Editing Yoob

{{character infobox
|image=[[File:YoobVsYoshi.jpg|250px]]<br>Artwork of Yoob in ''Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time'', illustrating his height in comparison to Yoshi 
|species=[[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]]
|first_appearance=''[[Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time]]'' ([[List of games by date#2005|2005]])
}}
'''Yoob''' is a giant [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]]-like creature created by the [[Shroob]]s that appears in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time]]''. The creature starts out as a large magenta and green [[Egg (Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time)|egg]] on [[Yoshi's Island (location)|Yoshi's Island]], where it becomes an attraction that tourists can see for five [[coin]]s. When Yoob hatches from the egg, he begins to eat all of the Yoshis in the surrounding village. His name is a pun on "Yoshi" and "Shroob." Although [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] encounter Yoob several times during their trek on [[Yoshi's Island (location)|Yoshi's Island]], they cannot fight him directly.

==History==
===''Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time''===
[[File:YoobAttacks.png|thumb|left|Yoob appears in the Yoshi village.]]
Yoob is first seen in ''Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time'' after he discovers a group of Yoshis still hiding from him on Yoshi's Island. He quickly eats all of them when they try to run away, including [[Yoshi]] and [[Kylie Koopa]], although Kylie is quickly spat out. Yoob then leaves the area, though he is later seen eating and spitting out [[Kamek]] after the quartet find him on the island. After the adult and baby Mario Bros. defeat Kamek and corner [[Baby Bowser]] at the cliff, Yoob climbs to where they are, and two [[Shroob saucer]]s appear and enlarge him. Yoob then proceeds to eat Baby Bowser, [[Mario]], [[Luigi]], [[Baby Mario]], and [[Baby Luigi]].

Once inside [[Yoob's Belly]], the group (except Baby Bowser) helps some of the previously swallowed Yoshis move forward in Yoob's stomach by pushing a [[Chomp Rock]], which clears a path that lets them walk through Yoob's intestines. They then discover that part of Yoob's Belly is a factory for trapping Yoshis. The factory, maintained by [[RC Shroober]]s, stores Yoshis in [[Egg (Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time)|egg]]s, then places them on a conveyor belt that takes them to [[Sunnycide]]. The group helps the Yoshis push the Chomp Rock away, then find [[Toadbert]], who has forgotten everything that happened after he traveled back in time, but is still taking care of some trapped Yoshis. Toadbert tells them that Sunnycide is guarding the exit, and they go to confront it. Sunnycide uses the eggs in battle, and likewise, the heroes can free the Yoshis by breaking the eggs. Eventually, they defeat Sunnycide, and everyone, including the Yoshis, Toadbert, and Baby Bowser, escapes Yoob's through his digestive tract, while Yoob seems to stop functioning altogether.

If Mario and Luigi return to Yoshi's Island, they can find Yoob's inactive body still on the cliffside. They are able to re-enter Yoob's intestines as they wish, though they must exit through the digestive tract again.

Although Yoob's first cutscene where he spits out both Kylie Koopa and Kamek seems to imply that he does not like [[Koopa (species)|Koopas]] and only intends to eat the Yoshis, this is contradicted a few times afterward. He has no issue eating Baby Bowser and the Mario Bros. after turning giant, and the [[Dry Bones]] that are found in his belly imply that he did in fact eat some [[Koopa Troopa]]s off-screen. There are also various bones, including ribcages, scattered on the floor, as well as much larger bones and skulls surrounding doorways in his belly, suggesting he ate other creatures off-screen as well.

===''Super Mario-kun''===
[[File:YoobSMK36.jpg|thumb|The Yoob and his backstory in the ''Super Mario-Kun'' volume 36.]]
In the ''[[Super Mario-kun]]'', Yoob appears in volume 36. Unlike in ''Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time'', Yoob originally was just a giant, carefree, friendly Yoshi who is gluttonous. His body is used as a vessel for Sunnycide, as Sunnycide takes control of the giant Yoshi and turns him into a Yoob. After the brothers get eaten, they defeat Sunnycide inside, which reverts the Yoob to his normal state. The giant Yoshi then eats the Cobalt Star Shards, which causes the brothers to panic, and ends the chapter. They manage to get the shards out of him.
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==General information==
===Physical appearance===
Yoob resembles a magenta [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]], except he is much larger and fatter (and gets even bigger when the Shroobs zap him), has black spines, a black saddle, blue shoes, a green underbelly, black irises, red pupils, and pincers for hands. Yoob bears a loose resemblance to {{fandom|barney|Barney|Barney the Dinosaur}}, the host of the educational children's programs ''{{fandom|barney|Barney & The Backyard Gang}}'' and ''{{fandom|barney|Barney & Friends}}''. As a matter of fact, a ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' issue predating the release of ''Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time'' mentioned the similarities in a pre-release screenshot of the game.{{ref needed}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
YoobShoot.png|Yoob, after growing in size, looking down at [[Baby Bowser]] and the Mario brothers.
Yoob Sprite.PNG|A sprite of Yoob.
C 05.png|Credits image of Yoob.
Yoob1.png|Map of the first area of [[Yoob's Belly]]
Yoob2.png|Map of the second area of Yoob's Belly
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ゲッシー
|JapR=Gesshī
|JapM=Combination of「ゲドンコ」(''Gedonko'', "[[Shroob]]") and「ヨッシー」(''Yosshī'', "[[Yoshi]]")
|Fre=Yoob
|Ger=Yoob
|Ita=Yoob
|Kor=겟시
|KorR=Getsi
|KorM=Combination of 게돈코 (''Gedonko'', "Shroob") and 요시 (''Yosi'', "Yoshi")
|Spa=Yoob
}}

==Trivia==
*When the babies dig underground or attack with the [[hammer]] inside [[Yoob's Belly]], Yoob can be seen wincing in pain on the top screen with steam coming from his nose. He also does this when the babies open an area in his belly by hammering buttons and when the [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshis]] roll the [[Chomp Rock]] down his stomach, creating a path through his insides. This stops after [[Sunnycide]] is defeated.
*In the original version of ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'', an enemy named [[Fawful Guy]] has an attack where it is eaten and turned into a discolored [[Yoshi egg]] by an off-screen creature, whose roar is identical to Yoob's.

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