Editing Spike Bar

|image=[[File:SpikeBar3dworld.jpg|250px]]<br>Two spiked rollers rotating on an axis like Spike Bars, as seen in ''[[Super Mario 3D World]]''

|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury]]'' ([[List of games by date#2021|2021]])

|comparable=[[Fire Bar]]<br>[[Moonsnake]]

'''Spike Bars''' are spiky obstacles encountered chiefly in ''[[Super Mario (series)|Super Mario]]'' games. They are similar to [[Fire Bar]]s, but with spiked balls in place of [[fireball]]s. They usually can be destroyed with certain [[power-up]] forms, whereas Fire Bars are completely indestructible. If characters come in contact with a Spike Bar, they take damage.

In ''[[Wario Land: Shake It!]]'', Spike Bars, referred to as '''spike poles''',<ref>Stratton, Steve. ''Wario Land: Shake It!'' PRIMA Official Strategy Guide. Pages 166-169.</ref> or '''spiky poles''',<ref>Stratton, Steve. ''Wario Land: Shake It!'' PRIMA Official Strategy Guide. Page 96.</ref> appear in levels that feature [[Rocket Bucket]]s, such as [[Airytale Castle]] and [[Launchpad Labyrinth]]. They extend out of a metallic pivot and start rotating around it the moment [[Wario]] mounts a Rocket Bucket, retracting when the vehicle is destroyed or abandoned. Spike poles appear with varying lengths, are indestructible, and are always surrounded with [[coin]]s, collectable by carefully navigating in-between the bars. If Wario flies a Rocket Bucket into a spike pole, the vehicle breaks, forcing Wario to plummet to solid ground. Since they only appear when a Rocket Bucket is in use, spike poles cannot hurt Wario directly.

[[File:SpikeBar3DLand.PNG|thumb|left|A Spike Bar in [[World 5-3 (Super Mario 3D Land)|World 5-3]] of ''Super Mario 3D Land'']]

Contrary to Fire Bars, which mostly appear in [[lava]]-themed [[level]]s, Spike Bars are found in a variety of level themes throughout ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]''. One or two Spike Bars can be found rotating around the same axis, but unlike Fire Bars, Spike Bars never rotate on their side.

 

Objects similar to Spike Bars, known as '''spiked rollers''',<ref>Profile for Spike in ''Mario Party: Star Rush''. "''Spikes use their immense strength to hurl spiked rollers that are even bigger than they are!''"</ref> also appear. They automatically roll back and forth along the ground, though they are occasionally swung by chains, giving them vertical movement.

 

If [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]] make contact with a Spike Bar or spiked roller in their [[Statue Mario|Statue]] forms, it breaks and releases several [[coin]]s.

 

 

 

In ''Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury'', {{conjectural|Cat Spikes}} throw spiked rollers identically to normal Spikes during the "So Close Yet So Far" mission of [[Trickity Tower]]. After this mission is completed, if Mario leaves the area and returns, the Cat Spikes will permanently disappear from the area.

Spike Bars return in ''[[Super Mario Run]]'' as obstacles in the level [[Spike Bar Jungle]], and are designed to look closer to their original appearance from ''Super Mario 3D Land'', but with extra spikes. This is its only appearance where the bar is connected to a [[Hard Block]] with a cog. Albeit indestructible in this game, Spike Bars can be bounced on safely by [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshis]].

 

Spiked rollers appear in ''[[Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker]]'' and its Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS [[Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo Switch / Nintendo 3DS)|ports]], once again thrown by Spike, although only in the level [[Windup Stairs]].

 

In ''[[Mario Party: Star Rush]]'', Spikes produce spiked rollers in [[Roller Revenge]].

 

A spiked roller can be found at Underwater Village, a location in [[Spooky Trails]] from ''[[Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle]]''. It is stuck between some plants grown away from the main path. [[Beep-0]] notes that whoever owned the spiked roller left the area quickly, claiming this to be "an ominous sign". The weapons [[List of weapons in Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle#Spike Strike|Spike Strike]] and [[List of weapons in Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle#Big Spike|Big Spike]] are designed after spiked rollers, though their description refers to them as [[Skewer]]s.

 

===''Mario Tennis Aces''===

In ''[[Mario Tennis Aces]]'', [[Spike]] produces a spiked roller and uses it to hit the tennis ball in his [[Special Shot#Mario Tennis Aces|Special Shot]].

 

In ''[[Paper Mario: The Origami King]]'', some spiked rollers can be seen in the Spike's quarters alongside some [[Spike Ball]]s in [[Bowser's Castle]].

|Jap=トゲバー<ref>Shogakukan. 2015. ''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook''. ''Super Mario 3D Land'' section. Page 185.</ref>

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|Ita=Sbarra chiodata<br>Sbarra Spino<ref>''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''. Page 185.</ref>