Bull's-Eye Bill: Difference between revisions

'''Bull's-Eye Bills''', formerly known as '''Missile Bills'''<ref>''Nintendo Power'' Volume 13, page 9.</ref><ref>Bueno, Fernando. ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' PRIMA Official Game Guide. Page 16.</ref> or '''Guided Missile Bills''',<ref>M. Arakawa. ''NES Game Atlas''. Page 36. "''Red Guided Missile Bills move back and forth in search of their target.''"</ref> are heat-seeking variants of [[Bullet Bill]]s typically fired from [[Bull's-Eye Blaster]]s. They attack by homing in on the player. Prior to ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s introduction of the current '''Search Killer''' (サーチキラー), which eventually became known in English as Bull's-Eye Bill, earlier games gave the homing abilities to normal Bullet Bills or their behavioral or color variations, as various sources treat them as.<ref name="SMCE">Page 192 of 「スーパーマリオ{{hover|全百科|オールひゃっか}}」 (''Super Mario Zen Hyakka'', or "''Super Mario Complete Encyclopedia''"). 「おなじみの{{hover|砲弾|ほうだん}}。{{hover|普通|ふつう}}のキラーは、1{{hover|方向|ほうこう}}にまっすぐ{{hover|進|すす}}むだけ、『マリオ3』{{hover|新登場|しんとうじょう}}の「{{hover|往復|おうふく}}キラー」は、いったん{{hover|発射|はっしゃ}}されると、{{hover|左右|さゆう}}にいったりきたりを{{hover|繰|く}}り{{hover|返|かえ}}す。」</ref><ref name="SMBH p.36">「キラー砲台から発射され、まっすぐに飛んでくる。Uターンするタイプもいる。」 ("Fired from Killer Cannons, they fly straight ahead. There is also a U-turning type.") - Shogakukan. 2015. Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook, Super Mario Bros. 3 section, page 36.</ref><ref name="SMA3>「{{hover|緑|みどり}}と{{hover|赤|あか}}の{{hover|砲台|ほうだい}}は{{hover|固定式|こていしき}}で、{{hover|黄色|きいろ}}の{{hover|砲台|ほうだい}}は{{hover|回転式|かいてんしき}}。{{hover|赤|あか}}いキラーは ヨッシーを{{hover|追|お}}いかけ、{{hover|黄色|きいろ}}いキ ラーはかべに{{hover|当|あ}}たるとはね{{hover|返|かえ}}る。{{hover|砲台|ほうだい}}を{{hover|倒|たお}}すならアイス{{hover|攻撃|こうげき}}で。」 ("''Green and red cannons are a fixed type, while yellow cannons are a rotatable type. Red Killers pursue Yoshi, and yellow Killers bounce off walls. The cannons can be defeated by an ice attack.''") - [[Media:Advance 3 Shogakukan P15.png|「スーパーマリオアドバンス3任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Super Mario Advance 3 Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook''), page 15.]]</ref> In some games, there are also regular Bullet Bills that perform similar functions to Bull's-Eye Bills, as seen in ''[[Super Mario 64]]'', ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'', ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]'', Smash Run in ''[[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS]]'', and sometimes in ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]''.  

 

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|Jap=キラー<ref name="SMBH p.36"></ref><ref name="SMA3></ref><br>''Kirā''<br>{{hover|往復|おうふく}}キラー<ref name="SMCE"/><br>''Ōfuku Kirā''<br>サーチキラー<ref>Shogakukan. 2015. ''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'', ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' section, page 145.</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSrk4JIW47U&t=3m41s Omoide Theatre, ''Yoshi Wool World'' (Japanese)]</ref><br>''Sāchi Kirā''

|JapM=Same as [[Bullet Bill#Names in other languages|Bullet Bill]] (''Super Mario Bros. 3'' and ''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3'')<br><br>Roundtrip Bullet Bill (''Super Mario Bros. 3'')<br><br>Search Bullet Bill (''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' onwards)