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|image=[[Image:Wart Artwork - Super Mario Bros 2.png|200px]] <br> '''Wart''', as he appears in ''Super Mario Bros. 2''.
|image=[[File:SMA Wart Artwork.png|200px]]<br>Artwork from ''[[Super Mario Advance]]''
|full_name=King Wart
|species=[[Frog|Toad]]<ref>{{cite|quote=The evil toad, Wart, has used his magic to lay a curse upon the land.|title=''Super Mario Advance'' instruction booklet|page=13|language=en-us|date=2001|publisher=Nintendo of America}}</ref>
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' (''Mario'' series appearance) ([[List of Mario games by date#1988|1988]])<Br> ''[[Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic]]'' (first appearance) ([[List of Mario games by date#1987|1987]])
|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)|''Super Mario'' franchise]])
|species=[[Frog]]
|latest_appearance=''[[Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition]]'' (Player Icon cameo) ([[List of games by date#2024|2024]])
|latest_appearance=''[[NES Remix 2]]'' ([[List of Mario games by date#2014|2014]])
|latest_portrayal=[[Charles Martinet]]<ref>{{cite|deadlink=y|archive=web.archive.org/web/20041214201633/http://archive.gamespy.com/interviews/august02/mario/index2.shtml|title=The Voice of Mario|publisher=GameSpy|accessdate=January 6, 2024}}</ref> (2001)
|latest_portrayal=[[Charles Martinet]] (2001)
}}
}}
{{LLQuote|I am the ''great Wart!'' Ha ha ha!!|Wart|[[Super Mario Advance]]}}
{{quote|Well, I see you've made it at last. Too bad it was all for nothing. Subcon is mine, and there's nothing you can do to stop me!|Wart|Super Mario Advance (book)}}
 
'''Wart''', named '''Mamu''' in Japan and in {{iw|zeldawiki|The Legend of Zelda (Series)|''The Legend of Zelda'' series}}, is the main antagonist of ''[[Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]''. He is the leader of a gang known as the [[8 bits]], and his major appearance centers around his efforts to conquer [[Subcon]], a land of dreams. Wart's information in the original instruction booklet states, "''He is the most mischievous of all in the world of dreams. He created monsters by playing with the [[Dream Machine|dream machine]].''"<ref name="SMB2">{{cite|url=www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/en/pdf/CLV-P-NAADE.pdf|title=''Super Mario Bros. 2'' instruction booklet|format=PDF|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us|date=1988|page=28}}</ref> He created all of the game's monsters,<ref>{{cite|quote=Wart, creator of all the monsters in the World of Dreams and the source of all its evil!|title=''Super Mario Bros. 2 Inside Out'', Part II|date=1989|language=en-us|publisher=[[Nintendo Power]]|page=33}}</ref> which are also referred to as his "moppets."<ref>{{cite|title=[[Nintendo Power issue 1|''Nintendo Power'' Volume 1]]|publisher=Nintendo of America|date=July–August 1988|language=en-us|page=11}}</ref><ref>{{cite|language=en-us|date=1993|title=''Super Mario All-Stars'' Player's Guide|publisher=Nintendo of America|page={{file link|SMAS Guide 88.jpg|88}}}}</ref> His name comes from the bumps on toads which are also known as warts.
'''Wart''' (known in Japan and in ''[[zeldawiki:The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening|The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening]]'' as '''Mamu''') is an anthropomorphic frog king and the main antagonist of ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]''. He is the leader of his troop known as the [[8 bits]] and his major appearances all center around his efforts to conquer [[Subcon]], a land of dreams. Wart's information in the game's instruction booklet says, "He is the most mischievous of all in the world of dreams. He created monsters by playing with the dream machine." To attack, Wart can spit streams of bubbles or jets of water; he can also use magic and put curses on people.


==History==
==History==
===''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic''===
===''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic''===
[[Image:ssdfddpintro1.gif|thumb|left|200px|The monkey Rūsa watches in horror as Mamu reaches his hand through the storybook to kidnap the two children Piki and Poki in ''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic''.]]
[[File:DDP Intro.png|thumb|The monkey Rūsa watches in horror as Mamu reaches his hand through the storybook to grab hold of Piki and Poki.]]
[[Image:Wart3.jpg|thumb|25opx|Mamu's early artwork in ''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic''.]]
[[File:SMB2 Solo Wart Artwork.png|thumb|left|Mamu's original artwork used for ''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic'']]
In ''[[Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic]]'', Mamu's true origins lie in the Tale of the Dream World of Muu. In the original storyline, Mamu had taken control of the Muu people's Dream Machine, turning it into a [[Nightmare Machine]] that produced monsters and mayhem. However, the Muu people knew of his weakness to vegetables and used them to force a surrender, bringing peace back to the Dream World.
In ''[[Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic]]'', Mamu's true origins lie in the tale of the dream world, Muu. In the original storyline, Mamu had taken control of the Muu people's [[Dream Machine]], producing monsters and mayhem. However, the Muu people knew of his weakness to [[vegetable]]s and used them to force a surrender, bringing peace back to the dream world.


In the "real" world, the green-dressed monkey Rūsa gives the storybook to the twins [[Poki and Piki]]. Towards the end of the book, the twins quarrel and tear out the final page of the story, thus erasing the book's ending. Freed, Mamu pulls through the pages of the storybook and kidnaps the two children, fulfilling his dream of conquering Muu. The two kids pleaded for help, and Rūsa hurries away, soon coming across an Arabian family, which consists of [[Papa (Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic)|Papa]], [[Mama (Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic)|Mama]] and their son and daughter, [[Imajin]] and [[Lina]]. After being informed of the situation, the Arabian family jumps through the storybook and embarks on a journey to save the two children and free Muu from Mamu's reign.
In the "real" world, the green-dressed monkey Rūsa gives the storybook to the twins Poki and Piki. Towards the end of the book, the twins quarrel and tear out the final page of the story, thus erasing the book's ending. Freed, Mamu pulls through the pages of the storybook and kidnaps the two children. The two kids pleaded for help, and Rūsa hurries away. The family, which consists of Papa and Mama and their son, Imajin, as well as Imajin's girlfriend Lina, jumps through the storybook and embarks on a journey to save the two children and free Muu from Mamu's reign.


After all of his army and leaders have been defeated by the Arabian family, Mamu himself engages them in battle in the castle. Mamu can spit five bubbles at the four heroes and can destroy the vegetable projectiles produced by the machine of his room. Conventional attack methods are ineffective against the tyrannical amphibian. The Arabian family has to throw vegetables in his mouth when it's open, defeating him after four hits. After Mamu's defeat, the inhabitants are saved, completing the story. The two kidnapped children are rescued from their cages and return with the Arabian family back to their world, where the game ends.
One by one, Mamu engages the family in battle in the dream factory. Mamu can spit five bubbles at once and can destroy the vegetable projectiles produced by the Dream Machine. Conventional attack methods are ineffective against the tyrant. The family has to throw vegetables in his mouth when it is open, defeating him after four hits. After Mamu's final defeat, the inhabitants are saved, completing the story. The two kidnapped children are rescued from their cages (with the key being thrown at the cage while Mamu was being beaten offscreen to a pulp by the Muu people) and return with the family back to their world, where the game ends.
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===''Super Mario'' series===
===''Super Mario'' series===
====''Super Mario Bros. 2''====
====''Super Mario Bros. 2'' / ''Super Mario Advance''====
[[Image:supmario2-1.gif|thumb|200px|[[Toad]] battling Wart in ''Super Mario Bros. 2''.]]
[[File:SMB2 Wart Screenshot.png|thumb|left|Wart is the final boss of ''Super Mario Bros. 2'', and is being fought by [[Toad]].]]
[[Image:Wart Super Mario Bros. 2.png|left|thumb|200px|Wart looking worried in ''Super Mario Bros. 2''.]]
When ''Doki Doki Panic'' was released overseas as ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'', Mamu's name was changed to "Wart." When the {{wp|Western world|Western}} ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' was localized as ''Super Mario USA'' in Japan, the original name of "Mamu" was used, but all other plot-related changes remained.
Because the original ''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels|Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' was considered too difficult for North American audiences, Nintendo remade ''Doki Doki Panic'' into a ''Mario'' game and released it as ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' outside of Japan. Muu was changed to "[[Subcon]]" and Mamu's name was changed to "Wart" for English-speaking audience. When the international version of ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' was released in Japan as ''Super Mario USA'', the original name of "Mamu" was used for Wart, although the name "Subcon" was retained along with all the plot elements the were changed when the game was originally converted from ''Doki Doki Panic'' to a ''Mario'' title.
 
