Talk:Megasparkle Goomba

Might this be a reappearance of Mega Goomba?

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There are fiveworld bosses given the "Bosu" naming scheme in Japanese. Two of them are definitely recurring, those being dancing Gooper Blooper and Shiny Petey Time. Tower Power Pokey and Mizzter Blizzard are definitely new. This leaves this guy, who conspicuously shared the JP name of Mega Goomba. Not only that, but the English names are similar too, just with "sparkle" randomly crammed in. It's been a while since I played the game, but the sticker-corrupted Megasparkle Goomba did tend to cram the word "sparkle" wherever he could if I recall correctly. Now, what remains is their different origins; one is an enlarged Goomba, another is a huge conglomeration of Goombas in one body. I don't think this should mater, as both have additionally been used for the Goomba King. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 01:24, November 16, 2019 (EST)

I'm gonna say it's a coincidence. This is just a byproduct of the Japanese names' tendency to generically call everything "Boss X" or "Big X" instead of expending effort coming up with actual interesting names. When Sticker Star came out, those NSMB bosses were one-offs who hadn't been seen in years, and they still are. I doubt they were even thinking about that NSMB boss when coming up with Megasparkle. 03:21, November 16, 2019 (EST)

In fairness, the Mega Goomba boss from New Super Mario Bros. was mentioned again in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, showing that it was still on Nintendo's mind for a while (or at least, whoever wrote the Giant Goomba trophy). That said, “transcreation” is a distinct possibility. LinkTheLefty (talk) 08:44, November 16, 2019 (EST)

Thing is the "Bosu" system was really only in place for Sunshine, Pinball Land, NSMB, and this game, with Petey Piranha being in every single one of them. I feel there's the distinct possibility that they brought back another. Gooper Blooper hadn't been used for years either, but he's still definitely him. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 12:13, November 16, 2019 (EST)

You're actually wrong about Gooper Blooper - his last appearance before Sticker Star was only a year earlier, and he made a few other appearances as well. The NSMB bosses have been MIA since 2006. In addition, Petey and Gooper are much more distinct and recognizable in that they're not just vanilla giant versions of regular enemies, while Mega Goomba and Megasparkle are absolutely that. 16:25, November 16, 2019 (EST)

They're giant versions of the wonkass versions of those respective enemies from those bosses' first game, except they didn't evolve to not be wonkass. On an additional note, I'd consider Mega Goomba to be the "most likely to return NSMB boss aside from Dry Bowser" (who is certainly not MIA) due to its development history making it a tad more notable than the rest. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 16:54, November 16, 2019 (EST)

They're not vanilla giant versions, as in having no distinguishing characteristics outside of their size. Ordinary Piranha Plants in SMS do not have legs or flower petals, nor do they wear red briefs (weirdly enough, they're also toothless, while Petey isn't). Gooper Blooper is a bit closer to his non-boss kin, but he still has very different tentacles and his head is spotted and shaped differently. So he's not just "the same thing, but bigger" even in his debut game, while Mega Goomba definitely is. 17:46, November 16, 2019 (EST)

The other NSMB "bosu" enemies weren't either, but that's still not really a valid way of saying "lol they can't be the same" Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 18:05, November 16, 2019 (EST)

I find a hard time believing that these were meant to be the same entity. While they share a Japanese name, that name is incredibly generic as 7feetunder pointed out. Even the concept for both of these bosses is generic, Megasparkle Goomba a bit less so. Making Goombas or standard enemies in general really big isn't exactly a groundbreaking concept NSMB came up with, especially when it comes to the Mario series. -- Too Bad! Waluigi Time! 18:27, November 16, 2019 (EST)

You could say pretty much the exact same thing with the amount of stuff we clump into the Big Boo article, and yet we still do. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 18:29, November 16, 2019 (EST)

Those other bosses aren't the focal point of this discussion though. They have distinct designs. Mega Goomba does not. NSMB is not the only game with a generic giant Goomba as a boss, so the fact that they happened to use the same generic naming scheme for the bosses in Sticker Star that they did for NSMB and multiple other games is not enough to prove that this specific one was an intended NSMB reference. Also, "lol they can't be the same" is not a valid summation of my comments. It's more like "there's not enough evidence that they are the same." 18:47, November 16, 2019 (EST)

Again note the Big Boo point. Regardless, I feel at the very least it should be noted on each page that they may have been intended as the same thing. (Sorry about the strawmanning, it's just annoying when you finally get a response only immediately after a memory card decides to dump all its data for no reason) Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 19:09, November 16, 2019 (EST)