King Ka-thunk
| King Ka-thunk | |
|---|---|
 Artwork from Super Mario 3D World | |
| Species | Ka-thunk |
| First appearance | Super Mario 3D World (2013) |
| Latest appearance | Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury (2021) |
King Ka-thunk[1] (known as King Kathunk in the British English version of the original Wii U version) is a boss that appears in Super Mario 3D World and its Nintendo Switch port Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury as the boss of World 5-Castle: King Ka-thunk's Castle and the leader of the Ka-thunks. He is a small, blue metal square with red shoes and detached red hands. He also has five spikes on the front (one of which is positioned like a nose or beak right below his eyes) and his back is pink and fleshy with an X-shaped bandage over it. King Ka-thunk floats in the middle of another, larger Ka-thunk frame that his hands hold on to.
He shares his boss theme with Boss Brolder and Motley Bossblob.
He serves as the boss of World 5. His main attack is moving around the Ka-thunk frame before finally stopping in one of the corners. After this, the ground that King Ka-thunk will fall on glows red before he crashes into the ground, damaging any players caught under him or his frame. To damage King Ka-thunk, the player has to jump on his backside while he is facing down. Oddly enough, he is not damaged if a player is thrown onto his weak spot by another player. After each hit, two of the arena's corners will fall off, and King Ka-thunk will become faster and more erratic. Once three hits are landed, King Ka-thunk is defeated, several circles of Coins appear, and the Warp Box to the Goal Pole is revealed.
King Ka-thunk later reappears as one of the bosses in World Flower-12: Boss Blitz with the exact same strategy from his first battle in World 5.
Naming[edit]
Internal names[edit]
| Game | File | Name | Meaning
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|---|---|---|---|
| Super Mario 3D World | content/ObjectData/BossWackun.szs | BossWackun | Boss Ka-thunk |
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ガッチンキング[2][3] Gatchinkingu |
Ka-thunk King | |
| Chinese (simplified) | 框当王[4] Kuàngdāngwáng (Mandarin) Kwāangdōng'wòhng (Cantonese) |
Ka-thunk King | |
| Chinese (traditional) | 框噹王[4] Kuàngdāngwáng (Mandarin) Kwāangdōng'wòhng (Cantonese) |
Ka-thunk King | |
| Dutch | King Kathunk[2] | - | |
| French | Roi Klonk[2][5] | King Ka-thunk | |
| German | König Klonk[2][6] | King Ka-thunk | |
| Italian | Re Clompo[2] | King Ka-thunk | |
| Korean | 철컥킹[4] Cheolkeogking |
Ka-thunk King | |
| Portuguese (NOE) | Rei Quadrapumba[2] | King Ka-thunk | |
| Russian | Кар-Кас[2] Kar-Kas |
From каркас (karkas, "frame") | |
| Spanish | Rey MarcoplásA[2][7][4] | King Ka-thunk |
A - This name was lowercased as "rey marcoplás" in Latin American localizations from 2012 to 2019.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Level name: King Ka-thunk's Castle
- ^ a b c d e f g h i In-game name for King Ka-thunk's Castle from Super Mario 3D World (stored internally under
SystemMessage/StageName/BossWackunFortressStage). - ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2015). "Super Mario 3D World" 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 225.
- ^ a b c d In-game name for King Ka-thunk's Castle from Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury.
- ^ Ardaillon, Joanna, and Victoria Juillard-Huberty, editors (2018). "Super Mario 3D World" in Super Mario Encyclopedia. Translated by Fabien Nabhan. Toulon: Soleil Productions (French). ISBN 978-2-3020-7004-2. Page 225.
- ^ Scholz, Sabine, and Benjamin Spinrath, editors (2017). "Super Mario 3D World" in Super Mario Encyclopedia - Die ersten 30 Jahre : 1985-2015. Translated by Yamada Hirofumi. Hamburg: Tokyopop (German). ISBN 978-3-8420-3653-6. Page 225.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2017). "Super Mario 3D World" 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 225.