Wart's role is similar as in ''Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic''. Just as before, he used the hijacked Dream Machine and his army (known as the [[8 bits]]) to conquer Subcon. Instead of fighting him, the [[Subcon (species)|natives]] of Subcon make contact with [[Mario]] through one of his dreams, pleading for him to save them and telling him about Wart's weakness: vegetables. The next day he, [[Luigi]], [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]], and [[Toad]] discover a door to Subcon and decide to save the dream world from Wart. The battle with Wart is largely the same, except it takes six vegetables to defeat Wart. After his defeat, Wart is seen one last time during the victory celebrations, being crowd-surfed across the screen by the now-freed Subcons. As he disappears off the screen, the Subcons pummel him one last time. During the cast roll, Wart appears laughing at the very end.
 
In the [[Super Mario Advance|Game Boy Advance version]], Wart is given dialogue, and speaks clear sentences such as, ''"I am the great Wart!"'' and ''"Ah, ribbit!"''. One minor difference is that after he is defeated, Wart's body becomes intangible to the player, unlike in the original ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' (and its port in ''[[Super Mario All-Stars]]''), where the player can still take damage from contact with his defeat animation. The remake expands on Wart by implying he is capable of casting magic. This is shown in cutscenes prior to fighting [[Fryguy]] and [[Clawgrip]], bosses that are initially seen in a weaker form before bubbles that resemble Wart's arrive to envelop and transform them into their massive forms.
 
====''BS Super Mario USA''====
[[File:BSSMUSA Wart.png|thumb|Wart is fought very similarly in ''BS Super Mario USA'' as in ''Super Mario Bros. 2'', the ''Super Mario All-Stars'' version in particular.]]
Wart once again appears in all four "Power Challenge" installments of ''[[BS Super Mario USA]]'', a follow-up to the Western ''Super Mario Bros. 2''. In this game, it is shown that after his defeat, Wart and his crew escaped to another dream and laid low for a while; they eventually return and attack Subcon once more, forcing its [[Ōsama|king]] into hiding and moving him to summon Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Peach once more.
 
Wart can be found in every [[jar]] in [[Subspace]], where his room is actually identical to that of the final room of the factory (World 7-2) from ''Super Mario Bros. 2''. He possesses the same attacks and is defeated the same way as in his earlier appearances. Like all the major characters in this version, he is voiced but his picture does not appear on the top right when he talks. On certain intervals, Wart's harmful bubbles will float up from the bottom of the screen.
 
====''Super Mario Maker 2''====
Although Wart does not appear as a usable course element in ''[[Super Mario Maker 2]]'', his original sprite appears briefly when the Final Boss [[List of sound effects in Super Mario Maker 2|sound effect]] is played while wearing the [[SMB2 Mushroom]], just as [[Birdo]]'s appears with the Boss Music sound effect.
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===''Nintendo Comics System''===
[[File:ComicWart.jpg|thumb|Wart as he appears in the Nintendo Comics System comic "Cloud Nine".]]
[[File:WartTanookiComic.jpg|thumb|left|Wart and Bowser in "Tanooki Suits Me".]]
Wart appears in a few ''[[Nintendo Comics System]]'' stories. He first appears in the issue "[[Cloud Nine (comic)|Cloud Nine]]," where he is disguised as a bed salesman, abducts the [[Mushroom King]] and also tries to flood the [[Mushroom Kingdom]]. Notably in this story, Mario mentions Wart had abducted the king on at least one previous occasion. In "[[Duh Stoopid Bomb!]]", where his name is seen on [[Wooster]]'s list of people who think the Mushroom King is dumb. Wart has his second role in "[[Tanooki Suits Me]]," in which [[Bowser]] plans to sell Wart pieces of artwork that he had stolen from [[Peach's Castle|the Mushroom Castle]]'s Royal Art Gallery for a huge profit. However, a disguised Mario is stolen along with the artwork and, upon discovering Bowser's plot, manages to fool Wart into believing that the artwork is nothing more than worthless droplets of the [[Apook Corporation]]. In comparison to ''Cloud Nine'', Wart here bears a closer resemblance to his official artwork appearance.
 
===''Nintendo Adventure Books''===
{{quote|Right here in [[Subcon|the Land of Outrageous Dreams]]. It's a most excellent dream, [[Mario|Dude]]. Far superior to that conquer-the-world stuff. Now I dream of skating the most radical inclines possible. That [[Dr. Sporis von Fungenstein|short fungus doctor dude]] helped me turn Subcon into this raucous skate park. Gnarly, don't you agree?|Wart|Doors to Doom}}
Wart's first appearance in a ''[[Nintendo Adventure Books]]'' book is ''[[Doors to Doom]]''. [[Dr. Sporis von Fungenstein]] had convinced him to convert the denizens of Subcon into surfers, and when the Mario Brothers meet Wart, he is friendly and welcoming, munching on a corn dog and playing a [[Game Boy]]. He tries to trade a garage door opener, which is a required item for the book's good ending, for one of the brothers' hats. However, Wart is still a potentially dangerous figure; making the wrong choices when trying to enter his lair results in [[Game Over]]s, either by being assaulted by Wart on his skateboard or being exposed to dangerously loud rock music. Also, when trading with him, offering him Luigi's hat (which is too small for him) ends up with Wart ripping the hat and a furious Luigi insulting him in response. If Luigi follows up on his anger by attacking Wart with vegetables, Wart counters by spitting them back and running the brothers down with his skateboard, also resulting in a Game Over.


Like in ''Doki Doki Panic'', in ''Super Mario Bros. 2'', Wart uses the hijacked Dream Machine and his army (known as the [[8 bits]]) to conquer Subcon. The plot about the storyline is removed, however, and Wart is simply left undefeated. Instead of fighting him, the native fairies of Subcon (themselves called [[Subcon (species)|Subcons]]) make contact with [[Mario]] through one of his dreams, pleading for him to save them and telling him about Wart's weakness distaste for [[Vegetables]]. Mario initially dismisses the message as a regular dream, but the next day he, [[Luigi]], [[Toad]], and [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] discover a door to Subcon and decide to save the dream world from Wart.
In ''[[Dinosaur Dilemma]]'', Wart has a cameo as one of the guests invited to the party Bowser is holding at his [[Dinosaur Island]] [[Bowser's Castle|Castle]], in honor of being chosen as the recipient of that year's Snowbell Prize. The text introduces Wart as "the king of the Land of Nightmares".


Mario and his friends proceed to defeat Wart's 8 bits and the leaders, [[Tryclyde]], [[Mouser]], various [[Birdo (species)|Birdo]]s (including [[Birdo]] herself), [[Fryguy (boss)|Fryguy]] and [[Clawgrip]]. They then confront Wart in his castle, and like the heroes of ''Doki Doki Panic'', use vegetables ejected by the Nightmare Machine to defeat Wart. In this game, Wart must be forced to swallow six vegetables to be defeated, but other than that, his attacks and abilities are the same as in ''Doki Doki Panic''. After his defeat, Wart is seen one last time during the victory celebrations, being crowd-surfed across the screen by the now-freed Subcons. As he disappears off the screen, swirls and stars appear, implying that they serve him another beat-down for his actions.
===''Super Mario-kun''===
[[File:Wart SMKun.png|left|thumb|Wart's appearance in volume 8 of ''Super Mario-kun'']]
Wart is the main villain of [[Super Mario-kun Volume 8|volume 8]]'s first storyline in ''[[Super Mario-kun]]'', though he was previously mentioned in chapter 6 as the one that sold to Bowser some of his minions (like Mouser, Phanto and Shy Guys).


