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In World 7-2 of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, if Mario is hurt by this Fire Bar, the red Koopa Troopa on the nearby platform will turn around and start walking backwards.
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In Mario Kart 8/Deluxe, certain features of the Wario's Gold Mine track appear to be built with a dangerous degree of negligence. As the game otherwise goes to great lengths to avoid these scenarios, it is possible this was done on purpose to show Wario's attitude towards safety.
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Super Princess Peach contains several test rooms in its files. One of them is the "Iggy gives Peach money" room, which consists of a cutscene of Iggy Koopa spawning some coins and Peach collecting them. Note that Iggy appears only in this room and not during actual gameplay.
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When Mario visits a shop for the first time on a save file in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, the shopkeeper mentions this. The story forces Mario to visit a shop before Chapter 3; if this is skipped with cheats, the later-game shopkeepers will have an incredulous reaction.
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In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mr. Resetti has several speeches when summoned as an Assist Trophy. One of them includes a line where he does an impersonation of one of the fighters currently playing. Here are all his impersonations of the characters related to the Mario franchise.
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In Super Mario Bros. 3, whenever Mario jumps while under the effect of a Star, he somersaults instead. If the Star runs out while he is climbing a vine, he will continue somersaulting indefinitely as long as he is touching the vine.
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DiC Entertainment original production artwork for the Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon, depicting King Koopa with no mouth. During production, King Koopa's mouth would sometimes be animated on a separate layer, leaving the base layer looking like this.
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The European PEGI rating system contains content warnings that include "Fear" for content that may be frightening or scary. Below are all the Mario-related games to have received the "Fear" warning; coincidentally, all of them also have the "Violence" warning.
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Photo of a 1995 promotional campaign by Nintendo UK for Donkey Kong Country. Certain bus stops in London were fitted with speakers that played ambient jungle noises, and an actor in a Donkey Kong mascot costume would randomly appear and interact with people waiting for the bus.
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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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A 2015 commercial for McDonald's featured a variety of scenes of archenemies from popular culture getting along with each other. One of the scenes depicted Mario presenting Bowser with a Piranha Plant, which spits out fire in the shape of a heart.
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In the international versions of WarioWare: Smooth Moves, the R.O.B. fought at the end of the Star Fox boss microgame uses a gun modeled after the toy-like NES Zapper. In the Japanese version, however, the R.O.B. uses the more realistic-looking Famicom Beam Gun.
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Whenever Mario returns from a course in Super Mario 64, before he jumps or falls out of the painting, his model assumes this pose behind the painting during the first few frames of Peach's Castle being loaded. Mario is floating sideways with his limbs folded into his body.
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In Super Mario Sunshine, holding a fruit makes Mario immune to Cheep Cheeps. The Cheep Cheep will actively try to hunt Mario down, but Mario will be intangible to it.
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In Mario Kart Wii, the poles around the finish line in the N64 Sherbet Land track have a gradient coloring. In an inventive case of asset reuse, the poles do not have their own texture; instead, the letter "I" from the banner is mapped onto them, producing the gradient.
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In the December 1991 issue of Nintendo Power, a reader-submitted letter was published that predicted the name "Super Mario Galaxy". In addition, the letter predicts the console's price as $259.95, very close to the Wii's actual launch price of $249.99.
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In Super Mario Galaxy 2, Yoshi's tongue can become astronomical in length, dwarfing Starship Mario in magnitude, as a result of a glitch. Details in image.
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Wendy Koopa has oversized bracelets that are only held up by gravity. While most games neglect that they would fall off if she points her arm straight down, Paper Mario: Color Splash actually considers this and has her hold them when she is too tired to keep her arms at an angle.
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In Super Mario Galaxy 2, Bowser sits on a throne in pre-boss cutscenes. Zooming in on his tail shows it is absent so it does not clip through the throne; however, viewing the wireframe of Bowser's model reveals the tail has been turned inside-out and is visible inside his torso.
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Electrodrome from Mario Kart 8/Deluxe is the only race course in the entire Mario Kart series (even counting the arcade games and Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit) with a name consisting of only one word. Below are all different unique track names for comparison.
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This drawing from an ad for the Mario Bros. Game & Watch is the earliest publicly released depiction of Luigi, as it predates the Game & Watch, which in turn predates his official debut in the Mario Bros. arcade. Unfortunately, it is impossible to tell which of the men is Luigi.
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Close-up of Bowser and Peach cake toppers on the wedding cake seen before the final battle in Super Mario Odyssey. Enclosed is a special message from me on the bottom of the image. Thank you to all my readers for your support. I could not have made it without you.
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On extremely rare occasions in Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, the golf ball may briefly turn into a tiny Boo. Due to the rarity of the event, it is currently unknown if this requires special conditions to occur or whether it is entirely random.
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The title screen for Super Mario Advance has darkened edges (left). The lit area in the middle is 160x144 pixels, exactly the resolution of the original Game Boy (insert on right). As a Game Boy Advance launch title, this effect was meant to illustrate the increase in resolution.
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Luigi's Mansion (left), Luigi's Mansion Arcade (middle) and Luigi's Mansion 3 (right) all feature King Boo making a distinctive sound imitating Luigi's Poltergust. As the arcade is a retelling of Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, this retroactively covers all 3 main series entries.
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