Toad runs up to Peach, and Toadsworth attempts to convince Peach to not go after Mario and Luigi, but relents and gives her Perry, a talking parasol that has magical powers.

Adaptable and intelligent like its North American, European, African and Asian relatives, it has learned how to kill and eat the introduced poisonous Cane Toad without ingesting the poison by flipping it onto its back and delivering a lethal blow with its powerful bill.

Other common names include " giant neotropical toad ", " Dominican toad ", " giant marine toad ", and " South American Cane Toad ".

A humanoid toad, Mr. Toad ( less commonly Mr. the Toad ) who embodies blind greed and selfishness, appears occasionally, as do The Toadettes, a group of mindless and interchangeable amphibians, who pop up here and there.

Jiraiya battles a giant snake with the help of his summoned Japanese Common Toad | toad.

Australia has four families of native frogs and one introduced toad, the Cane Toad.

Among these were the teeth of a reptile / mammal hybrid, Plagiaulax dawsoni, " found " in 1891 ( and whose teeth had been filed down in the same way that the teeth of Piltdown man would be some 20 years later ), the so-called " shadow figures " on the walls of Hastings Castle, a unique hafted stone axe, the Bexhill boat ( a hybrid seafaring vessel ), the Pevensey bricks ( allegedly the latest datable " finds " from Roman Britain ), the contents of the Lavant Caves ( a fraudulent " flint mine "), the Beauport Park " Roman " statuette ( a hybrid iron object ), the Bulverhythe Hammer ( shaped with an iron knife in the same way as the Piltdown elephant bone implement would later be ), a fraudulent " Chinese " bronze vase, the Brighton " Toad in the Hole " ( a toad entombed within a flint nodule ), the English Channel sea serpent, the Uckfield Horseshoe ( another hybrid iron object ) and the Lewes Prick Spur.

* In Dougal Dixon's After Man a toad known as the Oak Leaf Toad, whose tongue is described as worm-like, is known by the scientific name Grima frondiforme.

A GWR Toad | " toad " brake van of the Great Western Railway

For those who learn under the Great Toad Sage, the overdose of natural energy turns them into giant stone toad statues though the effects can be neutralized with the sage's beating stick.

The Toad Empire is led by a vast computer system known as KOMPLEX, which has brainwashed the toad population.

* Toad Borg – one of KOMPLEX's elite troops, part toad, part robot.

; Toad: The toad is a more complicated trick where the jumper performs the " Cross " manoeuvre with one arm crossing under the opposite leg from the inside.

The Natterjack Toad ( Epidalea calamita, formerly Bufo calamita ) is a toad native to sandy and heathland areas of Europe.

The Natterjack Toad is the only species of toad native to Ireland.

Like other horned lizards, it is often wrongly called the " Horned Toad " or " Horny Toad ," but it is not a toad at all.

* Toad vision – discrimination of prey versus predator -- Video „ Image processing in the toad ’ s visual system: behavior, brain function, artificial neuronal net “

The springs are home to the Deep Springs Black Toad ( Bufo exsul, or " exile toad "), an endemic species that occurs only in Deep Springs Valley.

The bullfrogs taking over Australia in the episode and destroying all the crops is a reference to the Cane Toad # Australia | cane toad that became a pest in Australia.

The European Fire-bellied Toad ( Bombina bombina ) is a fire-bellied toad native to mainland Europe.

* The Toad and the Snail – A boy playing in a park fountain is approach by a toad the size of a pig, reminding the boy of his Auntie Em.

The locals are amazed by the size of the toad and prepare to cook the Toad and eat his legs.

The enemies, among them Al Negator, Toadborg, Total Terror Toad, a " Cyborg Spider ", the various varieties of Toad Storm Troopers, the Toads ' Air Marshall, and " Komplex-2-Go " will be familiar to those acquainted with the comic book and cartoon series continuities.

" Toad Hole Museum " is a former marshman's cottage and also houses the Broads Information Centre.

In 2004, Nickel Creek participated in a project dubbed Mutual Admiration Society, a collaboration with former Toad The Wet Sprocket singer Glen Phillips.

* Paduk-Dictator of Padukgrad, former school mate of Krug, nicknamed Toad

It was produced by Marvin Etzioni ( former member of Lone Justice and producer of Counting Crows, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Peter Case and Grey DeLisle ), engineered by David Vaught.

Because the Natterjack Toad is often present in low numbers, its loud mating calls are important so that the sexes can find each other.

The Tar Baby theme is present in the folklore of various tribes of Meso-America and of South America: it is to be found such stories as the Nahuatl ( of Mexico ) " Lazy Boy and Little Rabbit " ( González Casanova 1946, pp. 55 – 67 ), Pipil ( of El Salvador ) " Rabbit and Little Fox " ( Schultes 1977, pp. 113 – 116 ), and Palenquero ( of Colombia ) " Rabbit, Toad, and Tiger " ( Patiño Rosselli 1983, pp. 224 – 229 ).

John Scalise, along with Anselmi and Joseph ' Hop Toad ' Giunta, were murdered by Al Capone in May 1929, after Capone learned about their plan to kill him, and before he went to trial.

Charlie Lowell first met Dan Haseltine after noticing that he was wearing a Toad the Wet Sprocket shirt.

His literary debut, Garner began work on the novel after he moved in to the Late Medieval house at Toad Hall in Blackden, Cheshire in 1957.

These began with Saludos Amigos in 1942 and continued during the war with The Three Caballeros in 1944 and after the war with Make Mine Music in 1946, Fun and Fancy Free in 1947, Melody Time in 1948 and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad in 1949.

For example " Toad " was used as a code name for the Great Western Railway goods brake van, while British Railways wagons used for track maintenance were named after fish, such as " Dogfish " for a ballast hopper.

Animals named after him include birds such as Radde's Warbler and Radde's Accentor, and the Radde's Toad, or Siberian ( Sand ) Toad ( Bufo raddei ).

Immediately after regaining his entire crew, they are once again captured and imprisoned on the Toad mother ship.

When the X-Men's identities became public knowledge, he was voting for keeping mutants out of school, but the school board changed their minds after the X-Men saved their lives from the rampaging Toad, Avalanche and Blob, and their contractor Duncan Matthews, the school's football hero.

Rita does not like Roddy initially, but ends up taking him along, while her arch enemy The Toad ( Ian McKellen ) sends his rat henchmen, Spike ( Andy Serkis ) and Whitey ( Bill Nighy ), after her because she had stolen back her father's prized ruby a long time ago.

Jiraiya also became a mentor to Minato Namikaze, Naruto's father and the Fourth Hokage, after becoming a jōnin and told his student of the Great Toad Sage's prophecy.

After an encounter with the X-Men and Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, who first think he is a powerful mutant, the entity departs, taking the supervillain Magneto and his servant Toad off-world for further study after encasing them in special cocoons.

The same title depicts Magneto's escape and return to Earth using a spaceship he repairs when the Stranger leaves the planet and leaving the Toad behind, although the Stranger recaptures the villain after Professor X telepathically alerts the Stranger.

Shortly after the capture, Toad escapes to the Mushroom Kingdom.