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 *The Manta's music is a slightly eerie remix of the boss music that plays when fighting the [[Plungelo]]s, [[Proto Piranha|Gatekeeper]]s, and [[Gooper Blooper]] (in [[Noki Bay]]'s [[The Boss of Tricky Ruins|second episode]]).
 *The [[goop]] that it leaves behind before Mario arrives is in the shape of the Manta itself.
-*It may have been inspired from the ending of the horror novel ''{{wp|The Shining (novel)|The Shining}}'': "For a moment it assumed the shape of a huge, obscene manta, and then the wind seemed to catch it, to tear it and shred it like old dark paper. It fragmented, was caught in a whirling eddy of smoke, and a moment later it was gone as if it had never been."
+*It may have been inspired from the ending of the horror novel ''{{wp|The Shining (novel)|The Shining}}'', after the Overlook Hotel is destroyed: "For a moment it assumed the shape of a huge, obscene manta, and then the wind seemed to catch it, to tear it and shred it like old dark paper. It fragmented, was caught in a whirling eddy of smoke, and a moment later it was gone as if it had never been."
 *In ''[[Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour]]'' and ''[[Mario Golf: Advance Tour]]'', one of the default names on the scoreboards is Phantamanta, which is a pun on "phantom" and "manta".