Megabite

Megabite
Catch Card from Super Paper Mario
First appearance	Super Paper Mario (2007)
Variants Gigabite Dark Megabite

Megabites are evil skulls that appear in Super Paper Mario, and can be found in various locations. Their waving purple tails give them a vaguely fish-like appearance. Their name is both a pun and portmanteau of "megabyte", a measurement in computing, and "bite".

Description

In at least one stage within each world, if the player remains in certain areas too long, the game will play an eerie sound cue after 3 to 5 minutes and a Megabite will spawn. They only spawn once per level, and leaving the area won't make them be able to spawn again.

They swoop down from the sky at the player, dealing 1 damage with each hit. Megabites have 4 HP, and will only take 1 damage per hit from any attack.

If the player does not defeat a Megabite after about seven swoops, they will eventually flee without leaving any reward. Megabites appear in the following areas:

• Yold Desert
• Yold Ruins
• Gloam Valley
• Merlee's Mansion
• The Bitlands
• Fort Francis
• Planet Blobule
• Downtown of Crag
• Gap of Crag
• The Overthere

Megabites have a chance of dropping items such as a Shooting Star, a Thunder Rage, or, more rarely, a Catch Card SP upon defeat, as well as lots of coins.

Megabites won't spawn if Mario or the other characters are in an elevated area. However, once the player leaves and comes to the ground, a Megabite immediately spawns, if enough time had passed.

Profiles and statistics

Super Paper Mario

Super Paper Mario enemy
Megabite
	Max HP	4	Role	Common	Location(s)	Yold Desert (1-3), Yold Ruins (1-4), Gloam Valley (2-1), Merlee's Mansion (2-2), The Bitlands (3-1), Fort Francis (3-4), Planet Blobule (4-2), Downtown of Crag (5-1), Gap of Crag (5-2), The Overthere (7-4)
	Attack	1	Card type	Uncommon
	Defense	?? (Reduces all damage to 1)	Items	Ghost Shroom, Catch Card SP	Card location(s)	Card Shop; Catch Card/SP
	Score	800
	Card description	Only takes 1 point of damage. This disembodied head really knows how to ruin a picnic. Lay low until it finds someone else to terrorize.
List of Catch Cards     170      171      172	Tattle	That's a Megabite. It's an evil skull that soars through the skies... Max HP is 4 and Attack is 1. It will only take 1 damage per attack... It will eventually fly off, so don’t worry about defeating it every time... No one knows where they come from or where they go...

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	デスデス[?] Desudesu	Repetition of "death"
French	Mégaoctête[?]	Pun on "mégaoctet" (megabyte) and "tête" (head)
German	Megabiss[?]	Combination of "mega" and "biss" (bite)
Italian	Megabite[?]	-
Korean	물골[?] Mulgol	From "물다" (mulda, to bite) and "骨" (gol, "bone" in Sino-Korean)
Spanish	Megabite[?]	-