#marching milde

[carldoonan]

This Mindful Li'l Milde thinks: *Phone Dial Tone* 🥟🙂💭

[peardian]

Here are some dramatic old wallpapers I made of Raphael the Raven and Marching Milde.

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Marching Milde (again)

Debut: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island

The early days of vveird mario enemies were a strange time. A time where I could barely write four sentences about Marching Milde! What was I thinking? Some may argue that being concise is a valuable talent, but they’re dumb! If I can’t squeeze in every possible thought I have and then some into an overly-long Tumblr post, what’s even the point of running this blog!

So here I am to correct the wrongdoings of my past, and I’m glad to say that my feelings on Marching Milde have not changed in the past two years, because yes, Milde IS mathematically the perfect friend, and you were SO right to say that, Past Mod F Boy! A pat on the cheek and a kiss on the shoulder for you, amen. 

What is awesome about Marching Milde is that they do that thing that I love when enemies in video-games do, which is were you try and defeat them but instead they just split into two smaller versions of themselves, and you’re like “what!!!” and you need to kill them both. Big Goombas do that, and Chuchus from Zelda do that sometimes too, and probably more that I don’t care to think about right now. The jellyfish guys from A Link Between Worlds? But you agree that it’s awesome right? I looked it up just now and found that it has a page on TV Tropes called the Asteroids Monster, so that’s great and I’m happy and you can look at that page if you want to. 

This is of course something that many real-life creatures can do, with Planarians being quite renowned for this ability, and frankly it’s always screwed with my head! Like, I get it! For a very simple organism, regenerating entire parts of your body is no problemo! But also, it’s like! Dang! There was one Funny Worm and now there’s two! That’s messed up! 

Still, their boss fight is pretty straightforward. You ground pound them to make smaller Mildes, which you ground pound again to make even smaller Mildes. And then you stomp them all and you’re done. That’s that on that! 

The other thing that is awesome about Marching Milde is their design, which is a large ball with a cute face and two little legs! The Holy Wiki says this resembles Kirby from Kirby, but I think that’s just because Kirby is also a ball with a cute face and two little legs, and let’s face it, it’s a flawless design. They are such a nice, perfect circle, too! It couldn’t be the work of anyone other than our old pal the Super FX chip!

But like nearly every boss in Yoshi’s Island, Marching Milde is a variant of a regular enemy found before it- in this case, the humble Milde! It might be unfair to talk about them after the boss form, but also they were probably made as an afterthought. No offense to the Milde! They do what they do well, and that is walk forwards. It’s tried and true! Most game enemies do it for a reason!

Here we see a pack of Milde in their natural habitat! Their one unique attribute is that when you stomp them they pop like a balloon, sending other enemies a-tumbling! Which means they are probably hollow and filled with air, and that’s a little disappointing to me given I want to believe they are made of mochi. I’m not especially hung up about it, though.

Let’s get bigger! Milde’s larger variant is Puchipuchi L, who is only called that because we don’t have an official English name for them. The middle sibling always gets forgotten, huh? How about Moderately-Sized Milde? 

So now seems a good time to mention that Milde’s Japanese name is Puchipuchi-kun, or Mr. Puchipuchi! And what is Puchipuchi? Why it’s a Japanese sound for bubbles popping, which The Wiki translates as “pop”, but I don’t think that’s quite as fun to say. Puchipuchi is most often used to describe, and is even a generic trademark for, bubble-wrap! So here’s my theory! Milde is actually supposed to represent bubble-wrap, which explains not only why they pop, but also why they multiply- the addictive nature of bubble-wrap means you just can’t stop popping! That’s great! 

For the record, Marching Milde is called Big Puchipuchi. Just in case you were wondering. Here’s some more foreign names because they’re pretty fun at best and mildly amusing at worst! 

I’m quite partial to Gran Bollito myself. 

And something I completely ignored in my original post is that Milde & Moderately-Sized Milde appear once again in Yoshi’s New Island! I guess it’s not very surprising but it is a little odd to see them without Marching Milde. They sure look pudgy!

And that, my friends, were all the thoughts circling around in my head about Yoshi’s Island boss Marching Milde, which I regurgitated onto my computer screen for people to access on the web all around the world. Perhaps now I can live without regrets and die happily. Please invite Milde to my funeral. 

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Milde/Marching Milde

Debut: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island

Look at this fellow! Look at that face! He’s just happy to be here.

Mathematically speaking, Milde is the perfect friend, because you can split him into several smaller friends, who all have an equally big smile. Sure, he may not be the most threatening boss battle. But no matter what happens, Milde just keeps marching on. You go, Milde. We could all learn a lot from you.

[thedisdog]

Edited my Bumpty, Fang, and Marching Milde art into vectors

[thedisdog]

Yoshi’s Island Enemy - Marching Milde

Such a satisfying POP

[that-8-bit-guy]

MARCHING MILDE’S FORTRESS!!

[chenginerd]

Milde/Large Milde - Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island