Editing Huffin Puffin

{{Distinguish|Huff N. Puff}}
{{Species infobox
|title=Huffin Puffin
|image=[[File:TheHuffinPuffinFamily.png|300px]]<br>A Huffin Puffin family in ''[[Yoshi's Story]]''
|variants=[[Fluffin' Puffin]]
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'' ([[List of games by date#1995|1995]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'' ([[Yoshi Tour (2023)|Yoshi Tour]]) (2023)
}}
{{quote|We're here to help!  My kids are eager to help you on your quest!|Huffin Puffin|Yoshi's Story}}
'''Huffin Puffins'''<ref name=guide>{{cite|author=Miller, Kent; Munson, Terry|date=1995|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=American English|title=''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' Player's Guide|page={{file link|SMW2 Guide 128.jpg|128}}}}</ref><ref>''Mario Party Advance'' in-game cast reel</ref> (also formatted as '''Huffin' Puffins''')<ref name=Prima>''[[Prima Games|Playing With Super Power: Nintendo Super NES Classics eGuide]]''. ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island'' Confidential Information Tab.</ref> are a species of rotund birds that first appear in ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]''.

==History==
===''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' / ''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3''===
[[File:HuffinPuffinSpriteYI.png|frame|left]]
In ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' and [[Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3|its Game Boy Advance version]], Huffin Puffins are always in a group of one parent and a couple of juveniles. If [[Yoshi]] hits the parent, it will run in the opposite direction, and Yoshi is able to take the children. They act the same as [[Yoshi's Egg|Eggs]], so Yoshi can pick them up by walking into them. If Yoshi loses one, he can return to the area where the parent is walking to claim more. Sometimes if the Huffin Puffin chick throw is canceled, they attempt to run away. The artwork depicts them with brown feet, while the in-game sprite depicts them with light blue feet.

The young ones are useful, as when Yoshi throws one, it circles about in boomerang fashion, eventually returning. It can only hit a surface three times, any more and it falls off the screen. When Yoshi jumps through the goal at the end of the level, the puffin kids will fly away.

===''Yoshi's Story''===
[[File:YSHuffinPuffinsSprite.png|frame|Huffin Puffins in ''Yoshi's Story'']]
The Huffin Puffin family returns in ''[[Yoshi's Story]]''. They are only found in Stage 1-2: [[Surprise!!]] and Stage 3-4: [[Frustration]]. They act exactly like they did in ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''. The [[Baby Yoshi]]s growl at the Huffin Puffin as if it were an enemy. In this game, their beak and hands are orange, they have legs, and their feet are green.

===''Mario Party Advance''===
Huffin Puffin and its children make a small cameo in ''[[Mario Party Advance]]''. In [[Bowser Lab]], [[Bowser]] and [[Koopa Kid]] will ask the player what kind of opponent they want to face in a duel [[minigame]]; if the player chooses the "very scary one", Huffin Puffin will appear out of nowhere, simply say, "...Huffin puffin..." and walk away. Bowser will then chastise the player and say next time they should just challenge the "scary one". The game's end credits say Huffin Puffin disappeared and that not even Bowser knows where it went.

===''Yoshi's Woolly World'' / ''Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World''===
{{Main|Fluffin' Puffin}}
Relatives of the Huffin Puffin known as [[Fluffin' Puffin]]s appear in ''[[Yoshi's Woolly World]]'' and ''[[Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World]]''. Unlike Huffin Puffins, the adult Fluffin' Puffin can be destroyed, while the chicks have been redesigned and no longer come back when thrown; instead, they create a fluffy, cloud-like platform that follows their movement.

===''Mario Kart'' series===
====''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe''====
[[File:HuffinEightDeluxe.png|thumb|200px|Huffin Puffins on the Yoshi's Island course in ''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe'']]
A Huffin Puffin group consisting of a parent and two babies appears shortly after the [[Finish line (object)|finish line]] of the [[Yoshi's Island (race course)|Yoshi's Island]] course in ''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]'', walking in circles between a drivable portion of the course and its sidelines. The baby Huffin Puffins once again trail behind the parent. Both the parent and the baby Huffin Puffins generally act as walls, slowing down racers on contact while bouncing away or breaking weaker items such as [[Green Shell]]s and [[Red Shell]]s. However, they can launched into the air by hitting them with a [[Spiny Shell (blue)|Spiny Shell]] or a [[Super Horn]], or by ramming into them while under the effects of a [[Bullet Bill]] or [[Super Star]]; when this is done, they produce the sound effect heard in ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' when Yoshi lays an egg.

Unlike previous depictions, Huffin Puffins no longer have the lines connected to the circles on their pants. Additionally, their feet are colored blue, much like their sprite as opposed to  their artwork's brown.