After the victory celebrations, Mario wakes up in his bed and is left to ponder if the events that transpired really happened or if they are no more than products of a dream, then continue sleeping.
While Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and Birdo are adventuring to Bowser's Castle to save Peach, they receive nightmares from the Subcons, telling them that they have been kidnapped by Wart. The next morning, the four are kidnapped by a Pidgit, who takes them to Subcon and Wart via a giant moving cardboard and explains that he was so impressed that they managed to defeat his minions (in volume 8) that now he wants to test them against his entire army, challenging them to save Subcon and its people.


====''Super Mario Advance''====
During the trip to Wart's castle, the group loses Birdo to Mouser's bombs, and they are later reached by Toad and Birdo's twin, all while Wart watches them from hidden cameras, sending his army's generals against them. In chapter 5, the heroes face Wart and, even though they learn from the booklet that Warts should die to the vegetables they collected, Wart gladly eats the greens without getting harmed, since he made a spell to prevent that. Trapped in his bubbles, Birdo manages to escape and calls her other sister, who brings the [[Bonus Chance]] roulette, finally hurting Wart by crushing him.
In ''[[Super Mario Advance]]'', the remake of ''Super Mario Bros. 2'', Wart is given dialogue, spoken by [[Charles Martinet]], who also voices [[Mario]], [[Luigi]] and [[Wario]], with Wart's voice bearing resemblance to the latter. In this game, Wart spoke clear sentences such as, ''"I am the great Wart!"'' and ''"Ah, ribbit!"''. His army is also given an additional leader, [[Robirdo]], however the rest of the plot remains unchanged. Another minor difference is that after he is defeated, Wart's body becomes intangible to the player, unlike in the original ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' (and its port in ''[[Super Mario All-Stars]]''), wherein the players are dealt damage if they touch his defeated body.


====''BS Super Mario USA''====
In the next chapter, Wart molts himself into a nightmarish beast, which is a mix of his body and his generals': Wart's head, Tryclyde as hairs, Clawgrip's body and claws, Mouser's infinite bomb ammunition and Fryguy's flammable aura. With his friends each falling to a different part of Wart's new body, Toad summons a door with a magic potion, but it does not lead to a Subspace, but to a ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' Toad House from which he takes a [[treasure chest]] full of every ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' power-up (as well as a [[Poison Mushroom]] from ''Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels'' that is taken by Luigi). With the [[Anchor]], Mario freezes Wart and the heroes attacks him with all their might, but Wart laughs: since they are in the realm of dreams, he can wish for anything he thinks of. In a matter of seconds, the power-ups disappear and the heroes are all trapped in glue.
[[File:BSSMUSA Wart.png|thumb|left|Wart fighting Toad in ''BS Super Mario USA''.]]
 
Wart once again appears in all four "Power Challenge" installments of ''[[BS Super Mario USA]]'' for [[Satellaview]]. ''BS Super Mario USA'' is a follow up to ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' / ''Super Mario USA''. In this game, it is revealed that the events of the first game actually happened, and were not simply dreamt up by Mario. It also explains that after his defeat, Wart and his crew escaped to another dream and laid low for a while, eventually returning and attacking Subcon once more, forcing its rightful king into hiding and moving him to summon Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool once more, thus setting off the events of ''BS Super Mario USA''. This time, Wart also steals the golden statues that had been placed around the land as thanks for Mario's previous rescue.
In the next and last ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' chapter, Wart puts the glued heroes outside his castle, so that they form the word "STUPID(S)". Later, the entirety of Bowser's Castle falls on top of Wart's and breaks the heroes out of the glue: having disappeared from the Mushroom Kingdom, Peach forced the Koopa Troop to find Mario. Bowser and Mario join forces and attack Wart, but he is no match for them and tries to send his army against him, but they are too tired. Mario tries to do something by taking the Subspace Mushroom to the army in order to make them stronger, but Wart zaps him. This does not help him, however, since he just fuses Mario with a [[Thwomp]], a [[Koopa Troopa]], a [[Paragoomba]], a [[Bullet Bill]]. With the powers of all the Koopa Troop with which he has combined, Mario finally kills Wart and turns back to normal. Wart, though, is not finished, and his ghost possesses his castle's crumbles, creating a giant Wart face made of stone, but Yoshi summons with the dream power an army of hungry [[Baby Yoshi]]s that eat the stone face, finally defeating Wart.


Wart can be found in every vase in [[Subspace]], where his room is actually identical to that of the final room of Subcon's Castle (World 7-2) from ''Super Mario Bros. 2''. He possesses the same attacks and is defeated the same way as in his earlier appearances. Like [[Mouser]] and [[Birdo]], his portrait will periodically appear on the screen as he casts randomly a spell on Mario. This could be stopped only when Princess Toadstool aggressively interrupts it. Like all the major characters in this version, he is voiced, though due to its broadcast nature very little of the dialog is known. After his defeat, Subcon vanishes and Wart is not heard from again.
Wart later appears briefly in [[Super Mario-kun Volume 10|volume 10]], in a chapter based on ''[[Super Mario All-Stars]]'', where he allies with Bowser and [[Wario]] to beat Mario via mazes.
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===''The Legend of Zelda'' series===
{{main-wiki|ZeldaWiki|Mamu|Zelda Wiki}}
[[File:TLOZ LA remake Mamu.jpg|thumb|200px|Mamu in the Nintendo Switch remake]]
{{quote|Everybody knows me!|Mamu|[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening]]}}
{{multiframe|[[File:TLOZLA Mamu sprite.png]] [[File:LinkAwakening Mamu Shamu.png]]|Mamu in ''The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening'' (left) and its ''DX'' enhanced port (right)|align=left|size=150}}
Wart, under his Japanese name Mamu, makes an appearance in the [[Game Boy]] game ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening]]'', its {{iw|zeldawiki|The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX|Game Boy Color version}}, and the {{iw|zeldawiki|The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Nintendo Switch)|Nintendo Switch remake}}, the latter being the first game to give Mamu, or Wart, a 3D model. He lives in a pond beneath the Signpost Maze on {{iw|zeldawiki|Koholint Island}}, which, like Subcon, is a dream land. However, unlike in the ''Super Mario'' game, Wart is not an antagonist in ''Link's Awakening'', and actually helps the hero, [[Link]]. In exchange for 300 Rupees, Wart teaches Link a song on the {{iw|zeldawiki|ocarina}}, the "{{iw|zeldawiki|Frog's Song of Soul}}", which is required to revive the {{iw|zeldawiki|Flying Rooster}} and to access the {{iw|zeldawiki|Turtle Rock (Link's Awakening)|final main dungeon}}. After teaching Link the song, Mamu is not seen again.


===Nintendo Comics System===
Although Mamu himself does not actually appear in ''{{iw|zeldawiki|Hyrule Warriors Legends}}'', he is referenced as a costume for [[Ganondorf]] in the Link's Awakening DLC Pack.
===="Cloud Nine"====
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[[Image: ComicWart.jpg|thumb|right|Wart as he appears in the Nintendo Comics System comic "Cloud Nine".]]
Wart made an appearance in the [[Nintendo Comics System]] issue ''[[Cloud Nine (comic)|Cloud Nine]]''. In the comic Wart, disguised as a bed salesman, abducts [[Mushroom King|King Toadstool]] and also tries to flood the [[Mushroom Kingdom]]. Notably in this story, Mario mentions Wart had abducted the king on at least one previous occasion. Wart looked more like a crocodile than a frog in the comic.


===="Duh Stoopid Bomb!"====
===''Super Smash Bros.'' series===
Wart was also briefly mentioned in a later Nintendo Comics System story entitled ''[[Duh Stoopid Bomb!]]'', where his name is seen on [[Wooster]]'s list of people who think King Toadstool is dumb.
Wart was referenced in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', in that "WART" was one of the randomly generated names offered to players. Additionally, Wart appears as an Advanced-class Grab-type {{iw|smashwiki|primary spirit}} in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''. When equipped, it simply increases the fighter's power. In {{iw|smashwiki|Adventure Mode: World of Light|World of Light}}, the [[Spirit (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)|spirit]] can be encountered on the Light Realm map. The spirit's puppet fighters are [[King K. Rool]] and [[Princess Peach|Peach]], and the battle takes place on the Battlefield form of the [[Skyworld]] stage. "WART" also returns as a randomly selected name.


