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Ball 'n' Chain

A Ball 'n' Chain in New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
First appearance Super Mario World (1990)
Latest appearance New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (2019)
A Ball 'n' Chain, from the Super Mario World television series.
A Ball 'n' Chain in Super Mario World.
A Ball 'n' Chain, from the Super Mario World television series.
A Ball 'n' Chain, from the Super Mario World television series.

A Ball 'n' Chain is a spiked ball on a chain swinging on a pivot. Super Mario World introduces these obstacles. Bowser uses these as cautionary weapons against invaders, but Mario or Luigi can stand on the brick in the center to avoid being hit by the ball. Also, using a Spin Jump will allow Mario/Luigi to harmlessly bounce off the spiked ball. Many are found in the castles and fortresses in Super Mario World.

A Ball 'n' Chain makes a brief appearance in the Super Mario World animated series episode "Send in the Clown". Mario, while traveling through Neon Castle, narrowly avoids being hit by a Ball 'n' Chain, which drops from the ceiling, as he traverses over some lava.

New Super Mario Bros. features this obstacle in the World 7-Castle and Bowser's Castle. The blocks are still there, and one even has a Star Coin. As an added feature, they rotate wildly on the end of the chain as well as spinning on the block, however, this does not affect their attack.

A Ball 'n' Chain appearance in Super Mario 3D Land.

Ball 'n' Chains reappear in New Super Mario Bros. Wii once, in a secret area of Wendy's Castle and in Lemmy's Fortress. However, unlike their past appearances, they can be defeated, using a Starman.

In Super Mario 3D Land, Ball 'n' Chains appear in purple with yellow spikes and chain. This time they are not linked to shackles, like in Super Mario World. Instead of spinning, they only make pendulum movements. The chain's links are 2D, which means they look the same way at all angles. They can be destroyed by making contact with them as Statue Mario.

In New Super Mario Bros. U, regular and giant Ball 'n' Chains (under the name Pendulums) appear, swinging in a pendulum-like manner as they do in Super Princess Peach and Super Mario 3D Land. Unlike other iterations, however, these Ball 'n' Chains cannot be avoided by passing through the chains, as they have been spiked too.

Super Mario World / Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2
Characters
Protagonists
Mario • Luigi • Princess Toadstool • Yoshi • Red Yoshi • Blue Yoshi • Yellow Yoshi • Baby Yoshi • Dolphin
Bosses
Koopalings (Iggy Koopa • Morton Koopa Jr. • Lemmy Koopa • Ludwig von Koopa • Roy Koopa • Wendy O. Koopa • Larry Koopa) • Bowser • Reznor • Big Boo
Items
1-Up Mushroom • 3-Up Moon • Berry (Green • Pink) • Bonus Coin • Cape Feather • Coin • Control Coin • Dragon Coin • Egg • Fire Flower • Gray Coin • Lakitu's Cloud • Magic Ball • Power Balloon • Super Mushroom • Starman • Yoshi's Wings
Objects
