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
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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)