Editing Trouter

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|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=''[[Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition]]'' ([[List of games by date#2024|2024]])

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}}.

====''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic'' / ''Super Mario Bros. 2''====

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.

[[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>

[[File:TrouterSMBSS.jpg|thumb|left|A Trouter from the ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' episode "[[Mario and Joliet]]"]]

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.

===Other appearances===

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

===''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|format=PDF|accessdate=June 26, 2024}}</ref>

*'''Instruction booklet bio ([[Super Mario Advance|Game Boy Advance version]]):''' ''Trouters inhabit the waters in the land of dreams. They'll try to block your path near 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}}</ref>

===''[[Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten]]''===

|artwork=[[File:Trouter Perfect.png|200px]]

|desc='''<big>{{ruby|踏台|ふみだい}}にしてジャンプだ</big>'''<br>

{{ruby|滝|たき}}の{{ruby|中|なか}}から{{ruby|垂直|すいちょく}}に{{ruby|飛|と}}び{{ruby|出|だ}}してくる{{ruby|魚|さかな}}。かなりのスーピドで{{ruby|飛|と}}び{{ruby|上|あ}}がってくるので、{{ruby|注意|ちゅうい}}が{{ruby|必要|ひつよう}}だ。{{ruby|飛|と}}び{{ruby|上|あ}}がってきたトトスを{{ruby|踏台|ふみだい}}にしてジャンプすることもできる。<ref>{{cite|date=1994|title=''Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten''|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|language=ja|page=[https://i.imgur.com/8CefBh4.jpg 128]}}</ref>

|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.''

Troutsu.png|''[[Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic]]''

SMB2 Trouter.png|''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]''

Trouter SMB2 All-Stars.png|''[[Super Mario All-Stars]]''

SMA Trouter.png|''[[Super Mario Advance]]''

|Jap=トトス

|JapM=From「とと」(''toto'', a childish word meaning "fishie") and possibly "toss"

|JapC=<ref>{{cite|date=1987|title=''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic'' instruction booklet|publisher=Nintendo|language=ja|page=33}}</ref><ref name=SMUSA>{{cite|date=1993|title=''Super Mario USA'' instruction booklet|url=www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/ja/pdf/CLV-P-HAADJ.pdf|publisher=Nintendo|language=ja|page=28}}</ref>

|Jap2M=Transliteration of the ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' name

|Jap2C=<ref name=SMUSA/>

|Ita=Trouter

|Ita4C=<ref>{{cite|date=2010|title=''[[Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition]]'' manual|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|language=it|page=38}}</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>

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