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'''Ka-thunks'''<ref>Musa, Alexander, and Geson Hatchett. ''Super Mario 3D World'' PRIMA Official Game Guide. Page 27.</ref> are enemies that appear only in the courses [[King Ka-thunk's Castle]] and [[Bowser's Lava Lake Keep]] in ''[[Super Mario 3D World]]'' and its Nintendo Switch port ''[[Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury]]''. Ka-thunks resemble metal blue square frames covered in spikes which hurt the player upon contact. They either spawn in small crevices and move along a set path until they fall into an abyss, or appear moving in a looping path. Some simply flip side to side. They function similarly to [[Tox Box]]es, as they move along paths, and the player must avoid them by using the hollow space in the middle. They cannot be destroyed by any means, including invincibility, excluding a pair of Ka-thunks in [[Bowser's Lava Lake Keep]] which disappear upon defeating a pair of [[Hammer Bro]]s.

[[King Ka-thunk]] holds onto a larger Ka-thunk during his battle.

==Names in other languages==

|Jap=Wackun<ref>''Super Mario 3D World'' internal filename (<tt>Wackun6x6M</tt>)</ref><br>(internal)<br>ガッチン<ref>Shogakukan. 2015. ''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'', ''Super Mario 3D World'' section, page 225.</ref><br>''Gacchin''

|JapM=A romanization of「ワックン」(''Wakkun''); possibly derived from「ワクワク」(''wakuwaku'', trembling) or「罠」(''wana'', trap), and honorific「くん」(''-kun'')<br><br>From「ガチン」(''gachin'', onomatopoeia for loud clashing sound); likely following the format of「ドッスン」(''Dossun'', [[Thwomp]])

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|Fra=Klonk

|FraM=

|ItaM=From "clomp" (the sound of a crushing object) with "-o"