Editing Large ! Switch

{{item infobox
|image=[[File:! Switch NSMBW.png|200x200px]]<br>Screen-cropped image from ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''
|first_appearance=''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'' ([[List of games by date#2009|2009]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario Bros. Wonder]]'' ([[List of games by date#2023|2023]])
|variant_of=[[! Switch]]
}}
'''Large ! Switches'''<ref>{{cite|author=Bueno, Fernando|date=2009|title=''New Super Mario Bros. Wii: PRIMA Official Game Guide''|location=Roseville|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|isbn=978-0-307-46592-4|page=171}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=Esmarch, Nick von|date=2012|title=''New Super Mario Bros. 2: PRIMA Official Game Guide''|location=Roseville|publisher=Prima Games|isbn=978-0-307-89552-3|page=169, 229}}</ref> are buttons that occur in some of the final battles with [[Bowser]] in the ''[[Super Mario (series)|Super Mario]]'' series. Pressing them completes the level and the main campaign of the game. A normal-sized [[! Switch]] is usually encountered earlier in the same levels as their large counterparts, when the player character first encounters Bowser. It causes the bridge he stands on to collapse, like the [[axe]]s from the first ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' However, this does not defeat him. Bowser remerges after this and pursues the player character through a narrow corridor. The large ! Switch appear as the end of the corridor, and pressing it truly defeats him.

Large ! Switches are typically orange and are on a studded base similar to Bowser's collar. The sole ! Switches in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]'' and ''[[New Super Luigi U]]'' look similar, but have a more simplistic design.

==History==
===''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''===
A large ! Switch appears in {{world link|8|bowser|World 8-Bowser's Castle (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)}} during the second phase of the battle against Bowser. [[Kamek|Magikoopa]] revises him after his defeat at the end of the first phase, transforming him into [[Giant Bowser|Super Bowser]]. He chases the player character down a narrow corridor filled with [[lava]]. The large ! Switch is at the rightmost end of the corridor, where [[Princess Peach]] is held. Pressing it causes the lava to drain from the corridor and Super Bowser to disappear with it. This finally defeats him and saves the princess.

===''New Super Mario Bros. 2''===
A large ! Switch appears during the fight against Super Bowser in {{world link|6|bowsern2|World 6-Bowser's Castle}}, where they are the only accessible footing for most of the battle, who pursues [[Mario]] (or [[Luigi]]) up a vertical shaft with [[lava tide|rising lava]]. Pressing it causes the floor beneath Super Bowser to collapse, defeating the boss and rescuing Princess Peach, as in ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''. A large ! Switch appear during the battle with [[Dry Bowser]] in {{world link|star|castlen2|World Star-Castle}} in the same capacity, except Peach is not found here. As this is the final course in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. 2]]'', pressing the large ! Switch is the last action Mario takes before fully finishing the game.

===''Super Mario Bros. Wonder''===
[[File:SMBW Screenshot Wonder Bowser.png|thumb|150px|The large ! Switch that is part of Wonder Bowser.]]
In ''[[Super Mario Bros. Wonder]]'', large ! Switch is a physical part of Bowser's body, who has been fused with [[Prince Florian]]'s Flower Castle to become [[Castle Bowser]]. It is underneath the chin of [[Wonder Bowser]], the form the player character directly fights in [[The Final Battle! Bowser's Rage Stage]]. Striking the large ! Switch is the only way to cause damage to Wonder Bowser, whose stone armor gradually falls way with each hit. The armor and the large ! Switch fall away after the fifth hit, exposing a [[Bowser Switch|different switch]] on his head that must be pressed to fully defeat him.

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=巨大ビックリスイッチ<ref>{{cite|author=Sakai, Kazuya (Ambit) et al.|language=ja|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|date=October 19, 2015|title=''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'', ''Super Mario Sunshine'' section|page=149 and 199|isbn=978-4-09-106569-8}}</ref>
|JpnR=Kyodai Bikkuri Suitchi
|JpnM=Giant Surprise Switch
|JpnC=<ref>{{cite|author=Sakai, Kazuya (Ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors|date=2015|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|language=ja|location=Tokyo|title=『[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック]]』|isbn=978-4-09-106569-8|page=148, 199}}</ref>
}}

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