Eagle Eagle Sabnosuke

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Background

Eagle Sabu is the Stage 2 boss of Parodius Da!, and is fought in every port of Parodius Da! The boss is a large Bald Eagle dressed in Uncle Sam's clothing, and is a parody of the Phoenix boss, but features a different set of attacks.
It later showed up in the Boss Rush Stage of Sexy Parodius. A smaller version also appeared in Gokujō Parodius! and in the Special Stage of Sexy Parodius as a recurring enemy. These enemies drop either 4 Power Capsules or 5 Bells when defeated, depending on their color of their hat's star stripe. Blue-hatted are more common mostly, while the green ones might appear in special stages or before some bosses, if the player has died in the checkpoint of the boss.
Certain ports of the game replaced the bosses' graphics with something less controversial, by making the eagle almost green in whole, much to censor the character parody intentions.
It's weakpoint is the head, but it can be hit only when he is not attacking.

Then the Eagle Sabu is Appear with the Cameo of the Two Parodius Pachislot Games.

Attack Patterns

Ripple Laser Attack

When defeated, the explosion burns it's feathers and clothes off.

Eagle Sabu has mostly the same attack pattern in all appearances. Unlike the original boss, the Eagle will fly around the screen, as opposed to warping, removing what some viewed as a unfair attack.
Sabu's main attack is to release a randomized spread of feathers, although in the NES version these are aimed towards the player, and move very slowly. It will also fire a volley of Ripple Lasers from it's beak, which, unlike the fireballs of the Phoenix, cannot be destroyed. In the NES version these take up a very large portion of the screen.

Trivia

• It is generally believed this boss was the reason that the Parodius games never made it to US, seeing how it parodies icons of America.

See Also

• Phoenix

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