Big Paragoomba
| Big Paragoomba | |
|---|---|
 Screen-cropped asset from Super Mario Galaxy 2. | |
| First appearance | The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 - Princess Toadstool for President (1990) |
| Latest appearance | Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 (2025) |
| Variant of | Paragoomba Big Goomba |
- “Your spin will work even on these big guys! Try it!”
- —Giant Luma, Super Mario Galaxy 2
Big Paragoombas (known as Giant Land Para-Goombas in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3[1]) are enormous Paragoombas that are essentially Big Goombas with wings.
History[edit]
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3[edit]
Large-sized Para-Goombas are shown once in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode "Princess Toadstool for President". King Koopa and Cheatsy bring a cage full of Giant Land Para Goombas to the Mushroom Kingdom, whom they unleash on a field of crops. However, Mario and Luigi show up and defeat the Giant Land Para-Goombas, stomping them as if they were standard Para-Goombas. They are named after Giant Land, and due to this and being imported, can be inferred to have come from there.
Super Mario series[edit]
Super Mario Galaxy 2[edit]
Big Paragoombas make their game debut in Super Mario Galaxy 2, in the Supermassive Galaxy. The only way to defeat them is to spin and then kick or spin into them again, as if they were standard Giant Goombas.
Appearances[edit]
marks missions where they are completely absent.
marks missions where they are loaded and may be visible, but cannot be encountered directly.
| Worlds | Galaxies | Missions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World 4 | Supermassive Galaxy |  |
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Super Mario Maker / Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS / Super Mario Maker 2[edit]
In Super Mario Maker, Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS and Super Mario Maker 2, the player can enlarge Paragoombas with Super Mushrooms, turning them into Big Paragoombas. The same result can be obtained if the player attaches wings to Big Goombas. Super Mario Maker marks the debut of large-sized Paragoombas in a 2D Super Mario platformer.
Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition[edit]
Big Paragoombas appear in the RPG/puzzle hybrid Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition as stronger variants of Paragoomba. They are of Wood and Light types. A Big Paragoomba's maximum level is 99, and its HP and RCV ratings are higher than those of a normal Paragoomba, although it has the same Attack stat. Its skill, "Rush", deals 50 Wood damage to all foes, and its helper ability is "Attack Boost", which raises the attack of the player's team members.
Gallery[edit]
Naming[edit]
Internal names[edit]
| Game | File | Name | Meaning
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|---|---|---|---|
| Super Mario Galaxy 2 | ObjectData/PatakuriBig.arc | Patakuri Big | Big Paragoom |
| SystemData/ObjNameTable.arc/ObjNameTable.tbl | 巨大パタクリ (Kyodai Patakuri) | Giant Paragoom |
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 | でかパタクリボー[2][3][4] Deka Patakuribō |
Big Paragoomba | |
| French (NOA) | Paragoomba géant[5] | Giant Paragoomba | |
| French (NOE) | Maxi-Paragoomba[3] | Contraction of "maximum" with "Paragoomba" | |
| Paragoomba Géant[6] | Giant Paragoomba | The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 | |
| German | Maxi-Para-Gumba[3] | Contraction of "maximum" with Para-Gumba ("Paragoomba") | |
| Riesen-Para-Gumba[7] | Giant Paragoomba | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia | |
| Italian | Goomba volante gigante[3] | Giant Paragoomba | |
| Fanfagocero[8] | Portmanteau of facocero ("warthog"), in references to the fangs, and fagocitare ("to gobble up") | The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 | |
| Super Goomba Alato[9] | Super Winged Goomba | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia | |
| Korean | 점보펄럭굼바[10] Jeombo Peolleok Gumba |
Jumbo Paragoomba | |
| Romanian | Paragumba de uscat uriaș[11] | Giant land Paragoomba | |
| Spanish (NOA) | Gran Paragoomba[5] | Giant Paragoomba | |
| Spanish (NOE) | Gran Goomba Alado[3][12] | Giant Paragoomba |
References[edit]
- ^ "Check 'em out, Cheatsy! These Giant Land Para-Goombas will mangle those crops, and when Princess Toadstool's people are starving, I won't sell her any food unless she gives me her kingdom. *throaty chuckle*" - King Koopa, Princess Toadstool for President
- ^ Hamamura, Koichi, Takeo Sakamoto, Ryo Aoyama, and Akimi Miyazawa, editors (2010). 『スーパーマリオギャラクシー2コンプリートガイド』. Tokyo: Enterbrain (Japanese). ISBN 978-4-04-726682-7. Page 30.
- ^ a b c d e In-game name displayed during battle in Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition. (Stored internally under
\Magnum\list\EU_[Language]\Cards.bin.) - ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2015). "Super Mario Galaxy 2" 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 160.
- ^ a b In-game name displayed during battle in Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition. (Stored internally under
\Magnum\list\NA_[Language]\Cards.bin.) - ^ "Ces Paragoomba géants vont ratisser ses cultures!" - King Koopa, L'élection De La Princesse
- ^ Scholz, Sabine, and Benjamin Spinrath, editors (2017). "Super Mario Galaxy 2" in Super Mario Encyclopedia - Die ersten 30 Jahre : 1985-2015. Translated by Yamada Hirofumi. Hamburg: Tokyopop (German). ISBN 978-3-8420-3653-6. Page 160.
- ^ Le avventure di Super Mario 2x05 - Il regno dei funghi
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2018). "Super Mario Galaxy 2" in Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Translated by Marco Amerighi. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 160.
- ^ In-game name displayed during battle in Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition. ((Archived 27 Apr. 2015 via YouTube by 으시.)
- ^ May 20, 2015. "Princess Toadstool for President", dubbed in Romanian by KidsCo. Odnoklassniki (OK.ru). Retrieved January 4, 2016.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2017). "Super Mario Galaxy 2" 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 160.
