Guerrilla

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Guerrilla
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars Guerrilla/Chained Kong promotional artwork.
First appearance Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (1996)
Variant of Kong
Variants

Guerrillas are Kong-like enemies found in the Forest Maze in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Their name is a pun on "gorilla" and "guerrilla warfare". Aside from their chains and shackles, they are very similar in appearance to Donkey Kong, as referenced by their Psychopath. They also have a stronger near-identical counterpart, the Chained Kong.

Guerrillas are the strongest enemies in the Forest Maze, having powerful physical attacks at their disposal. Like most powerful enemies in the game (i.e. Reacher or Mastadoom), Guerrillas appear rarely, with only one appearing per battle, and never appearing on the overworld.

An action course in one of the doors in the Trial Course has Mario avoiding the barrels thrown by Guerrillas, referencing Donkey Kong.

Profiles and statistics

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars enemy
Guerrilla
Battle idle animation of a Guerrilla from Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars HP 135 FP 100 Speed 7
Location(s) Forest Maze Attack 42 Magic attack 1
Role Common Defense 32 Magic defense 5
Bonus Flower Attack Up! (20%) Yoshi Cookie Able Juice Morph rate 100%
Evade 0% Magic evade 0% Spells None
Weak Fire Strong None Sp. attacks Boulder Toss
Coins 8 Exp. points 8 Items Able Juice (25%)
Psychopath "Don't confuse me with someone else!"

Japanese Psychopath quote

  • フィクションです。じっさいの人物には、いっさい関係ありません。[1] (This character has no relation to any persons, living or dead. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.[2])

Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch)

  • Monster List profile in other languages:
    • Japanese:
      HPと攻撃力こうげきりょくたかく、「いわ」をげる攻撃こうげきはダメージがおおきいので、注意ちょうい必要ひつようだ。名前なまえ由来ゆらいりません。
      (Translation: It has high HP and attack power, and its "stone" throwing attack is very damaging, so be careful. The origin of its name is unknown.)

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Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese Template:Nowrap[?]
Dosokī Yungu
Corruption of the katakana for Donkey Kong「ドンキーコング」(Donkī Kongu) with two characters replaced with deceptively similar ones: the first「ン」(n) is replaced with「ソ」(so) and the「コ」(ko) is replaced with「ユ」(yu)
Chinese 冬奇冈[?] -
Dutch Guerrilla[?] -
French Gonkey Donk[?] Anagram of Donkey Kong
German Guerrilla[?] -
Italian Gorillo[3] Masculine version of "Gorilla"
Spanish Guerrila[?] Portmanteau of "guerra" (war) and "gorila" (gorilla)

Trivia

  • In the Japanese trailer for the Nintendo Switch version of Super Mario RPG, Guerrilla's Monster List entry incorrectly listed its HP as 121 and Exp. as 10. This was fixed in the localized English trailer to match that of the original game.
  • Guerrilla's Japanese Psychopath quote references the all persons fictitious disclaimer, a standard blurb used in the credits of feature films to reduce the risk of a libel lawsuit.[2] While the English release of the SNES version changes it due to text limits, the English release of the Nintendo Switch version restores the reference.[4]

References

  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20150508022554/www.a-suma.com/old/guide/smRPG/enemylist1.htm
  2. ^ a b Clyde Mandelin (June 29, 2020). The Pop Culture-Obsessed Monsters in Japanese Super Mario RPG. Legends of Localization. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  3. ^ Uno sguardo approfondito a Super Mario RPG. By NintendoItalia on YouTube. Retrieved on November 13th, 2023
  4. ^ Alana Hagues, Nintendo Life (November 2, 2023). "Super Mario RPG Is The Most Faithful Remake We've Ever Played". Nintendo Life.