Bob-omb

A , originally spelled Bob-Omb, is a species found throughout the . They first appear in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic but were inducted into the Mario franchise with the release of Super Mario Bros. 2.
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===Physical description===
A Bob-omb is typically a living bomb enemy with a body consisting of white eyes, a yellow wind-up key on its back, and round, orange feet.
Unlike other games, the Bob-ombs in Super Mario Bros. 2 have arms and not any wind-up key. In Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2, both their arms and hands are red, and their fuses are not visible, but in remakes, their hands are beige and their fuses are visible.
In Super Mario Bros. 3, the walking Bob-ombs have a rotating key on their back but not the ones shot from cannons.
In Super Mario Sunshine, Bob-ombs have a more toy-like appearance, including a red LED display for a face and feet resembling those of a wind-up toy. If it is blue, its eyes are instead light green. 
===Behavior===
Bob-ombs are living, moving explosive devices and are capable of walking around and igniting their own fuses. They can create explosions by detonating itself or being detonated. a Bob-omb's appearance, intelligence, and ally/enemy status differs widely between appearances, with some games depicting it as non-sentient and others playing up its intelligence.
Bob-ombs serve multiple roles in various games. In their most common appearances, they are enemies who explode upon being irritated, although they sometimes chase after Mario upon seeing him, they ignite their fuse upon seeing him exploding in a few seconds. Although a Bob-omb's self-destruction is intended to damage Mario or another playable character, it can often destroy certain obstacles or defeat enemies within its blast radius.
===Alignment===
At first, Bob-ombs were affiliated with the 8 bits army led by Wart. Since Super Mario Bros. 3, Bob-ombs and their variants have usually been affiliated with the Koopa Troop, which King Bob-omb is a member of as well. However, the relation between Bob-ombs and their supposed leader, King Bob-omb, has not often been established.
There are friendly Bob-ombs, most notably the Bob-omb Buddies, which the Bob-ombs have gone to war with a few times, including in Super Mario 64 and Mario Party. A civilization of peaceful Bob-ombs live in Fahr Outpost in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.
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*Bob-ombs are the only enemy in the New Super Mario Bros. games that do not drop coins upon being hit with a fireball from a Fire Flower in New Super Mario Bros., but do drop coins upon being hit this way in other games.
*Bob-ombs are one of the few creatures in the Super Mario series to have a major design change; in their debut game, Super Mario Bros. 2, they had arms, but other games tended to depict them them as being armless.
*Bob-ombs are more associated with Wario as they mainly appear on Wario's board Wario's Battle Canyon from Mario Party and one even appears as Wario's partner in Mario Party 3. Wario's special move from Mario Kart: Double Dash!! involves tossing Bob-ombs and Wario must fight King Bob-omb using Bob-ombs in Mario Kart DS. Mario Hoops 3-on-3 has a court named Wario Factory where Bob-ombs come occasionally from elevators or conveyor belts. Those can be picked up and thrown to make them explode.
*In SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, a similar enemy called a Bomb-Bot appears. They behave more like the Bob-ombs do in the 3D platformers: Bomb-Bots chase down players on sight, lighting their fuse, and then subject themselves a self-destruct in order to deal damage. Unlike the Super Mario Bob-omb, however, the player can destroy them by performing nearly any attack before the explosion; this causes the Bomb-Bot to detonate prematurely, but with the player out of range, and the blast can hurt other foes nearby.
**Bob-ombs also bear a resemblance to the Bomber enemy from the Kirby games due to their resemblance to an explosive. However, unlike Bombers, which have an oval shape similar to a missile, they appear as perfect circles with fuses. Additionally, Bombers need to fall off ledges to trigger their detonation, whereas Bob-ombs can trigger their own detonation without requiring outside stimulants.
*Bob-ombs are the only enemy in Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam that attempt to attack upon being reduced to 0 hit points, as well as the only enemy in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga who can be prevented from attacking without any move that stuns enemies.
*So far, Super Mario Odyssey is the only 3D platformer to not feature any Bob-ombs, coincidentally, it is also the only 3D platformer to not feature any Boos.
*Bob-ombs in Super Mario 64 explode when coming into contact with signs with text on them, but are completely fine with arrow signs.https://twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog/status/1780284031738777975
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