Tap-Tap the Red Nose



Tap-Tap the Red Nose is the mid-boss of World Six in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. He was orginally an ordinary Tap-Tap until Kamek cast a spell on him and turned him gigantic. He attacks by jumping onto Yellow Yoshi and hitting him with his spikes. In the room where the battles takes place, the floor is made up of rectangular blocks which can be broken by throwing an egg at it. Since the large Tap-Tap was indestructable to all of Yoshi's attacks, Yoshi had to destroy him by creating an opening in the floor to reveal a pool of lava and push the Tap-Tap into the lava. Tap-Tap the Red Nose was thought to have been gone for good when he melted into the lava although he reappears in a lava cave in King Bowser's Castle as Tap-Tap the Golden. The lava somehow turned his body into a shiny golden colour.