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>{{cite|quote=So try and remember {{color|red|how to control a bubble}}! Just watch out for those {{color|blue|electric rails}}.|author=Phil Board|location="[[The Electric Labyrinth]]"|title=''Super Mario Galaxy''|date=2007|language=en|publisher=Nintendo}}</ref> or '''power lines'''<ref>{{cite|quote=The {{color|red|power lines}} are keeping me from helping my friend!|author=Luma|location="[[Revenge of the Topman Tribe]]"|title=''Super Mario Galaxy''|date=2007|language=en|publisher=Nintendo}}</ref> are barriers of electrical energy 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]]
An electric rail grid is seen underneath the main platform in [[Power Trip]], a [[minigame]] in ''[[Mario Party 8]]''.

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

===''Super Mario'' series===
====''Super Mario Galaxy''====
[[File:SMG Flipswitch Galaxy Starting Planet.png|thumb|left|Screenshot from ''Super Mario Galaxy'' of electric rails in Flipswitch Galaxy]]
Electric rails with small yellow spheres on either end appear in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' in several galaxies, where they occasionally move horizontally throughout the galaxy and shock [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] if contact is made. They appear in green and red. 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. A different type appears in the very first mission, [[Grand Star Rescue]], at each end of slow-moving platforms that circle round areas, with the electricity flowing between two prongs resembling the tip of an electric {{wp|cattle prod}}; green platforms appear outside the planet, while orange ones appear inside, though the electricity itself is green in both cases.

