Snifit
A Snifit is a Shy Guy with a black mask, and an extended nozzle for a mouth. The extended nozzle can fire bullets, projectiles, or other objects. Though Snifits first originated in Doki Doki Panic, a game unrelated to Mario, they have since become infrequent enemies in the Mario series of games.
Physical Appearance
Snifits are generally Shy Guys with black masks, and a nozzle for a mouth, while the nozzle is used for firing projectiles, it can also be used for speaking. Their voice generally sounds like buzzing through a long tube. Furthermore, Snifits are close relatives of Shy Guys and Snifits are generally stronger.
Appearances
Super Mario Bros. 2
In Super Mario Bros. 2, Snifits are rarer than Shy Guys, and usually come in three colors: red, gray and pink. In the second world and sixth world, Snifits were gray and green in color. Strangely, there is only one red Snifit in the entire game. In the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. 2, the pink Snifits are blue. Grey Snifits stood in place jumping and fired, Pink Snifits acted like Pink Shy-Guys, Red Snifits moved about like Red Shy-Guys and is smarter and turned towards you.
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
In Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Snifits appear as semi-common enemies in the game's various castle levels; in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Snifits would attack Yoshi and Baby Mario by shooting projectiles at them. Yoshi could defeat a Snifit in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island by jumping on it, swallowing it with his tongue or by simply shooting it with an egg.
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
In Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, three Snifits, aptly named Snifit #1, Snifit #2 and Snifit #3 appear as the minions and playpals of Booster. Snifits #1, #2 and #3 first meet Mario after he defeats Punchinello in Moleville, where they are hunting beetles for Booster. While hunting these beetles, Snifits #1, #2 and #3 accidentally reveal to Mario that "a princess who fell from the sky" is being imprisoned in Booster Tower.
Later, in Booster Tower, Mario, Geno, Mallow and Bowser can battle Snifits #1, #2 and #3, all of whom, attack by shooting Bullet Bills. After entering Booster's playroom, Mario would need to try and hide from Snifits #1, #2 and #3 behind curtains as the trio of Snifits search for Booster's lost Mario Doll. If Mario was found behind these curtains too many times by Snifits #1, #2 and #3, he would be forced to battle Snifits #1, #2 and #3 and their master, Booster. If he remained hidden, Booster joined in and found his Mario Doll, but it's too high for him to get so Mario knockes it down and Booster rerwards you with a Amulet.
On Booster Hill, Snifits #1, #2 and #3 would try to ram Mario as he raced up the slope after Booster and Princess Toadstool. Mario could jump on the heads of Snifits #1, #2 and #3 to get a boost up Booster Hill.
Finally, in Marrymore, after Booster barged into the Marrymore Chapel (interupting the wedding of Raz and Raini) Snifits #1, #2 and #3 acted as guards, making sure no one interupted Booster's forced wedding to Princess Toadstool. After breaking into Marrymore Chapel, Snifits #1, #2 and #3, after learning that Princess Toadstool had lost her accessories, began to search for them and relied on Mario to bring the accessories they had found to Princess Toadstool.
During the battle against Raspberry, Snifits #1, #2 and #3 and Booster would appear; it was Snifits #1, #2 and #3 who inadvertantly destroyed Raspberry for Mario, after the trio convinced Booster to devour the living confectionary.
A Snifit can later be seen in Seaside Town, acting as the manager of Beetles Are Us. Several dozen Snifits also make a small cameo in the ending cinematic of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, with the entire audience of Booster's wedding to Valentina being composed of Snifits.
Also Snifit #4, #5, #6, and #7 was obtainable by Mario and his team getting beat by Apprentices in Booster Pass
Yoshi Touch & Go
The only type of Snifits seen in Yoshi Touch & Go are the conjecturely named Aerial Snifits, a new type of flying Snifit with propellers attached to their heads, allowing them to fly like Fly Guys. What appear to be normal Snifits with sprites similar to Aerial Snifits do, however, appear on Yoshi Touch & Go high scores screen.
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
Snifits make a small cameo appearance in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time; if a fire-based attack is used on the Snifaro enemy, the creature will lose it's headress and sarcophagus and become two regular Snifits, who attack by rapidly shooting bullets.
Other Appearances
Mario Party Series
Snifits appear in several installments of the Mario Party series, such as in Mario Party 3, where one appears as the partner of Princess Daisy in the game's Duel Mode.
Mario Kart Series
Snifits have always been rare sights in Mario Kart games, and they did not debut in the series until Mario Kart: Super Circuit. In that game, they only made a minor cameo appearance in the Sunset Wilds course, where they could be viewed alongside other semi-obscure enemies on totem pole obstacles. Their next and last appearance in the series was Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, where they made another small cameo as characters in the audience of Waluigi Stadium.
Appearances In Other Media
Cartoons
Snifits made several appearances in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, where they were most often portrayed as the minions of King Koopa and as shock troops of the Koopa Pack. Interestingly, in some of their appearances in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, such as in "The Unzappables", Snifits were used in a manner similar to hand-held machine guns.
Publications
Snifits were also featured in several issues of Nintendo Comics System, where they appeared to be high-ranking minions of Bowser, as they are shown to command and train his Shy Guy troops. One particular, unnamed Snifit was featured prominantly in the Nintendo Comics System issue "Duh Stoopid Bomb!", where the Snifit, after accidentally becoming super-intelligent after being caught in the explosion of a Smart Bomb, usurps Bowser of his armies.
In Nintendo Power's Super Mario Adventures comic serial, a Snifit was seen among the attendees to Bowser's forced wedding to Princess Toadstool.
Movie
Snifits also appeared in the Super Mario Bros. movie, where they are shown to be the garbagemen of Dinohatten, instead of soldiers in King Koopa's army, cleaning sludge with the use of a vehicle referred to as a Sludge Gulper.
Sub-Species
- Aerial Snifit – Snifits who wear propellers on their heads, allowing them to fly, like Fly Guys, but having the ability to fire bullets.
- Apprentice – In-training Spookums who aspire to become Snifit minions of Booster.
- Arachno Snifit – Large and black spiders who wear the masks of Snifits and who emit clicking sounds.
- Ice Snifit – Snifits who wear brown parkas, they can shoot blasts of ice through their nozzle, and can use a team-up style attack.
- Laser Snifit – Snifits who wear white lab coats, a protrusion on their masks allow them to shoot circular laser beams through its nozzle.
- Mini-Snifit – Toy sized Snifits.
- Snifaro – A Snifit wearing a pharaoh's head dress that rides on a flying sarcophagus.
- Snufit – Red colored Snifits who inhabit mines and space, they are capable of flying through the air.
- Spiky Snifit – A cactus wearing a Snifit's mask, it lives in deserts and can shoot spike covered bullets.
- Spookum – Snifits who wear blue robes, they are also capable of using magical attacks, most of which are ice based.
- Zeus Guy – Snifits wearing orange robes who are capable of shooting a blast of fire from their nozzle.
Notable Snifits
- Snifit #1 – Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
- Snifit #2 – Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
- Snifit #3 – Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Trivia
- According to the manual of Super Mario Bros. 2, the bullets Snifits spit are comprised of solidified bad dreams; additionally, it states that the bullets come from the actual mouths of the Snifits, instead of their masks.
- Oddly, in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Snifits, instead of shooting their traditional bad dream bullets, shot Bullet Bills.
