Editing Tox Box

{{distinguish|Toy Box}}
{{species-infobox
|image=[[File:Tox Box SMG.png|180px]]<br>Artwork of a Tox Box from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario 64]]'' ([[List of games by date#1996|1996]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario 3D All-Stars]]'' ([[List of games by date#2020|2020]])
|relatives=[[Thwomp]]
|comparable=[[Grumblump]]<br>[[Ka-thunk]]<br>[[Stairface Ogre]]
}}
'''Tox Boxes''' are rare enemies in the [[Mario (franchise)|''Mario'' franchise]]. They resemble metal or stone boxes with multiple faces that roll along set paths. The paths they go on are usually similar to their width, making it nearly impossible for [[Mario]] to walk around. Tox Boxes first appear in ''[[Super Mario 64]]''.

Tox Boxes have faces on all but one side; the last side is only a square hole. This hole is for Mario to stand in as a Tox Box passes over the tile he is standing on, thus letting him survive without being crushed. However, the edges of the holed side still crush Mario if he stands under them.

Tox Boxes appear as red industrial metal boxes with spray-painted faces in ''Super Mario 64'' and ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]'', but they were redesigned for ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' and later games, currently appearing as a relative of [[Thwomp]] designed after the Japanese {{wp|Oni (folklore)|oni}}. The Japanese name was changed to reflect the new appearance.

[[Shigeru Miyamoto]] regards the Tox Box as one of his best designs and a "masterpiece," stating Tox Boxes embody his game design philosophy of making gameplay mechanics clear and quickly understood at a first glance.<ref>"Miyamoto sees the Tox Box, a cube that is constantly moving to crush Mario but has a hole on one side he can safely hide in, as one of his best designs. ''When the hole is on your side, Mario can just get into the cube and you’re safe, but if he doesn’t, you get squashed. And it’s easy to see. It’s very clear and understandable. It’s also easy to predict,'' he says, smiling. ''But once you actually start thinking about it, then it becomes complicated. Once you start trying to put that into action, it becomes complicated. I feel like that is probably one of my masterpieces.''" [http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/06/27/e3-2017-shigeru-miyamoto-and-the-legacy-of-mario Interview with IGN]. Retrieved June 28, 2017</ref>
==History==
===''Super Mario'' series===
====''Super Mario 64 / Super Mario 64 DS''====
[[File:Toxboxsides.png|thumb|Tox Boxes roll around to crush [[Mario]] in ''[[Super Mario 64]]''.]]
Tox Boxes appear in [[Shifting Sand Land]], the eighth course of the game. They attempt to flatten Mario by rolling over him. The path is a small maze of tiles surrounded by darker, faster-moving [[quicksand]] that sucks Mario in instantly. The tiled maze that the Tox Boxes travel on has a few [[Red Coin]]s on it, as well as the course's only [[cannon]]. If Mario gets squished by a Tox Box's side, he loses three wedges of [[Health Meter|health]]. [[Long Jump|Long-jump]]ing into the side of a Tox Box's face that is above quicksand, off the side of the track, kills Mario instantly, playing the animation as if he has just fallen into the quicksand.

In ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]'', if [[Wario]] is inside one of the Tox Boxes and [[punch]]es (or [[jump]]s), the Tox Box will fly somewhere into the sand and sink, unless it falls in the sand that the characters can normally stand in. If this happens, it simply stays in one spot until the player leaves the level. If the Tox Box lands on a metal platform, it shatters. Tox Boxes also appear in the ''Super Mario 64 DS'' [[minigame]] [[Tox Box Shuffle]], where three of them each hide a Green or Light Blue [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]] and the player must guess which Tox Box it is in.
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====''Super Mario Galaxy''====
[[File:Chain Planets.png|thumb|left|Tox Boxes in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'']]
Tox Boxes reappear in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''. These redesigned boxes usually appear alongside [[Thwomp]]s. They appear only in the [[Beach Bowl Galaxy]] and the [[Toy Time Galaxy]]. In both galaxies, they appear on small pathways, much as they did in Shifting Sand Land.

