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{{italic title|Worm (''Super Mario Galaxy'')}}
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|image=[[File:WormSuperMarioGalaxy.png|220px]]<br>Screenshot from ''Super Mario Galaxy''
|image=[[File:WormSuperMarioGalaxy.png|220px]]<br>The caterpillar bursting from the first apple
|species=Caterpillar
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' ([[List of games by date#2007|2007]])
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' ([[List of games by date#2007|2007]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario 3D All-Stars]]'' ([[List of games by date#2020|2020]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario 3D All-Stars]]'' ([[List of games by date#2020|2020]])
}}
}}
The '''worm'''<ref>{{cite|author=Black, Fletcher|title=''Super Mario Galaxy: PRIMA Official Game Guide''|format=Collector's Edition|location=Roseville|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|date=November 9, 2007|page=35, 172|isbn=978-0-7615-5713-5|language=en-us}}</ref> is a giant caterpillar from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''. It is harmless and has its own [[gravity|gravitational pull]], allowing [[Mario]] (or [[Luigi]]) to walk along its body as if it is a planetoid. It lives in [[Gusty Garden Galaxy]], where it can be found inside one of the three [[apple]]-shaped planets during [[The Dirty Tricks of Major Burrows]]. Each apple has at least one [[stump]] on its surface that disturbs the worm once [[Ground Pound|ground-pound]]ed, causing it to tunnel into the next nearest apple. This forms a permanent bridge between these planets that ultimately connects all three apples. Striking the stump in the final, red-colored apple causes the worm to poke its head out of the surface, allowing Mario to reach a nearby [[Launch Star]]. The worm does not appear anywhere else in the game. The spots on its body suggest it may be related to [[Wiggler]]s.
[[File:Apple planets.png|thumb|left|The caterpillar burrowing through some apple planets]]
 
The '''Big Green Caterpillar'''<ref>''Super Mario Galaxy'' internal filenames (<tt>GreenCaterpillarBigBody</tt>, <tt>GreenCaterpillarBigBodyLow</tt>, <tt>GreenCaterpillarBigFace</tt>, <tt>GreenCaterpillarBigFaceLow</tt>)</ref> (generically referred to by [[Prima Games|Prima]] as a "'''worm'''")<ref>Fletcher Black. ''Super Mario Galaxy'' PRIMA Official Game Guide. Pages 35 and 172.</ref> is a giant harmless insect appearing only in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''. Specifically, it appears in the [[Gusty Garden Galaxy]]'s mission called [[The Dirty Tricks of Major Burrows]], where it is found after [[Mario]] uses a [[Ground Pound]] on a specific [[stump]] on a giant apple planet. Once Mario does this, the caterpillar bursts out of the apple before crawling into another apple planet. After Mario does this process two more times, the caterpillar instead leads to a [[Launch Star]], which Mario can use to continue. The caterpillar is most likely based on the larva of the codling moth, due to its tendency to burrow into apples. Despite this, however, the Prima guide refers to it as a worm, which is also implied by the Japanese name.
The character is likely based on the culturally ubiquitous {{wp|Trope (literature)|trope}} of the "worm in an apple,"<ref>"{{cite|url=tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WormInAnApple|title=Worm in an Apple|publisher=TV Tropes|language=en|accessdate=November 10, 2023}}</ref> itself potentially influenced by the apple-eating larvae of widespread pest insects such as ''{{wp|Cydia pomonella}}'', ''{{wp|Grapholita lobarzewskii}}'', and ''{{wp|Rhagoletis pomonella}}''. A [[Worm (Donkey Kong 64)|similar character]] from ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'' is also derived from this trope.
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==Gallery==
<gallery>
GDC07Scene11.png|Prerelease screenshot from the 2007 {{wp|Game Developers Conference}}
SMG E3 2007 Early Gusty Garden Galaxy.png|Prerelease screenshot from {{wp|E3 2007}}
Apple planets.png|Screenshot from ''Super Mario Galaxy''
</gallery>
==Additional names==
==Additional names==
===Internal names===
===Internal names===
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|name2=虫食い惑星オオムイムイ (''Mushikui Wakusei Ōmuimui'')
|name2=虫食い惑星オオムイムイ (''Mushikui Wakusei Ōmuimui'')
|meaning2=Planet-Eating Bug, Big Muimui
|meaning2=Planet-Eating Bug, Big [[#Names in other languages|Muimui]]
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===Names in other languages===
===Names in other languages===
{{foreign names
{{foreign names
|Jap=ムイムイ<ref>{{cite|author=Sakai, Kazuya (Ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors.|language=ja|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|date=October 19, 2015|title=『[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック]]』|location=Tokyo|page=126|isbn=978-4-09-106569-8}}</ref>
|Jap=ムイムイ<ref>Shogakukan. 2015. ''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'', ''Super Mario Galaxy'' section, page 126.</ref>
|JapR=Muimui
|JapR=Muimui
|JapM=A {{wp|Kansai dialect}} slang term equivalent to「虫」(''mushi'', "worm" or "larval insect")
|JapM=A {{wp|Kansai dialect}} slang term equivalent to「虫」(''mushi'', worm)
|Ger=Muimui<ref>{{cite|author=---|language=de|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Encyclopedia - Die ersten 30 Jahre]]''|format=Deutsche Ausgabe|location=Hamburg|publisher=Tokyopop|date=October 12, 2017|page=126|isbn=978-3842036536}}</ref>
|Ger=Muimui<ref>''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''; page 126</ref>
|GerM=Romanization of the Japanese name
|GerM=Romanization of the Japanese name
|Ita=Millepiedi<ref>{{cite|author=---|date=November 15, 2018|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia: La guida ufficiale Nintendo]]''|location=Milano|format=Edizione italiana|publisher=Magazzini Salani|language=it|isbn=889367436X|page=126}}</ref>
|Ita=Millepiedi<ref>''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''; page 126</ref>
|ItaM={{wp|Millipede}}
|ItaM=Millipede
|Fre=Ver géant<ref>''Super Mario Galaxy, Le Guide Officiel. Prima Games'', page 172</ref>
|FreM=Giant worm
}}
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