Editing Spiny Cheep Cheep

{{species infobox
|image=[[File:DMW-SpinyCheepCheep.png|229px]]<br>Spiny Cheep Cheep artwork from ''[[Dr. Mario World]]''
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' ([[List of games by date#1988|1988]])
|latest_appearance=''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'' (cameo) (2023)
|variant_of=[[Cheep Cheep]]
|variants=[[Porcupuffer]]<br>[[Spike Bass]]
|relatives=[[Porcupinefish]]<br>[[Puffer-Cheep]]
|comparable=[[Loch Nestor]]<br>[[Rip Van Fish]]
|notable=[[Porcupuffer (boss)|Porcupuffer]]
}}
'''Spiny Cheep Cheeps''' (also formatted as '''Spiny Cheep-Cheeps'''),<ref>{{cite|date=June 1990|title=''Nintendo Power'' Volume 13|page=9|language=American English|publisher=Nintendo of America}}</ref> also known as '''Spiny Cheeps'''<ref>{{cite|author=Rocha, Garitt; von Esmarch, Nick|title=''Playing With Power: Nintendo NES Classics''|page=200}}</ref> or "'''Cheep-cheeps''',"<ref>{{cite|title=''Super Mario Bros. 3'' English instruction booklet|page=26|date=1990|publisher=Nintendo of America}}</ref> are [[Cheep Cheep]]s that most commonly appear with spikes running down their backs, although there has been much variation. They are fast swimmers, and from ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'' onward, they chase [[Mario]] in a similar manner to [[Rip Van Fish]] from ''[[Super Mario World]]''.

==History==
===''Super Mario'' series===
====''Super Mario Bros. 3''====
[[File:SpinyCheepCheep.jpg|150px|thumb|left|A Spiny Cheep-Cheep's original design, as seen in artwork for ''Super Mario Bros. 3'']]
Spiny Cheep-Cheeps debuted in ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]''. In the game, they only appear in one level: [[World 7-4 (Super Mario Bros. 3)|World 7-4]]. They swim faster than normal Cheep-Cheeps, though they can sometimes be seen swimming slowly as well. They also swim both left and right. They can be defeated using [[Hammer Mario]]'s hammers, [[Fire Mario]]'s [[fireball]]s, or by [[Invincible Mario]]. In the original, they are black with a white underside and green lips, and have eyes looking upwards and visible teeth; in remakes, they are a dull blue with a salmon-colored underside and lips a slightly lighter shade than those of the average [[Cheep Cheep|Cheep-Cheep]], their eyes look straight, and they have a toothless, circular mouth.
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====''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins''====
The Spiny Cheep-Cheep is a fairly rare enemy in ''[[Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins]]'', and it appears only in the [[Turtle Zone]]. Unlike its other appearances, it is flat and slender, almost eel-like, but it regularly inflates itself into a spiked ball. When inflated it can only rise upwards, so it moves towards [[Mario]] when deflated and attempts to block his path by puffing up and getting in his way. Spiny Cheep-Cheeps can be defeated with [[fireball]]s.

====''Super Mario Galaxy''====
[[File:SMG Spiny Cheep Cheep.png|150px|thumb|A Spiny Cheep-Cheep from ''Super Mario Galaxy'']]
Another pufferfish version of this enemy<ref>{{cite|publisher=Shogakukan|date=2015|title=''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook''|page=128 and 160|language=Japanese}}</ref> appears in the game ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''. They are quite rare, as only two appear, specifically in the [[Drip Drop Galaxy]], hidden in underwater chests. When released, they will puff up and start swimming at a fast pace towards Mario, but only move in a straight line. After a short period, they disappear. Their tail fins resemble balloon nozzles in this game.
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====''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''====
[[File:NSMBW World 4-4 Screenshot.png|thumb|left|Spiny Cheep Cheeps in ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'']]
Spiny Cheep Cheeps reappear in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]''. They first appear in [[World 1-4 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)|World 1-4]] and later in [[World 4-1 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)|World 4-1]] and [[World 4-4 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)|World 4-4]]. A single Spiny Cheep Cheep also appears in a secret area in [[World 8-4 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)|World 8-4]]. It patrols a small area left and right, but once it catches sight of Mario, Luigi, or the Toads, it will hunt them down. Though small, the Spiny Cheep Cheep is quite fast and relentless in its chase; more so than the [[Deep Cheep|Deep-Cheep]]. They can be frozen using [[Ice Mario|Ice]] or [[Penguin Mario]]'s ice balls, but like all spiked enemies in the game, they will not stay frozen for long. Once it unfreezes, it has an angrier look on its face, the same one a Deep Cheep has. This does not affect anything it does.
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====''Super Mario Galaxy 2''====
A single Spiny Cheep Cheep appears in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]''. It only appears in the first mission of the [[Cosmic Cove Galaxy]], where it appears without any warning, and then swims at Mario like the ones in its predecessor. It is referred to as a [[Porcupuffer]] in the [[Prima Games]] guide.<ref>{{cite|author=Browne, Catherine|title=''Super Mario Galaxy 2'' PRIMA Official Game Guide|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|isbn=0307469077|page=28 and 90}}</ref>

