Editing Shark

{{about|the enemies from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins|other uses|[[Shark (disambiguation)]]}}
{{species infobox
|image=[[File:SML2 Artwork - Shark.png|200x200px]]<br>Artwork 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=''[[Super Mario Ehon|Super Mario Story Quiz Picture Book 1: Chase Wario]]'' (1997)
|comparable=[[Sushi]]
}}
'''Sharks'''<ref name=power>{{cite|quote=Sharks cannot be stopped. Swim around them . . . carefully.|date=Dec. 1992|title=''[[Nintendo Power]]''|format=Volume 43|publisher=[[Nintendo|Nintendo of America]]|page=49}}</ref><ref name=portal>{{cite|url=www.nintendo.co.jp/character/mario/archives/land2/?lang=en|title=''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> are underwater enemies in ''[[Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins]]'' that wear boxing gloves. They are large-bodied sharks with toothy maws and narrowed eyes. Additional details are present in artwork and paratextual material that are absent in the game itself, specifically lavender dorsa, white underbellies, and a white star-shaped pattern on the tips of their snouts. A shark is one of three enemies on the box art for ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins'', with the other two being a [[Noko Bombette]] and a [[Battle Beetle]]. Though sharks have not appeared outside of ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins'' and related media, they are the first shark enemies in the ''[[Super Mario (series)|Super Mario]]'' series, predating [[Sushi]]'s debut in ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' by four years.

Unlike most mainline titles, there was no accompanying reference that provided English names for all of the enemies in ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins'' when it was released in 1992, resulting in many of them being unnamed in English despite having original designs. For this enemy, it has only been passively referred to as a "shark" in an issue of ''[[Nintendo Power]]''.<ref name=power/> "Shark" has subsequently been utilized as the enemy's name in the 2018 English localization of the ''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia]]''<ref>{{cite|author=Roberts, Rachel, and Cardner Clark, editors|date=2018|title="Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins" in ''Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia: The Official Guide to the First 30 Years''|format=First English Edition|location=Milwaukie|publisher=[[Dark Horse Comics|Dark Horse Books]]|isbn=978-1-50670-897-3|page=76}}</ref> and [[Mario Portal]] circa 2022.<ref name=portal/> By contrast, the Japanese name for the enemy is 「ジョー」(''Jō'').<ref name=land2>{{cite|url=www.nintendo.co.jp/n02/dmg/l6j/enemy/index.html|title=スーパーマリオランド２　６つの金貨／敵キャラクター|publisher=Nintendo Co., Ltd.|language=ja|accessdate=8 Jul. 2024}}</ref><ref name=perfect>{{cite|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|date=1994|language=ja|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/ZgToj3Z.jpeg 91]}}</ref><ref name=sakai>{{cite|author=Sakai, Kazuya (Ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors|language=ja|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|location=Tokyo|date=2015|title="Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins" in『[[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]]』|page=75|isbn=978-4-09-106569-8}}</ref>

==History==
===''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins''===
Sharks are uncommon enemies found only in the [[Turtle Zone]], occurring in the [[Cheep Cheep Course]] and the [[Turtle Zone (level)|submarine level of the same name]]. The sharks are the largest fish enemies in the game and swim in straight lines. When they reach an opposing wall, they turn around. Sharks swim slowly, but quicken when [[Mario]] is in their line of sight. Direct contact damages him. Despite wearing gloves, the sharks do not attack by punching. In the first part of the Cheep Cheep Course, a shark occurs in such a narrow corridor of water that Mario's best option to avoid contact is by [[crouch]]ing.

Sharks are impervious to [[fireball]]s tossed by [[Fire Mario]]. They are only defeated if he makes contact with them in his [[Invincible Mario|Invincible form]] or by striking them with a [[Koopa Shell]]. There are only seven sharks in the entire game: five in the Cheep Cheep Course and two in the Turtle Zone level.

===''Super Mario-kun''===
In [[Super Mario-kun Volume 9|volume 9 of ''Super Mario-kun'']], Mario, [[Luigi]], and [[Yoshi]] encounter a shark during their boat trip. The shark attacks them, but Mario throws Yoshi to the shark to defeat it, although Yoshi gets injured.

==Profiles and statistics==
===''[[Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten]]''===
{{PBMCD profile
|name=ジョー (JP) / Shark (EN)
|artwork=[[File:Shark Perfect.png|200px]]
|shuzoku=アクア{{ruby|族|ぞく}}
|seikaku=まっすぐ
|tojo_gemu=ランド２
|desc='''<big>ファイアも{{ruby|効|き}}かないスゴイヤツ</big></b><br>
ボクシンググローブをはめたサメのモンスター。{{ruby|突然|とつぜん}}ダッシュしておそってくるぞ。ファイアが{{ruby|効|き}}かないので、{{ruby|水中|すいちゅう}}では{{ruby|苦戦|くせん}}する。{{ruby|水平|すいへい}}にしか{{ruby|動|うご}}かないので、{{ruby|高|たか}}さを{{ruby|変|か}}えるんだ。<ref name=perfect/>
|tribe=Aqua clan
|disposition=Direct
|game_appearances=Land 2
|eng_desc='''''<big>Fire doesn't work on these awesome guys.</big><br>
''A shark monster wearing boxing gloves. It will suddenly dash out and attack you. Fire is ineffective, so you will have a hard time in the water. It moves only horizontally, so you will have to change your position.''
}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
SML2 group art.jpg|Key artwork from ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins''
Jaw SML2.png|Artwork from ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins''
SML2 Artwork Shark.png|Artwork from [[Game Boy - Nintendo Switch Online]]
SML2 Shark.png|Sprite from ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins''
Kellogg's Nintendo Collector card 03.jpg|[[Kellogg's]] trading card
Jo SuperMarioKun 9.jpg|Scan from ''Super Mario-kun''
SMSQPB1 Cover.png|Cover of ''Super Mario Story Quiz Picture Book 1: Chase Wario''
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ジョー<ref name=land2/><ref name=perfect/><ref name=sakai/>
|JapR=Jō
|JapM=Joe; a potential play on 「矢吹丈」(''Jō Yabuki''), the boxer protagonist of the manga「あしたのジョー 」(''Ashita no Jō'', ''{{wp|Ashita no Joe}}''), and「ジョーズ」(''Jōzu'', ''{{wp|Jaws (film)|Jaws}}'')
|Ger=Joe
|Ita=Joe<ref>{{cite|date=November 15, 2018|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|publisher=Magazzini Salani|language=it|isbn=889367436X|page=75}}</ref>
}}

==References==
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