Parabomb

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Parabomb
ParabombNSMBU.png
A Parabomb in New Super Mario Bros. U
First appearance Super Mario World (1990)
Latest appearance Super Mario Party Jamboree (2024)
Variant of Bob-omb
Variants
Relatives
Comparable

Parabombs (occasionally formatted as Para-bombs or Para Bombs[1]), also known as Parachute Bob-ombs,[2][3] are enemies introduced in Super Mario World. They are Bob-ombs that descend slowly from the sky and become regular Bob-ombs upon touching the ground.

History[edit]

Super Mario series[edit]

Super Mario World[edit]

Sprite of a Para-bomb from Super Mario World

Para-bombs are enemies in Super Mario World. They have their usual behavior of descending to the ground.

Super Mario 64 DS / New Super Mario Bros.[edit]

A Parabomb

In Super Mario 64 DS and New Super Mario Bros., there is a minigame called Bob-omb Squad, where Para-bombs must be blown up before they hit guarded flowers.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii[edit]

Parabombs are enemies in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. They act identical to their Super Mario World counterparts. Parabombs are first encountered in World 8-5.

New Super Mario Bros. 2[edit]

Para-bombs are enemies in New Super Mario Bros. 2. They have the same function as in earlier games. They are occasionally shot out of cannons. They appear only in World 2-B and World 6-2.

New Super Mario Bros. U / New Super Luigi U / New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe[edit]

Para-bombs are enemies in New Super Mario Bros. U, New Super Luigi U, and their shared port. Para-bombs act the same as in previous games. The appear only in Red-Hot Elevator Ride, while New Super Luigi U includes them in both Current Event and Bowser Jr. Showdown.

Super Mario Maker 2[edit]

Parabombs are enemies in Super Mario Maker 2. They can be made by placing a parachute on a Bob-omb. Newly designed sprites of them were created for Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, and Super Mario 3D World, since they appear in neither of the three games. Parabombs can be placed in pipes, Lakitus, Bill Blasters, and Bull's-Eye Blasters, though not in cannons.

Yoshi's Safari[edit]

Para Bomb
Artwork of a Para Bomb from Yoshi's Safari

Para Bombs are enemies in Yoshi's Safari.

Hotel Mario[edit]

Parabomb from Hotel Mario.

Parabombs are enemies in Hotel Mario. They can crash into enemies from above, similarly to their counterparts from Super Mario World, except they can follow Mario and Luigi while falling. A Parabomb can close a door by hitting it.

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars[edit]

Para-bombs are obstacles in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Booster throws them from his train midway up Booster Tower. Touching one prompts a Rob-omb battle. Booster will continue throwing them until he runs out, causing him to leave in annoyance, or the player hides or leaves first, causing him to stop early and leave in dejection.

Yoshi's Story[edit]

Para-bombs are enemies in Yoshi's Story. They appear during the fight with Baby Bowser, and hitting them with eggs is required to hurt the ghost.

Paper Mario series[edit]

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[edit]

Para-bombs make a brief cameo in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. When Mario and his partner are shot out of Big Bob in Fahr Outpost, the hatch that holds the Bob-ombs opens up and releases the Bob-ombs. They come down slowly using red parachutes.

Paper Mario: Sticker Star[edit]

Parabombs falling from the sky in Paper Mario: Sticker Star

Parabombs appear in Paper Mario: Sticker Star for the Nintendo 3DS. They are found in Goomba Fortress. The cannons that appear blast the Parabombs from the tower after a Goomba wakes up a sleeping group of Bob-ombs using a trumpet. Once they hit the ground, they attack like normal Bob-ombs. Many Parabombs actually miss the desired area and fall into what seems to be a bottomless pit. After Mario beats the Megasparkle Goomba, Parabombs do not appear anymore. At the rest stop in Bowser's Snow Fort's mine cart ride, Shiny Bob-ombs drop into battle in the form of a Parabomb.

Paper Mario: The Origami King[edit]

Main article: Paper Macho Bob-omb

While regular Parabombs do not appear in Paper Mario: The Origami King, Paper Macho variants of Bob-ombs resemble Parabombs, parachuting in Hotfoot Crater during the section where Mario escapes from the small Paper Macho Goombas. When they land, they chase Mario upon detection and explode after a short period of time.

Super Princess Peach[edit]

Parabombs are enemies in Super Princess Peach. They behave much in the same way as in Super Mario World. There is also a variant of Parabomb named Glad Parabomb.

Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam[edit]

In Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam, paper versions of Parabombs appear in the Cannonball Chuck minigame in the arcade. They are seen suspended in mid-air after Mario throws the cannonball with Luigi on it. If the cannonball hits a Parabomb, the minigame ends.

Dr. Mario World[edit]

Parabombs are assistants in Dr. Mario World. In both stage mode and versus mode, their effect is to transform two objects, mainly viruses, into exploders when the stage starts, where the chance of activation is higher at higher levels (15%, 30%, 45%, 60%, and 80% from levels 1 to 5 respectively). Parabomb assistants are each rewarded after clearing the first area in World 15 and World 28.