=====Appearances=====
<div class="contentbox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"data-expandtext="Show appearances"data-collapsetext="Hide appearances">
*[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png]] marks missions where they are completely absent.
*[[File:Galaxy StarP.png]] marks missions where they are loaded and may be visible, but cannot be encountered directly.
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!colspan=9|'''Green, platform'''
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!Domes
!Galaxies
!colspan=7|Missions
|-
|[[Gate (Super Mario Galaxy)|Gate]]
|[[Gateway Galaxy]]
|[[File:Smg icon grandstar.png|link=Grand Star Rescue]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Gateway's Purple Coins]]
|-
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!colspan=9|'''Green, immobile'''
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!Domes
!Galaxies
!colspan=7|Missions
|-
|[[Terrace (Super Mario Galaxy)|Terrace]]
|[[Good Egg Galaxy]]
|[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Dino Piranha (mission)]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=A Snack of Cosmic Proportions]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=King Kaliente's Battle Fleet]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Dino Piranha Speed Run]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Purple Coin Omelet]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Luigi on the Roof]]
|-
|[[Fountain]]
|[[Battlerock Galaxy]]
|[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Battlerock Barrage]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Breaking into the Battlerock]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Topmaniac and the Topman Tribe]]||[[File:Smg icon daredevilcomet.png|link=Topmaniac's Daredevil Run]]||[[File:Smg icon purplecomet.png|link=Purple Coins on the Battlerock]]||[[File:Galaxy StarP.png|link=Battlerock's Garbage Dump]]||[[File:Smg icon greenstar.png|link=Luigi under the Saucer]]
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Kitchen (Super Mario Galaxy)|Kitchen]]
|[[Ghostly Galaxy]]
|[[File:Galaxy StarP.png|link=Luigi and the Haunted Mansion]]||[[File:Galaxy StarP.png|link=A Very Spooky Sprint]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Beware of Bouldergeist]]||[[File:Galaxy StarP.png|link=Bouldergeist's Daredevil Run]]||[[File:Galaxy StarP.png|link=Purple Coins in the Bone Pen]]||[[File:Galaxy StarP.png|link=Matter Splatter Mansion]]
|-
|[[Bowser Jr.'s Airship Armada]]
|[[File:Smg icon grandstar.png|link=Sinking the Airships]]
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Engine Room]]
|[[Toy Time Galaxy]]
|[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Heavy Metal Mecha-Bowser]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Mario Meets Mario]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Bouncing Down Cake Lane]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Fast Foes of Toy Time]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Luigi's Purple Coins]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=The Flipswitch Chain]]
|-
|[[Sand Spiral Galaxy]]
|[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Choosing a Favorite Snack]]
|-
|[[Garden (Super Mario Galaxy)|Garden]]
|[[Dreadnought Galaxy]]
|[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Infiltrating the Dreadnought]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Dreadnought's Colossal Cannons]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Revenge of the Topman Tribe]]||[[File:Smg icon speedycomet.png|link=Topman Tribe Speed Run]]||[[File:Smg icon purplecomet.png|link=Battlestation's Purple Coins]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Dreadnought's Garbage Dump]]
|-
|[[Comet Observatory]]
|[[Bubble Blast Galaxy]]
|[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=The Electric Labyrinth]]
|-
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!colspan=9|'''Green, mobile'''
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!Domes
!Galaxies
!colspan=7|Missions
|-
|[[Fountain]]
|[[Battlerock Galaxy]]
|[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Battlerock Barrage]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Breaking into the Battlerock]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Topmaniac and the Topman Tribe]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Topmaniac's Daredevil Run]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Purple Coins on the Battlerock]]||[[File:Galaxy StarP.png|link=Battlerock's Garbage Dump]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Luigi under the Saucer]]
|-
|[[Engine Room]]
|[[Toy Time Galaxy]]
|[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Heavy Metal Mecha-Bowser]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Mario Meets Mario]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Bouncing Down Cake Lane]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Fast Foes of Toy Time]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Luigi's Purple Coins]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=The Flipswitch Chain]]
|-
|[[Comet Observatory]]
|[[Bubble Blast Galaxy]]
|[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=The Electric Labyrinth]]
|-
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!colspan=9|'''Red, immobile'''
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!Domes
!Galaxies
!colspan=7|Missions
|-
|[[Terrace (Super Mario Galaxy)|Terrace]]
|[[Sweet Sweet Galaxy]]
|[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Rocky Road (mission)]]
|-
|[[Fountain]]
|[[Battlerock Galaxy]]
|[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Battlerock Barrage]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Breaking into the Battlerock]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Topmaniac and the Topman Tribe]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Topmaniac's Daredevil Run]]||[[File:Smg icon purplecomet.png|link=Purple Coins on the Battlerock]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Battlerock's Garbage Dump]]||[[File:Smg icon greenstar.png|link=Luigi under the Saucer]]
|-
|rowspan=2|[[Garden (Super Mario Galaxy)|Garden]]
|[[Deep Dark Galaxy]]
|[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=The Underground Ghost Ship]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Bubble Blastoff]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Guppy and the Underground Lake]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Ghost Ship Daredevil Run]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Plunder the Purple Coins]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Boo in a Box]]
|-
|[[Dreadnought Galaxy]]
|[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Infiltrating the Dreadnought]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Dreadnought's Colossal Cannons]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Revenge of the Topman Tribe]]||[[File:Smg icon speedycomet.png|link=Topman Tribe Speed Run]]||[[File:Smg icon purplecomet.png|link=Battlestation's Purple Coins]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Dreadnought's Garbage Dump]]
|-
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!colspan=9|'''Red, mobile'''
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!Domes
!Galaxies
!colspan=7|Missions
|-
|[[Terrace (Super Mario Galaxy)|Terrace]]
|[[Flipswitch Galaxy]]
|[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Painting the Planet Yellow]]
|-
|[[Garden (Super Mario Galaxy)|Garden]]
|[[Dreadnought Galaxy]]
|[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Infiltrating the Dreadnought]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Dreadnought's Colossal Cannons]]||[[File:Smg icon powerstar.png|link=Revenge of the Topman Tribe]]||[[File:Smg icon speedycomet.png|link=Topman Tribe Speed Run]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Battlestation's Purple Coins]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=Dreadnought's Garbage Dump]]
|}
</div>

====''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''====
[[File:NSMBW Mariocar.png|thumb|Screenshot from ''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''====
In ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', electric rails return with the same function and effect from the predecessor, but Mario will no longer turn into a skeleton if he loses a life from an electric rail.

