Ant Trooper

Template:Species-infobox Ant Troopers are ant enemies debuting in Super Mario 3D World. They are indigo-colored and have a pair of antennae, a striped body, yellow eyes, red feet, and an overbite.

History

Super Mario series

Super Mario 3D World

Ant Troopers in Ant Trooper Hill

Ant Troopers make their first appearance in Super Mario 3D World. They appear uncommonly throughout the game, and are introduced in World 4-1, Ant Trooper Hill. They attack by marching, sometimes emerging from holes or pipes, and keep walking on walls. They cannot be defeated by jumping, but are vulnerable to Ground Pounds, Cat Mario's, Tanooki Mario's and Rosalina's attacks, and projectiles as well. Ant Troopers sometimes carry items on their backs, mainly coins and Super Bells.

Big Ant Troopers are an Ant Trooper subspecies. As their name implies, they are larger than common Ant Troopers, and are also rarer. These cannot be defeated by any attack.

Horned Ant Troopers are basically Ant Troopers wearing an orange helmet with a spike over their body. The helmets prevent their heads from being stomped, making them very similar to Spike Tops, but only if the helmet is facing upward; if they are walking along a vertical surface, they become safe to jump on.

Super Mario Maker 2

Ant Troopers appear as course elements in Super Mario Maker 2 in the Super Mario 3D World level style. Big Ant Troopers and Horned Ant Troopers return as well. When given wings, an Ant Trooper flies in a horizontal line, switching directions when it hits a wall. When given a parachute, an Ant Trooper glides to the ground while flailing its feet. Ant Troopers can be defeated with a Super Star or Builder Mario’s hammer.

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker

Ant Troopers return in Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, behaving like they do in Super Mario 3D World. While interacting with them using the pointer or touch screen, they do not stop like regular enemies. If pointed at for enough time, they reward the player with one coin.

Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam

In Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam, Ant Troopers appear alongside Horned Ant Troopers in battle in the Twinsy Tropics Dungeon. If Horned Ant Troopers take enough damage, they lose their spike helmets, turning them into normal Ant Troopers and lowering their defense. While in this state, they attack the Mario Bros. by dashing into them instead.

Mario Tennis Aces

In Mario Tennis Aces, Ant Troopers appear as spectators in Bask Ruins.

Enemy statistics

Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam enemy
Horned Ant Trooper (no helmet)
	HP	88	POW	132 (114)	Defense	135 (130)	Speed	91
	Role	Common	Type	Normal	Weakness	None	Location(s)	Twinsy Tropics Dungeon, Final Smash
	Level	22	Experience	46 (41)	Coins	20	Item drop	Ultra Nut - 3% 1-Up DX - 2%
Notice: Stats in parentheses are from the game's Easy Mode.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	アリへい Ari-hei	Ant Soldier
German	Trupp-Krabbel	Crawling Trooper
Italian	Formico	From formic (of, or relating to, ants)
Korean	개미병 Gaemibyeong	Ant Soldier
Portuguese	Soldado formiga	Soldier Ant
Russian	Муравей-пехотинец Muravey-pekhotinets	Ant Trooper
Spanish	Hormigoide	Antoid (Hormiga, Ant, and the suffix -oide, -oid)

