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| |title=Maw-Ray
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| |image=[[File:Maw-Ray Prima SMO.jpg|250px]]
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| |derived_species=[[Mega Unagi]]<br>[[Spike Eel]]
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| |related=[[Gringill]]
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| |first_appearance=''[[Super Mario 64]]'' ([[List of games by date#1996|1996]])
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| |latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]'' ([[List of games by date#2017|2017]])
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| {{about|the eel enemy appearing in various [[Mario (franchise)|''Mario'']] games|other [[List of species|species]] of eel|[[Eel]]}}
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| '''Maw-Rays''', previously known as '''Unagi'''<ref>''Super Mario 64 [[Nintendo Power|Player's Guide]]'', page 12</ref><ref>''New Super Mario Bros. [[Nintendo Power|Player's Guide]]'', page 12</ref> or simply '''Eels'''<ref>(February 24, 1998). [https://web.archive.org/web/19980224211709/http://www.nintendo.com:80/n64/super_mario64/boss11.html Eel - (Course 3)]. ''Nintendo: Super Mario 64 Strategy'' (Internet Archive: Wayback Machine). Retrieved February 23, 2018.</ref>, are moray eels that first appear in ''[[Super Mario 64]]''. They are maroon-ish red-violet in color with yellow stripes on its back fin. The mega versions are shown in ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' to be strong enough to destroy entire clusters of [[Brick Blocks]], and cannot be defeated with anything, even the [[Super Star]] power-up.
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| ''Unagi'' (うなぎ) is the Japanese word for freshwater eel, especially the Japanese eel, ''Anguilla japonica''. Note that saltwater eels should be called ''anago'' (穴子). ''Maw-Ray'' is a pun on the [[wikipedia:Moray eel|moray eel]] and the word "maw".
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| ==History==
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| ===''Super Mario'' series===
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| ====''Super Mario 64'' / ''Super Mario 64 DS''====
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| [[File:JollyRoger.png|thumb|left|Unagi from ''Super Mario 64'']]
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| One Unagi, sometimes referred to as '''Unagi the eel'''<ref>''Super Mario 64 [[Nintendo Power|Player's Guide]]'', page 33</ref>, appears in ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' and its remake ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''. The player character can lure him out of his sunken ship home in [[Jolly Roger Bay]] by swimming near and provoking him to attack. The player must then swim a short distance away and then swim back to the ship. Unagi will have left the ship, allowing the player to enter it via the ship's window. Once inside, if Mario opens the chests in the correct order, the ship will surface, causing the water inside the ship to drain, thus allowing the player to get the [[Power Star]].
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| Unagi is seen again later, this time making a water cove his home. Once again, Mario and friends can lure him out in the same fashion as before. The water cove is not accessible but there is a Power Star attached to the eel's tail. To gain it Mario and friends must simply touch it. If too much time passes, Unagi will return to the alcove, and have to be lured out again.
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| In later missions, Unagi circles the previous location of the sunken ship.
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| ====''New Super Mario Bros.''====
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| [[File:UnagiNSMB.png|thumb|Unagi as seen in ''New Super Mario Bros.'']]
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| [[File:NSMB World 8-3.png|thumb|left|[[Mega Unagi]]]]
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| After a long absence, Unagi appear in ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' as an enemy in underwater levels. They only appear in [[World 4-3 (New Super Mario Bros.)|World 4-3]] and [[World 8-3 (New Super Mario Bros.)|World 8-3]]. In World 8-3, Unagi swim around in a predictable pattern trying to hit [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]]. Some Unagi also live in small underwater coves, attacking anything in its vicinity. Unagi can be defeated with a [[Mega Mushroom]] and a [[Super Star]]. There is also a big version called the [[Mega Unagi]].
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| ====''Super Mario Odyssey''====
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| In ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]'', Unagi make an appearance in [[Seaside Kingdom]] under their current name, Maw-Ray. They are redesigned to have more detailed appearance with realistic anatomy as well as menacing, glowing eyes. They guard some of the kingdom's [[Power Moon]]s, including a grotto where Mario must swim past several of them to get to the top of the [[Lighthouse]]. Similar to ''New Super Mario Bros.'', they attack by lunging out of their nesting spots at a high rate of speed before snapping their enormous jaws and receding, and can be positioned either horizontally or vertically. Before they emerge, a plume of sand can be seen coming from their caves, which appear to be blocked with sand. They reappear in the [[Mushroom Kingdom (Super Mario Odyssey)|Mushroom Kingdom]], where a few of them lunge upwards out of the clouds.
