Mechawiggler

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Template:Character-infobox Mechawiggler[1] is a massive insectoid robot from Super Mario Odyssey. It is found at night in the Metro Kingdom. Despite being ostensibly based off of a Wiggler, it bears little resemblance to them. It has five glowing orange eyes, a cyan and pink plasma globe embedded into each segment including the head, and yellow electricity-producing rods surrounding said globes.

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Mario battling Mechawiggler.

Mechawiggler is initially found covered in electricity on the lightning rod of New Donk City Hall. Once Mario reaches the top, it briefly crawls around the rod a few times before stopping and shrieking, followed by it charging Mario off the side of the building. Mechawiggler then proceeds to pursue the falling Mario down the side of the building. Mario ends up landing on his feet shaken, but no worse for wear. Mechawiggler then confronts Mario while crawling along the front of the building, occasionally stopping to shoot a few homing balls of electricity the size of the plasma globes at him. Mario must capture a nearby Sherm, avoid the balls of electricity, and shoot Mechawiggler's weak points, the plasma globes, which go dark, along with the electric rods, after one hit each. Once all the globes have been destroyed, Mechawiggler stops moving entirely while the globes glow faintly along the cracked surfaces, and Cappy urges Mario to start shooting at it even more, which in turn causes Mechawiggler to squirm around before eventually getting covered in miniature explosions with another shriek. Mechawiggler then gets angry and turns orange, and begins moving faster, and phases through the wall of City Hall, obscuring him from Mario's view. However, Mechawiggler's movement inside the building is marked with a spark of electricity along the outside wall moving to the ground, followed by a large purple aura appearing for several seconds, marking Mechawiggler's point of attack. When this happens, it rushes out from the purple vortex in a straight line at an immense speed along the ground. Mechawiggler continues the pattern of through various surrounding walls a few times, before going back onto a wall, still angry, and shoots four electric spheres. After this, it calms down, and its plasma globes relight, now a pink color. It continues crawling along, now at the same speed as during the first phase, and still shoots electric spheres. Mario must again destroy the plasma globes. However, now Mechawiggler will become angry potentially before he's finished, and make a single charge across the ground, before climbing onto another wall, where it calms down after shooting more electricity, allowing Mario to continue. Once all the globes have been hit again, Mario must start attacking Mechawiggler in rapid succession yet again, eventually defeating it.[2]

Once defeated, Mechawiggler, covered in electricity, shrieks one more time, before exploding from tail to head, releasing a Multi Moon.

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