Mechawiggler
Species	MechanicalWiggler
Appears in	Super Mario Odyssey (2017)

“That thing is tryin' to suck up all the juice fromour city!”

—New Donker,Super Mario Odyssey

Mechawiggler is a massive insectoid robot fromSuper Mario Odyssey and the boss of theMetro Kingdom, as well as one of the six bosses refought at theMushroom Kingdom. Despite being ostensibly based on aWiggler, it bears little resemblance to them, though it has a similar "enraged" state and several segments making up its body. It has five glowing orange eyes, a cyan and fuchsiaplasma globe embedded into each segment including the head, yellow electricity-producing rods surrounding said globes, and a mouth that resembles an electric plug.

Mechawiggler is initially found covered in electricity on the lightning rod ofNew Donk City Hall, where it uses its plug to absorb the city's electrical power. OnceMario reaches the top, it briefly crawls around the rod a few times before stopping and shrieking, followed by it charging Mario off the side of the building. Mechawiggler then proceeds to pursue the falling Mario down the side of the building. Mario lands upright on the ground and the battle begins.

Mechawiggler attacks Mario by hurling electrical orbs from each of its segments while crawling along the wall. Mario mustcapture a nearbySherm, avoid or destroy the balls of electricity, and shoot Mechawiggler's weak points, the plasma globes, which darken, along with the electric rods, after one hit each. Once all the globes have darkened, Mechawiggler stops moving entirely while they glow faintly along the cracked surfaces, andCappy urges Mario to start shooting at it even more; doing so causes Mechawiggler to squirm around before eventually getting covered in miniature explosions with another shriek.

Mechawiggler then gets angry, turns orange, begins moving faster, and phases through the wall of City Hall, obscuring itself from Mario's view. However, Mechawiggler's movement inside the building is marked with a spark of electricity along the outside wall moving to the ground, followed by a large purple aura appearing for several seconds, marking Mechawiggler's point of attack. When this happens, it rushes out from the purple vortex in a straight line at an immense speed along the ground. Mechawiggler continues this attack pattern through various surrounding walls several times before returning to one of the walls, still angry, and shooting four electric spheres. After this, it calms down, and its plasma globes relight, now a pink color. It continues crawling along the wall, now at the same speed as during the first phase, and still shoots electric spheres. Mario must again damage the plasma globes. However, Mechawiggler can now become angry before Mario is finished, at which point it makes a single charge across the ground before climbing onto another wall, where it calms down after shooting more electricity, allowing Mario to continue. Once all the globes have been hit again, Mario must resume attacking Mechawiggler in rapid succession, which defeats it.

Once defeated, Mechawiggler, covered in electricity, shrieks one more time, then explodes from tail to head, releasing aMulti Moon. After its defeat, one of its pieces crashes inMayor Pauline Commemorative Park and can beGround Pounded to collect aPower Moon.

In the rematch inPeach's Castle, Mario fights two Mechawigglers that each have more segments. The battle is similar, except that both will use their charging attack simultaneously before linking their bodies during the wall-climbing phase; both Mechawigglers also launch pink electric spheres that split into multiple bursts. When both Mechawigglers are defeated again, they will explode, releasing a Multi Moon.

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  Mechawiggler facing down Mario

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  Mario battling Mechawiggler

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  The painting from Mushroom Kingdom to Mechawiggler's rematch

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Notes[edit]

• Mechawiggler andRoboBrood are the only bosses not to have three phases each time they are fought. Mechawiggler has only two, whereas RoboBrood has four.
• In the rematch, the player can glitch the camera through the large roadblock. Doing so reveals the ground of New Donk City, without the buildings.^[10]
• According to thePrima guide, Mechawiggler isBowser's pet.^[11]
• If the player beatsSuper Mario Odyssey without defeating Mechawiggler, which is impossible without glitches due to how "The Scourge on the Skyscraper" restricts access to the majority of the Metro Kingdom's Power Moons, then after beating the gameBowser's airship can still be seen flying above Mechawiggler with Bowser,Peach, and the items stolen by Bowser.^[12]

References[edit]

• Wigglers
• Pets
• Robots
• Fire creatures
• Electrical creatures
• Super Mario Odyssey bosses