Editing Rocky Wrench

|image=[[File:NSMBW Rocky Wrench Artwork.png|270px]]<br>Artwork from ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]''

|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario Party Jamboree]]'' ([[List of games by date#2024|2024]])

|variant_of=[[Koopa (species)|Koopa]] (origin)

|variants=[[Mega Rocky Wrench]]<br>[[Monty]]<br>[[Monty Mole]]

'''Rocky Wrenches''' are enemies employed as crewmen on [[Bowser's Minions]]' vehicles.<ref name="jpname">{{cite|quote=「モグラようなカメ{{ruby|族|ぞく}}。{{ruby|穴|あな}}からニョキッと{{ruby|出|で}}てきてスパナを{{ruby|投|な}}げてくる。{{ruby|飛行船|ひこうせん}}の{{ruby|乗組員|のりくみいん}}だ。」 ("''Mole-like members of the [[Koopa (species)|Turtle Tribe]]. They will pop out of a hole to throw their spanner. They are the maintenance crew of the airship.''"|title=スーパーマリオブラザーズ3 (''Sūpā Mario Burazāzu Surī'') instruction booklet|page=38|date=1988|publisher=Nintendo}}</ref><ref>{{cite|quote=These turtles often serve as crew of Koopaling Airships and military vehicles.|title=''Nintendo Power'' Volume 13|page=9|date=June 1990|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us}}</ref> They pop out of [[manhole]] covers and attack by throwing their namesake wrenches. They have been described as mole-like turtles,<ref name="jpname"/><ref>{{cite|quote=Rocky is a turtle who kind of looks like a mole. He will suddenly appear and start to throw wrenches from his fingers at Mario or Luigi.|title=''Super Mario Bros. 3'' instruction booklet|page=37|language=en-us|date=1990|publisher=Nintendo of America}}</ref> but in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'', they are given a new design in which they lack shells (with the exception of the game styles in the ''[[Super Mario Maker (disambiguation)|Super Mario Maker]]'' series based on older games), instead sharing a model with their more prolific derivative, [[Monty Mole]]s, but wearing goggles, a detail carried over to many of their subsequent appearances in the franchise. All of their derivatives, including Monty Moles and their own derivatives, have always been treated as "true" moles, and Rocky Wrench's original description has not been applied to the redesign and they have since been called moles instead of mole-like on at least one occasion.<ref>{{cite|quote=These crafty moles show themselves just long enough to throw a wrench at you before dropping back out of sight.|author=von Esmarch, Nick|date=November 13, 2011|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|language=en-us|isbn=978-0-307-89386-4|title=''Super Mario 3D Land'' PRIMA Official Game Guide|page=15}}</ref> In ''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]''{{'}}s final wave in the ''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass|Booster Course Pass]]'' DLC, they are given a design more reminiscent of their original appearance, now featuring a brown muzzle and once again bearing a shell, a look which is also used in ''[[Super Mario Party Jamboree]]''.

 

Rocky Wrenches reappear in ''[[Super Mario Maker]]'' and its [[Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS|Nintendo 3DS version]], using new sprites for ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' and ''[[Super Mario World]]''–styled courses, the former of which removes their goggles. If they are winged, they hop out of their manhole cover before throwing their wrenches, making their lower bodies more visible. This also occurs if they are enlarged with a [[Super Mushroom]], but they temporarily revert to their original size in order to hide. On certain platforms such as [[Semisolid Platform]]s, [[Donut Block]]s, and [[Cloud Block]]s, Rocky Wrenches fall through them when they attempt to hide in them. Rocky Wrenches retain their shells in the ''Super Mario Bros.'', ''Super Mario Bros. 3'', and ''Super Mario World'' styles, but not in ''New Super Mario Bros. U'' style. In addition, their existing appearances have been slightly revised; they have a less plain palette and appear to lack tails in the ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' style in addition to a white snout and belly, and now have stubbier limbs and a slimmer, shorter body shape compared to a Monty Mole in the ''New Super Mario Bros. U'' style. In Course Maker, shaking them will change the slot to a Monty Mole and vice versa.

Rocky Wrenches reappear in ''[[Super Mario Run]]'', appearing only in [[Throwing It All Overboard]] in the main game. Additionally, they can occasionally appear in the [[Airship]] courses seen in [[Toad Rally]] and [[Remix 10]]. If a Rocky Wrench is defeated, then any wrench it threw also vanishes. Some Rocky Wrenches throw coins instead of wrenches, and these coins do not disappear in this manner but do when they hit walls. Rocky Wrenches come back out of the ground much quicker than they do in most games, almost immediately after they go down. Rocky Wrenches can only be [[Vaulting|vaulted over]] while they are not fully underground, though they can be vaulted over even while not fully extended above ground.

In the ''[[Nintendo Adventure Books]]'', a Rocky Wrench that carries a handbag around competes in the [[International Mushroom Games]] as a member of a team called the [[Sneaks]] in ''[[Leaping Lizards]]''. True to his team's name, he uses underhanded tactics in the events, cutting a hole in [[Roy|Roy Koopa]]'s [[magic carpet|flying carpet]] during the obstacle course and throwing ink in his face during the Beetlebowl. Rocky Wrench is also very skilled at most of the sports, winning a majority of them. Rocky Wrench's name also appears in a crossword puzzle (though it is shortened to "Rocky"). The artwork used in said puzzle is reused from ''[[Super Mario Bros. Print World]]''. Rocky Wrench is also called a rodent in this book and the following one.

They reappear much later in volume 30, in which [[Larry]] commands several Rocky Wrenches to throw wrenches at Mario.

Rocky Wrenches appear in ''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]'' in the final wave of the ''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass|Booster Course Pass]]'' DLC, reappearing in {{classic|Tour|Rome Avanti}}. They are now designed to look more like their original appearance in ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', having brown, pointy snouts, white claws, black shells, and blue goggles with thin, white straps. They still retain a couple details from their previous, more Monty Mole–like design, such as the goggles being round, and having white bellies.

Rocky Wrenches appear alongside a [[Mega Rocky Wrench]] in the [[Mega Rocky Wrench Wreckers]] minigame in ''[[Super Mario Party Jamboree]]'', retaining their design from ''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe'', albeit with a model update giving it a mouth between the brown and white part of its snout. In the minigame, the Mega Rocky Wrench will pop out of manholes on an airship, occasionally throwing wrenches. Players must shoot the Mega Rocky Wrench with their [[Cannon|cannons]] in order to damage it. Players can also shoot the wrenches thrown to prevent themselves from getting stunned by it. A group of regular Rocky Wrenches will also sometimes pop out of the manholes to fool players after the Mega Rocky Wrench has lost half of its health. The Mega Rocky Wrench also makes appearances on posters in [[Rainbow Galleria]].<ref>{{file link|SMPJ Rainbow Galleria Escalator.jpg}}</ref>

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*In official artwork for an airship in ''Super Mario Bros. 3'', [[Roy|Roy Koopa]] hides in a trench and throws wrenches in a manner very similar to Rocky Wrenches.