Manhandla
For The Legend of Zelda on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).
From the manual
A big plant with hands spread four ways. It moves faster as it loses its hands.
Translated from the Japanese manual.
Enemy
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| Kind | Boss |
|---|---|
| Japanese name | テスチタート |
Official art

From the official guides
A big Piranha Plant with hands in four directions. It moves faster each time it loses a hand. Its attack is somewhat strong.
A big Piranha Plant with hands in four directions. It moves faster each time it loses a hand. Its attack is somewhat strong.
A large man-eating flower with hands sticking out in all four directions. It moves faster as it loses its hands. It's pretty mean. So, watch out!
Giant flowers which have hands sticking out in four directions. A Manhandla's offensive power is rather strong, and it's very troublesome because as it loses hands, it moves more quickly. So what you must do is to attack all four hands together rather than attack it's hands one by one. Can you think of any strategies to do that?
A man-eating plant with four tentacles. The hands are its weak point. Removing them one by one with the sword or arrows works, but bombs are the most effective, and with luck one bomb beats it.
A biting flower that fires beams in four directions. Each time it loses a hand it moves faster, until your head spins. Try to beat it in one go if you can.
The strongest enemy in the Manji Labyrinth (Level 3). Get rid of its four petal-shaped hands and it is beaten, but the fewer hands it has, the faster it moves. It fires beam after beam at you too.
A monster with four hands. Each time it loses a hand, it moves faster.
A giant biting flower. It attacks by spitting beams from its four mouths. With fewer mouths it speeds up, and when they are all gone it disappears. Fighting with both the sword and bombs is best! Arrows work too.
A giant Piranha Plant with hands pointing in four directions. Each time it loses a hand, it moves faster. Its attacks are fairly strong too, so don't let your guard down. Bombs work well against it.
A monster carnivorous plant with big claws on four sides. Each time it loses a claw, it moves faster.
A big Piranha Plant with sharp hands pointing four ways: up, down, left, and right. It moves faster each time it loses a hand. Its attack is fairly strong, but it is weak to bombs.
It flies around snapping its four hands. Aim for the hands, but watch out, because it speeds up each time one is gone. If you hit the middle of its body with a Bomb, one is enough to beat it... but that is hard to aim.
A big Piranha Plant with hands in four directions. Its attack is only somewhat strong, but it gets faster with each hand it loses, which makes it a pain to deal with.
Numbers
Hits to beat it
Wooden Sword4
White Sword2
Magical Sword1
Arrow2
Silver Arrow1
Bombs1
Blue Candle4
Red Candle4
BoomerangStops it
Magical BoomerangStops it
Magical Rod2
Magical Rod (magic)2
Hearts lost per touch
| No ring | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0.5 | 0.25 |
What it throws
No shield stops it.
Where it appears
Labyrinths, First Quest
Labyrinths, Second Quest
Red: rooms it is in. Green: the entrance.