Wigglers

Wigglers are a species of Caterpillar like Mario Enemies. Debuting in Super Mario World, they are enemies who are usually calm yellow caterpillars who will turn red and go Whitty Ballistic by stepping on one. While they usually appear as enemies, some appear as Bosses (ESPECIALLY in Mario Kart because they are known to run at high speeds as if they were Sonic the Hedgehog), or even playable characters (Like in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate just because Sakurai has gone completely insane with his roster in this alternate timeline anyway).

# General Knowledge

## Physical Appearance

Wigglers are known for having a flower on top of their heads, and generally have 4 body segments called, well, Wiggler Segments, and they generally have 8 legs housed in 4 pairs, one pair of legs in each body segment. In rare instances, the body segments increase in amount, such as 6 (With 10 feet in the back segments and 2 hands in the lead segment just behind the head) which is the main appearance of the Wiggler in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Galaga Universe).

## Personalities and behaviors

In their calm state, they are seen as yellow, but when angered, they turn red with clenched teeth and white eyes (Sometimes glowing Yellow in the Dark). When Wigglers turn red, they either lose their flower petals (Or lose the entire flower) or had their flower's filament and leaves turn orange. Wigglers are way too unique by Mario Standards, because when angered, they behave like steam locomotives. The way it works is that the flower on top acts like a locomotive's smoke stack or chimney, and when angered wigglers blew steam off their nostrils, it behaves like cylinder cocks which work to let water out from steam locomotive cylinders in an event where water gets carried over when the throttle/regulator valve in the steam dome is opened. Angered wigglers can also blow a Steam Locomotive whistle via their mouths, usually to warn players when they are charging towards them.

## Specific Wigglers

### Grande Toro Gigante (Mario Kart 8DX+)

Grande Toro Gigante is the Italian name for "The Giant Big Bull" and is a given title to the world's number one INFAMOUS Racing Wiggler. Grande Toro Gigante is a Gargantuan sized Wiggler who is literally 24 feet long (12 segments long) and is as large as the Sonic the Hedgehog's infamous line of military vehicles, the G.U.N. Military Trucks. Grande Toro's infamous appearance is as a Boss in the Mario Kart games, first appearing as a normal giant wiggler in Mario Kart DS' Mission 7-Boss, and Mario Kart Wii's Wiggler Tournament in Wario's Gold Mine (With an additional 2 body segments, making him a 12 feet wiggler). However, since MKDS and MKWii's races against him are too easy to outrun (Because of many players exploiting Funky Kong and the Flame Rider bike to outrun Grande Toro), Mario Kart 8DX+ made Grande Toro Gigante's race the most hardest and near impossible to win race. Grande Toro Gigante's name was properly introduced to the players in 8DX+

Grande Toro Gigante's additional attributes are that he has a big mustache and bull horns, and unlike generic wigglers, he has orange color scheme when he's calm, and when he's angered, he turns dark red with glowing spots and bright red eyes decorated with yellow bling-bling eye effects. He also has a Dino-Piranha tail in the back of Segment 12. Grande Toro Gigante is INFAMOUS for his boss race in Mario Kart 8DX+ where he serves as the final boss, racing against the player who reached the finals. His Infamy is this, the race takes place in a 10-Lap 500CC High Speed race track that is approximately 35 minutes long called, the Gold Volcano Speedway, a combination of Fury Volcano (Super Princess Peach) and Wario's Gold Mine (MKWii) only it is full of high speed straights, long turns, and Freight Trains carrying Gold. In Laps 1 and 2, Grande Toro Gigante is in his normal state. In Laps 3, 4 and 5, he is slightly annoyed, and in Laps 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, he became fully enraged.

Grande Toro Gigante's gimmick is that whenever the player is in front of him, he will charge at the player in an attempt to stun them and overtake them, indicated by a target lock at the player, and the only way to avoid it is to steer away from the target when it's locked, however, Grande Toro Gigante is only the biggest PART in the race, as there are two other giant racers participating in the Grand Finale.

### Fighting Wiggler (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)

Fighting Wiggler, or just Wiggler (In-Name) is a Playable Wiggler in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, as Fighter 091. He has 6 body segments, 2 hands in Wiggler Segment 1 and 10 feet in Wiggler Segments 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Fighting Wiggler is approximately as tall as Bowser in terms of Height, and is Tied with Sonic the Hedgehog in Speed. Fighting Wiggler is a Heavy type fighter due to his mass, and has his classic voice like Bowser and Donkey Kong (As opposed to wild animal/beast voices in the boring regular world) to make him ironic. As an A.I. or C.P.U. Opponent fighter, Fighting Wiggler is quite aggressive in Lv. 3-7, and he is extremely aggressive in Lv. 8-10, and whenever he gets damaged, he gets stronger, and further damaging him is becoming tedious and you had to be lucky with a Final Smash to knock him out of the ring.

### Green Wiggler (Super Mario Sunshine)

The Green Wiggler is a specific Wiggler found in Isle Delfino as Gelato Beach's guardian. In the story, he is sleeping on the nest of the sand bird and is unaware of the nest, only for Mario/Luigi/Princess Peach/Toad to wake him up by making him fall out to the ground. Unlike in regular Super Mario Sunshine, Green Wiggler has to be hit 5 times when he's rampaging around Gelato Beach, the place he was SUPPOSED to be guarding, but that's because of the Shine that was possessing him. However, after he is hit 5 times, he became EVEN MORE ANGRIER and starts chasing Mario and his friends who then run towards a train consisting of a pump trolley (Luigi and Toad) and a mine cart (Mario and Peach).

When Green Wiggler is chasing Mario and friends, the latter four must team up in outrunning him, but doing so only makes him charge at them faster. While Luigi and Toad pump the train, Mario and Princess Peach can shoot water bombs at Green Wiggler. Green Wiggler's chase mode's weakspots are his glowing spots that emit flares. By extinguishing the spots, Green Wiggler is becoming vulnerable, because the only way to drain his health is by shooting the water bombs at his face, and it has no effect unless all of his glowing spots are extinguished. Once he is defeated, he goes back to sleep, allowing Mario and co. to steal the Shine Sprite and make a run for it before he wakes up again.