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===''The Legend of Zelda'' series===

====''The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening''====

 

There is only one Mega Thwomp, and it appears in an underground side-scrolling passage of the [[Key Cavern]]. Both its appearance and behavior are significantly different than in the ''Mario'' games, especially the [[Super Mario (series)|''Super Mario'' series]]. Mega Thwomp is shaped like a large square, and its face consists of two eyes and an angry expression. In both ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX]]'' and the [[Nintendo Switch]] [[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Nintendo Switch)|version]], Mega Thwomp is colored red. It is stuck between two thin platforms, and is hanging in midair above a pit of [[spike]]s. Mega Thwomp serves more as an obstacle than an enemy because it does not attempt to crush [[Link]] if he goes underneath it. To move the Mega Thwomp, Link has to charge into it using the [[Pegasus Boots]]. In doing so, the Mega Thwomp cracks slightly, receives a shocked expression, and falls on the spikes below. With the [[Roc's Feather]], Link can jump on to the Mega Thwomp and use it as a platform to go across the spikes and continue onward. In ''The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX'', Mega Thwomp turns blue when it cracks slightly, but in the Nintendo Switch remake, it stays red.

 

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====''The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons''/''Ages''====

In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons]]''/''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages|Ages]]'', both Spiked Thwomps and Thwomps return from ''The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening''. They retain the same name, although the former has been named "Thwomp" on one occasion.<ref>McBride, Debra, and David Cassady. ''The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons'' and ''The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages'' Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Pages 27 and 73.</ref>

 

In ''The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages'', there is a Thwomp boss named [[Head Thwomp]] who, like Spiked Thwomps and Stone Elevators, has not made any appearances within the ''Mario'' franchise. Head Thwomp is the second boss, and it is fought at the end of [[Wing Dungeon]]. Head Thwomp has four faces (an evil grinning blue, a grumpy purple, an angry green, and a surprised red), which it rotates through rapidly. When a bomb is thrown in it open head it will spin furiously and land on the same face as when the bomb landed in it. It will then perform a function specific to that face: the blue one will shoot rotating energy balls that orbit in wider circles until they leave the screen, the purple one will smash into the ground, the green one will spit fireballs across the stage, and the red one will cause damage to itself. Four red faces will cause it be destroyed.

 

====''The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures''====

 

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