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{{Infobox enemy | '''{{Template:Infobox enemy | ||
|image | |image = Sandbelching Meerslug.png | ||
|size | |size = 270px | ||
| | |pikmin3 = y | ||
|attacks = Shoots rocks | |||
| | Eats Pikmin | ||
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| | |max_pikmin3 = |areas = [[Tropical Wilds]] | ||
| | |weight = 20 | ||
|areas | |max_pikmin = 30|seeds = 50}}''' | ||
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The '''Sandbelching Meerslug '''is a [[boss]] in ''[[Pikmin 3]]'' and the third major boss encountered in Story Mode. It has a light brown, amphibian-like body resembling that of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprey lamprey eel], with very small eyes, thick purple lips and two rows of large, sharp teeth. Further down its body, it gets wider and harbors spike-like protrusions. | |||
==Strategy== | ==Strategy== | ||
Upon attempting to dig out the cell phone in the middle of the arena, the boss appears from beneath the sand to attack the captains and the Pikmin. It tunnels beneath the side, causing waves of sand to ungulate across the surface which signifies its location. It will try to consume Pikmin by creating a vortex that sucks in Pikmin. When it emerges from the ground, it attacks by spitting large clumps of wet sand to attack its prey, hence its name. If Pikmin are hit by the clumps of sand, they will be buried back in the ground. After a good portion of its health has been depleted, it will behave very much like a real-life Ant Lion, creating a pit that's used to trap nearby Pikmin with its mouth at the very center of the pit. | |||
Upon defeat, it expels another cellphone, though more modern than the one dropped by the [[Armored Mawdad]], and a relatively small watermelon, which bursts into smaller pieces after being expelled. | |||
[[File:Pikmin 3 Boss Sandbelching Meerslug|thumb|right|335 px]] | |||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
Sandbelching Meerslug.png | Sandbelching Meerslug Scan.png|The Sandbelching Meerslug being scanned while shooting rocks. | ||
Dead SandBelching Meerslug.jpg|A deceased Sandbelching Meerslug. | |||
00SlugSpoils.PNG|The spoils of defeating the Sandbelching Meerslug: Whole watermelon pieces and a cellphone | |||
Sandbelching Meerslug | SandbelchingMeerslug-Pikmin3.jpg|The Sandbelching Meerslug seen from a different angle. | ||
FerretPhone.jpg|The phone the Meerslug drops being analysed by Drake. Notice the ferret wallpaper. | |||
Sandbelching Meerslug | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
== | ==Trivia== | ||
* | *The design and behaviour might be a reference to several sci-fi monsters. For example: when forming a hole with its open mouth at the bottom, it resembles the Sarlacc Pit from Return of the Jedi. The overall idea of a wormlike creature living inside sand might also be inspired by Dune's Sandworms. | ||
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