Blooper

“I love floating around.”

—Blooper, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

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A standard Blooper.

Bloopers (also previously known as Bloobers, Japanese ゲッソー Gessō) are squid-like creatures that are found in bodies of water. There are many kinds of Bloopers, though the standard Blooper in Super Mario Bros. swims towards Mario in a lazy homing pattern.

Appearances

Super Mario Bros.

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The first appearance of a Blooper.

Bloopers are some of the most resistant enemies in Super Mario Bros. They only appear in underwater levels, and will follow Mario relentlessly. They can only be defeated by a Fireball, which is strange, because Bloopers are always fought in the water.

Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels

This game featured an extremely odd type of Bloober that could fly through the air the same way it swims through the water. This Bloober can be jumped on for 1000 points. These ones also looked slighty different than their seafaring relatives. They were shorter and slightly different colored.

Super Mario Bros. 3

Super Mario Bros. 3 featured two new types of Bloopers: Blooper Nannies and Baby Bloopers. The original Bloopers also appear in the same attack pattern they had in Super Mario Bros.. Also, the enhanced remake of Super Mario Bros. in Super Mario All-Stars featured pink-colored Bloopers.

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A yellow Blooper from the game Yoshi's Safari.

Yoshi's Safari

In Yoshi's Safari, Bloopers, oddly yellow colored though, appear as flying enemies who will try to harm Mario and Yoshi by ramming them; these Bloopers must be defeated by blasting them repeatedly with Mario's Super Scope. Also of note, the mech built and utilized by Iggy Koopa in Yoshi's Safari resembles a large Blooper.

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

Bloopers appear as fairly rare enemies in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. In this game, they only appear underwater, so Yoshi can only face them when he is in his Yoshi Submarine form. They will simply float in the water, making them more like obstacles than actual enemies. They can be destroyed by one of the Yoshi Submarine's torpedoes.

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

In Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Bloobers can be encountered as enemies in The Sea and in and near the Sunken Ship. An extremely large Bloober, known as King Calamari, also appears as a boss in the Treasure Room of the Sunken Ship. In battle, Bloobers have low defense but high attack. As such, they can be easily defeated, but can do a good amount of damage. They also use their Ink Blast ability to blind enemies. Bloobers have a high tendency to flee from battle.

Paper Mario

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The Blooper battle in Paper Mario

In Paper Mario, three large Bloopers appear in the Toad Town Tunnels. Each one is guarding a Badge, or a similar treasure, and each one is optional.

• Blooper
• Super Blooper
• Electro Blooper

The regular Blooper has 30 HP, its attack is 4, and has no defense. It is found very near to the main entrance to the tunnels. It is straight left, through two doors. It is guarding a Shrink Stomp badge. It is the weakest and smallest of the three Bloopers in the game. One of its more notable features is that it floats. meaning it will have to be jumped on.

Super Mario Sunshine

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A Blooper in Super Mario Sunshine.

Bloopers reappear in Super Mario Sunshine. This would be the first game in which the Bloopers are able to stand on dry land and spit out goop. In fact, Bloopers only appear on dry land and are never seen underwater. Jumping Bloopers make their first and (so far) only appearance in this game as well.

In addition, a special variety of ridable Bloopers appear. These do not attack Mario and are owned by Big Daddy. Green Bloopers are the slowest, but best at steering. Yellow Bloopers have average speed and average steering. Purple Bloopers are the fastest but have terrible steering. These ridable Bloopers are only found in Ricco Harbor.

An extremely large, pollutant spitting Blooper, known as Gooper Blooper, also appears in Super Mario Sunshine as a boss in the areas Ricco Harbor and Noki Bay.

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

Bloopers make an appearance in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga in the Oho Ocean Seabed. These Bloopers attack by running into Mario or Luigi and damaging them. To defend, The bros need to Hammer the bloopers that they encounter. They use their classic style of moving, a zigzagging, odd pattern.

A new type of robotic Bloopers, called Mecha-Blooper, also appear in this game. These bloopers attack with their their tentacles, which are actually five Bullet Bills. They launch these Bullet Bills at Mario and Luigi.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

A Blooper appears as the second mandatory boss in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. This Blooper's tentacles are blocking the way to Petalburg, and to get to the rosy town, Mario has to hit them with his Hammer. This makes the Blooper angry, and it attacks Mario. During battle it hangs off the ceiling, but after both the L. Tentacle and the R. Tentacle are defeated it will fall to the ground.

Although Bloopers do not appear as regular enemies in the game, they do appear in Bowser's underwater level. They are enemies that can simply be taken care of by (again ironically) breathing flames at them. After Bowser gets out of the water and is talking to Kammy Koopa, he can be heard saying, "I swallowed a Blooper!".

Luigi also has a partner named Blooey, who is a tough Blooper that Luigi accidentally threw into lava during his journey, thinking nothing of it. Blooey was afterward fried as a red, stiff Blooper for, most likely, the rest of his life. Blooey supposedly will keep following Luigi around until he gets his revenge, as he states. Goombella notes that Blooey is a strange Blooper for the fact that he can live on land. However, Bloopers being able to live on land previously appeared in Super Mario Sunshine.