! Block • ! Switch • Arrow Sign • Bonus block • Bridge • Coin Block • Count-Lift • Door • Dotted-Line Block • Empty Block • Fence • Flimsy Lift • Flip Panel • Flying Platform • Flying Prize Block • Grab Block • Gray Block • Gray P Switch • Hidden Block • Jump Block • Jumping Board • Key • Lift • Message Block • Naname Lift • ON/OFF Switch • P Warp Door • Piston Lift • Prize Block • Rope • Rotating Block • Roulette Block • Semisolid Platform • Single Swing Lift • Skull Raft • Snake Block • Spring platform • Star Road • Stretch Block • Switch Block • Triangular Block • Triple Swing Lift • Vine • Yoshi Cloud
Worlds of Dinosaur Land
Yoshi's Island • Donut Plains • Vanilla Dome • Twin Bridges • Forest of Illusion • Chocolate Island • Valley of Bowser • Star World • Special Zone
Moves
Crouch • Dash • Fly • Jump • Shell Toss • Slide • Spin Jump • Stomp • Swallow • Swim
Enemies and obstacles
Amazing Flyin' Hammer Brother • Ball 'N' Chain • Banzai Bill • Beak Pillar • Big Boo • Big Bubble • Big Steely • Blargg • Blurp • Bob-omb • Bony Beetle • Boo Buddy • Boo Buddy Block • Boo Buddy Swarm • Boo Crew • Bound Fire • Bowser Statue (Gold • Gray) • Bullet Bill • Buzzy Beetle • Chainsaw • Chargin' Chuck • Cheep Cheep • Circling Boo Buddies • Climbing Koopa • Dino-Rhino • Dino-Torch • Disappearing Boo Buddy • Dry Bones • Eerie • Falling Spike • Fishbone • Fishin' Boo • Fishin' Lakitu • Floating Mine • Flying Goomba • Fuzzy • Goomba • Grinder • Hothead • Jumping Piranha Plant • Jumping Pumpkin Plant • Jumping Venus Fire Trap • Koopa Paratroopa • Koopa Troopa • Koopa without a Shell • Lakitu • Lil Sparky • Magikoopa • Mask Koopa • Mechakoopa • Mega Mole • Monty Mole • Muncher • Ninji • Para-bomb • Para-Goomba • Para Mask Koopa • Pidgit Bill • Pillar • Pipe Lakitu • Piranha Plant • Podoboo • Pokey • Porcu-Puffer • Rex • Rip Van Fish • Shell (flashing) • Skull Box • Spike • Spike Pillar • Spike Top • Spiny • Spiny Egg • Sumo Brother • Super Koopa • Swooper • Thwimp • Thwomp • Torpedo Ted • Turtle Cannon • Urchin • Volcano Lotus • Wiggler • Zigzag Podoboo
Other
1-Up Chamber • Bonus game • Bonus Star • Fall • Giant Gate • Item Stock • Keyhole • Midway Gate • Sand cloud • Time limit • Tourist Tips
Further info
Beta elements • Glitches • Super Mario World (soundtrack album) • Staff
New Super Mario Bros.
Characters
Protagonists
Mario • Luigi • Princess Peach
Supporting characters
Dorrie • Mega Wiggler • Phantom Hand • Toadsworth
Bosses
Bowser Jr. • Bowser • Mummipokey • Cheepskipper • Mega Goomba • Petey Piranha • Monty Tank • Lakithunder • Dry Bowser
Items
1-Up Mushroom • Big Star • Blue Coin • Blue Shell • Coin • Fire Flower • Hidden Coin • Mega Mushroom • Mini Mushroom • Red Coin • Star Coin • Starman • Super Mushroom
Objects
! Block • ! Switch • ? Block • Balance Lift • Brick • Bubble • Bump Platform • Bumper • Coin Block • Dash Coin • Donut Lift • Door • Dotted-Line Block • Face block • Fence • Flagpole • Flimsy Lift • Flip Panel • Flipper • Flying ? Block • Hard Block • Hidden Block • Ice Block • Lakitu's Cloud • Lift • Midway point • Mushroom Platform • Mushroom Trampoline • Paddle wheel • P Switch • Pipe Cannon • Pole • Red Block • Red Flagpole • Red Ring • Red-Topped Mushroom • Rolling log • Roulette Block • Seesaw • Semisolid Platform • Skull switch • Snake Block • Spiked ? Block • Spin Block • Star Coin Sign • Stretch Shroom • Trampoline • Vine • Warp Pipe • Wobble Rock • Yellow-Topped Mushroom