===="Tanooki Suits Me"====
===Other appearances===
[[File:WartTanookiComic.jpg|thumb|left|Wart and Bowser in "Tanooki Suits Me".]]
[[File:Wart Jr..jpg|thumb|80px|Wart Jr. as seen in ''Animal Crossing: New Horizons''.]]
Wart eventually reappears in the comics in the story ''[[Tanooki Suits Me]]'', in which Bowser plans to sell him pieces of artwork that he had stolen from [[Princess Peach's Castle|the Mushroom Castle]]'s Royal Art Gallery for a huge profit. However, a disguised Mario is stolen along with the artwork and, upon discovering Bowser's plot, manages to fool Wart into believing that the artwork is nothing more than worthless droplets of the [[Apook Corporation]]. By comparison to ''Cloud Nine'', in this story, Wart bears a better resemblance to his official artwork appearance. Wart also appears to have some resemblance to a crocodile/alligator.
[[File:SMB Pinball-Backglass Artwork Sheet.JPG|thumb|left|Wart right to Mario on the world six castle in ''Super Mario Bros.'' pinball machine.]]
{{wp|Jeff Pillars}} played a part in the [[Super Mario Bros. (film)|''Super Mario Bros.'' film]] as a [[de-evolution]] technician; in earlier cuts of the film, he would have been named Wart as a reference to the character.


===''Nintendo Adventure Books''===
In the ''[[Club Nintendo (magazine)|Club Nintendo]]'' story "[[Wart steht unter Strom]]," Bowser is incorrectly referred to as "Wart".
{{quote|Right here in [[Subcon|the Land of Outrageous Dreams]]. It's a most excellent dream, [[Mario|Dude]]. Far superior to that conquer-the-world stuff. Now I dream of skating the most radical inclines possible. That [[Dr. Sporis Von Fungenstein|short fungus doctor dude]] helped me turn Subcon into this raucous skate park. Gnarly, don't you agree?|Wart|Doors to Doom}}


Wart made an appearance in the [[Nintendo Adventure Books]] book ''[[Doors to Doom]]''. [[Dr. Sporis Von Fungenstein]] had convinced him to convert the denizens of Subcon into surfers, and when the Mario Brothers meet Wart, he is friendly and playing a [[Game Boy]]. He tries to trade a garage door opener for one of their hats.
Wart never appeared in ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'', though many of his characteristics were given to King Koopa instead. Of further note, {{file link|SMBSSHotdogPoster.jpg|an early promotional poster}} featuring several highly off-model enemies features a large frog monster wearing a necklace among them, possibly intended to represent Wart; however, it also is purple, has large lips, no clothes other than the necklace, and wields a spear. In addition, Wart, mislabeled as "King Koopa," appears in reels B and C in a Master-view toy released during the run of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!''.


In the later book ''[[Dinosaur Dilemma]]'', Wart has a cameo as one of the guests invited to the party Bowser is holding at his [[Dinosaur Island]] [[Bowser's Castle|Castle]], in honor of being chosen as the recipient of that year's Snowbell Prize. The text introduces Wart as "the king of the Land of Nightmares".
In the artwork for the [[Super Mario Bros. (pinball)|''Super Mario Bros.'' pinball machine]], Wart is shown on the [[castle]] in world 6, presumably holding [[Luigi]] captive despite the former not appearing in ''[[Super Mario World]]'', the game that the pinball machine is based on, as well as the fact that Luigi is never at any point held captive during said game.


===''Club Nintendo''===
Wart is briefly mentioned in [[Shy Guy]]'s biography in ''[[Mario Superstar Baseball]]''.
Wart is the protagonist in the ''[[Club Nintendo]]'' comic "[[Wart steht unter Strom]]," in which he plays Game Boy and got involved in a fight with Mario due to him simply throwing the batteries of his Game Boy away. Wart looked just like a smaller version of [[Bowser]] in this comic. This may be considered as a mistake, since later appearances of him in the magazine refer to him as Bowser.


===Other appearances, cameos and references===
In ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', [[Francis]] owns and wants more of a comic named ''[[List of implied entertainment#Cyborg Wart|Cyborg Wart]]'', which is named for its protagonist.
Wart was mentioned in [[Shy Guy]]'s biography in ''[[Mario Superstar Baseball]]'', but Wart himself did not appear in the game. He was also referenced in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', in that "Wart" was one of the randomly generated names offered to players.


In ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', Wart is featured in a product that [[Francis]] owns and wants more of called [[List of Implied Entertainment#Cyborg Wart|Cyborg Wart]]. It is said that he is the protagonist of that comic book.
A frog villager named {{iw|nookipedia|Wart Jr.}} appears in ''{{iw|nookipedia|Animal Crossing (series)|Animal Crossing}}'' games, a possible nod to Wart in name and species.


====''The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening''====
In ''[[Paper Mario: Color Splash]]'', Wart is mentioned by a yellow Toad at [[Sunglow Ridge]]. Said Toad states that he saw Wart in a dream, only to ponder whether it really was a dream, referencing the events of ''Super Mario Bros. 2''.
{{LLquote|Everybody knows me!|[[Zeldawiki:Mamu|Mamu]]|[[zeldawiki:The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening|The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening]]}}
{{br}}
[[File:LinkAwakening Mamu Shamu.png|frame|left]]
Wart made an appearance in the game ''[[zeldawiki:The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening|The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening]]'', under his Japanese name, [[zeldawiki:Mamu|Mamu]]. He lives in a pond beneath the Signpost Maze on [[zeldawiki:Koholint_Island|Koholint Island]], which, like Subcon, is a dream land. This may in fact be the dream referred to by ''BS Super Mario USA'' as the place that Wart went to hide after his defeat at the hands of Mario and the others. However, unlike in the ''Mario'' game, Wart is not an antagonist in ''Link's Awakening'', and actually helps the hero, [[Link]], by teaching him a song on the [[zeldawiki:Ocarina|ocarina]], the "Frog's Song of Soul", for which Link pays him 300 Rupees. After teaching Link the song, Wart is not seen again.


==Personal information==
==General information==
===Physical description===
===Physical description===
Wart is a large, green frog with a big white round belly, a vaguely crocodile/alligator snout filled with large white teeth, and large claws on his two-toed feet and four-fingered hands. Some comics depict him with scales and even a spiked tail, similar to [[Bowser]] and unlike real frogs. He is typically depicted as wearing a blue cape (Though in [[Super Mario All-Stars]] his sprite consists of the cape being light brown, possibly due to limitations with the [[SNES]] Console), he also wears a crown, a large pendant on a gold necklace and gold bracelets. [[Bowser#DIC_Cartoons|Bowser's appearance in the DiC cartoons]] is a composite of both his and Wart's game designs.
Wart is a large, green [[frog|toad]] with a big white round belly, a general body shape resembling most toads, a vaguely crocodilian snout filled with large blunt white teeth, and large claws on his two-toed feet and four-fingered hands. The Nintendo Comics System depicts him with scales and even a spiked tail (similar to [[Bowser]]), giving him a closer resemblance to a crocodile or alligator, rather than a toad. He is typically depicted as wearing a blue cape (white in-game, and light brown in remakes). He also wears a crown with an emerald on it, a large diamond-shaped ruby set in a gold pendant on a gold necklace, and gold bracelets.


===Personality===
===Personality===
Very little of his personality has been revealed beyond the fact that he is bad and is willing to cause mayhem and destruction in order to achieve his goal of ruling Subcon. However, ''BS Super Mario USA'' does suggest that he is cunning and patient enough to bide his time between attacks, and the fact that he stole all the Mario statues may indicate a spiteful side to his personality.
Very little of his personality has been revealed beyond the fact that he is willing to cause mayhem and destruction in order to achieve his goal of ruling Subcon. However, ''BS Super Mario USA'' does suggest that he is cunning and patient enough to bide his time between attacks, and the fact that he stole all the Mario statues may indicate a spiteful side to his personality.
 
