Editing Electric rail

{{item infobox
|image=[[File:SMG2 Electric Fence Close Up.png|200px]]<br>A close-up of an electric rail in the Flip-Swap Galaxy in ''Super Mario Galaxy 2''
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Strikers]]'' ([[List of games by date#2005|2005]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Mario Strikers: Battle League]]'' ([[List of games by date#2022|2022]])
}}
'''Electric rails'''<ref>"''So try and remember {{color|how to control a bubble|red}}! Just watch out for those {{color|electric rails|blue}}.''" — '''Phil Board in "[[The Electric Labyrinth]]"''', ''Super Mario Galaxy''</ref> or '''power lines'''<ref>"''The {{color|power lines|red}} are keeping me from helping my friend!''" — '''Luma in "[[Revenge of the Topman Tribe]]"''', ''Super Mario Galaxy''</ref> are barriers of electrical energy that appear in the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]].
==History==
===''Mario Strikers'' series===
[[File:SuperMarioStrikers Donkey'sElectricFence.png|thumb|left|200px|An electric rail in ''Super Mario Strikers'']]
In ''[[Super Mario Strikers]]'', ''[[Mario Strikers Charged]]'', and ''[[Mario Strikers: Battle League]]'', electric rails appear around all of the soccer fields except for Thunder Island, in which they only appear at the corners. If players get tackled into the fence, they will be shocked temporarily. The fence cannot be seen; it is transparent until players run into it. Some options allow for either electric rails to be disabled or it to shock the player if they even go near the fence.

===''Mario Party'' series===
====''Mario Party 8''====
[[File:PowerTrip8.png|thumb|200px|An electric rail grid in Power Trip]]
In the ''[[Mario Party 8]]'' [[minigame]] [[Power Trip]], an electric rail grid is seen underneath the main platform. 

====''Mario Party 9''====
In ''[[Mario Party 9]]'', an electric rail surrounds the ring in the minigame [[Bumper Sparks]].

===''Super Mario'' series===
====''Super Mario Galaxy''====
[[File:SMG Flipswitch Galaxy Starting Planet.png|thumb|left|200px|Electric rails in Flipswitch Galaxy]]
Electric rails appear in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' in [[Good Egg Galaxy]], [[Flipswitch Galaxy]], [[Sweet Sweet Galaxy]], [[Battlerock Galaxy]], [[Ghostly Galaxy]], [[Bowser Jr.'s Airship Armada]], [[Toy Time Galaxy]], [[Sand Spiral Galaxy]], [[Deep Dark Galaxy]], [[Dreadnought Galaxy]] and [[Bubble Blast Galaxy]], where they occasionally move horizontally throughout the galaxy and shock [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] if contact is made. They appear in green and red. There are also beams of electricity in Dreadnought Galaxy that act similarly to electric rails. They are used to defeat [[Spiky Topman|Spiky Topmen]] and [[Spring Topman|Spring Topmen]]. If Mario or Luigi lose a life from an electric rail, they will turn into a skeleton, but there is a small chance of staying as normal. This effect is also seen briefly, if the player looks closely, when Mario and Luigi take damage after hitting one. In some galaxies, they can be deactivated by stepping on [[Flipswitch Panel]]s, hitting a [[Spiky Topman]] with a spin attack into them, defeating it as well, or defeating an [[Undergrunt Gunner]]. No matter which way the camera faces, the reflection on the spheres that make them up shown is always exactly the same.

====''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''====
[[File:NSMBW Mariocar.png|thumb|An electric rail in ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'']]
Electric rails are found in {{world-link|6|airship|World 6-Airship (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)}} in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'', where they are used in the second [[airship]] battle against [[Bowser Jr.]] The player must knock Bowser Jr. into the fence three times in order to win. However, if Mario and his friends are pushed into the rail, they will take damage.

====''Super Mario Galaxy 2''====
[[File:SMG2 Electric Fence Screenshot.png|thumb|left|200px|Electric rails in ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'']]
In ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', green electric rails appear in [[Flip-Swap Galaxy]], [[Bowser's Lava Lair]], [[Space Storm Galaxy]], [[Upside Dizzy Galaxy]], [[Bowser Jr.'s Boom Bunker]], [[Clockwork Ruins Galaxy]], [[Bowser's Galaxy Generator]] and [[Grandmaster Galaxy]], while red ones only appear in [[Bowser Jr.'s Fearsome Fleet]]. They retain their function and effect from the previous game, but Mario will no longer turn into a skeleton if he loses a life from an electric rail.

===''Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze''===
In ''[[Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze]]'', a single electric rail can be found among some pendulums in [[Precarious Pendulums]].
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==Gallery==
<gallery>
MP9 2-Player Bumper Sparks.png|Electric rails in [[Bumper Sparks]] in ''[[Mario Party 9]]''
MSBL Luigi's Electrocution.jpg|Luigi being electrocuted in ''[[Mario Strikers: Battle League]]''{{'}}s opening cutscene
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ビリビリレール
|JapR=Biribiri rēru
|JapM=Shocking rail
|Jap2={{ruby|電線|でんせん}}
|Jap2R=Densen
|Jap2M=Electric line
|Spa=Raíl eléctrico
|SpaM=Electric rail
|Ita=Elettrorotaia<ref>''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''; pag. 137</ref>
|ItaM=Electric-rail
}}

==See also==
*[[Electric Clown Fence]]

==References==
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