Enemies
Amp • Baby Blooper • Balloon Boo • Banzai Bill • Big Whomp • Blockhopper • Blooper • Blooper Nanny • Bob-omb • Boomerang Bro • Boo • Broozer • Bullet Bill • Buzzy Beetle • Chain Chomp • Cheep-Cheep • Cheep-Chomp • Climbing Koopa • Crowber • Deep-Cheep • Dry Bones • Fire Bro • Fire Chomp • Fire Snake • Goomba • Hammer Bro • Kab-omb • Koopa Paratroopa • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Mega Cheep-Cheep • Mega Deep-Cheep • Mega Dry Bones • Mega Thwomp • Mega Unagi • Micro Goomba • Moneybag • Paragoomba • Piranha Plant • Podoboo • Pokey • Scuttlebug • Skeeter • Snailicorn • Snow Spike • Spike Bass • Spike Top • Spiny • Spiny Egg • Splunkin • Squiggler • Sushi • Sledge Bro • Super Piranha Plant • Swooper • Thwomp • Unagi • Venus Fire Trap • Wiggler • Whomp
Obstacles
Ball 'n' Chain • Banzai Bill Cannon • Bill Blaster • Bill Blaster Turret • Burner • Cork • Current • Fire Bar • Giant Spiked Ball • Lava • Lava Fireball • Poison Water • Quicksand • Spike Pillar • Spike Trap • Spiked Ball • Tornado • Whirlpool
Moves
Crouch • Dash • Double Jump • Ground Pound • Jump • Slide • Spin Jump • Stomp • Swim • Triple Jump • Wall Jump
Worlds
World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6 • World 7 • World 8
Level types
Castle • Ghost House • Toad House • Tower • Warp Cannon
Minigames
Action
Balloon Racing • Danger, Bob-omb! Danger! • Lakitu Launch • Snowball Slalom • Snowball Slam • Vs. Lakitu Launch • Whack-a-Monty
Puzzle
Coincentration • Hide and Boo Seek • Loves Me...? • Puzzle Panel • Wanted! • Which Wiggler?
Table
Bob-omb Reverse • Luigi's Thrilling Cards • Luigi-Jack • Memory Match • Pair-a-Gone • Picture Poker • Speed
Variety
Bob-omb Squad • Bounce and Trounce • Mario's Slides • Sort or 'Splode • Trampoline Time
1 on 1
Bob-omb Sudden Death • Bob-omb Trampoline • Jumping Sudden Death • Jumping Brothers • Lakitu Launch • Vs. Mario's Slides • Vs. Pair-a-Gone • Vs. Trampoline Time
Other
Challenge • Item Storage • Mario vs. Luigi • Time limit
Further info
Media • Beta elements • Staff • Glitches
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Characters
Playable
Mario • Luigi • Blue Toad • Yellow Toad
Supporting
Yoshi • Princess Peach • Toad
Bosses
Bowser Jr. • Koopalings (Larry Koopa · Roy Koopa · Lemmy Koopa · Wendy O. Koopa · Iggy Koopa · Morton Koopa Jr. · Ludwig von Koopa) • Kamek • Bowser
Worlds
World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6 • World 7 • World 8 • World 9 • World Coin
Items and objects
