Wart
- This article is about the character fromSuper Mario Bros. 2. For the character erroneously referred to as "Wart" in theClub Nintendo comic "Wart steht unter Strom", seeBowser.
| Wart | |
|---|---|
 Artwork fromSuper Mario Advance | |
| Species | Toad[1] |
| First appearance | Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic (1987, overall) Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988,Super Mario franchise) |
| Latest appearance | Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition (Player Icon cameo) (2024) |
| Latest portrayal | Charles Martinet[2] (2001) |
| Member of | 8 bits (leader) |
- “Well, I see you've made it at last. Too bad it was all for nothing. Subcon is mine, and there's nothing you can do to stop me!”
- —Wart,Super Mario Advance (book)
Wart, namedMamu in Japan and inThe Legend of Zelda series, is the main antagonist ofYume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic andSuper Mario Bros. 2. He is the leader of a gang known as the8 bits, and his major appearance centers around his efforts to conquerSubcon, a land of dreams. Wart's information in the original instruction booklet states, "He is the most mischievous of all in the world of dreams. He created monsters by playing with thedream machine."[3] He created all of the game's monsters,[4] which are also referred to as his "moppets."[5][6] His name comes from the bumps on toads which are also known as warts.
History[edit]
Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic[edit]
InYume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic, Mamu's true origins lie in the tale of the dream world, Muu. In the original storyline, Mamu had taken control of the Muu people'sDream Machine, producing monsters and mayhem. However, the Muu people knew of his weakness tovegetables and used them to force a surrender, bringing peace back to the dream world.
In the "real" world, the green-dressed monkey Rūsa gives the storybook to the twins Poki and Piki. Towards the end of the book, the twins quarrel and tear out the final page of the story, thus erasing the book's ending. Freed, Mamu pulls through the pages of the storybook and kidnaps the two children. The two kids pleaded for help, and Rūsa hurries away. The family, which consists of Papa and Mama and their son, Imajin, as well as Imajin's girlfriend Lina, jumps through the storybook and embarks on a journey to save the two children and free Muu from Mamu's reign.
One by one, Mamu engages the family in battle in the dream factory. Mamu can spit five bubbles at once and can destroy the vegetable projectiles produced by the Dream Machine. Conventional attack methods are ineffective against the tyrant. The family has to throw vegetables in his mouth when it is open, defeating him after four hits. After Mamu's final defeat, the inhabitants are saved, completing the story. The two kidnapped children are rescued from their cages (with the key being thrown at the cage while Mamu was being beaten offscreen to a pulp by the Muu people) and return with the family back to their world, where the game ends.
Super Mario series[edit]
Super Mario Bros. 2 /Super Mario Advance[edit]
WhenDoki Doki Panic was released overseas asSuper Mario Bros. 2, Mamu's name was changed to "Wart." When theWesternSuper Mario Bros. 2 was localized asSuper Mario USA in Japan, the original name of "Mamu" was used, but all other plot-related changes remained.
Wart's role is similar as inYume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic. Just as before, he used the hijacked Dream Machine and his army (known as the8 bits) to conquer Subcon. Instead of fighting him, thenatives of Subcon make contact withMario through one of his dreams, pleading for him to save them and telling him about Wart's weakness: vegetables. The next day he,Luigi,Princess Toadstool, andToad discover a door to Subcon and decide to save the dream world from Wart. The battle with Wart is largely the same, except it takes six vegetables to defeat Wart. After his defeat, Wart is seen one last time during the victory celebrations, being crowd-surfed across the screen by the now-freed Subcons. As he disappears off the screen, the Subcons pummel him one last time. During the cast roll, Wart appears laughing at the very end.
In theGame Boy Advance version, Wart is given dialogue, and speaks clear sentences such as,"I am the great Wart!" and"Ah, ribbit!". One minor difference is that after he is defeated, Wart's body becomes intangible to the player, unlike in the originalSuper Mario Bros. 2 (and its port inSuper Mario All-Stars), where the player can still take damage from contact with his defeat animation. The remake expands on Wart by implying he is capable of casting magic. This is shown in cutscenes prior to fightingFryguy andClawgrip, bosses that are initially seen in a weaker form before bubbles that resemble Wart's arrive to envelop and transform them into their massive forms.
BS Super Mario USA[edit]
Wart once again appears in all four "Power Challenge" installments ofBS Super Mario USA, a follow-up to the WesternSuper Mario Bros. 2. In this game, it is shown that after his defeat, Wart and his crew escaped to another dream and laid low for a while; they eventually return and attack Subcon once more, forcing itsking into hiding and moving him to summon Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Peach once more.