Yoshi's Island DS

Yoshi's Island DS features Bloopers appearing in early stages of World 3, where they will try to attack a Yoshi by hopping up and down in bodies of water. Bloopers can be easily defeated by eating them or throwing an egg at them or even jumping on top of them. Three of them appear in the Island Museum.

Super Paper Mario

In Super Paper Mario, Bloopers appear as somewhat common enemies in the Tile Pool, where they will attack the player by persistently following them and trying to touch them; as Mario and Princess Peach have no useful underwater attacks when the Tile Pool is first ventured through, players will need to use Bowser's fire breath to defeat Bloopers.

Super Mario Galaxy

In Super Mario Galaxy there are normal Bloopers. They live in water and they can be defeated by a Star Spin or a Koopa Shell. They don't try to attack the player in this game, however, when they see Mario, they start to slowly float upward and they will realease ink.

Mario Super Sluggers

Blooper has continued his playable role by appearing as a playable character in the upcoming baseball game Mario Super Sluggers as seen on the Japanese website. He also appears on the official Japanese boxart.

Other Appearances

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Bloopers appear as enemies of the hero Link in the game The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. These Bloopers look almost Identical to the ones in the Marioverse.

In Mario Party 3, two giant Bloopers, one a child and the other its mother, appear on the board Deep Bloober Sea as obstacles, moving the player's character to different spaces all over the game's board. Bloopers also appear as enemies in the games Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix and Yoshi; in Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, the name Blooper appears on the game's various scorecharts, though no Bloopers are ever seen in the game, not even in Blooper Bay, a course named after them.

Bloopers are also used as an item in Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart Wii. After the player has launched it, the Blooper will create a large ink blot on the screen of all the drivers who are currently in a higher rank than the player, which obstructs the driving view of human opponents and causes CPU characters to swerve around on the track. If used while in first place, it can backfire and cause ink to block the driver's screen.

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Blooper appearing in Mario Party 8.

In Mario Party 8, one Blooper is a playable character, unlocked by completing the Star Arena Mode and having Blooper as the opponent in Bowser's Warped Orbit. However, if Hammer Bro. is unlocked instead, the player must play through the Star Arena once more as Hammer Bro. In the game, Blooper floats like Boo. Blooper uses two of his tentacles as arms.

Appearances in Other Media

Two Bloobers from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!.

Cartoons

Bloopers, known by their original name of Bloobers, appeared in two episodes of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!: "20,000 Koopas Under the Sea" and "Mario of the Deep". In these episodes, they were portrayed as King Koopa's primary minions and carried out the bulk of his duties.

In The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Bloobers, as well as Bloober Nannies and Baby Bloobers, appeared in several episodes of the show, such as in "Mush-Rumors", "Oh, Brother!" and "Recycled Koopa".

Publications

Several Bloopers made a small appearance in the Nintendo Comics System story "Love Flounders", where they are among the group of sea creatures trying to get Mario to become Big Bertha's boyfriend, so one of them will not have to.

Characteristics

Along with swimming through water, Bloopers have a variety of abilities, the first of which, flying, was shown in Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels and has appeared in several other games since. In Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Bloopers were shown to be capable of burrowing through the ground, shooting globs of ink and blasting opponents with energy beams.

Movement

A Blooper's movement style.

Bloopers float diagonally upward, and then go straight down. The diagonal move is limited to a certain number of pixels, but they can go downward until they hit the ground or seafloor. They also change directions frequently, making for some tricky swimming while in tight spaces.

Trophy Information from Super Smash Bros. Brawl

A creature who's as squidlike as a squid can be. Bloopers patrol water stages, and with no notable weapons, their threat comes from their unique movements and speed. Some flying Bloopers display the same underwater movement above water. Blooper appeared for the first time as a playable character in Mario Party 8.

Sub-Species

• Baby Blooper – Small, juvenile Bloopers.
• Blooper Nanny – Bloopers who are followed by Baby Bloopers.
• Glad Blooper – Bloopers who are laid-back in nature and who swim happily.
• Jumping Blooper – Flesh colored Bloopers who leap in and out of water.
• Mecha-Blooper – Mechanical Bloopers who have launchable Bullet Bills in place of tentacles.

Notable Bloopers

• Big Blooper – Super Paper Mario
• Blooey – Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
• Electro Blooper – Paper Mario
• Gooper Blooper – Super Mario Sunshine
• King Calamari – Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
• Super Blooper – Paper Mario

Trivia

• A canceled type of Blooper were supposed to appear in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. These Bloopers were apparently Shroobified Bloopers and would've appeared in the Vim Factory; oddly, these Bloopers wore multiple, red colored shoes.

• Some Bloopers, such as ones that appear in the Mario Party series, have been known to talk. This was also seen in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door with Blooey, although all other Bloopers in the game only make squid noises.

• Prior to their formal debut in Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, flying Bloopers that could even be stomped (despite the fact that they seem to actually be underwater Bloopers misplaced) were unintentionally generated in World -3 of Super Mario Bros.'s Famicom Disk System version.

Paper Mario Stats

• HP: 30
• Attack: 3
• Defense: 0
• Location: Toad Town Tunnels
• Tattle: This is a Blooper. Bloopers lurk in the dank pools of Toad Town Tunnels. They seem pretty unremarkable. Although... You have to wonder how they float in the air like that...