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'''Thwomps''', also known as '''Thwomp Traps''',<ref>''Nintendo Power'' Volume 13, page 9.</ref><ref>''New Super Mario Bros.'' [[Nintendo Power|Official Nintendo Player's Guide]] p. 10</ref> are giant stone faces found mostly in the [[Mushroom Kingdom]]. They are normally depicted as spike-encrusted living stones that are usually rectangular in shape and made their first appearance in the game ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]''. They typically attempt to fall on and flatten whoever passes below them, although some move horizontally or diagonally as well. They can be destroyed by [[Hammer Mario]]'s hammers, [[Statue Mario]], [[Gold Mario]]'s fireballs, getting tapped while the player is under the influence of a [[Boost Star]], a [[shell dash]], by being touched when Mario is [[Mega Mario|giant]] or [[Invincible Mario|invincible]], or by a hammer swing from [[Builder Mario]]. It is suggested in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time]]'' that Thwomps may in fact be born from volcanic activity, and are sometimes described as "ghosts".<ref name=Ghost>[http://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Nintendo_SNES/manual/Formated/Super_Mario_World_-_1991_-_Nintendo.pdf ''Super Mario World'' instruction manual], page 25</ref>