King Kaliente

King Kaliente is a giant octopus-like creature from outer space that appeared in Super Mario Galaxy in the Good Egg Galaxy and Bowser Jr.'s Lava Reactor as boss fights.
==Physical description==
He is an giant, orange Octoomba with blue eyes, said to be the ruler of the Octoombas, and he has multiple tentacles which can be used to deflect stuff. He wears a crown & a neckerchief. His rematch paints him with black skin and red eyes.
==In ==
=== Super Mario Galaxy ===
King Kaliente makes an appearance in Good Egg Galaxy as the second/final boss of that Galaxy, and is overall the second boss of the game. To defeat Kaliente, Mario must attack the green coconuts he shoots at him. He has to do this three times. But, on the third time, King Kaliente will attack the coconut Mario hits. Hit it back and forth three times, and on the third time, Kaliente will finally be defeated. 
He is then later fought for the sixth Grand Star at Bowser Jr.'s Lava Reactor as the main boss of that area, is the sixth/final boss of the Engine Room and is the eighteenth(nineteenth if counting the Mandibug Stack) boss of the game. In this fight, King Kaliente's Spicy Return, King Kaliente is black with red eyes, presumably burnt. Because of this, he is either called Burnt King Kaliente or Spicy King Kaliente. The way to defeat him is still the same, but the surface of the arena is slick, the platforms will sink into the lava you'll have to hit him with the coconut more times than in the first, and he can spawn Lava Bouncers earlier. He also spawns Meteors on his counter throws.
=== Super Mario Galaxy 2 ===
King Kaliente reappears at the Boss Blitz Galaxy as the second boss of that Galaxy, along with other bosses from Super Mario Galaxy. King Kaliente is defeated again with those coconuts like in Super Mario Galaxy.
== Music ==
==Behind the scenes==
===Etymology===
His name is a pun on the Spanish word "caliente," meaning hot, but with a "K" in place of the "C."
==Trivia==
*King Kaliente shares his boss music with both Bugaboom and Topmaniac.
**The Bugaboom uses a faster-paced variation for his own theme, which plays when he takes to the air during phase 2.
*Kaliente is seen to have an antenna like the Octoomba species after his crown is knocked off.
*Much like Dino Piranha, King Kaliente is a boss that gets fought in Good Egg Galaxy, and later on gets fought a second time near the end of the game while also fought in a fiery area with a fire-like attribute, additionally, they both serve as the last boss of a role (King Kaliente is the final boss to hold the Grand Star, where as Fiery Dino Piranha is the final Normal Boss fight of Super Mario Galaxy).
*It is unknown what King Kaliente looks like below his neck, or how many tentacles he truly has.
*King Kaliente bears somewhat of a resemblance to Prince Pikante, a boss of Super Mario Galaxy 2, and it is possible that the two are related.
*The concept of the player and a boss deflecting a projectile back and forth in attempts to damage one another may be based off of the concept of Dead Man's Volley from the The Legend of Zelda series.
*In Super Mario Odyssey, the battle music of the Broodals is similar to King Kaliente's.
==Gallery==
KingKaliente.png|King Kaliente reveals himself.
Kaliente.jpg|Kaliente on his final run.
SMG Burnt King Kaliente.webp|Burnt King Kaliente
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Category:Cephalopods
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