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One of the 1996 officially licensed Mario quiz cards depicts Mario's father.
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A 2005 issue of Nintendo Power featured a comedy section that included a "new look for Mario based on feedback from focus groups", using this illustration. Here is the Mario artwork used, isolated from the background.
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Whenever Mario enters water from a great height in Super Mario 64, he says "haha!" This actually sets a "haha flag", which does not get cleared until Mario enters an airborne state or exits the area. As long as it is set, Mario will say "haha!" every time he touches water.
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A 2000 Australian commercial for the Game Boy Color featured a scene where an explosion knocks the fur off Donkey Kong, revealing that his limbs are skinny underneath.
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Unused, corrupted animation for Bowser found in the data of Super Mario 64.
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A German-exclusive glitch may randomly occur during the optional fight against Bowser X in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, where Bowser may turn into a glitched mass of enemy sprites. This can only happen on the European version, and only if the language is set to German.
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In Super Mario 64, if Mario falls from the top of Whomp's Fortress and touches the ramp just as he reaches zero health, he will be caught in an animation of repeatedly hitting his face against the ramp while slowly descending. After several minutes, Mario will finally die.
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Mario games have never given Peach and Daisy their own Wario-like counterparts. However, a 1994 Super Mario Land 2 manga features Wario brainwashing Daisy into becoming "ワルデイジー" (Warudaisy/Waludaisy), who has similar demeanor to Wario.
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A picture of Mario and Luigi's parents, as seen in a Yoshi's Island manga.
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In the Nintendo Switch version of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, the text that appears when Link obtains the Yoshi Doll (right) is different from the text in the original Game Boy version (left) and references how much time has passed between the versions.
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In Super Mario World, if the game crashes due to collecting invalid items via glitches, it is possible for the frozen screen to randomly display a line of text from the game, sometimes resulting in vaguely ominous messages like "Illusion lies ahead."
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Officially licensed 1993 British Toad figurine.
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The official artwork for Super Mario Sunshine depicts Yoshi as being green. However, in the game, Yoshi only turns green when running out of juice, a few seconds before disintegrating. Thus, somewhat morbidly, the official art depicts Yoshi as being seconds away from death.
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Mario Tennis for the Game Boy Color features artwork of Luigi with the longest legs he has ever had in official media (left). I have taken modern 2D artwork of Luigi (middle) and edited it to show what he would look like with the same proportions as the Mario Tennis art (right).
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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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As part of a promotional event for Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Nintendo of America's official Twitter account was temporarily taken over by Cranky Kong. During this, Cranky Kong posted four image macros attempting to make jokes relating to Internet culture.
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An audio glitch exists in the original Japanese version of Super Mario Sunshine that is fixed in all other versions. Whenever Mario enters Delfino Plaza during the flood event for the second or any subsequent time, he will let out an extremely drawn-out and distorted scream.
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Waluigi is the only major human Mario franchise character to have been portrayed by the same voice actor since his creation: Charles Martinet.
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In Super Mario World, the variable that determines which way Mario is facing has two values that are used - left and right - and 254 unused values. Making Mario face these "extradimensional directions" can distort him, discolor him, or even turn him into eggs.
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Before Mario's "It's-a me, Mario" catchphrase was standardized, various publications attempted to invent their own mottos for him.
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Yoshi's Story contains a secret message spanning every level of the game: "YOU ARE YOSHI'S GREAT PARTNER". I have published the first comprehensive and illustrated guide on how to see all the hidden letters of the message on the Supper Mario Broth Patreon: patreon.com/posts/23582692
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The Wii BIOS contains this extremely small picture of Mario in its files. As such, Mario can technically be said to have been on every Wii console ever made, regardless of whether the owner has ever played a Mario game on it.
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In 2009, a team of nanobiology researchers from Osaka University in Japan genetically engineered three types of bacteria to generate fluorescent proteins in order to arrange them to replicate the Small Mario sprite from Super Mario Bros. as a demonstration.
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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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In Super Mario Galaxy, there is a special message for getting 0 purple coins in the Dreadnought Galaxy that can not be seen during normal gameplay, as one coin is collected automatically and cannot be avoided. After hearing the message, Mario will die.
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