Wart can be found in everyjar inSubspace, where his room is actually identical to that of the final room of the factory (World 7-2) fromSuper Mario Bros. 2. He possesses the same attacks and is defeated the same way as in his earlier appearances. Like all the major characters in this version, he is voiced but his picture does not appear on the top right when he talks. On certain intervals, Wart's harmful bubbles will float up from the bottom of the screen.
Super Mario Maker 2[edit]
Although Wart does not appear as a usable course element inSuper Mario Maker 2, his original sprite appears briefly when the Final Bosssound effect is played while wearing theSMB2 Mushroom, just asBirdo's appears with the Boss Music sound effect.
Super Mario Bros. (Valiant Comics)[edit]
Wart appears in a fewSuper Mario Bros. stories. He first appears in the issue "Cloud Nine," where he is disguised as a bed salesman, abducts theMushroom King and also tries to flood theMushroom Kingdom. Notably in this story, Mario mentions Wart had abducted the king on at least one previous occasion. In "Duh Stoopid Bomb!", where his name is seen onWooster's list of people who think the Mushroom King is dumb. Wart has his second role in "Tanooki Suits Me," in whichBowser plans to sell Wart pieces of artwork that he had stolen fromthe Mushroom Castle's Royal Art Gallery for a huge profit. However, a disguised Mario is stolen along with the artwork and, upon discovering Bowser's plot, manages to fool Wart into believing that the artwork is nothing more than worthless droplets of theApook Corporation. In comparison toCloud Nine, Wart here bears a closer resemblance to his official artwork appearance.
Nintendo Adventure Books[edit]
- “Right here inthe Land of Outrageous Dreams. It's a most excellent dream,Dude. Far superior to that conquer-the-world stuff. Now I dream of skating the most radical inclines possible. Thatshort fungus doctor dude helped me turn Subcon into this raucous skate park. Gnarly, don't you agree?”
- —Wart,Doors to Doom
Wart's first appearance in aNintendo Adventure Books book isDoors to Doom.Dr. Sporis von Fungenstein had convinced him to convert the denizens of Subcon into surfers, and when the Mario Brothers meet Wart, he is friendly and welcoming, munching on a corn dog and playing aGame Boy. He tries to trade a garage door opener, which is a required item for the book's good ending, for one of the brothers' hats. However, Wart is still a potentially dangerous figure; making the wrong choices when trying to enter his lair results inGame Overs, either by being assaulted by Wart on his skateboard or being exposed to dangerously loud rock music. Also, when trading with him, offering him Luigi's hat (which is too small for him) ends up with Wart ripping the hat and a furious Luigi insulting him in response. If Luigi follows up on his anger by attacking Wart with vegetables, Wart counters by spitting them back and running the brothers down with his skateboard, also resulting in a Game Over.
InDinosaur Dilemma, Wart has a cameo as one of the guests invited to the party Bowser is holding at hisDinosaur IslandCastle, in honor of being chosen as the recipient of that year's Snowbell Prize. The text introduces Wart as "the king of the Land of Nightmares".
Super Mario-kun[edit]
Wart is the main villain ofvolume 8's first storyline inSuper Mario-kun, though he was previously mentioned in chapter 6 as the one that sold to Bowser some of his minions (like Mouser, Phanto and Shy Guys).
While Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and Birdo are adventuring to Bowser's Castle to save Peach, they receive nightmares from the Subcons, telling them that they have been kidnapped by Wart. The next morning, the four are kidnapped by a Pidgit, who takes them to Subcon and Wart via a giant moving cardboard and explains that he was so impressed that they managed to defeat his minions (in volume 8) that now he wants to test them against his entire army, challenging them to save Subcon and its people.
During the trip to Wart's castle, the group loses Birdo to Mouser's bombs, and they are later reached by Toad and Birdo's twin, all while Wart watches them from hidden cameras, sending his army's generals against them. In chapter 5, the heroes face Wart and, even though they learn from the booklet that Warts should die to the vegetables they collected, Wart gladly eats the greens without getting harmed, since he made a spell to prevent that. Trapped in his bubbles, Birdo manages to escape and calls her other sister, who brings theBonus Chance roulette, finally hurting Wart by crushing him.
In the next chapter, Wart molts himself into a nightmarish beast, which is a mix of his body and his generals': Wart's head, Tryclyde as hairs, Clawgrip's body and claws, Mouser's infinite bomb ammunition and Fryguy's flammable aura. With his friends each falling to a different part of Wart's new body, Toad summons a door with a magic potion, but it does not lead to a Subspace, but to aSuper Mario Bros. 3 Toad House from which he takes atreasure chest full of everySuper Mario Bros. 3 power-up (as well as aPoison Mushroom fromSuper Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels that is taken by Luigi). With theAnchor, Mario freezes Wart and the heroes attacks him with all their might, but Wart laughs: since they are in the realm of dreams, he can wish for anything he thinks of. In a matter of seconds, the power-ups disappear and the heroes are all trapped in glue.
