History Main / WaddlingHead

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': Mike Wazowski. He is a spherical monster with arms and legs.

A [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} Waddle Dee]], a [[VideoGame/DigDug Pooka]], a [[VideoGame/WarioLand Pirate Goom]], and a [[Franchise/MegaMan Met]][[SpellMyNameWithAnS /Metool/Mettall/Mettaur]].]]-]

* The main character and many enemies in ''VideoGame/MrGimmick!''

* Cube from ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' is a robot with a round head and skaters.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros''[='=] [[TheGoomba Goombas]] are the TropeCodifier for Waddling Head enemies. They're supposed to be stout mushrooms. Or maybe chestnuts. [[FlipFlopOfGod Try not to think too hard about it]]. The Galoomba variety introduced in ''Videogame/SuperMarioWorld'' are a better example, being more explicitly chestnut-like and lacking anything but feet below the head. Bob-ombs are another example, walking {{Cartoon Bomb}}s with eyes, feet, and (later) a windup key. Goombrats, a variety of Goombas introduced in ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU'', are persimmons that act like Red Shelled Koopa Troopas, with the Goombuds introduced in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker2'' being the Goombrat version of the Galoombas.

* In the first ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' film, the various bacteria from the White Bull and Black Bull Kingdoms are nothing but heads with feet, tails, and stubby arms.

* ''VideoGame/PacMan'' and ''Ms. VideoGame/PacMan'' are probably the {{Ur Example}}s. Although the official artwork has always shown them with arms and legs, their earliest games took it a step further by showing them as "pizza shaped" heads in-game.
** His ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros4'' appearance actually incorporated this into his character. He can switch between his anthropomorphic form and his "pizza" form freely depending on what attacks he uses.

** Then again, [[WordOfGod he's not a starfish or a star]]. He's a creature that resembles the two.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros''[='=] [[TheGoomba Goombas]] are the TropeCodifier for Waddling Head enemies. They're supposed to be stout mushrooms. Or maybe chestnuts. [[FlipFlopOfGod Try not to think too hard about it]]. The Galoomba variety introduced in ''Videogame/SuperMarioWorld'' are a better example, being more explicitly chestnut-like and lacking anything but feet below the head. Bob-ombs are another example, walking {{Cartoon Bomb}}s with eyes, feet, and (later) a windup key.

* Gooms, Bandineros, and certain other enemies from the ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' series are this kind of enemy.

* The gryllus was a comical grotesque who fit this trope give or take extra or even chimeric body parts popularized in ancient paintings by Antiphilus. Though the exact features of the original grylli are lost to time, they would appear over the centuries in medieval artwork all the way into the Renaissance such as in works by Hieronymus Bosch. Not to be confused with one of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Circe's named victims]], supposedly they are also victims of a [[BalefulPolymorph disfiguring curse]].

* Yukkuris in ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' fanon are essentially these, though "bodied" versions do exist. PrehensileHair may or may not be included.

* BLOB, the protagonist of ''{{Starquake}}''.

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* ''VideoGame/EarthBound''[='=]s Mr. Saturns, and the generic enemy Foppy and its orange PaletteSwap counterpart, Fobby.

* The title character of WesternAnimation/FatDogMendoza.

* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': While Guts and co. are looking for Casca and Farnese in Qliphoth, one of the many strange creatures they pass resembles a bald, waddling head with a GagNose. He has received the FanNickname "Schnoz" and become a [[Memes/{{Berserk}} meme]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}'' has too many to count, but Oyajichi from the Japanese and [[OddNameOut Bill]] from the internation versions of the original stand out. However, artwork and later versions of Bill show he has a body that's obscured by his enormous bonce.

* Toys/Poppin'Hoppies, a mushroom-like head and almost circular feet {foot) with toes, connected by a spring and suction cup. Pushing down on the head turned them into this trope; they would pop up randomly when the suction cup lost its suction. These were originally part of a board game but expies may also have had an independent existence.