Floating Face
| Floating Face | |
|---|---|
 Artwork from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins | |
| First appearance | Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (1992) |
Floating Faces[1][2] are enemies in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. These large ball-like creatures possess a mustache and bear a resemblance to Wario. They are encountered only in Mario's castle exclusively in the last three rooms before Mario's final battle with Wario. Floating Faces bounce around a small room at diagonal angles. Floating Faces can be destroyed only from a Spin Jump instantly or from being stomped twice (or just once on Easy Mode). Floating Faces appear in a total of three rooms consecutively, with the first room containing one and the latter having two each.
Profiles
Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten
| ドンガバメン (JP) / Floating Face (EN) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 | |||
| Original text (Japanese) | Translation | ||
| ゴースト族 | Tribe | Ghost clan | |
| 態度がでかい | Disposition | To be intolerant (e.g. to others) | |
| ランド2 | Game appearances | Land 2 | |
| 巨大な顔の不気味なヤツ ワリオ城に住み着く、奇妙なキャラクター。口ひげをつけた巨大な顔面がマリオの行く手を完全にふさいでいる。親衛隊長ともいえるこいつを倒せば、いよいよボスのワリオが登場するぞ。[3] |
The creepy one with the giant face. A strange character that lives in Wario Castle. His huge face with a mustache completely blocks Mario's way. Once he is defeated, the boss, Wario, will finally appear. | ||
Gallery
Sprite from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
Names in other languages
Unlike most mainline Super Mario titles, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins did not receive officially localized enemy indexes at the time of its release on the Game Boy and not all enemies are listed in its instruction booklets. Consequentially, most available non-Japanese names come from localizations of the Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia.
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ドン・ガバメン[4] Don Gabamen |
Blend of "Don" (Spanish word for "sir"), possibly「がばがば」(gabagaba, an ideophonic word for something big), and「面」(men, face) | |
| ドン＝ガバメン[5] Don-Gabamen | |||
| ドンガバメン[3] Don Gabamen | |||
| Italian | Pallafaccia[6] | Face-ball | |
| Spanish | Cara Flotante[7] | Floating Face |
References
- ^ "Floating Faces bounce off the walls in the last three chambers leading to Wario." – December 1992. Nintendo Power Volume 43. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 51.
- ^ English Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins entry on the official Mario Portal. nintendo.co.jp (English). Retrieved August 13, 2022. (Archived August 13, 2022, 13:51:45 UTC via archive.today.)
- ^ a b 1994. 「パーフェクト版 マリオキャラクター大事典」 (Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten). Shogakukan (Japanese). Page 137.
- ^ Itoi, Shigesato, Takashi Watanabe, Hiroyuki Jinnai (APE), Jin Kobayashi, Ryuji Osawa, and Shigeo Tanabe, editors (1992). 『スーパーマリオランド2: 6つの金貨任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan. ISBN 4-09-102413-0. Page 16.
- ^ Motoyama, Kazuki (6 Jul. 1993). Super Mario Land 2 - 6-tsu no Kinka 1, Super Mario, vol. 18. Kodansha (Japanese). Page 6.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2018). "Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins" in Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Translated by Marco Amerighi. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 75.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2017). "Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins" in Enciclopedia Super Mario Bros. 30ª Aniversario. Translated by Gemma Tarrés. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, S.A. (European Spanish). ISBN 978-84-9146-223-1. Page 75.
