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In Super Mario 64, the stained glass window of Peach on the castle depicts her surrounded by flowers on a blue background when viewed from outside. However, when viewed from inside, the same window uses a different texture that changes the blue background to purple.
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Dr. Mario preparing to fight the Viruses, from a Dr. Mario manga feature in the Japanese Famitsu magazine.
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Artwork of Blooper from Mario Tennis Aces uploaded by Nintendo to their official LINE account. The artwork is presented as having been drawn by the account's green Toad mascot, Kinopio-kun.
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"Magnet Mario", one of the winners of a "design a Mario power-up" contest held by the British Computer and Video Games magazine.
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Normally, in Super Mario 64 DS, Mario fights Big Boo in front of a mirror, with his reflection being replaced by Luigi. Using an exploit to fight Big Boo as Wario results in the Luigi reflection being warped to match Wario's proportions, giving it disproportionately long arms.
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Illustration of Luigi despondently feeding Mario a P-Balloon from a Japanese guide for Super Mario Kart. P-Balloons do not appear in Super Mario Kart.
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Thwomp from Wario's Woods: Burst of Laughter Version for the Satellaview, a special edition of Wario's Woods that replaces many of the graphics in the game with caricatures of Japanese celebrities.
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According to Nintendo of America's Donkey Kong stickers from 1982, Mario is not just a "Donkey Kong Killer", but an "Official Donkey Kong Killer".
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Photo taken at the Canadian launch event for Donkey Kong Country at Wayne Gretzky's bar in Toronto.
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Goombas with animal-like paws and ears from a Spanish print advertisement for Super Mario Bros. 3. It is possible that this is an artistic interpretation of Paragoombas and the ears are intended to be wings.
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Luigi refusing to be vaccinated in one of a set of educational Mario quiz cards.
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Animation frames of Ludwig retreating into and emerging from his shell, from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.
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Sprite representing the word "hug", from the Sentence World word suggestion images in the educational SNES game Mario's Early Years: Fun with Letters.
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Illustration of Bowser with a lollipop from the Japanese "Super Mario Story Quiz Picture Book 2: Mario's Sports Day".
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The manual for Super Mario World states that Yoshi was named after Yoshi's Island, and not, as usually assumed, the other way around. This raises the question of how Yoshi's Island got its name originally.
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Mario illustration used numerous times in the British Computer and Video Games magazine, commonly by pasting some object over Mario to indicate his astonishment at that object.
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The extremely rare Big Yoshi artwork, previously believed to have only been used in Japanese media, has been found on the cover of Games Unlimited, a 1997 British amateur print publication. The search for the original high-resolution render of Big Yoshi continues.
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Shigeru Miyamoto's opinion on Sonic in relation to Mario, from the British edition of Edge Magazine.
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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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Bowser's appearance as an indeterminate monster, possibly a shark-penguin hybrid, from the Wario Bike souvenir in WarioWare: Twisted.
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Artwork of Ashley asking "Why?" from the Japanese version of Nintendo Badge Arcade.
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Illustration for the sentence "It is fun to sit on the pig" from the PC version of the educational game Mario's Early Years: Fun with Letters.
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In Super Mario 64, the singular Bob-omb next to the cannon on the mountain in Bob-omb Battlefield (left) has sharp, faceted shoes, while every other Bob-omb in the game (right) has smooth shoes.
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In Paper Mario, a blue Toad at the Toad Town train station tells Mario that he wants to tell him something after peace returns to the kingdom. However, after defeating Bowser and restoring peace, the train station is not accessible and it is impossible to meet the Toad again.
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