Parabomb
Artwork of a Parabomb from New Super Mario Bros.
Artwork from New Super Mario Bros. U
First appearance Super Mario World (1990)
Latest appearance Super Mario Party Jamboree – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV (2025)
Variant of Bob-omb
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Relatives
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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.

HistoryEdit

Super Mario seriesEdit

Super Mario WorldEdit

Para-bombs make their debut in Super Mario World, where they spawn from the sky, slowly descending until they land on the ground, or other platforms or blocks that would otherwise act as such. They then begin taking on the normal traits of Bob-ombs in this game of walking back and forth until they flash and explode. They appear endlessly in Vanilla Secret 2, while only a few spawn along with Parachute Galoombas in Chocolate Island 5.

Super Mario 64 DS / New Super Mario Bros.Edit

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. In this game, they sport pink and white parachutes as opposed to their blue and white parachutes from Super Mario World.

New Super Mario Bros. WiiEdit

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. 2Edit

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 DeluxeEdit

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. They 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 2Edit

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 SafariEdit

 
Artwork of a Para Bomb from Yoshi's Safari

Para Bombs are enemies in Yoshi's Safari.

Hotel MarioEdit

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 StarsEdit

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 StoryEdit

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 seriesEdit

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year DoorEdit

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 StarEdit

 
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 KingEdit

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 PeachEdit

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 JamEdit

In Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam, paper versions of Parabombs appear in the Cannonball Chuck minigame in the arcade's Attackathon. 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. In the Mega Thwonk minigame, Luigi may have to avoid some Parabombs by ducking; colliding with one will end the minigame.

Dr. Mario WorldEdit

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 RushEdit

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 JamboreeEdit

Parabombs make their first Mario Party appearance in Super Mario Party Jamboree, appearing 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. They also appear in Bowser Crashers where they are summoned by Kamek.

Profiles and statisticsEdit

Perfect Ban Mario Character DaijitenEdit

パラボム (JP) / Para-bomb (EN)
 
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 PeachEdit

Parabomb
 
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 WorldEdit

  • 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."

GalleryEdit

Names in other languagesEdit

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 パラボム[5][6][7]
Parabomu
From the English "parachute" and "bomb;" officially romanized as "Para Bom"
Chinese (simplified) 空降炸弹兵[8]
Kōngjiàng Zhàdànbīnɡ
Airborne Bob-omb
炸弹空降兵[9]
Zhàdàn Kōngjiàngbīng
Bomb Paratrooper prior to New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
Chinese (traditional) 空降炸彈兵[10]
Kōngjiàng Zhàdànbīnɡ
Airborne Bob-omb
Dutch Parachute Bob-omb[11] -
Parabom[12]:43 Parabomb Yoshi's Safari
Parabomb[13] - New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
French Parabomb[14][15][16] -
Para bombe[12]:19 Para bomb Yoshi's Safari
Para-Bomb[17] - Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2
German Para-Bomb[18][19][20][21] Para-Bomb
Hungarian Parabombo[26] Parabomb
Italian Bob-omba Parà[22][23][24] Para Bob-omb, from paracadute ("parachute")
Bob-omba parà[25] LEGO Super Mario
Korean 파라폭탄[27]
Parapoktan
Parabomb
Portuguese (NOA) Parabomba[28] Parabomb
Portuguese (NOE) Bob-bomba Paraquedista[29] Parachuting Bob-omb
Parabomba[30] Parabomb New Super Mario Bros. U
Romanian Parașută Bob-ombă[31] Parachute Bob-omb
Russian Боб-омб с парашютом[32]
Bob-omb s parashyutom
Bob-omb with a parachute
Летучие бомба[33]
Letuchiye bomba
Flying bomb New Super Mario Bros. U
Spanish (NOA) Parabomba[34] Parabomb
Spanish (NOE) Bob-omb Paracaidista[35] Parachutist Bob-omb
Para-Bomb[36] - Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2
Parabomb[37] New Super Mario Bros. U