====''Mario Kart Tour''====
Huffin Puffins also appear on the ''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'' rendition of the Yoshi's Island course, in roughly the same area as in ''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe''. They also appear in the course's T variant, but are absent in the R and R/T variants. This time, they are stationary and are located completely off-road. Drivers cannot interact with them whatsoever.

The game introduces a variant of the [[Egg 1]] kart called the [[Huffin Puffin Egg]], whose color scheme is based on a Huffin Puffin's shorts.
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==Profiles==
===''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' / ''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3''===
*'''Shogakukan guide:''' 親を踏んづけると、ヨッシーを親とまちがえて子供がついてくる。タマゴのように投げても、ブーメランみたいにもどってくる。<ref name=Sho/> (''If you step on the parent, the children will mistake Yoshi for the parent and follow. If you throw them like eggs, they come back like boomerangs.'')
*'''[[Player's Guide]]:''' ''The babies of this harmless bird tag along behind Yoshi. You can throw them like eggs and they'll boomerang back.''<ref name=guide/>
*'''Shogakukan guide ([[Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3|Game Boy Advance version]]):''' 先頭の親をふんだい、タマゴを当てたりした後、連なっている子供にさわればヨッシーについてくる。投げると、ブーメランみたいにもどって来るぞ。<ref name=Advance/> (''After stepping on the parent in the lead or hitting it with an egg, touch the children in a row, and they will follow Yoshi. When you throw them, they come back like boomerangs.'')

===''Yoshi's Story''===
*'''Shogakukan guide:''' うちのコにしたい子ガモたち。頭を踏むとついてくるよ。<ref name=YS>{{cite|language=Japanese|publisher=Shogakukan|title=「ヨッシーストーリー 任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Yoshi's Story Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'')|page={{file link|Yoshi Story Shogakukan P5.jpg|5}}}}</ref> (''Ducklings we want to make our own. If you step on their heads, they will follow you.'')

==Gallery==
{{Main-gallery}}
<gallery>
SMW2 Huffin Puffins art.png|''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]''
Adulthuffin puffin.jpg|An adult Huffin Puffin from ''[[Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3]]''
Huffin puffinschicks.jpg|Huffin Puffin chicks
SMA3-HuffinPuffinChick.png|Huffin Puffin chick from ''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3''
Scene.jpg|''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3''
SMA3-Japanese_Flyer.jpg|''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3''
SMA3 Japan alternate flyer.jpg|''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3''
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=かるがーも<ref name=Sho>{{cite|language=Japanese|publisher=Shogakukan|title=「スーパーマリオヨッシーアイランド任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Super Mario: Yossy Island Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'')|page={{file link|Super Mario Yossy Island Shogakukan P7.jpg|7}}}}</ref><ref name=Advance>{{cite|language=Japanese|publisher=Shogakukan|title=「スーパーマリオアドバンス3任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Super Mario Advance 3 Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'')|page={{file link|Advance 3 Shogakukan P15.png|15}}}}</ref><ref name=YS/>
|JapR=Karugāmo
|JapM=Elongation of「軽鴨」(''karugamo'', "{{wp|Indian spot-billed duck|spot-billed duck}}")
|ChiS=卡鲁鸭
|ChiSR=Kǎlǔyā
|ChiSM=From the Japanese name, with「鸭」(''yā'', "duck") added.
|ChiT=卡魯鴨
|ChiTR=Kǎlǔyā
|ChiTM=From the Japanese name, with「鴨」(''yā'', "duck") added.
|Fre=Cot, Cot<br>Cot-Cot
|FreM=Short for "cot cot codet" (onomatopoeia for hens crying)
|Fre2=Grosse Helga<ref>''Yoshi's Story'' [https://youtu.be/IAF3NCsp6X8?si=evDGZOFgtuM1iSk3&t=506 in-game name] (French localization)</ref>
|Fre2M=Big Helga
|Fre2N=''Yoshi's Story''
|Ger=Knallo
|Ger2=Mamma Knallo
|Ger2N=''Yoshi's Story'', adult variant
|Ger3=Huffin-Puffin<ref>From [[Huffin Puffin Egg#Names in other languages|Huffin Puffin Egg]]'s German name</ref>
|Ger3N=''Mario Kart Tour''
|GerM=Masculine form of ''knallen'' ("to pop")
|Ger2M=Mother Puffin
|Ita=Pienotto
|ItaM=Chubby
|Kor=방울오리
|KorR=Bangurori
|KorM=Bell duck
|Spa=Pío Pío
|SpaM=Onomatopoeia for a bird's chirping
}}

==Trivia==
*While the Japanese name of Huffin Puffins are based on species of ducks, the English name states them to be puffins. Additionally, they have been called chickens by ''Official Nintendo Magazine'' and [[Prima Games]].<ref>{{cite|quote='''''HOMING CHICKEN'''''|title=''Official UK Nintendo Magazine'' Issue 67|language=British English|date=April 1998|page=28}}</ref><ref name=Prima/>

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