In the next and lastSuper Mario Bros. 2 chapter, Wart puts the glued heroes outside his castle, so that they form the word "STUPID(S)". Later, the entirety of Bowser's Castle falls on top of Wart's and breaks the heroes out of the glue: having disappeared from the Mushroom Kingdom, Peach forced the Koopa Troop to find Mario. Bowser and Mario join forces and attack Wart, but he is no match for them and tries to send his army against him, but they are too tired. Mario tries to do something by taking the Subspace Mushroom to the army in order to make them stronger, but Wart zaps him. This does not help him, however, since he just fuses Mario with aThwomp, aKoopa Troopa, aParagoomba, aBullet Bill. With the powers of all the Koopa Troop with which he has combined, Mario finally kills Wart and turns back to normal. Wart, though, is not finished, and his ghost possesses his castle's crumbles, creating a giant Wart face made of stone, but Yoshi summons with the dream power an army of hungryBaby Yoshis that eat the stone face, finally defeating Wart.
Wart later appears briefly involume 10, in a chapter based onSuper Mario All-Stars, where he allies with Bowser andWario to beat Mario via mazes.
The Legend of Zelda series[edit]
- Zelda Wiki article:Mamu
- “Everybody knows me!”
- —Mamu,The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Wart, under his Japanese name Mamu, makes an appearance in theGame Boy gameThe Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, itsGame Boy Color version, and theNintendo Switch remake, the latter being the first game to give the character a 3D model. He lives in a pond beneath the Signpost Maze onKoholint Island, which, like Subcon, is a dream land. However, unlike in theSuper Mario game, Wart is not an antagonist inLink's Awakening, and actually helps the hero,Link. In exchange for 300 Rupees, Wart teaches Link a song on theocarina, the "Frog's Song of Soul", which is required to revive theFlying Rooster and to access thefinal main dungeon. After teaching Link the song, Mamu is not seen again.
Although Mamu himself does not actually appear inHyrule Warriors Legends, he is referenced as a costume forGanondorf in the Link's Awakening DLC Pack.
Super Smash Bros. series[edit]
Wart was referenced inSuper Smash Bros. Brawl, in that "WART" was one of the randomly generated names offered to players. Additionally, Wart appears as an Advanced-class Grab-typeprimary spirit using his artwork fromSuper Mario Advance inSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate. When equipped, it simply increases the fighter's power. InWorld of Light, thespirit can be encountered on the Light Realm map. The spirit's puppet fighters areKing K. Rool (in his blue costume) andPeach (in her white costume, referencing theVegetables) and the battle takes place on the Battlefield form of theSkyworld stage. "WART" also returns as a randomly selected name.
Other appearances[edit]
Jeff Pillars played a part in theSuper Mario Bros. film as ade-evolution technician; in earlier cuts of the film, he would have been named Wart as a reference to the character.
In theClub Nintendo story "Wart steht unter Strom," Bowser is incorrectly referred to as "Wart".
Wart never appeared inThe Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, though many of his characteristics were given to King Koopa instead. Of further note,an early promotional posterMedia:SMBSSHotdogPoster.jpg featuring several highly off-model enemies features a large frog monster wearing a necklace among them, possibly intended to represent Wart; however, it also is purple, has large lips, no clothes other than the necklace, and wields a spear. In addition, Wart, mislabeled as "King Koopa," appears in reels B and C in a Master-view toy released during the run ofThe Super Mario Bros. Super Show!.
In the artwork for theSuper Mario Bros. pinball machine, Wart is shown on thecastle in world 6, presumably holdingLuigi captive despite the former not appearing inSuper Mario World, the game that the pinball machine is based on, as well as the fact that Luigi is never at any point held captive during said game.
Wart is briefly mentioned inShy Guy's biography inMario Superstar Baseball.
InSuper Paper Mario,Francis owns and wants more of a comic namedCyborg Wart, which is named for its protagonist.
A frog villager namedWart Jr. appears inAnimal Crossing games, a possible nod to Wart in name and species.
InPaper Mario: Color Splash, Wart is mentioned by a yellow Toad atSunglow Ridge. Said Toad states that he saw Wart in a dream, only to ponder whether it really was a dream, referencing the events ofSuper Mario Bros. 2.