References

[Edit] Super Mario 3D World / Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury / Bowser's Fury
Playable characters		Mario • Luigi^1,2 • Peach^1,2 • Toad^1,2 • Rosalina^1,2 • Captain Toad^1,2 • Bowser Jr.³ • Hint Toad² • Banktoad² • Yellow Toad²
Non-playable characters		Kittens³ • Little birds • Mii¹ • Neko Parent³ • Plessie • Rabbits (Mega Rabbits) • Sprixie Princesses^1,2 • Sprixies^1,2 • Toads • Toadette³
Worlds^1,2		Sprixie Kingdom • World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6 • World Castle • World Bowser • World Star • World Mushroom • World Flower • World Crown
Lake Lapcat locations³		Fur Step Island • Scamper Shores • Pounce Bounce Isle • Fort Flaptrap • Slipskate Slope • Clawswipe Colosseum • Trickity Tower • Crisp Climb Castle • Risky Whisker Island • Pipe Path Tower • Roiling Roller Isle • Mount Magmeow • Lucky Isle
Bosses		Bowser (Meowser^1,2 · Fury Bowser³ · Giant Bowser³) • Boom Boom • Pom Pom • Hisstocrat^1,2 • Boss Brolder^1,2 • King Ka-thunk^1,2 • Prince Bully • Motley Bossblob^1,2
Items and objects		+ Clock^1,2 • ? Block • 1-Up Mushroom^1,2 • Arrow platform^1,2 • Arrow Sign • Assist Block^1,2 • Baseball • Beep Block^1,2 • Big Block^1,2 • Blue Coin • Brick Block • Board^1,2 • Bomb • Boomerang Flower • Cage³ • Cannon Box^1,2 • Cat Shine³ • Cat Shine Shard³ • Cat Wheel • Chain-Link • Character Switch^1,2 • Checkpoint Flag^1,2 • Clear Pipe • Clear Pipe Cannon • Cloud Cannon • Cloud Lift • Coin • Coin Block • Coin Box • Coin pile • Color Panel^1,2 • Crate • Crystal Block^1,2 • Dark^1,2 • Dash Panel • Double Cherry • Elevator^1,2 • Fire Flower • Fling Pole³ • Floating couch^1,2 • Flower^1,2 • Fluff^1,2 • Fury Block³ • Fury Sun³ • Giga Bell³ • Goal Pole^1,2 • Gold Ring • Goomba Mask^1,2 • Gong^1,2 • Graffiti³ • Green Coin^1,2 • Green Star^1,2 • Green Star Ring^1,2 • Ground-Pound Switch³ • Grumblump^1,2 • Hexagon^1,2 • Hidden Block • Ice Skate • Illusion^1,2 • Invincibility Bell^2,3 • Invincibility Leaf • Item storage • Jump Panel • Key Coin • Kick Bomb • Lift^1,2 • Light Box^1,2 • Lighthouse³ • Lucky Bell • Mega ? Block • Mega Mushroom^1,2 • Multi-Vator^1,2 • Mushroom Trampoline • Mystery Box^1,2 • Plessie Medal³ • P Panel^1,2 • P Switch^1,2 • Pixel Luigi^{1, 2} • Potted Piranha Plant • POW Block • Propeller Box • Propeller Platform¹ • Red-Blue Panel • Red Coin^1,2 • Red POW Block^1,2 • Red Ring^1,2 • Rising pillar^1,2 • Rock Block^1,2 • Rotating Panel^1,2 • Searchlight^1,2 • Shelf^1,2 • Slamming block^1,2 • Sliding door^1,2 • Slot Block^1,2 • Snowball • Springboard^1,2 • Stamp^1,2 • Super Star • Super Bell • Super Jump Panel³ • Super Leaf • Super Mushroom • Switch Block^1,2 • Switch Panel^1,2 • Switchboard • Timer Gate³ • Touchstone^1,2 • Trapeze^1,2 • Tree • Turning Floor • Warp Box^1,2 • Warp Box (With Key)^1,2 • Warp Pipe • World Warp Pipe^{1, 2} • Zipline lift^1,2
