Ground Urchin
| Ground Urchin | |
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 Screenshot from Super Mario Galaxy | |
| First appearance | Super Mario Galaxy (2007) |
| Latest appearance | Super Mario 3D All-Stars (2020) |
| Variant of | Urchin |
Ground Urchins,[1] also named Hot Urchins,[2] are enemies introduced in Super Mario Galaxy. They look and act much like normal Urchins, except they are red and appear to be covered in some sort of fuzz, unlike the solid skin of normal Urchins. When defeated by fire, Ground Urchins burn into black chalk before disintegrating into dust.
History[edit]
Super Mario Galaxy[edit]
Ground Urchins are enemies in Super Mario Galaxy. They are encountered in the Freezeflame Galaxy, being the primary enemy encountered in the lava area, where some emerge from box-shaped generators. Ground Urchins can be defeated either from being shot at with fireballs or from being lured into the lava. One also appears in the mission "Boo in a Box" of the Deep Dark Galaxy.
Appearances[edit]
marks missions where Ground Urchins are completely absent.
marks missions where Ground Urchins are loaded and may be visible but cannot be encountered directly.
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Super Mario Galaxy 2[edit]
Hot Urchins are enemies in Super Mario Galaxy 2. They behave exactly like how they did previously. They are found on only a single planet in the Battle Belt Galaxy.
Appearances[edit]
- marks missions where Hot Urchins are completely absent.
- marks missions where Hot Urchins are loaded and may be visible but cannot be encountered directly.
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| World 6 | Battle Belt Galaxy |  |
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Profiles[edit]
Super Mario Galaxy[edit]
- Trading card description: Urchins are spiky blue fish that Mario must face in an underwater challenge in the Beach Bowl Galaxy and a land mission in the Freezeflame Galaxy. They roll along the seafloor or ground trying to poke Mario with their spikes. There are also red Urchins in lava areas that Mario can hit with a fireball or trick into falling into the lava.
Gallery[edit]
Render of a Ground Urchin from Super Mario Galaxy. The fuzz does not appear due to it being a particle effect.
Fire Luigi hurling fireballs at two Ground Urchins in the Freezeflame Galaxy
The box that releases Ground Urchins in the Freezeflame Galaxy
Hot Urchins in the Battle Belt Galaxy from Super Mario Galaxy 2
Naming[edit]
Internal names[edit]
| Game | File | Name | Meaning
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| Super Mario Galaxy Super Mario Galaxy 2 |
ObjectData/UnizoLand.arc | UnizoLand | Land Urchin |
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 |
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| Japanese | 陸ウニラ[3][4]:161 Riku Unira |
Land Urchin | |
| 陸ウニゾー[5][4]:128 Riku Unizō |
Super Mario Galaxy | ||
| French | Oursin Terrestre[6] | Land Urchin | |
| German | Lava-Igluck[7] | Lava Urchin | |
| Italian | Ricciospino[8]:128 | Urchin | |
| Riccioterrestre[8]:161 | Land-urchin | ||
| Spanish | Erincho Terrestre[9] | Land Urchin |
References[edit]
- ^ English Super Mario Galaxy entry on the official Mario Portal. nintendo.co.jp (English). Retrieved August 13, 2022. (Archived August 12, 2022, 23:39:09 UTC via archive.today.)
- ^ English Super Mario Galaxy 2 entry on the official Mario Portal. nintendo.co.jp (English). Retrieved August 13, 2022. (Archived August 12, 2022, 23:39:46 UTC via archive.today.)
- ^ Tachibana, Tadashi, Isamu Horie, Shinji Kutsuzawa, Itaru Nakatani, Seishiro Fuwa, Kimihara Hongo, and Toshimune Suzuki (2010). 『スーパーマリオギャラクシー2 任天堂ゲーム攻略本』. Tokyo: ambit (Japanese). ISBN 978-4-8399-3630-3. Page 20.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Watanabe, Takashi, Noriko Oketani, Geasen Ueno, Kiyotaka Iwaya, Tatsuhiko Mizutani, Kensaku Tanaka, Mizuho Nitta, Junko Fukuda, and Kunio Takayama, editors (2007). 『スーパーマリオギャラクシー: 任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 978-4-09-227115-9. Page 406.
- ^ Ardaillon, Joanna, and Victoria Juillard-Huberty, editors (2018). "Super Mario Galaxy" in Super Mario Encyclopedia. Translated by Fabien Nabhan. Toulon: Soleil Productions (French). ISBN 978-2-3020-7004-2. Page 128.
- ^ Scholz, Sabine, and Benjamin Spinrath, editors (2017). "Super Mario Galaxy" in Super Mario Encyclopedia - Die ersten 30 Jahre : 1985-2015. Translated by Yamada Hirofumi. Hamburg: Tokyopop (German). ISBN 978-3-8420-3653-6. Page 128.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2017). "Super Mario Galaxy" 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 128.
