#sworm

Name: Sworm

Debut: Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

Worms! We all love them, and if you don’t you should really do some soul searching in order to see why you’d dislike such lovely creatures!

Mario & Luigi has given us a worm, well.... We think they’re worms, they are long and live underground but... they have a fleshy orange beak? and are pitch black? quite frankly they remind me of Daffy Duck way more than I’d like it to. They also have 2 little hairs on top of their head, which is a very silly feature I LOVE seeing in creatures, so they get points for that.

Sworms might be very strange looking but they’re worms at heart, and that’s the only thing that matters!

Now here’s where things get strange... Superstar Saga was NOT the last we saw of Sworm. Apparently Fawful weaponized Sworms by using them as mind-controlling parasites. You heard me right! It’s absolutely wild and I love every bit about it! Everyone meet Chain Chawful!

Name: Chain Chawful

Debut: Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story

So as you can see, this Fawful-ized Sworm bore a hole in the Chain Chomp and is controlling its brain, if you dislodge the Sworm via Bowser’s Vacuum attack the Chain Chomp will regain its consciousness (and its pupils) and flee from the battle, morbid!

Now where does this lead us? The implications of this creature are very interesting, what exactly is the process that Fawful uses to “Fawfulize” other creatures? Is this process restricted to organic creatures and that’s why he had to Fawfulize a Sworm first instead of directly Fawfulizing the Chain Chomp?

Conversely, Fawful could’ve only Fawfulized a bunch of Sworms and let them spread and infect other creatures, Chain Chawfuls being the only ones where the parasite can be seen, maybe all those Fawflants have Sworms inside them!

Eek!

This is all speculation of course, and it’s likely not that deep, but WHY on Earth did Alphadream decide to bring back a random throwaway enemy from Superstar Saga in the form of a creepy mind-controlling parasite? Who THINKS of that? I’m in LOVE with it all, it’s absolutely insane and I’m glad it’s the way it ended up happening!