Editing Strollin' Stu

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|image=[[File:SMS Strollin Stu Artwork.png|200px]]<br>Artwork from ''Super Mario Sunshine''

|variants=[[Smolderin' Stu]]<br>[[Winged Strollin' Stu]]<br>[[Swipin' Stu]]

{{quote|Except... '''you dummy!''' I tricked you, [[Mario]]! It was all a lie from the start!|Strollin' Stu|''[[Super Mario Manga Mania]]''<ref>{{cite|date=December 8, 2020|author=Sawada, Yukio|language=en|publisher=VIZ Media LLC|title=''[[Super Mario Manga Mania]]''|page=36|isbn=978-1-9747-1848-1}}</ref>}}

'''Strollin' Stus''',<ref>{{cite|author=Hodgson, David S J, et al.|title=''Super Mario Sunshine'' Prima's Official Strategy Guide|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|page=14, 125, and 147|date=September 3, 2002|language=en-us|isbn=0-7615-3961-1}}</ref> also known as '''Hamkuri''',<ref>{{cite|author=Loe, Casey|title=''Super Mario Sunshine'' Perfect Guide|page={{file link|Super Mario Sunshine Versus Books 32.jpg|32}}|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=5|publisher=BradyGAMES|language=en-us|isbn=0-7440-0180-3|date=2002}}</ref> '''Goombas''',<ref name="Super Mario Sunshine Versus Books">{{cite|author=Loe|title=''Super Mario Sunshine'' Perfect Guide|page={{file link|Super Mario Sunshine Versus Books 63.jpg|63}}}}</ref> and '''Kuri''',<ref>{{cite|author=Bogenn and Walsh|title=''Super Mario Sunshine'' Official Strategy Guide|page=132}}</ref> are [[List of enemies|enemies]] introduced in ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]''. They are [[Goomba]]-like creatures, each with a squat and pudgy body, a bulbous nose, bright reddish-pinkish high-tucked spotted trousers, and a waddling gait.  

Strollin' Stus charge at [[Mario]] should he get too close. If sprayed with [[water]], they flip over, allowing Mario to spray or kick them away. Strollin' Stus can be defeated by [[jump]]ing on them, by having a [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]] eat them, or by spraying or kicking them into a wall, causing them to splatter and occasionally release [[coin]]s. If Mario jumps on a knocked-over Strollin' Stu while multiple have been sprayed, all of them are defeated, and if Mario does this with at least three Strollin' Stus, a [[1-Up Mushroom]] appears. Strollin' Stus appear with slight differences in size throughout the game, though generally they all act the same.

In [[Road to the Big Windmill|Episode 1]] of [[Bianco Hills]], a special variety of Strollin' Stu appears, being constantly spawned from a thick blob of brown [[goop]] on the ground. These Strollin' Stus have a spatter of brown goop on their heads, but they are otherwise identical to other Strollin' Stus. The brown [[Proto Piranha#Generators|Generator]] pops like a bubble upon being sprayed. In certain secret areas, Strollin' Stus can also be spawned indefinitely from pictures of them on walls; these Strollin' Stus lack the spatter on their heads, and their Generator simply gets washed away like normal [[graffiti]] markings.

In [[Pinna Park]], a stack of ten smaller Strollin' Stus upon a large Strollin' Stu appears, sometimes referred to as a '''Dango'''.<ref name="Super Mario Sunshine Versus Books"/><ref>{{cite|author=Bogenn and Walsh|title=''Super Mario Sunshine'' Official Strategy Guide|page=6}}</ref> A Dango appears in every episode taking place in the park itself underneath a wooden bridge near the [[Pinna Park#Roller Coaster|Roller Coaster]]. Mario can use [[F.L.U.D.D.|FLUDD]] to spray and knock down the small Strollin' Stus in order to jump on the large one. Alternatively, defeating the large Strollin' Stu first eliminates the rest of the stack at once, though it uniquely cannot be turned into a [[Yoshi Platform]]. Defeating the Dango produces a [[Blue Coin]].

===''Super Mario-kun''===

A Strollin' Stu has a major role in the ''[[Super Mario-kun]]'' chapter "The Super-Sad Red Coin Tale!" In the chapter, Mario encounters a Strollin' Stu who is spreading paint with a paintbrush. The Strollin' Stu falls over, catching FLUDD's attention. After being sprayed with water, the Strollin' Stu explains that he has not recently hit his job quota, which is to cover the town in paint. Expressing his fatigue and lack of vacation days, he says that his sister is ill and that they would be "done for at this rate," unless Mario can collect eight [[Red Coin]]s to cure his sister's illness. Mario initially leaves him; however, the Strollin' Stu mentions that his sister won a beauty contest, interesting Mario. During this part of the chapter, he ends his sentences with "-Stu" (i.e., "Mario, it's in your hands-Stu"). Mario collects and gives him the Red Coins, and, speaking normally, the Strollin' Stu informs Mario that his sister's illness was a lie. His sister, covered in makeup and wearing bows on her head, congratulates her brother. He reveals that his plan was to have Mario get himself hurt while gathering the Red Coins, allowing him to defeat Mario, while using the Red Coins collected to "rise up in the rankings." Mario informs him that the Red Coins he gave him were actually tomato slices, then uses the real Red Coins to heal himself before punching the Strollin' Stu.

===''Mario Golf'' series===

The name "Strollin' Stu" appears on the scoreboards in ''[[Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour]]'' and ''[[Mario Golf: Advance Tour]]''.

SMS Strollin Stu Alternate Artwork.png|Model from ''Super Mario Sunshine''

 

===Names in other languages===

====Strollin' Stu====

|Jap=クリン<ref>{{cite|language=ja|date=October 10, 2002|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|title=「スーパーマリオサンシャイン任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Super Mario Sunshine Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'')|page=[https://i.imgur.com/cR55rqr.jpg 19]|isbn=4-09-106064-1}}</ref>

|JapR=Kurin

|JapM=Portmanteau of「栗」(''kuri'', "chestnut") or likely「クリボー」(''Kuribō'', "[[Goomba#Names in other languages|Goomba]]"), and the endearing diminutive「~りん」(''-rin'')

|GerM=Stu Tower

|Ita=Grande Stu-Vagante<ref name=itprima/>

|ItaM=Big Strollin' Stu

|SpaM=Stacked Stu

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