Mr. I

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Not to be confused with Mr. L.
Mr. I
Encyclopedia image of Mr. I from Mario Party Superstars
Asset from Mario Party Superstars
First appearance Super Mario 64 (1996)
Latest appearance Mario Party Superstars (2021)
Variants
Notable members
“Running around in circles makes some bad guys roll their eyes.”
Sign, Super Mario 64

A Mr. I (also spelled Mr. I.[1] or Mr I[2]), also known as a Spinning Eye[3] or Eyeball,[4] is an enemy that debuted in Super Mario 64. It is a giant, usually motionless eyeball that tracks the player character by rotating.

The design of Mr. I's and their recurring association with haunted areas are evocative of mokumokuren.

History[edit]

Super Mario 64 / Super Mario 64 DS[edit]

Mr. I shooting a bubble
Screenshot of a Mr. I's bubble attack from Super Mario 64

Mr. I's are enemies in Super Mario 64 and Super Mario 64 DS. They are found in Big Boo's Haunt, Lethal Lava Land, and the Hazy Maze Cave. They turn to face Mario, shooting small multicolored bubble projectiles at him if undisturbed. A Mr. I is defeated if Mario runs around it,[5] causing the Mr. I to shrink slightly from trying to keep track and drop a Blue Coin. The larger Big Mr. I. can be found in the attic of Big Boo's Haunt.

Mr. I's have oval pupils in Super Mario 64 DS that are dark blue instead of black. Their bubble projectiles were also changed in appearance to glow different colors as they travel, additionally having visible light trails behind them.

Mario Party series[edit]

Mario Party 2[edit]

Mr. I from Mario Party 2
Mr. I. from Mario Party 2

Mr. I. is at the Horror Land board in Mario Party 2. If paid five coins, Mr. I. "warps" the player by chasing them,[6] including anyone else along the path.

Mario Party 3[edit]

A Mr. I. (referred to as "Big Mr. I" in localization) is in the minigame Eye Sore of Mario Party 3, shrinking as players run around him and disappearing after a player circles him fifteen times,[7] making that player the winner. Any player who touches a Mr. I. is dazed briefly.

Mario Party 5[edit]

A Mr. I is a weapon capable of shooting blue lasers in Super Duel Mode of Mario Party 5.

Mario Party Advance[edit]

Mr. I from Mario Party Advance
Screenshot from Mario Party Advance
“I'm actually SEEING you in person!”
Mr. I, Mario Party Advance

A Mr. I lives in the horror area of Shroom City in Mario Party Advance. If Princess Peach visits Mr. I, he gives her the Hope Chest Gaddget, being in love with her. Flutter is in love with Mr. I, but he does not feel the same way, especially because he likes Peach. Mr. I is one of the suspects behind the robbery of the Koopa Bank, which he is not guilty of but he claims to have heard coins jingle. Mr. I later tries learning how to wink for Peach.[8]

Mario Party 8[edit]

Eyebrawl in Mario Party 8
Screenshot from Mario Party 8

Mr. I's are featured in the minigame Eyebrawl in Mario Party 8, where the player uses the Wii Remote to draw circles around them.[9]:0:10 Each time upon getting dizzy, Mr. I's return increasingly larger. The first player to defeat three Mr. I's wins. The loser is haunted by small Mr. I's.[9]:0:36

Mario Party Superstars[edit]

Mr. I has the same base role in the returning Horror Land board in Mario Party Superstars. Additionally, they eliminate any losers after ending a game in Horror Land. Mr. I was also given his own page in the encyclopedia. Mr. I no longer talks, with in-game dialogue representing his actions instead.

Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour[edit]

"Mr. I." is a name displayed on the leaderboard in Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour.

Super Paper Mario[edit]

Mister I appears in Merlee's Mansion and Castle Bleck in Super Paper Mario. There is a total of three. They are defeated only by either Fleep's ability or Mario's Flip to run around them repeatedly. Mister I's attack by shooting a light-blue beam. The game also adds a variant named Red I.

Unused appearances[edit]

Image of Minecraft: Wii U Edition showing a Mr. I-themed enderchest.
Mr. I in Minecraft: Wii U Edition

A graphic of an Ender Chest depicting a Mr. I is in the files of the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack in Minecraft: Wii U Edition, though the final version bases them on Shy Guys instead.

