Editing Big Blooper (Super Paper Mario)

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|image=[[File:SPMBigBlooper.png|200px]]<br>Sprite from ''Super Paper Mario''
|species=[[Big Blooper]]
|first_appearance=''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' ([[List of games by date#2007|2007]])
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'''[[Big Blooper]]''' is a boss who fights the protagonists in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' during Chapter 3-2. Its theme is an arrangement of the underwater music from ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]''. 

This gigantic [[Blooper]] blocks the way through [[the Tile Pool]] and prevents [[Mario]], [[Princess Peach]] and [[Bowser]], from moving on to [[Fort Francis]]. There are a few options for offense against it. The player may jump on the tentacles when they are sticking up out of the water. The player may also use [[Thudley]] to ground-pound the tentacles or use Bowser's [[Fire Breath]] to singe them. The fiery-breath may be the safer choice, as the player will lose [[Heart Point]]s if they miss when ground pounding, but it takes longer. Slamming or burning the blue tentacles makes the more-sensitive red tentacles bob upward with more frequency. If [[Mario]] goes into 3D and tries to leave, the Big Blooper's tentacles will block the way.

Defeating Big Blooper does not earn the player any points, and the giant squid is not killed by the encounter. If the player enters the area where the Blooper's tentacles come out of the floor and ceiling, Big Blooper can be tattled using [[Tippi]] or [[Tiptron]].

In the Japanese version of the game, Big Blooper's [[Catch Card]] describes it as hailing from the western seas, a reference to the [[Blooper (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)|Blooper]] from ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', who is also said to hail from the western seas.<ref>{{cite|author=inu651225|date=October 23, 2010|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmnG1YznKq0&t=577s|title=スーパーペーパーマリオ　全カード集｛ネタばれ注意｝|timestamp=9:37|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=February 5, 2025}}</ref>
==Profiles and statistics==
===''Super Paper Mario''===
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==Gallery==
<gallery>
BigBlooper.png|Bowser fighting Big Blooper.
SPM Big Blooper Tentacles.png|Big Blooper's weak spot (the red tentacle) seen on the far right.
Bloop.png|Peach, Tippi and the [[List of Super Paper Mario pre-release and unused content|cut]] Pixl battling the Big Blooper in a pre-release screenshot.
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=ダイオーゲッソー
|JpnR=Daiō Gessō
|JpnM=Great King Blooper; likely a reference to「ダイオウイカ」(''daiō ika'', {{wp|giant squid}})
|Fre=Méga Bloups
|FreM=Mega Blooper
|Ger=Mega-Blooper
|GerM=Mega Blooper
|Kor=거대징오
|KorR=Geodae Jing-o
|KorM=Giant Blooper
|Ita=GigaCalamako
|ItaM=GigaBlooper
|Spa=Blooper Gigante
|SpaM=Giant Blooper
}}

==References==
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[[Category:Super Paper Mario bosses]]
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