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A Powerup Mount is sort of like a powerup item plus [[Mon]]. It is an animal ([[Ridiculously Cute Critter|usually adorable]]) that the main character can ride on. Riding on a powerup mount usually does one or more of the following:
* Grants another hit point in the case of a [[One
* Gives the player an alternate means of travel. Faster running, flight, gliding, digging, climbing, riding on lava, and swimming are all typical examples.
* Gives the player a new means of attack related to the steed: long tongue for lizards, fire for dragons, [[Boxing Kangaroo|boxing gloves for kangaroos]], and so on.
Will overlap with [[Horse of a Different Color]].
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* Yoshi in ''[[Super Mario World (Video Game)|Super Mario World]]'', ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'', ''[[New Super Mario Bros Wii]]'', and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]''.
** ''[[Yoshis Island]]'' is the inverse of this: you play as Yoshi himself and his friends, as they carry baby Mario on their backs.<ref>Except in a few levels where baby Mario flies around</ref> The creators also thoughtfully included a [[Powerup Mount]] ''for'' Yoshi, in the form of a large dog named Poochy. The dog could carry you across spikes and lava and things, but had a fairly steep learning curve for controlling it.
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* Louie the Rabbit, and then later the other [[Mons|Charaboms]] (especially Pommy) from the ''[[Bomberman (Video Game)|Bomberman]]'' series.
** In some games, there were several different colors of Louies that provided different abilities. ''Super Bomberman 4'' on the Super Famicom also let you ride certain enemy characters once you'd defeated them.
** ''Saturn Bomberman'' exchanges the [[Kangaroos Represent Australia|Louies]] for [[
* The many animal buddies from the ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' series that are acquired by breaking crates.
* Various buddies such as seahorse, anglerfish and bunny in ''[[The Legendary Starfy]]'' series.
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** This feature shows up later in the ''[[Super Star Wars]]'' version for the SNES.
* In ''[[Oddworld|Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee]]'', Abe can ride a creature named Elum in certain areas. They cut him out of the sequel because he caused so much lag.
* In the arcade game ''Gunsmoke'', one of the powerups is a donkey, which you ride. It definitely increased the number of hits you could take [[One
* [[Rayman]] gets to ride a mosquito a couple of times in his self-titled game. First you have to [[Defeat Means Friendship|defeat it]], then you get to use it all throughout a few levels.
** And the second game has the Walking Shells, essentially missiles with legs that chase after the player on sight and can be ridden to advance through the level.
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