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{{character infobox
|image=[[File:SMW2 Tap-TaptheRedNose.jpg|240px]]<br>Tap-Tap the Red Nose
|first_appearance= ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'' ([[List of games by date#1995|1995]])
|species=[[Tap-Tap]]
|latest_appearance=''[[Yoshi's Island DS]]'' (cameo) ([[List of games by date#2006|2006]])
}}
{{quote|Eeeeek!! How did you...? You! I never expected you to get so far! EEEEEE! Now it's over! Your game ends HERE!!|Kamek|Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3}}
'''Tap-Tap the Red Nose''' is the mid-boss of [[World 6 (Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island)|World 6]] in ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'' and its [[Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3|remake]] and the penultimate boss overall in the games. He was originally an ordinary [[Tap-Tap]] until [[Kamek]] cast a spell on him to make him grow gigantic. He walks and jumps towards [[Yoshi (species)|Yellow Yoshi]], trying to hit him with his spiky body. The arena where the battle takes place is made up of an [[Egg Plant]] on a platform, several layers of colorful, rectangular blocks - which can be destroyed by throwing [[Yoshi's Egg|eggs]] at them - and a pit of [[Lava|lava]]. Tap-Tap the Red Nose cannot be conventionally defeated by any of the Yoshi's attacks, but Yellow Yoshi can stun him and knock him backwards using thrown eggs. Even after the layer of lava is exposed, Tap-Tap the Red Nose will not voluntarily jump into it, so the Yoshi has to knock him into the pit. Tap-Tap the Red Nose will not voluntarily walk into the lava either; instead of doing so, he will worriedly frown and teeter on the edge of the lava, indicating an opportunity for Yellow Yoshi to throw an egg at him and knock him into the it.

Tap-Tap the Red Nose, like all the other bosses of ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'', makes a cameo appearance in the introduction sequence of ''[[Yoshi's Island DS]]''.

==Profiles and statistics==
===''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''===
{{Multilang profile
|type=Player's Guide description
|EngA=Miffed that someone else with a red nose got to be a hero on that foggy Christmas Eve, Tap-Tap retreated to a fort carpeted with wall-to-wall lava. Don't be deceived by his grin. This prickly predator would love to give Yoshi a hot bath!<ref>{{cite|author=Miller, Kent; Munson, Terry|title=''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' Player's Guide|page=19|date=1995|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us}}</ref>
}}
{{Multilang profile
|type=Shogakukan guide description
|Jpn=タマゴをぶつけても、少し押しもどすくらいがせいぜい。金属質のトゲトゲボディは、溶岩の池に落とすしかない。<ref>{{cite|language=ja|title=「スーパーマリオヨッシーアイランド任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Super Mario: Yossy Island Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'')|page={{file link|Super Mario Yossy Island Shogakukan P9.jpg|9}}|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]}}</ref>
|JpnM=If you hit them with an egg, at most you can push them back a little. The metallic spiky body can only be dropped into a pond of lava.
}}
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Super Power Club Card
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!colspan=2|Tap Tap the Red Nose<ref>{{file link|Super Power Club Cards Yoshi's Island Back.jpg|Super Power Club Cards Yoshi's Island}}</ref>
|-
!Description
|''Has nursed a grudge against Yoshis ever since junior high, when they were more popular with girls. Now seeks revenge.''
|-
!Favorite Home Deco-Rating Tip
|''"Lava Lamps and a nice dino rug—I love it!"''
|-
!How to Beat Him
|''Knock out the colored blocks on which he stands by shooting eggs at them. Keep moving, because he'll try to hit you, too.''
|}

