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| “ | Yoshi! | „ |
| ~ Yoshi's catchphrase. |
| “ | Hoo-yahoo! I'm flying home! | „ |
| ~ Yoshi |
Yoshi is a major character in Nintendo's Super Mario franchise, as well as the titular main protagonist of the Yoshi's Island series.
He is a green, omnivorous dinosaur living on Yoshi's Island in Dinosaur Land, who saved Baby Mario and Baby Luigi years prior to the main series. Over time, he has become Mario's best friend and sidekick, Birdo's love interest, and Kamek's archenemy.
He is voiced by Kazumi Totaka, who also voices Professor E. Gadd from Super Mario series and Captain Olimar from Pikmin series.
Physical Appearance[]
Yoshi is a little green dinosaur that has green skin, and his chest, stomach and mouth are white in color. Yoshi also has red spikes, big blue eyes, on his back he has a red saddle that can be used for riding him. He wears orange shoes with yellow bottoms. In some rare cases, Yoshi is without shoes; when he is barefooted, he reveals he has padded feet.
Powers & Abilities[]
- Prehensile Tongue: Yoshi has an incredibly long, sticky tongue. He uses it to eat almost anything, including enemies much larger than him. Upon eating objects and enemies, he can either gain powers, turn them into eggs or other things. He can also perform many tricks with it such as swinging, spinning with it extended, and yanking objects. In Super Mario Odyssey, he can use it to hang off of walls and perform Wall Jumps.
- Egg Manipulation: Yoshi can use his eggs, some with different properties, for ammunition. The eggs are able to ricochet from walls and ceilings. The eggs will sometimes have homed and explosive capabilities. Yoshi can even encase himself into an egg to shield himself from damage or roll into enemies to knock them.
- Supernatural Speed: Yoshi is often regarded as a speed character, being one of the fastest characters in the Mario series.
- Enhanced Jump: Yoshi is proficient in jumping and ground pounds, almost rivaling Mario's. His jump attack has the same power as Mario's Spin Jump in Super Mario World and can bypass some hazards like buzz saws. He even has a signature jump called the Flutter Jump, which enables him to cross large horizontal distances and can even be used to attack opponents in the Super Smash Bros. series.
- Enhanced Durability: Throughout the series, Yoshi is shown to take a lot of hits and punishment and still continue his task. This is most prominent in the Yoshi's Island series.
- Transformation: Yoshi can transform into various forms with a Morph Bubble or eating specific objects.
- Superhuman Strength: Yoshi is very strong for his size, during the series he's able to carry Mario (an adult man) with no trace of strain.
- High Intelligence: He's very smart being able to get around many problems that he faces and knows he can just easily eat his opponents.
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Trivia[]
- After the success of the original Super Mario Bros., Shigeru Miyamoto wanted Mario to have a dinosaur companion. However, because of the hardware limitations of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), which was still within its lifespan at the time, he hasn't been able to add him. Eventually, when the more powerful Super Nintendo Entertainment System was released, Miyamoto was finally able to implement Yoshi in Super Mario World.
- He became one of the most popular characters from Super Mario by fans.
- A portrait of him appears in the The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time through a window where Link meets where Princess Zelda at Hyrule Castle.
- A Yoshi egg appears in the credit post of the movie The Super Mario Bros. Movie (although Yoshi himself never appeared in this movie), he could end up becoming an important character in the upcoming Super Mario film that will be released in 2026.
- Vin Diesel is highly rumored to be voicing Yoshi in the upcoming Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel.
External Links[]
- Yoshi on the Super Mario Wiki
- Yoshi on the Mario Wiki
- Yoshi on the Super Smash Bros. Wiki
- Yoshi on the Yoshi Wiki
- Yoshi on the Heroic Benchmark Wiki
- Yoshi — Wikipedia
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