Editing Boomerang Bro

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{{quote|What's wrong with you dodos? You WANT to get hit with my [[boomerang]]?|Boomerang Bro|[[Mario Super Sluggers]]}}

'''Boomerang Bros.''' are variants of [[Hammer Bro]]s. that specialize in the use of boomerangs for weapons. They first appear in ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', where their name is formatted '''Boomerang Brothers'''.<ref>{{cite|title=''Super Mario Bros. 3'' instruction booklet|page=41|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en|date=1990}}</ref><ref>{{cite|title=''NES Game Atlas'' Nintendo Player's Guide|page=48|publisher=Nintendo of America|date=Spring 1991|language=en}}</ref> Instead of throwing [[Hammer]]s like the Hammer Bros., Boomerang Bros. use [[Boomerang]]s that move back and forth to them. They are not as commonly found in the ''Super Mario'' franchise as their Hammer Brother relatives. The physical appearance of Boomerang Bros. has changed throughout the series. Early artwork depicts them identically to Hammer Bros. of that era, with orange skin along with black shells and helmets. The Boomerang Bros. in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' and ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' appear to be based on this coloration. In ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' and its remakes, they have green skin and striped underbellies. ''[[Mario Superstar Baseball]]'' started the trend of depicting Boomerang Bros. with yellow skin and blue shells and helmets. Most games since have retained this depiction.

[[File:SMB3 Boomerang Bros Artwork.jpg|thumb|left|Boomerang Brother's original design, as seen in their ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' artwork]]

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In their debut appearance in ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', Boomerang Brothers are green-skinned (sky blue in [[Treasure Ship]]s and {{world-link|8|tank3|World 8-Big Tanks}}) Hammer Brothers that throw multiple boomerangs that return to them. As with every other Hammer Brother variant, they face the player as they move back and forth in a small area, occasionally jumping and attacking with one or two projectiles at a time, and defeating them via [[stomp]]ing yields 1000 points, while defeating them with any other attack (hitting the block below them, [[Shell Toss|thrown shells]], [[fireball]]s, tail swipes from [[Raccoon Mario|Raccoon]] or [[Tanooki Mario]], hammers from [[Hammer Mario]], and contact with players made invincible by a [[Super Star|Starman]]) gives out only 100 points by default, unless the enemy was not one of the first to be defeated by the thrown shell. While they usually retrieve the boomerangs they throw, there are certain circumstances where they do not; namely, if the Boomerang Brother is eliminated before they can make contact with their boomerangs, if they jump over their own returning boomerangs, or if they throw their boomerang while jumping, causing it to fly over their heads upon its return (unless they jump and catch it at the last second); in these cases, the boomerangs continue traveling forward while onscreen, never looping back again.

Not counting Treasure Ships, a total of 11 Boomerang Brothers appear in the game, with six of them residing in [[Desert Land]]. Two separate individuals appear in [[World 1-3 (Super Mario Bros. 3)|World 1-3]], one in [[World 1-4 (Super Mario Bros. 3)|World 1-4]], two [[Enemy Course|patrolling]] the map of Desert Land (with one holding a [[Music Box]] and the other a [[hammer]]), three in [[World 2-4 (Super Mario Bros. 3)|World 2-4]], one by the end of {{world-link|2|desert|World 2-Desert}}, one as the boss of the aforementioned {{world-link|8|tank3|World 8-Big Tanks}}, and one as the penultimate enemy of the first [[World 8-Hand Traps|Hand Trap]].

Aside from these levels, a pair of Boomerang Brothers serve as the bosses of [[Treasure Ship]]s, special coin-filled airships that are summoned whenever the player fulfills certain conditions. In the [[Family Computer]] and {{wp|Western world|Western}} [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] releases, the Boomerang Brothers present in Treasure Ships and {{world-link|8|tank3|World 8-Big Tanks}} are sky blue as opposed to their usual green skin, due to the space in the data most commonly occupied by green palettes being replaced by a sky blue palette in artillery levels.<ref>[https://www.spriters-resource.com/nes/supermariobros3/sheet/25685/ Discussion on The Spriters Resource]</ref> Futhermore, Boomerang Brothers are represented by the same map icon as Hammer Brothers. In ''[[Super Mario All-Stars]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', Boomerang Brothers have their own map icons.