===''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3''===
{{Multilang profile
|type=Shogakukan guide description
|Jpn=ワールド6-4のボス。メタリツクなトゲトゲボディは強靭で、溶岩の池に落とすしかない。タマゴで足場をくずして下に落とそう。<ref>{{cite|language=ja|title=「スーパーマリオアドバンス3任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Super Mario Advance 3 Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'')|page={{file link|Advance 3 Shogakukan P19.png|19}}|publisher=Shogakukan}}</ref>
|JpnM=Boss of World 6-4. Its metallic spiky body is so tough that the only way is to drop it in a pool of lava. Use an egg to break the platforms and drop him down.
}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
TapTap.png|''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' artwork
SMW2YI - Tap-Tap the Red Nose.png|''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' sprite
Icon SMW2-YI - Tap-Tap The Red Nose's Fort.png|''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''
Tap-Tap the Red Nose's Fort.png|Tap-Tap the Red Nose balancing on the edge of the blocks, needing only one more egg to be knocked off
TapTapRedNose-SMW2.png|''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3'' sprite
YIDS-Intro Background.png|''Yoshi's Island DS'' cameo
Yossy Island Carddass6 Back.png|''Yossy Island'' Jumbo Carddass 6
SMW2YI Puzzle Artwork.jpg|Artwork used for a puzzle based on ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=ビッグカチカチ
|JpnR=Biggu Kachikachi
|JpnM=From "big" and「カチカチくん」(''Kachikachi-kun'', "[[Tap-Tap]]")
|Spa=Metalón
|SpaM=Tap-tap
|Fre=Gros Bobo
|FreM=Big Owie
|Ger=Stego
|GerM=Likely from "{{wp|Stegosaurus}}"
|ChiS=大咔咔
|ChiSR=Dà Kākā
|ChiSM=Big Tap-tap
|Ita=Grande Piombospino
|ItaM=Big Tap-Tap
}}

==Notes==
[[File:SMW2 Tap-Tap the Vibrant.png|frame]]
*After finishing being imbued with Kamek's magic and before he starts to enlarge, Tap-Tap the Red Nose is briefly shown as a normal Tap-Tap with a unique bluish palette.
*Tap-Tap the Red Nose's name may be a reference to {{wp|Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer}}, as evidenced by his description in the Player's Guide for the SNES version.
*While the [[Nintendo Power|Player's Guide]] for the [[Game Boy Advance|GBA]] version implies that [[Tap-Tap the Golden]] is a resurrected Tap-Tap the Red Nose,<ref>{{cite|publisher=Nintendo of America|author=Williams, Drew|title=''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3'' Player's Guide|date=2002|language=en-us|isbn=1-930206-25-9|page=115|quote='''Golden Opportunity''' Tap-Tap the Golden is back to torment you. You can run only as fast as the scrolling screen allows. If you run too far to the left, you’ll fall into lava pits.}}</ref> the Player's Guide for the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|SNES]] version suggests otherwise,<ref>{{cite|author=Miller, Kent, and Terry Munson|title=''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' Player's Guide|page={{file link|SMW2 Guide 128.jpg|128}}|quote='''TAP-TAP THE GOLDEN''' This mega Tap-Tap pursues Yoshi through the lava caves beneath Red Nose's Fort.|date=1995|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us}}</ref> albeit by erroneously stating that Tap-Tap the Golden is located "beneath Red Nose's Fort."
*Tap-Tap the Red Nose is the only boss that Yellow Yoshi does not meet by entering a boss door.
*Tap-Tap's battle arena is similarly structured to ''{{wp|Breakout (video game)|Breakout}}'', seeing as Yoshi has to break certain parts of the floor with eggs to knock him into the lava.
*The noise Tap-Tap the Red Nose makes when he sinks in the lava is the same as the Gargantua Blargg and Nep-Enut when they are hit with an egg.
*The battle with Tap-Tap the Red Nose can be considered an inversion of the battle with [[Bowser]] in ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]''; instead of the boss breaking the floor and falling into the pit, the player has to break the blocks themselves. Furthermore, Bowser will launch himself into the pit with his own [[Ground Pound]], while Tap-Tap the Red Nose must be knocked into it.

==References==
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