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{{about|the Banzai Bill variant|the [[kart]] in [[Mario Kart Tour]]|[[Bull's-Eye Banzai (kart)]]}}  
{{about|the Banzai Bill variant|the [[kart]] in [[Mario Kart Tour]]|[[Bull's-Eye Banzai (kart)]]}}  
{{species infobox
{{species infobox
|image=[[File:SMM2 NSMBU BullsEyeBanzai.png|200px]]<br>Model from the ''New Super Mario Bros. U'' style in ''Super Mario Maker 2''
|image=[[File:SMM2 NSMBU BullsEyeBanzai.png|200px]]
|first_appearance=''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'' ([[List of games by date#2009|2009]])
|first_appearance=''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'' ([[List of games by date#2009|2009]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario Maker 2]]'' ([[List of games by date#2019|2019]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario Maker 2]]'' ([[List of games by date#2019|2019]])
|variant_of=[[Bull's-Eye Bill]]<br>[[Bomber Bill]]
|variant_of=[[Bull's-Eye Bill]]<br>[[Banzai Bill]]
|relatives=[[Cat Banzai Bill]]
|relatives=[[Cat Banzai Bill]]
}}
}}
{{quote|The red ones have a homing function. Watch out!|Narrator|Super Mario Maker 2 Direct 5.15.2019}}
'''Bull's-Eye Banzais''' are the red heat-seeking variants of [[Banzai Bill]]s and a larger variety of [[Bull's-Eye Bill]]s. They attack by homing in on the player. Bull's-Eye Banzais were originally referred to as '''King Bills'''<ref>{{cite|author=Bueno, Fernando|title=''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' PRIMA Official Game Guide|page=179|date=November 15, 2009|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|language=en-us|isbn=978-0-307-46592-4}}</ref> like the other large versions of the [[Bullet Bill]]s, such as [[Banzai Bill]]s<ref>{{cite|author=Bueno|title=''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' PRIMA Official Game Guide|page=16, 138, 142}}</ref> and the actual [[King Bill]]s.<ref>{{cite|author=Bueno|title=''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' PRIMA Official Game Guide|page=189}}</ref>
'''Bull's-Eye Banzais''', referred to as '''Bull's-Eye Bomber Bills''' on Mario Portal,<ref>{{cite|url=www.nintendo.co.jp/character/mario/archives/new_smb_wii/?lang=en|title=English ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' entry on the official Mario Portal|publisher=nintendo.co.jp|language=en|accessdate=August 13, 2022|archive=archive.today/2022.08.13-145656/https://www.nintendo.co.jp/character/mario/archives/new_smb_wii/?lang=en}},</ref> are red [[Bomber Bill|Banzai Bill]]s and a larger variety of [[Bull's-Eye Bill]]s that debuted in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]''. They attack by homing in on the player character.


