Lightning Bolt
| Lightning Bolt | |
|---|---|
 Lightning Bolt artwork from Brawl. | |
| Universe | Mario Kart |
| Appears in | SSBB SSB4 |
| Item class | Status |
| Article on Super Mario Wiki | Thunderbolt (item) |
The Lightning Bolt, known in Japan as Thunder (サンダー, Sandā), is an item from the Mario Kart series that appears in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Smash Bros. 4.
In the Super Smash Bros. series
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 grow small instead or making the other characters' size increase (similar to the effects of the Super Mushroom, except that it's twice as effective). Unlike most other items, the Lightning Bolt requires a character to simply make contact with it in order to gain its effect. The Lightning Bolt also appears as a collectible trophy.
Trophies
Super Smash Bros 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. for Nintendo 3DS
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.
Origin
The Lightning Bolt's primary effect comes from the Mario Kart series. Racers at the back of a race have a chance of acquiring a Lightning Bolt (sometimes named Thunderbolt), 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 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 the front staying shrunk for much longer. In Mario Kart Wii onward, tiny players can get flattened by normal-sized players. The item cannot backfire as it does in Brawl.
Transform glitch
If a character uses the Lightning Bolt on Zelda or Sheik and either character Transforms, 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.[1]
Gallery
Lightning Bolt trophy in Brawl.
Trivia
- Any character that is affected by knockback before the Lightning Bolt's shrink/growth takes place will still be affected by knockback after the shrink/growth occurs. Similar phenomena occur with the Super Mushroom and Poison Mushroom.
References
| Items in Super Smash Bros. Brawl | |
|---|---|
| Normal | Assist Trophy · Banana Peel · Beam Sword · Blast Box · Bob-omb · Bumper · Bunny Hood · Cracker Launcher · Deku Nut · Dragoon · Fan · Fire Flower · Food · Franklin Badge · Freezie · Golden Hammer · Gooey Bomb · Green Shell · Hammer · Heart Container · Home-Run Bat · Hothead · Lightning Bolt · Lip's Stick · Maxim Tomato · Metal Box · Motion-Sensor Bomb · Mr. Saturn · Pitfall · Poison Mushroom · Poké Ball · Ray Gun · Screw Attack · Smart Bomb · Smash Ball · Smoke Ball · Soccer Ball · Spring · Star Rod · Starman · Super Mushroom · Super Scope · Superspicy Curry · Team Healer · Timer · Unira · Warp Star |
| Containers | Barrel · Capsule · Crate · Party Ball · Sandbag · Rolling Crates |
| The Subspace Emissary |
Key · Stock Ball · Trophy Stand |
| Collectibles | CD · Coins · Sticker · Trophy |
| Other | Smash Coins and Bills |
