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Parody scene of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past with Mario characters, featuring Mario as Link, Peach as Zelda, and Bowser as Agahnim, from a 1992 Mario variety manga.
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In the mirror room in Super Mario 64, Mario's reflection never actually disappears when Mario jumps into the Snowman's Land entrance; it is instead left standing on the ground as he leaves, which is hidden by the default camera angle. Details in image.
1453
In Super Mario World, Yoshi can begin eating a Berry during Mario's death animation. However, the game is unable to handle both Yoshi's eating animation and the death animation at the same time, so it simply freezes instead.
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The Super Mario 3D All-Stars version of Super Mario Sunshine introduces a very specific glitch not present in the original release: the eyes of the Piantas in Sirena Beach are layered on top of their glasses (left, middle). Compare to the original, displaying correctly (right).
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, there is a starving family in Twilight Town who ask Mario for food. However, they are picky and reject a variety of food items (middle) by saying "I don't think that's edible." Despite this, they will happily eat dried flowers (right).
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The credits for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door show a photo montage of the adventure. 49 out of the 50 photos are always the same. However, the photo of Ms. Mowz kissing Mario will show Goombella or Koops depending on who was active during that cutscene in that playthrough.
1457
In the Mario Party 4 minigame Mushroom Medic, if Toad is poisoned and left untreated, he will collapse on the floor (upper left). However, moving the camera reveals that he is smiling after collapsing (right), despite looking panicked when he is poisoned (lower left).
1458
The files for Super Mario Galaxy contain the body of Ghastly King, the final boss of Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, under the name "BlackMistCreature". While other leftovers from that game exist in Super Mario Galaxy, the name indicates the developers planned to reuse it in some way.
1459
In the SNES version of Mario is Missing, an animation for defeating a Koopa Troopa shows it being squished, then flying upwards. Although the sprite appears to be scaled dynamically by a graphical effect, the deformed frames are pre-made and exist in the code in this form.
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In Yoshi's Island, if Yoshi deals the final hit to Hookbill the Koopa before he hits the ground, Yoshi will shoot up into the sky at an extremely high velocity. The boss defeat cutscene will play out and the level will end without Yoshi ever coming down.
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When opening the data of the NES version of Mario is Missing in a hex editor, the word "gotcha" can be found at address 0x1F792 (the 128914th byte), spelled out in plain text amid executable code. This is likely an Easter egg message directed at hackers and dataminers.
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In Paper Mario: The Origami King, defeating the Boss Sumo Bro with a POW Block has a chance of making the game unplayable. The Sumo Bro will die, but Mario will be stuck in mid-air in a crumpled form while the Toads continue to cheer forever, requiring the game to be reset.
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The North American version of Yoshi's Island has two versions: 1.0, available at release (left), and 1.1, introduced several months later (right). Unlike usual revisions, which fix glitches, this one contains only one change: the font in the message boxes was made thicker.
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Whenever a Burrbo is defeated in Super Mario Odyssey, it flips into the air in a death animation lasting only a few frames. During the entirety of the death animation, the Burrbo displays an annoyed facial expression, instead of a pained or surprised one like other enemies.
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The path of the World S map in Super Mario Galaxy 2 is shaped like the letter "S". While this is likely a coincidence, World S is the only world named after a letter and has the only path that goes back and forth, making it possible that the shape was a deliberate reference.
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Whenever the playable Luigi looks at a point of interest in Super Mario Galaxy, his shoulder becomes dislocated. Modifying the game to view Luigi's skeleton, we can see this irregularity affects the skeleton model, as well.
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Normally, if a Koopa Troopa hiding in its shell is taken through a pipe in Super Mario World, the Koopa will die, with only an empty shell remaining. However, with a complex setup explained below, it is possible to keep the Koopa Troopa alive after traveling through the pipe.
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1080° Avalanche for the GameCube contains an unlockable snowboard called "8-bit Soul", depicting a sprite of Mario. Ironically, the sprite is not actually 8-bit; instead, it is from the 16-bit remake of Super Mario Bros. 3 in Super Mario All-Stars.
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Concept art for Bowser's appearance in Skylanders: SuperChargers as Hammer Slam Bowser and his vehicle, the Clown Cruiser from the "Clutch: The Art of Skylanders: SuperChargers" book.
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Illustration of Mario and Luigi from the cover of Issue 80 of NextGen magazine, 2001.
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A 1994 Wario's Woods manga shows a glimpse of the eventual future wedding of Mario and Princess Peach. The fairy sitting on Mario's head is Wanda, the protagonist of the Japan-only Mario & Wario for the Super Famicom, who is using time magic to be present at that moment.
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Unlicensed figurines of Mario and Luigi wearing each other's outfits.
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After appearing in Super Mario 64, Mario Party 3 and Super Mario 64 DS, Hoot the owl is encountered in Mario Party Advance, having lost all his money to gambling and being unable to fly. Hoot has not appeared in a game since.
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In New Super Mario Bros., whenever Small Mario ducks, the lower part of his torso deforms in such a way that it goes below ground, lower than Mario's feet. The internal resolution of the game has been increased in the attached screenshots for clearer view.
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Each overworld enemy in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has a unique battle ID. If the ID is changed to be invalid, the game does not crash; interactions with the enemy then simply don't start a battle and instead generate a harmless colorful shower of star particles.
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