Brickman

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Brickman
A Brickman in the Nintendo Switch remake
First appearance	Mario vs. Donkey Kong (2004)
Latest appearance	Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Nintendo Switch) (2024)

Brickmen are enemies in Mario vs. Donkey Kong. They appear as a single pair of eyes peeking out from within a pile of bricks. In the Nintendo Switch remake, the individual bricks have a slightly altered design, and two bricks now function as the enemy's eyebrows.

Brickmen attack by dropping three bricks below them at a time. Mario must either pass through the hazardous path carefully or use a Handstand Walk so that the falling bricks harmlessly bounce off him. Brickmen are always located in inaccessible spaces, and therefore cannot be defeated. They are encountered in Mario Toy Company, Slippery Summit, Twilight City, Mario Toy Factory, and Twilight City Plus.

The bricks that Brickmen release are known in Japanese as「レンガブロック」(Renga Burokku, Brick Block), despite looking and acting differently from the Brick Blocks in the Super Mario series.

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Additional names

Internal names

Game	File	Name	Meaning
Mario vs. Donkey Kong	string in ROM (BRICKMAN)	BRICKMAN	Brickman
Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Nintendo Switch)	Model/Brickman.bfres.zs	Brickman	-
Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Nintendo Switch)	Model/BrickmanBrick.bfres.zs	BrickmanBrick	Brickman Brick ("Brick Block")

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ブロックン Burokkun	A contraction of "block" and「くん」(-kun); shared with Blockhopper and similar to Burokkun