Editing Trouter

{{species infobox
|image=[[File:Trouter.jpg|220px]]<br>Artwork from ''Super Mario Advance''
|first_appearance=''[[Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic]]'' ([[List of games by date#1987|1987]], overall)<br>''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' ([[List of games by date#1988|1988]], ''Super Mario'' franchise)
|latest_appearance=''[[Ultimate NES Remix]]'' ([[List of games by date#2014|2014]])
|comparable=[[Cheep Cheep]]
|notable=[[Stanley the Talking Fish]]
}}
A '''Trouter''' is a red fish that jumps straight up out of water near waterfalls in ''[[Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]''.

Their English name derives from "{{wp|trout}}", an animal that ascends rapids during its life cycle to spawn. Its design is invocative of a {{wp|Celestial Eye|celestial eye goldfish}}, a species of carp, which potentially indicates it conceptually derives from Chinese legends of {{wp|Longmen (mythology)|carps trying to ascended waterfalls to turn into dragons}}.

==History==
===''Super Mario'' series===
====''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic'' / ''Super Mario Bros. 2''====
[[File:Trouter.gif|thumb]]
Trouters are found many times throughout ''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic'' and ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' as platforms in which to jump across a large body of water. Stopping time with the [[Stop Watch]] makes it much easier to cross them. Although not deadly from below, they are dangerous if touched from the sides. Not only this, but if [[Mario]], [[Luigi]], [[Toad]], or [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] ride the Trouter back to the watery depths, they lose a life. In the original versions, their fin, tail, and eyelids are black. In subsequent remakes, they are white with lavender shading.

====''BS Super Mario USA''====
Trouters made return in ''[[BS Super Mario USA]]'', when they have the same role in the predecessor.

===''Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up''===
[[File:MarineBiologist.png|thumb|A Trouter in the Marine Biologist page of ''Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up'']]
In the coloring book game ''[[Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up]]'', the coloring page for Marine Biologist has a Trouter swimming with other underwater enemies and [[Frog Mario]].<ref>{{cite|quote=Mario the marine biologist has just discovered some new life forms living at the bottom of the sea: Cheep-Cheeps, Jelectros, Bloobers, and Trouters, to name a few.|author=Marine Biologist description|title=''Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up''}}</ref>
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===''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!''===
[[File:TrouterSMBSS.jpg|thumb|left|A Trouter from the ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' episode "[[Mario and Joliet]]"]]
{{quote|Watch out for killer Trouter fish!|[[Mario]]|"[[King Mario of Cramalot]]"}}
On ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'', Trouters make appearances in numerous episodes, where they are portrayed as being far more vicious than they are in ''Super Mario Bros. 2''. Their eyelids are orange, instead of yellow, have a shark-like dorsal fin, and are shown to have purple lips with yellow teeth. Rather than merely hopping in and out of water, Trouters are shown to be fairly carnivorous with sharp teeth, and try to eat anyone who fall into their water. In this, they behave more like [[Cheep Cheep|Cheep-Cheep]]s (especially the flying variant), and are likely a combination of the enemies. A running gag throughout the show was that Trouters are usually swimming in whatever body of water that Mario and his friends either have to cross or fall into, often appearing as an unwanted surprise and scaring the group. Sometimes, to show their appetite, Trouters are depicted by wearing bibs, and holding knives and forks.

Trouters are not shown to be minions of [[Bowser|King Koopa]], as they attempt to eat him if given the opportunity. However, it is not uncommon for King Koopa to use Trouters to his advantage, as he sometimes has them guard the waters surrounding his bases in certain episodes. In ''[[The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', [[Big Cheep Cheep|Boss Bass]] is given a similar role, and in the ''[[Super Mario World (television series)|Super Mario World]]'' episode "[[Mama Luigi]]," a [[Blurp]] is also given a similar role and design.

In ''[[Nintendo Comics System]]'', Trouters appears in the stories "[[The Fish That Should've Gotten Away]]" and "[[Beauty and the Beach]]." In the comics, the Trouters featured resemble and act like their cartoon counterparts, but are also depicted as capable of speaking. [[Stanley the Talking Fish]] seems to be a Trouter himself, as he is drawn the same other than fin color and expression.

===Other appearances===
In ''[[Ultimate NES Remix]]'', Trouters appear in challenges based on ''Super Mario Bros. 2'', behaving identically as in their original appearance.

