Guardarm

Guardarm
First appearance	Mario & Luigi: Brothership (2024)
Variants Glohm Guardarm

“Nyahahaha!”

—Guardarm, Mario & Luigi: Brothership

Guardarms are enemies that appear on Rumbla Island in Mario & Luigi: Brothership. They are yellow, spherical creatures that possess long arms with large purple hands and feet. According to one of the Concordians of Rumbla Island, Guardarms get their kicks from destroying the artwork of the Rumbla Village inhabitants. Their name is a portmanteau of "guard" and "arm".

Mario and Luigi first encounter Guardarms harrassing two Rumblans, and defeat the Guardarms. They can later encounter Guardarms in the field generally running around, but getting too close to them will cause the creatures to swim through the ground at the intruder.

After linking Raynforst Island and Twistee Island, Mario and Luigi are sent to revisit Rumbla Island, who discover the island in a derelict state with a number of sculptures shattered by the Guardarm horde, who are revealed to be the underlings of their boss, Gorumbla.

Battle

Guardarms use their hands as shields; to damage the creatures, Mario and Luigi have to attack them from an exposed direction: from above if the Guardarm is holding both hands forward (this calls for a jump attack) or from the front if it is holding both hands above its head (this calls for a hammer attack). Attacking from the wrong direction will cause the attack to become weakened.

At first, Guardarms have only one attack, which is jumping into the air and then swimming through the ground to ram into their target, which can be avoided by jumping. Where the Guardarm looks before it attacks indicates who it will aim for. Guardarms only take damage if their target lands on their body; if the defender lands on their hands, they take no damage.

Later, after Gorumbla causes trouble, Guardarms will be able to throw stones that must be repelled with a hammer strike.

Later in the game, Guardarms are infected with Glohm, becoming Glohm Guardarms and much stronger.

Statistics

Mario & Luigi: Brothership enemy
Guardarm (LV1)
	HP	20	POW	9	Defense	2
	Experience	2 (2)	Coins	3	Speed	10
	Location(s)	Rumbla Island	Role	Training	Item drop(s)	Refreshing Herb (4%) Candy (1%)
	Level	1	Type	Normal
Notes: This enemy uses its arms as shields and takes reduced damage if attacked from the direction the arms are held in.

Mario & Luigi: Brothership enemy
Guardarm (LV6)
	HP	55	POW	23	Defense	4
	Experience	11 (13)	Coins	9	Speed	22
	Location(s)	Rumbla Island	Role	Common	Item drop(s)	Refreshing Herb (4%) Candy (1%) Rumbla Stone (20%)
	Level	6	Type	Normal
Notes: This enemy uses its arms as shields and takes reduced damage if attacked from the direction the arms are held in.

Gallery

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  A Guardarm in-game

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Chinese	手护者[?] Shǒuhùzhě	Pun on「手」(shǒu, "hand") and「守护者」(shǒuhùzhě, "guardian")
Dutch	Guardarm[?]	-
French	Brabri	Pun on bras ("arm") and abri ("shelter")
German	Schwankerl	Portmanteau of schwanken ("to fluctuate") and Kerl ("guy")
Italian	Maniguardo	Either a portmanteau of manigoldo ("rogue") and guardia ("guard") or a reversal of guardamano ("hilt", lit. "hand guard")
Korean	가드손[?] Gadeuson	Guard Hand
Portuguese	Guardamão	Portmanteau of guarda ("guard") and mão ("hand")
Spanish (NOA)	Manotón[?]	Portmanteau of mano ("hand") and matón ("bully")
Spanish (NOE)	Manazas	Colloquialism for "klutz", lit. "big hands"