Profiles and statistics[edit]

Super Paper Mario[edit]

Super Paper Mario enemy
Mister I
A Mister I Max HP ?? Role Common Location(s) Merlee's Basement (2-4), Castle Bleck Entry (8-1)
Attack 2 Card type Common
Defense ?? Items Sleepy Sheep, Shroom Shake Card location(s) Card Shop; Catch Card/SP
Score 800
Card description It's an eye. A big, juicy, unblinking ever-watching eye. ...Gross.
  List of Catch Cards  
  99      100      101  
Tattle It's a Mister I. These bizarre foes can't help but give you the evil eye... Max HP is ??. Attack is 2. It will shoot sharp glances at any enemy it spots... None of your attacks will work... Try flipping and spinning around and around it...

Mario Party Superstars[edit]

Encyclopedia bio: "Giant floating eyeballs. Run circles around them to stop them from seeing straight."

Gallery[edit]

For this subject's image gallery, see Gallery:Mr. I.

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 they are associated with in the "notes" column.

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese アイクン[10][11][12][13]
Ai-kun
Transliteration of the English "eye" with the honorific suffix「~くん」(-kun)
目玉[14]
Medama
Eyeball Famimaga 64
Chinese (simplified) 哎哎[15]
Āiāi
Transliteration of the Japanese name
Chinese (traditional) 哎哎[16]
Āiāi
Transliteration of the Japanese name
Dutch Mr. I[17] -
French Mr. Œil[18][19] Mr. Eye
Œil[20] Eye Super Mario 64
German Glubsch[21][22] From glupschen ("to look with large eyes")
Glubschi[23][24] Super Mario 64, Mario Party 3
Italian Mr. O[25] "O" is the first letter of occhio ("eye"); a homophone of mistero ("mystery")
Mr.O[sic][26] LEGO Super Mario
Signor O[27] Mister O; from occhio ("eye")
Korean 아이군[28]
Ai-gun
Mr. Eye
눈깔이[29][30]
Nunkkari
Eyeball Super Mario 64 DS, Super Paper Mario, Mario Party 8
Portuguese (NOA) Sr. Z. Oio[31] Mr. Z. Oio; play on zoio, the dialectal form of olhos ("eyes")
Portuguese (NOE) Sr. O[32] Mr. O; from olho ("eye")
Russian Г-н Око[33]
G-n Oko
Mr. Eye
Мистер Ай[34]
Mïster Ay
Mister Eye LEGO Super Mario
Spanish (NOE) Donojo[35][36] Play on Don Ojo ("Mr. Eye") and the masculine given name Donoso
Ojo[37] Eye Super Mario 64