==Profiles and statistics==
===''Super Mario Bros. 2'' / ''Super Mario Advance''===
{{multilang profile
|type=manual
|Eng=He is the most mischievous of all in the world of dreams. He created monsters by playing with the dream machine.<ref name=SMB2/>}}
 
;Game Boy Advance version
{{multilang profile
|type=manual
|Eng=Wart is the most uncontrollable mischief maker in all of the land of dreams. He uses the Dream Machine to create a myriad of monsters.<ref>{{cite|url=fs-prod-cdn.nintendo-europe.com/media/downloads/games_8/emanuals/game_boy_advance_8/Manual_GameBoyAdvance_SuperMarioAdvance_EN_DE_FR_ES_IT.pdf|title=''Super Mario Advance'' European instruction booklet (English section)|format=PDF|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|language=en-gb|page=12|accessdate=February 8, 2024}}</ref>}}
 
===''[[Mario Mania]]''===
''The evil ruler of the world of dreams is a big green nightmare with an appetite for flies and heroes. Lucky for Mario, Wart is not very keen on vegetables. After the big guy gets a stomach-full of radishes, onions, carrots and tomatoes, he'll have his own nightmares to contend with.''<ref>{{cite|language=en-us|date=August 1991|title=''[[Mario Mania]]''|publisher=[[Nintendo Power]]|page=14}}</ref>
 
===''[[Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten]]''===
{{PBMCD profile
|name=マムー (JP) / Mamu (EN)
|shusshin=夢の国サブコン
|seikaku=わがまま
|tojo_gemu=USA
|desc='''<big>USA生まれの夢の魔王</big>'''<br>「ワタシ、マムー言います。アメリカでは、ワートと呼ばれてました。マリオUSAで夢の世界を支配しようとしたけど、マリオさんにやられてしまいました。残念ね」<ref>{{cite|title=''Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten''|date=1994|language=ja|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|page=[https://imgur.com/a/UvABP 27]}}</ref>
|origin=Dream Land Subcon
|disposition=Self-centered
|game_appearances=USA
|eng_desc='''''<big>USA-born Dream Demon King</big>'''''<br>''"My name is Mamu. In America, they called me Wart. I tried to rule the dream world in Mario USA, but Mario defeated me. What a shame."''
}}


==Gallery==
===''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''===
{{morepic}}
{{spirit
|no=47
|name=Wart
|image=[[File:SMUSA Wart.png|x100px]]
|series=''[[Super Mario (series)|Super Mario]]'' Series
|type={{iw|smashwiki|Primary spirit|Primary}}
|slots=2
|class=Advanced
|effects='''{{color|limegreen|Grab}}'''
|obtain={{iw|smashwiki|Adventure Mode: World of Light|World of Light}} ({{iw|smashwiki|The Light Realm}}); {{iw|smashwiki|Spirit Board}}
|opponents=[[King K. Rool]], [[Princess Peach|Peach]]
|hazard_2=Slumber Floor
|conditions=
*Defeat the main fighter to win
*The floor is sleep-inducing
|stage=[[Skyworld]] (Battlefield)
|song=Boss Theme - Super Mario Bros. 2
}}


==Video game appearances==
==List of appearances==
{| class=sortable cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 border=1 align=center width=100% style="border-collapse:collapse; font-family:Arial"
{|class="wikitable sortable" width=100%
|-
!width=40%|Title
!width=20%|Description
!width=20%|Release date
!width=20%|System/format
|-
|''[[Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic]]''
|Boss
|1987
|[[Family Computer Disk System]]
|-
|''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]''
|Boss
|1988
|[[Nintendo Entertainment System]]
|-
|''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening]]''
|Non-playable character (uses Japanese name Mamu)
|1993
|[[Game Boy]]
|-
|''[[Super Mario All-Stars]]''
|Boss in ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' remake
|1993
|[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]]
|-
|''[[Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World]]''
|Boss in ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' remake
|1994
|Super Nintendo Entertainment System
|-
|''[[BS Super Mario USA]]''
|Boss
|1996
|[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super Famicom]] ([[Satellaview]])
|-
|''[[zeldawiki:The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX|The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX]]''
|Non-playable character (uses Japanese name Mamu)
|1998
|[[Game Boy Color]]
|-
|''[[Super Mario Advance]]''
|Boss
|2001
|[[Game Boy Advance]]
|-
|-
! width=50% | Title
|''[[Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition]]''
! width=20% | Description
|Boss in ''Super Mario Bros 2.'' remake
! width=20% | Release date
|2010
! width=10% | System/format
|[[Wii]]
|-
|-
| ''[[Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic]]''
|''[[NES Remix 2]]''
| Boss  
|Boss in ''Super Mario Bros. 2''
| 1987
|2014
| [[Famicom]]
|[[Wii U]]
|-
|-
| ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]''
|''[[NES Remix Pack]]''
| Boss
|Boss in ''Super Mario Bros. 2''
| 1988
|2014
| [[NES]]
|Wii U
|-
|-
| ''The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening''
|''[[Ultimate NES Remix]]''
| Non-playble character (uses Japanese name Mamu)
|Boss in ''Super Mario Bros. 2''
| 1993
|2014
| [[Game Boy]]
|[[Nintendo 3DS]]
|-
|-
| ''[[Super Mario All-Stars]]''
|''[[Paper Mario: Color Splash]]''
| Boss in ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' remake
|Mentioned
| 1993
|2016
| [[SNES]]
|Wii U
|-
|-
| ''[[Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World]]''
|''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''
| Boss in ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' remake
|Spirit
| 1994
|2018
| [[SNES]]
|[[Nintendo Switch]]
|-
|-
| ''The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX''
|''[[zeldawiki:The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Nintendo Switch)|The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening]]''
| Non-playable character (uses Japanese name Mamu)
|Non-playable character (uses Japanese name Mamu)
| 1998
|2019
| [[Game Boy Color]]
|Nintendo Switch
|-
|-
| ''[[Super Mario Advance]]''
|''[[Super Mario Maker 2]]'' (version 3.0.0)
| Boss
|Cameo
| 2001
|2020
| [[Game Boy Advance]]
|Nintendo Switch
|-
|-
| ''[[Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition]]''
|''[[zeldawiki:Game & Watch: The Legend of Zelda|Game & Watch: The Legend of Zelda]]''
| Boss in ''Super Mario Bros 2.'' remake
|Non-playable character (uses Japanese name Mamu)
| 2010
|2021
| [[Wii]]
|[[Game & Watch]]
|-
|''[[Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition]]''
|Player Icon cameo
|2024
|Nintendo Switch
|}
|}
==Voice samples==
{{media table
|file1=SMA Wart I am the great Wart.oga
|title1=''[[Super Mario Advance]]''
|description1="''I am the great Wart! Ha-haha!''"
}}
==Gallery==
{{main-gallery}}
<gallery>
Wart SMB2 artwork.jpg|''Super Mario Bros. 2''
SMB2 Mario and Wart Nintendo Power.jpg|''[[Nintendo Power]]''
Wart BS SuperMario.png|''[[BS Super Mario USA]]''
SMA Wart.png|''[[Super Mario Advance]]''
LANS Model Asset Mamu.png|''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]])
</gallery>


