Flurry
- Not to be confused with Flurrie.
| Flurry | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Artwork from Super Mario Advance | |||
| First appearance | Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic (1987, overall) Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988, Super Mario franchise) | ||
| Latest appearance | Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition (2024) | ||
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Flurries[1] (singular Flurry; occasionally pluralized Flurrys[2]) are enemies introduced in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2. They are snowman-like creatures named after flurries, which are brief periods of snowfall.
History[edit]
Super Mario series[edit]
Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic / Super Mario Bros. 2[edit]
Flurries are enemies in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2. They run along the ice chasing after Mario, Luigi, Peach, or Toad. Like them, they have poor traction on the ice and can slip off of the platform they are on. They only appear in World 4. In the rare instances that they can be led onto non-icy surfaces, such as the bottom of the second tower in World 4-3, they have perfect traction. In original releases, Flurries are entirely white, while in the Super Mario All-Stars and Super Mario Advance remakes, they are tinted pink and have blue feet.
BS Super Mario USA[edit]
Flurries are enemies in BS Super Mario USA. They make their return and play the same role as in the predecessor. They only appear in the third broadcast, which is also Subcon's icy area.
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3[edit]
Flurries are enemies in Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3. They are encountered only in the World-e level Treacherous Halls. Two Flurries appear, and they are shown with the ability to pass over spikes harmlessly. Other than this, Flurries are the same as in their debut appearance.
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show![edit]
- “It's them! Princess Toadstool and those two faucet freaks. C'mon, Flaky. Let's tell King Koopa so we can put 'em on ice for good.”
- —Flurry, "The Bird! The Bird!"
Some Flurries occasionally appeared in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, where they spoke, despite not having visible mouths. Due to Wart not appearing on the show, they work for King Koopa here, and one (Flaky) even had a name. Staying true to the spirit of the games, Flurries appeared only in episodes that are set in snowy environments: the Land of Ice in "The Bird! The Bird!", the North Pole from "Koopa Klaus", and the Thirteen Mushroom Colonies in "The Koopas are Coming! The Koopas are Coming!" Unlike in the game, some of them have arms.
Super Mario Adventures[edit]
A Flurry, alongside a Shy Guy and Snifit, attends Bowser's wedding to Princess Peach in the Super Mario Adventures comic.
Nintendo Comics System[edit]
In an installment of Dear Princess Toadstool feature in the Nintendo Comics System, a Flurry wrote to Princess Toadstool asking for a solution to get rid of snowflakes that are seen by other people as dandruff flakes. She responded that his friends should ignore the flakes, and he should respond back to strangers if they insult him. Immediately bellow her response has Luigi, as a barber, asking a Flurry if he wants to blow dry his "hair". He then told Luigi to just melt his sideburns.
Profiles and statistics[edit]
Super Mario Bros. 2 / Super Mario Advance[edit]
- Instruction booklet description:
- English (American):
Snow monster. He'll chase you on ice skates.[3]
- English (American):
- Instruction booklet description:
- English (British):
You've got to hurry to avoid these ice-skating snow monsters.[4]
- English (British):
Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten[edit]
| ナカボン (JP) / Nakabon (EN) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Original text (Japanese) | Translation | ||
| ビースト族 | Tribe | Beast clan | |
| 氷のように冷たい | Disposition | Ice cold | |
| USA | Game appearances | USA | |
| かわいらしい雪だるま マリオUSAの氷の世界に出てくる雪だるま。猛スピードでつっこんでくるだけだが、氷の世界は下が滑りやすいので、けっこう手こずるぞ。アメリカ名はフルーリィ。[5] |
A cute snowman The snowman appears in the icy world of Mario USA. He just runs into you at high speed, but the icy surface is slippery underneath, so it's quite a challenge. His American name is Flurry. | ||
Gallery[edit]
- For this subject's image gallery, see Gallery:Flurry.
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario USA instruction booklet
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario All-Stars (Super Mario Bros. 2)
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ナカボン[6] Nakabon |
Possibly a portmanteau of「 |
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| フラーリ[6] Furāri |
Transliteration of the Super Mario Bros. 2 name | ||
| フルーリィ[7] Furūrī |
Alternate transliteration of the Super Mario Bros. 2 name | ||
| Chinese (simplified) | 那卡邦[8] Nàkǎbāng |
From the Japanese name | |
| French | Flurry[9][10] | - | |
| German | Flurry[?] | - | |
| Italian | Flurry[11][12] | - | |
| Piumino[13][14] | Lil' Feather, also means "duvet", "feather bed", and "feather duster" | ||
| Tempestino[15] | Lil' Storm | ||
| Swedish | Flurry[?] | - |
Trivia[edit]
- Despite being an enemy in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic, Flurry did not receive artwork in the manual until Super Mario Bros. 2.[3] This is also the case for Tweeter and Spark.
- Flurry bears resemblance to Yuki, a mid-boss from Kirby's Dream Land 3, as they both are short, stubby snowmen without mouths or arms, have two small black eyes, and have similar body shapes, though Yuki lacks feet.
References[edit]
- ^ Stratton, Bryan (June 7, 2001). Super Mario Advance Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Prima Games (American English). ISBN 0-7615-3633-7. Page 49.
- ^ Stratton, Bryan (June 7, 2001). Super Mario Advance Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Prima Games (American English). ISBN 0-7615-3633-7. Page 7.
- ^ a b 1988. Super Mario Bros. 2 instruction booklet. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 26.
- ^ 2001. Super Mario Advance instruction booklet (PDF). Nintendo of Europe (British English). Page 11.
- ^ November 20, 1994. Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten. Shogakukan. ISBN 4-09-259067-9. Page 141.
- ^ a b 1992. Super Mario USA instruction booklet (PDF). Nintendo (Japanese). Page 27.
- ^ Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten. Page 225.
- ^ 无敌阿尔宙斯 (August 28, 2013). Ending scene of Super Mario Advance as localized by iQue]. Baidu Tieba (Simplified Chinese). Archived February 26, 2017, 16:11:09 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 5, 2024.
- ^ Super Mario Bros. 2 French instruction booklet. Page 30.
- ^ Super Mario Advance European instruction booklet. Nintendo of Europe (French). Page 51.
- ^ Super Mario Bros. 2 Italian instruction booklet. Page 26.
- ^ 2010. Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition instruction booklet. Nintendo of Europe (Italian). Page 38.
- ^ The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, "Vola! Vola!"
- ^ November 15, 2018. Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 68.
- ^ 2001. Super Mario Advance European instruction booklet. Nintendo of Europe (Italian). Page 111.
