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** Maybe because you didn't read the [[Hotel Mario|enclosed]] [[Memetic Mutation|instruction]] [[Read the Freaking Manual|book]], where it's stated.
*** To be fair, there's a great many of us who never got those instruction books, especially if we were born a bit later on and thus started playing NES games secondhand.
* This troper loved the story in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', but two things bugged her about it: it was too wordy, and even though Mario and his friends were the "four heroes of legend", {{spoiler|they weren't the ones who ultimately saved the world.}} Sure, they gathered the eight [[Plot Coupon|Plot Coupons]] needed to destroy the final boss, but thanks to {{spoiler|Dimentio's [[Xanatos Gambit]], that was wasted.}} Then I went back and watched the opening cinematic [[Framing Device]] again, and realized that the game's plot was ''brilliant''. It was introduced by a narrator as a "story of ''love''," so it was really wordy because the whole game was ''a book that was being read'', and Mario and the others ''were not the main characters''. The actual heroes were {{spoiler|Timpani and Blumiere}}, so it made more sense for the fulfillment of ''their'' love to ultimately {{spoiler|restore power to the Pure Hearts so Dimentio and the Chaos Heart can finally be destroyed.}} Some love stories [[
** Also, the Chaos Heart was created by marrying two people who were never meant to be together (Bowser and Peach) in a forced, formal marriage; a perversion of an act of love and commitment. It was destroyed by reuniting two people never meant to be apart ( {{spoiler|Blumiere and Timpani}}) in a spontaneous, heartfelt reciting of vows, the truest expression of love for each other even in the [[Heroic Sacrifice|face of death]]. -[[Tropers/Sweet Madness|Sweet Madness]]
** It used to bug me that Count Bleck would seem to randomly switch from referring to himself in the third person to doing so in the first person. While reading through TV Tropes, however, I noticed someone mention that Bleck's third-person speech could be him reading from the Dark Prognosticus. I remembered then an important plot point: {{spoiler|Blumiere became Count Bleck after reading from the Dark Prognosticus, and it is heavily implied he was possessed by it.}} I realized that {{spoiler|Count Bleck has split personalities! Whenever he refers to himself as Count Bleck, it's the will of the Prognosticus bent on destroying the multi-verse. When referring to himself in the first-person, it's Blumiere who's speaking.}} In fact, {{spoiler|whenever he ends a sentence with something like "...said Count Bleck," it's actually the Prognosticus narrating ''itself'' through him.}} This turned what was a bizarre yet funny [[Verbal Tic]] into a disturbing example of Count Bleck's insanity. -Genji
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** Very minor compared to the other examples here, but at some point in SPM, Mr. L refers to himself as "Green Thunder". On one hand, it's common to see thunder and lightning used in an over-the-top title ([[Jak and Daxter|Orange Lightning]], anyone?), but later, during a playthrough of Superstar Saga it clicked; the hand power Luigi had in SS was ([[Large Ham|rather ham-tastically]]) referred to as "Thunder!". Though the game never really made us wonder "Who ''is'' Mr. L?", it's a nice touch/would-be-clue.
*** Adding onto that, in one of the ''[[Mario Kart]]'' games, Luigi had a kart called the "Green ''Lightning''".
* From the previous game in the series, ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', one of the mook species guarding the X-Nauts' base is called "X-Yux." Using Goombella's "tattle" ability reveals that the name is actually pronounced "Cross Yux." What is the significance of that? Perhaps all of the X's relating to the X-Nauts are actually pronounced "Cross," making the organization the "Cross Nauts." That does include, of course, the [[
** Embarrassingly, the above finally made me realize that the name "X-Nauts" or "cross-naughts" is an [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] related to tic-tac-toe.
* In ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'', there's a Whack-a-Mole like game where you whack Goombas instead. ''The mole is the one running the game.'' It took this troper years to pick up on the joke.-[[Tropers/Ryusui|Ryusui]]
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** They were transformed, yes, but then also mortared together in blocks. Mario is merely separating them. The plot also states that the reason you sometimes find items in blocks is because they're a gift from the people who were stuck together.
*** That, and it was the American plot...for some reason...
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20150710081633/http://andrewdickman.deviantart.com/art/Why-Mario-WHY-304410283 "Why Mario, WHY?" by Andrew Dickman]
* YMMV a little bit: It's already established that Bowser is a wizard. Now, think back to how all of the enemies in the old Super Mario games were dull, rarely changed movement without bumping into something, completely oblivious to Mario (usually). Now, remember Boo and all the skeleton monsters? It makes sense to assume the Bowser is a necromancer (discussed in the Headscratchers page)... the enemies like Goombas are zombies.
* Playing the games, we usually sort of come to assume the Toads are the good guys and the Koopas are evil invaders. Yet the existance of occasional friendly Koopas and Goombas (such as in the RPG games) hints that those races are ''not'' [[Exclusively Evil]]... Ever pondered that the enemies ruthlessly stomped by Mario might be innocents forcibly recruited by Bowser? Adds a dark layer to a light-hearted game, doesnt it?
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