Wart

Wart in all his glory.
Wart
Species	Frog
Eye color	Black
Debut	Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic

Wart is the head frog in charge of the invasion of Sub-Con and the main villain of both Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and the altered version, Super Mario Bros. 2.

Background

Super Mario Bros. 2

With his five top henchmen (Mouser, Triclyde, Clawgrip, Fryguy, and Robirdo) and his army of minions he was able to capture the Sub-Conians and trap them inside a vase. With the Dream Machine he was able to start spreading bad things into the dream world of Sub-Con. However his plans were foiled. Mario and his friends defeated his minions and invaded his own palace.

Wart was quite impervious to attack and was able to spew out giant bubbles. However a problem with the Dream Machine caused it to start spewing random vegetables, the one thing Wart could not stand. While spewing his bubbles, Mario and his friends threw well-timed veggies into the frog king's mouth. A few veggies later and Wart was too sick to fight anymore. During the victory celebration, Wart is carried off by the Sub-Conians to face whatever fate awaits him.

His role was mostly similar in Doki Doki Panic, except instead of a dream world he had taken over a world within a storybook and captured two children whom had been reading the book. Instead of Mario and company, he was thwarted by the family of a boy named Imajin.

Link's Awakening

Mamu

In Link's Awakening, which was also set within a dream world, Wart made a cameo appearance under his Japanese name of Mamu. Mamu was shown to be a famous musical artist living within the Signpost Maze, probably to prevent his fans from disturbing him. There he practices his newest songs before releasing them. As a famous musician, he's rather vain. Despite that, he is considerate enough around his fans, though he does nothing for free. Being the frog that he is, he has a habit of mixing in a few ribbits and croaks with his dialogue.

Link was able to make it through the Signpost Maze and meet up with Mamu. After a brief introduction, Mamu offered to let Link hear his new song, but only if he paid the 300 rupees to hear it. After being paid, Mamu and his two backup frogs played the Frog Song of Soul, which Link dutifully learned to play on his ocarina. Link was later able to use the Frog Song of Soul to revive the Flying Rooster. In the meantime Mamu left his hole to go on tour. However, being a inhabitant of Koholint Island, he ceased to exist as soon as the Wind Fish awakened (but knowing Mamu/Wart, he may have found a new dream to inhabit).

Other Appearances

• Wart appeared in one issue of Nintendo Comics System, entitled "Cloud Burst", which had him abducting King Toadstool and trying to flood the Mushroom Kingdom; oddly, in this appearance, Wart looked more like a crocodile then a frog, having a snout, fangs and scales.
• Wart also appeared in the Nintendo Adventure Book "Doors to Doom" where he, oddly, helped Mario and Luigi and was dressed as a skateboarder; it is possible that this was an alternate universe version of Wart though, due to the fact that "Doors to Doom" involved Mario and Luigi being flung into several different dimensions.

Trivia

• His actual first appearance was in the Japanese-only game Doki Doki Panic, which the American Super Mario Bros. 2 was based off of. In this game, his name was Mamu, the name used later in Link's Awakening.
• In the GBA remake he says his only lines ever, "I am the great Wart!" which is heard audibly before you face him.
• Wart was mentioned in the Shy Guy's character description in Mario Superstar Baseball.
• The concept of singing frogs from Link's Awakening was carried on into Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. In the former you can play all of your different ocarina songs to them for prizes. In Majora's Mask you use the Don Gero's Mask to find and assemble the frogs to play a song.
• The character of Wart Jr. in the Animal Crossing series may be an homage or relation to Wart.