Bolo (Shantae)

Bolo is a character from the Shantae games.

Bolo is a fighter and a friend of Shantae's. In Shantae, he helped Shantae once by opening the Dribble Fountain for her. In Risky's Revenge he served as a guide, giving hints to Shantae. In The Pirate's Curse, he gets unwillingly involved in misadventures, but he saves the day by unintentionally sabotaging a piece of Ammo Baron's cannon. He is playable in Half-Genie Hero.

Appearance
Bolo has navy blue hair, a yellow headband, and frequently wears a determined expression. A white bandage is wrapped around his right upper arm. He wears a white tank top underneath a short blue vest and has dark blue shorts. He also wears tan gloves with metal rings around the cuffs. In Risky's Revenge, he has bandages wrapped around both arms and does not wear a jacket. Throughout all of the games, his shoulders appear to be very boney.

Personality
Bolo is described as a "block-head hero for hire". Supposedly, he springs to life when he has a chance to fight, but he's often left behind during Shantae's adventures and has yet to show off these skills.

Bolo is frequently trying to seduce girls or spy on them, including Risky Boots in the first game, but fails every time. He's shown to be jealous of Bran-Son's popularity. However, he has a more argumentative brother-sister relationship to Shantae. Bolo serves as a sparring-partner and punching bag for Shantae, and as an assistant for Mimic. Bolo is the one who taught Shantae her Fighter Moves.

It is revealed in the third game that Bolo is nearsighted, although this may be just him being too literal.

Abilities
As a Shantae's sparring partner, punching bag and partly combat teacher, he possess huge strength lying within him. During combat Bolo relies mostly on martial arts, brute strenght and his own equipment, however he's capable of using magic to summon some items to help him out in dire situations.

In the game Bolo's abilities and weapons which he can use are:
 * Bolo's Flail - Bolo's main and strongest weapon. It possesses a decent range and deals six damage points at maximum level. He's capable of destroying large stone blocks with it and pushing boxes.
 * Spring Claw - Bolo uses his grappling hook to grab onto pegs, rings and attack flying enemies.


 * Spike Balls - By using Special Move that consumes his Dream Magic, Bolo can create spike balls that bounce and attack enemies. He can create up to two balls that deal five damage points at maximum level.
 * Determination - It's revealed by Sky in the battle against Nega-Shantae that while not being the smartest, Bolo possess incredible will to fight that allows him to see through any obstacles.

Trivia

 * Between himself, Shantae, and Sky, Bolo is the tallest of the trio - until Half-Genie Hero, where Sky is slightly taller.
 * Watch Quest! Bolo is strikingly similar to Ike from the Fire Emblem series.
 * Bolo is always going on about how cute various girls in the franchise are (including zombies and mermaids), but has been unsuccessful in landing a date for the entire franchise.