Honen

Not to be confused with Fish Bone or Honebon.

Honen
Artwork from Super Mario Land
First appearance	Super Mario Land (1989)
Variant of	Torion
Comparable Bonefin Fish Bone Jean de Fillet

Honen, also known as Honhen or Bone Fish, are enemies in Sarasaland that appear in Super Mario Land. According to the game's instruction manual, they are the skeletons of Torion eaten by Tatanga.

History

Super Mario Land

Honen jump vertically out of the waters of the Muda Kingdom at regular intervals. They are one of two undead enemies to appear in the game, the other being Pionpi. They can easily be defeated by stomping on their heads or by simply standing above them, or by hitting them with a Superball. Defeating one is worth 100 points. Honen appear in World 2-1 and World 2-3.

Super Mario Land (manga)

In the Super Mario Land manga, Tatanga creates three Honen after eating some Torion that dared to make jokes about his relationship with Daisy, which he then sends to Muda Kingdom. While avoiding two of the Honen, Mario is bitten by the third one on the bottom. The pain makes him jump out of his pants, leaving him naked and exposed, flustering Mecha Kuribō (who is Princess Peach in disguise). Mario then retrieves his overalls and stomps on the enemy.

Profiles

Super Mario Land

• Instruction booklet: The skeleton of a Torion after it's been eaten by Tatanga. It always flies vertically up from the water. A superball can't stop it.
• Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console manual: This skeleton of a Torion after it has been eaten by Tatanga always flies up vertically from the water. It can't be defeated by a Superball.

Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten

ホーネン (JP) / Honen (EN)
	Original text (Japanese)		Translation
	種族しゅぞく	ゴースト族	Tribe	Ghost clan
	性格せいかく	しぶとい	Disposition	Stubborn
	登場とうじょうゲーム	ランド1	Game appearances	Land 1
	骨になっても元気いっぱい タタンガに食べられたトリオンが骨になった姿だといわれている。骨になっても海から真上に勢いよく跳び出してくる。スーパーボ―ルはきかないが、上から踏めば倒せる。		Full of energy, even when bony It is said to be a Torion that was eaten by Tatanga and became a skeleton. Even when they become bones, they still leap out of the sea with great force. Superballs will not work, but you can knock it down by stepping on it from above.

Gallery

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  Alternative art from Super Mario Land

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  Gunion, Torion, and Honen

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  Tatanga creates the Honen in Super Mario Land

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  Mario stomping a Honen, leaving him exposed, in Super Mario Land

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  Super Mario Land (Club Nintendo magazine)

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  Sprite from Super Mario Land

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ホーネン Hōnen	Derived from「骨」(hone, "bone") and「トリオン」(Torion)
Dutch	Honen	-
French	Honen	-
German	Honen[?]	-
Italian	Honen	-
Spanish	Honen[?]	-

Trivia

• Honens are one of the few variants of enemies to appear before the base enemy, with the level introducing them (the first stage of the Muda Kingdom) being two levels before the Torion's debut level (the Muda Kingdom's boss stage).
• Although their description in the manual states that they can resist superballs, Honens are actually vulnerable to them.