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Back in their glory days, they chased eggplants, cucumbers, and other vegetables that inexplicably fell from frosty summits where a condor reigned supreme.
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~ The Ice Climbers' trophy for Classic Mode, mentioning the Condor.
The Condor is the main antagonist of Nintendo's platforming video game series, Ice Climber.
The Condor is the Ice Climbers' rival, being responsible for stealing their vegetables and spreading them across a variety of several, enormous and glacial mountains. The Condor has a huge and peculiar obsession and appetite over various kinds of vegetables: examples include a collection of eggplants, carrots, cucumbers, turnips, potatoes and more. Ironically, however, the condor does not manage to outright devour what vegetables it steals. Instead, it flies around and litters the stolen vegetables across the glacial northern mountains for Popo and Nana to retrieve.
The central goal of the Ice Climbers is to make it to the summit of the mountain so that the duo can catch the Condor's talons. During the beginning of each level, the Condor can be depicted flying upwards into the sky with a vegetable hanging onto its talons. During the end of each level, the Ice Climbers will have the chance to reach a bonus stage that is timed for a maximum limit of 40 seconds. It is littered with vegetables, and if the duo make it to the summit in time, the Ice Climbers will be able to jump up and catch the Condor flying around horizontally at the top of the stage. Missing this will cause the Ice Climbers to burst into tears on the completion screen, resulting in a stage failure. Although the condor is the main antagonist of Ice Climber, the Polar Bear ironically makes its representative appearance on the North American box art of the game for the NES as the sole antagonist, alongside Nana, instead of the condor. This could potentially reference that Polar Bears are more common to encounter while scaling glacial mountains in real life than condors.
Super Smash Bros.[]
Ever since the Ice Climbers were introduced to the Super Smash Bros. series, the Condor has made various sorts of appearance, differentiating through the different installments.
Super Smash Bros. Melee[]
In Super Smash Bros. Melee, the Condor makes its representative appearance in the Ice Climbers' Target Test. Their role is to hold the tenth and final target at the top of the stage, referencing its quintessential role in Ice Climber. Although this species makes its appearance in Super Smash Bros. Melee, it lacks its own trophy, but the species is mentioned in the Ice Climbers' description for Classic Mode.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl[]
In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the Condor makes a very brief appearance, hoisting the Ice Climbers into the stage. In this game, the Condor receives an aesthetically three-dimensional model at last. However, once again, the condor fails to have its own trophy, but it is mentioned in the Ice Climbers' trophy description.
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/Wii U[]
In Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, the Condor does not make its representative appearance in the game, but it is once again mentioned in the Ice Climbers' trophy description.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[]
In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the Condor has a bigger role than it had in all other aforementioned Super Smash Bros. installments. Its role in Super Smash Bros. Brawl not only reprises with them, but in the Ice Climbers' Final Smash, "Iceberg," the Condor flies and circles around the giant iceberg the duo summons, with the Ice Climbers also being allowed to grab on to it while it also attacks other opponents. The Ice Climbers that summoned him have the option of grabbing onto him, but the other opponents that attempt to collide with them will be damaged instead. Furthermore, the Condor appears as an Advanced-rank Support-type spirit, giving the player resistance against strong winds if equipped. In its spirit battle, the player must fight Ridley and Ice Climbers on the Battlefield-based form of Summit. This fight is not only a stamina match, referencing Ice Climber, but said match is also timed and home to a frozen floor.
Appearance[]
The Condor appears to be a vulture-proportioned bird with orange fur at the top of its body and white fur at the bottom. It also has yellow eyes and talons with pure white claws on them. Its appearance resembles that of a pterodactyl rather than a realistic condor.
Personality[]
Being a silent and enigmatic species, the Condor seems to basically fit the characteristics of a standard animal, with it being incapable of traditional speech or expressing sorts of emotions aside from intentionally stealing properties from other individuals. The latter, however, also makes the Condor rather provoking, especially for the Ice Climbers. Among the rest of the wildlife in the Ice Climber series, the Condor is less of a fighter and more of a coward, retreating from trouble rather than confronting it. This is evident when the Condor robs the Ice Climbers' vegetables and flies to another location without having the will to contest its opponents, along with not even having the energy to directly oppose the Ice Climbers itself.
However, even when it robs the Ice Climbers' vegetables, it has a tendency of spreading the vegetables across various other mountaintops instead of directly eating it, even if the Condor has such an appetite. Thus, the Condor's victory can be short-lived, as the Ice Climbers will immediately collect the vegetables the duo pass by where the Condor spread them in. Regardless, the Condor's hobby of stealing the duo's vegetables and performing the same actions rinses and repeats.
Trivia[]
In the Famicom Disk System of VS. Ice Climber, the condor will appear with a blue coloration scheme at the top of the bonus stages at the second and more difficult set of mountains, and substitute for the Butterfly.
Despite being the series' main antagonist, the Condor does not receive its formal trophy in a Super Smash Bros. installment.
In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's World of Light, its spirit is located at the top of the Icy Mountain, most likely in reference to its role from the original Ice Climber series.
Additionally, the Ice Climbers are located at the bottom of the Icy Mountain in World of Light, which also likely references the duo's starting location when proceeding to scale a mountain up to the summit to confront the Condor in the original Ice Climber.