In the [[Prima Games]] guidebook produced for ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'', neither of the Banzai Bills—including the returning black ones<ref>{{cite|author=Bueno|title=''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' PRIMA Official Game Guide|page=16, 138, 142}}</ref>—are provided individual names, with both of them instead referred to as "'''King Bills'''."<ref>{{cite|author=Bueno, Fernando|title=''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' PRIMA Official Game Guide|page=179|date=November 15, 2009|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|language=en-us|isbn=978-0-307-46592-4}}</ref> This name is shared with [[King Bill|another giant Bullet Bill variant]] introduced in ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''<ref>{{cite|author=Bueno|title=''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' PRIMA Official Game Guide|page=189}}</ref> and the only enemy referred to as a "King Bill" in subsequent games. The name "Bull's-Eye Banzai" was first introduced in ''[[Super Mario Maker 2]]'', resulting in this red Banzai Bill enemy being unnamed in English for about a decade.
Similarly-behaving Banzai Bills called [[Cat Banzai Bill]]s appears in ''[[Super Mario 3D World]]'' and its [[Nintendo Switch]] port ''[[Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury]]''.
==History==
==History==
===''Super Mario'' series===
===''Super Mario'' series===
====''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''====
====''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''====
[[File:NSMBW Bull's-Eye Banzai Screenshot.png|200px|thumb|left|Mario encountering Bull's-Eye Banzais]]
[[File:NSMBW Bull's-Eye Banzai Screenshot.png|200px|thumb|left|Mario encounters a King Bill]]
Bull's-Eye Banzais are enemies in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]''. They are encountered in [[World 9-3 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)|World 9-3]] only. Unlike [[Bull's-Eye Bill|Missile Bills]], they only have a limited homing ability where they will track their target's vertical position and then continue forward once they reach that height. Their animation is very limited as well, always maintaining a horizontal position and never turning to point at their target. It can be defeated by being [[stomp]]ed or if touched while under the effects of a [[Super Star|Star]]. A Bull's-Eye Banzai cannot be frozen by an ice ball, which will break the ice and release itself when the ice ball reaches it. Likewise, [[POW Block]]s are useless against them.
King Bills, also referred to as '''Bull's-Eye Bomber Bills''',<ref>{{cite|url=www.nintendo.co.jp/character/mario/archives/new_smb_wii/?lang=en|title=English ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' entry on the official Mario Portal|publisher=nintendo.co.jp|language=en|accessdate=August 13, 2022|archive=archive.today/2022.08.13-145656/https://www.nintendo.co.jp/character/mario/archives/new_smb_wii/?lang=en}}</ref> are enemies in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]''. They are encountered in [[World 9-3 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)|World 9-3]] only. Unlike [[Bull's-Eye Bill|Missile Bills]], they only have a limited homing ability where they will track their target's vertical position and then continue forward once they reach that height. Their animation is very limited as well, always maintaining a horizontal position and never turning to point at their target. A Bull's-Eye Banzai can be defeated from being [[stomp]]ed or if touched while under the effects of a [[Super Star|Star]]. A King Bill cannot be frozen by an ice ball, which will break the ice and release itself when the ice ball reaches it. Likewise, [[POW Block]]s are useless against them.


An [[list of New Super Mario Bros. Wii pre-release and unused content|unfinished]] setting exists suggesting some [[Banzai Bill Cannon]]s would have fired them, something that never occurs during gameplay.
An [[list of New Super Mario Bros. Wii pre-release and unused content|unfinished]] setting exists suggesting some cannons would have fired them, something that never occurs during gameplay.
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The Bull's-Eye Banzai is the only enemy introduced in ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' to not appear in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]''.
====''Super Mario 3D World'' / ''Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury'' ====
Although they do not appear in ''[[Super Mario 3D World]]'' and its [[Nintendo Switch]] port ''[[Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury]]'', another Banzai Bill variant, the [[Cat Banzai Bill]], behaves similarly.
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====''Super Mario Maker 2''====
====''Super Mario Maker 2''====
Bull's-Eye Banzais appear in ''[[Super Mario Maker 2]]''. Unlike previously, they can move a full 360° to track players like the Bull's-Eye Bill, and the marks on their eyes are red, like the normal Banzai Bill, instead of black. In a vein similar to Banzai Bills, Bull's-Eye Banzais also receive new designs for all of the present game styles, consisting of a solid red coloration of the original designs. They are replaced by Cat Banzai Bills in the ''Super Mario 3D World'' style. Additionally, Bull's-Eye Banzais in the ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' style have extremely subtle differences in their sprites between day and night, with the night ones having one less vertical line of outline pixels behind the domed area.<ref>{{cite|url=www.spriters-resource.com/nintendo_switch/supermariomaker2/sheet/119432|title=Nintendo Switch - ''Super Mario Maker 2'' - Enemies (SMB3)|publisher=The Spriters Resource|accessdate=July 6, 2024}}</ref>
Bull's-Eye Banzais appear under their current name in ''[[Super Mario Maker 2]]''. Unlike previously, they can move a full 360° to track players like the Bull's-Eye Bill, and the marks on their eyes are red, like the normal Banzai Bill, instead of black. In a vein similar to Banzai Bills, Bull's-Eye Banzais also receive new designs for all of the present game styles, consisting of a solid red coloration of the original designs. They are replaced by Cat Banzai Bills in the ''Super Mario 3D World'' style. Additionally, Bull's-Eye Banzais in the ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' style have extremely subtle differences in their sprites between day and night, with the night ones having one less vertical line of outline pixels behind the domed area.<ref>{{cite|url=www.spriters-resource.com/nintendo_switch/supermariomaker2/sheet/119432|title=Nintendo Switch - ''Super Mario Maker 2'' - Enemies (SMB3)|publisher=The Spriters Resource|accessdate=July 6, 2024}}</ref>


