Garlic
| Garlic | |
|---|---|
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| First appearance | Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 (1994) |
| Latest appearance | Mario Strikers: Battle League (2022) |
| Effect | Turns Wario into Wario-Man (WarioWare: Touched!) Restores health (Wario Land: Shake It!, Wario World) Allows the player to continue playing after failing a microgame (WarioWare series) |
- “I lose some life every time I take damage and gain some back when I pick up a piece of my favorite snack, garlic.”
- —Wario, Wario Land: Shake It! manual
Garlic is often associated with Wario throughout the Super Mario franchise. It is Wario's favorite food, often functioning as a beneficial item that either strengthens him or restores his health. Wario's bad smell is a result of too much garlic consumption.[1]
History
Wario franchise
Wario Land series
In Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, a type of garlic power-up called the Garlic Pot appears. It turns Small Wario into normal Wario, and normal Wario into Bull Wario. It returns in Virtual Boy Wario Land as the garlic bottle.
In Wario Land 3, garlic represents the Super Smash treasure that Wario has to collect. Once found in the Tower of Revival, after Wario opens the blue snake door, it will confer him the ability to break solid blocks. Also in Wario Land 3, several heads of garlic can be seen hanging from some platforms in Forest of Fear; if Wario is transformed into a vampire and touches a garlic head, he instantly reverts to his regular form.
In the pre-release versions of Wario Land 4, the Heart Gauge was shorter and had a garlic icon next to it, implying that Wario originally had to collect garlic rather than little hearts to recover his Heart Meter.
In Wario Land: Shake It!, garlic restores hearts in Wario's life meter. Shaking an enemy will occasionally cause it to drop a head of garlic, which will start bouncing on the ground until collected. Most enemies' garlic only restores one heart, while some enemies (such as the white Bandinero) release a bigger type which restores three hearts.
Wario World
Garlic is a healing item in Wario World. They are obtained from Garlic Dispensers in exchange for coins, and sometimes within wooden chests.
WarioWare series
In the WarioWare series, garlic often represents the player's lives in Wario's stages, including Wario-Man's stage in WarioWare: Twisted! and WarioWare: Touched!, Wario's stage "Mysterious Form Baton Found!" in WarioWare: Smooth Moves, Wario's Mash, Twist, and Touch warmup stages in WarioWare Gold, and Wario's stage "Stone-Cold Welcome" in WarioWare: Move It!.
In WarioWare: Touched!, Wario eats a "Nasty Garlic" in Wario-Man's intro cutscene and transforms into Wario-Man. After the microgames are beaten for the first time, it will then appear on the main selection screen so that Wario can turn back into Wario-Man at any time.
In WarioWare Gold, garlic has a critical role in Wario Kard, where one garlic can be spent to challenge an opponent. The player gains one garlic every five minutes, and they can have up to three. Alternatively, the player can spend 500 coins for garlic instead.
Garlic is in two microgames of WarioWare: Get It Together!: Flee the Flashlight, where the goal is to steal garlic from Wario without being caught, and Garlic Catch, where the goal is to collect garlic heads that fall from the sky constantly by tilting a basket.
Wario: Master of Disguise
Garlic is one of five types of falling objects in Trash It, a minigame in Wario: Master of Disguise, and has to be dropped into the mouth to score. Garlic is also a possible image during Trick Slider and a shape to trace the blue dot through in Zappy Path.
Mario Superstar Baseball
The Wario Garlics is the common team name in Mario Superstar Baseball. Wario's bio also mentions how garlic is his favorite food and may be responsible for his high stamina. A clove of garlic also appears from the fake ball when Wario uses Phony Ball.
Mario Kart series
Mario Kart Arcade GP / Mario Kart Arcade GP 2
Garlic is Wario's special item in Mario Kart Arcade GP and Mario Kart Arcade GP 2. It removes all bad conditions from his kart, such as square tires, burst tires, or Thunder Cloud, as well as provides a protective shield against incoming items or a Time Bomb explosion. Mario Kart Arcade GP has an unlockable variation titled Garlic+, which extends the duration of the shield.
Mario Kart Tour / Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
In Mario Kart Tour and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, garlic motifs can be seen on banners and fences in the Wario-centric course Ninja Hideaway, and the Ninja Mansion's windows are shaped like heads of garlic as well.
Super Smash Bros. series
In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Wario eats a head of garlic (called "Nasty Garlic" in the English version of Palutena's Guidance for Wario in Wii U/3DS) to transform into Wario-Man for his Final Smash.
Mario Party 10
A head of garlic is on a table-like platform on the right of the board in the Wario Board in Mario Party 10.
Mario Tennis Aces
A head of garlic is eaten by Wario as a power-up before using his Special Shot, the Glorious Garlic Bomber, in Mario Tennis Aces.
Mario Strikers: Battle League
The cutscene of Wario scoring a goal in Mario Strikers: Battle League shows him eating a head of garlic to celebrate.
Profiles
WarioWare Gold
- Play Nintendo: Wario’s micro-tip: Is garlic gross and smelly? Wrong! It’s perfect.[2]
Gallery
Vancouver Tour launch artwork for Mario Kart Tour depicting Wario roasting cloves of garlic
WarioWare, Inc. Official Site
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ニンニク[?] Ninniku |
Garlic | |
| Chinese (traditional) | 大蒜[3] Dàsuàn |
Garlic | |
| French | Ail[?] | Garlic | |
| German | Knoblauch[?] | Garlic | |
| Italian | Aglio[?] | Garlic | |
| Spanish | Ajo[?] | Garlic |
References
- ^ "Wario loves garlic. He eats whole cloves of it day and night. So try not to get caught in his mouth. Once that smell gets on you, it'll stick to you for quite a while." – Colonel Roy Campbell (2008). Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Nintendo.
- ^ WarioWare Gold Tips & Tricks. Play Nintendo. Archived November 7, 2020, 23:27:45 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved March 1, 2025.
- ^ 瑪利歐網頁. Nintendo of HK (Traditional Chinese). Retrieved March 1, 2025.
