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[[Image:Bookend.png|thumb|right|A '''Bookend''' coming after [[Mario]].]]
|image=[[File:BookendSM64.png|200x200px]]<br>Model from ''Super Mario 64''
A '''Bookend''' is a large living book with sharp teeth that comes out of book shelves and flies toward [[Mario]]. The green books disappear if they hit anything, including Mario. They are found solely in [[Big Boo's Haunt]] in the games ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' and the [[Nintendo DS|DS]] remake ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''.
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario 64]]'' ([[List of games by date#1996|1996]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario 3D All-Stars]]'' ([[List of games by date#2020|2020]])
|relatives=[[Mad Piano]]
|comparable=[[Book]]<br>[[Chair]]
}}
'''Bookends'''<ref>{{cite|author=Pelland Scott, and Dan Owsen|date=1996|title=''Super Mario 64'' Player's Guide|publisher=[[Nintendo Power]]|language=en-us|page=10, 52, and 54}}</ref> are [[List of enemies|enemies]] in ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' and ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''. They are living book creatures. Their name is taken from {{iw|wikipedia|bookend|a word}} referring to a shelving accessory used to keep a row of books upright.
==History==
===''Super Mario 64'' / ''Super Mario 64 DS''===
[[File:Bookend.png|thumb|left|A Bookend about to attack Mario in ''Super Mario 64'']]
Bookends appear only in the course [[Big Boo's Haunt]]. There are two types of Bookends. Members of the first type possess sharp teeth and disguise themselves as regular books within a bookshelf. If [[Mario]], [[Luigi]], or [[Wario]] gets close enough, they slide out, open their mouths, and charge through the air at him to attack. The green books disappear if they hit anything, including the player character. Attacking them gives the player character a [[Blue Coin]] and destroys the books. Members of the second type are found in only one room, the library, where they are found in infinite numbers. Members of this type are smaller, never open their mouths, and fly quickly from one shelf to the other in order to attack the player character. If the player character inputs the sequence to open the hidden door incorrectly, a Bookend hits him instead. Getting attacked by either type of Bookend results in losing two wedges of [[Health Meter|health]].
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===''Mario Party'' series===
Bookends have a few minor appearances in the [[Mario Party (series)|''Mario Party'' series]]. In ''[[Mario Party 8]]'', Bookends appear in [[King Boo's Haunted Hideaway]], where they hover around in the rooms instead of lunging at players. In ''[[Mario Party DS]]'', Bookends are enemies in the minigame [[Book Bash]], where they flap at the player character down the corridor as they make their way to [[Kamek]].
 
==Gallery==
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Big Boo's Haunt side image SMKun.png|''[[Super Mario-kun]]''
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==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=キラーブック
|JapR=Kirā Bukku
|JapM=Killer Book; compare [[Mad Piano#Names in other languages|Killer Piano]]
|JapC=<ref>{{cite|author=Motomiya, Shusuke (One Up),Yasuhiro Nemoto, Hideki Endo, Yuta Naoi, and Noriko Tsuyuki, editors|title=「キャラクター図鑑」 in 『スーパーマリオ64完全クリアガイド』|url=hit930.sakura.ne.jp/hitjapan/book9/P140325214.JPG|date=1996|language=ja|location=Tokyo|publisher=Media Factory|page=13|isbn=4-88991-411-0}}</ref>
|Ger=Vampuch
|GerM=From ''vamp'' ("vampire") and ''buch'' ("book")
|Ger2=Taddäus<ref>{{cite|author=Kraft, John D., Thomas Görg, and Marko Hein, editors|title=''Der offizielle Nintendo 64 Spieleberater "Super Mario 64"''|language=de|location=Großostheim|publisher=[[Nintendo|Nintendo of Europe GmbH]]|date=1997|page=9}}</ref>
|Ita=Mad Libro<ref>{{cite|date=November 15, 2018|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|publisher=Magazzini Salani|language=it|isbn=889367436X|page=86}}</ref>
|ItaM=Mad Book
}}
 
==References==
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Bookends often only come out if Mario gets too close to them, and they attack faster as the plumber is closer to them. If Mario [[Jump]]s below the possesed books, they disappear and release a [[Blue Coin]]. If Mario is hit by a Bookend, he loses two life points. They are different foes from [[Creepy Castle]]'s [[Book]]
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