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Pelland, Scott, and Dan Owsen (1996). Super Mario 64 Player's Guide. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 12.
  2. ^ September 1997. Nintendo Magazine System (AU) Issue #54. Page 60.
  3. ^ Course 5 - Star 1: Go on a Ghost Hunt. Nintendo: Super Mario 64 Strategy. Archived June 10, 1998, 06:45:09 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  4. ^ "Note For 5 Coins, the Eyeball will ”warp” you from one Eyeball Pedestal to another." – Barton, Jeff, Mario De Govia, Tri Pham, and Donato Tica (January 27, 2000). Mario Party 2 Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Prima Games. ISBN 0-7615-2767-2. Page 42.
  5. ^ "When Mario runs quickly around Mr. I., the foolish monster tries to spin around to keep an eye on him." – Pelland, Scott, and Dan Owsen. Super Mario 64 Player's Guide. Nintendo of America. Page 12.
  6. ^ NintendoMovies (May 16, 2016). Mario Party 2 - Horror Land (15:29). YouTube. Retrieved March 14, 2025.
  7. ^ Mario Party Club (May 8, 2022). Mario Party 3 - Minigame - Eye Sore (0:04). YouTube. Retrieved March 14, 2025.
  8. ^ "He's learning how to wink for Peach." – Epilogue (2005). Mario Party Advance. Nintendo.
  9. ^ a b Mario Party Club (July 22, 2022). Mario Party 8 - Minigame - Eyebrawl (0:10). YouTube. Retrieved March 14, 2025.
  10. ^ Takashi, Watanabe, Noriko Oketani, Yugo Nagasawa, and Junichiro Okubo, editors (1996). 『任天堂公式ガイドブック スーパーマリオ64』(Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook – Super Mario 64). Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-102554-4. Page 4.
  11. ^ Motoyama, Kazuki (6 Nov. 1996). Super Mario 64 1, Super Mario, vol. 36. Kodansha (Japanese). Page 7.
  12. ^ Noriaki, Kamiguchi, Kaisa Hitoshi, Teshiromori Nobuhito, Nagashima Kazutaka, Somoto Shitsuya, and Matsumoto Royo (2005). 『「スーパーマリオ64DS」タッチ!&ゲット!パワースター攻略こうじゃくブック』. Tokyo: Kadokawa (Japanese). ISBN 4-8402-2960-0. Page 87.
  13. ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2015). "Super Mario 64" 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 85.
  14. ^ Naoto, Yamamoto, Takashima Toshihiro, Sone Takeshi, Murata Norio, and Yamada Masahiko, editors (12 Jul. 1996). 『スーパーマリオ64ファンタスティックこうりゃくブック』. Tokuma Shoten (Japanese). Page 22. (Archived 20 Jul. 2023 via Gaming Alexandria.) Supplemental for Famimaga 64, no. 1.
  15. ^ 2021. 超级马力欧 64 问号砖块 #71395. LEGO (Simplified Chinese). Archived October 24, 2021, 12:06:52 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine.
  16. ^ 2021. 樂高® 超級瑪利歐 64 問號磚塊 #71395. LEGO (Traditional Chinese). Archived October 1, 2021, 07:22:46 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine.
  17. ^ 2021. Super Mario 64™-vraagtekenblok #71395. LEGO (Dutch). (Archived December 2, 2021, 22:53:21 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
  18. ^ In-game name from the ending of Mario Party Advance (French). (Archived 23 May 2014 via YouTube by AXE45.)
  19. ^ 2021. Bloc point d'interrogation Super Mario 64™ #71395. LEGO (French). (Archived September 9, 2021, 12:54:13 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
  20. ^ Huyghues-Lacour, Alain, and Jean-Pierre Labro, editors (1997). "Super Mario 64" in le Nintendo Magazine officiel, no. 1. Emap-Alpha (French). Page 91.
  21. ^ In-game name from the ending of Mario Party Advance (German). (Archived 16 May 2017 via YouTube by TwilightShiek.)
  22. ^ 2021. Fragezeichen-Block aus Super Mario 64™ #71395. LEGO (German). (Archived September 9, 2021, 14:44:06 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
  23. ^ Kraft, John D., Thomas Görg, and Marko Hein, editors (1997). Der offizielle Nintendo 64 Spieleberater "Super Mario 64". Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). Page 7.
  24. ^ Umkreise Glubschi so lange, bis er wegschrumpft!“ – Goomba describing Eye Sore (16 Nov. 2001). Mario Party 3 by Hudson Soft. Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German).
  25. ^ In-game name from the ending of Mario Party Advance (Italian). (Archived 7 Sept. 2019 via YouTube by Benedetto's world™.)
  26. ^ 2021. Blocco punto interrogativo Super Mario 64™ #71395. LEGO (Italian). (Archived September 9, 2021, 14:44:18 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
  27. ^ LEGO (2021). 71395 - Super Mario 64™ ? Block - Building Instructions. Billund: The LEGO Group. Page 7.
  28. ^ 2021. 슈퍼 마리오 64 물음표블록 #71395. LEGO (Korean). (Archived September 9, 2021, 17:42:31 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
  29. ^ 2007. 기본코스 5 : 부끄부끄의 호러하우스. 슈퍼 마리오 64 DS (Korean). Tab 1. Archived September 15, 2008, 02:55:22 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine.
  30. ^ Catch Card (26 Feb. 2009). Super Paper Mario by Intelligent Systems. Nintendo of Korea Co., Ltd. (Korean).
  31. ^ "Sr. Z. Oio: Olho gigante que flutua. Corra ao redor dele para deixá-lo desorientado." – Encyclopedia (29 Oct. 2021). Mario Party Superstars by NDcube. Nintendo (Brazilian Portuguese). (Archived via YouTube by NinTavito.)
  32. ^ 2021. O Grupo LEGO leva os fãs a recapturar a magia de Super Mario 64™ com o novo set LEGO® Bloco ? Super Mario 64™. LEGO (Portuguese).
  33. ^ In-game name from Mario Party Superstars.
  34. ^ 2021. Блок «Знак вопроса» из Super Mario 64™ #71395. LEGO (Russian). Archived January 28, 2022, 00:27:40 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine.
  35. ^ In-game name from the ending of Mario Party Advance (European Spanish). (Archived 17 Sept. 2024 via YouTube by FrankKirlts.)
  36. ^ 2021. Bloque Interrogación de Super Mario 64™ #71395. LEGO (European Spanish). (Archived November 28, 2021, 06:06:01 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
  37. ^ Guías Nintendo (2007). 100 monedas en Big Boo´s haunt (Mansión encantada). Guía Super Mario 64 (European Spanish). (Archived April 18, 2024, 12:08:33 UTC via Wayback Machine.)