Goomba

This article is about the Mario franchise enemy. For the Italian-American slang term and slur, see Goombah. For other uses, see Goomba (disambiguation).

Goomba
Mario race
Goombas are typically colored brown, featuring two feet and no arms, and are commonly mistaken to be an owl.
Promotional art by Shigehisa Nakaue (2022)
First appearanceSuper Mario Bros. (1985)
GenrePlatform game
In-universe information
AffiliationBowser's Army

The Goombas (/ˈɡuːmbə/), known in Japan as Kuribō,[a] and originally Little Goomba, are a fictional species from Nintendo's Mario franchise. They first appeared in the NES video game Super Mario Bros. as the first enemy players encounter, part of Bowser's Army. They have appeared outside video games, including in film and television. They are usually brown mushroom-like builds with long black eyebrows, sharp upward fangs, tan torsos, dark brown feet, no limbs, and are most commonly seen walking around aimlessly, often as an obstacle, in video games. They were included late in the development of Super Mario Bros. as a simple, easy-to-defeat enemy.

The species is considered one of the most iconic elements of the Super Mario series, appearing in nearly every game in the series, and is often ranked amongst the most famous enemies in video games. In 2009, CraveOnline described it as the series' "everyman". The video game incarnation has been made into several plush toys.
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