Poro
| Poro | |
|---|---|
 Artwork from Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins | |
| Appears in | Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins (1992) |
A Poro[1] is an enemy in Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins. They are living landing pods found in Space Zone.
History[edit]
Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins[edit]
They make their only appearance in Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins appearing only in the Moon Course and the Secret Course 2 of Space Zone. They orbit large and small blocks and attack by shooting pellets at Mario. Either a jump or a fireball can defeat it.
Super Mario Kodansha manga[edit]
In Super Mario Land 2 - 6-tsu no Kinka 2 volume of the Super Mario Kodansha manga, the Poro is an actual spaceship, stored inside the Hippo's statue. Warudeijī steals it to escape to the Moon Zone with the Golden Coins. At first, when Mario, Princess Peach, and Luigi chase her to the Moon Course, Warudeijī intends on using the Alpha beam with the No.48's Beta beam to destroy the three, but in a moment of clarity, Daisy returns good enough to redirect the beam against the No.48, but she reverts back to Warudeijī shortly after and gets picked up by Tatanga, forcing Mario and the others to chase them with the Poro, shooting down any Tosenbo that block their path. Nearby Tatanga-sei, the Poro gets damaged by some Stars and crashes on the planet.
Profiles[edit]
Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten[edit]
| ポロ (JP) / Poro (EN) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| |||
| Original text (Japanese) | Translation | ||
| メカ族 | Tribe | Mecha clan | |
| ひょうきん | Disposition | Facetious | |
| ランド2 | Game appearances | Land 2 | |
| 小さくてヘンテコな宇宙船 カエルのようにガニマタで、ちょっとマヌケな形をした宇宙船。ムーンコースに出現する。同じところをグルグル回って邪魔なヤツだが、踏みつけで簡単に倒せるんだ。[2] |
Small and weird spaceship A spaceship with a frog-like body and a rather dumb looking shape. It appears on the moon course. It is a nuisance, circling around the same spot, but it can be easily defeated by stomping on it. | ||
Gallery[edit]
Sprite from Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins
Cover artwork for the second Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins issue of the Super Mario Kodansha manga
Super Mario Maze Picture Book 5: Adventure in the Land of Rainbows
Names in other languages[edit]
Unlike most mainline Super Mario titles, Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins did not receive officially localized enemy indexes at the time of its release on the Game Boy and not all enemies are listed in its instruction booklets. Consequentially, most available non-Japanese names come from localizations of the Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia.
| Language | Name | Meaning | Note(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ポロ Poro |
Potentially a corruption of「アポロ」(Aporo, "Apollo"), in reference to the Apollo program | [3][4] | |
| French | Polo | - | [5] | |
| Italian | Poro | - | [6][7] | |
| Spanish | Poro | - | [8] |
References[edit]
- ^ Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins entry on the official Mario Portal. nintendo.co.jp (English). Retrieved August 13, 2022. (Archived December 21, 2025, 19:32:03 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
- ^ 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 (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-259067-9. Page 209.
- ^ Itoi, Shigesato, Takashi Watanabe, Hiroyuki Jinnai (APE), Jin Kobayashi, Ryuji Osawa, and Shigeo Tanabe, editors (1992). 『スーパーマリオランド2: 6つの金貨任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan. ISBN 4-09-102413-0. Page 12.
- ^ Motoyama, Kazuki (6 July 1993). Super Mario Land 2 - 6-tsu no Kinka 1, Super Mario, vol. 18. Tokyo: Kodansha (Japanese). ISBN 4-06-319398-5. Page 7.
- ^ Ardaillon, Joanna, and Victoria Juillard-Huberty, editors (2018). "Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins" in Super Mario Encyclopedia. Translated by Fabien Nabhan. Toulon: Soleil Productions (French). ISBN 978-2-3020-7004-2. Page 75.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2018). "Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins" in Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Translated by Marco Amerighi. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 76.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2025). "Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins" in Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia (2nd ed.). Translated by Alessandro Apreda. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 979-1259575760. Page 76.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2017). "Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins" 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 76.
