Mega Guy

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Template:Species-infobox Mega Guys[1], also known as Big Shy Guys[2], Giant Shy Guys[3], or Mega Shy Guys[4], are Shy Guys that are larger than normal.

History

Yoshi's Island series

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

In Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, big Shy Guys[5] appear during the boss fight with Prince Froggy. Yoshi must eat them to produce the Giant Eggs needed to damage the boss. These big Shy Guys are technically about the size of a regular Shy-Guy, if not actually smaller, but are large in relation to Yoshi and Baby Mario, who are shrunken by Kamek.

Yoshi's New Island

In Yoshi's New Island, Mega Guys spawn from large pipes, and unlike the game's regular-sized Shy Guys, they are impervious to stomps and constantly walk forward, only turning around once they reach a wall. Yoshi can swallow them to turn them into Mega Eggdozers, which can be used to destroy otherwise indestructible obstacles. Mega Guys require a bit more effort than normal to swallow, as the player has to rapidly press A Button to do it. A metallic variant known as Metal Guys also appear, which are used to make Metal Eggdozers.

Super Mario Advance

Big Shy Guys appear in Super Mario Advance. They act much like normal Shyguys, except that they provide a Heart when they are thrown at the ground or defeated. They take a few more seconds to be picked up due to their heavy size.

Super Mario-kun

Giant Shy Guy. Page 41, volume 26 of Super Mario-kun.
A Big Shy Guy in Super Mario-kun

In the small short that concludes the chapter in volume 26 of Super Mario-kun, a Big Shy Guy attacks Mario, Goombario, and Kooper. It then pits Mario against Robirdo. Mario, however, grabs the Big Shy Guy and throws it against Robirdo, defeating both.

WarioWare: D.I.Y. Showcase

In WarioWare: D.I.Y. Showcase, a Big Shy Guy is one of the enemies that can appear in the microgame Mario Adv.

Mario Tennis Aces

In Mario Tennis Aces, a black Mega Guy appears in Snowball Fight, acting as a regular Shy Guy. In addition to the aforementioned type appearing in blue, in Ver. 2.3.0 onwards, much bigger black Mega Guy bandits wearing yellow or red bandanas are encountered individually in the added Shy Guy Train Tussle Co-op Challenge. They have increased health and can be attacked by either hitting back the projectiles shot by the four cannons overhead or hitting back the Bob-ombs tossed by it. When defeated, they drop a key to a golden treasure chest with coins.

Other appearances

Big Shy Guys appear in an early trailer of Yoshi's Story, though they are not present in the final game.[6] They also appear in the Yoshi Demo, where stomping one would turn it into a regular Shy Guy.

Gallery

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
Japanese ビッグヘイホー[7]
Biggu Heihō
メガヘイホー[8]
Mega Heihō

Big Shy Guy (Super Mario Advance)

Mega Shy Guy (Yoshi's New Island)

Italian Mega Tipo Timido
Mega Shy Guy
Korean 메가헤이호
MegaHeyho
Mega Shy Guy

Russian Мегаскромняга
Megaskromnyaga
Mega Shy Guy

References

  1. ^ "One way to get a Mega Eggdozer is by swallowing a Mega Guy." - Yoshi's New Island digital instruction manual, Page 13 / 17 All about Eggs.
  2. ^ Arnold, J. Douglas, James Yamada, and Mark Elies. Super Mario Advance Official Perfect Guide. Pages 2 and 6.
  3. ^ Stratton, Bryan. Super Mario Advance Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Page 7.
  4. ^ Yoshi's New Island trailer description
  5. ^ Williams, Drew. Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 Player's Guide. Page 60. "Food Fight Slurp up the big Shy Guys to make extra-large Eggs, then shoot Prince Froggy’s uvula (the thing dangling from the top of the screen). Don’t worry too much about aiming."
  6. ^ Hard4Games (April 11, 2020). Beta Kirby’s Air Ride & Goldeneye Rail-Shooter - VHS Preservation!. YouTube. Retrieved June 5, 2020.
  7. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20190509010638/https://21010.net/club/bn/agb/amaj/pdf/p006_009.pdf
  8. ^ 「ヨッシー New アイランド 任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (Yoshi's New Island Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook), page 26.