Tile Worm

Tile Worms are enemies found only in a few rooms of the Forest Temple and the City in the Sky of. These large, purple worms will hide in holes in the ground and camouflage themselves as part of the floor with floor tiles attached to their heads. If Link steps on a tile with a worm attached, it will lunge upwards, throwing him a great distance.

Tile Worms are impossible to defeat without use of the Gale Boomerang; the tornado that is generated by throwing the weapon rips them out of the ground, leaving them completely defenseless and incapable of attacking. Strangely, if they are knocked in the water, they will die instantly. If a tile worm is not slain after it has been sucked up by the boomerang, it will stand up after a few seconds of laying on its head and jump back in its hole.

Tile Worms in the Forest Temple are completely optional enemies, as there is always some way to walk past them, whereas those in the City in the Sky must be destroyed, as they may block the path and threaten to knock Link into the abyss below.