? Block • ? Switch • 1-Up Mushroom • Arrow lift • Balance Lift • Barrel • Berry • Blue Coin • Bolt Lift • Bonecoaster • Brick Block • Cog • Coin • Current • Donut Block • Fire Flower • Flagpole • Flip Panel • Flying ? Block • Frozen Coin • Glow Block • Hard Block • Hidden Block • Hidden Coin • Ice Block • Ice Flower • Ice Snake Block • Iron Block • Kōri Kabe • Light Block • Limited Lift • Midway point • Mini Mushroom • P Switch • Paddle wheel • Pendulum Platform • Penguin Suit • Pipe Cannon • Player Clown Car • Pole • POW Block • Propeller Block • Propeller Mushroom • Quicksand • Red ! Switch • Red Block • Red Coin • Red Flagpole • Red Ring • RemoCon Kanaami • Remote-Control Platform • Rolling log • Roulette Block • Sand Geyser • Screwtop Lift • Screwtop Platform • Screwtop Shroom • Square cloud • Starman • Star Coin • Stretch Block • Stretch Shroom • Super Mushroom • Swinging Hammer • Switch-shiki RemoCon Lift • Tilt Lift • Toad balloon • Trampoline • Turning Floor • Warp Cannon • Water Bubble • Wind • Wobble Rock
Moves
Crouch • Dash • Double Jump • Fly • Ground Pound • Jump • Shell Toss • Slide • Spin Jump • Stomp • Swallow • Swim • Synchro Ground Pound • Triple Jump • Wall Jump
Enemies
Amp • Baby Blooper • Banzai Bill • Banzai Bill Cannon • Big Boo • Big Venus Fire Trap • Bill Blaster • Bill Blaster Turret • Blooper • Blooper Nanny • Bob-omb • Boo • Boomerang Bro • Bramball • Broozer • Bulber • Bullet Bill • Buzzy Beetle • Cannonball • Chain Chomp • Cheep Cheep • Cheep-Chomp • Circling Boo Buddies • Clampy • Climbing Koopa • Cooligan • Crowber • Deep-Cheep • Dry Bones • Fire Bro • Fire Snake • Flame Chomp • Foo • Fuzzy • Giant cannonball Golden Cheep-Cheep • Goomba • Grand Goomba • Hammer Bro • Heavy Para-Beetle • Huckit Crab • Ice Bro • Jellybeam • King Bill • Koopa Paratroopa • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Mechakoopa • Medium Goomba • Mega Cheep Cheep • Mega Deep Cheep • Mega Dry Bones • Mega Fuzzy • Mega Thwomp • Mega Urchin • Mega Wiggler • Micro Goomba • Missile Bill • Missile Banzai Bill • Monty Mole • Muncher • Parabomb • Para-Beetle • Paragoomba • Piranha Plant • Podoboo • Pokey • Porcupuffer • Prickly Goomba • Rocky Wrench • Scaredy Rat • Sledge Bro • Spike • Spike Top • Spiny • Spiny Cheep Cheep • Spiny Egg • Super Dry Bones • Stalking Piranha Plant • Stone Spike • Super Piranha Plant • Swooper • Thwomp • Urchin • Venus Fire Trap • Water Lily Piranha • Wet Bones • Wiggler
Obstacles
Ball 'n' Chain • Burner • Circus Ball • Death Ring • Fire Cog • Ghost Block • Ghost Vase • Giant Spike Pillar • Giant Spiked Ball • Giant Spiked Bomb • Huge Icicle • Icicle • Jumbo Ray • Lava Plume • Lava Rock • Spiked Ball • Spiked Bomb • Spike Pillar • Volcanic Smoke
Minigames
1-up Blast • Power-up Panels • Enemy Course
Further info
Bah • Coin Battle • Glitches • Hint movies • Media • beta elements • Staff • Time limit • Trading cards
Super Mario 3D Land
Protagonists
Mario • Luigi • Princess Peach
Species
Little bird • Toads
Forms
Small Mario • Super Mario • Tanooki Mario (Statue Mario) • Fire Mario • Boomerang Mario • Invincible Mario • White Tanooki Mario
Moves
Crawl • Crouch • Crouch Jump • Dash • Ground Pound • Long Jump • Jump • Roll • Side Somersault • Slide • Swim • Wall Jump
Worlds
World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6 • World 7 • World 8 • Special 1 • Special 2 • Special 3 • Special 4 • Special 5 • Special 6 • Special 7 • Special 8
