Editing Swinging vine

'''Swinging vines''',<ref>{{cite|author=Esmarch, Nick von, and Cory Van Grier|title=''Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze: PRIMA Official Game Guide''|location=Roseville|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|date=2014|isbn=978-0-804-16252-4|page=46}}</ref><ref>{{cite|quote=Jump at the right moment between swinging vines to reach the goal!|author=in-game description for Vine with Me from ''Mario Party: The Top 100'' and ''Mario Party Superstars''}}</ref> also known as '''hanging vines''',<ref>{{cite|author=Knight, Michael|title=''Donkey Kong Country Returns: PRIMA Official Game Guide''|format=Premiere Edition|location=Roseville|publisher=Prima Games|date=2010|isbn=9780307471031|page=98}}</ref> are climbable objects in the ''[[Donkey Kong (franchise)|Donkey Kong]]'' and ''[[Super Mario (franchise)|Super Mario]]'' franchises. In most games, swinging vines function like {{wp|rope swing}}s: Flicking the control stick back and forth causes the player character to swing. Letting go at the apex propels the character farther than they would have otherwise. In some games, the character can also ascend and slide down vines.

Swinging vines are important to the marketing iconography for the ''[[Donkey Kong Country (series)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' series, even [[:File:Donkey Kong swinging DKC.png|for games they do not appear in]]. In the files for several entries in the ''[[Super Mario (series)|Super Mario]]'' series, swinging vines are named after {{wp|Tarzan}}.<ref>''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' internal filename (<tt>ObjectData/TarzanTsuta.arc</tt>)</ref>

Hanging vines are the most recurring type of [[rope]] in ''[[Donkey Kong Jungle Beat]]''.<ref name=jbshoga>{{cite|title=''Donkey Kong Jungle Beat'' Shogakukan book|page=[http://i.imgur.com/m4yDpvD.jpg 12-13]|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|language=ja}}</ref> They appear throughout lush, forested stages and as early the first level, [[Dawn Savanna]].

A single hanging vine appears in the [[Beach Bowl Galaxy]] of ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'', where it is suspended from a [[tree|palm tree]]. Mario (or Luigi) can use the vine to swing in 180° to collect the circle of [[Star Bit]]s that surround the vine. It is not necessary to complete any normal [[mission]], and Mario falls into harmless [[water]] when he lets go. The only exception is the [[Comet#Purple Comet|Purple Comet]] mission "[[Beachcombing for Purple Coins]]," where several [[Purple Coin]]s occur only around the radius of the vine. The vine is mechanically and physically similar to the leafy [[trapeze]]s in the game.

Unlike all other appearances in the ''Super Mario'' series, hanging vines swing back and forth all on their own and have a small white flower at their ends in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. 2]]''. Mario (or Luigi) can still cling to them and swing. They appear only in {{world-link|flower|2|World Flower-2 (New Super Mario Bros. 2)}}, hanging above a [[Poison (obstacle)|poisonous swamp]] alongside [[Scuttlebug]]s. The arc of some vines follows trails of floating [[coin]]s.

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