Walleye

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Walleye
Walleye in Super Mario Party
Artwork of a Walleye from Super Mario Party
First appearance Super Mario 3D World (2013)
Latest appearance Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury (2021)
Variant of Wallop

Walleyes are stone enemies that first appear in Super Mario 3D World. They are Wallops with spikes on their sides and top. Their name is a pun between "wall" and possibly "wall-eyed", a condition that causes a person's eyes to drift apart from each other.

History[edit]

Super Mario 3D World / Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury[edit]

Screenshot of Super Mario 3D World.
Mario encountering two Walleyes in Ty-Foo Flurries

Walleyes first appear in Super Mario 3D World and appear in its Nintendo Switch port Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury as rare enemies, replacing Wallops from Super Mario 3D Land. They move from side to side in an attempt to keep the player from walking past them. Contact with the spikes on their sides and top causes damage, but their fronts and backs are safe to touch. Walleyes can be temporarily dazed by a projectile or a claw attack, and can be destroyed by Lucky Cat Mario or White Tanooki Mario. They only appear in Ty-Foo Flurries, The Great Goal Pole, and Mystery House Marathon.

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker[edit]

Walleyes return as somewhat uncommon enemies in Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker and its Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS ports, serving the same purpose as in Super Mario 3D World. The only way to defeat them is by using an Invincibility Mushroom, and they provide the player 3 coins upon defeat.

Minecraft[edit]

In the premade world for the Super Mario Mash-up in Minecraft, small 3D pixel art resembling a Walleye appears in the snow area.

Super Mario Party[edit]

Walleyes appear in Super Mario Party as non-playable characters. They can appear in Follow the Money as obstacles, where they run back and forth constantly, and they can also be seen in Absent Minded.

Gallery[edit]

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese キョロへい[?]
Kyoro Hei
From「キョロキョロ」(kyoro-kyoro, onomatopoeia for glancing repeatedly) and "Kabehei"
Dutch Walleye[?] -
French Passerapoint[?] Won't go through; also a play off Passerapas ("Wallop")
German Guckiwummp[?] From gucken ("to look") and wummps (a sound of heavy object falling on the ground)
Italian Wallokkio[?] Portmanteau of "wall" and occhio ("eye")
Portuguese Paralolho[1] From paralelo ("parallel") and olho ("eye"), and possibly a play on parede ("wall")
Russian Шарамс[?]
Sharams
Play on шарахаться (sharakhat' sya, a colloquialism for "to dash aside") and Бабамс (Babams, "Wallop")
Spanish (NOA) Don Estorbón[?] From Don (Spanish honorific, shared with Whomp and Thwomp) and estorbar (to get in the way), with the augmentative suffix -ón
Spanish (NOE) Muroestorbón[?] From muro ("wall") and estorbar (to get in the way), with the augmentative suffix -ón

References[edit]

  1. ^ Nintendo Portugal (July 9, 2015). O Programa do Mario Gato - Episódio 1 (4:32). YouTube (European Portuguese). Retrieved June 17, 2024.