
In an interview, Koichi Hayashida explained that "when Tanooki Mario appeared, some members of the team wanted to include Boom Boom and the Koopalings. In this game, Boom Boom now has an audible voice for the first time, which is quite deep. He also acts as the key art for the World-e level Treacherous Halls.īoom Boom with Pom Pom in Super Mario 3D LandĪfter 23 years of absence, Boom Boom makes a return appearance and his 3D debut in Super Mario 3D Land, along with a new, boomerang-wielding, female partner named Pom Pom. Additionally, two World-e levels ( Swinging Bars of Doom and Ice Cubed) in Super Mario Advance 4 make the player fight two Boom Booms at once. 3 and its ports, it is unknown whether there is a different Boom Boom in each fortress or if they are all the same one.
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To defeat Boom Boom, Mario has to jump on his head three times to eliminate him, hit him with five fireballs from a Fire Flower, or score five hits with hammers from the Hammer Suit (which he can do with as little as one hammer if his aim was precise enough).īecause of ambiguity in the language used in the instruction manuals of the original Super Mario Bros. After the third hit, he releases a Magic Ball, which destroys the fortress Boom Boom is in when Mario or Luigi touch it, and opens a lock or makes a bridge appear elsewhere on the map. After a second hit, Boom Boom walks left and right again, but very quickly, possibly as a desperation tactic. After being hit, he either starts to charge and jump very high or flies with his winged arms the latter strategy first appeared in Water Land's first fortress. In battle, Boom Boom begins by simply walking left and right towards Mario, occasionally crouching down and showing his large spikes, then leaping. Due to palette inconsistencies between locations in the original version, he appears dark brown in most places, blue and gray in World 2-, tan with white details in World 6- 2, and tan with lighter tan details in vehicle levels, though later versions have him consistently tan.

After he fails to protect the Koopalings, Boom Boom also appears in many levels in Dark Land specifically in World 8-Fortress and all the battleships, airships, and tanks - except for the first tank set, which is instead manned by a Boomerang Bro. prevail, and his fortresses get destroyed thanks to the Magic Balls he dropped. He appears in the fortresses of each kingdom, fighting Mario and Luigi to prevent them from going any closer to the Koopalings. 3 for the NES, where he helps Bowser and the Koopalings invade the Mushroom World's seven kingdoms. 3.īoom Boom makes his first appearance in Super Mario Bros. 3 īoom Boom in World 3 of Super Mario Bros. 3 / Super Mario All-Stars / Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros.
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Additionally, he has enormous hands that he swings around as fists as his primary form of attack. Compared to Bowser's species, he has a complete shell instead of a carapace not directly connected to his plastron, and the shell itself may not have spikes on it, depending on the game. After Super Mario 3D Land, Boom Boom reappeared in later games more often. Boom Boom then later made his return appearance in Super Mario 3D Land as one of the two secondary antagonists who often appears in airships, along with his partner Pom Pom, a female Boom Boom who acts as the other secondary antagonist in the game. 3, where he often battles Mario or Luigi in fortresses. While often depicted as an individual, sometimes he is shown as an entire species, also called Boom Booms. “This is Lord Bowser's island! Boom Boom says SCRAM!” - Boom Boom, Mario Tennis Acesīoom Boom (sometimes stylized as Boom-Boom or BOOM-BOOM ) is one of Bowser's henchmen and an antagonist in the Super Mario franchise and among Mario's most persistent foes.
