Editing Kumo

{{species infobox
|image=[[File:Kumoartwork1.png]]<br>Artwork from ''Super Mario Land''
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Land]]'' ([[List of games by date#1989|1989]])
|relatives=[[Suu]]
|related=[[Batadon]]<br>[[Fighter Fly|Fly]]<br>[[Pionpi]]
}}
'''Kumos'''<ref>{{cite|title=''Super Mario Land'' instruction booklet|page=14|date=1989|language=en|publisher=Nintendo of America}}</ref><ref>{{cite|title=Nintendo ''Game Boy'' Player's Guide|date=1991|page=5|language=en|publisher=Nintendo of America}}</ref> are hopping spider enemies from ''[[Super Mario Land]]''. They resemble {{wp|tarantula}}s and are about the size of [[Mario]].

Their name comes from the Japanese word「{{ruby|蜘蛛|クモ}}」(''kumo'', "spider"); however, the species is not known as "Kumo" in Japan. It is the only species for which the English name was not the same as or similar to the Japanese name in the original version of ''Super Mario Land'', although some other species were renamed in the English [[Virtual Console]] version.

==History==
===''Super Mario Land''===
In ''Super Mario Land'', Kumos are found in [[World 3-2 (Super Mario Land)|World 3-2]] and [[World 3-3 (Super Mario Land)|World 3-3]]. They attack in the same pattern as a [[Fighter Fly|Fly]], hopping towards Mario. Like a Fly, some of them drop downward from midair when spawned. A Kumo can be defeated with a [[stomp]] or two [[Superball Mario|Superball]]s, rewarding 400 [[point]]s.

One Kumo poses as [[Princess Daisy]], which Mario discovers after defeating [[Hiyoihoi]].

===''Super Mario'' (Kodansha manga)===
Kumos appear in the [[Super Mario Land (manga)|''Super Mario Land'' manga]]. After the [[Tokotoko]] and [[Batadon]]s fail in stopping Mario, [[Tatanga]] gives more trust to the spider clan in doing a better job, much to Hiyoihoi's anger. The Kumos prepare a trap for Mario by creating a web, which [[Sue]] pushes him into. Before she pours lethal [[Suu]] venom on him, the Tokotoko and Batadons barge in and fall into the web, freeing Mario and causing them to get hit by the venom instead, which kills them. Mario falls down and is surrounded by the Kumos, which Sue orders to attack him, but Hiyoihoi appears, angered by the replacement and death of his soldiers, and shoots at everyone with a barrage of [[Bullet Biff]]s, killing the Kumos and inadvertently saving Mario.

===''Nintendo Adventure Books''===
A picture of a Kumo appears in the book ''[[Pipe Down!]]''

==Profiles==
===''Super Mario Land''===
*'''Instruction booklet:''' ''This spider-like creature attacks Mario by jumping on him.''
*'''Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console Manual bio:''' ''This spiderlike creature attacks by trying to jump on Mario.''

===''[[Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten]]''===
{{PBMCD profile
|name=ブラックピヨン (JP) / Kumo (EN)
|artwork=[[File:Kumo Perfect.png|200px]]
|shuzoku=クリープ族
|seikaku=ちょっぴりシャイ
|tojo_gemu=ランド1
|desc='''<big>怪しげな黒いクモ</big><br>
ピョンピョン跳ねながら近づいてくる黒いクモ。すき間の多いところなら、待っていれば勝手に下に落ちてしまうことも。倒すなら広い所で待って、近づいてから踏みつけよう。<ref name=Daijiten>{{cite|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|date=1994|language=ja|title=「パーフェクト版 マリオキャラクター大事典」 (''Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten'')|page=[https://i.imgur.com/pdHaNoo.jpeg 192]|website=Imgur}}</ref>
|tribe=Creep clan
|disposition=A little shy
|game_appearances=Land 1
|eng_desc='''''<big>Suspicious black spider</big><br>
''A black spider approaches you, hopping and bouncing. If you wait for it in an open space, it may fall down on its own. If you want to defeat it, wait in a wide space and then step on it when it gets close.''
}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Kumoartwork2.png|A darker depiction with a blue mouth
KumoArtworkCL.jpg|''Super Mario Land'' (''[[Club Nintendo (French magazine)|Club Nintendo]]'' magazine)
SML Kumo.png|Sprite from ''Super Mario Land''
SML Daisy (Kumo).png|Screenshot of ''Super Mario Land''
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=ブラックピヨン
|JpnR=Burakku Piyon
|JpnM=From "black" and「ピヨンピヨン」(''piyon-piyon''), onomatopoeia for hopping
|JpnC=<ref>{{cite|title=スーパーマリオランド (''Sūpā Mario Rando'') instruction booklet|page=14|language=ja|date=1989|publisher=Nintendo}}</ref>
|Jpn2=ブラックピョン
|Jpn2R=Burakku Pyon
|Jpn2M=^
|Jpn2C=<ref>{{cite|url=www.nintendo.co.jp/n02/dmg/mla/chara|title=登場キャラクター1|publisher=Nintendo|language=ja|accessdate=May 26, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=Shogakukan|date=2015|language=ja|title=[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'']], ''Super Mario Land'' section|page=47}}</ref>
|Dut=Kumo
|DutC=<ref>{{cite|title=''Club Nintendo'' (Netherlands) ''Classic''|page=8}}</ref>
|Fre=Kumo
|FreC=<ref>{{cite|title=''Super Mario Land'' French instruction booklet|page=[https://i.imgur.com/zuVxmWd.jpg 14]}}</ref>
|Ger=Kumo
|GerC=<ref>{{cite|author=[[Nintendo|Nintendo of Europe]]|date=1990|title=''Super Mario Land Spielanleitung''|language=de|location=Großostheim|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|page=14}}</ref>
|Ita=Kumo
|ItaC=<ref>{{cite|title=''Super Mario Land'' Italian manual|page=14}}</ref><ref>''Super Mario Land'' (Nintendo 3DS - Virtual Console) Italian e-manual. Tab 14.</ref><ref>{{cite|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|page=47}}</ref>
|Spa=Kumo
}}

==References==
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