Guerrilla
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| Guerrilla | |||
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| First appearance | Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (1996) | ||
| Latest appearance | Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch) (2023) | ||
| Variant of | Kong (gorilla-based) | ||
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- “I am a work of fiction. Any resemblance to preexisting apes is purely coincidental.”
- —Guerrilla, Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch)
Guerrillas are Kong-like enemies found in the Forest Maze in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars and its remake. Their name is a pun on "gorilla" and "guerrilla warfare". Aside from their chains and shackles, they are very similar in appearance to Donkey Kong, as referenced by their thought. They also have a stronger near-identical counterpart, the Chained Kong.
Guerrillas are the strongest enemies in the Forest Maze, having powerful physical attacks at their disposal. Like most powerful enemies in the game (e.g. Reacher or Mastadoom), Guerrillas appear rarely, with only one appearing per battle, and never appearing on the overworld.
An action course in the Trial Course has Mario avoiding the barrels thrown by a Guerrilla, referencing Donkey Kong.
Profiles and statistics[edit]
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars[edit]
| Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars enemy | |||||||||
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| Guerrilla | |||||||||
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HP | 135 | FP | 100 | Speed | 7 | |||
| Location(s) | Forest Maze | Attack | 42 | Magic attack | 1 | ||||
| Role | Common | Defense | 32 | Magic defense | 5 | ||||
| Bonus Flower | Attack Up! (20%) | Yoshi Cookie | Able Juice | Morph rate | 100% | ||||
| Evade | 0% | Magic evade | 0% | Spells | None | ||||
| Weak | Fire | Strong | None | Sp. attacks | Boulder Toss | ||||
| Coins | 8 | Exp. points | 8 | Items | Able Juice (25%) | ||||
| Psychopath | "Don't confuse me with someone else!" | ||||||||
Japanese thought[edit]
- フィクションです。じっさいの人物には、いっさい関係ありません。[1] (I am fiction. There is no relation to actual persons.)
Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch)[edit]
| Super Mario RPG enemy | |||||||||
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| Guerrilla | |||||||||
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HP | 135 | Weak Elements | 
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Drops | Cleansing Juice | |||
| Exp. | 8 | Weak Statuses |    
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Rare Drops | N/A | ||||
| Found in | Forest Maze | ||||||||
| Monster List profile | They have high HP and Attack, and their thrown rocks hurt quite a bit, so watch out for that. They often get mistaken for someone else. | ||||||||
| Thought Peek | "I am a work of fiction. Any resemblance to preexisting apes is purely coincidental." | ||||||||
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- Monster List profile in other languages:
- Japanese:
HPと攻撃力 が高 く、「いわ」を投 げる攻撃 はダメージが大 きいので、注意 が必要 だ。名前 の由来 は知 りません。
(Translation: It has high HP and attack power, and its "rock" throwing attack is very damaging, so be careful. The origin of its name is unknown.)
- Japanese:
Gallery[edit]
Artwork
Concept artwork
Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch)
Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch)
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ドソキーユング[2] Dosokī Yungu |
Corruption of「ドンキーコング」(Donkī Kongu, "Donkey Kong"), formed by substitutions of katakana「ン」(n) and「コ」(ko) with lookalikes「ソ」(so) and「ユ」(yu) respectively | |
| Chinese (simplified) | 冬奇冈[?] Dōngqí Gāng (Mandarin) Dūngkèih Gōng (Cantonese) |
Corruption of "咚奇刚" ("Donkey Kong") with the same Mandarin and Cantonese pronunciations, formed by omission of radical "⼝" from "咚" and radical "⺉" from "刚" | |
| Chinese (traditional) | 冬奇岡[?] Dōngqí Gāng (Mandarin) Dūngkèih Gōng (Cantonese) |
Corruption of「咚奇剛」("Donkey Kong") with the same Mandarin and Cantonese pronunciations, formed by omission of radical「⼝」from「咚」and radical「⺉」from「剛」 | |
| Dutch | Guerrilla[?] | - | |
| French (NOA) | Kondey Kong[?] | Anagram of Donkey Kong | |
| French (NOE) | Gonkey Donk[?] | Anagram of Donkey Kong | |
| German | Guerrilla[?] | - | |
| Italian | Gorillo[3] | Faux-masculine version of gorilla; gorilla in Italian is already a masculine name, but its -a ending is more often seen in feminine names. | |
| Korean | 동키쿵[?] Dongki Kung |
Corruption of "동키콩" (Dongki Kong, "Donkey Kong"), formed by flipping of the vowel "ㅗ" (o) of the last syllabic block into "ㅜ" (u) | |
| Spanish | Guerrila[?] | Clipping of guerrilla to resemble gorila ("gorilla") |
Notes[edit]
- In the Japanese trailer for the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario RPG, Guerrilla's Monster List entry incorrectly listed its HP as 121 and Exp. as 10. This was fixed in the localized English trailer to match that of the original game.
- Guerrilla's Japanese thought references the all persons fictitious disclaimer, a standard blurb used in the credits of feature films to reduce the risk of a libel lawsuit.[4] While the English release of the SNES version changes it due to text limits while still keeping the intended reference to mistaken identities, the English release of the Nintendo Switch version restores the reference.[5] This may be a reference to the legal issues Donkey Kong had from similarities to King Kong.
References[edit]
- ^ "What are you thinking about?" Enemy character data Part 1. a-suma.com (Japanese). Archived from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved November 4, 2023.
- ^ Super Mario RPG trading card
- ^ NintendoItalia (November 13, 2023). Uno sguardo approfondito a Super Mario RPG. YouTube. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
- ^ Mandelin, Clyde (June 29, 2020). The Pop Culture-Obsessed Monsters in Japanese Super Mario RPG. Legends of Localization. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
- ^ Hagues, Alana (November 2, 2023). "Super Mario RPG Is The Most Faithful Remake We've Ever Played". Nintendo Life. Retrieved November 3, 2023.
