User:Doc von Schmeltwick/Projects/Jumbo Teresa
- Not to be confused with Boohemoth.
| Jumbo Teresa | |
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 Artwork of Boolossus for Luigi's Mansion for Nintendo 3DS | |
| Species | Big Boo |
| First appearance | Luigi's Mansion (2001) |
| Latest appearance | Luigi’s Mansion 3 (2019) |
- “That scaredy-cat Luigi has made it this far... Oh, we're so frightened! I guess it's our turn, then... All right, Boos, let's assume our real form... But first, how about giving him a little scare!”
- —Boo, Luigi's Mansion
Boolossus is a Big Boo and a secondary antagonist of the Luigi's Mansion series. This ghost is composed of a group of smaller Boos. Although these Boos are normally timid and shy, when they form into Boolossus, all their fears disappear. The Boo is a servant of King Boo, leader of the Boos. Its name is a portmanteau on the words "Boo" and "colossus", the latter referencing its massive size.
History
Luigi's Mansion series
Luigi's Mansion
 Jumbo Teresa
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| Full name | Boolossus, the Jumbo Ghost |
| Age | Unknown |
| Biography | When the shy, timid Boos get together, their body and their attitude get BIG! |
| Room | Balcony (3F) |
| HP | 15 Boos |
In Luigi's Mansion, Boolossus, the Jumbo Ghost appears as the third boss. Unlike other Boos, Boolossus has glowing yellow eyes. In the gallery, the portrait number of Boolossus is 22.
In the game's backstory, Boolossus was captured by Professor E. Gadd during the professor's travels around the world. E. Gadd used his Portrificationizer to transform Boolossus into a painting and placed the painting in his gallery of other portrait ghosts. However, the capture of Boolossus greatly angered King Boo. In retaliation, King Boo led his Boo minions in an assault on Professor E. Gadd's laboratory. The Boos reversed the Portrificationizer and reverted Boolossus' state. King Boo then ordered that all the other portrait ghosts that Professor E. Gadd caught should be freed as well. Eventually, after all the portrait ghosts were released, King Boo created a mansion, right next to E. Gadd's laboratory in Boo Woods.
Eventually, as Luigi progresses through the mansion, he makes it to the Balcony. However, if he has captured less than 20 Boos, he will be blocked in the hallway leading there by a particularly-transparent Boo, referring to itself as "the mysterious power of the Boos," which will then blow him back to the Foyer. If Luigi has captured at least 20 Boos, he can exit the mansion to the Balcony, where the Boo Radar on the Game Boy Horror starts flashing intensely, indicating a powerful Boo presence. To the left, fifteen Little Boos are circling each other. Once Luigi approaches, they taunt him, and begin to circle around him. They then transport him to an ethereal version of the Balcony, where the Boos merge into Boolossus and swoop down upon him.
During the battle, Boolossus bounces around, attempts to slam into Luigi. Boolossus is the only portrait ghost to not have HP; rather, the Boos must be sucked up individually. To defeat Boolossus, Luigi must use his Poltergust 3000 to pull Boolossus into one of the two stationary unicorn ice sculptures located on the balcony, or trick it into bouncing into the horns itself. When Boolossus touches the statue's sharp horn, it pops, separating into the fifteen Little Boos. Luigi must then absorb an Ice Elemental Ghost from the ice sculpture and spray frost at the Little Boos, freezing them. This enables him to suck them into his Poltergust 3000 without going through their HP. Eventually, the remaining Little Boos will reform into a smaller and faster, but weaker and more erratic Boolossus. As more and more Little Boos are caught, the other Little Boos become more wary of the Poltergust's icy spray and flee when Luigi gets too close to them.
In the Hidden Mansion of the European release of the original game as well as all versions of the 3DS remake, Luigi rides the Poltergust 3000 much like a bumper car during the Boolossus battle. This provides faster transportation, but also less traction.
After capturing Boolossus, Luigi acquires the key to the West Wing of the mansion. Defeating the boss counts as capturing a total of fifteen of the fifty released Boos. After the battle, Luigi visits Professor E. Gadd's lab and turns Boolossus into a portrait.
Boolossus's appearance in the 3DS remake of the game, both in-game and in stock artwork, is largely the same as in the original GameCube game, with the only notable difference being that Boolossus and his composite Boos have four teeth in the remake, instead of two like in the original game.
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
- “I may not be the king, but I sure am BIG. Big enough to crush you!”
- —Big Boo, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
In Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, Boolossus is simply referred to as Big Boo in Western releases and no longer has yellow eyes. It is one of the three bosses fought in Treacherous Mansion, the final mansion in the game, in the mission Ambush Maneuver. Luigi and E. Gadd were tricked by King Boo to come into the miniature train station inside the Train Exhibit, because E. Gadd thought that King Boo was there along with Mario's painting. Ten Boos are inside a mini train display in which they come together to form into Big Boo. The 10 Boos that assemble together are the only ghosts in the game who are not sucked into the Poltergust 5000, as they are trapped in the trains' cages and later placed in the Boo Canister by E. Gadd.
