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** When Koops is reunited with his father after the first dungeon, he says "Everyone thought your game was over!" This may have been an example at the time, but [[Retcon|it no longer remains so.]] With the release of [[Super Paper Mario]], the common term for death in-universe has become [[Game Over]].
* [[Breather Level]]: Chapter 6, for the most part. It's more puzzle-oriented than battle-oriented (since you spend most of it on the Excess Express and all), but it does have a "dungeon" portion with some fairly tough enemies.
* [[Broken Bridge]]: The first time Mario tries to go to the west part of Rogueport, he (accidentally) steps on Zess T's contact lense; she is naturally upset and [[Dronejam| decides to block his path to that part of town]] until he replaces it. The store will not have one for sale until you finish chapter one, so the west part of Rogueport is inaccessable until then.
* [[But Thou Must!]]: After catching the Yoshi egg in Glitzville, Mario is given an option to, instead of free it, say, "Let there be hot dogs!" Picking this option will simply result in Mario's partner scolding him and freeing the egg.
** Immediately afterward, Mario is given [[Blatant Lies|an option]] to bring the egg with him or not. If he says no, his partner immediately changes his mind.
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* [[Detective Drama]]: Chapter 6 is a spoof of this.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Mario defeats {{spoiler|the demonic Final Boss}} by jumping on it and hitting it with a hammer. ...After {{spoiler|being powered up by the Crystal Stars}}, admittedly.
* [[Dismantled MacGuffin]]: The Crystal Stars are similar to the Star Pieces from ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'', in that Mario needs to collect all seven of them to open the Thousand Year Door. In this case, however, the Crystal Stars have an in-game use, as each one collected enables a new special combat move.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Rawk Hawk goes to great lengths to prevent Mario from fighting him or from advancing. Why? Simply out of revenge for Mario and his partners allegedly calling his champion's belt fake and thus inadvertently implying that he was a bad fighter (and they weren't even talking about the belt itself, but the crystal star on him). Similarly, the Armored Adonis Twins in the same chapter want to beat Mario to a complete pulp, and later attempt to ambush him right after he defeats another group because Mario allegedly talked trash about [[Your Mom|their mom]] (something he didn't even do, but Grubba did while pinning the blame on Mario).
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: Goombella serves pretty much the same purpose as Goombario from [[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]; Bobbery is a [[Spear Counterpart]] for Bombette as well.
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* [[Halloweentown]]: Twilight Town.
* [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose]]: Subtle, but you can only continue by {{spoiler|having your body-switched fake Mario defeat the real Mario}}. Makes sense at the time, when the player doesn't realize {{spoiler|they've been switched}}.
* [[Heavy Sleeper]]: General White is "sleeping like a 'stached baby" when you find him. Expect to see this message a ''lot'' while you're trying to stomp him awake.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Vivian. {{spoiler|TEC and Cortez, as well.}}
* [[Hello, Insert Name Here]]: The player can name the Yoshi partner, which is justified by the Yoshi Kid being a newborn.
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* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Going from Grodus {{spoiler|essentially killing TEC in front of Peach}} to another Bowser sequence.
* [[Mook Bouncer]]: The Boos in Creepy Steeple. If you let too many of them latch on to you, they'll throw you outside.
* [[Mook Medic]]: Or rather, Boss Medic, Kammy acting as this for Bowser when you face him in the Palace of Shadow.
* [[Mr. Exposition]]: Professor Frankly, who fills you in on the places that the Crystal Stars point you towards. And like Goombario in the first game, Goombella's Tattle ability has her fill you in on places you visit, people you talk to, and enemies you fight.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Not to the extent that she is in, say, the ''Strikers'' games or ''Smash Bros'', but Peach ''does'' have to strip naked at one part of the game (while invisible, but still!) and gets a [[Shower Scene]] if you interact with the bathtub in her room. Flurrie is another example for the [[Chubby Chaser]] crowd, since she's a well-endowed [[Big Beautiful Woman]] with [[Jiggle Physics]].
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* [[Sunglasses at Night]]: The Dark Koopas and Shady Koopas (this is actually [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Goombella when she wonders why they wear sunglasses in the depths of a cave).
* [[Surprise Creepy]]: In particular, the final boss is a pretty jarring development in a Mario-branded game.
* [[Supreme Chef]]: [[Punny Name| Zess T]]; bring her the right ingredients and she can cook up some potent recoverey and buff items.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]:
** Several of Mario's party members in this game are functionally identical to the ones in the first game. This is most obvious with party members that are the same species, such as Goombario and Goombella, or Kooper and Koops.
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