Gold Bullet Bill
Artwork of a Gold Bullet Bill from New Super Mario Bros. 2
Artwork from New Super Mario Bros. 2
First appearance Super Mario Sunshine (2002)
Latest appearance Super Mario 3D All-Stars (2020)
Variant of Bullet Bill
Variants
Comparable

Gold Bullet Bills, also known as Golden Bullet Bills[1] and Bullet Bills (Gold),[2] are a type of Bullet Bill that first appears in Super Mario Sunshine.

HistoryEdit

Super Mario seriesEdit

Super Mario SunshineEdit

 
A Golden Bullet Bill from Super Mario Sunshine

In Super Mario Sunshine, Golden Bullet Bills are found only during the second episode of Pinna Park, where they are fired out of the cannon headed by the Monty Mole. Spraying Golden Bullet Bills with FLUDD makes them explode into eight coins, which will vanish shortly if they are not collected in time.

New Super Mario Bros. 2Edit

In New Super Mario Bros. 2, Gold Bullet Bills appear whenever the player touches a Gold Ring. They behave exactly like normal Bullet Bills, except that they leave a trail of coins behind.

Mario Party: Star RushEdit

Gold Bullet Bills reappear in Mario Party: Star Rush. They appear exclusively in World 3-2 and World 3-3, where they shoot out of marked cannons decided by a roulette at the start of every turn. The coin trail they leave behind lasts for only one turn. Any player who gets in a Gold Bullet Bill's way is chased by it until the character finds a safe space.

ProfilesEdit

Mario Party: Star RushEdit

Image Name Bio
  Gold Bullet Bill
A golden and shiny Bullet Bill.
Though just as dangerous as their non-shiny brethren, they at least have the decency to leave behind a coin trail.

GalleryEdit

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, and have the media they are associated with in the "notes" column.

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ゴールデンキラー[3]:194[4][5]
Gōruden Kirā
Golden Bullet Bill
キラー(金色)[3]:99
Kirā (Kin'iro)
Bullet Bill (Golden) Super Mario Sunshine
Dutch Gouden Bullet Bill[4] Golden Bullet Bill
French Bill Balle d'or[4][6] Gold Bullet Bill
German Gold-Kugelwilli[4] Gold Bullet Bill
Italian Pallottolo Bill dorato[4][7]:194 Golden Bullet Bill
Pallottolo Bill d'Oro[8]:19 Gold Bullet Bill Super Mario Sunshine
Pallottolo Bill Dorato[8]:96 Golden Bullet Bill
Pallottolo Bill giallo[7]:99 Yellow Bullet Bill Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia (Super Mario Sunshine)
Korean 골드킬러[4]
Goldeu Killeo
Gold Bullet Bill
Portuguese (NOE) Bill Bala Dourado[4] Golden Bullet Bill
Russian Золотой билл-пуля[4]
Zolotoy bill-pulya
Golden Bullet Bill
Spanish Bill Bala dorado1[4][9] Golden Bullet Bill
Bill Bala amarillo[10] Yellow Bullet Bill Super Mario Encyclopedia (Super Mario Sunshine)

1 - This name was lowercased as "Bill bala dorado" in Latin American localizations from 2012 to 2019.[4]

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Hodgson, David S J, Bryan Stratton, and Stephen Stratton (September 3, 2002). Super Mario Sunshine Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Prima Games (American English). ISBN 0-7615-3961-1. Page 19.
  2. ^ English Super Mario Sunshine entry on the official Mario Portal. nintendo.co.jp. Retrieved August 13, 2022. (Archived August 13, 2022, 22:22:41 UTC via archive.today.)
  3. ^ a b Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2015). 『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.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Character Museum (2016). Mario Party: Star Rush by NDcube. Nintendo Co., Ltd. (Stored internally under common_01.msbt/npc_006_gd.)
  5. ^ スーパーマリオサンシャイン | ヒストリー | マリオポータル. Nintendo (Japanese). Retrieved March 24, 2025.
  6. ^ Ardaillon, Joanna, and Victoria Juillard-Huberty, editors (2018). "New Super Mario Bros. 2" in Super Mario Encyclopedia. Translated by Fabien Nabhan. Toulon: Soleil Productions (French). ISBN 978-2-3020-7004-2. Page 194.
  7. ^ a b 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.
  8. ^ a b Hodgson, David S. J., Bryan Stratton, and Stephen Stratton (2002). Super Mario Sunshine Guida Strategica Ufficiale realizzata da Prima Games. Translated by Associazione Culturale Go!. Giaveno: Yoo Too Videogames, Prima Games (Italian). ISBN 88-900922-1-1.
  9. ^ 2017. "New Super Mario Bros. 2" in Enciclopedia Super Mario Bros 30ª Aniversario. Madrid: Planeta Cómic (Spanish). ISBN 978-84-9146-223-1. Page 194.
  10. ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2017). "Super Mario Sunshine" 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 99.