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Yoshi is an ally to Mario, and is a supporting protagonist in the Super Mario video games, as well as the main character of his own video game series. Yoshi was playable in every Mario spin-off game and first appeared in Super Mario World for the SNES, he was also playable in every Super Smash Bros game to date.
He is voiced by Kazumi Totaka, who also voices Professor E. Gadd and Captain Olimar.
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.
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 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.
External Links[]
- Yoshi at the Yoshi Wiki
- Yoshi at the Mario Wiki
- Yoshi at the Heroes Wiki
- Yoshi at the Heroic Benchmark Wiki
- Yoshi on Wikipedia
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