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Experimental post: Know the Difference: Wallops and Wallop-likes Wallops often appear in Supper Mario Broth content, but due to their obscurity, are often mistaken for similar characters. The below image provides a comparison between all such entities.

Apr 20, 2025, 2:02 PM

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          "alt": "Know the difference: Wallops and Wallop-likes\nEntries in green are subjective opinions included to provide context for Supper Mario Broth\nWallop\n-Enemy that appears in Super Mario 3D Land\n-Moves side to side to block Mario's path and\njumps whenever he jumps\n-Has never reappeared again\n(green)-Precious\n(green)-My only friend\nWalleye\n-Enemy that appears in Super Mario 3D World\n-Moves side to side to block Mario's path, doesn't jump\n-Entirely replaced Wallop, supplanting him in later titles like\nCaptain Toad: Treasure Tracker and the Mario Party series\n(green)-I do not begrudge him for existing, but I am saddened\nby Nintendo for not letting him coexist with Wallop\nWhimp\n-Small Whomps that appear only during the\nWhomp King boss battle in Super Mario Galaxy 2\n--Named in a roundabout manner by the \nSuper Mario Wiki (no English name -> Wiki invents\n\"Whimp\" -> Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia steals* it\n->  Nintendo of Japan canonizes it on official site)\nBlocky\n-Enemy from the Kirby series with a very similar\ndesign (and jumping attack) to Wallop\n-Actually based on the Rocky enemy from the\nEggerland/ Adventures of Lolo series, also developed\nby HAL Laboratory and predating the Kirby series,\nwith the first Rocky appearing in Eggerland 2 in 1986\nAdditional notes:\n-All of these (and the Whomp) are based on the nurikabe, a spirit from Japanese folklore that takes\nthe form of a wall that intentionally blocks the way of travelers.\n*The English edition of the 2015 Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia has been proven to plagiarize content\nfrom fan-made sources. This was both directly admitted by a writer, and is visible with bizarre decisions\nsuch as taking non-English names if they were the only ones available, resulting in e.g. one Luma in\nSuper Mario Galaxy being inexplicably French.",
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