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| ===''Mario Party 4''===
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| In the minigame [[Manta Rings]] from ''[[Mario Party 4]]'', a reddish-brown eel resembling an Unagi darts in front of the characters with a high-pitched noise as they pass a sunken ship, resembling the one from Jolly Roger Bay. If bumped into, three points are deducted.
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| ===''Mario Kart'' series===
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| ====''Mario Kart Wii''====
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| [[File:Unagi-MKW.png|thumb|left|Several Unagi in ''Mario Kart Wii'']]
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| Several Unagi reappear in ''[[Mario Kart Wii]]'', where they can be seen while traveling through the underwater tunnel in [[Koopa Cape]], poking their heads out of various [[Warp Pipe|Pipe]]s. A closer one can be seen swimming outside of [[Chain Chomp Wheel]].
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| ====''Mario Kart 7''====
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| They also reappear again in ''[[Mario Kart 7]]'', making a cameo in the underwater zones of [[Daisy Cruiser (GCN)|Daisy Cruiser]] and [[Koopa Cape]].
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| ====''Mario Kart Arcade GP DX''====
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| [[File:MKAGPDX Unagi.png|150px|thumb|An Unagi in ''Mario kart Arcade GP DX'']]
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| In ''[[Mario Kart Arcade GP DX]]'', they make a small appearance in the underwater parts of the race track [[Tropical Coast]].
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| ====''Mario Kart 8'' / ''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe''====
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| [[File:Mega Unagi MK8.jpg|thumb|Unagi in Dolphin Shoals]]
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| A single one appears in an underwater section of the ''[[Mario Kart 8]]'' track [[Dolphin Shoals]], where players race along its body for a short section and can perform [[Trick]]s from its undulating body. It returns in the enhanced [[Nintendo Switch]] port ''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]''.
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| ==Gallery==
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| <gallery>
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| Unagi SM64.png|Data-rendered model in ''[[Super Mario 64]]''
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| Playingeel.png|''Super Mario 64''
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| Unagi64Face.jpg|''Super Mario 64''
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| SMAGPB6 Unagi.png|''Super Mario Bōken Game Ehon 6 3 Tsu no Takara''
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| SM64DS Unagi the eel.png|''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''
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| Unagi.png|''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]''
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| Koopa Zapper.png|''[[Mario Kart Wii]]''
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| 4koma Unagi.jpg|[[Super Mario 4koma Manga Theater]]
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| SMO Maw-Ray.png|Data-rendered model in ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]''
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| SMO Maw-Ray 1.png|Data-rendered model in ''Super Mario Odyssey'' (side view)
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| SMO Maw-Ray 2.png|Data-rendered model in ''Super Mario Odyssey''
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| SMO Two Maw Rays Screenshot.png|''Super Mario Odyssey''
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| </gallery>
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| ==Names in other languages==
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| |Jap=ウツボ
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| |JapR=Utsubo
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| |JapM=Moray
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| |Fra=Anguy<br>Mordrène
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| |FraM=From "anguille", the French word for Eels, and "Guy", a masculine name).<br>From "mordre" (bite) and "murène" (moray). The name is written in lowercase for the Canadian version ("mordrène") while it is capitalized in the European version ("Mordrène"). (''Super Mario Odyssey'')
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| |Ger=Kano<br>Murani
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| |GerM=(Before ''Super Mario Odyssey'')<br>From "Muränen" (moray).
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| |Spa=Morena<br>Mordimore
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| |SpaM=Moray (before ''Super Mario Odyssey'')<br>From "morder" (bite) and "morena" (moray). The name is written in lowercase for the Latin American version ("mordimore") while it is capitalized in the European version ("Mordimore").
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| |Ita=Mordorena
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| |ItaM=From "mordo" (bite) and "murena" (moray).
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| |Chi=海鳗 (Simplified)<br>海鰻 (Traditional)
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| |ChiR=Hǎimán
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| |ChiM=Moray
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| |Kor=곰치
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| |KorR=Gomchi
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| |KorM=Moray
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| ==References==
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