Appleby

Applebies are a species of ground-dwelling creatures that originate from the Wario Land series. They are introduced in Wario Land 3 and serve as relatively common enemies throughout the game. One member of the Appleby species also appears in Dr. Mario 64 as a playable character and a boss in story mode.

Applebies are usually found looking out of holes in either walls or the ground, which generally leaves their bodies partially obscured. In the instances their full body is visible (when knocked out of a hole), their lower body is seen to end in a tail, with no hind limbs. Applebies greatly resemble in appearance and habitat.

In each game incarnation, Applebies are associated with apples in some way, which is where they received their name from.

Wario Land 3
In this game, Applebies are stationary enemies. They will look around from above, and if they see Wario, they will emerge from the hole to throw an apple and then make a face, before retracting back into it. When an apple is caught by Wario, he will eat it and become Fat Wario. If Wario is above an Appleby, they will not see him and thus will not pop out. If Wario bumps into them, they will retract into their hiding hole without throwing an apple. They can be defeated by using a Dash Attack, a Smash Attack, or touch them with an invincible reaction like Vampire Wario. Besides Appleby, the Doughnuteer can also cause the Fat Wario reaction, though they use doughnuts instead.

Applebies appear in the following levels, in the following quantities:
 * Out of the Woods (2)
 * The Tidal Coast (2)
 * Sea Turtle Rocks (1)
 * A Town in Chaos (1)
 * The West Crater (4)
 * The Grasslands (4)
 * Tower of Revival (5)
 * The Warped Void (1)
 * The East Crater (1)

Dr. Mario 64
A single male Appleby appears in Dr. Mario 64 as a playable character, as well as a Boss during Wario's story mode, although he is not directly involved with the general plot. Appleby's initial appearance in the story shows him while holding a big, red apple over his head. To Appleby's dismay, Mad Scienstein bumps into him while fleeing from Dr. Mario and Wario. The collision knocks the apple out of Appleby's grasp and it becomes lost in the process. He wrongly assumes that Wario took the apple and proceeds to attack him, triggering a boss fight.

Trivia

 * On the back cover of Chinese version for Dr. Mario 64, Appleby, along with Spearhead, Octo and Hammer-Bot, were referred as Mad Scienstein's minions.