Scutlet (enemy)
| Scutlet | |||
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 Sprite from Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story Bowser Jr.'s Journey | |||
| First appearance | Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (2009) | ||
| Latest appearance | Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story Bowser Jr.'s Journey (2018) | ||
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Scutlets are cockroach-like creatures that appear as enemies in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story and its Nintendo 3DS version. They have gray, ovoid bodies with small red legs and bulbous eyes, and a black stripe runs across their body. A larger member of the species that is also named Scutlet in English, Latin Spanish, French and Italian is found inside Bowser's Flame Pipe as a boss Mario and Luigi have to face; when she sees it, Starlow recognizes the creature as a Scutlet, as she claims to have seen them in Dimble Wood. Their name is derived from "scuttle."
Scutlets appear outside of Bowser's body in Dimble Wood, and are much smaller than the one found in Bowser's body. In the field, Scutlets aimlessly run around, but will charge intruders into their territory. For Bowser, they can be defeated in one hit for extra coins in the overworld, meaning they are exclusive for the Mario Bros. to battle normally. In battle, they appear in high numbers, and will attack by running at the Bros. in a line, showing which one they are going to attack beforehand by going into an arrow formation and performing a fake charge; charges with an even ordinal number come from behind. The attack is countered by jumping. Failing may give the Mario Bros. the Trip status effect. The Scutlets can only use this move with four or more in their party, with the attack taking up all their attack turns; if three or less Scutlets remain, then one Scutlet will slowly walk over to a brother before quickly changing targets and lunging at the actual target. This can be countered by whacking them a hammer. When Luigi is inside the giant Sockop, he must defeat four Scutlets.
Fittingly, Scutlets can be found in Junker Cans, as shown during the fight against Junker; here, they can be summoned when it empties a Junker Can, and attack by ramming their target, which has to be avoided by jumping over them, just like the Bob-omb. In the Junker X battle, the Scutlets that come out of the Junker Can Xs are brown instead of the regular black.
Profiles and statistics[edit]
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story[edit]
| Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story enemy | ||||||||
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| Scutlet (enemy) | ||||||||
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HP | 72 (108) | POW | 43 (108) | DEF | 65 (98) | SPEED | 138 (207) |
| Coins | 25 (38) | Level | 21 | Fire | Normal | Burn? | Normal | |
| Role | Common | Battled by | Mario and Luigi | Location(s) | Dimble Wood | Dizzy? | Normal | |
| Stat down? | Normal | KO? | Normal | Experience | 100 | Item drop | Super Mushroom - 8.0% Rugged Socks - 2.0% | |
| Notice: The second set of numbers next to the enemy's HP, POW, DEF, SPEED and Coins are stat increases from the Challenge Medal accessory; a 50% increase for HP, DEF, SPEED and Coins earned, and a 150% increase for POW. | ||||||||
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story Bowser Jr.'s Journey[edit]
| Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story Bowser Jr.'s Journey enemy | ||||||||||
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| Scutlet | ||||||||||
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HP | 72 | POW | 87 | DEF | 64 | SPEED | 138 | Experience | 100 |
| Fire | Normal | Jump | Normal | Hammer | Normal | Battled by | Mario & Luigi | Coins | 25 | |
| Burn | 1x | Dizzy | 1x | Stat down | 1x | Speed down | 1x | Item drop | Supersyrup Jar - 20% Rugged Socks - 10% | |
| Level 21 | Location(s) | Dimble Wood | ||||||||
- Bowser Jr.'s Journey profile: They normally live quietly in the woods. When they rustle about, prepare to be tackled.
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | ぺタリーノ[?] Petarīno |
From「ぺたり」(petari, Japanese term for "tightly") and the Italian diminutive suffix "-ino" | |
| French (NOA) | Punette[?] | Possibly from punaise ("stink bug") with diminutive suffix -ette | |
| French (NOE) | Tocolan[?] | Clipping of autocollant ("sticker") | |
| German | Betalino[?] | From the boss version's German name "Betaling" and the Italian diminutive suffix "-ino" | |
| Italian | Malablatta[?] | From male ("bad") and blatta ("cockroach") | |
| Spanish (NOA) | Piojuela[?] | From piojo ("lice") and the diminutive suffix -uela | |
| Spanish (NOE) | Pegaracha[?] | Pun on pegar ("to stick") and cucaracha ("cockroach") |