==Profiles and statistics==
===''Super Mario Bros. 2'' / ''Super Mario Advance''===
*'''Instruction booklet bio:''' ''It's a fish which lives in the world of dreams. You'll find it in waterfalls and rivers. He interferes with Mario.''<ref>{{cite|language=en-us|date=1988|title=''Super Mario Bros. 2'' instruction booklet|url=www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/en/pdf/CLV-P-NAADE.pdf|page=25|publisher=Nintendo of America|author=Nintendo|format=PDF|accessdate=June 26, 2024}}</ref>
*'''Instruction booklet bio ([[Super Mario Advance|Game Boy Advance version]]):''' ''Trouters inhabit waters in the land of dreams. They'll try to block your path rear rivers and waterfalls.''<ref>{{cite|date=2001|title=''Super Mario Advance'' instruction booklet|url=www.thegameisafootarcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Super-Mario-Advance-Game-Manual.pdf|format=PDF|page=12|language=en-gb|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|author=Nintendo}}</ref>

===''[[Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten]]''===
{{PEGMCE profile
|name=トトス (JP) / Trouter (EN)
|shuzoku=アクア族
|seikaku=いきがいい
|tojo_gemu=USA
|desc='''<big>踏み台にしてジャンプだ</big>'''<br>
滝の中から垂直に飛び出してくる魚。かなりのスーピドで飛び上がってくるので、注意が泌だ。飛び上がってきたトトスを踏台にしてジャンプすることもできる。<ref>{{cite|language=ja|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|date=1994|title=''Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten''|page=[https://imgur.com/a/UvABP 128]}}</ref>
|tribe=Aqua clan
|disposition=Fresh
|game_appearances=USA
|eng_desc='''''<big>Step up, and jump.</big>'''''<br>
''Fish jumping vertically out of the waterfall. It jumps up with considerable speed, so one must be careful. It is also possible to use the Trouters that jumped up as a springboard.''
}}

==Gallery==
===Artwork===
<gallery>
Troutsu.png|''[[Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic]]''
DokiTrouter.png|''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic Hisshō Kōryakuhō''
SMB2 Trouter.png|''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]''
Trouter SMUSA artwork.jpg|''Super Mario USA'' instruction booklet
FC40 SMB2 Trouter.png|''Super Mario USA'' (Famicom 40th Anniversary)
</gallery>

===Sprites===
<gallery>
Trouter SMB2 All-Stars.png|''[[Super Mario All-Stars]]''
SMA Trouter.png|''[[Super Mario Advance]]''
</gallery>

===Miscellaneous===
<gallery>
SMBSSHotdogPoster.jpg|An early poster for ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'', prominently showing what seem to be two monstrous Trouters
The Fish That Should've Gotten Away.jpg|''[[Nintendo Comics System]]'' ([[The Fish That Should've Gotten Away]])
World 4-1 SMB2.png|''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]''
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=トトス<ref>{{cite|title=''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic'' instruction booklet|page=33|language=ja|publisher=Nintendo|author=Nintendo|date=1987}}</ref><ref name=SMUSA>{{cite|language=ja|date=1993|title=''Super Mario USA'' instruction booklet|url=www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/ja/pdf/CLV-P-HAADJ.pdf|page=28|publisher=Nintendo|author=Nintendo}}</ref>
|JapR=Totosu
|JapM=From「とと」(''toto'', a childish word meaning "fishie") and possibly "toss"
|Jap2=トラウター<ref name=SMUSA/>
|Jap2R=Torautā
|Jap2M=Transliteration of the ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' name
|Ita=Trouter<ref>{{cite|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' Italian manual|page=25}}</ref>
|Ita2=Trota assassine/Piranha <small>(''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'')</small>
|Ita3=Trotano<ref>{{cite|date=2001|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|language=it|title=''[[Super Mario Advance]]'' European manual|page=112|author=Nintendo}}</ref>
|Ita4=Trotone<ref>{{cite|title=''[[Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition]]'' manual|page=38|date=2010|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|language=it|author=Nintendo}}</ref><ref>{{cite|date=November 15, 2018|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|publisher=Magazzini Salani|language=it|isbn=889367436X|page=67}}</ref>
|Ita2M=Killer trout/Piranha
|Ita3M=Portmanteau of ''trota'' ("trout") and ''totano'' ("squid" or "tattler")
|Ita4M=Portmanteau of ''trota'' ("trout") and ''tritone'' ("triton")
|Ger=Trouter
|Por=Truta<ref>{{cite|date=July 2, 2021|url=youtu.be/Yz6MTJIqWd8|title=''Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' - Os Piratas de Koopa / Você Acredita em Mágica? (Dublado)|publisher=YouTube|language=pt|accessdate=June 26, 2024}}{{timestamp needed}}</ref>
|PorM=Trout
}}

==References==
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