Moves		Crawl • Crouch • Crouch Jump • Dash • Dive^2,3 • Ground Pound • Ground Pound Jump^2,3 • Jump • Long Jump • Roll • Shell dash • Side Somersault • Slide • Spin Jump • Swim • Synchro Ground-Pound^1,2 • Wall Jump
Forms		Small Mario • Super Mario • Fire Mario • Cat Mario (Lucky Cat Mario · Giga Cat Mario³ · White Cat Mario^2,3) • Double Mario • Tanooki Mario (White Tanooki Mario) • Boomerang Mario • Mega Mario • Invincible Mario
Enemies and obstacles		Ant Trooper^1,2 • Baddie Box^1,2 • Banzai Bill^1,2 • Banzai Bill Cannon^1,2 • Beach Koopa • Biddybud • Big Boo^1,2 • Big Ant Trooper^1,2 • Big Galoomba^1,2 • Bill Blaster • Blockstepper • Blooper^1,2 • Blurker^1,2 • Bob-omb • Boo^1,2 • Boomerang Bro • Brolder^1,2 • Bullet Bill • Bully • Cannon^1,2 • Cannonball^1,2 • Cat Banzai Bill^1,2 • Cat Bullet Bill • Cat Goomba^1,2 • Chargin' Chuck^1,2 • Charvaargh^1,2 • Cheep Cheep • Coin Coffer • Conkdor • Disaster Neko³ • Falling spike³ • Fire Bar^1,2 • Fire Bro • Fire Piranha Plant • Fizzlit^1,2 • Flopter • Fury Shadow³ • Fuzzler • Fuzzy • Fuzzy Horde^1,2 • Galoomba^1,2 • Goomba • Goomba Tower • Hammer Bro • Hop-Chop^1,2 • Horned Ant Trooper^1,2 • Innertube Goomba • Ka-thunk^1,2 • Koopa Troopa • Lava Bubble^1,2 • Madpole^1,2 • Magikoopa • Mega Piranha Plant • Mini Goomba^1,2 • Octoomba^1,2 • Para-Biddybud • Parabones^1,2 • Peepa^1,2 • Piranha Creeper • Piranha Plant • Porcupuffer^1,2 • Rammerhead • Ring Burner^1,2 • Skating Goomba • Skipsqueak • Snow Pokey • Spike • Spike ball^1,2 • Spike Block^1,2 • Spike Trap • Spiked roller • Spiny^1,2 • Spiny Skipsqueak^1,2 • Splorch^1,2 • Splotchy goop³ • Splounder • Stingby • Thwomp^1,2 • Ty-foo^1,2 • Walleye^1,2
Miscellaneous		Captain Toad's Adventures^1,2 • Enemy Battles^1,2 • Mystery House^1,2 • Luigi Bros.^1,2 • Luigi sightings^1,2 • Sprixie House^1,2 • Lucky House^1,2 • Snapshot Mode^2,3 • Stamps
Further info		Cat Shine names³ • Completion (Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury) • Gallery (Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury · Bowser's Fury) • Glitches (Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury) • Media (Bowser's Fury) • Pre-release and unused content • Playable characters' statistics (Bowser's Fury) • Staff (Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury) • Super Mario 3D World Original Soundtrack
¹ Super Mario 3D World ² Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury ³ Bowser's Fury
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[Edit] Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam
Characters	Playable	Mario • Luigi • Paper Mario
	Non-playable	? Card Toad • Bowser • Bowser Jr. • Crinkle Goomba • Delivery Toad • Flutter • Kamek • Know-It-All Toads • Lakitu • Monologue Toad • Nabbit • Paper Bowser • Paper Bowser Jr. • Paper Kamek • Paper Luigi • Paper Peach • Paper Toads • Princess Peach • Scaredy Rat • Starlow • Toad • Toadette • Yoshis
	Papercraft	Papercraft Mario • Papercraft Luigi • Papercraft Yoshi • Papercraft Peach • Papercraft Fire Mario
