Editing Tropical Wiggler

{{species infobox
|image=[[File:Tropical_Wiggler_Icon_SMO.png|200px]]<br>Artwork
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]'' ([[List of games by date#2017|2017]])
|Last appearance = ''Mario Kart Tour'' ([[List of games by date#2023|2023]])
|variant_of= [[Wiggler]]
}}{{quote|I came to [[Lost Kingdom|this island]] to see the strange creature made of differently colored round sections!|[[Bonneter biologist]]|''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]''}}
'''Tropical Wigglers'''<ref name=brochure>[https://i.imgur.com/kWVFLbT.jpg Kingdom Brochures]</ref> are a colorful variant of [[Wiggler]] in ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]''. They resemble inchworms usually wearing floppy purple hats. A Tropical Wiggler's frontmost segment is blue, and the backmost segment is yellow. Each Tropical Wiggler has a tail, which ends on a prickly red ball. By default, Tropical Wigglers are shorter than regular Wigglers. However, Tropical Wigglers can stretch out their bodies, revealing a number of middle segments that are each topped by a spike. These segments lack feet, but they have the circle pattern of normal Wigglers. They are in the following repeating order of "yellow, red, blue." Tropical Wigglers appear in the [[Lost Kingdom]] and the [[Underground Moon Caverns]] in the [[Moon Kingdom]]. In the Underground Moon Caverns, they instead wear white top hats. Tropical Wigglers are not aggressive, and they are in fact described with such terms as "genial" and "pleasant"; as such, they do not react to [[Mario]]'s presence. Even still, they inflict damage on contact. They move by stretching their bodies outward. At the end of the movement, the middle segments contract back into the head segment. According to the [[Bonneter biologist]], this function is much like an accordion. The head does not drop while the Tropical Wiggler stretches, allowing the Tropical Wiggler to cross gaps. Tropical Wigglers either move back and forth between two positions or move in a circuit of straight lines across four positions. This, combined with their coloration, has earned them the nickname "traffic lights of the island."<ref name=brochure/> The paths they cross are lighter in color than the surrounding area. Tropical Wigglers can be [[capture]]d by using [[Cappy]], enabling Mario to use their movement to access certain areas.

Tropical Wigglers are fully immune to being [[stomp]]ed and [[Ground Pound|ground-pound]]ed; all those succeed in doing is knocking off their hats. Additionally, the spikes are still a threat, so Mario can stomp only on the head. The [[Cap Throw]] both removes the hat and stuns the Tropical Wiggler, forcing the middle segments to contract back into the tail segment. This stun is equivalent to the stun for releasing an enemy after capturing it: After some time has passed, the Tropical Wiggler despawns and returns to wherever it started from. Cappy cannot capture an unstunned Tropical Wiggler, because that only stuns the enemy. If the Tropical Wiggler never wore a hat, as occurs in certain bonus areas, this is ignored and the Tropical Wiggler can be captured without stunning it, though it does still contract. Other enemies, such as [[Trapeetle]]s and [[Hammer Bro]]s, can defeat Tropical Wigglers.

While captured, Tropical Wigglers can walk around but cannot jump. They also plummet off ledges, with no ability to change their trajectory. Tropical Wigglers cannot stomp other enemies. Instead, {{button|switch|A}}, {{button|switch|B}}, {{button|switch|X}}, and {{button|switch|Y}} are for stretching. When stretching, the Tropical Wiggler locks its back legs in place. Moving makes the head segment of the Tropical Wiggler move around, extending the middle segments as it goes. Alternatively, the player can shake the controller. Shaking the controller is equivalent to holding the button, except that the Tropical Wiggler extends to maximum length very quickly. The maximum length is fourteen middle segments, at which point the head segment can no longer move forward. The player can extend slightly farther if they are moving {{button|switch|stick}} than when they are not. As the player moves around the head, the rear segment can rotate in place to make efficient use of the limited length. Every segment still counts as Mario, capable of collecting items and taking damage accordingly. Mario can move through his own segments, which can even create loops. In this state, any of the Tropical Wiggler's segments can hit [[Brick Block]]s and [[? Block]]s. The Wiggler has to be moving in some manner, but the head does not have to collide with the block. Mario cannot change elevation except by going up or down a ramp or stairs, and even then, the only way to go down a ramp or stairs is to start while angled downward by such a surface. This collectively means Mario can stretch to reach anything only if it is level with a surface he can already reach. Stretching is accompanied by accordion sounds.

Once the button is released, and the head is over the ground, the middle segments contract into the head. As with the enemy, this can cross gaps, [[Poison (obstacle)|poison]], and [[lava]] in equal measure. If Mario is stretching and his head is not in contact with the ground, he sweats as the front legs flail around. Releasing the button in this state pulls the middle segments back into the rear segment. Once complete, Mario faces in the direction the tail segment was in, rather than the head segment. Either case is accompanied by different accordion sounds. While Mario is "standing" technically, the game registers a stretching Tropical Wiggler without ground underneath the head as being in the air, with all of the effects that entail for other game elements. In certain extraneous circumstances, usually those involving Tropical Wigglers standing on palm tree leaves with variable height, the Tropical Wiggler can be forced to contract by some factor involving the platform's movement. When Mario releases a Tropical Wiggler, it is treated as though the player had just stopped stretching, retracting in either direction depending on the position of the head. It is still stunned.

In ''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'' appears as player character.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
SMO_Tropical_Wiggler_Capture.png|Artwork of a captured Tropical Wiggler
SMO Lost Kingdom Wiggler.jpg|Artwork of a Tropical Wiggler
Tropical Wigglers.jpg|Screenshot of a Tropical Wiggler stretched and one compressed
</gallery>

==Naming==
===Internal names===
{{internal names
|game1=''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]''
|file1=<tt>ObjectData/Imomu.szs</tt>
|name1=Imomu
|meaning1=From「{{ruby|芋虫|イモムシ}}」(''imomushi'', hairless caterpillar); rendered「イモムー」(''Imomū'') in pre-release media<ref>[https://twitter.com/mario_odysseyjp/status/920404560178323456 Official Japanese ''Mario Odyssey'' Twitter]</ref>
}}

===Names in other languages===
{{foreign names
|Jpn=シマハナチャン
|JpnR=Shima Hanachan
|JpnM=Isle Wiggler
|JpnC=<ref>{{cite|author=Sakai, Kazuya, and kikai, editors|date=2018|title=『[[The Art of Super Mario Odyssey|スーバーマリオ オデッセイ 公式設定資料集]]』|language=ja|location=Tokyo|publisher=ambit|isbn=978-4-19-864696-7|page=166}}</ref>
|Fre=Wiggler tropical
|FreM=Tropical Wiggler
|Ger=Tropen-Wiggler
|GerM=Tropic Wiggler
|SpaE=Floruga Tropical
|SpaEM=Tropical Wiggler
|SpaA=Floruga tropical
|SpaAM=Tropical Wiggler
|Ita=Torcibruco tropicale
|ItaM=Tropical Wiggler
|Dut=Tropical Wiggler
|Rus=Тропическая Егоза
|RusR=Tropicheskaya Egoza
|RusM=Tropical Wiggler
|Kor=섬꽃충이
|KorR=Seom Kkotchung'i
|KorM=Island Wiggler
|ChiS=岛花之子
|ChiSR=Dǎo huā zhī zǐ
|ChiSM=Island Wiggler
|ChiT=島花毛毛
|ChiTR=Dǎo huā máomao
|ChiTM=Island Wiggler
}}

==References==
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[[Category:Super Mario Odyssey enemies]]
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