Scuttlebug
- This article is about the recurring enemies introduced in Super Mario 64. For the enemies in Super Mario Sunshine also known as "Scuttle Bugs", see Klamber.
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| In-game artwork of a Scuttlebug from Super Mario Run Artwork from Super Mario Run | |||
| First appearance | Super Mario 64 (1996) | ||
| Latest appearance | The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (cameo) (2026) | ||
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Scuttlebugs (formerly formatted as Scuttle Bugs),[1] occasionally simply called spiders,[2] [3] are round, striped spiders that act as semi-recurring enemies in the Super Mario franchise. Their yellow-and-black-striped design introduced in Super Mario 64 DS resembles the Joro spider, a ubiquitous species in Japan, similar to other spider enemies, such as Suu or Arachne. From New Super Mario Bros. 2 onward, they have dark purple stripes instead of black.
History[edit ]
Super Mario series[edit ]
Super Mario 64 / Super Mario 64 DS[edit ]
Scuttle Bugs first appear in Super Mario 64 and later in its remake, Super Mario 64 DS . They act similarly to Goombas; when in range, they charge at the player character, and punching or stepping on their heads defeats them. They live in the Hazy Maze Cave and outside Big Boo's Haunt. The only differences between Goombas are that they give three coins instead of just one, they are faster to charge, they can change the home area they patrol,[4] and they move in a circular pattern when Mario is not nearby.[5] Their behavior is shared with grounded Skeeters; as shown in the game's data, Scuttle Bugs lack Skeeter's buoyancy, though this cannot be seen in-game.
In the remake, Scuttle Bugs have been redesigned to have black and yellow stripes like a bee, a distinct head, legs of the same color as their bodies, and red suction cup-like feet. They also have an angry expression in their eyes and their bodies are now 3D models instead of being composed of flat textures.
In pre-release versions of Super Mario 64, Scuttle Bugs have a mahogany, modeled body instead of the flat marble-like texture, and also have bushy, angry eyebrows.[6]
New Super Mario Bros.[edit ]
Scuttlebugs appear in New Super Mario Bros. under their current name, reusing their redesigned appearance from Super Mario 64 DS. They can be found hanging down from webs in World 4-1. They repeatedly move up and down, and can prove to be useful in giving some extra height by jumping off of them. They also appear in World 8-4, where they ceaselessly drop down from the top of the stage in pairs of two. They detach from their webs almost immediately, and drop onto the ground to give chase.
New Super Mario Bros. 2[edit ]
In New Super Mario Bros. 2 , Scuttlebugs (referred to as Spiders in the Prima guide) hang from webs, just like their New Super Mario Bros. incarnations. However, they no longer drop down and walk around. Their design has been updated starting with this game; instead of being yellow with three black stripes and having black heads, they are yellow with two dark purple stripes and dark purple heads, as well as having white mandibles, which are now in a U-shape. Their legs, which are now an orange-yellow color, also no longer end in suction cups, instead having clenched boxing gloves. They appear in World 3-3 and World 3- Warp Cannon.
Super Mario Run[edit ]
Scuttlebugs appear in the version 3.0.4 update of Super Mario Run , in the level Scuttlebug Forest. They also appear in Secret Courses or Special Remix Courses while playing Remix 10. They have the same appearance and behavior as their New Super Mario Bros. 2 incarnations.
Mario Golf (Nintendo 64)[edit ]
In Mario Golf , "Scuttle Bug" is a name sometimes displayed on the tournament board.
Mario Party series[edit ]
Mario Party 7[edit ]
In the Mario Party 7 minigame Spider Stomp, Scuttle Bugs appear, along with a larger variant. They are generically known as "spiders" in the game and can shoot web projectiles. The large Scuttle Bug is fought at the end of the minigame. It attacks players by shooting three webs at them and can charge at the players. After this Scuttle Bug is defeated, the player's team can find Flutter before the other team does.
Mario Party DS[edit ]
Scuttlebugs appear also in Mario Party DS . They appear in only one minigame: a 2-Vs.-2 minigame named Crazy Crosshairs, with their Super Mario 64 DS appearance. Both teams must hit the Scuttlebugs with toy tanks on a spiderweb. This minigame also introduces golden Scuttlebugs, giving the team three points instead of one if hit. In the same game, the player can win a Scuttlebug Rival Badge and a Scuttlebug Trophy by getting MP Points, and look at them in Gallery Mode. The character figure information on the Scuttlebug refers to the plunger-like feet as shoes.
Paper Mario series[edit ]
Paper Mario: Sticker Star[edit ]
Scuttlebugs are enemies in Paper Mario: Sticker Star . They are only found in World 3. Many walk around on the ground, while others are attached to the ceiling using thread-like webs. If Mario battles a Scuttlebug on the ground, the enemy can either slam into Mario or shoot a web at him. If a hanging Scuttlebug is battled, it can only slam into Mario, but with a much higher damage ratio. The Scuttlebugs can also change their position on their strings to avoid hammer and ground attacks, similar to that of Piders and Arantulas from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door . Scuttlebugs hold a Wiggler Segment hostage in Rustle Burrow, an area with most of its inhabitants being Scuttlebugs.
