Young Cricket and Master Mantis: Difference between revisions

|image=<gallery>Young Cricket Game & Wario.png|Young Cricket

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|envoice=[[mariowiki:Robbie Daymond|Robbie Daymond]]<ref>[https://twitter.com/robbiedaymond/status/1025461537920581632 Robbie Daymond on Twitter]</ref> (Young Cricket)<br>Owen Thomas<ref>[https://twitter.com/OwenVoice/status/1025867176920535040 Owen Thomas on Twitter]</ref> (Master Mantis)}}

{{Nihongo|[[mariowiki:Young Cricket|Young Cricket]]|ヤングクリケット|Yangu Kuriketto}} and {{Nihongo|[[mariowiki:Master Mantis|Master Mantis]]|マスターマンティス|Masutā Mantisu}} are two characters from the [[mariowiki:WarioWare,_Inc.|WarioWare Series]]. They are martial artists and WarioWare, Inc. employees who like meat dumplings. Master Mantis is an elderly teacher of martial arts, while Young Cricket is his devoted student. When they are first introduced, they appear to be rather serious characters, shown training in difficult conditions, but it is later shown that they 'fit in' with the rest of [[mariowiki:Wario|Wario]]'s friends.

Young Cricket's first appearance in the [[Rhythm Heaven Series]] is in [[Kung Fu Ball]] in ''[[Rhythm Heaven Fever]]'' as one of the kappa's students. In the game, he must kick and punch a ball back to the other student without dropping it. Notably, his hair is more of a gray color rather than black with white streaks in this appearance. His Character Trailer for ''[[mariowiki:WarioWare_Gold|WarioWare Gold]]''<ref name="UKTrailer">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5V7aTL1zw8 WarioWare Gold - Young Cricket and Master Mantis Character Trailer (Nintendo 3DS)]</ref> features Young Cricket training alongside the female student under Master Mantis, with the kappa and ball from [[Kung Fu Ball]] making an appearance. This trailer confirms the character in ''[[Rhythm Heaven Fever]]'' is indeed Young Cricket himself.

Young Cricket and Master Mantis appear in ''[[Rhythm Heaven Megamix]]'' in the [[Challenge Train]] course ''[[Wario...Where?]]'', with their designs from the [[mariowiki:WarioWare,_Inc.|WarioWare Series]]. Master Mantis is featured (initially without his mustache) as the playable character in [[Munchy Monk]], replacing the [[Munchy Monk (character)|titular character]], where he eats dumplings to grow his mustache. Young Cricket can be seen in the background riding on a cloud, similar to the [[Monkey#Animal Acrobat|monkey]] from [[Animal Acrobat]] in [[Final Remix]].

*Young Cricket and Master Mantis's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5V7aTL1zw8 Character Trailer] for ''[[mariowiki:WarioWare_Gold|WarioWare Gold]]'' has one shot where Young Cricket stands on a tall rock, with [[Karate Joe]] visible to the side.

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