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== [[Fridge Brilliance]] ==
* So [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] originally based Bowser's design on an ox, which eventually ended up as a part ox-part turtle. So, a [[Mix-and-Match Critters|creature that's part bovine and part turtle]], in a land where characters can change their size by eating mushrooms. [[Alice in Wonderland
* In ''[[
** And ironically it leads to kind of an endless cycle or paradox or whatever. If we do go in that theory based on the events you justify it with, then the events themselves are justified as {{spoiler|revenge for being kept trapped in the star}}. It's actually kind of funny.
** Why was Baby Luigi crying when the Colbalt Star spirit was talking? {{spoiler|It wasn't really a Star Spirit, it was Elder Princess Shroob! Apparently Baby Luigi could tell somehow!}}
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** Uh ... "no man's land" in wartime is the contested area between two encamped forces. The reason no one wants to go there is because you'll get SHOT.
** I know. It's a spoof because Snowman's Land is one of the hardest levels in the game.
* Let's talk about the original ''[[Super Mario Bros. (
** Maybe because you didn't read the [[Hotel Mario
*** 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 ''[[
** 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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** Notice how Mimi's barrier in the first fight with her is nullified by Merlee's cheering? It's the first demonstration in the game that positive emotions like love can counter the Chaos Heart's powers. Bleck's Chaos-Heart-powered barrier {{spoiler|and later, Dimentio's}} falls the same way once you fight him.
** 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 ''[[
* From the previous game in the series, ''[[Paper Mario:
** 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 ''[[
** There's another minigame in Mario Party 7 that has the players trying to stick their heads out of holes in the ground while moles try to hit them with hammers.
* Early in ''[[
* Sort of a [[Stealth Pun]], but it makes too much sense to just be a joke. Almost all of ''[[
** Mama Mia!
* An example from ''[[
* In [http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/525245-super-mario-bros-3/53955357 this] [[
* For a while, even though he's now my favorite character, I thought the Speedo on Petey Piranha was a pretty silly idea. But then I realized that his first game was ''[[
* Have you ever wondered why you fight giant Bowser after you beat Bowser in most games? This troper found an explanation in ''[[
* Wario's [[Gasshole|Gassholery]] may not be his defining character trait, but it does add a layer of significance to his rivalry with Mario, a plumber.- [[Candy Entrails]].
* ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' (the USA version we got) is notable for being the only main Mario platformer where the [[Goomba Stomp]] proves to no significant effect. The events of the game take place in Sub-Con, a world corrupted by nightmares. Being in a world where Mario's [[Goomba Stomp|trademark attack]] does not hurt enemies makes this more of a nightmare for him, would it not? - [[Mr Yoshbert]]
* In ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' [[
* In both Galaxy games, I've often wondered why Thwomps and Whomps kill you instantly when they didn't in 64. Then, it hit me; They did 3 damage to Mario's 8-part health meter in 64, but in the Galaxy games, you only HAVE 3 units of health. - [[Oath To Oblivion]]
* In most recent games it always seems like Luigi's more eager to announce his name than Mario. It seems a bit egotistical, until you see the fact that Bowser and even Princess Peach can't seem to remember his name. Poor guy. - [[Kashima Kitty]]
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* Wondering about it, this troper finally understood why did Bowser kept a button (or in the old games, an axe) into the room which we fight him (or his kids, or a fake, or whatever) to destroy the room's bridge in the 2D games. He keeps it because if he needs to run, he destroys the bridge and open the back door with the key that he usually carries-on and drops upon death. Why doesn't he makes it after fighting Mario? It must be because he usually is in World 8: there is nowhere else he could run. Mario destroyed all his castles. Or he is just dumb, or won't accept a loss to a plumber with a mustache. - [[Tropers/Victin|Victin]]
Bowser has only ever lost a fight with Mario due to the environment. Mario has never beat him in hand-to-hand combat. It's more likely that he includes the switches on purpose to give Mario an opportunity to beat him because he... wants to lose I guess...
* Going by release dates, the Shy Guys first appeared in Super Mario Bros. 2/USA, which took place in a dream (or some sort of dream world, it's not clear). Of course, the Shy Guys went on to appear in plenty of other titles, which seems to cause a problem when it was [[All Just a Dream]]... except [[
** Then what about Birdo? She debuted in Super Mario Brothers 2 as well!
* In ''[[Super Mario 64]]'', there are 120 stars to collect. When you collect all of them, Bowser laments at the fact that he missed the 15 secret stars. In [[SM 64 DS]], there are 150 stars, 30 of which are secret stars. Once you collect all 150, Bowser again laments at the fact that he missed the secret stars. Therefore Bowser managed to find and steal 120 stars the second time around, just like Mario told him in the original game! Too bad for Bowser that there were even ''more'' stars that he couldn't find!
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** Their dress designs also appear to reflect the time of day: Peach and Daisy=day, Rosalina=night. Guess who either Peach and/or Daisy will look like when asleep...
*** Daisy seems more like sunrise/set to [[Oath To Oblivion|me]]...
* From [[Super Mario Bros. (
** Also, check out {{spoiler|the Tyrannosaurus's}} coloring, just before it {{spoiler|[[Anticlimax Boss|turns into slime]]}}. Yellow muzzle and belly, green elsewhere... it's Bowser's color scheme!
** The Mushroom King is [[Exactly What It Says
** Scapelli is Mario's biggest enemy before he meets Koopa. Scapelli is {{spoiler|turned into an ape. Scapelli is [[Donkey Kong]].}}
** When Mario and Luigi are escaping via police car, they accidentally ramp on top of another car. Meaning their escape is aided by doubling in height.
** As mentioned above in [[Evolutionary Levels]], there are separate settings on the de-evolution ray for physical and intellectual transformation. This means Koopa intentionally let the King retain his intelligence [[And I Must Scream|as a way of tormenting him]]. This [[Hoist
== [[Fridge Horror]] ==
* In ''[[Super Mario Bros. (
** 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'' [[
* According to the theory of special relativity, anyone or anything travelling in space at the speed of light will cause the time around them to move slower than the time outside. If there were two people of the same age, one travelling in space and the other staying on Earth, once the spacefaring person returns from his/her journey, he/she will actually age much slower than the one on Earth, or that the latter would be long dead after the former returns. No wonder why Rosalina's an orphan.
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