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| Cobrat | |||
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| 👁 Cobrat Artwork from Super Mario Advance | |||
| First appearance | Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic (1987, overall) Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988, Super Mario franchise) | ||
| Latest appearance | Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition (2024) | ||
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Cobrats, also named Snakes,[1] are large desert-dwelling serpents that first appeared as enemies in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2. In those games, they would pop out of jars or sand, similarly to the Piranha Plant, and spit bullets at the player character. Tryclyde, a boss in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2, resembles a three-headed Cobrat. An association with snake charming is conveyed in the original Japanese text, in which Cobrats are said to be under the control of Wart.[2][3]
In Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2, Cobrats jump out of the sand or jars to attack, and most of them can spit out black projectiles similar to Snifits. Cobrats that hide in jars attack immediately when they appear on the screen. They appear in the desert levels and are easy to defeat if in a line; the player can throw one and cause a domino effect. They can be avoided easily and only pose a threat when in large numbers.
In the Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic instruction booklet, it is said that Cobrats often appear in snake charmers' dreams.[2] In the Super Mario Bros. 2 instruction booklet, this was inexplicably changed to Toad's dreams.[3]
A striped, greenish Cobrat appears in unused content in Super Mario Advance. As it has about the same color pattern as Tryclyde, this suggests a connection, and that Tryclyde was going to be introduced the same way Fryguy and Clawgrip are introduced in the final game.[4]
In the remakes of Super Mario Bros. 3 included in Super Mario All-Stars and Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, the king who rules Grass Land is changed into a Cobrat by Larry Koopa.
Cobrats appear several times on The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, where their size varies from minuscule to exceptionally large. The role of Cobrats in the show varies, as they occasionally appear as enemy monsters and on other occasions are used as handheld weaponry, capable of firing small, exploding black orbs. They are used as transportation in the episode "Star Koopa."
In the Super Mario Bros. comic "Just Deserts", two Cobrats, which are capable of speech, appear as inhabitants of Bowser's desert fortress; the story itself makes it ambiguous as to whether or not these two Cobrats are actually affiliated with Bowser or simply live in his pyramid fortress.
In Leaping Lizards, an unnamed Cobrat competes in the International Mushroom Games as a member of a team called the Sneaks. It participates in the Beetlebowl (an all-team event) and the Super Triple Jump, where it leaps by coiling its body up like a spring.
In volume 8 of Super Mario-kun, a Cobrat breaks out of a fake drink vending machine located in a desert. Yoshi shortly eats it. More Cobrats appear out of jars. Birdo tries shooting eggs at one, but the Cobrat eats them. Mario then dives into a jar to obtain a POW Block. He then uses it to defeat the Cobrats.
Snakes in Mario Pinball Land appear inside the pyramid in the Shifting Sands Stage, where they slither out of jars. In this game, they do not spit bullets and are green instead of red, but otherwise resemble their original sprite.
Within the course Shy Guy Bazaar in Mario Kart 7 and Mario Kart Tour, red Cobrat sprites from Super Mario Bros. 2 make up some of the motifs decorating the red-colored carpets found throughout the course—specifically, those covering the market stalls.
Additionally, snake jars appear among regular jars in the same course, revealing many green snakes when shattered; these may potentially be homages to Cobrats, given the Super Mario Bros. 2 theme of Shy Guy Bazaar.
| ガラゲーロ (JP) / Cobrat | |||
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| 👁 A Cobrat from Super Mario Bros. 2. | |||
| Original text (Japanese) | Translation | ||
| ビースト族 | Tribe | Beast clan | |
| 陰険 | Disposition | Treacherous | |
| ゲーム | USA | Game appearances | USA |
夢の世界の砂漠にいる大きなヘビ。ムーチョ(P215)と同じように、悪夢の玉口から撃ってくる。大きいから、ジャンプの足場として捉うにはとてもつゴうがいい。[6]:57 |
A large snake in the desert of the dream world. Like Snifit (P215), it shoots nightmare balls at you from its mouth. Because of its large size, it is very useful to use as a foothold for jumping. | ||
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario All-Stars (Super Mario Bros. 2)
Super Mario All-Stars (Super Mario Bros. 3)
"Cobrat" is a portmanteau of "brat" and "cobra," a type of snake known for being charmed out of a basket through the use of an instrument called a pungi.
The contemporaneous name for each language is listed first. Subsequent names are listed in chronological order for each language, from oldest to newest.
| Language | Name | Meaning | Note(s) | Ref. |
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| Japanese | ガラゲーロ Garagēro |
From「ガラガラ」(garagara hebi, "rattlesnake") and possibly「ゲロ」(gero, "spew") | [2][7][6] | |
| コブラ Kobura |
Cobra | Super Mario USA, Super Mario All-Stars, Mario Pinball Land | [8][6][9][10] | |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 咔啦蛇 Kǎlā Shé (Mandarin) Kàhla Sèh (Cantonese) |
From the Japanese name + "蛇" (shé / sèh, "snake") | [11] | |
| 可沃 Kěwò (Mandarin) |
From a clipping of the Japanese name | The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! | [12] | |
| Danish | Kobra | - | [13] | |
| Dutch | Cobra | Cobra | [14] | |
| Finnish | Cobrat | - | [15] | |
| French | Cobrat | - | [14][16]:52 | |
| German | Cobrat | - | [17][18][16]:32[19] | |
| Hebrew | קוברה Kobra |
Cobra | [20] | |
| Italian | Cobrat | - | [21][16]:112[22][23] | |
| Korean | 코브라 Kobeura |
Cobra | [24] | |
| Norwegian | Kobra | Cobra | [25] | |
| Portuguese | Cobrat | - | [26] | |
| Russian | Кобрат Kobrat |
Cobrat | [27] | |
| Spanish | Cobrat | - | [28][29][16]:92 | |
| Swedish | Cobrat | - | [30][31] | |
| Kobra | Cobra | The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, "Jungle Fever" | [32] |
