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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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In Yoshi's Island, whenever Yoshi eats a Fuzzy, he expels a cloud of gas behind him. Despite appearing to merely be a visual effect, the gas is actually lethal to enemies.
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Whenever I make posts about New Donkers, the citizens of New Donk City in Super Mario Odyssey, many readers express amusement at the name and inquire whether it is terminology of my own invention. In fact, both the game and the Art of Super Mario Odyssey book use this term.
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During battles in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, audience members sometimes throw items at Mario. Most of these are random, but one is very specific: if Mario fails a hammer attack, the Hammer Bros. in the audience will show their disdain by throwing their hammers at him.
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Promotional photos from the 1993 "Navidad de Nintendo" event, where Mario visited and played with sick children in hospitals across Spain.
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All known artwork of the extremely rare "Stop Watch" character, an animate version of the Stop Watch item designed by Nintendo of America for Super Mario Bros. 2. It only appeared in concept art, on greeting cards, and in one issue of the Valiant Mario comic.
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In Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Captain Toad can defeat Boos by shining his headlamp at them. However, he is even more powerful in Super Mario Galaxy, where Boos die immediately upon touching him, regardless of whether he is shining his light at them.
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Tetris Attack is a Yoshi-themed puzzle game. Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of the original Tetris, did work on a Yoshi-themed puzzle game - but ironically, it wasn't Tetris Attack. Instead, he designed the puzzles for the SNES version of Yoshi's Cookie.
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In Super Mario 64, setting a crate down near a slope of a specific angle and then performing a Ground Pound on it kills Mario instantly.
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Wario Stadium is the only track from Mario Kart 64 that has not reappeared in at least one other Mario Kart game. Below, the reappearances of each track are listed.
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The Art of Super Mario Odyssey book explains that the images Mario sees when he captures entities are their "actual memories". This implies that when capturing characters, not only does Mario have complete control over their bodies, but also full access to their minds.
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Touching the axe in the final level of the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. with 0 units on the timer makes it roll over to 999 units, which results in an awkward scene of Peach ignoring Mario for 18 seconds after saving her as the timer counts down.
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Paper Mario: The Origami King contains a running gag where Dustin Hoffman's line "Hey! I'm walkin' here!" from the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy (left) is referenced in various ways. Below are all instances of the reference in the game.
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In the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. 3, pressing Left and Right as Frog Mario at the same time may result in him turning into what looks like two small Luigis for a single frame (actually two small Marios recolored green; three consecutive frames shown).
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In the Bowser Land board in Mario Party 2, landing on a Bank Space forces a player to pay coins instead of receiving them. An extremely rare event will happen if a player lands on the space with 0 coins; in that case, Banker Baby Bowser will take an entire star from the player.
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In Super Mario 64, if Mario both activates a Power Star and collects a different Power Star in the same movement, he will be stuck holding a small Power Star forever, forcing the game to be reset.
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A 2010 Wario: Master of Disguise manga provides a more detailed look at the disguised form of the main antagonist Tiaramisu, which only appears as a small sprite in-game (top left).
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In Yoshi's Island, Dark Blue Yoshi is playable in all final levels of a world except 6-8. He can actually also be seen waiting at 6-8 initially, but is surreptitiously replaced by Green Yoshi when the player reaches World 6-6, and never returns on that save file.
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A piece of official Mario media exists that contains a fragment of Rick Astley's famous 1987 song "Never Gonna Give You Up". A snippet of it is heard in the background during a 1998 Super Mario Bros. 3 Satellaview broadcast.
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In Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, if Mario takes damage from a Fury Shadow on the same frame as defeating it, then during the Cat Shine animation, he will cycle between his powered-up form, his powered-down form, and a form that is just a floating face and hands.
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A Mexican billboard ad for Energizer batteries displayed all Wii Remote inputs needed to beat Super Mario Galaxy 2 from start to finish (each dot represents one input, zoomed-in version in top right) to show how all of this was accomplished using only one pair of batteries.
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The NES manual for Wrecking Crew provides illustrations of Mario trapped in "hopeless cases" with "no escape". The only way to resume playing in these cases is to press Select; however, the manual does not mention this and instead acts like there is nothing the player can do.
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In Chapter 2-3 of Super Paper Mario, Mario must pay off a 1,000,000 Rubee debt. The intended solution is to take them from a safe; however, it is possible to earn them legitimately, which would at maximum speed take 9 hours, 33 minutes and 54 seconds. Calculation in image.
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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.
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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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