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In Super Mario Maker 2, exploiting the fact that doors can be placed behind Bullet Bill Blasters and On/Off Switches can be placed behind Skewers allows the creation of secret doors that require jumping in an inconspicuous place to uncover.
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The name of the 1-Up Mushroom from the Mario series can be traced back to a 1963 pinball machine, which used the phrasing "1st player up" to indicate the player's turn. Over time, this morphed into associating the phrase "1up" with extra lives. Details in image.
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In Super Mario Sunshine, Mario's blinking speed is proportional to his movement speed. When walking slowly, he will blink slowly. By tilting the Control Stick extremely slightly, Mario will close his eyes for several seconds every time he blinks.
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The Art of Super Mario Odyssey book shows that a completely Piranha Plant-based concept was considered for the Wooded Kingdom, including glowing Piranha Plant trees (left) and Piranha Plant versions of the Uproot enemy (top right) and Torkdrift boss (bottom right).
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In Super Mario Bros. 35, a glitch allows courses that have not yet been unlocked to be selected. If Down and A are pressed on the same frame, the course below the currently selected one will be chosen, even if it is not unlocked yet. Note how I select 5-2 and 6-2 is then chosen.
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In Super Mario 64, falling into sand or snow from a great height gets Mario stuck. However, the geometry of the courses that contain them also mistakenly designates some other surfaces as sand or snow, resulting in Mario being able to get stuck in stone or ice.
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the Swooper battles in the Creepy Steeple include a ceiling on the stage. Performing a Spring Jump during these battles will reveal an Easter egg where Mario's attack will fail due to ramming into the ceiling (right).
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I apologize for an incorrect post featuring the print ad seen below. The wording of the source misled me into believing it was published by an organization; in reality, it was the work of a student for an ad design course. The original post has been deleted.
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In the Super Mario Maker games, a Goomba trapped between blocks will send undulating waves of direction changes up the stack it is carrying. This can be used to create towers of cannons that each shoot left or right in an unpredictable manner.
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In Paper Mario, Herringway is coded as a regular penguin with a custom sprite. By pausing the game before the mayor cutscene, Herringway will load in a "depersonalized" state, appearing as a regular penguin (left: normal, middle: depersonalized). This will crash the game (right).
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In Paper Mario: The Origami King, Bowser Jr. can actually briefly join Mario in battle. Mario must say "no" when he offers to give him a lift, then enter a battle in Shangri-Spa. Despite being completely skippable, Bowser Jr. is tied for the strongest companion alongside Bowser.
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In the Tall, Tall Mountain slide in Super Mario 64, several glitches can work together to create a shortcut. If C-Up is pressed as Mario starts sliding, he will gain speed, get caught on a wall, reverse, fall off a track segment that fails to load, and can skip most of the slide.
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In the US version of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, a glitch can cause EXP to be awarded for defeating Bowletta if she is dealt over 5000 damage. If Mario levels up during this, the Time Bob-omb will knock him out of the level-up window, unintentionally breaking the fourth wall.
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Promotional photo from the 1998 Nuremberg International Toy Fair in Nuremberg, Germany depicting a journalist interacting with a Mario mascot suit actor by threatening him with a toy gun.
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The only three environmental textures that have been actually redrawn in the Super Mario 3D All-Stars version of Super Mario 64 are the Boo paintings and the Bowser sliding puzzle. All others, like the Hazy Maze Cave map on the right, use AI upscaling, making the texture blurry.
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Super Mario Odyssey suggests that the Ground Pound symbol originates with the lost ancient civilization of the Lost Kingdom. As the symbol is most prominent in the Super Mario Galaxy games, this implies they moved to space. Speculation over which species it could be is included.
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In Paper Mario: The Origami King, Bobby's line about amnesia actually contains two references. In addition to the more obvious Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic reference, the words "ambrosia" and "amnesty" are a reference to a line said by Gulliver in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
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In Super Mario 64, the eel is never seen leaving the sunken ship in Jolly Roger Bay: it is either inside it or swimming around. By holding C-Up to force the camera to look down while swimming away, we can see the eel simply teleports out of the ship once Mario is far enough away.
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An extremely detailed 2018 Waluigi render shows that the "Γ" emblem on his hat is a sticker, as a corner is peeling off. This suggests that unlike Mario, Luigi and Wario, who have tailored caps, Waluigi was only able to afford a cap with a blank emblem that he customized himself.
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The Art of Super Mario Odyssey book contains concept art for Bowser's minions attending his wedding. In the finished game, to give the wedding a more depressing atmosphere, Bowser's cheering minions are absent and the only guests are random citizens who do not wish to be there.
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In Super Mario Galaxy, Mario's silhouette is visible whenever he is obscured by a wall. This is not Mario's actual model made visible through the wall, but a separate entity (called "MarioShadow" internally) that is loaded at all times. Details in image.
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The closest Mario can get to the camera in Super Mario Sunshine is inside a house in Delfino Plaza. This allows us to see that although Mario's eye textures have been updated in the Super Mario 3D All-Stars version (right), his irises still extend past the edges of his eyes.
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According to Bob Hoskins, who played Mario in the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie, he was injured multiple times during filming. Among others, he says he was stabbed four times, electrocuted, broke a finger, and nearly drowned.
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the partner primers refer to all partners in third person, except for Ms. Mowz, whose primer is in first person (right). This could either be an oversight or a hint that Ms. Mowz is the one narrating all the primers.
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In Super Mario Sunshine, worried Toads are only worried when Mario approaches, and smile when he is far away. This was not visible in the original release due to the resolution, but the increased fidelity of the Super Mario 3D All-Stars version allows this to be seen on console.
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