Editing Bat (Super Mario Galaxy)

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{{species infobox
|image=[[File:SMG Bat Artwork.png|200x200px]]<br>Artwork from ''Super Mario Galaxy''
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' ([[List of games by date#2007|2007]])
|latest_appearance=''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'' (2023)
|variant_of=[[Swoop]]
|variants=[[Ice bat]]
}}
'''Bats'''<ref>{{cite|author=Black, Fletcher|title=''Super Mario Galaxy: PRIMA Official Game Guide''|format=Collector's Edition|location=Roseville|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|language=en-us|date=November 9, 2007|page=134–135|isbn=978-0-7615-5713-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=Browne, Catherine|language=en-us|title=''Super Mario Galaxy 2: PRIMA Official Game Guide''|location=Roseville|publisher=Random House Inc|date=May 23, 2010|page=237|isbn=978-0-30746-907-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite|language=en|url=www.nintendo.co.jp/character/mario/archives/galaxy/?lang=en|title=English ''Super Mario Galaxy'' entry on the official Mario Portal|publisher=nintendo.co.jp|archive=archive.today/2022.08.12-233909/https://www.nintendo.co.jp/character/mario/archives/galaxy/?lang=en|accessdate=June 3, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite|url=www.nintendo.co.jp/character/mario/archives/galaxy2/?lang=en|title=English ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'' entry on the official Mario Portal|publisher=nintendo.co.jp|language=en|accessdate=June 3, 2024|archive=archive.today/2022.08.12-233946/https://www.nintendo.co.jp/character/mario/archives/galaxy2/?lang=en}}</ref> are [[Swoop]]-like enemies in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]''. They have pig-like noses and bulging, glowing eyes with faint rings on them, causing them to resemble [[Keese]] from ''{{iw|zeldawiki|The Legend of Zelda (Series)|The Legend of Zelda}}'', particularly their incarnation from ''{{iw|zeldawiki|The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess}}''. The two games were in development at overlapping times, so this may be intentional.

On ''[[The Nintendo Spooky Baddies gallery]]'' published on [[Play Nintendo]] circa 2014, the bats are referred to as "'''Swoopers'''." Because these enemies were erroneously interpreted as Swoops (which were known as "Swoopers" at the time) on the Super Mario Wiki [[Talk:Swoop#Split Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 info into "Bat (Super Mario Galaxy)"|until 2017]], this is potentially {{wp|circular reporting}}.

==History==
===''Super Mario'' series===
====''Super Mario Galaxy''====
The bats first appear in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''. Initially, bats are found either hanging from the ceiling or flying around aimlessly. When [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]] approaches, they fly in close to him, before attempting to fly straight into him. If they succeed, they will laugh at him. They can be defeated with a [[spin]] or [[stomp]], and they release either three [[Star Bit]]s or one [[coin]] for these methods, respectively. They are found primarily in dark locations. A frosty version called the [[ice bat]] also exists.

=====Appearances=====
<div class="contentbox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"data-expandtext="Show appearances"data-collapsetext="Hide appearances">
*[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png]] marks missions where they are completely absent.
*[[File:Galaxy StarP.png]] marks missions where they are loaded and may be visible, but cannot be encountered directly.
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!colspan=8|Starts hanging
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!Domes
!Galaxies
!colspan=6|Missions
|-
|[[Kitchen (Super Mario Galaxy)|Kitchen]]
|[[Beach Bowl Galaxy]]
|[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Sunken Treasure]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Passing the Swim Test]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=The Secret Undersea Cavern]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Fast Foes on the Cyclone Stone]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Beachcombing for Purple Coins]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Wall Jumping up Waterfalls]]
|-
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!colspan=8|Starts flying
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!Domes
!Galaxies
!colspan=6|Missions
|-
|[[Kitchen (Super Mario Galaxy)|Kitchen]]
|[[Ghostly Galaxy]]
|[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Luigi and the Haunted Mansion]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=A Very Spooky Sprint]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Beware of Bouldergeist]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Bouldergeist's Daredevil Run]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Purple Coins in the Bone Pen]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Matter Splatter Mansion]]
|-
|[[Engine Room]]
|[[Toy Time Galaxy]]
|[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Heavy Metal Mecha-Bowser]]||[[File:Galaxy StarP.png|link=Mario Meets Mario]]||[[File:Galaxy StarP.png|link=Bouncing Down Cake Lane]]||[[File:Galaxy StarP.png|link=Fast Foes of Toy Time]]||[[File:Galaxy StarP.png|link=Luigi's Purple Coins]]||[[File:Galaxy StarP.png|link=The Flipswitch Chain]]
|}
</div>

====''Super Mario Galaxy 2''====
[[File:SMG2 Bats Attacking.png|thumb|left|Two bats attacking Luigi in the [[Slimy Spring Galaxy]]]]
Bats return in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', where they are less common than before and always appear flying rather than hanging. Otherwise, they act the same as before.

