Editing Whacka

|image=[[File:Whacka sprite PMTTYD NS.png|150px]]<br>Sprite of a Whacka from ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]])

They are some of the few original ''Paper Mario'' series characters to reappear in at least one other ''Super Mario'' game, along with [[Tweester]]s, [[Koopatrol]]s, [[Goomboss]], [[Frost Piranha]]s, and the [[Star Spirits]].

In [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|the Nintendo Switch remake]], Whacka appears as a hidden superboss. He replaces [[Bonetail]] as the [[Pit of 100 Trials (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)|Pit of 100 Trials]] final boss on repeat trips after specific criteria are met. In order for him to appear, the player needs to have completed the entire Pit of 100 Trials by defeating Bonetail at floor 100 and hit Whacka in Keelhaul Key eight times, enough to make him stop spawning there (he will exclaim "Whack-a-woooooooooooo..." when he disappears for the last time). Whacka has different dialogue if Mario uses [[Koops]] or [[Bobbery]] on Whacka. After waiting around 30 minutes of in-game time (not counting menus or loading screens), the player must then go back to Rogueport to receive an email called "RDM Extra Issue," which says a mystical creature has been seen deep in the pit. Whacka will appear at floor 100 after this email, claiming to have retreated there for relaxation in silence. The player is free to leave the pit through the Warp Pipe in the back without doing anything else. However, attacking Whacka will cause him to think that Mario wants to play with him, triggering his boss fight.

Whacka's only offensive move involves flinging any Whacka Bumps he has in his possession at Mario and his partner, dealing 10 HP of damage for each one. Every time Whacka is hit (unless no damage is dealt with the exception of [[Ms. Mowz]]'s Love Slaps), a Whacka Bump will spawn, allowing him to fire off barrages that will become irregularly timed if multiple Whacka Bumps are used. Whacka also takes less damage from attacks that hit him on the side rather than on the top of his head. On tattling, Goombella advises Mario to use as few attacks as possible to avoid giving Whacka ammunition. Should Whacka have no Bumps available on his turn (or sometimes when there are 3 or less), he will rattle the scene, causing up to five stage props to fall and strike him for 1 HP of damage (thus producing one Bump) each. Whacka also eats one of the Bumps once per battle to heal 25 HP, similarly to the actual item. Occasionally (when Whacka is hit for more than 3 HP of damage), the produced Bump is red, which provides 2.5 times the damage and heals Whacka for 75 HP instead. After Mario and his party defeat Whacka for the first time, Whacka retreats back into the ground (not coming back out until the player revisits the Pit of 100 Trials), leaving a [[Gold Whacka Bump]], which counts as a key item. Subsequent victories against Whacka yield a regular Whacka Bump, which makes them infinitely obtainable, in contrast with the limited amount in the original.

 

Whacka is one of the few bosses in the game to have a unique name for his battle theme, being called, "Attack-a of the Whacka!" Most other bosses' themes are simply called, "Battle - (boss name)". He is also one of the three bosses in the game that can be fought repeatedly, the other two being [[Rawk Hawk]] and [[Prince Mush]]. His HP of 108 may be a reference to the fact that one must go through the Pit of 100 Trials and hit him eight times in Keelhaul Key to fight him. The number 108 also pertains to the number of Earthly temptations one must overcome to achieve Nirvana (perfect peace) in Buddhism, which is linked to Whacka escaping to the bottom of the Pit of 100 Trials for peace, only to be disturbed by the player's temptation to either see what dwells at the bottom after receiving the "RDM Extra Issue," or obtain more Whacka bumps.

*'''Tattle:''' ''That's a rare Whacka. I don't think you see many of his kind anymore, nope. If you whack a Whacka, they drop a Whacka Bump. Those are supposed to be delicious. They fetch a high price in gourmet auctions, too. Yup, super-precious delicacies. Still, whacking a defenseless creature to get one... You'd never do that, right, Mario?''

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|JpnM=From「瘤」(''kobu'', "bump") with male name ending "-ron"

|Chi=哇咔鼹鼠

|ChiN=''Paper Mario''

|ChiR=Wākā Yǎnshǔ

|ChiM=From the English name, and “鼹鼠” (''Yǎnshǔ'', "mole")

|Chi2=克布隆

|Chi2N=''The Thousand-Year Door'' remake

|Chi2R=Kèbùlóng

|Chi2M=Transliteration of the Japanese name

|Dut=Whacka

|KorR=Hokhogi

|KorM=From "혹" (''hok'', "bump") repeated, with "~이" (''-i'', a Korean noun-deriving suffix)