Items
+ Clock • 1-Up Mushroom • Boomerang Flower • Coin • Fire Flower • Invincibility Leaf • Item Storage • Note • P-Wing • Red Coin • Red Ring • Star Medal • Statue Leaf • StreetPass Gift • Starman • Super Mushroom • Super Leaf
Objects
! Block • ? Block • Assist Block • Beat Block • Binoculars • Board • Bolt Lift • Brick Block • Cannon • Checkpoint Flag • Coin Block • Coin Box • Coin Ring • Crate • Directional Block • Donut Block • Elevator • Face block • Flip Panel • Flip-Swap Panel • Flying ? Block • Hard Block • Hidden Block • Mystery Box • Note Block • Propeller Box • P Switch • Pole • Roulette Block • Super Note Block • Tail Tree • Tail Wheel • Warp Box • Warp Pipe
Enemies
Banzai Bill • Biddybud • Big Boo • Big Cosmic Clone • Block Dragon • Blooper • Bob-omb • Boo • Boomerang Bro • Bullet Bill • Chain Chomp • Cheep Cheep • Coin Coffer • Cosmic Clone • Draglet • Dry Bones • Fake Block • Fire Piranha Plant • Flophopper • Fuzzy • Goomba • Goomba Tower • Grand Tail Goomba • Hammer Bro • Inky Piranha Plant • Koopa Troopa • Magikoopa • Magmaargh • Monty Mole • Morty Mole • Para-Biddybud • Paragoomba • Peepa • Piranha Plant • Podoboo • Pokey • Porcupuffer • Prongo • Rocky Wrench • Sandmaargh • Spike Eel • Spiny • Stingby • Tail Bob-omb • Tail Boo • Tail Bullet Bill • Tail Goomba • Tail Thwomp • Thwomp • Wallop
Obstacles
Baddie Box • Ball 'n' Chain • Banzai Bill Cannon • Bill Blaster • Buzz Saw • Fire Bar • Giant Spiked Ball • Jet engine • Lava Plume • Prickly Plant • Spike Pillar • Spiked Ball • Spike Roller
Bosses
Bowser • Tail Bowser • Dry Bowser • Boom Boom • Pom Pom
New Super Mario Bros. U / New Super Luigi U / New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
Characters
Playable
Mario* • Luigi • Yellow Toad • Blue Toad • Mii • Nabbit** • Toadette***
Supporting
Princess Peach • Toad • Green Yoshi • Baby Yoshi (Balloon Baby Yoshi · Bubble Baby Yoshi · Glowing Baby Yoshi)
Bosses
Bowser • Bowser Jr. • Koopalings (Lemmy Koopa · Morton Koopa Jr. · Larry Koopa · Wendy O. Koopa · Iggy Koopa · Roy Koopa · Ludwig von Koopa) • Boom Boom • Boss Sumo Bro • Kamek
Worlds and areas
Acorn Plains • Layer-Cake Desert • Sparkling Waters • Frosted Glacier • Soda Jungle • Rock-Candy Mines • Meringue Clouds • Peach's Castle • Superstar Road • Secret Island • Coin Courses*
Items
1-Up Mushroom • 3-Up Moon • Berry • Blue Coin • Boost Star • Coin • Fire Flower • Frozen Coin • Green Coin • Hidden Coin • Ice Flower • Mini Mushroom • P-Acorn • Penguin Suit • POW Block • Propeller Mushroom • Red Coin • Super Acorn • Super Crown*** • Super Mushroom • Starman • Yoshi Egg
Objects
! Switch • ? Block • ? Switch • 3-Up Moon Block • Arrow lift • Bean Platform • Big Block • Blue Ring** • Bonecoaster • Bone Floor • Boost Block • Brick Block • Checkpoint Flag* • Coin Block • Cross Lift* • Donut Block • Flying ? Block • Goal Pole (secret) • Goal ring* • Green Ring • Hammer Pendulum • Hidden Block • Ice Block • Ice Chunk* • Iron Block • Leaf Platform • Light Block • Limited Lift • Luigi Block** • Mario Brothers Floor • Mega ? Block • Note Block • Nut • P Switch • Paddle Platform* • Pendulum Platform • Pole • Red Ring • Remote-Control Platform* • Rolling log* • Scale Lift • Screwtop Lift • Screwtop Platform • Screwtop Shroom* • Seesaw Log Bridge • Seesaw Shroom* • Seesaw Shroom (blue)** • Slide Lift* • Snake Block • Star Lift • Stretch Shroom* • Stone block • Super Guide Block* • Switch-Lift** • Trampoline • Tree • Turning Floor • Water Bubble* • Wobble Rock*