=====Appearances=====
<div class="contentbox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"data-expandtext="Show appearances"data-collapsetext="Hide appearances">
*[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png]] marks missions where they are completely absent.
*[[File:Galaxy StarP.png]] marks missions where they are loaded and may be visible, but cannot be encountered directly.
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!colspan=5|'''Green, immobile'''
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!Worlds
!Galaxies
!colspan=3|Missions
|-
|[[World 2 (Super Mario Galaxy 2)|World 2]]
|[[Bowser's Lava Lair]]
|[[File:Smg2 icon grandstar.png|link=Bowser's Big Lava Power Party]]||[[File:Smg2 icon prankstercomet.png|link=Lava Lair Speed Run]]
|-
|rowspan=3|[[World 5 (Super Mario Galaxy 2)|World 5]]
|[[Space Storm Galaxy]]
|[[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Follow Me, Bob-omb]]||[[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=To the Top of Topman's Tower]]||[[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=C'mere, Topman]]
|-
|[[Upside Dizzy Galaxy]]
|[[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=A Walk on the Weird Side]]||[[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Burning Upside Dizzy]]
|-
|[[Bowser Jr.'s Boom Bunker]]
|[[File:Smg2 icon grandstar.png|link=Bowser Jr.'s Boomsday Machine]]||[[File:Smg2 icon prankstercomet.png|link=Boomsday Machine Daredevil Run]]
|-
|rowspan=2|[[World 6 (Super Mario Galaxy 2)|World 6]]
|[[Clockwork Ruins Galaxy]]
|[[File:Galaxy StarP.png|link=Time for Adventure]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=The Adventure of the Purple Coins]]||[[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=The Ledge Hammer Trap]]
|-
|[[Bowser's Galaxy Generator]]
|[[File:Smg2 icon grandstar.png|link=Bowser's Fortified Fortress]]||[[File:Smg2 icon prankstercomet.png|link=Bowser's Big Bad Speed Run]]
|-
|[[World S]]
|[[Grandmaster Galaxy]]
|[[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=The Ultimate Test]]||[[File:Smg2 icon prankstercomet.png|link=The Perfect Run]]
|-
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!colspan=5|'''Green, mobile'''
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!Worlds
!Galaxies
!colspan=3|Missions
|-
|[[World 1 (Super Mario Galaxy 2)|World 1]]
|[[Flip-Swap Galaxy]]
|[[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Think Before You Shake]]||[[File:Smg2 icon prankstercomet.png|link=Purple Coin Flip 'n' Sprint]]
|-
|[[World 5 (Super Mario Galaxy 2)|World 5]]
|[[Space Storm Galaxy]]
|[[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=Follow Me, Bob-omb]]||[[File:SMG Asset Sprite Star Cursor.png|link=To the Top of Topman's Tower]]||[[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=C'mere, Topman]]
|-
|[[World S]]
|[[Grandmaster Galaxy]]
|[[File:Smg2 icon powerstar.png|link=The Ultimate Test]]||[[File:Smg2 icon prankstercomet.png|link=The Perfect Run]]
|-
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!colspan=5|'''Red, immobile'''
|-style="color:white;background:red"
!Worlds
!Galaxies
!colspan=3|Missions
|-
|[[World 3 (Super Mario Galaxy 2)|World 3]]
|[[Bowser Jr.'s Fearsome Fleet]]
|[[File:Smg2 icon grandstar.png|link=Bowser Jr.'s Mighty Megahammer]]||[[File:Galaxy StarP.png|link=Megahammer's Daredevil Bash]]
|}
</div>

===''Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze''===
In ''[[Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze]]'', a single electric rail can be found among some pendulums in [[Precarious Pendulums]].
{{br}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
SMG Screenshot Electric Rail (Green).png|Screenshot from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''
SMG Gateway Metal Planet Interior.png|The platform type surrounding a room in ''Super Mario Galaxy''
SMG2 Electric Fence Screenshot.png|Electric rails in ''Super Mario Galaxy 2''
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
|Jpn=ビリビリレール
|JpnR=Biribiri rēru
|JpnM=Shocking rail
|Jpn2={{ruby|電線|でんせん}}
|Jpn2R=Densen
|Jpn2M=Electric line
|Fre=Barrière électrique<ref>''Super Mario Galaxy, Le Guide Officiel. Prima Games'', page 105</ref>
|FreM=Electric barrier
|Ita=Filo elettrico
|ItaC=<ref>{{cite|quote=I {{color|red|fili elettrici}} sono d'ostacolo e non riesco a salvare il mio amico!|author=Luma|location="[[Revenge of the Topman Tribe]]"|title=''Super Mario Galaxy''|date=2007|language=en|publisher=Nintendo}}</ref>
|ItaM=Electric wire
|Ita2=Elettrorotaia
|Ita2C=<ref>{{cite|date=November 15, 2018|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|publisher=Magazzini Salani|language=it|isbn=889367436X|page=137}}</ref>
|Ita2M=Electric-rail
|Spa=Raíl eléctrico
|SpaM=Electric rail
}}

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

==References==
<references/>

{{Super Mario Strikers}}
{{MSC}}
{{SMG}}
{{NSMBW}}
{{SMG2}}
{{MSBL}}
[[Category:Hazardous objects]]
[[Category:Mario Party 8]]
[[Category:Mario Party 9]]
[[Category:Mario Strikers: Battle League]]
[[Category:Mario Strikers Charged]]
[[Category:New Super Mario Bros. Wii objects]]
[[Category:Super Mario Galaxy objects]]
[[Category:Super Mario Galaxy 2 objects]]
[[Category:Super Mario Strikers]]