Wriggle Nightbug

Wriggle Nightbug is a character from Touhou Project, making her first appearance in Imperishable Night as both the midboss and actual boss of stage 1. Although she has not made any significant appearances since, she has appeared as a background character in Hopeless Masquerade and was planned to be included as a playable character in Hisoutensoku, but was cut due to time constraints.

Wriggle is a firefly youkai who can communicate with and subsequently command insects, using them to perform simple tasks for her and attack those who she considers a threat. As an insect herself, she is weak to fire, the cold, and insecticide, while taking great offence to those who fail to acknowledge the importance of insects and those who would bring harm to them. During the events of Imperishable Night, Wriggle attacked the heroine pair under the assumption that they would be easy targets, though they quickly defeated Wriggle without any effort at all.

In M.U.G.E.N, Wriggle has been made by Kibokura, Minoo, Waribashi and PlasmoidThunder. Kibokura and Minoo's versions both feature custom sprites made using assets from the first three Touhou Project fighting games, with Kinokura's using elements of Iku Nagae's sprites, and Minoo's primarily using Youmu Konpaku and Remilia Scarlet as bases, while Waribashi's and PlasmoidThunder's versions both use the sprites from Minoo's version, though the default palette has been altered. No version attempts to imitate the gameplay style of any Touhou Project fighting game, though Minoo's version draws some inspiration from Scarlet Weather Rhapsody and Hisoutensoku.

PlasmoidThunder's version


Based on Wriggle's appearance in Mysteryland Mysteries 3: Nights of Neverends, wherein she is a boy named Wright Bugsfield, PlasmoidThunder's version shows just how much of a tough macho man this creepy bugboy is by amping up the power of his signature and yet oddly-named Wriggle Kick; not only does it do one billion damage, but it has the potential to launch the opponent into space and even make them quit the game!