===''Mario Kart Tour''===
===''Mario Kart Tour''===
[[File:MKT Icon BullsEyeBanzai.png|150px|thumb|The Bull's-Eye Banzai kart]]
[[File:MKT Icon BullsEyeBanzai.png|150px|thumb|The Bull's-Eye Banzai kart]]
While no actual Bull's-Eye Banzais appear in ''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'', the game introduces a red variant to the [[Bullet Blaster]] also named the [[Bull's-Eye Banzai (kart)|Bull's-Eye Banzai]].
While no actual Bull's-Eye Banzais appear in ''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'', the game introduces a red variant to the [[Bullet Blaster]] also named the [[Bull's-Eye Banzai (kart)|Bull's-Eye Banzai]].
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==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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|GerM=Banzai Bull's-Eye Bill (literally ''Giant Chasing Bill'', ''Riesen-Kugelwilli'' being the name of Banzai Bill and ''Verfolgungs-Willi'' being the name of Bull's-Eye Bill)
|GerM=Banzai Bull's-Eye Bill (literally ''Giant Chasing Bill'', ''Riesen-Kugelwilli'' being the name of Banzai Bill and ''Verfolgungs-Willi'' being the name of Bull's-Eye Bill)
|Ger2M=Bull's-Eye Bill (not to be confused with the enemy of the same name, who is called differently in German)
|Ger2M=Bull's-Eye Bill (not to be confused with the enemy of the same name, who is called differently in German)
|Ita=Segugio Bill
|Ita=Pallottolo Banzai Segugio
|ItaM=Tracker Bill
|ItaM=Bull's-Eye Banzai Bill (literally ''Bull's-Eye Banzai Bullet'', ''Pallottolo Segugio'' is the Italian name of Bull's Eye Bill)
|ItaC=<ref>{{cite|date=2018|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|publisher=Magazzini Salani|language=it|isbn=889367436X|page=146}}</ref>
|ItaN=''Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia''; shared with [[Bull's-Eye Bill]] in the ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' enemy section (possible copy-paste)
|Ita2=Pallottolo Segugio Banzai
|Ita2M=Bull's-Eye Banzai, lit. "Tracker Bullet Banzai"; from ''Pallottolo Segugio'' ("[[Bull's-Eye Bill]]")
|Ita2C=<ref>{{cite|date=2018|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|publisher=Magazzini Salani|language=it|isbn=889367436X|page=149}}</ref>
|Ita2N=''Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia''; in the description of [[World 9-3 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)|9-3]]
|Ita3=Pallottolo Banzai Segugio
|Ita3M=Bull's-Eye Banzai, lit. "Tracker Bullet Banzai"; from ''Pallottolo Segugio'' ("[[Bull's-Eye Bill]]")
|Ita3N=''Super Mario Maker 2''
|Por=Bala Banzai
|Por=Bala Banzai
|PorM=Bullet Banzai
|PorM=Bullet Banzai
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|SpaEM=Banzai Bull's-Eye Bill (literally ''Seeker Banzai Bill'', ''Bill Banzai'' being the European Spanish names of Banzai Bill, while ''Bill Bala Buscador'' is the European Spanish name of Bull's-Eye Bill)
|SpaEM=Banzai Bull's-Eye Bill (literally ''Seeker Banzai Bill'', ''Bill Banzai'' being the European Spanish names of Banzai Bill, while ''Bill Bala Buscador'' is the European Spanish name of Bull's-Eye Bill)
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}}
==Trivia==
*The King Bill is one of the two new enemies from ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' that do not return in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]''; the other being the [[Ghost Vase]].
*They are one of the few enemies that did not receive a proper English name until the ''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia]]'', later used in-game; the other is [[Piranha Pod]].


==References==
==References==

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