Editing Ganchan

{{species infobox
|image=[[File:Ganchanartwork.png]]
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Land]]'' ([[List of games by date#1989|1989]])
}}
'''Ganchans'''<ref>''Super Mario Land'' English instruction booklet, page 15.</ref><ref>M. Arakawa. Nintendo ''Game Boy'' Player's Guide. Page 5.</ref> are rock-like enemies from ''[[Super Mario Land]]'' that are found in the mountainous and spike-filled areas of the [[Easton Kingdom]] of [[Sarasaland]]. They are large, indestructible boulders that bound around unceasingly. They can be used as convenient platforms to get across long stretches of [[Spike Trap|spikes]] or to reach high areas out of reach, mostly in [[World 3-1 (Super Mario Land)|World 3-1]]. [[Hiyoihoi]] also uses Ganchans as projectile weapons in [[World 3-3 (Super Mario Land)|World 3-3]]. Although Ganchans appear as generic boulders, they are living beings.

Ganchans are depicted as both sentient and non-sentient rocks in the [[Super Mario Land (manga)|''Super Mario Land'' manga]]: the sentient Ganchans that let [[Mario]] cross the spikes, after [[Mekakuribō]] stretches his face to resemble one of a moai, tricking them into helping them cross; and the non-senient ones that acts as boulders tossed by Hiyoihoi.

In ''[[Super Mario-kun]]'', faceless Ganchans appear in [[Super Mario-kun Volume 3|volume 3]] being tossed by Hiyoihoi. Mario uses [[Yoshi]] as a shield, making him eat the boulders, then tosses him like a bowling ball at the moai, striking them down.

==Profiles==
===''Super Mario Land''===
*'''Instruction booklet:''' ''Rocks that fall suddenly from the sky. They are terrible if they hit and squash you, but useful because you can jump on one and let it take you for a ride. Ganchans can't be beaten.''
*'''3DS Virtual Console manual:''' ''These rocks fall from the sky. They can squash Mario, but he could also jump on one and take it for a ride. They can't be destroyed.''

===''[[Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten]]''===
'''<big>ガンチャン</big><br>
'''{{hover|種族|しゅぞく}}'''　岩石族<br>
'''{{hover|性格|せいかく}}'''　お人好し<br>
'''{{hover|登場|とうじょう}}ゲーム'''　ランド1<br>
'''<big>利用できるなら大歓迎</big><br>
どこからともなく、急に落ちてくる大きな岩。やっつけることはできないし、下敷きになるとワンミスに。上に乗ることができるので、下が危ないところで移動に使うと便利だ。<ref name=Daijiten>Shogakukan. 1994.「パーフェクト版 マリオキャラクター大事典」 (''Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten''), [https://i.imgur.com/tMxXKGi.jpeg page 59].</ref>

'''''<big>Ganchan</big>'''''<br>
''Tribe: Rock clan''<br>
''Disposition: Good-natured''<br>
''Game appearances: Land 1''<br>
'''''<big>You're welcome to use it if you can</big><br>
''A large rock suddenly falls out of nowhere. You can't defeat it, and if you get trapped under it, you lose a life. You can ride on top of it, so it is useful to use it to move around in places where the ground below is hazardous.''

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Ganchanartwork2.png|A red colored Ganchan
Ganchan.png|An in-game sprite of a Ganchan
World 3-1 SML screenshot.png|Mario riding a Ganchan
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ガンチャン<ref>''Super Mario Land'' Japanese instruction booklet, page 16.</ref>
|JapR=Ganchan
|JapM=From「岩」(''gan'', "rock" in on'yomi reading) and the Japanese honorific「~ちゃん」(''-chan'')
|Dut=Ganchan<ref>''Club Nintendo'' (Netherlands) ''Classic'', page 8.</ref>
|Ita=Ganchan<ref>''[[Super Mario Land]]'' (3DS - [[Virtual Console]]) Italian e-manual, pag. 14</ref><ref>''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]'', pag. 47</ref>
|Fra=Ganchan<ref>''Super Mario Land'' French instruction booklet, [https://i.imgur.com/LxqpYxR.jpg page 15].</ref>
|Ger=Gantschan
|GerM=Japanese/English name adapted to German spelling
|Spa=Ganchan
}}

==References==
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