Snifit

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Snifits are enemies in the Super Mario Bros. series of games.

History

The Snifit was introduced as an enemy in Doki Doki Panic, a NES video game released in Japan. This game never made it to the U.S. in its original form, but was transformed into Super Mario Bros. 2. Most of the enemies in the game were from the Japanese version, which included Bob-ombs, Snifits, Birdo, and Shy Guys. Along with the aforementioned Shy Guys and Bob-ombs, as well as Goombas, Piranha Plants and Koopa Troopas, they are common enemies in the Mario universe.

Snifits made their comeback in '. They then appeared in ', appearing exclusively as servants of Booster. They and blue-robed Snifits called Spookums patrolled Booster Tower, serving as guards and playpals for Booster and guests, when welcome.

Appearance

A Snifit is basically a Shy Guy with a black mask with an extended nozzle on the front that makes it resemble a Gas mask, hence the name. Snifits can fire bullets from these nozzles. Snifits are somewhat rare compared to Shy Guys, although they are often found together. While Shy Guys come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors, the Snifit is almost always garbed in a grey robe, and is usually found either patrolling corridors or as a stationary guard. There are, however, a few different types of Snifits, such as the Laser Snifits, Spiny Snifits, and Ice Snifits that appeared in '. They shoot harmful items from their nozzles; these are often cannonballs but it can extend to ice, spike balls, lasers or even explosives. In ', there are enemies called Snifaro that are two Snifits in a sarcophagus that can be used like a rocket.

Snifits also appeared in Super Mario 64 as "Snufits" floating through the caverns of the Hazy Maze Cave, and they later took on a friendly role in Mario Party 2 as the Snifit Police in the "Space Land" level. Snifit also appeared in Mario Party 3 as a partner for Princess Daisy in duel boards. In these games, the Snifits had a notable absence of legs, and were more balloon-like. In Super Mario 64 DS, they once again lost their balloon-like form, taking on their normal appearance, albeit with a ghostly tail.

The garbagemen in the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie are identifed, in a single line of dialogue from Iggy, as Snifits (earlier in the movie, similarly garbed henchmen lacking the breathing filter apparatus were likely meant to be Shy Guys, though they were not identified as such through dialogue).

Appearances

Enemy

• Super Mario Bros. 2 - Found in three colors: red, gray and pink. In the desert levels (Worlds 2 and 6), the gray ones are green. Oddly enough, there is only one red Snifit in the entire game (in level 3-3), not counting the ones you see in the Bonus Round slot machine. In the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. 2, the pink ones are blue.
• Super Mario All-Stars (updated version of Super Mario Bros. 2)
• Super Mario RPG
• Super Mario 64
• Super Mario 64 DS (greatly updated version of Super Mario 64)
• (as Snifaro, a flying sarcophagus)

Friendly

• Mario Party 2 (Space Land's police force)
• Mario Party 3 (partner in duel mode)

External links

• [Satirical analysis on the Red Snifit in Super Mario Bros. 2]
• [The Super Mario Bros. Monster Compendium entry on Snifits]
• [The Super Mario Bros. Monster Compendium entry on Snufits]

 

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