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There exists one piece of in-game evidence in favor of the widespread Internet joke that Yoshi does not pay his taxes: in Fortune Street, Yoshi is the only one out of 26 characters that requests to be exempt from paying taxes when the player builds a new tax office.
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In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, walking against the plant in this corner of the Hoohoo Village cave (top left) with Mario in front will make Mario seemingly disappear (top right). However, Mario is simply teleported very high up and will fall down after a while (bottom).
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During the ending to Super Mario Sunshine, we briefly see Mario from FLUDD's point of view (top). There is a small window in the bottom left of this screen saying "Game Over". This appears to be a recreation of the Game Over screen from Mario Bros. on the NES (bottom right).
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Charles Martinet during a recording session for Mario Party 4. Each photo was taken when he was voicing a different character: 1. Wario, 2. Luigi, 3. Waluigi, 4. Mario.
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In the microgame "How the West Was Really Won" in WarioWare: Smooth Moves, failing results in the cowboy's underwear being revealed, which features Super Mario World power-up sprites. In-game, this is partially obscured by the timer; here is the graphic extracted from the data.
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When Mario normally dismounts Yoshi in Super Mario Galaxy 2, Yoshi will wait briefly before teleporting away in an egg (left). However, dismounting Yoshi before the pole leading to the final boss fight results in Yoshi waving goodbye to Mario and not teleporting away (right).
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During the minigame "Hole Hogs" in Mario Party 9, green hills can be seen in a corner (top left). Zooming out (top right), we can see that this is actually a model of a lake from the World 6 map of New Super Mario Bros. Wii (bottom), which has been imported and slightly edited.
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, jumping down the well next to the Creepy Steeple with Vivian out briefly shows Vivian's body to be very elongated during the fall, before it is unloaded. By zooming out, we can see the full extent of Vivian's height during the scene.
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The 1994 CD-ROM re-release of Mario's Time Machine, known as Mario's Time Machine Deluxe, features the only appearance of Bowser's mother in a Mario game. She is a librarian in charge of the game's reference texts.
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In Super Mario 64, when Mario performs his Z+B kick move (called "Trip" by the manual), one of the buttons on his overalls disappears for the duration of the move.
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At the end of Super Mario Land 2, Wario loses his hat and appears bald despite being depicted with visible hair when he is wearing the hat (top). A Super Mario Land 2 manga explains that Wario's hair is a wig attached to his hat (bottom).
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In Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World, Luigi's new, redrawn Super Mario World sprites have an unused palette that gives him Mario's colors.
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A recurring theme in Super Princess Peach is a disregard for Luigi. Peach tosses him away after rescuing him and pushes him aside after rescuing Mario. Hitting Mario in the Toad Shot game gives a 10 point penalty while Luigi is 3 points. Luigi is also never called by his name.
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An Easter egg in Super Mario Odyssey allows Mario to pass by the Tostarenan doorkeeper without a poncho by wearing the Skeleton Suit. However, his text does not change; even if Mario wears the Invisibility Hat with the Skeleton Suit, the doorkeeper will comment on his clothes.
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During the event in Chapter 7 of Paper Mario where Mario must tell Bombette apart from imposters, a shadow can be seen on the floor behind Mario. That shadow belongs to the actual Bombette, who is still following Mario around; merely made invisible as a development shortcut.
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The following content was originally posted on the main Supper Mario Broth site, but was recently removed as it was automatically flagged to be in violation of Tumblr's Community Guidelines. I hope it is acceptable for me to repost it here so it is again publicly available.
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Graphic for the hidden Luigi ice sculpture found in a cave in level Frosted Glacier-3, "Fire and Ice", of New Super Luigi U, extracted from the game's data.
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In Luigi's Mansion, Luigi will comment "Now THAT is what I call interior decorating!" when scanning certain light fixtures that can only be found on the exterior of the mansion.
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The 1995 Japanese guide for Mario's Super Picross contains a short comic built on the same premise as the American Mario cartoons - that Mario and Luigi have a plumbing business in Brooklyn - with the difference that Princess Peach is also an employee at their company.
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Cover illustrations for unauthorized clones of the Donkey Kong arcade for Commodore systems. Left: Anirog Kong for Commodore 64, right: Crazy Kong for the unexpanded Commodore VIC-20.
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To fit the 256x240 pixel display of Super Mario Bros. into the 240x160 pixel resolution of the Game Boy Advance, the sprites in the Classic NES Series version of the game were adjusted to take up less vertical space. Here is a comparison of Mario's original and adjusted sprites.
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The animated stickers featured on Nintendo's official LINE account are drawn to have every frame resemble official 2D Mario artwork as closely as possible. Here are the very few singular frames where characters are drawn in a nonstandard manner.
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In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, one of Piranha Plant's taunts ends in it displaying a grin (top left). This expression is achieved using a perspective trick; by moving the camera we can see that the teeth on the side of the model not facing the screen are enlarged for the effect.
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Unused animation of Mario performing a punch found in the data of Super Mario Galaxy. Like in Super Mario 64, Mario's fist enlarges during the punch. The animation is notably quick; it takes 4 frames, or 1/15 of a second, from wind-up to punch.
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To commemorate today's closing of the Wii Shop Channel after 12 years of operation, here is the only time the channel was referenced inside a Mario game: in Super Paper Mario, the Wii Shop Channel loading icon briefly appears in Fracktail's eye during a cutscene.
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