#Sluggy

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Sluggy

Debut: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island

Sluggy is what I in the business like to call a Pathetic Lump! Obviously I mean that only affectionately and I love this thing to bits! A little blob is always a great kind of creature. Often they are just purely cute, too, no matter how unsanitary they may realistically be! Sluggy, however, has a simple, but key thing to stand out from other blobs. It has hairs! Not a funny hairdo or anything, just regular hairs, sticking out of it haphazardly. Clearly its OWN hairs, it even has eyelashes! But I think there is something so unwholesome about a blob that grows hair.

Sluggies come in two variations! Pinkish ones with red spots do not move much, but yellowish ones with blue spots do. I like the yellowish ones because I like yellow and blue! Sluggies are sticky rascals and will stick to ceilings, dripping down when Yoshi is underneath! They are not very threatening, but they are just creatures. They probably eat mold. Don’t need to be threatening to eat mold!

Sluggies look kind of similar to Fuzzies, don’t you think? A soft white shape with dot eyes and some hairs. Yoshi’s Island Fuzzies, are, of course, the hard psychadelic drug reference that’s fun for the whole family, making the entire world undulate around Yoshi on effect. Not like Sluggy at all...

But oh! Lookie here! An unused sprite of a balloon-like Sluggy, even MORE resembling a Fuzzy! You may think it silly for a slug to inflate and fly, but this is actually a clever reference to the real biological phenomenon of me just messing with you! Maybe Sluggies were originally going to fly, or Fuzzies were going to look like this?

Well, in early previews, Sluggy the Unshaven- the boss form which we have discussed previously- is referred to, in prerelease material as a Giant Watabo! This may seem meaningless, and that is because I forgot to mention that Fuzzy’s Japanese name is Watabo! It specifies it as a “cotton monster”, and that is just so strange to me. This is so clearly a Blob. Even the spots on the small unused sprite make me think Blob Mottles, you know? I do not like the idea of a cotton monster being gelatinous and transparent, with an organic heart. That is not what cotton is about! That would get the cotton all sticky! And bloody! Blech! I would not wear that stuff! I am glad they settled on these as slug creatures, but also fascinated at the shared conceptual lineage that may have existed...

After not appearing in Yoshi’s Island DS, Sluggies DO reappear in Yoshi’s New Island! Maybe everyone is too hard on this game. Look how identical the model is to the official art! Someone was a Classic Sluggy fan!

Sluggies have not made any other appearances, but I like this image used for a puzzle. Look at all these friends. You can tell they are friends because Sluggy and some ghosts left the safety of their dank crypts to join the fun in the sun! I just hope Sluggy is staying in the shade and using enough sunblock. I legitimately think it could get sunburn on its internal organs. What a wretched thought.

[ninebaalart]

Slime Drop, Cloud Drop, Sluggy, Proto Sluggy/Cloud Drop

Bit of a complicated story behind this one! In the data of Yoshi's Island, there's a proto Cloud Drop-like enemy that carries Sluggy's visual traits. But also there's a slime drop enemy- and as such, this is sort of an attempt to visually make sense of this bizarre slimy family.

[francizca]

leaf slug 😊

[dorin-naga]

Sketch Party arts

[hallowswinn]

redesigned @justyourjester 's sona

[waybackwanderer]

Sluggy Freelance Feb 1999 Archived Web Page

[slugperfume]

whenever I notice a reblog from you I just think “sluggy! :)”

it makes me very happy

literally me btw

[gwen-bracket]

(Propaganda beneath the cut)

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[misschimotosuwa-blog]

peeks in here- hihello sorry to bother you! I just wanted to say how awesome it is to see another Ribbit King fan in the wild! ;7; I saw you ask Courtney for Tippi art and it made my entire night!! ♥

O M GORSH!!!!

Someone out there besides me knows this game??? Lolololol

Yayyyyyyy!!!!!

Who's your favorite character??? 🥰

Gotta knowwwwww

[lolrentz]

p…princess Tippi…from Ribbit King… /vvvpos

YES!! I LOVE RIBBIT KING!!!

look at my sluggy drawing. ive drawn tippi before but its been a long time... i need to draw her again!

[matitimblir]

Your many career choices!

[bluequail]

[hallowswinn]

@justyourjester more like popthatjester im sofunym,,,,

[halltastic]

Cellar Slug

[hallowswinn]

this is my art btw :>

[ladyofthebookcase]

rip pink dipshit 💔