====''New Super Mario Bros. 2''====
Spiny Cheep Cheeps also appear in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. 2]]'', where they first appear early in [[World 1-5 (New Super Mario Bros. 2)|World 1-5]]. They behave the same way and have the same appearance as in ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'', except they have an angry look on their faces by default now.

====''New Super Mario Bros. U''====
Spiny Cheep Cheeps reappear in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]''. Like in past ''New Super Mario Bros.'' games, they will chase Mario, Luigi, and the Toads once they appear on screen.

===''The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3''===
[[File:CartoonSpinyCheeps.png|thumb|left|Some Spiny Cheep Cheeps that appear in ''The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3'' episode "Recycled Koopa"]]
Spiny Cheep-Cheeps appear in ''[[The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' episode "[[Recycled Koopa]]". When [[Bowser|King Koopa]] uses his [[Crud Cannon]] to dump [[Koopa trash|his garbage]] all over [[New York City]] and turn humans into [[Koopa Zombie]]s, some of the garbage fired by the cannon lands in the East River, mutating a school of fish into Spiny Cheep-Cheeps. Most episodes depict them as red, instead of their game color, and having yellow, sharp teeth.

===''Yoshi's Story''===
[[File:Yoshis Story Spiny Fish.png|150px|thumb|A Spiny Fish from ''Yoshi's Story'']]
Spiny Cheep-Cheeps,<ref>{{cite|language=Japanese|publisher=Shogakukan|title=「ヨッシーストーリー 任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Yoshi's Story Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'')|page=[[Media:Yoshi Story Shogakukan P6.jpg|6]]}}</ref> referred to in English as '''Spiny Fish''',<ref>{{cite|archive=web.archive.org/web/20010807020154/http://www.yoshisstory.com:80/5-2.html|title=''Yoshi's Story'' official website|accessdate=April 22, 2015}}</ref> make an appearance in ''[[Yoshi's Story]]'', where they are magenta with yellow spikes and tail, and lack pectoral fins. They are depicted as larger than a [[Cheep Cheep]] and have more spikes on their body over where their plain underbelly and pectoral fins are normally located. They have red lips and have green irises. They appear only in the first level of Page 5: Ocean, [[Lots O'Jelly Fish]], where they simply swim back and forth. If a [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]] eats them, he loses some [[Health Meter#Yoshi's Story|petal]]s. Their ''Yoshi's Story'' artwork is reused as a stamp in ''[[Mario Artist: Paint Studio]]''.

===''Mario Pinball Land''===
In ''[[Mario Pinball Land]]'', Spiny Cheep-Cheeps<ref>[https://i.imgur.com/fOYyN97.jpg ''Super Mario Ball'' Shogakukan book]{{page needed}}</ref> (referred to as "'''little puffers'''" in ''[[Nintendo Power]]'')<ref>{{cite|date=November 2004|title=''Nintendo Power'' Volume 185|page=117|language=American English|publisher=Nintendo of America}}</ref> assist [[Porcupuffer (boss)|Porcupuffer]], the boss of the [[Frosty Frontier Stage]]. Rather than black or purple, these little puffers have a red and white coloration, retain a dorsal fin akin to a regular Cheep Cheep, and have spikes around their bodies. Defeating a little puffer grants 5,000 points. Any defeated little puffers respawn after Porcupuffer is hit while inflated until it is defeated.
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===''Yoshi Touch & Go''===
Spiny Cheep-Cheeps<ref>''Yoshi Touch & Go'', internal filename <tt>/obj/H_togepuku.oce</tt></ref><ref name=YTG>{{cite|language=Japanese|publisher=Shogakukan|title=「キャッチ！タッチ！ヨッシー！任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Catch! Touch! Yoshi! Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'')|page=[[media:CTY Shogakukan P14.jpg|14]]}}</ref> appear in ''[[Yoshi Touch & Go]]''. They are blue with white spikes, and are always leaping. They can only be defeated by smacking them with an [[Yoshi Egg|egg]].