==Names in other languages==
==Names in other languages==
{{foreignname
{{foreign names
|Jap=マムー
|Jap=マムー
|JapR=mamū
|JapR=Mamū
|JapM=From "''ma''" (''demon'') and "''mu''" (''dream''); also based on "''muma''" meaning ''nightmare''.
|JapM=Anagram of「夢魔」(''muma'', nightmare), with「ム」elongated
|Fra=Wart
|Jap2=ワート<ref>{{cite|url=www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/ja/pdf/CLV-P-HAADJ.pdf|title=''Super Mario USA'' instruction booklet|publisher=Nintendo|language=ja|date=1992|format=PDF|page=31}}</ref>
|FraM=-
|Jap2R=Wāto
|Jap2M=Transliteration of the ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' name
|ChiS=沃特
|ChiSN=''Super Mario Advance'' and ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''
|ChiSR=Wòtè
|ChiSM=Transliteration of English name
|ChiS2=玛穆
|ChiS2N=''[[zeldawiki:The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Nintendo Switch)|The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]])
|ChiS2R=Mǎmù
|ChiS2M=Transliteration of Japanese name
|ChiT=瑪穆
|ChiTN=''The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening'' (Nintendo Switch)
|ChiTR=Mǎmù
|ChiTM=Transliteration of Japanese name
|Dut=Wart
|Fre=Wart
|Ger=Wart
|Ger=Wart
|GerM=-}}
|Ger2=Willi
|Ger2N=''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''
|Ita=Wart
|Ita2=Mamu
|Ita2C=<ref>{{cite|title=''The Legend of Zelda: Enciclopedia di Hyrule''|language=Italian|page=233}}</ref>
|Ita2N=''Link's Awakening'' only
|Rus=Крокожабер
|RusR=Krokozhaber
|RusM=From ''крокодил'' (''krokodil'', "crocodile") and ''жаба'' (''zhaba'', "toad")
|Spa=Wart
}}


==Trivia==
==References==
[[Image:Wart Jr..jpg|thumb|right|'''Wart Jr.''' as seen in ''Animal Crossing: Wild World''.]]
<references/>
*Wart, mislabeled as "[[King Koopa]]", appears in reels B and C in a Master-view toy released during the run of ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]''
 
*A frog villager named [[nookipedia:Wart_Jr.|Wart Jr.]] appears in ''[[nookipedia:Animal Crossing (series)|Animal Crossing]]'' games, a possible nod to Wart. Even though he shares species and name with Wart, they do not look like each other.
==External links==
{{BoxTop}}
{{NIWA|ZeldaWiki=Mamu}}
*[https://zeldadungeon.net/wiki/Mamu Mamu on Zelda Dungeon Wiki]
*[https://triforcewiki.com/wiki/Mamu Mamu on Triforce Wiki]
{{SMB2}}
{{SMB2}}
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Wart
Official artwork of Wart.
Artwork from Super Mario Advance
Species Toad[1]
First appearance Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic (1987, overall)
Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988, Super Mario franchise)
Latest appearance Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition (Player Icon cameo) (2024)
Latest portrayal Charles Martinet[2] (2001)
“Well, I see you've made it at last. Too bad it was all for nothing. Subcon is mine, and there's nothing you can do to stop me!”
—Wart, Super Mario Advance (book)

Wart, named Mamu in Japan and in The Legend of Zelda series, is the main antagonist of Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2. He is the leader of a gang known as the 8 bits, and his major appearance centers around his efforts to conquer Subcon, a land of dreams. Wart's information in the original instruction booklet states, "He is the most mischievous of all in the world of dreams. He created monsters by playing with the dream machine."[3] He created all of the game's monsters,[4] which are also referred to as his "moppets."[5][6] His name comes from the bumps on toads which are also known as warts.

History[edit]

Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic[edit]

Mamu reaches his hand through a book to kidnap the two children.
The monkey Rūsa watches in horror as Mamu reaches his hand through the storybook to grab hold of Piki and Poki.
Wart
Mamu's original artwork used for Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic

In Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic, Mamu's true origins lie in the tale of the dream world, Muu. In the original storyline, Mamu had taken control of the Muu people's Dream Machine, producing monsters and mayhem. However, the Muu people knew of his weakness to vegetables and used them to force a surrender, bringing peace back to the dream world.

In the "real" world, the green-dressed monkey Rūsa gives the storybook to the twins Poki and Piki. Towards the end of the book, the twins quarrel and tear out the final page of the story, thus erasing the book's ending. Freed, Mamu pulls through the pages of the storybook and kidnaps the two children. The two kids pleaded for help, and Rūsa hurries away. The family, which consists of Papa and Mama and their son, Imajin, as well as Imajin's girlfriend Lina, jumps through the storybook and embarks on a journey to save the two children and free Muu from Mamu's reign.

One by one, Mamu engages the family in battle in the dream factory. Mamu can spit five bubbles at once and can destroy the vegetable projectiles produced by the Dream Machine. Conventional attack methods are ineffective against the tyrant. The family has to throw vegetables in his mouth when it is open, defeating him after four hits. After Mamu's final defeat, the inhabitants are saved, completing the story. The two kidnapped children are rescued from their cages (with the key being thrown at the cage while Mamu was being beaten offscreen to a pulp by the Muu people) and return with the family back to their world, where the game ends.

Super Mario series[edit]

Super Mario Bros. 2 / Super Mario Advance[edit]

Wart is the final boss of Super Mario Bros. 2, and is being fought by Toad.

When Doki Doki Panic was released overseas as Super Mario Bros. 2, Mamu's name was changed to "Wart." When the Western Super Mario Bros. 2 was localized as Super Mario USA in Japan, the original name of "Mamu" was used, but all other plot-related changes remained.

Wart's role is similar as in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic. Just as before, he used the hijacked Dream Machine and his army (known as the 8 bits) to conquer Subcon. Instead of fighting him, the natives of Subcon make contact with Mario through one of his dreams, pleading for him to save them and telling him about Wart's weakness: vegetables. The next day he, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad discover a door to Subcon and decide to save the dream world from Wart. The battle with Wart is largely the same, except it takes six vegetables to defeat Wart. After his defeat, Wart is seen one last time during the victory celebrations, being crowd-surfed across the screen by the now-freed Subcons. As he disappears off the screen, the Subcons pummel him one last time. During the cast roll, Wart appears laughing at the very end.

In the Game Boy Advance version, Wart is given dialogue, and speaks clear sentences such as, "I am the great Wart!" and "Ah, ribbit!". One minor difference is that after he is defeated, Wart's body becomes intangible to the player, unlike in the original Super Mario Bros. 2 (and its port in Super Mario All-Stars), where the player can still take damage from contact with his defeat animation. The remake expands on Wart by implying he is capable of casting magic. This is shown in cutscenes prior to fighting Fryguy and Clawgrip, bosses that are initially seen in a weaker form before bubbles that resemble Wart's arrive to envelop and transform them into their massive forms.

BS Super Mario USA[edit]

Wart is fought very similarly in BS Super Mario USA as in Super Mario Bros. 2, the Super Mario All-Stars version in particular.

Wart once again appears in all four "Power Challenge" installments of BS Super Mario USA, a follow-up to the Western Super Mario Bros. 2. In this game, it is shown that after his defeat, Wart and his crew escaped to another dream and laid low for a while; they eventually return and attack Subcon once more, forcing its king into hiding and moving him to summon Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Peach once more.

Wart can be found in every jar in Subspace, where his room is actually identical to that of the final room of the factory (World 7-2) from Super Mario Bros. 2. He possesses the same attacks and is defeated the same way as in his earlier appearances. Like all the major characters in this version, he is voiced but his picture does not appear on the top right when he talks. On certain intervals, Wart's harmful bubbles will float up from the bottom of the screen.

Super Mario Maker 2[edit]

Although Wart does not appear as a usable course element in Super Mario Maker 2, his original sprite appears briefly when the Final Boss sound effect is played while wearing the SMB2 Mushroom, just as Birdo's appears with the Boss Music sound effect.

Nintendo Comics System[edit]

Wart as he appears in the Nintendo Comics System comic "Cloud Nine".
Wart and Bowser in "Tanooki Suits Me".

Wart appears in a few Nintendo Comics System stories. He first appears in the issue "Cloud Nine," where he is disguised as a bed salesman, abducts the Mushroom King and also tries to flood the Mushroom Kingdom. Notably in this story, Mario mentions Wart had abducted the king on at least one previous occasion. In "Duh Stoopid Bomb!", where his name is seen on Wooster's list of people who think the Mushroom King is dumb. Wart has his second role in "Tanooki Suits Me," in which Bowser plans to sell Wart pieces of artwork that he had stolen from the Mushroom Castle's Royal Art Gallery for a huge profit. However, a disguised Mario is stolen along with the artwork and, upon discovering Bowser's plot, manages to fool Wart into believing that the artwork is nothing more than worthless droplets of the Apook Corporation. In comparison to Cloud Nine, Wart here bears a closer resemblance to his official artwork appearance.

