Editing Lightning Bolt

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| image        = [[File:LightningBolt.jpg|275px]]

| caption      = Lightning Bolt artwork from ''Brawl''.

| series      = [[Mario Kart]]

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The '''Lightning Bolt''' ({{ja|サンダー|Sandā}}, ''Thunder''), is an [[item]] from the ''{{iw|mariowiki|Mario Kart|series}}'' series that appears in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]''.  

==In the [[Super Smash Bros. (series)|''Super Smash Bros.'' series]] ==

[[File:Lightning Bolt.jpg|thumb|left|The Lightning Bolt in {{forwiiu}}.]]

The Lightning Bolt appears as an item in ''Brawl'' and ''Smash 4''. When used, it will shrink every other [[character]] to minimal size, similar to its function in the ''Mario Kart'' series. However, the item can backfire as well, resulting in the player who picked up the item to grow small instead, or make the other characters' size increase (much like with the effects of the [[Super Mushroom]], but the fighters grow to 2.4x their normal size, and their direct attacks deal 1.84x their normal damage).

Unlike most other items, the Lightning Bolt requires a character to simply make contact with it in order to gain its effect. Any character affected by [[knockback]] while being struck by the Lightning Bolt is still affected by knockback after the shrink/growth occurs. Similar phenomena occur with the Super Mushroom and [[Poison Mushroom]].

The Lightning is the only item which doesn't spawn normally on two different stages: [[The Great Cave Offensive]] and [[Garden of Hope]].

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===''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''===

[[File:Lightning - Brawl Trophy.png|thumb|100px|Trophy in ''Brawl''.]]

''An item that goes off the moment you touch it. It may shrink every other character on the screen. Tiny players suffer a reduction in their attack power and become easier to send flying. After a set amount of time, all the characters will return to their normal sizes. In the Mario Kart series, all players but the item user shrunk, and got flattened when run over.''

*''Super Mario Kart'' (1992)

*''Mario Kart 64'' (1997)

===''Super Smash Bros. 4''===

[[File:LightningBoltTrophy3DS.png|thumb|100px|left|Trophy in {{for3ds}}.]]

[[File:LightningBoltTrophyWiiU.png|thumb|100px|Trophy in {{forwiiu}}.]]

:{{Flag|North America}} ''If there is one thing I've learned from Mario Kart, it's that lightning can strike without a cloud in the sky. Picking this up will hit your foes with a character-shrinking blast of lightning, making them really easy to launch into the distance. If you get struck, you'd best run until the fight is fair again.''

:{{Flag|Europe}} ''Don't let sunny weather fool you! Lightning can strike at any time. This mighty force of nature can make you feel small...and actually make you small, too. In this state, you'll be quite weak and easily launched, so just try to stay out of everyone's way until you go back to normal. THEN you can get your own back!''

{{Trophy games|console1=SNES|game1=Super Mario Kart (09/1992)|console2=WiiU|game2=Mario Kart 8 (05/2014)}}

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==Origin==

[[File:Lightning (Mario Kart 8).png|thumb|125px|The Lightning Bolt as an item in ''{{s|mariowiki|Mario Kart 8}}''.]]

The Lightning Bolt's primary effect comes from the ''{{iw|mariowiki|Mario Kart|series}}'' series. The Lightning Bolt first appeared in ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario Kart}}''. Racers at the back of a race have a chance of acquiring a Lightning Bolt (sometimes named Thunderbolt or Lightning), which upon use instantly strikes all other racers, spins them out, and causes them to shrink. Shrunk racers have lowered top speed and may be easily knocked around or even flattened when run over. Beginning in ''{{s|mariowiki|Mario Kart DS}}'', the length of the shrink time depends on what place each opponent was in when the item was used, with those at the back regrowing near-instantly and those are in the front staying shrunk for much longer. In ''Super Mario Kart'', ''Mario Kart 64'', ''{{s|mariowiki|Mario Kart 7}}'' and ''{{s|mariowiki|Mario Kart 8}}'', tiny players can get flattened by normal-sized players. The item cannot backfire as it does in ''Brawl''. It also serves as the logo for the {{s|mariowiki|Lightning Cup}} since ''{{s|mariowiki|Mario Kart: Super Circuit}}''.

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==Transform [[glitch]]==

In ''Brawl'', if a character uses the Lightning Bolt on {{SSBB|Zelda}} or {{SSBB|Sheik}} and either character [[Transform]]s, this glitch makes the size of the Lightning Bolt user permanent until either Zelda or Sheik gets [[KO]]'d or picks up another size-changing item.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsD0AxEMFzI</ref> The same glitch does not occur for {{SSBB|Charizard}}, {{SSBB|Ivysaur}}, or {{SSBB|Squirtle}}.