New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe Enemies
Waddlewing

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New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe Enemies
Waddlewing
Name: Waddlewing
Debut: New Super Mario Bros. U
I have been recently thinking about flying squirrels! They are so silly! I have never seen them in real life, but they ARE in my area, which feels magical. They are nocturnal, and I am not going to go into the spooky woods at night, but wow! They are among us! Maybe they are around you too, and you didn't realize!
Such supremely silly creatures. This is a rodent that, when the situation calls for it, will become a bit of a Rectangle. And it looks so funny! The unchanging expression on its little squirrel face! To the flying squirrel, this is serious business! I have decided that flying squirrels are the most scrimblo of animals. A tree squirrel's life is already dedicated to platforming and collecting, but flying squirrels even have a Glide Power-Up! It doesn't get much more scrimblo than that!
And so I think it is very appropriate for a flying squirrel to be in a Mario game. Waddlewing is sadly, to me, not quite as silly as a real flying squirrel- the rectangularitude is one of the best parts!- but it is still sufficient. If it looked too much like a real flying squirrel, I absolutely would not want to Defeat it!
Waddlewings debut alongside the Super Acorn, and Flying Squirrel Mario, which is of course extremely fitting and cohesive. But it gets my wrinkly wrascal of a brain wondering! They love these acorns. They absolutely eat them. And when they do, what happens? We know that canonically, power-ups can affect enemies. Was Waddlewing once a regular squirrel? Were their ancestors regular squirrels, and power-ups can be passed down genetically? Lamarck would love that, if he wasn't dead!
Or maybe they were not originally squirrels at all...? The Flying Squirrel Suit not only gives the wearer the ability to glide, but also the squirrel qualities to begin with! Maybe Waddle Wings began as. Man, I don't know. Orange Lump. Amorphous globosus.
Mario Kart 8 graced us with what I had been wanting! Rectangular rodent, rejoice! The Waddle Wing glider is probably the most perfect glider, and if I were to go hang gliding (I don't. Scawy) I would want to do it with a glider shaped like a flying squirrel. I love whimsical.
Flying squirrels do not have wings. If they wanted a biologically accurate name with the same vibe, they should have called it Pitterpatterpatagium! It is a good thing they didn't call it that, because that is a bad name.
I love whatever genre of creature this is.
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Been playing that New Super Luigi U...
5'2 D:
Shorter.. I'm actually 5'1 but we're pretty much the same height!!