In battle, the Big Boo has three attacks. Its first attack involves it trying to crush Luigi from above. It attempts to crush Luigi three times in a row. If it misses all three times, it is momentarily dazed from hitting his face on the ground the third time. Its other attack involves hiding halfway in the ground and attempting to charge into Luigi from there. If it misses Luigi and hits the moving train, it is stunned. However, if it misses Luigi and the train, it just floats back into the arena. When separated into individual Boos, they can ram into Luigi. The third attack happens only if Luigi pulls back on Big Boo's tongue for too long, in which the boss will recover and ram into Luigi. This attack is also used by the Boos.
To defeat Big Boo, Luigi has two different methods of attacking it. The first one involves avoiding Big Boo while it slams into the ground three times before becoming stunned. Luigi has to pull Big Boo's tongue and launch it into the drill of the moving toy train. The other way is to make Big Boo dash slightly in front of the train. When the Big Boo hits the drill on the train, he splits into ten Boos. Luigi must pull their tongues and send them flying towards the carriages of the train. When one of them hits a carriage, that Boo gets imprisoned inside the carriage and is unable to escape. Once all of Boos have been imprisoned in the carriages, the mission is complete and the Pixelator takes Luigi out of the train display and back to the Bunker. Afterwards, E. Gadd Pixelates the Boos into the Boo Canister.
Luigi's Mansion 3
Boolossus reappears in Luigi's Mansion 3 as the final floor's boss in ScareScraper, this time comprised of sixteen normal Boos. Once again, it has yellow eyes.
This incarnation of Boolossus borrows and alters many attacks from the main game's final boss (King Boo), and even shares voice clips with him. These attacks include lightning bolts which strike glowing roof tiles, a long sweep of the tongue which can only be dodge with Burst, a body slam shockwave avoided likewise, and a volley of Bombs (including larger blue varieties depending on how many players participate). Boolossus may also phase through the roof's floor and move in a preset pattern, or may summon red-hot arrows to the roof's perimeter to target the players it battles. The smaller Boolossus shrinks, the faster its movement becomes and the more lightning bolts it summons, though its tongue becomes shorter and shockwaves smaller as a result.
As in the first game, Boolossus must be broken up into its component Boos before it can be sucked up. This is done by sucking up the bombs Boolossus expels and firing them back into its mouth with the Poltergust G-00. Once Boolossus explodes, the remaining Boos inside will fall onto the roof, able to damage players they land on but otherwise completely harmless. While these Boos are dazed, players must suck up their tongues and Slam each into the ground three times to defeat them individually. Unlike the main game's Boos, these Boos are invulnerable to the Dark-Light Device and Strobulb, and once the surviving Boos wake from unconsciousness, they will fly to the far end of the roof and reassemble into a proportionally smaller Boolossus. Once all Boos on the roof are defeated, ScareScraper is completed.
Mario Kart series
Boolossus' gold frame portrait makes a cameo on the walls of Luigi's Mansion battle course of Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. Aside from Chauncey, a few gold frame portraits of Boolossus are shown in the mansion segment of the Luigi's Mansion course in Mario Kart DS. These cameos were removed when the course was ported to Mario Kart 7 and remained missing in Mario Kart Tour, with both games instead using different artwork of Boos from various games.
Gallery
Screenshots
Luigi's Mansion
(Nintendo 3DS)
Frames
Bronze frame from Luigi's Mansion
Silver frame from Luigi's Mansion
Gold frame from Luigi's Mansion
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Mario Kart DS
Bronze frame from Luigi's Mansion (Nintendo 3DS)
Silver frame from Luigi's Mansion (Nintendo 3DS)
Gold frame from Luigi's Mansion (Nintendo 3DS)
Platinum frame from Luigi's Mansion (Nintendo 3DS)
Other
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | ジャンボテレサ Janbo Teresa |
Jumbo Boo | |
| Chinese (simplified) | 庞大害羞幽灵 Pángdà pàxiū yōulíng |
Enormous Boo (Huge Shy Ghost) | |
| Chinese (traditional) | 龐大害羞幽靈 Pángdà pàxiū yōulíng |
Enormous Boo (Huge Shy Ghost) | |
| French | Boolossus | Boolossus | |
| German | Buulussus, Riesengeist | Translated from the English name, Giant Ghost | |
| Italian | Boolosso, fantasma gigante | Boolossus (same as English), giant ghost | |
| Korean | 그랜드부끄 Geurandeubookkeu |
Grand Boo | |
| Spanish | Hércbooles, el grandioso Boo | Pun on "Hércules" (Hercules) and "Boo", the Magnificent Boo |