===''Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions''===
In ''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions]]'', Spiny Cheep Cheeps appear in the [[Seabed]] and replace both [[Cheep Cheep]]s and [[Puffer-Cheep]]s. However, they have identical behavior, first appearing as plain, purple Cheep Cheep and shedding its "mohawk" in favor of retractable spikes when stomped. Damaging it again reverts it into its previous form.

===''Super Mario Party''===
In ''[[Super Mario Party]]'', a Spiny Cheep Cheep makes a cameo appearance in the minigame [[Absent Minded]], where it is one of the characters that can be chosen as a guess.

===''Dr. Mario World''===
Spiny Cheep Cheeps appear in ''[[Dr. Mario World]]'' as assistants. In stage mode, they have a chance of triggering a rapid skill meter increase, in which it originally increases the skill meter by 300% more than usual per elimination made, but was changed to increase the skill meter by an extra point for every elimination made. This stage mode effect stacks with [[Spiny]]'s effect if both activate. In versus mode, they grant a chance that one virus is eliminated if the player is about to lose, which only happens once per match.

===LEGO ''Super Mario''===
Spiny Cheep Cheeps appear as collectible figures in Character Packs - Series 2 for [[LEGO Super Mario|LEGO ''Super Mario'']]. In the official app, their name is misspelled as '''Spinny Cheep Cheeps'''.

===''The Super Mario Bros. Movie''===
An illustration of a Spiny Cheep Cheep can be seen on a storefront sign in the teaser poster for [[Illumination]]'s ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]''.

==Profiles and statistics==
===''[[Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten]]''===
{{PEGMCE profile
|name=トゲプク (JP) / Spiny Cheep Cheep (EN)
|shusshin=アクア族
|seikaku=おこりっぽい
|tojo_gemu=3、ランド2
|desc='''<big>トゲに触れるとイチコロ</big><br>
プクプク（P190）の仲間。背中に猛雷を持ったトゲが生えているので、ちょっとでも触れるとアウトだ。一直線に進んでくるので、うまくかわすようにしよう。<ref name=Daijiten>{{cite|publisher=Shogakukan|language=Japanese|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/BuYikLd.jpeg 123]}}</ref>
|origin=Aqua clan
|disposition=Quick-tempered
|game_appearances=3, Land 2
|eng_desc='''''<big>Touch the spikes, and you're toast.</big><br>
''A member of the Cheep Cheep (p. 190) family. They have ferocious lightning spikes on their backs, so even the slightest touch will knock you out. They advance in a straight line, so try to dodge them.''
}}

===''Yoshi's Story''===
*'''Shogakukan guide:''' お魚だって、卜ゲがあっちゃ食べられない。<ref>{{cite|language=Japanese|publisher=Shogakukan|title=「ヨッシーストーリー 任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Yoshi's Story Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'')|page=[[Media:Yoshi Story Shogakukan P6.jpg|6]]}}</ref> (''These fish can't be eaten since they have spikes.'')

===''Yoshi Touch & Go''===
*'''Shogakukan guide:''' トゲのあるプクプク。シャボンで包めないうえに、雲を突き破って飛び上がるので危険。飛び上がる前にタマゴで倒したいが、上に敵がいなければ、高い位臞に道を作ってやりすごすのも手。<ref name=YTG/>(''A Cheep Cheep with spikes. They are dangerous because they cannot be wrapped with bubbles, and they leap up through the clouds. It is best to defeat it with an egg before it leaps up, but if there are no enemies above, you can also make a path to a higher level to get past it.'')

