Yoo Who Cannon

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Yoo Who Cannon
Sprite of the Yoo Who Cannon Special Attack from Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. Sprite of the Yoo Who Cannon from Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey
BP/SP/CP needed 7 (Bowser's Inside Story)
12 (Brothership)
BP/SP/CP needed (remake) 14/16 (Normal/Easy) (Bowser Jr.'s Journey)
Location Toad Town (Bowser's Inside Story)
Shipshape Island (Brothership)
First appearance Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (2009)
Latest appearance Mario & Luigi: Brothership (2024)
Bowser's Inside Story description Remember which barrels the bros are in! A Button launches Mario; B Button launches Luigi!
Target: All (random)
Bonus effect: Nothing
Brothership description Remember who got in which barrel. If it's Mario, press A Button, if Luigi B Button. Finally, press X Button to launch.
Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey description Four Marios and Luigis enter eight barrels. Take a good look and remember who's in which barrel at the start! To fire the cannon, press A Button when a barrel with Mario in it aims at an enemy, or B Button when a barrel with Luigi in it does the same.
A demonstration of the Yoo Who Cannon attack.
A demonstration of the Yoo Who Cannon attack.
A demonstration of the Yoo Who Cannon attack.

Yoo Who Cannon is a Bros. Attack that appears in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, its remake Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey, and Mario & Luigi: Brothership. It is automatically gained upon completing the Koopa Paratroopa Trio's tutorial with the shell block. A part of its name is a pun on the interjection "yoohoo" and the word "who". It costs seven SP to use this attack in Bowser's Inside Story, fourteen/sixteen BP in its remake, and 12 BP in Brothership.

When using this attack, Mario and Luigi will briefly appear in eight Barrel Cannons on screen; the player has to remember where they are. After a barrel rises, the player has to press the A Button or B Button button, depending on which brother was sitting there but, the player has to press that button before the fuse reaches the barrel to damage the enemy. If the wrong button is pressed or if the player takes too long, the other barrels will be destroyed, and the move will prematurely end with little damage being dealt. After teaching Mario how to use Blue Shells, the Koopa Paratroopa Trio will give him and Luigi an Attack Piece Block which houses the 10 Attack Pieces required to use this move. In the remake, Yoo Who Cannons now aim at the enemy to hit upon being used.

It, Green Shell, Mighty Meteor and Snack Basket are the only Special Attacks that are mandatory to complete the game.

This move is available for use in the Challenge Node. It becomes trickier when remembering the order becomes shorter.

Yoo Who Cannon was originally going to appear in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, but was scrapped from the final version.[1]

Yoo Who Cannon returns in Mario & Luigi: Brothership as a Luigi-exclusive Bros. Attack, and now involves placing an additional, massive cannon behind the enemy ranks to catch the fired brothers, unleashing all eight as a giant bowling ball and dealing damage to all enemies if an "Excellent" is achieved (similar to the Toad Trail finisher); firing at the wrong time will cause the barrel to explode and the Bros. and copies to spill out; additionally, said copies vanish harmlessly while the real Mario Bros. head back to their spots.

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Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ぶんしんタルたいほう[?]
Bunshin Taru Taihō
Copy Barrel Cannon
Chinese (traditional) 分身桶大砲[?]
Fēnshēn Tǒng Dàpào
Doppleganger Barrel Cannon
Dutch Duokanon[?] Duo cannon
French (NOA) Canon Ya-hou[?] Ya-hoo Cannon
French (NOE) Barils cloneurs[?] Cloning Kegs
German Fass-Geballer[?] Barrel-Bombardment
Italian Barilcannone[?] Portmanteau of "Barile" (Barrel) and "Cannone" (Cannon)
Korean 분신나무통대포[?]
Bunsin Namutong Daepo
Copy Wood Barrel Cannon
Portuguese Multicanhão[2] Multicannon
Spanish (NOA) Cañón Yuju[?] Yoo-hoo Cannon
Spanish (NOE) Barrilazo Humano[?] Human Barrel Hit ("-azo" is suffix for hitting something.)

References[edit]

  1. ^ https://www.spriters-resource.com/3ds/marioluigidreamteam/sheet/63828/
  2. ^ Mario & Luigi: Brothership in-game name (Brazilian Portuguese localization)