Flurry
- Not to be confused with Flurrie.
| Flurry | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Artwork of a Flurry for Super Mario Advance | |||
| First appearance | Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic (1987, overall) Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988, Super Mario franchise) | ||
| Latest appearance | Ultimate NES Remix (2014) | ||
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Flurries[1] (singular Flurry; occasionally pluralized Flurrys[2]) are snowman-like creatures that first appear in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2 as enemies and soldiers of the 8 bits. They are named after flurries, which are brief periods of snowfall.
History[edit]
Super Mario series[edit]
Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic / Super Mario Bros. 2[edit]
In Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2, Flurries are enemies that run along the ice chasing after Mario, Luigi, Peach, or Toad. Like them, they have poor traction on the ice and can slip off of the platform they're on. They only appear in World 4. In the rare instances that they can be led onto non-icy surfaces, such as the bottom of the second tower in World 4-3, they have perfect traction. In original releases, Flurries are entirely white, while in the Super Mario All-Stars and Super Mario Advance remakes, they are tinted pink and have blue feet.
BS Super Mario USA[edit]
In BS Super Mario USA, Flurries make their return and play the same role as in the predecessor. They only appear in the third broadcast, which is also Subcon's icy area.
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3[edit]
Flurries make an appearance in Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3. They only appear in the World-e level Treacherous Halls. There are two of them, one of which can help Mario or Luigi pass through the spiky path via standing on their heads, and get a 1-Up Mushroom and/or an Advance Coin. These Flurries have poor traction no matter what surface they are on.
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show![edit]
- “It's them! Princess Toadstool and those two faucet freaks. C'mon, Flaky. Let's tell King Koopa so we can put 'em on ice for good.”
- —Flurry, "The Bird! The Bird!"
Some Flurries occasionally appeared in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, where they spoke, despite not having visible mouths. Due to Wart not appearing on the show, they work for King Koopa here, and one (Flaky) even had a name. Staying true to the spirit of the games, Flurries appeared only in episodes that are set in snowy environments: the Land of Ice in "The Bird! The Bird!", the North Pole from "Koopa Klaus", and the Thirteen Mushroom Colonies in "The Koopas are Coming! The Koopas are Coming!" Unlike in the game, some of them have arms.
Super Mario Adventures[edit]
A Flurry, alongside a Shy Guy and Snifit, attends Bowser's wedding to Princess Peach in the Super Mario Adventures comic.
Profiles and statistics[edit]
Super Mario Bros. 2 / Super Mario Advance[edit]
- Instruction booklet bio: Snow monster. He'll chase you on ice skates.[3]
- Instruction booklet bio (Game Boy Advance version): You've got to hurry to avoid these ice-skating snow monsters.[4]
Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten[edit]
| ナカボン (JP) / Nakabon (EN) | ||||||
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| Original text (Japanese) | Translation | |||||
| ビースト |
Tribe | Beast clan | ||||
| Disposition | Ice cold | |||||
| USA | Game appearances | USA | ||||
| かわいらしい マリオUSAの |
A cute snowman The snowman appears in the icy world of Mario USA. He just runs into you at high speed, but the icy surface is slippery underneath, so it's quite a challenge. His American name is Flurry. | |||||
Gallery[edit]
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario All-Stars (Super Mario Bros. 2)
Super Mario USA instruction booklet
Super Mario USA
Sport Festival-themed artwork featuring Super Mario Bros. 2 from Nintendo Power
Mario Quiz Card, showing a Flurry with a nose, a mouth and ice skates
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ナカボン[6] Nakabon フラーリ[6] Furāri フルーリィ[7] Furūrī |
Possibly from「 Transliteration of the Super Mario Bros. 2 name Alternate transliteration of the Super Mario Bros. 2 name |
| Chinese (simplified) | Nàkǎbāng |
From the Japanese name |
| French | Flurry[9][10] |
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| German | Flurry |
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| Italian | Flurry[11][12] Piumino[13][14] Tempestino[15] |
- Lil' Feather, also means "duvet", "feather bed", and "feather duster" Lil' Storm |
| Swedish | Flurry[citation needed] |
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Trivia[edit]
- Despite being an enemy in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic, Flurry did not receive artwork in the manual until Super Mario Bros. 2.[3] This is also the case for Tweeter and Spark.
- Flurry bears resemblance to Yuki, a mid-boss from Kirby's Dream Land 3, as they both are short, stubby snowmen without mouths or arms, have two small black eyes, and have similar body shapes, though Yuki lacks feet.
References[edit]
- ^ Stratton, Bryan (June 7, 2001). Super Mario Advance Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Prima Games (American English). ISBN 0-7615-3633-7. Page 49.
- ^ Stratton, Bryan (June 7, 2001). Super Mario Advance Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Prima Games (American English). ISBN 0-7615-3633-7. Page 7.
- ^ a b Nintendo (1988). Super Mario Bros. 2 instruction booklet. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 26.
- ^ Nintendo (2001). Super Mario Advance European instruction booklet. Nintendo of Europe (British English). Page 11.
- ^ (1994). Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten. Shogakukan. Page 141.
- ^ a b Super Mario USA instruction booklet. Page 27.
- ^ Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten. Page 225.
- ^ 无敌阿尔宙斯 (August 28, 2013). Ending scene of Super Mario Advance as localized by iQue]. Baidu Tieba (Simplified Chinese). Archived February 26, 2017, 16:11:09 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 5, 2024.
- ^ Super Mario Bros. 2 French instruction booklet. Page 30.
- ^ Super Mario Advance European instruction booklet. Page 51.
- ^ Super Mario Bros. 2 Italian instruction booklet. Page 26.
- ^ Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition Italian instruction booklet. Page 38.
- ^ The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, "Vola! Vola!"
- ^ (November 15, 2018). Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 68.
- ^ Nintendo (2001). Super Mario Advance European instruction booklet. Nintendo of Europe (Italian). Page 111.