Nintendo Adventure Books[edit]

“Right here in the Land of Outrageous Dreams. It's a most excellent dream, Dude. Far superior to that conquer-the-world stuff. Now I dream of skating the most radical inclines possible. That short fungus doctor dude helped me turn Subcon into this raucous skate park. Gnarly, don't you agree?”
—Wart, Doors to Doom

Wart's first appearance in a Nintendo Adventure Books book is Doors to Doom. Dr. Sporis von Fungenstein had convinced him to convert the denizens of Subcon into surfers, and when the Mario Brothers meet Wart, he is friendly and welcoming, munching on a corn dog and playing a Game Boy. He tries to trade a garage door opener, which is a required item for the book's good ending, for one of the brothers' hats. However, Wart is still a potentially dangerous figure; making the wrong choices when trying to enter his lair results in Game Overs, either by being assaulted by Wart on his skateboard or being exposed to dangerously loud rock music. Also, when trading with him, offering him Luigi's hat (which is too small for him) ends up with Wart ripping the hat and a furious Luigi insulting him in response. If Luigi follows up on his anger by attacking Wart with vegetables, Wart counters by spitting them back and running the brothers down with his skateboard, also resulting in a Game Over.

In Dinosaur Dilemma, Wart has a cameo as one of the guests invited to the party Bowser is holding at his Dinosaur Island Castle, in honor of being chosen as the recipient of that year's Snowbell Prize. The text introduces Wart as "the king of the Land of Nightmares".

Super Mario-kun[edit]

Wart in Super Mario-kun
Wart's appearance in volume 8 of Super Mario-kun

Wart is the main villain of volume 8's first storyline in Super Mario-kun, though he was previously mentioned in chapter 6 as the one that sold to Bowser some of his minions (like Mouser, Phanto and Shy Guys).

While Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and Birdo are adventuring to Bowser's Castle to save Peach, they receive nightmares from the Subcons, telling them that they have been kidnapped by Wart. The next morning, the four are kidnapped by a Pidgit, who takes them to Subcon and Wart via a giant moving cardboard and explains that he was so impressed that they managed to defeat his minions (in volume 8) that now he wants to test them against his entire army, challenging them to save Subcon and its people.

During the trip to Wart's castle, the group loses Birdo to Mouser's bombs, and they are later reached by Toad and Birdo's twin, all while Wart watches them from hidden cameras, sending his army's generals against them. In chapter 5, the heroes face Wart and, even though they learn from the booklet that Warts should die to the vegetables they collected, Wart gladly eats the greens without getting harmed, since he made a spell to prevent that. Trapped in his bubbles, Birdo manages to escape and calls her other sister, who brings the Bonus Chance roulette, finally hurting Wart by crushing him.

In the next chapter, Wart molts himself into a nightmarish beast, which is a mix of his body and his generals': Wart's head, Tryclyde as hairs, Clawgrip's body and claws, Mouser's infinite bomb ammunition and Fryguy's flammable aura. With his friends each falling to a different part of Wart's new body, Toad summons a door with a magic potion, but it does not lead to a Subspace, but to a Super Mario Bros. 3 Toad House from which he takes a treasure chest full of every Super Mario Bros. 3 power-up (as well as a Poison Mushroom from Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels that is taken by Luigi). With the Anchor, Mario freezes Wart and the heroes attacks him with all their might, but Wart laughs: since they are in the realm of dreams, he can wish for anything he thinks of. In a matter of seconds, the power-ups disappear and the heroes are all trapped in glue.

In the next and last Super Mario Bros. 2 chapter, Wart puts the glued heroes outside his castle, so that they form the word "STUPID(S)". Later, the entirety of Bowser's Castle falls on top of Wart's and breaks the heroes out of the glue: having disappeared from the Mushroom Kingdom, Peach forced the Koopa Troop to find Mario. Bowser and Mario join forces and attack Wart, but he is no match for them and tries to send his army against him, but they are too tired. Mario tries to do something by taking the Subspace Mushroom to the army in order to make them stronger, but Wart zaps him. This does not help him, however, since he just fuses Mario with a Thwomp, a Koopa Troopa, a Paragoomba, a Bullet Bill. With the powers of all the Koopa Troop with which he has combined, Mario finally kills Wart and turns back to normal. Wart, though, is not finished, and his ghost possesses his castle's crumbles, creating a giant Wart face made of stone, but Yoshi summons with the dream power an army of hungry Baby Yoshis that eat the stone face, finally defeating Wart.

Wart later appears briefly in volume 10, in a chapter based on Super Mario All-Stars, where he allies with Bowser and Wario to beat Mario via mazes.

The Legend of Zelda series[edit]

Zelda Wiki article: Mamu
Mamu in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening for Nintendo Switch
Mamu in the Nintendo Switch remake
“Everybody knows me!”
—Mamu, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Mamu Mamu from The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX
Mamu in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (left) and its DX enhanced port (right)

Wart, under his Japanese name Mamu, makes an appearance in the Game Boy game The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, its Game Boy Color version, and the Nintendo Switch remake, the latter being the first game to give Mamu, or Wart, a 3D model. He lives in a pond beneath the Signpost Maze on Koholint Island, which, like Subcon, is a dream land. However, unlike in the Super Mario game, Wart is not an antagonist in Link's Awakening, and actually helps the hero, Link. In exchange for 300 Rupees, Wart teaches Link a song on the ocarina, the "Frog's Song of Soul", which is required to revive the Flying Rooster and to access the final main dungeon. After teaching Link the song, Mamu is not seen again.

Although Mamu himself does not actually appear in Hyrule Warriors Legends, he is referenced as a costume for Ganondorf in the Link's Awakening DLC Pack.

Super Smash Bros. series[edit]

Wart was referenced in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, in that "WART" was one of the randomly generated names offered to players. Additionally, Wart appears as an Advanced-class Grab-type primary spirit in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. When equipped, it simply increases the fighter's power. In World of Light, the spirit can be encountered on the Light Realm map. The spirit's puppet fighters are King K. Rool and Peach, and the battle takes place on the Battlefield form of the Skyworld stage. "WART" also returns as a randomly selected name.

Other appearances[edit]

Wart Jr. as seen in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Backglass artwork
Wart right to Mario on the world six castle in Super Mario Bros. pinball machine.

Jeff Pillars played a part in the Super Mario Bros. film as a de-evolution technician; in earlier cuts of the film, he would have been named Wart as a reference to the character.

In the Club Nintendo story "Wart steht unter Strom," Bowser is incorrectly referred to as "Wart".

Wart never appeared in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, though many of his characteristics were given to King Koopa instead. Of further note, an early promotional posterMedia:SMBSSHotdogPoster.jpg featuring several highly off-model enemies features a large frog monster wearing a necklace among them, possibly intended to represent Wart; however, it also is purple, has large lips, no clothes other than the necklace, and wields a spear. In addition, Wart, mislabeled as "King Koopa," appears in reels B and C in a Master-view toy released during the run of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!.

In the artwork for the Super Mario Bros. pinball machine, Wart is shown on the castle in world 6, presumably holding Luigi captive despite the former not appearing in Super Mario World, the game that the pinball machine is based on, as well as the fact that Luigi is never at any point held captive during said game.

Wart is briefly mentioned in Shy Guy's biography in Mario Superstar Baseball.

In Super Paper Mario, Francis owns and wants more of a comic named Cyborg Wart, which is named for its protagonist.

A frog villager named Wart Jr. appears in Animal Crossing games, a possible nod to Wart in name and species.

In Paper Mario: Color Splash, Wart is mentioned by a yellow Toad at Sunglow Ridge. Said Toad states that he saw Wart in a dream, only to ponder whether it really was a dream, referencing the events of Super Mario Bros. 2.

