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|image=[[File:WWGIT Young Cricket.jpg|95px]] [[File:WWGIT Master Mantis Artwork.png|110px]]<br>Young Cricket and Master Mantis as they appear in ''[[WarioWare: Get It Together!]]''

'''Young Cricket''' and '''Master Mantis''' are two characters from the ''[[WarioWare (series)|WarioWare]]'' series, first appearing in ''[[WarioWare: Smooth Moves]]''. They are martial artists and [[WarioWare, Inc.]] employees who like meat dumplings. Master Mantis is an elderly teacher of martial arts, while Young Cricket is his devoted student. When they are first introduced, they appear to be rather serious characters, shown training in difficult conditions, but it is later shown that they 'fit in' with the rest of [[Wario]]'s friends.

Young Cricket and Master Mantis make their debut in ''WarioWare: Smooth Moves''. While walking down [[Park Street]], Young Cricket's stomach growls and he says that he is hungry. The two smell dumplings being served at a nearby food stand. Cricket starts running on the [[Park Street Residents]]' heads to the front of the line. Eventually, he reaches the front of the line and asks for two dumplings, only to find that the people he stepped on are all angry at him. He apologizes and runs on their heads again to get back to Master Mantis, telling him that they should get in line.

Young Cricket and Master Mantis also appear in ''[[Game & Wario]]'', where they host the [[Kung Fu]] minigame. Their training routine and love for dumplings are addressed once again, with their game combining both as the player controls Young Cricket through a series of obstacle courses to reach Master Mantis, collecting dumplings along the way to regain energy.

[[File:Cricket Mantis Park Gold.png|225px|thumb|left|Young Cricket and Master Mantis observing the Diamond City Amusement Park map.]]

In ''[[WarioWare Gold]]'', Young Cricket and Master Mantis are the hosts of the fourth stage of the Touch League, with the Sports theme. In their story, they are training in [[Diamond City Amusement Park]]. Cricket analyzes how dangerous two rides are, and then decides he is ready to prove himself. Mantis leads him to a merry-go-round known as Precious Prancers, where Cricket is ready to start his trial after overreacting about how dangerous the attraction is. After Cricket survives the trial, [[Lulu]], who mistakes him for one of the horses, jumps on his shoulder, which Mantis then notices. Cricket tells Lulu to get off of him, which shocks her. Mantis then proceeds to the next trial, the "Trial of the Lost Child", as Lulu (still clinging onto him) tells him to "giddyup, horsey."

At the end of the game, Cricket and Mantis are among the group who demands Wario to pay them for the [[microgame]]s they designed for the [[Wario Bowl]]. After Wario trips and lets his money briefcase fall, Mantis tells Cricket to use his newly learned technique, the "Precious Prancing Pounce", to stop Wario from escaping further. All of Wario's friends then decide to split the remaining money equally between them as Cricket holds off Wario from interfering. The player is then rewarded the 10000 [[coin]]s they were given at the beginning of the game to buy their admission into the Wario Bowl.

[[File:WWGIT FGF Group.jpg|thumb|Young Cricket and Master Mantis at Feelin' Groovy Fitness]]

Young Cricket and Master Mantis appear in ''[[WarioWare: Get It Together!]]'' In the game's story mode, the duo appears in the opening cutscene, eating dumplings. They, along with the rest of the WarioWare, Inc. employees, get sucked in the game world due to [[Wario]]'s actions.

Young Cricket and Master Mantis appear in the intro of Jimmy T's stage where they do an aerobics performance with him, Lulu, and Joe.

As a playable character, Young Cricket is controlled with the {{button|ns|leftstick}} moving him left and right. Pressing {{button|ns|a}} makes him jump, and the height of his jump can be increased by holding {{button|ns|a}}.  Master Mantis is controlled in the same way, but with the additional ability to walk upside-down on any ceiling, if he jumps high enough. Both characters excel in microgames where action at lower areas is prioritized, such as in [[Roll Cake]], where they can easily roll up the cake by running and jumping. However, there are very few microgames where ground action is prioritized, and most microgames involve action at higher areas. Due to this, they are inadequate in most microgames, with a major example being [[Gondola Lift]], the only microgame considered a bad fit for both characters. Master Mantis's additional ability gives him more potential to complete microgames in higher areas. Because Young Cricket and Master Mantis have the most amount of microgames where they are considered an average fit (154 and 148 respectively), they are overall considered to be generally balanced, with very few microgames deeming them unfit.

In ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'', Young Cricket appears as a [[Spirit (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)|Spirit]].<ref> KingFera. (November 3, 2018). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToC9-ShUTBc&t=13m40s Sakurai Explains Spirit Mode at Nintendo Live 2018 | Super Smash Bros Ultimate]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved November 3, 2018.</ref>

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|Rus=Юный Крикет<ref name="russian"> NintendoRU. (January 10, 2019). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH-4V-uwGeY WarioWare Gold — трейлер персонажей Юный Крикет и Мастер Мантис (Nintendo 3DS)]. Retrieved March 30th, 2019.</ref><br/>Ученик Сверчок (''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'')<br>''Yunyy Kriket''<br>''Uchenik Sverchok''

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