Chargin' Chuck



Chargin' Chucks are Koopa football players that use various sports equipment as weapons, and are seen only in Super Mario World and Yoshi's Safari. They have many offensive attacks.

The most common type of Chargin' Chuck charges at Mario and Luigi, and jumps at them if they happen to be up on a ledge. One type will split into three when approached, and then they will all charge forward. Another type will jump straight up in the air and clap. Others kick footballs, which bounce around unpredictably. Some, equipped with shovels, will dig rocks out of the ground and bounce them at the Bros. These are easier to dodge than footballs, but cannot be jumped on. The rocks do move very slowly, however, making jumping over them without landing on them difficult. Still another type throws baseballs. They fly straight forward and can be destroyed with a simple Cape attack. The last type whistles, and, depending on whether they are on land or underwater, summons up either a small army of Super Koopas or wakes up all the Rip Van Fish in the area. The enemies will then attack Mario and Luigi.

After they are jumped on once, they will revert to the charge attack regardless of what they were doing before. The only exceptions to this are the whistling Chucks, which will not change their behavior.

A single Chargin' Chuck appears as the boss of Float Castle II in Yoshi's Safari. In battle, this Chargin' Chuck will use an attack pattern not seen in Super Mario World, it will jump from side-to-side and throw bombs at Mario and Yoshi. This Chargin' Chuck can be defeated by repeatedly blasting it with Mario's Super Scope.

Appearances in Other Media
Chargin' Chucks also appeared in the Super Mario World animated series, where they were referred to as Koopa Football Players. Due to the fact that the Koopa Football Players appeared throughout several episodes of Super Mario World, they appeared to have replaced Goombas and Koopa Troopas, who made relatively few appearances on the show, as Bowser's foot soldiers.

Koopa Football Players first appeared in the episode "Send in the Clown", where several Koopa Football Players were seen acting as the acrobats in Bowser's circus, the "Koopaling Bros. Circus". After the Koopaling Bros. Circus was revealed to be an elaborate trap, these Koopa Football Players begin to throw baseballs at Mario and chase him through Neon Castle. These Koopa Football Players are eventually defeated when they are accidentally blasted with a fireball shot from a Gray Bowser Statue, the Koopa Football Players were then flung at Bowser by Mario, who, with a feather, had become Cape Mario.

Koopa Football Players next made a small appearance in "The Night Before Cave Christmas"; several Koopa Football Players chase Mario and Yoshi through Neon Castle as the two search for Oogtar the Caveboy. Mario, along with Yoshi, manages to escape these Koopa Football Players by flying through a Warp Tube by using a cape.

In a later, football-centered episode entitled "The Yoshi Shuffle", several Chargin' Chucks appear. When Mario and Yoshi jump into a Warp Tube and are deposited in front of Neon Castle, they are tackled to the ground by two Koopa Football Players, who are ordered to take Mario and Yoshi to Neon Castle's dungeon by Cheatsy Koopa. Later in the episode, two Koopa Football Players were seen as members of Cheatsy Koopa's football team, the "Koopa Karcass Krunchers". After defeating the Koopa Karcass Krunchers, Mario and Yoshi try to escape Neon Castle, only to be blocked by several Koopa Football Players, who are subsequently knocked aside by several cavepeople.

The final appearance of Koopa Football Super Mario World was in the shows final episode, "Mama Luigi", several Koopa Football Players are shown to be the ones who kidnapped Princess Toadstool when she, Mario and Luigi first came to Dinosaur World. Also in this episode, a Koopa Football Player appears as a guard in Neon Castle. This Koopa Football Player attempts to grab the recently hatched Yoshi, only to be bonked on the head by Mario. Unfortunately, this causes the Koopa Football Player to split in three and charge at Mario and Luigi; luckily, Yoshi knocks these Koopa Football Players unconscious by slurping them up and spitting them out.

In the Super Mario Adventures comic, several Chargin' Chucks, along with several Thwomps, are summoned by Wendy O. Koopa to attack Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, Toad and Friendly Floyd during the battle in the Koopaling's tower.