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===''The Legend of Zelda'' series===
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====''The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening''====
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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.
[[File:Spiked Thwomp LADX.png|thumb|Link near a Spiked Thwomp in ''The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX'']]
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The traditional behavior of Thwomps in the ''Super Mario'' series is exhibited by [[Spiked Thwomp]]s,<ref name="linksawakening"/> a variant unique to ''The Legend of Zelda'' series. A Spiked Thwomp is colored gray, and it has only one eye, which follows whichever direction that Link is in. A Spiked Thwomp also has small spikes beneath its chin and on the sides. Like Mega Thwomp, Spiked Thwomps have a flat surface on top, allowing Link to stand on them. Spiked Thwomps are found in [[Angler's Tunnel]] and [[Catfish's Maw]]. At first, a Spiked Thwomp is found on top of a ceiling. When Link approaches a Spiked Thwomp from below, it looks down, bearing a sinister grin, and drops in an attempt to squish Link. Unlike Thwomps in the ''Super Mario'' series, Spiked Thwomp does not return to the ceiling after dropping. Spiked Thwomps cannot be defeated.
 
The traditional behavior of Thwomps in the ''Super Mario'' series is instead exhibited by [[Spiked Thwomp]]s, a variant unique to ''The Legend of Zelda'' series.
Thwomps behave similarly to Spiked Thwomps and, by extension, Thwomps in the ''Super Mario'' series, but they more closely resemble Thwimps, particularly from ''[[Super Mario World]]'', which was their latest ''Mario''-related appearance at the time of ''The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening''{{'}}s original release for the [[Game Boy]] in 1993. Thwomps are small, square-shaped enemies which have only one eye, like with Spiked Thwomp. Thwomps are encountered in the [[Face Shrine]]. Unlike Spiked Thwomps, they rise back to the ceiling after dropping, just as Thwomps do in the ''Super Mario'' series.
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Aside from its two variants, Mega Thwomp has one relative, [[Stone Elevator]],<ref name="linksawakening"/> which is a rectangular platform that only drops by applying weight upon it. Like the other Thwomps, Stone Elevators only appear in a side-scrolling sections of dungeon. In Stone Elevator's case, it appears near the end of [[Bottle Grotto]].
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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<ref name="oracle">Averill, Alan. ''The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons/The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages'' Player's Guide. Page 73.</ref> 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>▼
{{multiframe|[[File:TLOZ OOX Spiked Thwomp.png]]|A Spiked Thwomp's updated sprite in ''The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons''/''Ages''|align=right|size=120}}
▲In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons]]''/''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages|Ages]]'', both Spiked Thwomps<ref name="oracle">Averill, Alan. ''The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons/The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages'' Player's Guide. Page 73.</ref> 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>
 
Spiked Thwomps appear in [[Snake's Remains]] in ''The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons'' and in [[Wing Dungeon]] in ''The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages''. Aside from being recolored to dark blue, Spiked Thwomps are the same as in ''The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening''.
[[File:Head Thwomp OOA ani sprite.gif|thumb|left|Head Thwomp]]
In ''The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages'', there is a notable Thwomp boss named [[Head Thwomp]]<ref name="oracle"/> who, like Spiked Thwomps and Stone Elevators, has not appearedmade any appearances inwithin 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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