Special Attacks	Trio Attack	Trio Racquet • Trio Kite • Trio Whirligig • Trio Shuriken • Trio Meteor
	Mario Bros. Attack	3D Red Shell • Rocket Blast • Bomb Derby • Cannonball Chuck • Toad Trail
	Luigi Bros. Attack	Fire Flower • Drill Shell • Dropchopper • Balloon Blast • Mega Thwonk
Bosses	Mario & Luigi	Petey Piranha • Big Pokey • Roy Koopa • Wendy O. Koopa • Wiggler • Chargin' Chuck Corps • Larry Koopa • Ludwig von Koopa • Bowser Jr. • King Boo • King Bob-omb • Kamek • Iggy Koopa • Lemmy Koopa • Morton Koopa Jr. • Bowser • Shiny RoboBowser • Dry Bowser
	Paper Mario	Paper Tower Power Pokey • Paper Petey Piranha • Paper Kamek • Paper Bowser Jr. • Paper Bowser
	Papercraft	Papercraft Megacrinkle Goomba • Papercraft Kamek • Papercraft Bowser Jr. • Papercraft King Boo • Papercraft Bowser
Locations		Peach's Castle • Sunbeam Plains • Doop Doop Dunes • Doop Doop Dunes Grotto • Twinsy Tropics Dungeon • Twinsy Tropics • Gloomy Woods • Mount Brrr • Bowser's Castle • Neo Bowser Castle
Enemies	Mario & Luigi	Ant Trooper • Big Tail Goomba • Biddybud • Boomerang Bro • Broozer • Bully • Buzzy Beetle • Chain Chomp • Cheep Cheep • Fire Bro • Fire Piranha Plant • Fly Guy • Goomba • Hammer Bro • Horned Ant Trooper • Koopa Troopa • Mechakoopa • Monty Mole • Ninji • Pokey • Sandmaargh • Shy Guy • Spike • Spiny • Urchin
	Paper Mario	Paper Bob-omb • Paper Boo • Paper Boomerang Bro • Paper Broozer • Paper Chain Chomp • Paper Dry Bones • Paper Fire Bro • Paper Fire Piranha Plant • Paper Fuzzy • Paper Goomba • Paper Hammer Bro • Paper Koopa Troopa • Paper Ninji • Paper Paragoomba • Paper Paratroopa • Paper Scaredy Rat • Paper Shy Guy • Paper Sombrero Guy • Paper Spear Guy • Paper Spike • Paper Spiny • Paper Swoop
	Papercraft	Airship • Bob-omb • Boo • Bullet Bill • Dry Bones • Goomba • Koopa Shell • Mechakoopa • Pokey • Spike • Spiked Ball • Whomp
Items	Collectibles	1-Up DX • 1-Up Mushroom • 100 Coin • ? Block • Battle Card • Bean • Bomb Bud • Boo Biscuit • Candy • Clothing • Coin • Command Block • Double 1-Up Mushroom • L Block • Lakitea • M Block • Max Mushroom • Max Nut • Max Candy • Max Syrup Jar • Mushroom • Nut • P Block • Refreshing Herb • Spinny Flower • Super Mushroom • Super Nut • Super Candy • Supersyrup Jar • Syrup Jar • Ultra Mushroom • Ultra Nut • Ultra Candy • Ultrasyrup Jar
Items	Key items	Berry • Copy Block • Dash Socks • Fire Ore • Key • Melon • Mysterious book • Paper trampoline • Red medallion
Stats		Bros. Point • Defense • Experience Point • Heart Point • Power • Rank • Speed • Stache
Moves		Dash • Hammer • Jump • Slide • Team Jump • Trio Drill • Trio Glider • Trio Grab • Trio Hammer
Status		Burn • Creased • Crumpled • DEF-Down • DEF-Up • Dizzy • Fury • Invisible • Mini • POW-Down • POW-Up • Prohibited Command • SPD-Down • SPD-Up • Trip
Miscellaneous		Bestiary • Block locations • Drill spot locations • Gallery • Gear • Glitches • Item patches • Level up progressions • Music Player • Pre-release and unused content • Quotes • Staff • Story summaries

