporate「坊」(bō, an affectionate suffix for boys) | |
| フライガイ[13] Furaigai |
Transliteration of the English name; the Hepburn romanization is rendered as "Flyguy" in the cited source | Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario All-Stars | |
| Chinese (simplified) | 火神[15] Huǒshén |
Fire God | |
| Dutch | Fryguy[16] | - | |
| Finnish | Fryguy[17] | - | |
| Grillivili[18] | From grilli ("barbecue") and the given name "Vili" | The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! | |
| French | Fry Guy[19]:52 | - | |
| Fryguy[16] | Super Mario Bros. 2 | ||
| Flamme[20] | Flame | The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! | |
| German | Fry Guy[19]:32[21] | - | |
| Fryguy[22][23] | Super Mario Bros. 2 | ||
| Feuerkorb[24] | Fire Basket | The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! | |
| Italian | Friggì[25][26] | From friggere ("to fry") | |
| Fryguy[27][28] | - | Super Mario Bros. 2, NES Remix 2 | |
| Fiammella[29][30] | Diminutive of fiamma ("flame") | The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! | |
| Frittura[19]:112 | Frying | Super Mario Advance | |
| Korean | 파이어가이[31] Paieo Gai |
Fire Guy | |
| Norwegian | Fryguy[32] | - | |
| Ildmann[33] | Fire Man | The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, TV dub | |
| Polish | Smażol[34] | Portmanteau of smażyć ("to fry") and koleś ("guy") | The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! |
| Portuguese | Fryguy[35] | - | |
| Fry Guy[36] | Super Mario Bros. 2 | ||
| Spanish | Fry Guy[19]:92 | - | |
| Fryguy[37] | Super Mario Bros. 2 | ||
| Swedish | Fryguy[38] | - | |
| Eldgrabb[39] | Fire Guy | The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, TV dub |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ a b "Wart gave life to this entity which is created from fire. He spits fireballs when he is mad." – 1988. Super Mario Bros. 2 instruction booklet. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 27 (Fryguy description).
- ^ Arnold, J. Douglas, James Yamada, and Mark Elies (June 4, 2001). Super Mario Advance Official Perfect Guide. Versus Books. ISBN 0-9706468-4-4. Page 55.
- ^ 2001. Super Mario Advance instruction booklet. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 34.
- ^ 2010. Super Mario All Stars Limited Edition instruction booklet. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 37.
- ^ Wessel, Craig (2001). Super Mario Advance. Scholastic. ISBN 0-439-36708-5. Page 92.
- ^ Stratton, Bryan (June 7, 2001). Super Mario Advance Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Prima Games (American English). ISBN 0-7615-3633-7. Page 50.
- ^ Farkas, Bart G. (June 13, 2001). Super Mario Advance Official Pocket Guide. BradyGames (American English). ISBN 0-7440-0077-7. Page 49.
- ^ Wessel, Craig (2001). Super Mario Advance. Scholastic (American English). ISBN 0-439-36708-5. Page 36.
- ^ Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES)#Fryguy Glitch. The Cutting Room Floor (English). Retrieved June 29, 2024.
- ^ Screenshot. smbmovie.com. Retrieved June 5, 2024.
- ^ 1994. Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten. Japanese. Page 168.
- ^ 1987. Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic instruction booklet. Nintendo (Japanese). Page 36.
- ^ a b 1992. Super Mario USA instruction booklet. Nintendo (Japanese). Page 30.
- ^ Itoi, Shigesato, Ryo Kagawa (APE), Hideaki Nishitani, Masatoshi Watanabe, Koichi Sugiyama (Supersonic), Junichiro Okubo, and Shigeo Tanabe (Shogakukan), editors (1993). 『任天堂公式ガイドブック スーパーマリオコレクション』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-102444-0. Page 127.
- ^ From the ending scenes of Super Mario Advance as localized by iQue. Reference: 无敌阿尔宙斯 (August 28, 2013). 神游 超级马力欧2敌人官译. Baidu Tieba (Simplified Chinese). Archived February 26, 2017, 16:11:09 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
- ^ a b 1989. Super Mario Bros. 2 Handleiding / mode d'emploi. Brussels: Nintendo (Dutch, French). Page 31.
- ^ Super Mario Bros 4 VHS (Suomi)
- ^ Nintendo-lehti (1990-1994, Finnish)
- ^ a b c d 2001. Super Mario Advance Instruction Booklet (PDF). Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian).
- ^ Super Mario Bros 009 La Course des BMX
- ^ 2010. Super Mario All-Stars Bedienungsanleitung. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). Page 38.
- ^ 1990. Super Mario Bros. 2 Speilanleitung. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). Page 28.
- ^ Matsumoto, Atsuko, Rie Ishii, and Claude Moyse, editors (1992). Der Spieleberater Super Mario Power. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). ISBN 3-929034-02-6. Page 119.
- ^ The Super Mario Bros Super Show! Folge 11 Mamma Mia Mario / Das große BMX Rennen
- ^ 2010. Super Mario All-Stars – Edizione per il 25° Anniversario Manuale di Istruzioni. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (Italian). Page 38.
- ^ 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 68.
- ^ 1989. Super Mario Bros. 2 Libretto di Istruzioni. Oleggio Castello: Nintendo (Italian). Page 27.
- ^ "Riduci Fryguy a polpette... di fuoco!" – Bonus level 20-3. NES Remix.
- ^ Super Mario bros super show ita 1x09 La grande corsa
- ^ Super Mario - I Predatori del Fungo Perduto
- ^ 2010. "슈퍼 마리오 컬렉션". Seoul: Nintendo of Korea Co., Ltd. (Korean). Page 40.
- ^ The Super Mario Bros. Super Show – Episode 8, 9, 11 (Norsk)
- ^ The Super Mario Bros Super Show S01E11 - The Great BMX Race/Mama Mia Mario (Norsk Fox Kids Dub)
- ^ Przygody Braci Mario - Odcinek 9 | Wielki Wyścig BMXów (Polski Lektor)
- ^ Super Mario Bros. Super Show! - A Grande Corrida de Moto / Mama Mia (Dublado)
- ^ Gaglianone, Arthur, and Francisco Pellegrini Jr., directors (1991). Super Mario Bros. Livro Ilustrado. Rio de Janeiro: Multi Editora (Brazilian Portuguese). Page 16, 19.
- ^ 1989. Super Mario Bros. 2 Libro de Intrucciones. Madrid: Nintendo (Spanish). Page 27.
- ^ Super Mario Bros Super Show - Episode 9 - Swedish (VHS dubb)
- ^ Super Mario Bros Super Show - Episode 9 - Swedish