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These things about ''[[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]'' are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.
* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: Mario can transform into his 8-bit version in Booster Tower.▼
** More a [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]] for Mario himself than the player, shaking his head as if to snap himself out of it.▼
* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: The remake's announcement was met with a ''ton'' of excitement. Considering that rights issues seemingly kept it off the Switch's SNES online service and Square Enix's history of being stingy with allowing characters from this game to appear in spinoffs, a high-quality remake was the last thing anyone was expecting. Furthermore, Geno's large, ''loud'' fandom who has been clamoring for him to make another appearance for years (particularly in ''Smash Bros'') were overjoyed to see him finally make his return in glorious HD after missing out on joining the cast of ''Smash Ultimate'' alongside many other long-time fan-requested characters.
** The entire sequence with [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|Boomer]] in the return trip to Bowser's Keep. Boomer is some kind of [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|robot samurai]], who challenges your party to a duel in Bowser's throne room as though you were his sworn rival... despite the fact that he'd never even appeared in the game up to that point or even been hinted at. You battle him atop the chandeliers in an homage to the first boss fight in the game, and when you defeat him, he commits suicide by cutting the rope of his chandelier while lamenting his defeat in completely overwrought tones. Following this, the Shyguy holding up your chandelier lugs you up to the top of the Keep while jaunty music plays and your party members dance a jig. The whole sequence comes completely out of nowhere and is never explained or mentioned again.▼
** More minor yet no-less noteworthy is the fact that, while changes to the script ''were'' made to make it more in line with the Japanese original, many witty, snappy bits of dialogue and endearing [[Woolseyism|Woolseyisms]] (particularly Toad's infamous bazooka line) were left untouched.
** A minor one: after hitting a switch in Booster's Tower, a new area opens up in Booster Pass. Here you can fight an apprentice Snifit who wants to join Booster's entourage. After you crush his dreams by beating him in a fight, he's never seen again.▼
* [[Breather Boss]]:
*** Unless you somehow get defeated by him. Then you can see him in Booster's Tower as the 4th Snifit.▼
** [[Dual Boss|The Factory Chief and Gunyolk]], the second-to-last bosses, are a lot easier than the previous four boss fights, especially if you're using Peach and she has the Lazy Shell equipped (but even if you don't, it's a fairly easy fight with Gunyolk possessing only one move worth worrying about (Breaker Beam) and the Chief being a [[Underground Monkey|stronger, recolored Ninja]]). Of course, this is to be expected given that it's the last fight before the final showdown with [[Final Boss|Smithy]].
*** [[Overly Long Gag|If you work at it, you can intentionally lose to even more apprentices in that place after you lose to the first one. You can lose to a total of five of them, and see them all waiting in Booster's Tower. Except the last one, who's discovered Booster only wants seven Snifits.]]▼
** Assuming you tackle them in the order the game recommends (as in, fight each boss that corresponds with the hints Frogfucius gives you), Bundt and Jinx are this for the remake's post-game boss rematches. While Bundt can be nightmarishly tough if you aren't aware of Chef Torte and The Apprentice's [[Weaksauce Weakness]], {{spoiler|having Peach put them to sleep}} means that you can fight Bundt normally and freely heal up the insane amount of damage he deals without having to worry about constantly making sure you can put out the candles that they're constantly lighting up. Jinx, on the other hand, is capable of instantly killing anyone who fails to get perfect timing on their [[Action Commands]], but his lack of [[Total Party Kill]] attacks means that you can easily bring back party members that he KO's, and the fight ends once you fully charge up and use a Triple Move.
** There's also the whole sequence with Bundt, a cake that comes to life for no reason whatsoever and you have to fight it.▼
* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: Some of the wishes on Star Mountain are this. Special note goes to {{spoiler|Luigi}}'s wish. {{spoiler|I wanna be a great plumber like my brother Mario.}}
** Bowser's [[Pet the Dog]] moments in Monstro Town where he meets deserters from his army and wishes them well in their new lives after they apologize for fleeing. Who knew Bowser was a [[Benevolent Boss]]?
