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| - | SHY GUY
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| - | [Japanese name: Hei-ho]
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| - | Occupation: Evil anonymous
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| - | First appearance: Doki Doki Panic (1987)
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| - | In short, Shy Guys are the Goombas of Wart's army, though they'd
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| - | later be appropriated by Bowser, Smithy and Cackletta, to name a
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| - | few. They're the dumbest and the most plentiful of the enemies in
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| - | Super Mario Bros. 2. While the art depicted them as little guys
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| - | wearing red or pink robes and white masks, their in-game
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| - | appearance always reminded me more of walking loaves of bread
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| - | — that, and the red Shy Guys always looked brown. (In the Super
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| - | Mario All-Stars remake of Super Mario Bros. 2 and the Game Boy
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| - | Advance version as well, Nintendo changed the pink Shy Guys to
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| - | blue. I can only guess they did this to make people like me wonder
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| - | why.) Two alternate forms of Shy Guys existed as well: the Snifit,
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| - | a Shy Guy who could shoot bullets, and the Beezo, a winged Shy
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| - | Guy who would aim for Mario and charge with a pitchfork.
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| - | Despite their plentitude in Super Mario Bros. 2, Shy Guys all but
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| - | vanished until Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. There, they
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| - | appeared in as many colors as there were Koopa Troopas in Super
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| - | Mario World. They also, apparently, had trained during their
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| - | absence, and now attacked in a variety of inventive ways: on stilts,
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| - | hiding in flowers, lighting themselves on fire, throwing baseballs,
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| - | swinging baseball bats and even flying with propeller tops.
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| - | Since then, Shy Guy sightings have increased. They appear in
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| - | nearly every Mario game since, including the RPG games. They
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| - | populated Yoshi's Story as well, where they proved to be
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| - | especially good eating. The Yoshies in that game could even find
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| - | the rare White Shy Guy, who, when caught, would follow Yoshi to
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| - | the exit and then wait with the other Yoshies to rescue one if
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| - | Bowser's forces caught him or her. Incidentally, in Yoshi's Story,
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| - | the Shy Guys speak. You can clearly hear them saying "hei-ho,"
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| - | their name in Japanese. And in Luigi's Mansion, Luigi could use
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| - | his vacuum cleaner to suck off the masks of generic Shy Guy
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| - | ghosts, finally revealing what lies underneath: a shadowy form
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| - | with a pair of glowing eyes.
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| - | Though the Shy Guys truly had their day in Paper Mario, where
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| - | they dominated an entire area of the game, a crazy-kiddy-colorful
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| - | maze of games called Shy Guy's Toy Box, the first — and so far
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| - | only — playable Shy Guy appeared in the Nintendo 64 installment
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| - | of Mario Tennis. The little guy was an interesting character to
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| - | control, but apparently not interesting enough. He didn't appear as
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| - | a playable character again until the sequel, Mario Power Tennis.
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| - | There, he powered-up his normal tennis skills with the help of an
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| - | alternate Shy Guy persona: Spear Guy. (Picture a Shy Guy in a
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| - | hula skirt and tribal paint on his mask and you've got it.) Shy Guy-
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| - | as-Spear Guy could use his spear to make some devastating returns
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| - | or approach shots.
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| - | Maybe Shy Guy's newfound might will earn him a playable spot in
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| - | a non-tennis Mario game in the future.
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| - | And did you notice the Shy Guy-related peculiarity in Paper
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| - | Mario: The Thousand-Year Door? Although the Shy Guys appear
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| - | in the battle scenes as audience members — sometimes ones that
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| - | interfere by tossing garbage at Mario and his pals — they never
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| - | appear in the game otherwise. Not as enemies, not as generic
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| - | characters. Nothing. Strange, eh?
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| - | ***SMASH BROS. TROPHY INFO FOR SHY GUY***
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| - | There are many types of Shy Guys: they've been known to walk on
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| - | the ground, fly through the air, traipse about on stilts, wear flowers
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| - | or camouflage, throw balls, swing bats, sail on pirate ships, carry
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| - | fruit, do the Bamboo Dance, ride submarines, play guitar, play
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| - | tennis, wear red, come in large or small sizes, steal people's toys,
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| - | cause mischief...
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| - | ***SMASH BROS. TROPHY INFO FOR SHY GUY***
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| - | Shy Guy's starring roles:
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| - | Mario Tennis (Nintendo 64) - 2000
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| - | Mario Power Tennis (Gamecube) - 2004
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| - | Other appearances:
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| - | Doki Doki Panic - (Famicom) - 1987
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| - | Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES) - 1988
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| - | Super Mario All-Stars (Super NES) - 1993
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| - | Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World (Super NES) - 1994
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| - | Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (Super NES) - 1995
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| - | Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (Super NES) - 1996
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| - | Game & Watch Gallery 2 (Game Boy) - 1998
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| - | Picross NP Vol. 2 (Super Famicom) - 1999
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| - | Paper Mario (Nintendo 64) - 2001
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| - | Mario Party 3 (Nintendo 64) - 2001
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| - | Super Mario Advance (Game Boy Advance) - 2001
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| - | Super Smash Bros Melee (Gamecube) - 2001
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| - | Luigi's Mansion (Gamecube) - 2001
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| - | Mario Party 4 (Gamecube) - 2002
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| - | Mario Party-e (Game Boy Advance E-Reader) - 2002
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| - | Mario Party 5 (Gamecube) - 2003
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| - | Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (Gamecube) - 2003
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| - | Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga (Game Boy Advance) - 2003
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| - | Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Game Boy Advance) - 2004
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| - | Mario Pinball Land (Game Boy Advance) - 2004
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| - | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Gamecube) - 2004
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| - | Mario Party 6 (Gamecube) - 2004
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| - | Mario Party Advance (Game Boy Advance) - 2005
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