Growmeba

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Super Paper Mario enemy
Growmeba
Growmeba.png
Location(s) Gloam Valley (2-1), Merlee's Basement (2-4), Flipside Pit of 100 Trials (Rooms 33 and 65)
Role Common
Max HP 2
Attack 1
Defense 0
Score 200
Items
Card type Common
Card location(s) Card Shop; Catch Card/SP
Card description
Growmebas copy themselves over and over. Just stomp on the real one to make them all disappear.
Tattle
That troublesome creature is a Growmeba. It can clone itself over and over again... Max HP is 2 and Attack is 1. If you defeat the main one, the clones will die... The primary one has slightly different moves and looks, so watch closely... If you don't want to bother, you could defeat them all with an item...
List of Catch Cards
95           96           97
Screenshot of multiple Growmebas.

Growmebas are rare enemies in Super Paper Mario. They are only found in Gloam Valley (along with their Catch Card), Merlee's Basement, and the Flipside Pit of 100 Trials. They look like dripping orange squares with a single round eye. Growmebas spawn clones of themselves in order to attack Mario and crew. Destroying the original Growmeba causes the clones to disappear as well. The original can be told apart by the concentric circles that appear and disappear in its eye (but not in the clones' eyes), as well as its movement patterns. Their name comes from "grow" (as its numbers grows), and "amoeba", a single-celled organism that can multiply at an intense rate.

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Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ポイポイ[?]
Poipoi
Onomatopoeia for tossing sound
German Amöbi[?] Diminutive of "amöbe" (amoeba)
Italian Blameba[?] From "amoeba"
Korean 똑똑[?]
Ttokttok
Onomatopoeia for dripping sound
Spanish Clonel[?] Derivation of "clonar" (to clone)