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Roy Koopa's model without his sunglasses. While the lack of eyes is to be expected given how his sunglasses are never taken off, the area behind them is nevertheless fully modeled, with a skin texture where the eyes would be.
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Unused Mario model found in the files of Mario Superstar Baseball. The model assigns a skin texture to Mario's mustache, hair, eyebrows and shoes.
778
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, if an angry Bob-omb attempts to buff itself using a helpful item, like a Power Punch, the item will not buff the Bob-omb as intended. Instead, the Bob-omb will simply explode.
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A 2009 international psychological study found that playing Super Mario Sunshine for as little as 20 minutes subsequently increased helpful behavior in test subjects, in contrast to "antisocial games" like Crash Twinsanity, which decreased helpful behavior.
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In Super Mario World, if Mario touches a reserve power-up on the same frame Yoshi touches a berry, the game will stop responding to input while Mario enters an endless color cycling animation. He is actually quickly cycling through being Mario, Luigi, Fire Mario and Fire Luigi.
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Unlike older Paper Mario games, where character graphics were often split up into constituent parts, almost all of Mario's sprites for Paper Mario: The Origami King depict him in full. An exception is the usage of Thousand-Fold Arms, which uses armless sprites such as this.
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Before the widespread adoption of Luigi's current design in 1988, a lot of media went off the assumption that Mario and Luigi were identical twins. This 1987 Super Mario Bros. manga gives Luigi glasses to better distinguish him from Mario.
783
In the Super Mario Maker games, putting a Piranha Plant on a pipe instead of inside it will result in it not retreating. Then, putting a Muncher inside that pipe will make it move the Piranha Plant as it extends, allowing the Piranha Plant to have longer reach than usual.
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Pauline is the only major Mario series character to have two different sets of proportions in modern games: a tall one used in Super Mario Odyssey and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and a short one used everywhere else. Below is a comparison between the two.
785
In the international version of Mario Party 2, the ending to Western Land has Bowser and the winning character shoot corks at each other from toy guns. However, in the original Japanese version, they appear to shoot each other with actual bullets fired from real guns.
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In the Japanese version of Luigi's Mansion, Luigi whistles when entering the final room, where Mario is held captive. This was removed in all other versions since it would be uncharacteristically nonchalant for Luigi to whistle while Mario is pleading for help in front of him.
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In Super Mario Sunshine, Mario will not fall asleep if close to a wall; however, due to backs of furniture counting as walls, he won't sleep in some locations where it would be reasonable. He will not sleep on a bench or on a couch, but he will sleep on the floor or on a table.
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A 1994 Mario & Wario manga contained a drawing of a hypothetical "Waluigi" as a visual gag, 6 years before the introduction of Waluigi in Mario Tennis on the Nintendo 64.
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The 1997 book Mario Man is one of the most unique unlicensed Mario works. It is an English textbook for native speakers of Polish, taught through the framework of a story about a boy who is suffering from delusions that he is Mario.
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In Yoshi's Island, using a glitch (instructions in reply), Yoshi can eat Baby Mario. However, as Baby Mario is necessary to complete the level, after doing this, there is little Yoshi can do except die.
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When the Nintendo logo appears at the start of Super Mario Sunshine, a coin sound is heard. The game is actually coded to sometimes have Mario randomly say "Ciao!" instead; however, this never occurs in practice due to a fault in the random number generator.
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Extremely rare frontal render of the mother penguin and her baby, Tuxie, from Super Mario 64, seen on a 1998 licensed PEZ collectible sticker.
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A commonly encountered unauthorized plush of Princess Daisy, first manufactured in 2004, mirrors a pattern used for one of her eyes to create the other eye, giving her a distinctive wall-eyed appearance.
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The data of Super Mario Sunshine contains functionality for unused Goop types, one of which is the Lethal Goop. The moment Mario touches it, he sinks into it extremely rapidly and the "TOO BAD!" life loss message appears 1/10 of a second afterwards.
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At one point during the trailer for Paper Mario: The Origami King, during a quick camera swipe, a Thwomp wearing a traditional type of kabuki makeup called "kumadori" can be seen for a few frames. It is yet unclear if this depicts an enemy from the game or is merely decoration.
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In Super Mario 64, the mushroom platforms in Tall, Tall Mountain have faulty collision that manifests in angle-dependent invisible walls. If Mario approaches them at a precise angle, he will hit an invisible wall that is not normally there.
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In the late 1980s, select officially licensed Super Mario Bros. merchandise used bizarre artwork depicting Mario with an evil expression and Princess Peach as a small child. The highest-quality version of this image was used on this 1989 promotional Nintendo Cereal System poster.
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In an extra mode of WarioWare Gold, Wario creates crude drawings of various amiibo, among them this picture of Waluigi. This is the only time Waluigi's existence is acknowledged in any game with "Wario" in the title, despite Waluigi often appearing alongside Wario otherwise.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, Mario can perform a small spin by pressing A directly after catching Cappy in mid-air. During this animation, there is exactly one frame where both Cappy and Mario's regular hat model exist simultaneously, giving him the appearance of wearing two hats.
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One of the defeat animations in Mario Party 8 causes the characters to shrink until they vanish. Viewing the animation in the game's debug mode shows that it shrinks the characters' models unevenly, with the effect being most pronounced for Wario (note his extremely small legs).
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