=====Appearances=====
<div class="contentbox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"data-expandtext="Show appearances"data-collapsetext="Hide appearances">
*[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png]] marks missions where they are completely absent.
*[[File:Galaxy StarP.png]] marks missions where they are loaded and may be visible, but cannot be encountered directly.
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!Worlds
!Galaxies
!colspan=2|Missions
|-
|[[World 5 (Super Mario Galaxy 2)|World 5]]
|[[Fleet Glide Galaxy]]
|[[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Fluzzard's Wild Battlefield Glide]]||[[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Fastest Feathers in the Galaxy]]
|-
|[[World 6 (Super Mario Galaxy 2)|World 6]]
|[[Slimy Spring Galaxy]]
|[[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=The Deep Shell Well]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=The Chimp's Coin Challenge]]
|}
</div>
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===''The Super Mario Bros. Movie''===
[[File:TSMBM Bat.jpg|thumb|Bats in ''The Super Mario Bros. Movie'']]
In ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'', bats appear as one of the creatures inhabiting the [[Dark Land]]s. They also appear during the [[Bowser's Minions|Koopa Troop]]'s celebration of obtaining the [[Super Star]] and in one of the film's posters, which depicts the scene where Luigi is captured by [[Shy Guy]]s.<ref>{{file link|The Super Mario Bros. Movie official poster 3.jpg|Poster for ''The Super Mario Bros. Movie'' featuring bats in the background}}</ref> Unlike in the games, bats have visible mouths with fangs, and their eyes are spinning swirls rather than concentric rings.
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==Gallery==
<gallery>
SMG Bat Model.png|Model from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''
The Nintendo Spooky Baddies gallery image 7.jpg|Screenshot from ''[[The Nintendo Spooky Baddies gallery]]''
The Super Mario Bros. Movie official poster 3.jpg|Poster for ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]''
</gallery>

==Additional names==
===Internal names===
{{internal names
|game1=''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''<br>''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]''
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|name1=BasaBasa
|meaning1=Transliteration of below
|game2=''Super Mario Galaxy''<br>''Super Mario Galaxy 2''
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|name2=バサバサ (''Basa Basa'')
|meaning2=[[Swoop#Names in other languages|Swoop]]
}}

===Names in other languages===
{{foreign names
|Jpn=バットン<ref>{{cite|author=Sakai, Kazuya (Ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors|title=『[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック]]』|language=ja|location=Tokyo|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|date=2015|page=128, 160}}</ref>
|JpnR=Batton
|JpnM=Derived from "bat" and possibly「豚」(''ton'', "pig" in the on'yomi reading), most likely because of their pig-like nose; shared with [[Enigma]]'s Japanese name
|Fre=Chauve-souris
|FreM=Bat
|Ger=Flappflapp
|GerM=Same as [[Swoop]]
|Ita=Pippy<ref>Guida PRIMA ufficiale di ''Super Mario Galaxy'', pagina 134-135.</ref><ref>Guida PRIMA ufficiale di ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'', pagina 237.</ref>
|ItaM=Diminutive of ''pipistrello'' ("bat")
|Spa=Vampílago
|SpaM=Same as Swoop
}}

==Trivia==
*The internal filename for this enemy in both games is a romanization of the Japanese name for "Swoop."<ref name=internal/> The official Japanese name for "bat" is shared with "[[Enigma]]," another pig-nosed bat, from ''[[Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars]]''.

==References==
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[[Category:Swoops]]
[[Category:Super Mario Galaxy enemies]]
[[Category:Super Mario Galaxy 2 enemies]]
[[Category:Super Mario Galaxy trading cards]]
[[Category:The Super Mario Bros. Movie characters]]
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