#cheep chomp

So a little detail I found out from the description for the Cheep Cheep in Super Princess Peach's Glossary.

"A Blowfish-like creature that lives in the water."

I'd note the Super Princess Peach Glossary uses the word like for say Piranha Plants are plant like when every other piece of info from other games says they are plants.

So the like part could be a mistake or localization error, or someone accidentally adding like.

Why do I say this for Cheep Cheeps?

Well….....

The blowfish details seems to be a thing Nintendo has always intended for the Cheep Cheeps.

One example is in Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach, when a Cheep Cheep shows up and puffs itself up like a blowfish.

While the OVA is not canon the information here was probably added in based on Nintendo's intentions for aspects of the games like Piranha Plants being flowers.

Because it does match up perfectly with the piece of information from the games.

Next up is this description from Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten. Shogakukan, created by the same people who made the Encyclopedia if I am correct. So they would have been given information from Nintendo themself.

"An obstructive pufferfish that swims swiftly through the water. There are two kinds: red and green. You cannot step on them, so avoid them by swimming straight up and down. The red Cheep Cheeps can jump suddenly."

So it seems the intention has been for Cheep Cheeps to be a type of pufferfish since very early on.

This also adds on to the fact that Cheep Cheeps are not harmless, because they bite Mario and friends, they are biting with teeth like Pufferfish do. We know they have teeth because their skeletons have teeth, we see it in Fish Bones. We also see it in Boss Bass(Cheep Chomp) and Cheepskipper(Boss Cheep Cheep).

Now someone might point to the fact Cheep Cheeps don't have spikes, and would question how are they a blowfish if they don't have spikes.

Well you see not every species of blowfish has spikes, but they are still blowfish because they can puff up. This would be the same for Cheep Cheeps.

In addition the Spiny Cheep Cheep species has these spikes, and some subspecies of them seen in Super Mario Land 2 and Super Mario Galaxy can puff up.

So many people believe that the events of Super Mario Bros. 3 never happened and it is all just a stage play, I am going to argue why this is not the case.

First off the Airship from SMB3 exists in another game, aka Super Mario Bros. 4 Super Mario World. Confirmed in the manual on page 20, the Sunken Ship is the same Airship from SMB3. "This strange looking sunken ship. Haven't you seen it somewhere before? That's right, in Super Mario Bros. 3..."

Secondarily in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze the level Frosty Fruits contains a SMB3 Koopa Tank. This also means that Bowser or at least the Koopas once invaded the Kong Archipelago.

So these 2 things should be enough evidence that SMB3 is indeed a canon game. However, for argument's sake let's say SMB3 is a stage play. There is nothing saying that the stage play can't be based on actual events that happened in the Mario canon. Some more reasons SMB3 is canon is objects and characters that were introduced in it, still exist in the game canon and show up later. This includes Dry Bones, Boom Boom, Boss Bass, Fire Bros, the Clown Car, the Koopalings, and the Airship. This is actually backed up on page 35 of the SMB3 Manual where it says. "A host of new characters have joined Bowser and his turtle tribe. With this information on these new enemies, you'll be well prepared."

Speaking of manuals, in the SMB4SMW manual in story section on page 2 it says "after saving the Mushroom Kingdom from Bowser and the rest of the Koopas in Super Mario 3, Mario and Luigi needed to recuperate from their adventures. Together they agreed the best place to vacation was a magical place called Dinosaur Land.." This places the events of SMB4SMW right after SMB3. Written by Eris the Lorekeeper

Other references that confirm SMB3 events did happen. Super Mario Sunshine Bowser's Memories The Grasslands Desert Land Figure-8 Circuit DS Shroom Ridge DS Desert Hills Piranha Plant Pipeline

In Super Mario Bros. Wonder a little detail was added for the Red Cheep Cheeps, that detail is that they bite Mario. This explains why Mario takes damage when he touches them similar to Goombas and Koopas.

We've known for a long time that Red Cheep Cheeps become Boss Bass or Cheep Chomp try to eat Mario, and one type of Cheep Cheep bites Mario in Super Mario Sunshine.

But we hardly see how Red ones harm Mario, especially since they typically never actively target Mario like say Spiny Cheep Cheeps do. The only indication we had that they do this was from The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which only parallels this behavior.

We know they do this because they are minion's of Bowser, and are shown to be just as intelligent as any other creature in the Mario world.

This is also why hypotheses that place Mario as evil and Cheep cheeps as harmless are just wrong. Written by Eris the Lorekeeper Part 2 is in the works

"Hi, we're new here, and-- Chomper. Is that really necessary?"

"Um, yes. Chicken is always necessary."