Sledge Bro

**Sledge Bros.** (or **Sledge Brothers**) are large overweight versions of Hammer Bros. that throw sledge hammers instead of regular ones. They can create small earthquakes as well.

### Physical description

Sledge Bros. are large, overweight Hammer Bros. with yellow skin and belly plates, green shells and helmets, and big feet with three toes each. Unlike their smaller relatives, Sledge Bros. do not wear shoes, and their eyes are also smaller and beady; additionally, they carry around large sledge hammers instead of small clawed hammers. Sledge Bros. have more pronounced beaks than Hammer Bros. In *Super Mario Bros. 3*, Sledge Bros. had light green skin, white belly plates, and wore black shells and helmets, though this was likely due to the NES' technical limitations. The *Super Mario All-Stars* version of *Super Mario Bros. 3* gives Sledge Bros. a darker green skin tone, as well as cream-colored belly plates. Sledge Bros. were also portrayed with mucus dripping from their nose, a detail later revisited in the *Super Mario Bros.*, *Super Mario Bros. 3*, and *Super Mario World* styles in *Super Mario Maker*. The *Super Mario Bros.* style also gives Sledge Bros. smiles as opposed to their frowns, as well as "proper" eyes with irises.

*The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3* is mostly faithful to the game depiction of Sledge Bros., though their are several differences: Sledge Bros. are slightly less overweight and bulky, they have yellow beaks rather than green, they lack the dripping mucus from their noses, and they wear dark green shells and helmets instead of black. *Paper Mario: Color Splash* is mostly faithful to Sledge Bro's current design, though he also has a paper outline in this game.

### Abilities

Unlike Hammer Bros., Sledge Bros. specialize in physical strength, as shown by their ability to carry and throw sledge hammers with ease. Sledge Bros. still have the ability to jump, though they jump considerably lower than their smaller relatives. Unlike them, however, Sledge Bros. can Ground Pound to unleash small earthquakes or shockwaves to stun their adversaries; merely jumping has this effect in their debut and the *Super Mario Bros.*, *Super Mario Bros. 3*, and *Super Mario World* styles of *Super Mario Maker*. Sledge Bros. are portrayed as Dark-attribute enemies in *Puzzle and Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition*, since they can change all field orbs into Dark Orbs. Although Sledge Bros. can be easily defeated by a jump, the aforementioned game makes them more resilient, due to having high HP; this also goes for *Paper Mario: Color Splash*.

### Speech

Sledge Bros. are generally silent in *Mario* games, both old and new; this is unlike its relatives, Hammer Bro, Fire Bro, Boomerang Bro and by extension Ice Bro who have received voice acting starting from *Mario Superstar Baseball*. *Paper Mario: Color Splash* is the first game to break Sledge Bros' traditional silence by giving them battle quotes albeit as in-game text dialogue; their variants, the Shady Sledge Bros., have more dialogue than them, however. *Super Mario Maker 2*'s *Super Mario 3D World* style gives Sledge Bros. (and by extension, Heavy Fire Bros.) low-pitched grunts and yells while attacking or being defeated.