Ice Bro: Difference between revisions

|latest_appearance=''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]'' (''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass|Booster Course Pass]]'', Wave 5) (cameo) (2023)

[[File:IceBattle NSMBWii.png|200px|thumb|Ice Bros in battle]]

Ice Bros make their debut in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]''. When an Ice Bro's Ice Ball comes in contact with a player, it would first damage them, then freeze them in a block of ice. These Ice Balls can also freeze other enemies, including other Ice Bros, as demonstrated in [[Enemy Course]] encounters. If a [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]] catches one of their Ice Balls, the Yoshi can spit it out in the form of a blue fireball that freezes anything in its path.

 

Excluding Enemy Courses, a total of six Ice Bros appear in the game. In [[World 3-2 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)|World 3-2]], one appears atop a small hill shortly after the level's first [[Star Coin]], while another is found on a vertically-moving platform just before the third Star Coin. Four more individuals are scattered across [[World 3-3 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)|World 3-3]]. Two Ice Bros are also found [[Enemy Course|patrolling]] a circular section of the map of [[World 3 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)|World 3]]. Running into one can result in a battle with either three or four Ice Bros.

====''New Super Mario Bros. U'' / ''New Super Luigi U'' / ''New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe''====

Ice Bros reappear in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]'', where, in contrast to ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'', they are the rarest type of Hammer Bro in the main game, with one standing atop a row of six bricks under a pipe in the ceiling that leads to the second Star Coin of [[Icicle Caverns]], while another is found later in the same level, positioned on a row of five bricks between two large icicles. Outside of the main game, two more appear in the final section of {{world-link|coin|7|World Coin-7}}.

A total of ten Ice Bros appear in the expansion for that game, ''[[New Super Luigi U]]''. A single Ice Bro is the third enemy encountered in [[All Aboard!]] (an airship level featuring all types of Hammer Bro, much like the first [[Hand Trap]] in ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'') following a [[Fire Bro]] and a [[Mechakoopa]]. Nine more are distributed across [[Frozen Fuzzies]], a level where the player must rely on ice balls thrown by Ice Bros and themselves (if they are equipped with the powers of an [[Ice Flower]] or a [[Penguin Suit]]) to freeze [[Fuzzy|Fuzzies]] on tracks in order to traverse the level, obtain [[Star Coin]]s, and even reach a high part of the [[Goal Pole]].

Ice Bros return in ''[[Paper Mario: The Origami King]]'', with origami Ice Bros appearing as enemies. When engaged in battle, Ice Bros either attack using Ice Throw, involving their traditional behavior of throwing ice balls, or Super Bro Throw, which involves lifting another enemy and throwing it at Mario, which defeats the thrown enemy. Much like [[Boomerang Bro]]s and [[Fire Bro]]s, Ice Bros also have their own unique variant of the move, Cold Bro Throw, which is the same as Super Bro Throw except for the fact that the grabbed enemy is first encased in a snowball before being thrown at Mario.

While Ice Bros do not physically appear in ''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]'', an image of an Ice Bro appears in Wave 5 of the ''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass|Booster Course Pass]]'' DLC in [[Vancouver Velocity]] on the

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