Munchy Monk (character)

The Munchy Monk (修行おとこ) is a bald monk in training who made his debut in the minigame Munchy Monk from Rhythm Heaven.

Backstory
The Munchy Monk is first seen training deep in the mountains, which which involves eating dumplings all day, as well as caring for a baby in Rhythm Heaven Megamix. At one point, the monk was spotted by a bear, who was ready to eat him, but left him alone after witnessing the monk eat a dozen dumplings at once. He was spotted in the mountains by a circus ringmaster who hired him as a clown, but was ironically fired by Carny Barker for eating on the job. The monk's incredible eating abilities earned him the title of "Dumpling Man", as well as news coverage of any sightings of him. At an unknown point, the Munchy Monk was seen performing his act as a proper clown at a carnival. After mastering eating, he aims to perfect the art of feeding someone else (in this case, a Chorus Kid) on a moving train.

Appearances

 * Munchy Monk 3DS icon.png Munchy Monk
 * Remix 4 DS icon.png Remix 4
 * Remix 8 DS icon.png Remix 8
 * Munchy Monk 2 icon.png Munchy Monk 2
 * Remix 10 DS icon.png Remix 10
 * item_placeholder.png Munchy Monk (Wii)
 * Final Remix icon.png Final Remix

Trivia

 * In Rhythm Heaven, he's sleeveless in the game, but his artwork depicts him with sleeves. In later games, he always has sleeves.
 * In Rhythm Heaven Fever and Rhythm Heaven Megamix his design was changed to resemble Employee 333-4-591032 more closely.
 * He appears as a defense-type spirit in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. His spirit battle takes place in the Spirit Train stage (a reference to Munchy Monk (Wii)). He is represented by a blue Ken who is distracted by items but has a powered-up Shoryuken (an uppercut-like move), and he is backed up by three white Kirbys (meant to represent dumplings).