“Chaaaarge! I'm Salvo, duelist extraordinaire! Let's have us a little battle!”

—Salvo the Slime, Mario Party Advance

Salvo the Slime is the boss of World 1 in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and its remake. Salvo is a Slime Drop that was enlarged by Kamek. Salvo jumps at the player, trying to push them into a lava pit below his arena, though unlike most enemies, the player is not hurt by Salvo's touch. Instead, Yoshi is hurt by the Slime Drops that Salvo summons. Because Salvo was a Slime Drop prior to his transformation, Slime Drops break off of Salvo when he is hit by an egg. The more Salvo is hit, the smaller he gets, until he disappears altogether.

An alternate variant of him appears later as a non-boss enemy in the game, known in English simply as Slime. It can disguise itself as a block, and is defeated the same way. Slimes appear again in Yoshi's New Island.

Four different Salvo the Slimes appears in Mario Party 4 under his Japanese name, Big Slime^[1]. During the minigame Slime Time, the four versions of him appear, in yellow, pink, purple, and green.

Going only by his first name, Salvo makes an appearance as the boss of the second floor of the Duel Tower in Mario Party Advance. This game shows that he is capable of speech. Salvo challenges the player to a game of Volleybomb and rewards the player with the minigame upon defeat.

He also makes a brief cameo alongside other Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island bosses in the opening to Yoshi's Island DS.

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Mario Party Advance[edit]

• 'Don't underestimate me because I'm beefy! I've got skills you've never even heard of!'
• 'If you beat me, you can have the Duel game. Lose, and you get nothing!'
• 'Let's begin!'
• 'My skills were no match for your own! Time for you to head to the third floor.'
• 'You did it! And that means you can go on to level 3! There, the fiercest duelist awaits you!'

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Gallery[edit]

• Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

• Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3

• Mario Party 4

• Mario Party Advance

• Yoshi's Island DS

Trivia[edit]

• Although Salvo is indeed a name (actually a surname), its use in this character's name is a pun on 'saliva,' referencing his slimy texture. It may also refer to how it discharges multiple Slime Drops (i.e. a 'salvo') when hit by an egg.
• In his artwork for Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Salvo is beige, while in-game, he is green.

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“Fine! Burt, hitch up your pants and GO BUST UP THAT YOSHI!”

—Kamek, Yoshi's Woolly World

Burt the Bashful, also spelled Bert the Bashful,^[1] is the first mid-boss seen in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island; he is found in Burt The Bashful's Fort half-way through World 1. At the end of the fort, Yellow Yoshi encounters a normal Burt, which Kamek grows to a massive size, turning it into Burt the Bashful. To defeat him, Yoshi must hit him with eggs six times; with each hit, Burt's pants continue to fall off. When he is defeated, his pants entirely fall off and he turns red, blasts off and eventually implodes.

While Burt does not appear in Yoshi's Island DS, the mid-bosses of World 1, the Big Burt Bros., are based on him. He also cameos in the beginning, alongside Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island's castle bosses and Tap-Tap the Red Nose.

Burt the Bashful later appears in Yoshi's Woolly World and Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World as the boss of World 1 in Burt the Bashful's Castle. Here, Burt has three phases. First, he jumps as in Yoshi's Island. He occasionally summons two Shy Guys as ammo. To damage Burt, Yoshi must first hit him with a yarn ball to stun him, then unravel his pants at the string. For the second phase, he gets two ball look-alikes, which jump around. During his final phase, he gets a third and fourth ball and summons three Shy Guys. Once Burt is entirely naked, the battle ends. In this game, not including Baby Bowser's second form, Burt the Bashful is the only boss that doesn't need to be Ground Pounded to be defeated.

While Burt does not appear in Yoshi's Crafted World, the player fights a similar boss called Burt the Ball, which is a rubber version of him.

Burt the Bashful also appears as a sticker in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and as a spirit in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

In volume 14 of the Super Mario-Kun, the volume based on Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Burt the Bashful is the first boss Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi encounter. He bounces around, smashing Mario in the process. Yoshi also attacks and ends up failing. An Egg-Plant assists them, but the Yoshi Eggs simply bounce off Burt. Finally, Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi grab and pull down Burt's pants, revealing his genitals. Ashamed, he shrinks and starts flying off as a deflated balloon, causing havoc to Mario and Luigi.

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Super Smash Bros. Brawl sticker[edit]

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Trivia[edit]

• Burt's sprites depict him differently from his artwork; notably, he has one curled hair in his sprites, but two drooping hairs in his artwork. Said artwork is reused for the Big Burt Bros., and the same inconsistency applies with them.
• Burt the Bashful makes a cameo appearance in the Nintendo Monopoly.
• Not including Baby Bowser, Burt the Bashful is one of the only two bosses from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island that make an appearance in Yoshi's Woolly World, the other being Naval Piranha.

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