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* [[Ending Fatigue]]: In Bowser's Castle, you have to go through 4 long hallways, which consist of either difficult jumping puzzles, a TON of enemies, or normal puzzles. Without saving in between. And of course, it's only the [[Disc One Final Dungeon|next-to-last dungeon]]. Even Bowser is willing to call it quits afterward.
** What's worse is 4 of the 6 doors contain [[Infinity+1 Sword|the ultimate weapons for the majority of the party]], so if you miss any of them, you'll be forced to finish the rest of the castle and then come back and go through the trek of getting to the 6 doors again to try again.
** Nimbus
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: ''Tons.''
** Geno, whose unique design, [[Simple Yet Awesome]] fighting style, and the sheer cool factor of him being a Star-possessed, gun-fighting puppet ensured that he'd be one of the most memorable characters to ever appear in a Mario spinoff, with many fans begging for him to appear in the sports games, Kart games, and even ''Smash Bros''. Interestingly, his calm and collected nature as well as his intriguing backstory involving stars and the cosmos make him feel almost like a [[Super Mario Galaxy|proto-Rosalina]], who is beloved for similar reasons.
*** While it took a while for his popularity to hit its zenith, by the time the remake released, Mallow has easily become as popular as Geno thanks to his expressive animations, [[Adorkable]] personality, character development, and becoming a ''lot'' more useful in battle. While there's definitely tension between certain sects of Mallow and Geno fans, it's not uncommon for people to want them both to appear in more Mario games.
** Boshi, to a lesser extent,
** The Axem Rangers, the Smithy Gang's resident [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] and a hilarious [[Shout Out]] to [[Super Sentai]] and the [[Power Rangers]].
* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Smithy is ruler of another world, uses a hammer as his weapon, can shapeshift, and with the four members of the gang besides Exor (counting the Axem Rangers as on entry) he leads a [[Five-Man Band]] that seek the Star Pieces...could Smithy have been intentionally designed as an [[Evil Counterpart]] to Mario?▼
** Booster, thanks to his weirdly endearing [[Manchild]] persona, hilarious dialogue, and "Wario on crack" design. He's especially beloved on [[4chan]] thanks to many anons both jokingly and legitimately relating to him.
** Jonathan "Johnny" Jones. Why? Because he's a [[Badass]] pirate shark-man, that's why! Him {{spoiler|blocking off Yaridovich's escape and preventing him from stealing your hard-earned star}} just makes him even cooler.
** The Guerilla and Chained Kong enemies enjoy a surprising amount of popularity thanks to the sheer absurdity of their design: literally [[Donkey Kong]] himself decked out in shackles and chains. Many fans jokingly ''and'' seriously speculate as to what their crimes are, with the most frequent answer being {{spoiler|[[Just for Pun|gorilla warfare.]]}}
** "Big Yoshi", the baby Yoshi that turns monstrously fat once you've fed him enough cookies. He isn't a particularly important NPC and his usefulness boils down to luck, but his silly and goofy design has given him a surprisingly big following.
* [[Evil Is Cool]]: Johnny Jones, the [[Badass]] [[Noble Demon]] shark pirate who {{spoiler|comes in the clutch at the climax of the Monstro Town arc}}. The same goes for Culex, whose design is downright ''metal'' {{spoiler|especially in his 3D form in the remake}}.
* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: Valentina. If you can get past her [[Butter Face]], she's a buxom, domineering beauty whose dress shows off her legs, and her in-battle sprite has ''[[Jiggle Physics]] in a Mario game'' (at least in the original release).
▲* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Smithy is ruler of another world, uses a hammer as his weapon, can shapeshift, and with the four members of the gang besides Exor (counting the Axem Rangers as
** Smithy is a blacksmith, Mario is a plumber. And they've both got quite the impressive set of facial hair, with Mario sporting a well-groomed mustache while Smithy's got a crazy Santa beard. Hmm...
* [[Game Breaker]]:
**
*** You can give her the Quartz Charm you receive for beating Culex to significantly raise her stats, as well as making her immune to pretty much every status condition in the book for true Game Breaking ability.
