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Storyboard for a scene where Mario tries to ambush Bowser with a gun in the 1989 direct-to-video anime Super Mario Momotarō, alongside the same shots from the finished animation. The story is a loose adaptation of the Japanese folk tale Momotarō, or "Peach Boy".
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Textures announcing a character's turn in various European versions of Mario Party 8 are identical except for their apparent degree of enthusiasm.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, the entrance to the Odyssey uses a more complex darkness effect than other entrances. If Mario is precisely positioned as far as possible inside it without activating the loading zone, he will take on an unsettling appearance as the darkness subsumes him.
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Design from an extremely rare officially licensed 1991 Mario T-shirt.
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Plum is a golfer from the N64 Mario Golf whose trophy appears in Super Smash Bros. Melee. For an unknown reason, whenever Plum's trophy is displayed, this pixel art of a gun is loaded into the game's memory. It only appears here and is not used by the game in any other context.
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The Stache stat in the Mario & Luigi series represents the impressiveness of Mario and Luigi's mustaches, though the games' graphics do not reflect any change in their appearance as it increases. A Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga manga shows Mario's mustache at different stats.
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The February 2019 reveal trailer for the Switch version of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening contained a Goomba design in line with their standard Mario series appearance (left). However, this has since been redesigned (middle) to match the original Game Boy version (right).
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In Super Mario Sunshine, fruit is not reflected in mirrors.
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In Super Mario Sunshine, if Yoshi becomes stuck out of bounds using glitches or exploits, instead of merely spitting juice from his mouth, he will eject juice from both ends as depicted, doubling the juice output.
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Official Nintendo of Europe materials give each of the Yoshis in Yoshi's Island a name: Yoshi, Jonny, Sunny, Claudi, Eddi, Netty, Tommy and Marci. These are used both in the official guide for the game and Club Nintendo comics.
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In Paper Mario, there is a blue Toad at the Toad Town train station who tells Mario he "wants to tell him something" after Bowser is defeated. Reaching him and actually talking to him after Bowser is defeated crashes the game.
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The officially licensed Mario Party 5 plush of Luigi is of notoriously low build quality, causing the mustaches of many of the plushes to fall off over time.
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The largest height difference between Mario and Luigi as depicted in a game was in Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, where Luigi is 32% taller than Mario.
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All mainline (non-arcade) Mario Kart games share this property: each title contains either the SNES Rainbow Road track or the Fake Item Box item, but never both at the same time. While it is most likely a coincidence, this is the only such exclusionary relationship in the series.
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In the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series, Waluigi is depicted as the pinnacle of skill, often beating the second most skillful character, Dr. Eggman, by a single pixel of skill (bottom right, circled), as well as in some cases, being the only character with perfect skill.
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Elements from a 2004 British print ad campaign for WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Games that jokingly portrayed the game as making the player less intelligent by playing it.
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The GameCube Service Disc, used by Nintendo representatives to test and diagnose problems with GameCube systems, contains two images of Mario in its files: a regular render called "mario", and an inverted one called "remario".
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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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Contrary to popular belief, Super Mario Odyssey was not the first game to give Mario visible nipples (left). Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, which released one year earlier, featured a Miiverse stamp depicting Mario with nipples (right).
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Officially licensed 2018 slippers with a Warp Pipe-themed holder from Japan. When inserted into the holder, the slippers take on the appearance of a Piranha Plant.
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Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour was the last Mario game to have received the Official Nintendo Seal of Quality from Nintendo of America, as later, the seal was changed to no longer promise any quality. Nintendo of Europe still guarantees quality by using the old seal to this day.
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Dealing the final hit to Bowser in Super Mario Odyssey produces a light effect, obscuring him (left). However, entering Snapshot Mode at that moment reveals he has a unique expression for that particular hit, with misaligned eyes (middle) and his tongue hanging out (right).
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Often, a game's code still contains its internal project name, used by the developers before the release name is finalized. Below are some of the internal names of Mario games found in their data; note how Nintendo seems to use the keyword "Red" often to refer to Mario.
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Official artwork of Sonic congratulating Mario on the 20th anniversary of Super Mario Bros., released by Sega in 2005. Note that this predates the friendly relationship between the franchises established by the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series.
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In Donkey Kong 64, it is possible to cause Chunky Kong to be unlocked as a playable character while also remaining in the overworld as an NPC, resulting in two Chunkys. If the NPC Chunky is approached by playable Chunky, he will do nothing but keep looking at him.
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