There are also miniature Scuttlebugs that cannot be battled, but chase Mario if he gets close to them. If one of them touches Mario, he jumps lower and moves slower until it is removed, very similar to Mini Goombas in other games. They can be defeated by hitting them with a hammer, using a Super Star, or jumping on them. Defeating one results in getting a coin or a Jump sticker, unless a Super Star is used, in which case only the coin drops. A large Scuttlebug known as Big Scuttlebug also appears as a mini-boss.
This is the last game where Scuttlebugs use their Super Mario 64 DS design, albeit with their heads being a dark blue color instead of black.
Paper Mario: The Origami King[edit ]
Scuttlebugs return in Paper Mario: The Origami King , where origami variants act as enemies in the Princess Peach and the Temple of Shrooms. They use their New Super Mario Bros. 2 design, although their mandibles are portrayed as two separate pieces, instead of the single connected piece of their non-origami counterparts, similar to their mandibles in their Super Mario 64 DS design, and their legs share the same yellow color as their bodies, instead of being an orange-yellow color.
In battle, Scuttlebugs can bite Mario for 6 damage or shoot balls of web at him for 8 damage. They can also use a Tower Attack, where one Scuttlebug climbs on top of the others and jumps on Mario. This move's damage depends on how many Scuttlebugs are involved in the attack: 6 for two, 7-8 for three, 8-10 for four, 9-12 for five, or 10-14 for six.
Mario Kart Arcade GP DX[edit ]
Scuttlebugs also appear as items in Mario Kart Arcade GP DX using their current appearance from New Super Mario Bros. 2 . The player can use them to hit other racers with spiderwebs.
Minecraft[edit ]
In the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack of Minecraft , spiders are retextured to look like Scuttlebugs, which take on their New Super Mario Bros. 2 appearance. The spider eye item instead looks like Tarantox's eye, matching the texture for the cave spider.
Dr. Mario World[edit ]
Scuttlebugs appear in Dr. Mario World as obtainable assistants. They also appear in the background of World 9 when an area has been cleared. In stage mode, its effect is to increase the skill meter by an extra portion if red viruses are eliminated, so for example if the percentage is 10% the skill meter is filled by an extra 0.1 points per red virus eliminated. In versus mode, its effect is to reduce the time before the stage starts shrinking the playing field by a percentage, which can stack with Octoomba's versus effect to further reduce the time.
Mario Tennis Fever[edit ]
Scuttlebugs make their first Mario Tennis series appearance in Mario Tennis Fever during the game's Adventure mode, where they are fought in the cavern where the golden fruit to cure Daisy is located. The game introduces the Heavy Scuttlebug variant and King Scuttlebug, which were responsible for turning Mario, Luigi, Peach, Wario, and Waluigi into their baby forms.
This is the first game using Scuttlebugs' current design where a Scuttlebug shows expressions other than its usual scowl, as after the King Scuttlebug turns back to normal following its defeat, it shows a groggy expression, followed by a shocked one before it retreats.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie[edit ]
In The Super Mario Galaxy Movie , statues of Scuttlebugs appear on carousel rides on Planet Bowser.
Merchandise[edit ]
A Scuttlebug is one of the figures in Series 3 of the Character Packs in the LEGO Super Mario line of merchandise.
Profiles and statistics[edit ]
Mario Party DS[edit ]
| # | Name | Image | Description | How to unlock |
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| 10 | Scuttlebug | A figure with a Scuttlebug on it. | Who would think a spider could cut such a dashing figure in yellow and black tiger stripes and red shoes?! Scuttlebug can go anywhere... or flee anywhere! | Earn at least 4,000 MP Points |
| # | Name | Image | Description | How to unlock |
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| 11 | Scuttlebug Rival | A badge of Scuttlebug. | 3,000 MPP earns you the rank of Scuttlebug Rival, and this is your badge! It makes you a quick scuttler. | Earn at least 3,000 MP Points |
Paper Mario series[edit ]
Paper Mario: Sticker Star[edit ]
| Paper Mario: Sticker Star enemy | ||||||
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| Scuttlebug (1) | ||||||
| A Scuttlebug from Paper Mario: Sticker Star | Max HP | 11 | Role | Common | Location(s) | Rustle Burrow, Tree Branch Trail |
| Attack | 5 | Stickers | N/A | |||
| Defense | 0 | Moves | Slam (3), Web Shot(5) | |||
| Paper Mario: Sticker Star enemy | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scuttlebug (2) | ||||||
| Sprite of a Scuttlebug from Paper Mario: Sticker Star | Max HP | 11 | Role | Common | Location(s) | Rustle Burrow |
| Attack | 7 | Stickers | Hammer | |||
| Defense | 0 | Moves | Slam (7) | |||
Paper Mario: The Origami King[edit ]
| Paper Mario: The Origami King enemy | ||||||||
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| Scuttlebug | ||||||||
| An origami Scuttlebug from Paper Mario: The Origami King. | HP | 24 | Moves | Location(s) | ||||
| Type | Grounded | Bite (6), Web Shot (8), Tower Attack (base 0 for one, 6 for two, and increases by 1 for each additional Scuttlebug; range is 0 for one or two, 1 for three, increases by 1 for each additional Scuttlebug)) | The Princess Peach, Temple of Shrooms | |||||
| Role | Common | |||||||
| Item drops | BTL_ZAKO_LV2 | |||||||
| Even as origami, a Scuttlebug's range is quite wide. They're hard to avoid, so stay on your guard. | ||||||||
Super Mario Run[edit ]
- Notebook bio: This foe hangs from branches in forests. They collect things like mushrooms and coins in their webs.
