Talk:Big Boo

Big Boo
Big Boo and King Boo were never the same person D; -- The preceding unsigned comment was added by Luigifan14 (talk).

Sleepy Boo
Would the Sleepy Boos be counted as a sub-species of Big Boos? They are Boos and I'm pretty sure there very large in size, bigger than Mario. -- Sir Grodus

Merge
Vote here.

Change the name of the article?
Alright, before everyone goes crazy, hear me out...

In Japan, the enemy known as The Big Boo in Super Mario World was known as an Atomic Teresa. Simple enough. Teresa itself was changed to Boo Diddly in SMB3, which became Boo Buddies in SMW before settling with just Boo in later games. Good enough.

Super Mario RPG comes along, and the Teresa enemy wasn't renamed Boo, but rather The Big Boo. Chalk this up as carelessness on NoA's part, but these are most certainly not The Big Boos of SMW - rather, the only The Big Boo in the game was featured in Bowser's Terrorize attack.

Super Mario 64 brings back Big Boo - but wait? It dropped the capitol "The". That's okay, it was kind of cumbersome anyway. At any rate, Big Boo's Haunt (or Teresa's Horror House in Japan) was one of the game's Courses, and it stuck out of the one with the titular Boos. Except, in Japan, there weren't Atomic Teresas - it was Master Teresa that you had to find, which seemed to be a type of Atomic Teresa. So the title of "Big Boo" was skewed yet again to a new character. [On a side note, its remake, Super Mario 64 DS, also gave the name "Big Boo" to King Teresa, which was renamed King Boo in every other game he's been in, bar for Super Mario Sunshine which named Boss Teresa the King Boo instead of Boss Boo. Confused?).

Big Boos (or at least, our perception of them) took a back seat in recent years outside of Super Pricess Peach and the latter Paper Mario games. Super Princess Peach mistranslated some of the enemy names, but it brought back "Big Boo." Paper Mario games, however, went beyond and gave a retranslated name to the Big Boo - Atomic Boo. A name that makes sense and was kept in the series.

So here's a proposal. We should just rename the article entirely. The designation "Big Boo" was warped over the years that perhaps it's best to have Big Boo refer to many things, and Atomic Boo refer to the originally intended enemy. LinkTheLefty 16:30, 12 November 2008 (EST)
 * Atomic Boo has been merged with Big Boo and the Sunshine King Boo got a separate article. But you say the Big Boo of Super Mario 64 is also a different character? --Grandy02 09:55, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Seeing as the Big/Atomic/King/Boss Boo pages have been changed around so much since 2008 (and since last year, for that matter), I'm just gonna suggest that if anyone still has a problem with organization, make a TPP about it, or at least make a new argument: I'm afraid this particular question is too outdated to be properly addressed now. - 11:51, 14 June 2011 (EDT)

Merged from Talk:Atomic Boo
Does this need the boss template? - Yoshi Master
 * Tough to say. While it is a mini-boss, it's also optional. I'd still say so, though. ayoshi TC@ http://www.mariowiki.com/images/2/24/Wayoshisig.png 17:52, 17 October 2006 (EDT)


 * Atomic Boo should probably be in the secret bosses category. Or under the mini-boss category with a note saying: (optional). -- Son of Suns

Dark Atomic Boo
Well, which image do you think would be better for the article (or do either of these even belong in the article)? -- 15:26, 21 March 2007 (EDT)

I think they "Dark Atomic Boo" information could go to Beta elements, though it could be mentioned in a trivia section or something in the Atomic Boo article. -- Sir Grodus

Booluses
Do you think Boolusses might be a type of Atomic Boo? -Pal101

Mention of Relation to Bigger Boo
I honestly think the mention of Atomic Boo being possibly related to the Bigger Boo should be removed from the Trivia section. Aside from both being large Boos, they share little in common. In fact, the trivia section could be interpreted as making it sound like the Bigger Boo is an amalgalm of Boos, which is just plain not true. Is it all right if I remove it? 18:46, 16 May 2007 (EDT)

Given that there's been no objection for almost two weeks, I'm removing the offending information. 12:08, 29 May 2007 (EDT)

Merge to Big Boo
MERGE 7-0

This is corroborated by TMK, New Super Mario Daijiten , Wikipedia , etc. Since they're clearly intended to be the same thing, I propose that this article be merged to Big Boo

Proposer: Voting Start:11:21, 3 April 2010 (UTC) Deadline:23:59, 17 April 2010

Support
 * 1) another one of those mistranslations (Why would they call a Cheep-Cheep Goby???)
 * 2) - Per the original intention of those Japanese Nintendo guys.
 * 3) - The European release (of SM64) uses "Big Boo" left in English like it's a proper name or something, not a translated or localized name (preventing a proper sample pool consensus between translation / localization teams), so I'll side with the probable intent of the Japanese creation team.
 * 4) - Per all.
 * 5) - Per all. Big Boos have always been "Atomic" in Japanese.
 * 6)  Very simmilar to Princess Peach/Toadstool, westerns make silly things very often.
 * 1)  Very simmilar to Princess Peach/Toadstool, westerns make silly things very often.

Oppose

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