*** Not that she needs it. She hits like a truck with physical attacks, so she can save flower points for her support. And she's reasonably durable without the Lazy Shell. Her physicals are about as good as Mario's, and while she's fairly squishy, Group Hug is broken, so it doesn't matter anyways.
*** Consider
*** The remake gives Peach a new Game-Breaking tool in the form of Healing Rainbow, the Triple Attack used by her, Mallow, and Mario. It's a ''full party heal'' (as in, it restores the health of your inactive party members) that will revive dead allies on top of that, making it a lifesaver in the [[That One Boss|brutal post-game boss rematches.]]
** Geno, plain and simple. His Geno Whirl attack timed hit does 9999 damage each time for a small amount of flower points. No, seriously it does ''that'' much damage when timed correctly, <s>making even the final boss a joke.</s>
*** [[Contractual Boss Immunity|It doesn't work on bosses]], {{spoiler|Except Exor.}}
*** Geno's magic attacks are the most powerful in the game. For a while, Bowser is more useful to the team than him, but by the end of the game the best team to use is by far Mario/
** The Triple Attacks introduced in the remake are powerful, useful [[Limit Break|Limit Breaks]], but Bowser's are definitely the best of the bunch. All of them nuke the entire field for massive damage and are damn-near guaranteed to wipe out a group of enemies, as well as put most bosses on death's door. This is the extent of what the Mario/Peach/Bowser Triple Attack, Starry Shell Spike, does, but the others pair the high damage with amazing effects. The Mario/Mallow/Bowser Triple Attack, Clown Car Barrage, is a triple elemental attack that deals super-effective damage to almost every opponent thanks to how many weaknesses it hits, and Shooting Star Shot, the one used by Mario/Geno/Bowser? ''It gives your entire party stat boosts!''
* [[Ho Yay]]: In Marrymore, when you interrupt Booster's attempt to marry Toadstool, it's possible to end up with Bowser kissing Booster, either of them kissing Mario, or both of them kissing Mario.▼
** The remake has Pure Water, but not for its use in battle. While its "Instant death to the undead" effect still applies to the newly introduced [[Boss in Mook Clothing|Special Enemies]], its ''real'' use comes from selling it. They sell for a whopping 75 coins a pop, and the revamped inventory system allows you to carry 10 at a time and won't get in the way of the important HP and FP-restoring items that you need. Undead enemies frequently drop them, and they start appearing ''very'' early in the game, meaning that you can load up on Pure Waters, sell them off, and proceed to clear out every shop you visit.
▲* [[Ho Yay]]: In Marrymore, when you interrupt Booster's attempt to marry
* [[Hype Backlash]]: Overtime, Geno's been catching flack from people who don't understand the hype behind the character and instead prefer the less-useful, yet more [[Dynamic Character|well-rounded]] and less [[Static Character|static]] Mallow.
* [[Memetic Badass]]: The Axem Rangers. Period.
** Geno, whose mysterious nature and fighting skills have led to many viewing him as Mario's equivalent to [[Star Wars|Boba Fett]].
* [[Narm]]: "THE Big Boo", as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVoXsD5MWjI&fmt=18 this LP] demonstrates.
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▲** The entire sequence with [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|Boomer]] in the return trip to Bowser's Keep. Boomer is some kind of [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|robot samurai]], who challenges your party to a duel in Bowser's throne room as though you were his sworn rival... despite the fact that he'd never even appeared in the game up to that point or even been hinted at. You battle him atop the chandeliers in an homage to the first boss fight in the game, and when you defeat him, he commits suicide by cutting the rope of his chandelier while lamenting his defeat in completely overwrought tones. Following this, the
▲** A minor one: after hitting a switch in Booster's Tower, a new area opens up in Booster Pass. Here you can fight an apprentice Snifit who wants to join Booster's entourage. After you crush his dreams by beating him in a fight, he's never seen again.
▲*** Unless you somehow get defeated by him. Then you can see him in Booster's Tower as the 4th Snifit.
