Sheep
Artwork fromSuper Mario Odyssey
First appearance	Super Mario Odyssey (2017)
Latest appearance	The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

“Ain't these sheep fluffy? Sometimes I wish I was a fluffy sheep... Ah, er...what was I sayin'? Oh, yeah. Try not to bump into the sheep when you're playin' golf. Yeah.”

—Monty Mole,Mario Golf: Super Rush

Throughout theSuper Mario franchise,sheep often appear in association with the act of sleeping, a reference to the practice ofcounting sheep to put oneself to sleep. For instance, they are depicted as the symbol of theSleep status ailment in role-playing games, or as a visual motif in theFalling Asheep microgame ofWarioWare: Twisted! and theSnooze EwesGaddget ofMario Party Advance. However,Super Mario Odyssey andMario Golf: Super Rush forgo this association, featuring sheep as interactive elements of gameplay in settings based onanimal husbandry.

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Super Mario Odyssey[edit]

InSuper Mario Odyssey, sheep are always seen wearing sombreros, which means they cannot becaptured. Sheep run away from Mario, and run faster if Mario is too close. They can be launched forward by hitting them with aCap Throw, theJaxi, withYoshi's tongue, or by landing near one with aGround Pound. Sheep are unaffected by beingstomped, including landing on the sheep with a Ground Pound. Directly after being hit, they briefly run at the higher speed in the direction the were launched in. Sheep usually cannot walk off of a platform, instead sticking to the edge. If a sheep touches acactus, it dashes in the opposite direction, ignoring Mario and even knocking him over if they collide. Hitting them with an attack, excluding stomps, launches them and negates this state. If a sheep falls off the map, touchespoison, sinks intoquicksand, falls into water deep enough to swim in, or enters the fountain in theMushroom Kingdom, it disappears and respawns in a puff of smoke at its original position.

TwoPower Moons can be obtained by guiding a number of lost sheep to their owners. Each situation ends with a space that has raised edges, which the sheep can be lured or launched into but cannot run back out of. A tune plays when a sheep enters as an indicator. If a sheep leaves, an alternate tune plays. Three sheep appearSand Kingdom. They belong to an unnamedTostarenan, who asksMario to regroup them as they all escaped. After Mario herds them back to the Tostarenan's stone pen, he rewards Mario with the "Herding Sheep in the Dunes" Power Moon. WhileThe Hole in the Desert is the current objective, neither the sheep or the Tostarenan appear, so the Power Moon cannot be obtained in that circumstance. After the game's finale, another sheep challenge opens up. A Toad in theMushroom Kingdom lost six sheep, and rewards Mario with the "Herding Sheep at Peach's Castle" Power Moon for returning them to their grassy enclosure. The tune does not play for the final sheep in either case, possibly because the Power Moon jingle is used to indicate the Power Moon appearing.

TheWooded Kingdom features a area inside aMoon Pipe with two sheep challenges. Mario must useCappy to push a sheep through an obstacle course, so that it can enter an iron enclosure of itsSteam Gardener owner's creation. Another sheep is located on platforms that are much higher up, and its Steam Gardener owner asks Mario to show them how to get this sheep into the same enclosure as the first sheep. The only way to get this sheep into the circle is to launch the sheep over the gap. Each sheep is is tied to a different Power Moon, the first being "Herding Sheep Above the Forest Fog" and the second being "Herding Sheep on the Iron Bridge". Both of them are rewarded by the first Steam Gardener. The second one congrats Mario on technique. The jingle for sheep does not play here. In this scenario, the sheep are capable of walking off the platforms. The Steam Gardeners stand alongside the starting position of their sheep, instead of in the enclosure.

If Mario obtains all four Power Moons from herding sheep, the player can unlock the "Master Sheep Herder" achievement by speaking withToadette.

Mario Golf: Super Rush[edit]

Sheep also appear inMario Golf: Super Rush where they are kept in a pen with aMonty Mole atBonny Greens.

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  Model fromSuper Mario Odyssey

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  Screenshot fromSuper Mario Odyssey

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  Screenshot fromMario Golf: Super Rush

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References[edit]

• Bovids
• Earth animals
• Super Mario Odyssey species

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