Editing Phantamanta

{{character infobox

|image=[[File:SMS Phatamanta.png|270px]]<br>Screenshot from ''Super Mario Sunshine''

|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'' ([[List of games by date#2002|2002]])

|species=[[Manta]]

|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario 3D All-Stars]]'' ([[List of games by date#2020|2020]])

{{quote|This giant manta-shaped thing showed up. It was this paper-thin...floating silhouette. It came and covered the [[Sirena Beach|hotel grounds]] in this [[electric goop]].|Hotel manager|Super Mario Sunshine}}

[[File:Manta SMS.png|thumb|left|The Manta coming up over the horizon in ''Super Mario Sunshine'']]

'''Phantamanta''',<ref>''[[Super Mario Sunshine Original Soundtrack]]'' track "Phantamanta," found in ''[[Super Mario 3D All-Stars]]''.</ref> originally known as the '''[[Manta]]''',<ref>{{cite|author=Loe, Casey|title=''Super Mario Sunshine'' Perfect Guide|page=78|language=en-us|date=August 12, 2002|publisher=Versus Books|isbn=1-931886-09-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=Bogenn, Tim, and Doug Walsh|title=''Super Mario Sunshine'' Official Strategy Guide|page=92|publisher=BradyGAMES|language=en-us|isbn=0-7440-0180-3|date=2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=Hodgson, David S J, Bryan Stratton, and Stephen Stratton|title=''Super Mario Sunshine'' Prima's Official Strategy Guide|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|page=21|date=September 3, 2002|language=en-us|isbn=0-7615-3961-1}}</ref> is a [[List of bosses|boss]] who appears in the [[The Manta Storm|first episode]] of [[Sirena Beach]] in ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]''. It is the cause of [[Hotel Delfino]]'s disappearance. It is a pale salmon-colored silhouette of a manta ray. When [[Mario]] sprays it with [[water]] from [[F.L.U.D.D.|FLUDD]] or attacks it with [[barrel#Super Mario Sunshine|Water Barrel]]s, it splits into smaller versions of itself, also referred to as '''Manta rays'''.<ref>{{cite|author=Hodgson, David S J, Bryan Stratton, and Stephen Stratton|title=''Super Mario Sunshine'' Prima's Official Strategy Guide|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|page=116|date=September 3, 2002|language=en-us|isbn=0-7615-3961-1}}</ref> It possesses the uncanny ability to project itself over any surface of varying elevations instantaneously, much like a shadow. Its name is a pun on "phantom" and "manta."

In its episode, The Manta Storm, before Phantamanta arrives, the [[electric goop]] that it leaves behind before Mario arrives is in the shape of Phantamanta itself. When battled, as Phantamanta moves, it leaves a trail of electric goop. Phantamanta cannot reach Mario if he is under one of the two huts or under a coconut tree, which is foreshadowed by a [[Pianta]] in one of the huts if Mario speaks to her before the battle. If Phantamanta is still in its largest form, it can still hurt Mario under the huts or trees. In addition, if Mario stands in the water, Phantamanta can still reach him, but it cannot produce [[goop]] with a shock. Upon contact with FLUDD's water, Phantamanta first divides into two. Each of those Phantamantas can divide into three more. Each of those can divide into four more Phantamantas. Lastly, each of those can further divide into four more Phantamantas, making a total of 96 Phantamantas to defeat. When all of the Phantamantas have fully divided, they turn pink, become irate, and start swarming towards Mario; until this point, the smallest Phantamantas do not pursue him, but all the larger ones do. Once the last one is vanquished, Hotel Delfino is restored, revealing a [[Shine Sprite]] for Mario to collect.

 

==Names in other languages==

{{foreign names

|SpaM=Mega Ray

|Fre=Méga Manta

|Ger=Magischer Manta

|Ita=Fantamanta

*Phantamanta's music is a slightly eerie variation of the miniboss music that plays when the player fights the [[Plungelo]]s, the [[Proto Piranha]]s, and [[Gooper Blooper]] (in [[Noki Bay]]'s [[The Boss of Tricky Ruins|second episode]]).

*Phantamanta may have been inspired by the ending of the horror novel ''{{wp|The Shining (novel)|The Shining}}'', after the Overlook Hotel is destroyed: "For a moment it assumed the shape of a huge, obscene manta, and then the wind seemed to catch it, to tear it and shred it like old dark paper. It fragmented, was caught in a whirling eddy of smoke, and a moment later it was gone as if it had never been."

*In ''{{iw|inkipedia|Splatoon 3}}'', {{iw|inkipedia|Big Man}}'s boss fight pays homage to Phantamanta, with the ink color even being similar to the goop Phantamanta uses. His boss title, "The Hype Manta Storm," also references The Manta Storm, the name of the episode in which Phantamanta is fought.