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{{:Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story bestiary|transcludesection=Choomba|image=[[File:Choomba.gif]]}}
|image=[[File:ChoombaIdle.gif]]<br>Sprite from ''Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey''
'''Choombas''' are a kind of giant, metallic, locomotive-type [[Goomba]] found in the game ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]''. Their name is a pun on "choo", a sound effect often associated with trains, and "Goomba". They have coal-black bodies, red eyes, yellow-glowing pupils and a chimney on the top of their heads. Only Bowser can fight these enemies. They are associated with [[Coalbit]]s, which will jump into a Choomba's head during battle to make it attack more and with greater speed. A Choomba will charge up its attack by walking back and shooting smoke out of its head showing either a shell or a fist; the smoke will appear in a different pattern each time. The patterns indicate the order and types of attacks it will use. The Choomba will then charge into [[Bowser]], who needs to withdraw into his shell when Choomba jumps on him and needs to punch the Choomba when it runs into him depending on what command is shown in the smoke. Choombas also appear in the battle with the [[Fawful Express]]. Groups of four of them come out of the Fawful Express to attack Bowser. To counter this attack, the player must tap the area the Choombas are coming at Bowser and stomp them.
|first_appearance=''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'' ([[List of games by date#2009|2009]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey]]'' ([[List of games by date#2018|2018]])
|variant_of=[[Goomba]]
}}
'''Choombas''' are a kind of giant, metallic, locomotive-type [[Goomba]] found in the game ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]''. Their name is a pun on "choo", a sound effect associated with train whistles, and "Goomba". They have coal-black bodies, red eyes, yellow-glowing pupils and a chimney on the top of their heads. Only Bowser can fight these enemies. They are associated with [[Coalbit]]s, which will jump into a Choomba's head during battle to make it attack more and with greater speed. A Choomba will charge up its attack by walking back and shooting smoke out of its head showing either a shell or a fist; the smoke will appear in a different pattern each time. The patterns indicate the order and types of attacks it will use. The Choomba will then charge into [[Bowser]], who needs to withdraw into his shell when Choomba jumps on him and needs to punch the Choomba when it runs into him depending on what command is shown in the smoke. Choombas also appear in the battle with the [[Fawful Express]]. Groups of four of them come out of the Fawful Express to attack Bowser. To counter this attack, the player must tap the area the Choombas are coming at Bowser and stomp them.
 
While [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] cannot normally fight Choombas and explore the Tunnel in the original game, functional coding for an encounter can be discovered via cheats. When fought by Mario and Luigi, they had unused smoke signs that smoked an M for Mario and an L for Luigi, which can be countered with the [[Hammer]], then the game proceeds to be softlocked after the attack is finished if a Coalbit jumps into the smokestack of the Choomba.<ref>aWiibo (July 11, 2019). "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq_RWWhPfDA Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story - What Happens If Mario & Luigi Battle a Choomba?]". ''YouTube''. Retrieved May 2, 2023.</ref>


Bowser can use the [[Vacuum Block]] to inhale a [[Blitty]] from Choombas.
Bowser can use the [[Vacuum Block]] to inhale a [[Blitty]] from Choombas.
Choombas reappear in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey]]'', where they also appear in the ''Bowser Jr.'s Journey'' mode as enemies. Rather then their puffs of smoke being a shell and a fist, they are instead images of the Choomba either running or jumping. Like other Goomba variants, Choombas are weak against yellow [[Shy Guy]]s.
==Profiles and statistics==
===''Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story''===
{{:Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story bestiary|transcludesection=Choomba|image=[[File:Choomba.gif]]|align=horizontal}}
===''Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey''===
{{:Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey bestiary|transcludesection=Choomba|image=[[File:ChoombaIdle.gif]]|align=horizontal}}
*'''''Bowser Jr.'s Journey'' profile:''' ''They charge forward with supreme confidence. Their attacks miss easily, but they don't mind. They take pride in their strength.''


==Names in other languages==
==Names in other languages==
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|Jap=キカンボー
|Jap=キカンボー
|JapR=Kikanbō
|JapR=Kikanbō
|JapM=Portmanteau of「機関車」(''kikansha'', locomotive) and「クリボー」(''Kuribō'', [[Goomba]])
|JapM= From 「機関」 ''Kikan,'' meaning engine, and Goomba's Japanese name, ''Kuribō''.
|FreE=Locogoomba
|Fra=Locogoomba
|FreEM=From "locomotive" and "Goomba"
|FraM=From locomotive and Goomba.
|FreA=Choomba
|SpaA=Choomba
|SpaA=Choomba
|SpaAM=Choomba
|SpaE=Goombatora
|SpaE=Goombatora
|SpaEM=From "Goomba" and "locomotora" (locomotive)
|SpaEM=From Goomba and ''Locomotora'', meaning locomotive.
|Ger=Kessel-Gumba
|Ger=Kessel-Gumba
|GerM=Boiler Goomba
|GerM=Boiler Goomba
|Ita=Goombamino
|Ita=Goombamino
|ItaM=Portmanteau of "Goomba" and "camino" (chimney)
|ItaM= A combination of Goomba and ''camino'', "fireplace"
}}
}}


==References==
==Trivia==
<references/>
*Coding for Choombas was found in the games programming that revealed Choombas were [[List of Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story pre-release and unused content|originally]] able to be fought by [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]], and they had smoke signs that smoked an M for Mario or an L for Luigi. It was to be countered with the [[Hammer]].
 
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