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In The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, screen-warping glitches can take the player to this room, unreachable by normal means, containing a Yoshi Doll. Picking up the doll displays the text "I don't suppose it would do any good to beg? If you change your mind, tell me."
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In the Super Mario Maker games, a Boo attached to a ground tile becomes a Stretch. While they did not react to Mario in the first game, in Super Mario Maker 2, the Ground theme adds special behavior at night where they stop when Mario looks at them. New unique sprites were added.
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Throughout the Mario franchise, gold coins are sometimes shown to be picked up by magnets. Pure gold is not magnetic; however, gold alloys with at least 40% non-gold content can exhibit magnetism. Thus, the coins from the Mario franchise can be assumed to have at most 60% purity.
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The Art of Super Mario Odyssey book reveals that one of the unused costume designs for Mario was "Golden Age of Animation Mario" (left), which combined the aesthetics of the first official Mario artwork on the Donkey Kong arcade cabinet (middle) and 1920s cartoons (right).
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Each microgame in WarioWare: Get It Together gives a numerical ranking from 1 (worst) to 5 (best) to each character's ability in it. By averaging their rankings in all 222 microgames, the characters can be sorted objectively by overall performance, with the rankings shown below.
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In Super Mario 64, throwing a crate, then picking it up again before it hits a wall turns it into a "deadly crate" that has the ability to hurt enemies simply by being touched. The footage below shows some enemy interactions with the deadly crate.
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Version 1.0 of Super Mario Odyssey (available by playing a physical copy from the first print run without updates) contains a glitch that removes Mario permanently. If Cappy performs a Ground Pound on a captured Piranha Plant in 2-player mode, Mario will be gone and never return.
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Shadow clones from Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Shadow the Hedgehog's clone is called "Shadow Shadow".
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Promotional photo for an officially licensed 2020 Boo stress ball.
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The reason Wario and Waluigi have no girlfriends, from a Nintendo Power interview with Hiroyuki Takahashi and Syugo Takahashi of Camelot.
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Illustration from a 2017 print ad for an Ecuadorian dental care company. Mario and Peach symbolize teeth, and Broccoli Bowser represents bits of food stuck between them.
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The internal names used for the characters in the code of Mario Kart 64. Of particular interest is Luigi being called "Luizi"; this game is the only instance of him being referred to with this spelling.
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Normally, the reflection in the mirror room of Peach's Castle in Super Mario 64 mimics Mario's movements perfectly. However, if Mario crawls towards one of the pillars, he will crawl up the side of it, while the reflection remains of the floor, breaking the synchronicity.
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A 2002 Super Mario Sunshine manga features Mario attempting to design new nozzles for FLUDD: the Ice Cream Nozzle, which serves ice cream, and the Bomb Nozzle, which causes FLUDD to explode. After a terrified reaction from FLUDD, the nozzles are not implemented.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, if the Snapshot Mode is activated on the same frame the B button is released while capturing an Uproot, the Uproot will become visually glitched. Over time, it will create areas of corrupted black pixelated space within itself.
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In the prologue of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Goombella can be very precisely nudged into Professor Frankly so their models occupy the same coordinates. Due to the layering of their respective textures, this results in Goombella appearing to wear Frankly's glasses.
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Across the Mario franchise, various items are decorated with the letter P. For some of them, it is explained what the P stands for (details in image). However, what it stands for on the most common of these, the P-Switch, remains unknown to this day.
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The color of the Luma that accompanies Mario in the Super Mario Galaxy games is very similar to Cosmic Latte, determined to be the "color of the universe". As these games use a lot of material from academic astronomy sources, there is a slim chance that this might be intentional.
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Officially licensed 1990 bottle of Mario shampoo from Japan. The bottle has six sides and features four segments that can be rotated relative to each other to create mashups from six different illustrations of Mario characters.
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In Super Mario Bros. 3, the Toad seen in the Spade Panel minigame has a single orange pixel next to his arm, seemingly violating the rule that 8-bit sprites can only consist of 3 colors. Below is a technical explanation of why the pixel is orange.
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Extremely rare officially licensed 2002 Bowser plush from Spain, notable for its frizzy hair giving it a particularly disheveled appearance.
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Development screenshots from the earliest build of Super Mario 3D Land in March 2010. At this stage, the landscape consisted entirely out of blocks, and Mario was represented by an extremely crude model that moved by sliding along the ground.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, the Metro Kingdom is filled with NPCs that are only visible from far away, but dissolve and finally unload when he gets closer to conserve resources. Sometimes they are grouped with regular NPCs, resulting in scenarios like the one in the image below.
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