Editing Swoopula

{{species infobox
|image=[[File:Swoopula.png]]<br>A Swoopula in ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario]]'' ([[List of games by date#2000|2000]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]]) ([[List of games by date#2024|2024]])
|variant_of=[[Swoop]]
|variants=[[Swampire]]
}}
''Swoopulas''' are gray batlike creatures, and a more powerful variety of the [[Swoop]]er encountered in the ''[[Paper Mario (series)|Paper Mario]]'' series. It attacks by leeching hit points from [[Mario]] or his [[partner]] in a similar manner to a [[Fuzzy]]'s attack. Its name is based off {{wp|Count Dracula}}, due to its similar health-leeching ability.

==History==
===''Paper Mario''===
In ''[[Paper Mario]]'', Swoopulas appear in the [[Crystal Palace]]. At the start of battle, Swoopulas are perched on the ceiling and can be knocked down with an item, [[List of moves|Special Move]], certain partner moves, or the [[Quake Hammer]] or [[Hammer Throw (badge)|Hammer Throw]] abilities. They fly down briefly to attack but return to their roost unless previously knocked down. They leech two hit points at a time up to five times unless an [[Action Command]] gauge is filled up first, similar to [[Jungle Fuzzy]].

===''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''===
In ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' and its [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Nintendo Switch remake]], Swoopulas appear in the [[Palace of Shadow]] and slightly late in the [[Pit of 100 Trials (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)|Pit of 100 Trials]]. Unlike the weaker Swoopers, they start battle in the air rather than on the ceiling. Their leeching move now takes four hit points, but cannot hit more than once a turn. An even stronger variant known as [[Swampire]] appears near the end of the Pit of 100 Trials. The Nintendo Switch remake also allows them to use the Swooper's swoop attack.

==Profiles and statistics==
===''Paper Mario''===
{{:Paper Mario bestiary|transcludesection=Swoopula|image=[[File:PM Swoopula hang idle.gif]] [[File:PM Swoopula fly idle.gif]]|align=horizontal}}

===''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''===
====GameCube====
{{:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door bestiary|transcludesection=Swoopula|align=horizontal|image=[[File:Swoopula.png]]}}
====Nintendo Switch====
{{:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) bestiary|transcludesection=Swoopula|align=horizontal}}

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=バサバサチュルル
|JapR=Basabasa Chururu
|JapM=Compound of「バサバサ」(''Basabasa'', "[[Swoop]]") and「ちゅるる」(''chururu'', onomatopoeia for slurping)
|Chi=啪萨嗦噜
|ChiR=Pāsà Suōlū
|ChiM=Transliteration from the Japanese name
|Dut=
|DutM=
|Fre=Swoopula
|Ger=Swoopula
|Ita=Pipistrex
|ItaM=From ''pipistrello'' ("bat") and ''rex'' ("king" in Latin)
|Kor=
|KorR=
|KorM=
|SpaA=Golpílago
|SpaAM=From ''golpe'' ("hit") and ''Vampílago'' ("Swoop") 
|SpaE=Súpula
|SpaEM=An adaption of the English Name to Spanish pronunciation
}}

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[[Category:Bats]]
[[Category:Parasites]]
[[Category:Paper Mario enemies]]
[[Category:Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemies]]
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