Editing Mrs. Thwomp

{{character infobox

|image=[[File:Mrs Thwomp Idle.gif]]<br>Battle sprite from ''Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time''

|first_appearance=''[[Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time]]'' ([[List of games by date#2005|2005]])

|species=[[Thwomp]]

'''Mrs. Thwomp''' is a female [[Thwomp]] in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time]]'' and one of the bosses of the game. She is married to [[Mr. Thwomp]] and is very easily angered. She lives in [[Thwomp Volcano]], and, unlike all other Thwomps, she is shaped as a boulder and has arms. She is also the first explicitly female Thwomp. Her battle style is similar to [[Trunkle]], a boss from ''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]''.

In the game, when [[Mario]], [[Luigi]], [[Baby Mario]] and [[Baby Luigi]] come to the volcano, the volcano erupts. With [[Professor Elvin Gadd|E. Gadd]]'s help, they are able to put the fire out using the [[Hydrogush 4000]]. Mr. and Mrs. Thwomp, however, wait each year for the volcano to erupt immediately, so when Mario and Luigi stop the eruption, they are upset. As the brothers make their way to the summit, Mrs. Thwomp scolds them and decides to battle them. During the battle, she has a few attacks. The first one involves slamming the ground and producing a shockwave for the brothers to [[jump]] over. The second attack involves her shooting rocks at them alternately. If she shoots a rock from her right, it hits Mario, if from the left, it hits Luigi. She will also occasionally fire a rock between the brothers as a fake out to keep them off guard for the other rocks. If the brothers successfully hit a rock with their [[Hammer]], they will get a healing item, a [[coin]] or a [[Bros. Item]]. After losing at least 150 [[Heart Point|HP]] (230 in the Japanese and European versions), she splits into four small versions of herself. After taking even more damage in this phase, it is revealed that some [[Mini Goomba|Micro-Goomba]]s help her as decoys when she shrinks.  They have slightly imperfect disguises, however, which the player can use as a clue to which to attack; one has a chip on its head, another has fewer teeth than the real Mrs. Thwomp, and the other has sharp teeth instead of blunt ones. In this form, Mrs. Thwomp attacks by hopping in front of Mario or Luigi, at which point either should use their hammer to repel the attack and damage her.

After being defeated, Mrs. Thwomp gets sad and her husband attempts to calm her down by scolding the Mario Bros. for "hitting a lady." After the brothers reveal that they are trying to save [[Princess Peach]], a lady, Mr. Thwomp is pleased and offers to take the brothers into [[Thwomp Caverns]]. Mrs. Thwomp then asks to come along, but Mr. Thwomp, knowing her weight would be too much for him to safely carry, disdainfully says no. She becomes furious in response and knocks Mr. Thwomp into the volcano with a hard body slam, before muttering that Mr. Thwomp is a "jerk." From that point on, if spoken to again, Mrs. Thwomp repeats this line ("JERK" in big letters).

{{:Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time bestiary|transcludesection=Mrs. Thwomp (Large)|align=horizontal|image=[[File:Mrs Thwomp Idle.gif]]}}

{{foreign names

|Jpn=ゴロボー

|JpnR=Gorobō

|JpnM=Portmanteau of「ゴロゴロ」(''gorogoro'', onomatopoeia for rolling) and possibly「クリボー」(''Kuribō'', [[Goomba]]), referring to her Goomba-like eyebrows and fighting alongside [[Mini Goomba|Micro-Goomba]]s; shared with [[Rrrumba]] and similar to [[Gromba]]

|Fre=Madame Thwomp

|FreM=Mrs. Thwomp

|SpaE=Sra. Roca Picuda

|SpaEM=Mrs. Thwomp

|ItaM=Miss Thwomp

}}

==Notes==

*In the North American version of the game, the Mario Bros. are given a [[coin]] reward of 0 coins after defeating Mrs. Thwomp. Internally, the big form is set to give 0 coins, while the small form is set to give 150 coins. The game considers only the big form to be defeated at the end of the fight, resulting in an unintended 0 coin reward. This oversight was fixed in the Japanese and European versions by moving the coin reward from the small form to the big form, which correctly gives the 150 coins.<ref>[https://themushroomkingdom.net/mlpit_guide.shtml TMK Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time Enemy Guide]. Some stats were changed from the original American version of the game to the Japanese and PAL versions.</ref>

**Additionally, in the North American version of the game, the Mario Bros. are given an extra 400 [[Experience Point|EXP]] for every fake form of her when defeated; in the Japanese and European versions of the game, the 400 EXP reward is assigned only to the big Mrs. Thwomp. This means that the North American version gets an unintended 1600 EXP reward.

*Despite being specified as a Thwomp in Western localizations, Mrs. Thwomp's eyes more closely resemble that of a [[Whomp]]. This may be an artifact from an early point in development where Whomps were intended to be seen in the game, as evidenced by [[list of Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time pre-release and unused content|unused]] graphics.<ref>TCRF. [[tcrf:Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time#Unused Graphics|Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time § Unused Graphics]]. ''The Cutting Room Floor''. Retrieved April 9, 2019.</ref>

 

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