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==Fire version== | ==Fire version== | ||
"Despite the name, they do not burn to the touch." {{ | "Despite the name, they do not burn to the touch." {{media link|SpookyHouseBossFight.png|What's going on here then?}} Is it saying that they don't burn the minis? And should they be in their own article? That piece of info shouldn't be in the other language box, that's for certain... [[User:Doc von Schmeltwick|Doc von Schmeltwick]] ([[User talk:Doc von Schmeltwick|talk]]) 19:51, 19 December 2017 (EST) | ||
:It's a misnomer since burn damage has a unique animation when losing a life in ''Mario vs. Donkey Kong'', whereas losing to these guys results in the standard one. As for whether to split, that's a little complicated since Polterguys now have an {{ | :It's a misnomer since burn damage has a unique animation when losing a life in ''Mario vs. Donkey Kong'', whereas losing to these guys results in the standard one. As for whether to split, that's a little complicated since Polterguys now have an {{media link|ScreenshotMvsDK MMA 4.png|extremely similar design}} in ''Minis March Again!'' and there's very little incentive to separate something that should otherwise be adequately covered on the [[Spooky House#4-DK|boss section]]. [[User:LinkTheLefty|LinkTheLefty]] ([[User talk:LinkTheLefty|talk]]) 19:55, 19 December 2017 (EST) | ||
==Merge potential?== | ==Merge potential?== | ||
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So, trying to hopefully get a consensus here - what do we think about these and Boo Guys? It's clear that these fit the toy aesthetic like the Shy Guys, and are effectively the toy equivalents of Boo Guys. [[MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/65#Decide how to handle the toy enemies from across the Mario vs. Donkey Kong series|Recent]] [[Talk:Spear Shy Guy#Decide how to organize Spear Shy Guy and/or Shy Guy (Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again!) with Spear Guy|proposals]] have been merging the toy versions with their original counterparts. This is just conjecture, but I think a possible reason for the alternate ''Mario vs. Donkey Kong'' names was to disassociate it from Boo. [[User:LinkTheLefty|LinkTheLefty]] ([[User talk:LinkTheLefty|talk]]) 13:06, April 1, 2024 (EDT) | So, trying to hopefully get a consensus here - what do we think about these and Boo Guys? It's clear that these fit the toy aesthetic like the Shy Guys, and are effectively the toy equivalents of Boo Guys. [[MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/65#Decide how to handle the toy enemies from across the Mario vs. Donkey Kong series|Recent]] [[Talk:Spear Shy Guy#Decide how to organize Spear Shy Guy and/or Shy Guy (Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again!) with Spear Guy|proposals]] have been merging the toy versions with their original counterparts. This is just conjecture, but I think a possible reason for the alternate ''Mario vs. Donkey Kong'' names was to disassociate it from Boo. [[User:LinkTheLefty|LinkTheLefty]] ([[User talk:LinkTheLefty|talk]]) 13:06, April 1, 2024 (EDT) | ||