General information[edit]
Physical description[edit]
Wart is a large, greentoad with a big white round belly, a general body shape resembling most toads, a vaguely crocodilian snout filled with large blunt white teeth, and large claws on his two-toed feet and four-fingered hands. TheSuper Mario Bros. comics depict him with scales and even a spiked tail (similar toBowser), giving him a closer resemblance to a crocodile or alligator, rather than a toad. He is typically depicted as wearing a blue, sleeveless robe (white with sleeves in-game, and light brown with sleeves in remakes). He also wears a crown with an emerald on it, a large diamond-shaped ruby set in a gold pendant on a gold necklace, and gold bracelets.
Personality[edit]
Very little of his personality has been revealed beyond the fact that he is willing to cause mayhem and destruction in order to achieve his goal of ruling Subcon. However,BS Super Mario USA does suggest that he is cunning and patient enough to bide his time between attacks, and the fact that he stole all the Mario statues may indicate a spiteful side to his personality.
Profiles and statistics[edit]
Super Mario Bros. 2 /Super Mario Advance[edit]
- Instruction booklet description:
- English:
He is the most mischievous of all in the world of dreams. He created monsters by playing with the dream machine.[3]
- English:
- Game Boy Advance version
- Instruction booklet description:
- English:
Wart is the most uncontrollable mischief maker in all of the land of dreams. He uses the Dream Machine to create a myriad of monsters.[7]
- English:
Mario Mania[edit]
The evil ruler of the world of dreams is a big green nightmare with an appetite for flies and heroes. Lucky for Mario, Wart is not very keen on vegetables. After the big guy gets a stomach-full of radishes, onions, carrots and tomatoes, he'll have his own nightmares to contend with.[8]
Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten[edit]
| マムー (JP) / Mamu (EN) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 | |||
| Original text (Japanese) | Translation | ||
| 夢の国サブコン | Place of origin | Dream Land Subcon | |
| わがまま | Disposition | Self-centered | |
| USA | Game appearances | USA | |
| USA生まれの夢の魔王 「ワタシ、マムー言います。アメリカでは、ワートと呼ばれてました。マリオUSAで夢の世界を支配しようとしたけど、マリオさんにやられてしまいました。残念ね」[9] | USA-born Dream Demon King "My name is Mamu. In America, they called me Wart. I tried to rule the dream world in Mario USA, but Mario defeated me. What a shame." | ||
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]
| Spirit #47 Wart | ||
 | Series/game | Super Mario Series |
| Type | Primary | |
| Slots | 2 | |
| Class | Advanced | |
| Strength / effect(s) | Grab | |
| How to obtain | World of Light (The Light Realm);Spirit Board | |
| Spirit battle | Opponent(s) | King K. Rool,Peach |
| Conditions | Hazard: Slumber Floor
| |
| Stage | Skyworld (Battlefield) | |
| Song | Boss Theme - Super Mario Bros. 2 |
Gallery[edit]
- For this subject's image gallery, seeGallery:Wart.
Super Mario Bros. 2
Voice samples[edit]
 Super Mario Advance - "I am the great Wart! Ha-haha!" | File info |
List of appearances[edit]
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.
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | マムー[10][11] Mamū | Anagram of「夢魔」(muma, "nightmare"), with「ム」elongated | |
| ワート[12] Wāto | Transliteration of the English name | Super Mario USA,Super Mario All-Stars | |
| Chinese(Simplified) | 玛穆[13] Mǎmù | Transliteration of the Japanese name | |
| 沃特[14][15] Wòtè | Transliteration of the English name | prior toThe Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Nintendo Switch) | |
| Chinese(Traditional) | 瑪穆[13] Mǎmù | Transliteration of the Japanese name | |
| Wart[15] | Unmodified from the English name | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate | |
| Dutch | Wart[16][15] | - | |
| Finnish | Wart[17] | - | |
| French | Wart[16][18]:52[15] | - | |
| German | Willi[15] | "Willy", a nickname for the given name "William" | |
| Wart[19][20][18]:32[21] | - | prior toSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate | |
| Italian | Wart[22][18]:112[23][15][24] | - | |
| Mamu[25] | Romanization of Japanese name | The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (original andDX) | |
| Korean | 마무[26][15] Mamu | Transliteration of the Japanese name | |
| 와르트[27] Wareuteu | Transliteration of the English name | Super Mario Bros. 2 | |
| Norwegian | Wart[28] | - | |
| Portuguese | Wart[29] | - | |
| Russian | Крокожабер[15] Krokozhaber | Portmanteau of "крокодил" (krokodil, "crocodile") and "жаба" (zhaba, "toad") | |
| Spanish | Wart[30][18]:92[15] | - | |
| Swedish | Wart[31] | - |
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