Battle Beetle
Artwork fromSuper Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
Appears in	Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (1992)
Comparable Waddlewing

ABattle Beetle^[1] is anenemy inSuper Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. TheseJapanese rhinoceros beetles^[2] (identified asAtlas beetles internationally)^[1] walk forward until reaching a ledge, after which they fly straight up, then slowly hover down towardsMario. A Battle Beetle can be defeated from either beingstomped or from afireball. Battle Beetles appear in theLeaf Course of theTree Zone and theFlower Course of theMacro Zone. They look much likeHercules beetles, but are roughly Mario's size.

In Kodansha'sSuper Mario manga, a beetle caught by Mario during his childhood and raised as his pet grows into a giant Battle Beetle after Wario takes over Mario Land, but Wario's hypnosis does not affect it. During thefirst volume ofSuper Mario Land 2, the Battle Beetle helps Mario andPrincess Peach locate the first threeGolden Coins, traverse theTree Zone, and defeat thesewer rat and theWitch. While fighting the latter, the Battle Beetle breaks its horns and dies shortly after in Mario's arms. He reappears in thethird volume, revealing that it just went into hibernation and did not actually die, aiding Mario and friends during the final battle. It blows out the magical candles that caused Wario's minions to return from the dead, making them disappear.

A Battle Beetle also appears involume 7 ofSuper Mario-kun, where Mario gets robbed by it and, while engaging a battle with it, the Battle Beetle hits a branch from which aHeavy Zed falls, squashing and defeating it. Involume 9, another Battle Beetle appears as one of the many enemies affected by the chaos and is defeated byBunny Mario.

Profiles[edit]

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins[edit]

• Instruction booklet description:
  • English:
    This is an Atlas beetle that stomps around as it comes after Mario.^[1]

Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten[edit]

ヘラクレス (JP) / Battle Beetle (EN)
	Original text (Japanese)		Translation
	種族しゅぞく	クリープ族	Tribe	Creep clan
	性格せいかく	ニ重人格	Disposition	Split personality
	登場とうじょうゲーム	ランド2	Game appearances	Land 2
	2つの顔をもつかぶと虫 はっ葉の上をのんびり歩いている時はやさしい顔をしているのだが、歩くところがなくなると突然恐い顔をして飛び出し、攻撃してくる。飛び出す前に踏んずけてしまおう。[3]		The two-faced rhinoceros beetle When they are walking leisurely on the leaves, they have a gentle face, but when they run out of places to walk, they suddenly turn scary and jump out to attack. Try to step on them before they jump out.

Gallery[edit]

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  Sprite fromSuper Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

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  Shogakukan artwork

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  Website artwork

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  Commercial

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  Mario Kirby Meisaku Video

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  Super Mario-kun

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  KC Mario

Names in other languages[edit]

The contemporaneous name for each language is listed first. Subsequent names are listed in chronological order for each language, from oldest to newest, and have the media they are associated with in the "notes" column.

References[edit]

• Beetles
• Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins enemies