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The dragons from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Super Paper Mario are supposed to be related to Blarggs from Super Mario World, which can be seen by their original Japanese names. This reference is lost in all other translations.
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Normally, the reflection in the mirror room of Peach's Castle in Super Mario 64 mimics Mario's movements perfectly. However, if Mario crawls towards one of the pillars, he will crawl up the side of it, while the reflection remains of the floor, breaking the synchronicity.
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At a June 2018 Mario Tennis Aces tournament in Japan, visitors had the opportunity to take photos with actors in Mario, Luigi, Wario and Waluigi mascot costumes. This Waluigi costume is the first and so far only official Waluigi mascot costume ever made.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, clipping out of bounds will allow Mario to fall an infinite distance. This slowly corrupts the pause screen due to the rendering mathematics not being designed to handle large distances; the longer Mario falls, the more distorted his face becomes.
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In Super Mario World, if Mario misses picking up a falling item after releasing it from the reserve box, there is another chance to grab it. Simply wait in the same spot for 18 minutes and the item will reappear from the top of the screen.
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In Super Paper Mario, the Dark Spania enemy has a unique oversight where it is coded to have a 5% chance to drop an item upon defeat, but its item drop list being empty. As such, it has a 95% chance of not dropping anything, and a 5% chance of dropping nothing.
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One of the inserts used by Nintendo Power to remind subscribers of their subscriptions expiring soon used a modified Super Mario 64 render depicting Mario torn in half.
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In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, there is a Toad who offers to explain Action Icons to Mario. Declining will cause him to get increasingly irritated. After declining five times, he will tell Mario to read the instruction booklet and never offer to explain anything ever again.
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In Mario Party 8, every playable character can turn into Bowser by using a Bowser Candy item. For Boo, an unused version of his Bowser form exists in the game's files. The one used in the game is on the left, the unused one on the right.
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The subtitle in the logo for Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time is written in Times New Roman. Since serif typefaces are uncommon for Mario franchise logos, and Times New Roman is not used in any other Mario game logo, it is possible this was a deliberate joke on the word "time".
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Bowser Jr. almost never wears any clothing outside of his bandana. His "Dr. Bowser Jr." model used in Dr. Mario World has a removable coat and shell, allowing an unobstructed view of him in regular clothing from all sides.
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Normally, loading invalid Level IDs in Yoshi's Island either loads existing levels or crashes the game. However, some results are more unexpected. Loading ID 138 transports Yoshi to an empty level called "it ⬆️ with an egg", where he dies instantly.
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The largest number of Bomb Boos Mario can swing around at the same time in Super Mario Galaxy is 6.
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Despite Mario having a reputation as a family-friendly brand, there was an officially licensed Mario product bearing the warning that it was not intended for children: the 2007 Mario Power Up Energy Drink, which contained 50% more caffeine than common energy drink brands.
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Across the Mario franchise, various items are decorated with the letter P. For some of them, it is explained what the P stands for (details in image). However, what it stands for on the most common of these, the P-Switch, remains unknown to this day.
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Mario's nipple texture, extracted from his model in Super Mario Odyssey, in original size on the left and 24x magnification on the right.
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Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon contains a debug feature that displays an "FPS Smiler" in the corner of the bottom screen, used by the developers to monitor the game's frame rate. Whenever the FPS dips too low, the Smiler becomes red and upset.
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The data of Mario Party contains early low-resolution avatars for the player characters. While all other characters simply use preexisting official art, Mario's avatar is a unique render of him looking into the camera with dramatic lighting.
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Super Princess Peach contains several test rooms in its files. One of them is the "Iggy gives Peach money" room, which consists of a cutscene of Iggy Koopa spawning some coins and Peach collecting them. Note that Iggy appears only in this room and not during actual gameplay.
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In the Chinese version of Paper Mario: The Origami King, the Toads in the Hole Punch battle shout phrases in English due to the Hole Punch being disco-themed and disco being associated with the United States around the world. Example phrases are shown below.
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In the Nintendo Switch version of Miitopia, there is an NPC that wears various Mario character costumes (left). In the code (right), the costumes are saved with wildly mismatched parts, which are then resized at runtime to normal size when the Mii is displayed.
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The color of the Luma that accompanies Mario in the Super Mario Galaxy games is very similar to Cosmic Latte, determined to be the "color of the universe". As these games use a lot of material from academic astronomy sources, there is a slim chance that this might be intentional.
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In the intro to Super Mario 3D World, Mario says "Ah, Princess, what a beautiful evening", which is drowned out by the music and fireworks. This footage first plays back the clip as seen in-game, and then again with all sounds except Mario's line muted.
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The NES version of Mario's Time Machine contains sprites of historical figures in a Mario series style, most of them appearing as edits of Mario's sprite from Super Mario Bros. 2.
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