Wart (Mario)

"I'm the great Wart. Bah ha ha!!"

- Wart

Wart is the final boss in the Super Mario Bros. 2 game and in the non-Mario game, Doki Doki Panic. He is essentially a giant toad-like creature who is trying to take over the world of Subcon.

He attacks by shooting nightmare bubbles at Mario, Peach, Toad, or Luigi (whoever the player faces him as). He does have one weakness. You can grab the vegetables as they come out of the vegetable machine and throw them at Wart when he opens his mouth. If a veggie touches a bubble, it will be destroyed, so a character must time their shots carefully. He hates vegetables, so whenever one is thrown into his mouth, he takes damage. After five hits, Wart will choke and die. His body is then tossed around by the Subcon after Mario and friends release them. Wart has not appeared in any Mario games since; in addition to his death, the entire game was a dream by Mario. Other enemies that made their debut in Super Mario Bros. 2 (like Shy Guys and Bob-ombs) did return, however, as they really did exist in the Mario universe. Apparently, however, there is a comic called "Cyborg Wart", which is a reference to Wart.

He makes a minor appearance in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.

Trivia

 * A frog named Wart Jr. appeared in Animal Crossing, Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk. It is unknown if he is meant to be a relation or an allusion to Wart, as they do not look similar, and apart from Wart Jr.'s latent desire to take over the world, share nothing in common.
 * In BS Super Mario USA, Wart is said to have fled to another dream in the brief era of peace at the end of Super Mario Bros. 2. This may possibly be an allusion to The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, in which he makes a friendly cameo on Koholint Island.
 * Oddly, Wart, mislabeled as "King Koopa", appears in reels B and C in a Master-view toy released during the run of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
 * In the original Super Mario Bros. 2 (along with its remake in Super Mario All-Stars), Wart could still hurt the players if they touch his defeated body. In Super Mario Advance however, he becomes intangible to the players once defeated.
 * In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, one of the names that can be gotten from pressing the "RANDOM NAME" button is "WART".
 * Wart took two less hits to defeat him in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic.