Bloober

An image of a Bloober AKA Blooper in Mario Party: Star Rush.

Bloober Model from the N64 Mario Party games

Bloobers, more commonly known as Bloopers, are aquatic squid enemies in the Super Mario Bros. series, first appearing in the original Super Mario Bros for the Nintendo Entertainment System. They take the appearance of white or pink squids with a black part of their face containing their eyes. They most commonly swim around, damaging the player upon contact, though can use ink in some games. They can usually be defeated using a Fire Flower or other power-up.

Several variants of Bloobers have appeared throughout the Super Mario Bros. series. There are Blooper Nannies which have several smaller Bloobers named Blooper Babies that follow them around, "land Bloobers", also known as Gesso, that roam on land, flying Bloobers, ridable Bloobers named Blooper Racers, and several others in more spin-offs. The most common Bloober variant is the Gooper Blooper, a large boss version of the Bloober.

Phenomena

Super Mario 64 Manifestation

Bloobers are referenced as unused enemies in the files of Super Mario 64 as Bloobers. It is believed they would have appeared in Jolly Roger Bay, Dire, Dire Docks, and/or other water areas or levels. Not much else is known about what the Bloobers would have done, though some speculate that they would have actually been called Bloopers and that Bloober is simply an internal name, similarly to the name of the Motos enemy.

Notably, Bloobers appear to occasionally be reported in more personalized copies of Super Mario 64, which is notable due to no model being attached to the Bloober currently being located. They usually follow the general behavior of Bloobers, and also appear to have most variants appear in some reports as well. They have a unique attack that sprays ink onto Mario, obscuring the screen much like the Mario Kart item. Strangely, Gooper Bloopers and Land Bloobers appear to be the most common variants and/or manifestations, due to both first appearing in Super Mario Sunshine, which is the next mainline Super Mario Bros. games, implying they were scrapped from Super Mario 64 and reimplemented with their old functionality into the next game.

Anomalies
Power-ups	Fire Flower ⭑ Frog Cap ⭑ Gold Mario ⭑ Hammer ⭑ Ninja Mario ⭑ P-Wing Cap ⭑ Phantasm Cap ⭑ Purple ! Box ⭑ Rainbow Cap Switch ⭑ Safety Cap ⭑ Tanooki Cap ⭑ Umbrella ⭑ Yellow Cap Switch ⭑ Lightning Switch ⭑ Mini Mushroom
Objects	Big Bully's Key ⭑ Cactus ⭑ Special Coins ⭑ Dancing Flowers ⭑ Eternal Star ⭑ Ghoul Medal ⭑ Night Light ⭑ Poison Mushroom ⭑ Power Ztar ⭑ Special Stars ⭑ The 121st Star ⭑ Trampoline ⭑ Extra Medals
Glitches	Astral Projection Glitch ⭑ Backwards Long Jump ⭑ Cloning ⭑ Parallel Universes ⭑ Impossible Coin ⭑ Mystery Goomba ⭑ Toad's Tool 64 Star
Entities	Abominations ⭑ Big Boo's Creeps ⭑ Birthday Toad ⭑ Blargg ⭑ Bloober ⭑ Child of Big Bob-omb ⭑ Cookya ⭑ The Castle Keeper ⭑ Dry Bones ⭑ Enemy Toads ⭑ Eerie (Grand Eerie) ⭑ Discolored Enemies ⭑ Hopper ⭑ Luigi ⭑ Mimics ⭑ Mipsy ⭑ Mother Dorrie ⭑ Motos ⭑ The Mario Silhouette ⭑ Quin ⭑ Shadowy Figures ⭑ Siren of Hazy Maze Cave ⭑ Unintended Playable Characters ⭑ Wario Apparition ⭑ Wet-Dry World Girl ⭑ White-eyed Chomp ⭑ The Whomp's Fortress Creature ⭑ Youkiki ⭑ Ally With Info
Other	AI Dementia ⭑ Alternate Campaigns ⭑ Alternate Endings ⭑ Anti-Piracy Screen ⭑ Castle Living Space Anomaly ⭑ Costume Closet ⭑ Dynamic Level Arrangement ⭑ Dynamic Level Rearrangement ⭑ Internal Clock ⭑ Internal Weather System ⭑ Major Level Expansion ⭑ Multiplayer Mode ⭑ Painting Creator ⭑ Peach's Bestiary ⭑ Personalization A.I. ⭑ Qrty-unk.png ⭑ Shared Nightmares ⭑ SM64 Stop N' Swop ⭑ Silicon Graphics' Curse ⭑ Textureless Mario Anomaly ⭑ The Self-Patching Anomaly ⭑ The Shop ⭑ The "Super Mario Movie" Phenomenon ⭑ WDW Brain Diagram ⭑ Whomp's Fortress 1-Up ⭑ 7/29/1995 Build ⭑ Pre-Gameplay Changes

Enemies
Standard Release	Enemies	Big Steely ⭑ Bob-omb ⭑ Goomba ⭑ Koopa ⭑ Piranha Plant ⭑ Bullet Bill ⭑ Bomp ⭑ Thwomp ⭑ Whomp ⭑ Clam ⭑ Unagi the Eel ⭑ Mr. Blizzard ⭑ Spindrift ⭑ Boo ⭑ Bookend ⭑ Flying Chair ⭑ Mad Piano ⭑ Mr. I ⭑ Scuttlebug ⭑ Monty Mole ⭑ Snufit ⭑ Swooper ⭑ Bully ⭑ Flame Thrower ⭑ Amp ⭑ Fly Guy ⭑ Grindel ⭑ Klepto ⭑ Pokey ⭑ Spindel ⭑ Tox Box ⭑ Bub ⭑ Sushi ⭑ Money Bag ⭑ Chuckya ⭑ Heave-Ho ⭑ Skeeter ⭑ Fwoosh ⭑ Ukiki ⭑ Bubba ⭑ Lakitu ⭑ Piranha Flower ⭑ Spiny ⭑ Chain Chomp
	Bosses	Big Bob-omb ⭑ King Whomp ⭑ GoombossDS ⭑ Big Boo ⭑ Big Mr. I ⭑ King BooDS ⭑ Big Bully ⭑ Eyerok ⭑ Big Chill Bully ⭑ Chief ChillyDS ⭑ Wiggler ⭑ Bowser
Anomalies	Enemies	White-eyed Chomp ⭑ Rex ⭑ Bloober ⭑ Eerie ⭑ Buzzy Beetle ⭑ Metal Parasite ⭑ Shy Guy ⭑ Blargg ⭑ Angry Sun ⭑ Small Chill Bully ⭑ Youkiki ⭑ Dry Bones ⭑ Hopper ⭑ Motos ⭑ Enemy Toad ⭑ The Prisoner ⭑ Discolored Enemies ⭑ Mimic ⭑ Abomination ⭑ Slaargh
	Bosses	Grand Eerie ⭑ Mother Dorrie ⭑ Junker ⭑ Big Motos ⭑ Alternative Bosses ⭑ Castle Keeper ⭑ Hammer Bros. ⭑ Gold Mario