A total of nine Boomerang Brothers appear in [[World-e]]. One Boomerang Brother by the end of [[Slidin' the Slopes]] uses special blue [[boomerang]]s. When defeated, all of its boomerangs that are currently flying will drop to the ground, allowing the player to pick one up and use it for the rest of the level (provided that they catch it whenever it returns to them; otherwise, the boomerang will be lost). Two more appear in a Hand Trap-like section of [[Bowser's Last Stand]] (with the second one throwing blue boomerangs), another two in the first section of [[Koopaling Confusion]], a pair inside of [[Bowser's Airship 1]], and the last two inside [[Bowser's Airship 2]] (with the first one throwing blue boomerangs).

In ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'', Boomerang Bros. are rare enemies, with only five appearing, yet they are more common than other Hammer Bros. Only one appears in [[World 2-5 (New Super Mario Bros.)|World 2-5]], two appear in [[World 7-3 (New Super Mario Bros.)|World 7-3]], and two appear in [[World 8-7 (New Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-7]]. Boomerang Bros. retain their usual patterns, attacking Mario or Luigi by throwing boomerangs at them.

[[File:SMG2 Boom Bunker Boomerang Bros.png|thumb|left|Boomerang Bros. throwing boomerangs in [[Bowser Jr.'s Boom Bunker]] in ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'']]

Boomerang Bros. make their first 3D ''Super Mario'' appearance in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]''. They first appear at [[Bowser Jr.'s Boom Bunker]], and like the Hammer Bros., mostly appear in Bowser and Bowser Jr. galaxies. Three of them also appear at the end of the [[Grandmaster Galaxy]], where they have to be defeated to get the Power Star in [[The Ultimate Test|the first mission]] and the final [[Launch Star]] in [[The Perfect Run|the second mission]]. As usual, Boomerang Bros. use boomerangs to attack the player. If one is defeated while its boomerang is out, the boomerang will still turn around and fly back towards the area from which it was thrown until it hits a wall. Yoshi can catch the boomerangs with his tongue and then spit them out as weapons against the Boomerang Bros. The player can flip them over by using Yoshi's tongue, by jumping on them or via [[spin]]ning, and then walk into them to defeat them. It is possible to avoid boomerangs by crouching, and since Mario can walk while crouching, this makes it relatively easy to approach and defeat a Boomerang Bro.

Boomerang Bros. return once more in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]'' where they act in the same way as in the predecessors. They can only be found in the level [[Bouncy Cloud Boomerangs]] from [[Meringue Clouds]], which features five of them. In ''[[New Super Luigi U]]'', there are even fewer Boomerang Bros., but one can be found in the middle of [[All Aboard!]], an airship level which features every type of Hammer Brother, much like the first [[Hand Trap]] in ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]''. Three Boomerang Bros. appear in [[Above the Bouncy Clouds]], the game's equivalent of [[Bouncy Cloud Boomerangs]].

[[File:BoomerangBroSM3DW.png|110px|thumb|A Boomerang Bro from ''Super Mario 3D World'']]

In the short anime film ''[[Super Mario Momotarō]]'', a Boomerang Bro becomes the second creature to join forces with [[Mario]] on his mission to rescue [[Princess Peach]] after helping it get up from being stuck on its back. During the battle with [[Bowser]], the Boomerang Bro helps by hitting him on the head with its boomerang, as well as knocking out [[Iggy|Iggy Koopa]] with it. After the battle, the Boomerang Bro helps [[Mario]] deliver the treasures Bowser stole back to their rightful owners. He could represent the dog from [[wikipedia:Momotarō|Momotarō]].

[[File:BoomerangBros.jpg|thumb|Two Boomerang Brothers from ''The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3'' episode, "[[A Toadally Magical Adventure]]"]]

In ''[[Yoshi's Safari]]'', Boomerang Brothers occasionally appear as mini-bosses that attack Mario and [[Yoshi]] by throwing boomerangs at them. These Boomerang Brothers are difficult adversaries to defeat, as they possess a large amount of health and run back and forth quite quickly. Mario can knock away an incoming boomerang by blasting them with his [[Super Scope]].

A different kind of Boomerang Bro appeared in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]''. These Boomerang Bros., however, were rather tall and thin, wore sunglasses, and had sprouts growing from their heads. In [[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions|the remake]], these are renamed "Beanerang Bros.," with regular Boomerang Bros. now appearing in the new ''[[Minion Quest: The Search for Bowser]]'' story.

