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Since then, Mario has become Nintendo's [[Mascot]] and their most prolific character, branching out from platformers into [[Mario Kart|racing games]], sports titles, [[Super Mario RPG|Role]] [[Paper Mario (franchise)|Playing]] [[Mario & Luigi|games]], and more. Along the way, he's picked up more friends like his dinosaur buddy Yoshi and [[Anti-Hero]] Twin Wario, who along with Luigi and Peach have spun off successful games of their own.
Of course, Mario hasn't completely limited himself to the realm of video games. Mario and Luigi appeared in the ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]'', with live-action linking segments featuring the brothers as plumbers in Brooklyn and cartoons that showed them in the world of the games. The secondary [[Theme Song]] for the cartoons explains that they "found the secret warp zone while working on the drain" which is how they got to the Mushroom Kingdom from Brooklyn. Interestingly, none of the television show is technically 'canon', inasmuch as the games have that anyway, though it has affected some [[Fanon]]. This might be related to the irony that there's never been a show made of it in the country of origin, aside from the obscure theatrical anime ''[[The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach]]''. There was also a [[Video Game Movies Suck|critically-panned]] [[Super Mario Bros. (film)|motion picture]], where Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo as the titular brothers faced off against Dennis Hopper as Koopa, a hyperevolved dinosaur from [[Another Dimension]], intent on rejoining his own, mostly desolate world with ours. We were all confused, and the movie's [[Backstory]] has never been even obliquely referenced in other media. In addition, ''[[Super Mario Bros 3|Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' was notable for being previewed in the Fred Savage film ''[[The Wizard (film)]]'', whose climactic scene involved an autistic child playing the first stage of the game. A far [[Truer to the Text]] animated film, ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'', was released in 2023.
In addition to the major games, Mario has appeared in dozens of other [[Nintendo]] games, including a random appearance as referee in ''Mike Tyson's [[Punch-Out!!]]'' and as a painting in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past]]'' and has appeared on every Nintendo platform (except the Pokémon Mini and Color TV Game), including the ill-fated Virtual Boy (in ''Mario's Tennis'' and ''Mario Clash'').
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* ''[[New Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' ([[Nintendo 3DS]])
* ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]'' ([[Wii U]])
* ''[[Super Mario Bros. Wonder]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]])
=== 3D ===
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* ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'' ([[Wii]])
* ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'' ([[Nintendo 3DS]])
* ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]])
=== Maker ===
* ''[[Super Mario Maker]]'' ([[Wii U]])
** ''[[Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS]]'' ([[Nintendo 3DS]])
* ''[[Super Mario Maker 2]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]])
=== Remakes ===
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** ''Super Mario Advance 4: [[Super Mario Bros 3]]''
* ''[[Super Mario 64]] DS'' ([[Nintendo DS]])
* ''Super Mario 3D All-Stars'' ([[Nintendo Switch]])
== Spinoffs ==
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* ''[[Luigi's Mansion]]'' ([[Game Cube]])
** ''[[Luigi's Mansion 2: Dark Moon|Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon]]'' ([[Nintendo 3DS]])
** ''[[Luigi's Mansion 3]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]])
* ''[[Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix]]'' ([[Game Cube]])
* ''[[Princess Peach Showtime!]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]])
== Related ==
* ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]'': Classic live-action ''and'' animated series from [[The Eighties]], starring [[
* ''[[Super Mario Adventures]]'': A serialized comic loosely based on ''[[Super Mario World]]'' for the SNES.
* [[Super Mario Bros./Fan Works|Fan Games]]
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* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]] ([[Beam Me Up, Scotty|even if those aren't the exact words]])
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* [[Aborted Arc]]: Throughout ''[[Super Princess Peach]]'', there are little cutscenes that develop Perry's character a bit, showing that he was once a Toad turned into a parasol... this has absolutely no point beyond trivial [[Character Development]]. To put things in perspective, in the last of these, Perry says, entirely in parentheses, "Grandpa... I've decided to stay with the princess for a while. I have this feeling that if I accompany her on this adventure...someday...I'll find you, Grandpa..." This may or may not be a [[Sequel Hook]], depending on the nature of the games as a whole...
* [[Acrofatic]]: Several characters in the various franchises can move a lot quicker than their mass might lead you to believe, most of all our protagonist, Mario. His slightly pudgy plumber's physique belies a leaping ability beyond compare.
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* [[Armless Biped]]: Goombas
* [[Artifact Title]]: Super has [[Super Mario 64|remained]] [[Super Mario Sunshine|in]] [[Super Mario Galaxy|games]] without "normal Mario" and "Super Mario" forms (or the Super NES, for that matter).
** Distinctively enough, most spinoffs don't use the "Super" before Mario's name, with the only possible exception being ''Super Mario Strikers'' (considering that the ''[[Mario Kart]]'' games ditched it since the N64 version, making the Super NES game a case of [[Super Title 64 Advance]] instead), (which even then is known in Europe as ''Mario Smash Football'').
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Luigi started off as little more than a [[Palette Swap]] of Mario, and would you just [[Luigi's Mansion|look at him now]]. We're proud of you, buddy.
* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]]: All of the bosses from the ''Yoshi's Island'' games.
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** Bowser is also a subject of mockery in the RPGs, where he had his own castle taken over in ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'', failed at everything he tried in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', lost his memory and was later {{spoiler|possessed}} in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]'', and is in general treated as a complete joke.
*** As in the ''Brawl'' example, this is subverted in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'': The game does start with Bowser getting his routine beating from Mario, but due to complications in the plot, Bowser gets full reign of the world, handling the problems the Mushroom Kingdom is having with his own agenda, while Mario and Luigi are [[Womb Level|stuck inside Bowser's body]], but more or less up to their usual antics. Of course, Bowser has no idea the Mario Bros. are inside him, and they both unwittingly help each other out in various ways.
** When you really think about it, Luigi [https://web.archive.org/web/20080324002346/http://my.deviantart.com/messages/#/d38r826 doesn't have it that bad] compared to his brother.
* [[The Caligula]]: King Bowser in the RPGs.
* [[Cartoon Bomb]]: Bob-omb.
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* [[Platform Hell]]: ''The Lost Levels'' is the only official game to so much as ''approach'' this level of overall difficulty, but we'd be here all day if we tried to list all the fan hacks that can be classified as this.
** Some of the late-game levels throughout the series come close as well, especially those in the [[Brutal Bonus Level|special worlds]].
* [[Player
* [[Playing with Fire]]: The Fire Flower power-up allows Mario and Luigi to sling fireballs at their enemies.
* [[Plot Coupon]]: Five-pointed stars in 3D games.
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* [[Power-Up Food]]: Mushrooms, mushrooms, and more mushrooms.
** Though it's never specified what Mario does with them, the various flowers (fire, ice) may also qualify.
** In ''[[Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
** ''[[Mario Party]] 8'' has candies that, when eaten, gives the player different abilities, such as zapping opponents with lightning or stealing other players' items.
* [[Power-Up Motif]]: The most common is the [[Invincibility Power-Up]] theme but in many games, there are others too.
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