Talk:Fire Snake (Super Mario World)
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This article's name should be "Fire Snake (Super Mario World)" just like Goomba (Super Mario World). The official English name is still Fire Snake. --Platform (talk) 22:09, 1 May 2013 (EDT)
- We should then move the page.
Mario-HOHO! (Talk / Stalk) 22:19, 1 May 2013 (EDT)
- Fire Snake is probably an error. Like the Sledge Bros. being called Sumo Bros. Niiue - Who has lost his tail?
- Saying that it's an error is speculation. Marshal Dan Troop (talk).
- It's also "speculation" to say the Sumo Bro./Sledge Bro. error was an error. Niiue - Who has lost his tail?
- I highly doubt that it's an error. It was intentional like not giving SMW goombas a new name. Both the SNES and the Advance remake's guide call them Fire Snakes. It shows that Nintendo of America did not want to change the name even after 11 years had passed.--Platform (talk) 23:22, 3 May 2013 (EDT)
- Someone should email Nintendo. Niiue - Who has lost his tail?
- Saying that it's an error is speculation. Marshal Dan Troop (talk).
- Fire Snake is probably an error. Like the Sledge Bros. being called Sumo Bros. Niiue - Who has lost his tail?
- As far as I'm aware, the policy is to use the most recent official English name unless none is available, so I don't know why this would be at a non-English name to begin with if an English one exists. The template at the top likewise states that "If an official name from an English source is found, the article should be moved to its appropriate title". Would support a move.--vellidragon (talk) 15:52, 27 June 2013 (EDT)
Where is it said that this is a separate enemy to the common Fire Snake?[edit]
The article does not mention a source that says this. It seems to be an assumption based on the differences in appearance/slight difference in attack properites, but as far as I can tell that's their only difference, and it's not like other enemies didn't get design tweaks in SMW. I really doubt this is a new guy. Is there a source I'm missing? MetaWeegee (talk) 17:01, October 1, 2025 (EDT)
- The enemy has different (and, in my opinon, more annoying) behavior, but only translations have drawn a link to the original enemy. Still, there's probably no harm in considering it derived or related. It's a very similar concept, and the known Japanese name only comes from Encyclopedia Super Mario Bros. a quarter-century later. LinkTheLefty (talk) 17:26, October 1, 2025 (EDT)
- Oh yeah I should have acknowledged they have slightly different behavior. I was gonna say "differences in appearance/behavior" but I guess I forgot to finish before hitting send. It still seems more like a slight twist on the existing behavior in line with what some other enemies got rather than a Goomba/Galoomba difference to me. MetaWeegee (talk) 17:34, October 1, 2025 (EDT)
- Seems to have pre-dated that, given "Bound Fire" was this page's title as far back as 2013. Presumably that came from somewhere. (Though it might be another case of 'using Japanese Wikipedia' on both counts). Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 21:50, October 1, 2025 (EDT)
