Talk:Mini Goomba

Name Change?
I looked in my Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition booklet and looked at the enemies exclusive to SMB3. It says it's a Mugger Micro Goomba. I live in the American region, so is the Japanese name for this still Micro Goomba?


 * Yeah it says its called a Mugger Micro Goomba.

Super Mario Galaxy
They are in SMG, add that bit.
 * Why can't you?

I'm only new here :/, I only edit here sometimes so I don't really know advanced features. Well I'll add it.

Latest Appearance
The latest appearance is in Super Mario Maker, when you shake a Goomba. I don't know how to add that without screwing the page up, so please add that fact.
 * Done. - 18:52, 15 November 2015 (EST)

Galaxy one resemble Galoombas?
The Galaxy ones really don't look like Galoombas, they quite honestly look far more like olive-colored Goombos from Super Mario Land, due to having the same mushroom body structure, that is rounded instead of triangular like Goombas, while Galoombas have no stem, and have a light-colored muzzle. - 19:36, 27 May 2017, CT
 * They do look more like a Goombo than a Galoomba! That certainly looks like a better comparison. 20:54, 27 May 2017 (EDT)

Change to Mini Goomba?
Micro Goomba was technically only used in Nintendo Power's "Mario Mania" guide before getting an offhand mention in Super Paper Mario. Mini Goomba, meanwhile, seems to have been used in every guide for the New Super Mario Bros. games as well as the Prima Games guide for Super Mario Odyssey (and incidentally happens to be the repeating internal version). Even though Micro Goomba showed up once in in-game text, Mini Goomba is by far the most common and recent name. LinkTheLefty (talk) 18:35, 18 November 2018 (EST)
 * It's also somewhat recently been called "Small Goomba," it just seems a bit too inconsistent to make a definitive choice just yet, IMO. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 19:17, 18 November 2018 (EST)
 * I actually think Small Goomba should be a separate subject since they're apparently not "real" Mini Goombas but rather regular Goombas under Kamek's spell. LinkTheLefty (talk) 19:22, 18 November 2018 (EST)
 * Why would they be any different, though? They still behave like, well, Micro Goombas, and fight just like regular Goombas, except smaller. 19:41, 18 November 2018 (EST)
 * If in-game naming is what was holding Mini Goomba back, then I presume the article isn't Small Goomba for the reason I mentioned (and we've split things over being artificial or inauthentic before). Either way, I find it suspicious that (unhyphenated) Micro Goomba appears to have only been in two semi-obscure sources before being used in several sections of Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia despite having been mostly reestablished as Mini Goomba since 2006. LinkTheLefty (talk) 20:32, 18 November 2018 (EST)

I'm intrigued by this splitting idea. However, I'd like to know the Japanese names given to them in SMRPG, each of the NSMB games, the Galaxy games, 3D World, and Odyssey, see how they relate to our Mame and Chibi names, and see if they share any defining characteristics between them the others lack, given their ultimate behavior has been all over the place. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 21:36, 19 November 2018 (EST)
 * Super Mario RPG and Encyclopedia Super Mario Bros. list them as Mame Kuribō (Bean Goomba) except the Super Mario 64 appearance is Chibi Kuribō (Small Goomba), which is also the name used in Paper Mario: Color Splash, and a post calls them Mame Kuribō for Super Mario Odyssey. This can mean that small enemies have naming inconsistencies like big enemies, the Super Mario 64 developers simply forgot that a small Goomba already existed in a previous platformer (note that Encyclopedia doesn't give them their own Super Mario Bros. 3 enemy entry and only mentions them in Paragoomba's description, which also happened in the Japanese Super Princess Peach glossary ["things" in the English version]), or Mame Kuribō and Chibi Kuribō are considered separate subjects. According to the Super Mario 64 Player's Guide, Mario is changing his own size when he enters Tiny Island and Huge Island, meaning it's not really a tiny Goomba but rather Mario is huge, so you can say it's not an actual small Goomba similar to the magically-resized enemies in Color Splash. Encyclopedia introduces all entries from Super Mario 64 to New Super Mario Bros. Wii with the same line: 「小さなクリボー. 」 (A small Kuribō.). Internally, it's KuriboMini in the Galaxy games and kuriboMini in others from New Super Mario Bros. Wii to Super Mario 3D World, suggesting Mini Kuribō (Mini Goomba) - except in Super Mario 64 DS (KURIBO_S for small; contrast KURIBO_L for large) and Color Splash (as_btl_small_kuribo; contrast as_btl_big_kuribo). On a related note, Encyclopedia uses "chibi" for the small versions of Koopa Troopa and Fire Piranha from Super Mario 64 (so the English version calls them "Micro Koopa" and "Micro Piranha" respectively), and Color Splash uses it for the other small enemies and also uses the largely outdated Kyodai Kuribō (Grand Goomba) instead of Deka Kuribō (Big Goomba). LinkTheLefty (talk) 04:55, 23 November 2018 (EST)
 * And even with that aside, Mini Goomba has a clear in-game source: NES Remix 2 (and Mame Kuribō in Famicom Remix 2). LinkTheLefty (talk) 04:25, 5 December 2018 (EST)
 * And that refers to the Pile-Driver variant. Should it be moved as well? Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 05:00, 5 December 2018 (EST)
 * We can go with "Mini Goomba (block)", or we can cite this proposal and leave Pile Driver Micro-Goomba as-is for now. It's possible that it was just used in a generic sense. LinkTheLefty (talk) 05:10, 5 December 2018 (EST)
 * I'd support a renname. Some would have arguments, since we're only 4 to have discussed. -- 05:38, 5 December 2018 (EST)
 * Let me make sure I have this straight. We are for renaming Micro Goomba to Mini Goomba and Pile Driver Micro-Goomba to Mini Goomba (block), but not for splitting Small Goomba (which would be deemed from Super Mario 64 and Paper Mario: Color Splash) from Mini Goomba? LinkTheLefty (talk) 07:28, 16 December 2018 (EST)
 * We can probably leave PDMG as-is, since like you said, it was likely a generic usage. If we split off small Goomba now, we'll have to rework every other big/small enemy as well. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 13:19, 16 December 2018 (EST)
 * Yes, I'm sure that's the case since I also spotted an instance of plain Micro-Goomba referring to the Pile Driver variant in the Nintendo Power guide. So if it looks like we're all on the same page, let's just rename Micro Goomba to Mini Goomba. LinkTheLefty (talk) 19:15, 16 December 2018 (EST)