Mario Golf: Super Rush[edit]

Parabombs are obstacles in Mario Golf: Super Rush. Unlike their common design, Parabombs lack legs and a wind-up key. They appear as part of King Bob-omb's Bob-ombs Away Special Shot, where they blow away nearby opponents' golf balls. Parabombs also appear in the Battle Golf mode at Super Golf Stadium, during the Bob-omb Rush event, in which players are targeted by multiple Parabombs, especially higher ranked ones.

Super Mario Party Jamboree[edit]

Parabombs makes their first Mario Party appearance in Super Mario Party Jamboree. They appear in the background of the board Mario's Rainbow Castle where they fall out of the sky whenever Impostor Bowser takes over the central tower.

Profiles and statistics[edit]

Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten[edit]

パラボム (JP) / Para-bomb (EN)
A Parabomb from Super Mario World.
Original text (Japanese) Translation
種族しゅぞく ウエポンぞく Tribe Weapon clan
性格せいかく まじめ Disposition Serious
登場とうじょうゲーム ワールド Game appearances World
ボムへいそらからりる

空中訓練くうちゅうくんれんけてきたえられたボムへい(P207)。パラシュートを使つかい、そらからりてくる。地上ちじょうりるとちかづいてきて、自爆じばくしようとする。集団しゅうだんりてくるので、相手あいてにせずすすもう。[4]

Bomb soldiers descend from the sky

A Bob-omb (P207) who has undergone aerial training. They use parachutes to descend from the sky. When they land on the ground, they approach you and try to self-destruct. They will descend in groups, so do not fight them and continue on your way.

Super Princess Peach[edit]

Parabomb
A Parabomb from Super Princess Peach
Vibe Vibeless Levels Ladida Plains 1-5
Hoo's Wood 2-9
Fury Volcano 4-2
Wavy Beach 5-4
Giddy Sky 7-2
Glossary number 67 Glossary entry A Bob-omb with a parachute. Stomp on it to blow it up.

Dr. Mario World[edit]

  • Stage mode: "Grants 15%/30%/45%/60%/80% chance exploders (2) will appear on stage start."
  • Versus mode: "Grants 15%/30%/45%/60%/80% chance exploders (2) will appear on stage start."

Gallery[edit]

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese パラボム[6]
Parabomu
Parabomb, officially romanized as "Para Bom"[5]
Chinese (simplified) 炸弹空降兵[7] (Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2)
Zhàdàn Kōngjiàngbīng
From on "炸弹兵" (Zhàdànbīnɡ, "Bob-omb") and "空降兵" (kōngjiàngbīng, "paratrooper")
空降炸弹兵 (since New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe)[?]
Kōngjiàng Zhàdànbīnɡ
Airborne Bob-omb
Chinese (traditional) 空降炸彈兵[?]
Kōngjiàng Zhàdànbīnɡ
Airborne Bob-omb
French Parabomb[?] Parabomb
French (NOE) Bob-omb parachute[?] Parachute Bob-omb
German Para-Bomb[8] Para-Bomb
Fallschirm-Bob-omb[?]
Italian Bob-omba Parà[9] Para Bob-omb; from paracadute ("parachute")
Korean 파라폭탄[?]
Parapoktan
Parabomb
Portuguese Parabomba[?] Parabomb
Portuguese (NOE) Bob-bomba Paraquedista[?] Parachuting Bob-omb
Spanish (NOA) Parabomba[?] Parabomb
Spanish (NOE) Para-bomb[?] Para-Bomb
Bob-omb Paracaidista[?] Parachuting Bob-omb

Trivia[edit]

Sprite of a Bob-omb, from the NES version of Yoshi, reused from Parabomb's Super Mario World sprite.
A bomb with parachute from the microgame Crossing Guard.

References[edit]

  1. ^ 1993. Yoshi's Safari instruction booklet. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 19.
  2. ^ Character Packs – Series 3. LEGO. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  3. ^ English Super Mario World entry on the official Mario Portal. nintendo.co.jp. Retrieved August 13, 2022. (Archived August 13, 2022, 14:17:58 UTC via archive.today.)
  4. ^ November 20, 1994. 「パーフェクト版 マリオキャラクター大事典」 (Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten). Shogakukan. ISBN 4-09-259067-9. Page 163.
  5. ^ Super Mario World Japanese ending cast roll
  6. ^ Kagawa, Ryo (APE/Shigesato Itoi), Koichi Toda (100 Percent), Masaki Kuramochi (100 Percent), Shigeo Tanabe, Naomaru Asao, and Ryuji Osawa, editors (1991). "UNIT 2 CHARACTER" in『任天堂公式ガイドブック スーパーマリオワールド』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-104117-5. Page 28.
  7. ^ 无敌阿尔宙斯 (August 28, 2013). 神游 超级马力欧世界 敌人官译]. Baidu Tieba. Archived February 27, 2017, 15:38:47 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved May 19, 2024.
  8. ^ Menold, Marcus, Claude M. Moyse, and Andreas G. Kämmerer, editors (1993). Der offizielle Nintendo Spieleberater "Super Mario World". Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). Page 19.
  9. ^ Canale New Super Mario Bros. U (March 12, 2013). New Super Mario Bros. U - Castello di Peach CASTELLO 1 - Vs Bowser con Gioco assistito (Wii U). YouTube (Italian).