In ''Minion Quest'', Boomerang Bros. are ranged troopers, and attack by throwing their boomerangs at enemies. Their [[Special Skill (Mario & Luigi series)|Special Skill]], Piercing Projectile, allows them to throw a boomerang at a targeted enemy, damaging any other enemy in its path, along with hitting the targeted enemy a second time as it flies back. Boomerang Bros. are strong against [[Pokey]]s and [[Goomba Tower]]s. One is seen alongside [[Wendy]], who was wondering how [[Captain Goomba (Mario & Luigi series)|Captain Goomba]] and his Squad made it through the first round of the Cutie Contest without some [[Koopa Troopa]]s, which he confirms that they did not, causing him to get tackled by Wendy.

Boomerang Bros. appear in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey]]'' as enemies and recruitable allies in the ''[[Bowser Jr.'s Journey]]'' mode. They are strong against Pokeys, Goomba Towers and [[Toothy|Toothies]], but are weak against [[Parabones]].

{{quote|Boomerang! Bros.! Aw, two-for-one special on aisle three! Boomerang Bros. are outta their trees! Who cares if you swear a pair's unfair? We go together like pencils and pap-err!|Boomerang Bros.|[[Paper Mario: Sticker Star]]}}

Boomerang Bros. return in ''[[Paper Mario: Color Splash]]'', keeping their appearance and behavior from the previous game. They are only found in [[Sunset Express]], [[Green Energy Plant]] and [[Black Bowser's Castle]]. A circus version of them called [[Circus Bro]] appears in [[Mossrock Theater]] and during the battle with [[Lemmy]] in [[the Emerald Circus]].

Boomerang Bros. return in ''[[Paper Mario: The Origami King]]'', with origami Boomerang Bros. appearing as enemies. They appear in the [[Sea Tower]] and [[Origami Castle]]. When engaged in battle, Boomerang Bros. either attack by throwing boomerangs as they usually do, or they perform Super Bro Throw, which involves lifting another enemy and throwing it at Mario, which defeats the thrown enemy. Much like [[Fire Bro]]s. and [[Ice Bro]]s., Boomerang Bros. also have their own unique variant of the move, Bro-merang, which is the same as Super Bro Throw except for the fact that the thrown enemy hits Mario for a second time like a boomerang, making it the only Bro Throw variant that deals two hits.

[[File:BoomerangBroMSS.PNG|thumb|Boomerang Bro from ''Mario Super Sluggers'']]

====''Mario Kart 8''====

Boomerang Bros. appear in ''[[Mario Kart 8]]'' on the courses [[Bowser's Castle (Mario Kart 8)|Bowser's Castle]] and {{classic-link|3DS|Neo Bowser City}} as spectators. One of the sponsors in the game is [[Boomerang Bros. International Airlines]], which appears to be run by Boomerang Bros.

Boomerang Bros. are virtually identical to Hammer Bros. in appearance, featuring the same colored skin, belly plate, nose, and eyes, though with differences, such as wearing dark blue helmets, shoes, and shells. In comparison to Hammer Bros., Boomerang Bros. have maintained consistent designs more often. Official artwork of ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' depicted Boomerang Brother with somewhat darker yellow skin than in recent games, while his shoes, shell, and helmet are black. In-game, they are depicted with light green (occasionally blue) skin and white belly plates instead, likely due to technical limitations of the Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System; however, all other aspects of their design are faithful to their artwork. Boomerang Brothers' sprites in ''Super Mario All-Stars'' and ''Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3'' depict them with darker green skin, as well as tanned belly plates. ''Yoshi's Safari'' depicts Boomerang Bros. with off-white belly plates, green helmets, and shells, darker yellow skin, and no shoes, while also being very large, in the vein of both Hammer Bros. and Sledge Bros.

Though Boomerang Bros. did not have voice acting in earlier appearances, some games like ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' give them text dialogue. As of ''Mario Super Sluggers'', they have received voice acting from [[Motoki Takagi]], who also voices Hammer Bro, Fire Bro and [[Ice Bro]]. When voiced, Boomerang Bro's speech primarily consists of grunts and yells, but sometimes includes exclamations like ''"NO!"''.

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