Fryguy

Not to be confused with Fly Guy.

“I'm too hot to touch!”

—Fryguy, Super Mario Advance

Fryguy^{[1] [2]} (also spelled Fry Guy^{[3] [4]} or FryGuy^[5] ) is the boss of World 4 in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2 . He is a ball of fire given life by Wart in Subcon.^[1]

History[edit ]

Super Mario series[edit ]

Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic / Super Mario Bros. 2[edit ]

In Super Mario Bros. 2, Fryguy is the boss of World 4, an icy arctic ocean; he is stationed in a tall fortress at the end of World 4-3. When confronted by Mario and his friends, Fryguy spits fireballs down to attack the heroes. Since Fryguy is made of fire, the heroes take damage if they touch him. To defeat Fryguy, Mushroom Blocks (masks in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic ) must be thrown at him. After three hits, the battle enters the second phase, as Fryguy splits into four Small Fry Guys,^{[6] [7]} also known as mini-FryGuys.^[8] They jump toward the player, and can also be destroyed with Mushroom Blocks. After one Small Fry Guy is destroyed, the remaining Small Fry Guys become progressively faster. Later versions redraw Fryguy's sprite heavily, with his eyes being more open, his mask being light blue instead of black, and his fire having twice as many animation frames. Additionally, his face is a separate graphic from his body in the later versions.

The original "PRG0" release of Super Mario Bros. 2 has a glitch where if any Small Fry Guys are hit with a Mushroom Block while the player is shrinking from being reduced to 1 HP, they will fall offscreen instead of disappearing in a puff of smoke. The glitch is that they must disappear in a puff of smoke in order for the game to count them as defeated, so the player ultimately gets softlocked due to the game still thinking there are Small Fry Guys left. A later revision of the game fixed this by setting the Small Fry Guys to always disappear in a puff of smoke.^[9]

In Super Mario All-Stars , Small Fry Guys are redesigned to remove the white portion of their eyes, as well as their mouths. This makes them resemble Fryguy less. These changes are kept in Super Mario Advance .

In Super Mario Advance, Fryguy is shown being seemingly created on-screen by four of Wart's giant bubbles; however, instead of fire (as mentioned in the original manual), the bubbles form him from an empty version of his mask.

BS Super Mario USA[edit ]

Fryguy appears once again as a boss in the pseudo-sequel, BS Super Mario USA . He makes his first appearance in the third broadcast, helping Wart and the other 8 bits attack Subcon once more, but is eventually defeated by Mario and the other heroes once again. Like the predecessor, he is found in the snowy lands of Subcon and he is fought in the same way to that of Super Mario Bros. 2. He also shows up to attack 19 minutes into the broadcast, regardless of the player's location. In this game, he has the personality of a cultured samurai and speaks with an archaic, formal speech. He will give a discourse about bushido or recite haiku .

The Super Mario Bros. Super Show![edit ]

“You owe me 60 gold coinsssss! Pay up by sundown, or I'll turn you into fried fungussssssss!”

—Fryguy, "The Great BMX Race"

Fryguy is a character in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Like many antagonists on the show, he works for King Koopa, as opposed to Wart (as in the video games). Fryguy does not appear as much as other Super Mario Bros. 2 antagonists on the show. Fryguy is implied to be a species on the show, as in "Raiders of the Lost Mushroom," the terminology "a Fryguy" is used. Additionally, in "Hooded Robin and His Mario Men," the heroes try to distract Fryguy by disguising Toad and Hooded Robin as a "Frygal."

List of episodes featuring Fryguy

• The Great BMX Race
• Too Hot to Handle
• Hooded Robin and His Mario Men
• Raiders of the Lost Mushroom

Super Mario Bros. (Valiant Comics)[edit ]

Fryguy also appears in the Super Mario Bros. comics. In the comics, there is not just one Fryguy, but an entire species. They have minor roles in many stories, starting with "The Fish That Should've Gotten Away" in the first issue. They are also the focus of a one-page comic called "Fryguy High Yearbook -- Activity Page!" which depicts students of Fryguy High taking part in events such as a "hot baseball team that threw sixteen consectutive no-hitters," though it is also shown the school eventually burned down. The first time Fryguys are a major focus of a full story is "Beauty and the Beach," where King Koopa (under the alias "Ka-Hoopa") attempts to create some by forcing a volcano to erupt onto an island village of Mushroom People. In another story, "Duh Stoopid Bomb!," Bowser is expelled to "Fryguy Kindergarten" after an intelligence-boosted Snifit takes over his kingdom.

Nintendo Adventure Books[edit ]

Fryguy and some of his GLOM-spawned clones try to attack Mario as he is exploring the Mushroom Kingdom in Double Trouble , but he avoids them.

Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up[edit ]

In Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up , the description of the Firefighter career page reveals that Fryguy has started a fire. This Fryguy lacks a mask, instead having bushy eyebrows.

Super Mario Bros. film[edit ]

In the Super Mario Bros. film, the Fireball guns used by President Koopa and his minions have multiple names. One such name is the "Fry Guy Flamethrower", a reference to the enemy. This name can be seen in a sign at the Boom Boom Bar that reads "These premises are protected by Fry Guy Flamethrowers".^[10]

Super Mario-kun[edit ]

Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi encounter Fryguy in volume 8 of Super Mario-kun . He and his minions attempt to cook them in a soup, but Toad and Birdo arrive by breaking through the sky, riding on a whale, which then flattens Fryguy and his minions.

Super Paper Mario[edit ]

A Sammer Guy in Super Paper Mario is called Guy Who Fry.

Profiles and statistics[edit ]

Super Mario series[edit ]

Super Mario Bros. 2[edit ]

• Instruction booklet: Wart gave life to this entity which is created from fire. He spits fireballs when he is mad.

Super Mario Advance[edit ]

• Instruction booklet: This flaming fiend was brought to life by Wart. When it gets angry, it will attack by hurling fireballs.

Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten [edit ]

Gallery[edit ]

For this subject's image gallery, see Gallery:Fryguy.

• Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic Hisshō Kōryakuhō

  Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic Hisshō Kōryakuhō

• Super Mario Bros. 2 artwork

  Super Mario Bros. 2 artwork

• Super Mario USA instruction booklet

  Super Mario USA instruction booklet

• Super Mario Bros. 2

  Super Mario Bros. 2

• Super Mario All-Stars (Super Mario Bros. 2)

  Super Mario All-Stars (Super Mario Bros. 2)

• BS Super Mario USA

  BS Super Mario USA

• Small Fry Guy sprite from Super Mario Bros. 2

  Small Fry Guy sprite from Super Mario Bros. 2

• Small Fry Guy sprite from Super Mario All-Stars

  Small Fry Guy sprite from Super Mario All-Stars

Names in other languages[edit ]

The contemporaneous name for each language is listed first. Subsequent names are listed in chronological order for each language, from oldest to newest.

References[edit ]

• Fire creatures
• Ghosts
• Masks
• Characters
• Characters from other Nintendo games
• Double Trouble enemies
• Super Mario Bros. (Valiant Comics) enemies
• Super Mario Bros. 2 bosses
• The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! enemies

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