[Edit] Mario Tennis Aces
Playable characters	Initial release	Mario • Luigi • Wario • Waluigi • Peach • Daisy • Rosalina • Toad • Toadette • Bowser • Bowser Jr. • Boo • Yoshi • Donkey Kong • Spike • Chain Chomp
Playable characters	Post-release^a	Koopa Troopa • Blooper • Diddy Kong • Birdo • Koopa Paratroopa • Shy Guy • Petey Piranha • Luma • Boom Boom • Pauline • Kamek • Dry Bones • Fire Piranha Plant • Dry Bowser
Non-playable characters		Piranha Plants • Lakitus • Biddybuds • Yoshis • Little birds • Rabbits • Fire Piranha Plants • Munchers • Nipper Plants • Piranha Creepers • Ant Troopers • Conkdors • Dry Bones • Kleptos • Stone Spikes • Peepas • Big Boo • Bob-ombs • Spinies • Mechakoopas • Mega Bob-ombs^a • Monty Mole • Parabones • Aster • Lucien • Mirrors • Boo Buddies^a • King Boo^a • Fly Guy^a • New Donkers^a • Shy Guy Towers^a • Shield Guys^a • Big Magikoopa^a
Bosses		Petey Piranha • Madame Mirage • Snow Ogre • Gooper Blooper • Bowser Statue • Bowcien
Courts and worlds		Marina Stadium • Bask Ruins • Piranha Plant Forest • Mirage Mansion • Snowfall Mountain • Savage Sea • Inferno Island • Ruins of Trials^a
Moves		Special Shot • Trick Shot • Zone Shot • Zone Speed
Miscellaneous		Kingdom of Bask • Online tournaments^a • Power Stone
Further info		Gallery • Quotes • Staff
^a Post-release content
Related Play Nintendo activities: Are you a tennis ace? • The multiplayer way • Ultimate doubles • Winning strategies? Take your pick!