General information[edit]

Physical description[edit]

Wart is a large, green toad with a big white round belly, a general body shape resembling most toads, a vaguely crocodilian snout filled with large blunt white teeth, and large claws on his two-toed feet and four-fingered hands. The Nintendo Comics System depicts him with scales and even a spiked tail (similar to Bowser), giving him a closer resemblance to a crocodile or alligator, rather than a toad. He is typically depicted as wearing a blue cape (white in-game, and light brown in remakes). He also wears a crown with an emerald on it, a large diamond-shaped ruby set in a gold pendant on a gold necklace, and gold bracelets.

Personality[edit]

Very little of his personality has been revealed beyond the fact that he is willing to cause mayhem and destruction in order to achieve his goal of ruling Subcon. However, BS Super Mario USA does suggest that he is cunning and patient enough to bide his time between attacks, and the fact that he stole all the Mario statues may indicate a spiteful side to his personality.

Profiles and statistics[edit]

Super Mario Bros. 2 / Super Mario Advance[edit]

  • Instruction booklet description:
    • English:
      He is the most mischievous of all in the world of dreams. He created monsters by playing with the dream machine.[3]
Game Boy Advance version
  • Instruction booklet description:
    • English:
      Wart is the most uncontrollable mischief maker in all of the land of dreams. He uses the Dream Machine to create a myriad of monsters.[7]

Mario Mania[edit]

The evil ruler of the world of dreams is a big green nightmare with an appetite for flies and heroes. Lucky for Mario, Wart is not very keen on vegetables. After the big guy gets a stomach-full of radishes, onions, carrots and tomatoes, he'll have his own nightmares to contend with.[8]

Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten[edit]

マムー (JP) / Mamu (EN)
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Original text (Japanese) Translation
出身しゅっしん 夢の国サブコン Place of origin Dream Land Subcon
性格せいかく わがまま Disposition Self-centered
登場とうじょうゲーム USA Game appearances USA
USA生まれの夢の魔王
「ワタシ、マムー言います。アメリカでは、ワートと呼ばれてました。マリオUSAで夢の世界を支配しようとしたけど、マリオさんにやられてしまいました。残念ね」[9] 		USA-born Dream Demon King
"My name is Mamu. In America, they called me Wart. I tried to rule the dream world in Mario USA, but Mario defeated me. What a shame."

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]

Spirit
#47 Wart
Wart from Super Mario USA Series/game Super Mario Series
Type Primary
Slots 2
Class Advanced
Strength / effect(s) Grab
How to obtain World of Light (The Light Realm); Spirit Board
Spirit battle Opponent(s) King K. Rool, Peach
Conditions Hazard: Slumber Floor
  • Defeat the main fighter to win
  • The floor is sleep-inducing
Stage Skyworld (Battlefield)
Song Boss Theme - Super Mario Bros. 2

List of appearances[edit]

Title Description Release date System/format
Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic Boss 1987 Family Computer Disk System
Super Mario Bros. 2 Boss 1988 Nintendo Entertainment System
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Non-playable character (uses Japanese name Mamu) 1993 Game Boy
Super Mario All-Stars Boss in Super Mario Bros. 2 remake 1993 Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World Boss in Super Mario Bros. 2 remake 1994 Super Nintendo Entertainment System
BS Super Mario USA Boss 1996 Super Famicom (Satellaview)
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX Non-playable character (uses Japanese name Mamu) 1998 Game Boy Color
Super Mario Advance Boss 2001 Game Boy Advance
Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition Boss in Super Mario Bros 2. remake 2010 Wii
NES Remix 2 Boss in Super Mario Bros. 2 2014 Wii U
NES Remix Pack Boss in Super Mario Bros. 2 2014 Wii U
Ultimate NES Remix Boss in Super Mario Bros. 2 2014 Nintendo 3DS
Paper Mario: Color Splash Mentioned 2016 Wii U
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Spirit 2018 Nintendo Switch
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Non-playable character (uses Japanese name Mamu) 2019 Nintendo Switch
Super Mario Maker 2 (version 3.0.0) Cameo 2020 Nintendo Switch
Game & Watch: The Legend of Zelda Non-playable character (uses Japanese name Mamu) 2021 Game & Watch
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Player Icon cameo 2024 Nintendo Switch

Voice samples[edit]

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Gallery[edit]

For this subject's image gallery, see Gallery:Wart.

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese マムー[?]
Mamū 		Anagram of「夢魔」(muma, nightmare), with「ム」elongated
ワート[10]
Wāto 		Transliteration of the Super Mario Bros. 2 name
Chinese (simplified) 沃特[?]
Wòtè 		Transliteration of English name Super Mario Advance and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
玛穆[?]
Mǎmù 		Transliteration of Japanese name The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Nintendo Switch)
Chinese (traditional) 瑪穆[?]
Mǎmù 		Transliteration of Japanese name The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Nintendo Switch)
Dutch Wart[?] -
French Wart[?] -
German Wart[?] -
Willi[?] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Italian Wart[?] -
Mamu[11] Link's Awakening only
Russian Крокожабер[?]
Krokozhaber 		From крокодил (krokodil, "crocodile") and жаба (zhaba, "toad")
Spanish Wart[?] -

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The evil toad, Wart, has used his magic to lay a curse upon the land." – 2001. Super Mario Advance instruction booklet. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 13.
  2. ^ The Voice of Mario. GameSpy. Archived December 14, 2004, 20:16:33 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
  3. ^ a b 1988. Super Mario Bros. 2 instruction booklet (PDF). Nintendo of America (American English). Page 28.
  4. ^ "Wart, creator of all the monsters in the World of Dreams and the source of all its evil!" – 1989. Super Mario Bros. 2 Inside Out, Part II. Nintendo Power (American English). Page 33.
  5. ^ July–August 1988. Nintendo Power Volume 1. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 11.
  6. ^ 1993. Super Mario All-Stars Player's Guide. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 88Media:SMAS Guide 88.jpg.
  7. ^ Super Mario Advance European instruction booklet (English section) (PDF). Nintendo of Europe (British English). Page 12. Retrieved February 8, 2024.
  8. ^ August 1991. Mario Mania. Nintendo Power (American English). Page 14.
  9. ^ 1994. Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten. Shogakukan (Japanese). Page 27.
  10. ^ 1992. Super Mario USA instruction booklet (PDF). Nintendo (Japanese). Page 31.
  11. ^ The Legend of Zelda: Enciclopedia di Hyrule. Page 233.

External links[edit]

Wart coverage on other NIWA wikis:
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Super Mario Bros. 2 / BS Super Mario USA / Super Mario Advance
Protagonists Mario • Luigi • Toad • Princess Toadstool
Supporting characters Ōsamaa • Shireikana • Subcon • Yoshib
Bosses Birdo • Mouser • Tryclyde • Robirdob • Fryguy • Clawgrip • Mask Gate • Wart
8 bits Albatoss • Autobomb • Beezo • Big Kamēna • Big Shy Guyb • Big Ninjib • Bob-Omb • Bouncing bladeb • Cobrat • Flurry • Hoopster • Ninji • Ostro • Panser • Phanto • Pidgit • Pokey • Porcupo • Shyguy • Small Fry Guy • Snifit • Spark • Trouter • Tweeter • Whale
Items and objects 1-Up Mushroom • Ace Coinb • Bomb • Bouncing bladeb • Brick wall • Cherry • Chain • Coin • Crystal Ball • Dream Machine • Egg • Elevator Platformb • Flying carpet • Giant Vegetablea,b • Grass • Hidden Item Containerb • Jar • Key • Key Door • Love-Love Firea • Magical Potion • Mushroom • Mushroom Block • Ōgon no Mario Zōa • POW • Rocket • Small heart • Soft sand • Spark Chaserb • Starman • Stop Watch • Turtle Shell • Vegetable • Yoshi Eggb
Worlds World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6 • World 7
Other locations Subcon • Subspace
Forms Invincible Mario • Small Mario • Super Mario
Other Bonus Chance • Gallery (Advance) • Glitches (Advance) • Life Meter • Mario Bros.b • Media (Advance) • Pre-release and unused content (Advance) • Staff (Advance) • Super Mario Advance (book) • Yoshi Challengeb • Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic
a Exclusive to BS Super Mario USA
b Exclusive to Super Mario Advance
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