Editing Octopus (boss)

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{{character infobox
|image=[[File:SML2 Artwork - Octopus.png|210px]]<br>Official artwork of octopuses, from ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins''
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins]]'' ([[List of games by date#1992|1992]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Mario vs. Wario]]'' ([[List of games by date#1993|1993]])
}}
The '''octopus'''<ref>{{cite|date=August 1993|title=''Nintendo Magazine System'' (AU) Issue #5|page=55}}</ref><ref>{{cite|url=www.nintendo.co.jp/character/mario/archives/land2/?lang=en|title=English ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins'' entry on the official Mario Portal|publisher=nintendo.co.jp|language=en|accessdate=August 13, 2022|archive=archive.today/2022.08.13-135145/https://www.nintendo.co.jp/character/mario/archives/land2/?lang=en}}</ref> is a [[List of bosses|boss]] in ''[[Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins]]''.

==History==
===''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins''===
The octopus is the boss of [[Turtle Zone]] in ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins'', and is located in the belly of a [[whale]]. It will attack [[Mario]] by swimming around releasing its offspring. The little ones slowly home in on Mario and pass him by, while the parent swims left and right across the arena. In order to defeat the octopus, Mario has to hit its head three times, which can be difficult, as the entire battle with the octopus takes place underwater. Alternatively, [[Fire Mario]] can defeat the octopus with six [[fireball]]s. The smaller octopodes cannot be harmed, and are the most dangerous threat in the battle. Once defeated, Mario will gain one of the six Golden Coins needed to take back his castle from [[Wario]].

===''Mario vs. Wario''===
[[File:MariovWario-Octopus.png|thumb|left]]
The octopus (referred to by [[Mario]] as a '''monster octopus''') also appears in the ''[[Mario vs. Wario]]'' comic, which is a loose adaptation of ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins''. It attempts to attack Mario while he is crossing a lake, but is stopped when Mario asks what an octopus, a saltwater creature, is doing in a freshwater lake. The octopus ponders this and then exclaims that must be why it has not been feeling well. Mario offers to pour some salt in the water for the octopus, but accidentally pours sugar instead. It is last seen lying face down in the water, unmoving.

==Profiles and statistics==
===''[[Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten]]''===
{{PEGMCE profile
|name=パコ&ポコ (JP) / Pako & Poko (EN)
|shuzoku=アクア族
|seikaku=乱暴者
|tojo_gemu=ランド2
|desc='''<big>恐怖！タコの親子タッグ</big></b><br>
マリオランド2のタートルゾーンにボスとして登場する巨大タコの親子。親ダコ・パコの口から子タコ・ポコがはき出される。親子タッグによる、体当たり攻撃は非常に手ごわいぞ。<ref name=Daijiten>{{cite|language=ja|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|date=1994|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/oh9A65Q.jpeg 151]}}</ref>
|tribe=Aqua clan
|disposition=Thug
|game_appearances=Land 2
|eng_desc='''''<big>Terror! Octopus parent-child tag team</big><br>
''A giant octopus parent and child appear as bosses in the Turtle Zone of Mario Land 2. A baby octopus, Poko, is ejected from the mouth of the parent octopus, Pako. The parent-child tag team's physical attacks are extremely formidable.''
}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Octopus SML2.png|Sprite from ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins''
Super Mario Land 2 Shogakukan P5.jpg|A child octopus, alongside [[Dondon]], a [[Kurokyura]], and a [[Yashichi]], massaging [[Wario]]'s feet in the official guidebook
KCDeluxe-SML2Octopus.png|[[Super Mario (Kodansha manga)|''Super Mario'' Kodansha manga]]
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=パコ&ポコ<ref name=Shogakukan09>{{cite|language=ja|publisher=Shogakukan|title=「任天堂公式ガイドブック　スーパーマリオランド２ ６つの金貨」 (''Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook – Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins'')|page=9}}</ref>
|JapR={{nw|Pako to Poko}}
|JapM=Pako & Poko;「パコ」(''Pako'') is the big octopus<ref name=Shogakukan09/> and「ポコ」(''Poko'') is the small one<ref name=Shogakukan09/>
}}
;Pako
{{foreign names
|Jap=パコ<ref name=Shogakukan09/>
|JapR=Pako
|JapM=Likely from「オクトパス」(''okutopasu'', "octopus") and「蛸」(''tako'', "octopus")
|Jap2={{ruby|大|おお}}タコ<ref name=KC>{{cite|author=Kazuki, Motoyama|title=[[Super Mario (Kodansha manga)|KC Deluxe]] vol. 20 - ''Super Mario Land 2: 6-tsu no Kinka 2''|page=3}}</ref>
|Jap2R=Ō Tako
|Jap2M=Big Octopus
|Ger=Oktopus
|GerM=Octopus
|Ita=Polpo<ref>{{cite|title=''Club Nintendo'' (Italy) Numero 1|date=1993|page=25}}</ref><ref>{{cite|title=''[[Super Mario Adventures]]''|page=106}}</ref>
|Ita2=Octopus<ref name=Enciclopedia>{{cite|date=November 15, 2018|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|publisher=Magazzini Salani|language=it|isbn=889367436X|page=76}}</ref>
|ItaM=Octopus
}}
;Poko
{{foreign names
|Jap=ポコ<ref name=Shogakukan09/>
|JapR=Poko
|JapM=From「ポコポコ」(''pokopoko'', onomatopoeia for bubbling sound) and「子」(''ko'', "child")
|Jap2={{ruby|子|こ}}タコ<ref name=KC/>
|Jap2R=Ko Tako
|Jap2M=Child Octopus
|Ger=Mini-Oktopus
|GerM=Mini Octopus
|Ita=Piccolo polpo<ref name=Enciclopedia/>
|ItaM=Little octopus
}}

==References==
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