[Edit] Super Mario Maker 2
Characters	Playable characters	Mario • Luigi • Toad • Toadette
Characters	Supporting characters	Coursebot • Worldbot^b • Mr. Eraser • Nina • Princess Peach • Undodog • Yamamura • Partrick • Soundfrog • Toads • Yoshi/Red Yoshi
Course elements	Game styles	Super Mario Bros. • Super Mario Bros. 3 • Super Mario World • New Super Mario Bros. U • Super Mario 3D World
	Themes	Ground • Underground • Underwater • Ghost House • Airship • Castle • Desert • Snow • Forest • Sky
	Terrain	? Block • Brick Block/Rotating Block • Bridge • Clear Pipe • Cloud Block • Crystal Block • Donut Block • Frozen Coin^a • Ground • Hard Block • Hidden Block • Ice Block • Mushroom Platform • Note Block/Music Block • P Block^a • Warp Pipe • Rock Block • Semisolid Platform • Slope • Spike Block • Spike Trap
	Items	1-Up Mushroom/Rotten Mushroom • 10-Coin/30-Coin/50-Coin • Big Mushroom • Boomerang Flower^b • Bullet Bill Mask^b • Cannon Box^b • Coin • Cape Feather • Fire Flower • Frog Suit^b • Goomba Mask^b • Goomba's Shoe/Stiletto • Master Sword^a • Pink Coin • Power Balloon^b • Propeller Box^b • Propeller Mushroom • Red POW Box^b • SMB2 Mushroom^b • Super Acorn^b • Super Bell • Super Hammer • Super Leaf • Super Mushroom • Super Star • Superball Flower • Yoshi's Egg/Big Red Yoshi's Egg
	Enemies	Angry Sun/Moon • Ant Trooper/Big Ant Trooper • Unshelled Koopa Troopa • Blooper/Big Blooper/Blooper Nanny/Blooper Baby • Bob-omb/Mega Bob-omb/Parabomb • Boo/Big Boo/Boo Buddies/Stretch • Boom Boom • Bowser/Meowser • Bowser Jr. • Bully/Big Bully • Buzzy Beetle/Big Buzzy Beetle/Buzzy Beetle Tower/Para-Beetle/Heavy Para-Beetle/Buzzy Shell • Chain Chomp/Big Chain Chomp • Charvaargh • Cheep Cheep/Big Cheep Cheep/Blurp (SMW)/Deep Cheep/Big Deep Cheep • Dry Bones/Big Dry Bones/Parabones/Dry Bones Shell • Fire Bro/Heavy Fire Bro • Fire Piranha Plant/Big Fire Piranha • Fish Bone • Goomba/Big Goomba/Paragoomba/Big Paragoomba/Galoomba (SMW)/Big Galoomba (SMW)/Flying Goomba (SMW)/Para-Goomba (SMW)/ Goombrat/Kodeka Kakibō/Goombud (SMW)/Goomba Tower/Shoe Goomba/Stiletto Goomba • Hammer Bro/Sledge Bro • Hop-Chops • Horned Ant Trooper • Jelectro • Jumping Piranha Plant • Koopa Clown Car/Junior Clown Car/Fire Koopa Clown Car/Fire Junior Clown Car • Koopa Troopa/Big Koopa Troopa/Koopa Paratroopa/Big Koopa Paratroopa • Koopa Troopa Car • Koopalings^b (Larry · Morton · Wendy · Iggy · Roy · Lemmy · Ludwig) • Lakitu • Lava Bubble/Big Lava Bubble • Magikoopa/Big Magikoopa • Mechakoopa^b/Blasta Mechakoopa^b/Zappa Mechakoopa^b/Mega Mechakoopa^b • Monty Mole/Big Monty Mole • Muncher • Peepa • Piranha Creeper • Piranha Plant/Big Piranha Plant • Pokey^a/Snow Pokey^a • Pom Pom • Porcupuffer • Rocky Wrench • Skipsqueak • Spike^a/Mega Spike^a • Spike Ball^a/Giant Spiked Ball^a/Snowball^a • Spike Top/Spiky Parabuzzy • Spiny/Big Spiny/Spiny Shell • Spiny Egg • Spiny Skipsqueak • Stingby • Thwomp/Big Thwomp • Wiggler/Big Wiggler
	Gizmos	! Block • Arrow Sign • Banzai Bill • Bill Blaster/Bull's-Eye Blaster • Blinking Block • Bumper • Bull's-Eye Banzai/Cat Banzai Bill • Bull's-Eye Bill/Cat Bullet Bill • Bullet Bill • Burner • Cannon/Giant cannon • Conveyor Belt/ON/OFF Conveyor Belt • Checkpoint Flag • Crate • Dash Block^a • Fire Bar • Grinder • Icicle • Mushroom Trampoline/ON/OFF Trampoline^b • Key/Cursed Key^b • Lava Lift • Lift/Flimsy Lift/Cloud Lift • ON/OFF Switch/Dotted-Line Block • One-Way Wall • P Switch • POW Block • Red POW Block • Seesaw • Skewer • Snake Block • Swinging Claw • Track • Track Block • Trampoline • Tree • Twister • Vine • Warp Box/Warp Box (With Key) • Warp Door/P Warp Door/Key Door
	Miscellaneous	Starting blocks • Stone (Story Mode) • Toad (Story Mode) • Wings
Mario's moves		Charge jump^b (SMB) • Crawl (SM3DW) • Crouch • Crouch Jump (SM3DW) • Dash • Dive (SM3DW) • Double Jump (NSMBU) • Drill Spin (NSMBU & SM3DW^b) • Ground Pound (NSMBU & SM3DW) • Jump • Long Jump (SM3DW) • Midair Spin (NSMBU) • Roll (SM3DW) • Slide (all except SMB) • Spin Jump (SMW, NSMBU, & SM3DW) • Swim • Triple Jump (NSMBU) • Wall Jump (NSMBU & SM3DW)
Miscellaneous		Assist parts • Course Maker • Fan-made courses highlighted by Nintendo • Gallery • Glitches • Media • Mii outfits • Minigames^b (Catch & Win! • Match & Win! • Pop & Win!) • Ninji* • Peach's Castle • Phanto^b • Quotes • Sound effects • Staff • Yamamura's Dojo
^a In version 2.0 or later ^b In version 3.0 or later

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