Editing Bro Ball

[[File:Instructions4.png|thumb|Instructions for the Bros. Ball in ''Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time'']]

{{quote|I've dubbed this the Bros. Ball. Why you ask? Because you are bros. And you form a ball.|Toadsworth the Younger|Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time}}

The '''Bro Ball''', previously known as the '''Bros. Ball''', is a [[Bros. Move]] usable by [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] that appears in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time]]'' and ''[[Mario & Luigi: Brothership]]''. As its name implies, it involves the Bros. joining hands and feet and merging into a ball.

[[File:Bros._Ball.png|thumb|Bros. Ball being used in the [[Koopaseum]]]]

In ''Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time'', the move is taught to Mario and Luigi by [[Toadsworth]] and [[Toadsworth the Younger]] after [[Yoshi's Island (location)|Yoshi's Island]] is cleared and before the player heads for [[Gritzy Desert]], in which the move is required to clear a minigame in [[Peach's Castle]] to even gain access to the [[time hole]] leading to the area. When using this move, the Mario Bros. both form themselves into a wheel and start rolling along the ground like a ball, allowing them to traverse through areas faster. Additionally, the Bros. Ball lets Mario and Luigi go under walls and small spaces in the game.

Later on in the game, Mario and Luigi learn the ability to temporarily flatten [[Baby Mario]] and [[Baby Luigi]] so they can move under even smaller spaces. This move is called [[Baby Cakes]], and it is learned, along with the [[Baby Spin]], by the two Toadsworths after the player clears [[Gritzy Caves]] and before the quartet heads out to [[Thwomp Volcano]]. It is indicated that both people in a Bros. Ball have some influence on the ball's movement, as in creating Baby Cakes, Toadsworth the Younger drives their ball over [[Baby Peach]] while Toadsworth tries to prevent it.  

 

 

 

===''Super Mario-kun''===

[[File:BrosBall-4Bros SMKv37.png|thumb|left|Mario, Luigi, Baby Mario, and Baby Luigi rolled up in the four-brother version of the ball in ''Super Mario-kun'', volume 37]]

In the ''[[Super Mario-kun]]'' volumes adapted from ''Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time'', Mario and Luigi use the Bros. Ball as an attack rather than a utility move, where they smash into the [[Snoozorb]] in volume 35. Later, in volume 37, a four-brother variation of the Bros. Ball is used against the [[Elder Princess Shroob]].

|Jap=ブラザーボール<ref>[[:File:BrosBall-4Bros SMKv37.png|Image from the ''Super Mario-kun'', volume 37]]</ref>

|JapR=Burazā Bōru

|JapM=Brother Ball

|ChiR=Xiōngdì Qiú

|ChiM=Brother Ball

|DutM=Duo Ball

|Fre2M=Portmanteau of ''frère'' ("brother") and ''boule'' ("ball")

|ItaM=Brothers Ball

|Ita2M=Ball