Super Mario (franchise)/Awesome: Difference between revisions

* In a few stages in ''Super Mario Bros. 3'', ''the sun itself'' drops out of the sky and tries to kill you! When you first begin the level, the game fools you into thinking that the sun is just part of the background, then BAM!!! it starts trying to dive bomb you throughout the whole rest of the stage! It reappears near the end of the game, in oddly enough, a level that takes place at night. The best part: if you take an invincibility star into the stage or pick up a Koopa shell you can use it to ''kill the sun'' (which the strategy guide refers to as "forc[ing] an early sunset").

* World 5-3 lets you ride around in Kuribo's Shoe, a giant '''boot''' that prevents you from taking damage from spikes and lets you kill any enemy in the game with a single stomp. Sadly, it only appears in one level, and hasn't appeared in any of the sequels.

This went on for about 10 more minutes as I kept bouncing back and forth on the level screaming nonsense about the damn shoe until the time ran out. We sent a copy to my mom. I heard she cried."|'''[[Seanbaby]]'''}}

** There ''is'' a cameo of it in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]''.

* As a matter of fact, ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' in general is just one big Game of Awesome. There were 8 worlds with a total of 90 levels, 5 special suits (not counting mushrooms and stars), a slew of bonus games, a duel mode (if you're playing with a friend), scores of enemies, and an obscene amount of ridiculously well hidden secrets ''everywhere''. On top of that, this game was on the original, 8-bit NES, before 3-D graphics, memory cards, and FMV cutscenes. It still managed to be amazingly successful, selling over 18 million copies, the most of any non-bundled game ever.

** And with such a long ass game back in the NES days, you might think that the level design might get repetitive and boring, but no: every single level is masterfully made and especially the Army levels in World 8 were truly [[Nintendo Hard]] without ever being unfair. There's a reason why Super Mario Bros 3 is regarded as pretty much the best platformer of all time.

* If you think about it, Mario taking on (and defeating) Bowser's entire military, navy, and air force in World 8 single-handedly is pretty awesome.

 

* Cortez causes a few of them. Not only does he {{spoiler|survive you beating him, and pretty much making fun of you for it}}, but he really brings down the house when {{spoiler|his ship gets repowered, and he busts out of a wall calling Lord Crump a foolish mortal. Then, with the Ghost Ship that crashed anyone who got close to his island, he heads into an epic ship battle with the X-Nauts.}} After him making me feel so screwed several times, he's got a pretty nice exit (or entrance).

* If you bring Vivian when you engage the Shadow Sirens for the last time, she says what many consider to be the best line in the game to her abusive sister Beldam.

 

=== [[Super Paper Mario]] ===

*** {{spoiler|Let's talk about the whole punching scene. Bowser punches him '' '''FOUR''' '' times, then, charges up...and '''[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|FALCON PUNCHES]]''' Dark Bowser. Possibly because of the epicness of the moment (it's actually ''slowed down''), the clone EXPLODES. No joke.}}

** Then there's the moment that happens just before that. Bowser is at a platform on top of Peach's castle, facing {{spoiler|his [[Evil Counterpart|Eviler Counterpart]], who's really the Mushroom Kingdom's closest analogy to [[Satan]], with the souls and/or bodies of everyone in the Mushroom Kingdom besides the Mario Bros., Starlow, and Peach swirling around him in a hurricane that threatens to destroy the entire kingdom, if not the entire world. His reaction to being told it is hopeless, and that the kingdom will soon vanish?}} Something very close to, if not exactly what, follows:

*** And it's all accentuated by the fact that Bowser himself receives one of the best Final Boss songs in the Mario games.

* The ''entire game'' is basically one long [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]] for Bowser. Even when he ''picks up [[Idiot Ball|Idiot Balls]]'', he manages to make it either [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|awesome]] or [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|hilarious]].