NotesEdit

ReferencesEdit

  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. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Okamoto, Daisuke, and Norio Ando (STF) (2006). 『スーパー プリンセスピーチ任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-106268-7. Page 30.
  7. ^ 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. Page 55, 146, 196, 210.
  8. ^ 2021. 角色包 – 系列 3 #71394. LEGO (Simplified Chinese). Archived October 27, 2021, 03:38:29 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved 4 Jun. 2025.
  9. ^ In-game name from the ending of the iQue version of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2. (Archived 28 Aug. 2013 via Baidu Teiba by 无敌阿尔宙斯.)
  10. ^ 2021. 角色組合包-第 3 代 #71394. LEGO (Traditional Chinese). Archived January 24, 2022, 13:03:25 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved 4 Jun. 2025.
  11. ^ 2021. Personagepakketten - serie 3 #71394. LEGO (Dutch). (Archived May 28, 2025, 21:00:25 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
  12. ^ a b 1993. Yoshi's Safari mode d'emploi / Handleiding. Nederland, Brussels: Nintendo (French, Dutch).
  13. ^ "In dit level komen er een groot aantal naar beneden zweven (ook Parabombs, trouwens!) en als je daarmee in de lucht kunt blijven, kun je een reeks 1UPs verdienen." – Bonusvideo's (11 Jan. 2019). 031: New Super Luigi U: Slagroomwolken-Airship 1UPs via parachutes. New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Dutch).
  14. ^ 1994. Hotel Mario (PDF). Amsterdam: Philips (French). Page 8.
  15. ^ Glossaire (26 May 2006). Super Princess Peach by TOSE Software Co. Nintendo of Europe GmbH (French). (Archived via JeuxVideo by avav.)
  16. ^ "Faites surtout attention aux Parabombs." – Chaîne New Super Mario Bros. U (12 Mar. 2013). New Super Mario Bros. U - Défis : Stationnement interdit ! (Wii U). YouTube (French).
  17. ^ In-game name from the ending of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 (French). (Archived 19 Nov. 2010 via YouTube by Diddy64wii.)
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ In-game name from the ending of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 (German). (Archived 15 Oct. 2011 via YouTube by Spendem.)
  20. ^ Glossar (26 May 2006). Super Princess Peach by TOSE Software Co. Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). (Archived via YouTube by PonyPlays2014.)
  21. ^ "Richte dein Augenmerk vor allem auf die Para-Bomben." – New Super Mario Bros. U Kanal (12 Mar. 2013). New Super Mario Bros. U - Herausforderungen: Expressaufzug (Wii U). YouTube (German).
  22. ^ Glossario (26 May 2006). Super Princess Peach by TOSE Software Co. Nintendo of Europe GmbH (Italian). (Archived via Mario's Castle.)
  23. ^ "Sfrutta i blocchi assistente e le Bob-ombe Parà per spingerti in alto senza usare l'ascensore!" – Canale New Super Mario Bros. U (12 Mar. 2013). New Super Mario Bros. U - Castello di Peach CASTELLO 1 - Vs Bowser con Gioco assistito (Wii U). YouTube (Italian).
  24. ^ 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. Page 55, 146, 196, 210.
  25. ^ 2021. Pack Personaggio - Serie 3 #71394. LEGO (Italian). Retrieved 22 May 2025.
  26. ^ 2021. Karaktercsomagok – 3. sorozat #71394. LEGO (Hungarian). (Archived May 28, 2025, 21:11:12 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
  27. ^ 2021. 캐릭터팩 - 시즌 3 #71394. LEGO (Korean). (Archived January 19, 2022, 18:08:30 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
  28. ^ In-game name from Dr. Mario World.
  29. ^ 2021. Packs de Personagens – Série 3 #71394. LEGO (European Portuguese). Retrieved 30 Mar. 2025. (Archived March 30, 2025, 17:27:05 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
  30. ^ "Terá de se preocupar especialmente com as Parabombas." – Canal New Super Mario Bros. U (12 Mar. 2013). New Super Mario Bros. U - Desafios: Sem companhia na Plataforma (Wii U). YouTube (European Portuguese).
  31. ^ 2021. Pachete de personaje - Seria 3 #71394. LEGO (Romanian). (Archived January 19, 2022, 18:08:30 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
  32. ^ 2021. Фигурки персонажей: серия 3 #71394. LEGO (Russian). Archived September 20, 2021, 12:26:21 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2 Jun. 2025.
  33. ^ "Опаснее всего здесь Летучие бомбы: если не можете избежать их, то заморозьте их прямо в воздухе и быстро прыгните под ними, чтобы разбить их на куски!" – Канал New Super Mario Bros. U (12 Mar. 2013). New Super Mario Bros. U - Challenges: Express Elevator (Wii U). YouTube (Russian).
  34. ^ "Las monedas que caen en paracaídas pueden servir como punto de apoyo, y en este nivel hay muchas, entre algún que otro Parabomba." – Videos extra (11 Jan. 2019). 031: Luigi U: Mar de Merengue-Airship Vidas extra en paracaídas. New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Latin American Spanish).
  35. ^ 2021. Packs de Personajes: Edición 3 #71394. LEGO (European Spanish). (Archived October 18, 2021, 05:30:04 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
  36. ^ In-game name from the ending of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 (European Spanish). (Archived 12 Sept. 2021 via YouTube by El Tiempo Es Ahora.)
  37. ^ "Aunque a decir verdad tu mayor preocupación aquí son los Parabombs: si te resulta imposible esquivarlos, ¡congélalos en el aire y golpéalos rápidamente desde abajo para acabar con ellos!" – Canal New Super Mario Bros. U (12 Mar. 2013). New Super Mario Bros. U - Desafíos: ¡Ascenso imparable! (Wii U). YouTube (European Spanish).