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In Super Mario 64, there is a specific spot near the top of Tall, Tall Mountain where failing to grab a ledge will result in Mario comically falling down the entirety of the mountain while hitting every ledge on the way down.
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The 1991 Nintendo Power calendar contained this "Welcome to the Warp Zone" illustration, featuring an original Mario render. As the illustration is printed across two pages, I have retouched the scan to unify it into a mostly seamless image.
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In Super Mario 64 DS, it is possible to cause the Chill Bully boss to self-destruct by making it stand on a crate. This disables its self-preservation AI, causing it to walk off the edge of the arena and die.
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Original CGI animation made for a 2006 Taiwanese TV news report about the release of the Nintendo Wii. Mario bursts into a room with children playing the GameCube and kicks it away while presenting them with a Wii Remote to illustrate Nintendo's focus on the new system.
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Out of the recurring female human characters in the Mario series, only Daisy regularly has teeth. This affects both official art and in-game models; in the vast majority of cases, Peach, Rosalina and Pauline simply have no teeth modeled inside their mouths.
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The code for the Super Mario Galaxy games contains many misspellings that are a combination of incorrect transliteration from Japanese and typographical errors, resulting in words like "durt", "leef", "boby", etc. Details in image.
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Concept art for Chain Chompikins, Madame Broode's pet Chain Chomp, from the Art of Super Mario Odyssey book.
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The signatures of some people involved in the creation of Mario games contain Mario-inspired elements. Details in image.
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Mario parade float at the 2015 traditional Rose Monday carnival parade in Mainz, Germany.
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@DDSeudonym If you mean this one, then yes! This comes from a 1996 manga. It is presented without context even within the work; Luigi only appears like this on the cover and not within the story itself. Thank you very much for your inquiry!
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The Internet contains many outlandish Mario-related images, of which most are presumed to not be official material. I have compiled a set of images that I have seen online commenters consistently assume to be edited or fan-made, but which are in fact completely official.
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In Mother 2, the Japanese version of Earthbound, selecting "Don't Care" six times during character creation will give the party Mario-themed names: Ness becomes Mario, Paula becomes Peach, Jeff becomes Luigi, Poo becomes Toad, and King becomes Yoshi.
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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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The European PEGI rating system contains content warnings that include "Fear" for content that may be frightening or scary. Below are all the Mario-related games to have received the "Fear" warning; coincidentally, all of them also have the "Violence" warning.
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Whenever a character levels up in Super Mario RPG, a bonus can be chosen to be applied to one stat. Unlike the later Mario & Luigi games, the bonus is not randomized and there is a pattern that, when followed, allows the player to maximize the character's stats. Details below.
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It is commonly remarked that the box art for Super Mario Bros. shows Mario moments before his death due to falling into lava. However, there is one spot in the game where a similar situation can occur with Mario surviving the jump; the art could be a stylized depiction of this.
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In Super Mario World, if the game crashes due to collecting invalid items via glitches, it is possible for the frozen screen to randomly display a line of text from the game, sometimes resulting in vaguely ominous messages like "Illusion lies ahead."
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Photos from a 1995 Yoshi's Island launch event fundraiser in Culver City, California where school principals could sit with Mario and Yoshi on top of a giant egg in exchange for Nintendo donating $500 to their school. Details in image.
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An officially licensed 1997 Super Mario quiz book from Germany mostly used official art for illustrations, but sometimes made minor edits for visual humor, such as the below illustration of Mario as a marsupial with a smaller Mario in his "pouch".
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It is well known that Daisy's trophy in Super Smash Bros. Melee has an eye hidden at the back of her head. The eye texture is actually tiled across the entirety of her head, and the developers made the copies invisible, missing one in the back. Below, all eyes are made visible.
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During the award ceremony in Mario Kart Wii, the cap of a purple Toad can be seen briefly behind a fence. This Toad is actually embedded in the ground, giving him the appearance of a regular mushroom.
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Holiday-themed Mario jokes found on Nintendo of America's official site.
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In Super Mario Galaxy, penguins that are far away from the camera only blink with the eye that is turned towards Mario. If Mario is looking directly at them, they blink normally, but if Mario can only see one of their eyes, they wink with that eye instead.
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Officially licensed 2019 Japan-exclusive Yoshi oven mitts.
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