▲*** [[Overly Long Gag|If you work at it, you can intentionally lose to even more apprentices in that place after you lose to the first one. You can lose to a total of five of them, and see them all waiting in Booster's Tower. Except the last one, who's discovered Booster only wants seven Snifits.]]
▲** There's also the whole sequence with Bundt, a cake that comes to life for no reason whatsoever and you have to fight it.
* [[Squick]]: Would eating rotten mushrooms in the middle of a fight induce vomiting or [[Hyperactive Metabolism|healing]], do you think? And how gross do you think the inside of Belome's mouth is, especially after having recently eaten your teammates?
* [[That One Boss]]:
** Bundt; a living cake that can debuff and possibly wipe out your whole party with one magic attack, and regenerates itself.
** Yaridovich can also prove to be quite the challenge with [[That One Attack|Water Blast]] and his ability to clone himself.
***
** The second time you fight him, Belome can create clones of your party members, and
** Bowyer, so much. He has the ability to temporarily shut off your actions, and will keep shutting off your attack ability until you run out of magic points, and continue attacking until your health is extremely low. Only through extreme patience could you defeat him easily.
** The second battle against Croco. After depleting some of his HP, ''he takes all your items away''. Hope you didn't waste all your FP!
** At lower levels, Birdo can be quite frustrating as well, since an unguarded egg will basically KO any party member under level 13, and almost every direct attack will do single digit damage to her...
** Queen Valentina and Dodo also count. They're formidable together, but things get even worse when Dodo takes your middle character to fight one-on-one, and if your lone character loses, the game is over. Considering the fact that Dodo has an attack called Multistrike which pecks you multiple times for huge damage, and that he can take you down with two or three of these attacks, while he has decent health and defense, this becomes a big problem really quickly. While Bowser's often considered a [[Tier-Induced Scrappy]] by many players, his great physical bulk makes him a godsend for this part.
** Barrel Volcano has Those Three Bosses (Czar Dragon, Zombone, and the Axem Rangers) back to back - though you can at least save after the first two if you know what's coming.
** Culex, the [[Final Fantasy]]-styled superboss hidden away in Monstro Town. No real tricks or gimmicks here, you just have to withstand the constant barrage of spells he and his Crystal helpers nuke you with and hope for the best.
** The remake introduces a bunch of these thanks to the newly-added rematches against certain bosses in the post-game. They've got heavily buffed-up stats, gimmicks that are unlike their previous fights, and are prone to instantly killing your party members (or even pulling off [[Total Party Kill|a team wipe!]]) if you aren't careful. And said attacks ignore defensive stats, meaning that you can't just coast by on giving Peach the Lazy Shell and using her as a healbot. Here are a few specific examples...
*** Punchinello, whose insane defenses ensure that your attacks will only deal [[Scratch Damage]] against him. The idea behind his fight is that you have to turn his Bob-Omb minions against him since their explosions are the only things that will actually hurt him, but they come after you in groups of four, and you have to deal a ''lot'' of damage in order to make them target Punchinello instead. While you're trying to hit the damage threshold, you have to survive what basically amounts to a constant barrage of instant-kill attacks if you don't get the timing down for a Perfect Block. And while getting said Perfect Blocks isn't ''too'' bad once you've got the timing down, said timing can be tricky to master since the Bob-Ombs' explosions need to be guarded against sooner than you think, and Punchinello's physical attacks are often delayed to throw you off. And notice how we specify ''physical'': many of his magic attacks ''can't'' be blocked, often hit your entire party, and deal a horrifying amount of damage. Thankfully, Lazy Shell Peach ''can'' easily tank those, so thank goodness for small favors.
*** Booster's rematch is a randomized race against time where you're trying to defeat him before he can whip out his insta-kill train and run your party over with it, before having his Snifster minions finish off the survivors that are tagged in with their powerful magic attacks. How quickly he finishes tinkering with the train varies, and it isn't helped at all by his Snifster minions encouraging him to work faster, meaning that your best course of action is often focus him down and unleash all hell on him while praying that the RNG's feeling nice today.
