Wiggler (Super Mario Sunshine)

The Wiggler, also known as the Boss Hana, is a giant, green Wiggler who appears in Super Mario Sunshine as the boss of Gelato Beach. He sleeps on top of the glass case housing the Sand Bird egg, blocking sunlight and delaying its hatching.
== Appearance ==
Unlike other Wigglers, this particular Wiggler does not change color when he is angry. The Wiggler is green and his legs are tan-ish with blue feet, and a his nose is red. Yellow spots with orange borders pepper his segments, and his eyes are yellow. The anger symbol appears on the Wiggler's head when Mario goes head-to-head with him.
== History ==
=== In Super Mario Sunshine ===
In Super Mario Sunshine, Wiggler appears in two missions in Gelato Beach: Mirror Madness! Tilt, Slam, Bam! and Wiggler Ahoy! Full Steam Ahead!. In the first mission where the Wiggler appears, Mario has to correctly angle three mirrors with his Ground Pound skill to hasten the hatching of the Sand Bird, by removing the Plungelos found on the mirrors. Once all three mirrors are correctly angled, Wiggler falls off of the case, revealing a Shine Sprite. In the latter mission, Mario has to fight an enraged Wiggler. He moves very quickly and can damage Mario by running into him. Mario can stun him by spraying Dune Buds with water when Wiggler approaches them, flipping the creature onto his back, revealing a weak point on any one of his segments which needs to be struck with a Ground Pound to deal damage. After Wiggler has been hit three times, he turns into sand, revealing another Shine Sprite.
During the fight, the Wiggler blows steam from his nose and makes sounds like a steam locomotive.
=== Cameo Appearances ===
The Wiggler Wagons in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! found in Mushroom Bridge and Mushroom City bear resemblance to this Wiggler.
== Trivia ==
* Although other games, including Super Mario 64, its remake, Super Princess Peach, and Mario Kart DS possess bosses based on Wigglers, Super Mario Sunshine's Wiggler boss is one of two whose appearance greatly differs from that of a regular Wiggler, the other being Super Mario Odyssey's Mechawiggler.
* The Wiggler boss is the only boss in the game to be fought in a mission that does not use the regular intro theme; this is due to the boss music playing at the start of his level.
* When the player Ground Pounds Wiggler's body in Super Mario Sunshine, the boss music speeds up once per hit. This does not happen with any other boss in the game. His music speeding up is similar to when the Bugaboom is hit in Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2.
* Due to a glitch, if the player presses the Z button as soon as the Wiggler is defeated and is beginning to turn into sand, the music will slow down even more than in normal gameplay.
* In Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions, and Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey, Petey Piranha, Mom Piranha, and the Big Piranha Plants, respectively, use some of Wiggler's sound clips.
* The Wiggler, Bowser Jr. (as Shadow Mario), and Bowser are the only boss to be shown in multiple levels but not be fought in all of them; in his case, the Wiggler appears sleeping in Mirror Madness! Tilt, Slam, Bam!; he is not fought until the next level, Wiggler Ahoy! Full Steam Ahead!.
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