Unlike the Tox Boxes in ''Super Mario 64'', these ones resemble Thwomps; instead of having the faces spray-painted on, they are carved in a way resembling a Thwomp's face. These Tox Boxes also lack a face on the side opposite the hole. The hole itself has also been expanded quite a bit, and colored in red to resemble a mouth. Being crushed results in an instant death.
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====''Super Mario Galaxy 2''====
[[File:SMG2 Stone Cyclone Tox Boxes.png|200px|thumb|right|Tox Boxes in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'']]
In ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', Tox Boxes reappear in the [[Stone Cyclone Galaxy]], which is a remake of the Cyclone Stone in ''Super Mario Galaxy'', but they move faster than they did in the previous game. By using the various [[blue switch (Super Mario Galaxy 2)|blue switch]]es found in the galaxy, the Tox Boxes, along with the other obstacles in the galaxy, drastically slow down.

===''Mario Party: Island Tour''===
[[File:Hidensplat.png|thumb|left]]
Tox Boxes appear in the minigame [[Hide 'n' Splat]] in ''[[Mario Party: Island Tour]]''. Here, they try to squish the players using the same methods as in past games, but they get faster as the time limit decreases. They retain their appearance from the ''Super Mario Galaxy'' games.
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===''Super Mario-kun''===
[[File:ToxBoxSuperMarioKun.png|thumb|The Tox Box in ''Super Mario-kun'']]
A Tox Box makes an appearance in volume 16 of ''[[Super Mario-kun]]''. It is an obstacle against Mario's path to retrieve his lost hat from [[Klepto]]. Hatless, Mario tries using a [[! Block]] to combat against the Tox Box; he still ends up getting smashed. In the manga, the Tox Box is able to smash Mario, even on the safe side.
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==Gallery==
<gallery>
SM64 Asset Model Tox Box.png| Model from ''[[Super Mario 64]]''
Sum64dstoxbox.png| Sprite from ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]'' ([[Tox Box Shuffle]])
Tox Box SM64DS.png|Sprite from ''Super Mario 64 DS'' (Tox Box Shuffle)
SMG Asset Model Tox Box.png|Model from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=オニマスクン<ref>Shogakukan. 2015. ''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'', ''Super Mario 64'' section, page 85.</ref> (''Super Mario 64'')<br>''Onimasukun''<br>オニマスドン<ref>Shogakukan. 2015. ''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'', ''Super Mario Galaxy'' section, page 127.</ref><ref>Shogakukan. 2015. ''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'', ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'' section, page 159.</ref> (''Super Mario Galaxy'' and ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'')<br>''Onimasudon''<br>オニマス (''Super Mario Galaxy 2'', in-game mission name)<br>''Onimasu''
|JapM=Portmanteau of「鬼」(''oni'') and「マス」(''masu'', box); the first includes Japanese honorific「くん」(''-kun'') and the second includes「ドン」(''don'', Japanese onomatopoeia for colliding noise)
|ChiS=鬼面
|ChiSR=Gǔi Miàn
|ChiSM=''Oni'' Face
|Dut=Tox Box
|DutM=-
|Fre=Blotoc
|FreM=Could be a contraction of "''bloc''" ("block") and the first syllable of "''toxique''" ("toxic").
|Ger=Tox-Box<br>Cubus Hohlicus (''Super Mario 64'')
|GerM=Tox Box<br>The Latin word ''cubus'' (cube) and the German word ''hohl'' (hollow) in pseudo-Latin
|Ita=Don Box
|ItaM=Don Box
|Kor=되도깨비
|KorR=Doidokkaebi
|KorM=Translation from Japanese name("되" from "升", "도깨비" from "鬼")
|Por=Caixa Tox
|PorM=Tox Box
|Rus=мистеров ящиков
|RusR=misterov yashchikov
|RusM=
|SpaA=Don Cajuelo
|SpaAM=Mr. Cajuelo. The name may be derived from "''cajuela''" (trunk).
|SpaE=Cajuelo
|SpaEM=From "''cajuela''" (trunk)
}}

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