Dr. Mario World[edit ]
- Stage mode: Fills skill meter 10%/20%/30%/40%/50% more when red viruses are eliminated.
- Versus mode: Decreases time until your and your opponent's stages begin to shrink by 10%/20%/30%/40%/50%.
Gallery[edit ]
- For this subject's image gallery, see Gallery:Scuttlebug.
Naming[edit ]
Etymology[edit ]
Their name is a combination of the words "scuttle" and "bug", and may also be a play on "scuttlebutt".
Internal names[edit ]
| Game | File | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Super Mario 64 DS | data/enemy/spider/ | SPIDER | Spider |
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, and have the media they are associated with in the "notes" column.
| Language | Name | Meaning | Note(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ガサゴソ Gasagoso |
Onomatopoeia for rustling | [7] [8] [9] [10] | |
| まんまるむし Manmaru Mushi |
Round Bug | Famimaga 64 | [11] | |
| Bosnian | Scuttlebug | - | [12] | |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 蜘蛛怪 Zhīzhū Guài |
Spider Monster | [13] [14] | |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 蜘蛛怪 Zhīzhū Guài |
Spider Monster | [13] [10] [14] | |
| Croatian | Scuttlebug | - | [15] | |
| Czech | Scuttlebug | - | [16] | |
| Danish | Ilebille | From ile ("to hasten") and bille ("beetle") | [17] | |
| Dutch | Scuttlebug | - | [10] | |
| Estonian | Scuttlebug | - | [18] | |
| Finnish | Scuttlebug | - | [19] | |
| French (Canadian) | Bibitapatte | Contraction of bibitte à pattes ("pest with legs") | [14] | |
| French (European) | Arayée | Play on araignée ("spider") and rayé ("striped") | [10] [13] [14] | |
| Scuttlebug | - | New Super Mario Bros. | [20] | |
| German | Trippeltrap | Portmanteau of trippeln ("to scuttle") and possibly "trap" | [10] [13] [14] | |
| Zissler | From zischen ("to hiss") | Super Mario 64 | [21] | |
| Hungarian | Scuttlebug | - | [22] | |
| Italian | Sguscioragno | Portmanteau of sgusciare ("to sneak") and ragno ("spider") | [10] [23] :85 | |
| Ragno a penzoloni | Dangling spider | New Super Mario Bros. | [25] | |
| Sguscioragno Gigante | Giant Scuttlebug | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia (first edition, New Super Mario Bros.) | [23] :114 | |
| Korean | 호랑거미 Horanggeomi |
Argiope amoena | [10] [13] [14] | |
| Latvian | Ašo vaboli | Quick beetle | [26] | |
| Lithuanian | Scuttlebug | - | [27] | |
| Norwegian | Scuttlebug | - | [28] | |
| Polish | Scuttlebug | - | [29] | |
| Portuguese (Brazilian) | Besouranha | From besouro ("beetle") and aranha ("spider") | [13] [10] | |
| Portuguese (European) | Aranhiço | Diminutive of aranha ("spider") | [30] | |
| Romanian | Târșâitor | From the verb târșâi ("shuffle", the manner of walking) and -tor (Romanian agentive suffix equivalent to "-er") | [31] | |
| Russian | Паучище Pauchishche |
From паук (pauk, "spider") and -ище (-ishche), a suffix for something big or scary | [10] | |
| Serbian | Pauk-buba | Spider beetle | [32] | |
| Slovak | Scuttlebug | - | [33] | |
| Spanish (Latin American) | Visparaña | Portmanteau of araña ("spider") and probably avispa ("wasp") | [10] [13] [14] | |
| Spanish (European) | Bichacuo | From bicho ("insect") | [10] [13] [14] | |
| Swedish | Scuttlebug | - | [34] |
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