*** The Bundt rematch is either this, or a [[Breather Boss]] depending on how quickly you catch on to the fact that {{spoiler|Peach's Sleepy Time ability will stop Chef Torte and the Apprentice from lighting his candles}}. If you don't, you'll have to make an intense juggling act out of trying to keep your party members alive and healthy while making sure you snuff out more candles than the invincible chefs can ignite, all while being bombarded with Bundt's powerful party-targeting spells, which he can cast ''twice per turn''. Let all his candles light up, and what follows is him opening a up can of party-killing whoopass in the form of a recolored [[Frickin' Laser Beams|Breaker Beam]].
*** Remember how killing Johnny's minions during his boss fight would lead to him and Mario duking it out in a one-on-one? Well, his rematch ''starts'' as a duel between plumber and pirate, and he throws in a new rule banning the use of items. You can't recover your health, and Johnny's attacks hit hard even ''if'' you block them, meaning that the fight is a pure test of your [[No Sell|perfect-blocking]] skills against an enemy whose attacks all have ''very'' tight Perfect Block windows, and are awkward to block in general.
* [[That One Sidequest]]: Speak to a particular Chow in Monstro Town, and it will tell you how many [[Action Commands|Super Jumps]] you've managed to make in a single use of the technique. What some players never realize is that you can go back and receive an extremely handsome reward if your record hits 30 Super Jumps, and a much, much better one at 100. This requires perfect timing, rock-solid concentration, and lots and lots and lots of practice.
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: It was inevitable that the remake's new localization would fall prey to this the second it became clear that the script was being changed. While a surprising amount of [[Woolseyism|Woolseyisms]] were kept, the beloved [[Memetic Mutation|"Who do you think you are, Bruce Lee?!"]] line wasn't one of them. Likewise, many fans refuse to call Mack and Yaridovich by their new names, Claymorton and Speardovich, on principle, and both the Heavy Troopa and Tub-o-Troopa enemies getting new names that don't poke fun at their fatness was met with eyerolls and accusations of [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]].
* [[Tier-Induced Scrappy]]: Mallow and Bowser, though only in the original game.
** Mallow tries his hardest to be a powerful [[Glass Cannon]] ''and'' [[White Mage]]. He really does! But the poor guy is totally, woefully outclassed in every way possible. While Mallow's moveset only allows for single-target healing, Peach can heal up the entire party at an amazingly low cost ''and'' cure status effects. And in the late middle/endgame, she ''won't'' die the second an enemy sneezes on her, Lazy Shell or not. And as far as damage output goes, while he gets a nice array of elemental attacks that target the entire party, Geno's tend to hit harder on average ''and'' are have easier action commands to pull off. Even Mallow's unique, character exclusive niche of being able to scout out enemy weaknesses won't do him much good since more often than not, he'll reveal a weakness that your party can't capitalize on since (in the original game) you can't swap out your party members.
** Bowser, on the other hand, suffers from his bad magic-alligned stats. While his basic attack hits hard and he's a good physical tank, his magic attacks ''suck'' and are better suited for inflicting status effects rather than dealing damage. Likewise, lots of enemies in the middle/late game start using powerful spells to nuke your party with, meaning that Bowser will often be eating a ton of damage as a result. While later RPG's would often make Bowser a force to be reckoned with as a playable character, that's sadly not the case here.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: The town of Moleville is populated by a race of dark-skinned miners who speak in a familiar dialect...
* [[Villain Decay]]: Bowser shows his softer side when dealing with some of his former minions.
** [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Isn't that just]] [[Pragmatic Villainy|smart?]] There's not much point to keeping a goomba in the army if he wants to stay with the wife and run a mushroom shop, he won't fight very well and he'll wreck everyone else's morale, too. And treating your underlings with at least ''some'' measure of respect is the mark of a good leader.
** [[A Father to His Men|Bowser's troops genuinely respect and adore him. You don't get that kind of love from being a constant beast to your men.]]
* [[Woolseyism]]:
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