===''Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions''===
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===''Dr. Mario World''===
*'''Stage mode:''' "''Grants 10%/20%/30%/40%/50% chance of rapid skill meter increase.''"
*'''Versus mode:''' "''If you are about to lose, grants 20%/40%/60%/80%/100% chance viruses (1) will be eliminated. (Once only.)''"

==Gallery==
{{main-gallery}}
<gallery>
SMB3 Spiny Cheep Cheep.png|''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]''
SpinyCheepCheep-puff.png|''[[Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins]]''
Spiny Cheep Cheep SMB3 All-Stars.png|''[[Super Mario All-Stars]]''
SMG Asset Model Spiny Cheep Cheep.png|''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''
Spiny Cheep Cheep NSMB2 Prima.jpg|''[[New Super Mario Bros. 2]]''
</gallery>

==Additional names==
===Internal names===
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|name2=バルーンフィッシュ (''Barūnfisshu'')
|meaning2=Balloonfish
|game3=''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]''<br>''[[New Super Mario Bros. 2]]''<br>''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]''
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|name3=pukupuku_toge
|meaning3=Spiny [[Cheep Cheep#Names in other languages|Cheep Cheep]]
}}

===Names in other languages===
{{foreign names
|Jap=トゲプク<ref>{{cite|title=''Super Mario Bros. 3'' Japanese instruction booklet|language=Japanese|publisher=Nintendo|page=37}}</ref><ref name=Daijiten/><ref>https://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/bmvj/time_s4.html</ref><ref name=YTG/>
|JapR=Togepuku
|JapM=Spiny Cheep
|ChiS=尖刺泡泡鱼
|ChiSR=Jiān Cì Pàopàoyú
|ChiSM=Spike Cheep Cheep
|ChiT=尖刺泡泡魚
|ChiTR=Jiān Cì Pàopàoyú
|ChiTM=Spike Cheep Cheep
|FreA= Aquazo épineux
|FreAM=Spiky Cheep Cheep
|FreE=Cheep Kipic<br>Pik Cheep <small>(''Super Mario Galaxy 2'')</small>
|FreEM=Distortion of the word ''porc-épic'' meaning "Porcupine"
|FreE2=Pâchère-Pâchère<ref>{{cite|title=''Super Mario Bros. 3'' Dutch and French instruction booklet|page=[http://www.oldiesrising.com/noticespdfV2/Nintendo%20Nes/Super%20Mario%20Bros%203.pdf 42]}}</ref>
|FreE2M=
|Ger=Stachel-Cheep
|GerM=Spike Cheep
|Ger2=Dumgug<ref name=German>Nintendo 64 ''Yoshi's Story'' Spieleberater. {{file link|Yoshi's Story German Guide Pg. 20-21.png|Page 20}}.</ref><small>(''Yoshi's Story'')</small>
|Ger2M=
|Ger3=Stachelfisch<ref>''Super Mario Bros. 3'' German instruction booklet, [https://archive.org/details/super-mario-bros-3-nes-spielanleitung/page/n17/mode/2up page 36]. ''Internet Archive''. Retrieved January 24, 2024.</ref>
|Ger3M=Spike fish; same as [[Porcupuffer#Names in other languages|Porcupuffer]]
|Ita=Cheep Cheep<ref>''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' Italian instruction booklet, pag. 36</ref>
|Ita2=Pesce Smack spinoso
|Ita2M=Spiny Cheep Cheep
|Ita3=Pesce Smack Spinato<ref>''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]'', pag. 36</ref>
|Ita3M=Spiked Cheep Cheep
|Kor=가시뽀꾸
|KorR=Gasippokku
|KorM=Thorn Cheep
|PorA=Espeto Cheep
|PorAM=Spiny Cheep
|PorE=Cheep Cheep Espinhos
|PorEM=Spikes Cheep Cheep
|SpaA=Cheep espinoso
|SpaAM=Spiny Cheep
|SpaA2=Pez espinoso<ref>Club Nintendo [https://archive.org/details/club-nintendo-ano-07-no-05-mexico/page/n17/mode/2up TIPS section]</ref>
|SpaA2M=Spiny fish
|SpaE=Cheep Cheep Pinchón
|SpaEM=Spiny Cheep Cheep
}}

==References==
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