Moves
Crouch • Dash • Double Jump • Fly • Ground Pound • Jump • Slide • Spin Jump • Stomp • Swallow • Swim • Simultaneous Ground Pound • Triple Jump • Wall Jump
Enemies
Amp* • Baby Blooper* • Baby Dragoneel* • Balloon Goomba* • Banzai Bill • Banzai Bill Cannon • Big Amp* • Big Boo • Big Buzzy Beetle* • Big Venus Fire Trap** • Blooper • Blooper Nanny* • Bob-omb • Bomb • Bony Beetle • Boo • Boomerang Bro • Bowser Amp • Bramball • Broozer • Bulber* • Bullet Bill • Burner • Buzzy Beetle • Chain Chomp • Cheep Cheep • Cheep Chomp • Circling Boo Buddies • Clampy* • Cooligan • Deep Cheep** • Dragoneel • Dry Bones • Eep Cheep • Fire Bro • Fire Snake • Fish Bone • Flame Chomp • Fliprus • Foo • Fuzzy • Goomba • Goombrat • Grand Goomba • Gargantua Koopa Troopa • Grrrol • Hammer Bro • Heavy Para-Beetle • Hefty Goomba • Huckit Crab • Ice Bro • Jellybeam* • King Bill • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Magmaargh • Magmaw • Mecha Cheep* • Mechakoopa • Mega Cheep Cheep • Mega Dry Bones • Mega Deep Cheep** • Mega Eep Cheep** • Mega Fuzzy • Mega Grrrol • Mega Piranha Plant • Mega Thwomp • Mega Urchin • Mega Wiggler • Meteor • Micro Goomba • Missile Bill • Monty Mole • Muncher • Nabbit • Para-Beetle • Parabomb • Paragoomba* • Paratroopa • Piranha Plant • Piranha Plant Egg • Piranhacus Giganticus • Podoboo • Pokey • Porcupuffer • Prickly Goomba • River Piranha Plant • Rocky Wrench* • Scaredy Rat* • Sledge Bro • Spike Top • Spiny • Spiny Cheep Cheep • Spiny Egg • Stalking Piranha Plant • Stone Spike • Sumo Bro • Swooper* • Targeting Ted • Thwimp* • Thwomp • Torpedo Ted • Urchin • Venus Fire Trap • Venus Ice Trap • Waddlewing • Wiggler
Obstacles
Ball 'n' Chain • Bill Blaster • Bill Blaster Turret • Cannon • Cannonball* • Circus Ball • Current • Energy ring • Fire Bar • Ghost Block • Giant Ball 'n' Chain • Giant Cannonball • Huge Icicle • Huge Podoboo Cog • Icicle • Lava • Lava Fireball • Lava Plume* • Mecha Hand • Poisoned Water • Quicksand • Red Skull Box • Sand Geyser • Skull Box* • Spike • Spiked Ball • Spike Pillar • Stone-Eye • Volcanic Smoke • Water Jet
Game modes
Boost Mode • Challenge Mode* • Boost Rush* • Coin Battle*
Further info
Bah • Gallery (New Super Mario Bros. U · New Super Luigi U) • Glitches • Media • New Super Mario Bros. U + New Super Luigi U • beta elements • Staff (New Super Mario Bros. U · New Super Luigi U · New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe) • Time limit
* Exclusive to New Super Mario Bros. U • ** Exclusive to New Super Luigi U • *** Exclusive to New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe

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