Super Paper Mario: Difference between revisions

* [[Battle Royale With Cheese]]: Towards the end.

* [[Beware the Silly Ones]]: Francis can be deadly if you don't take him seriously as a boss because of his character. But you just ''know'' you can't take him seriously.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: See Rebbi's example under [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

* [[Big Good]]: Merlon.

** O'Chunks, or rather, [[Hypno Trinket|O'Cabbage]] qualifies.

* [[Butterfly of Death and Rebirth]]: {{spoiler|When Timpani almost dies from being doomed to wander all the dimensions forever, she gets transformed by Merlon into the butterfly-shaped Pixl we all know and love}}.

** You can also vehemently refuse to wear a helmet in space, resulting in another [[Nonstandard Game Over]].

** And also if you refuse to look for Nimbi when Jaydes asks.

* [[Drop the Hammer]]: The Pixl Cudge.

* [[Duel Boss]]: In Chapter 3, there's Mario vs. Bowser. Chapter 8 brings us Bowser vs. O'Chunks, Peach vs. Mimi, and Luigi vs. Dimentio, all followed with both opponents suffering [[Disney Death]]s.

* [[Emergency Transformation]]: {{spoiler|Tippi, who had to be turned into a Pixl by Merlon}}.

* [[Enigmatic Minion]]: Dimentio.

** [[The Smart Guy]]: Tippi.

** [[The Chick]]: Peach.

* [[Genre Blind]]: When Toad mentions at the beginning that Peach is kidnapped, Luigi ponders who would do such a thing before deducing it must be Bowser. At this point in the series history, it shouldn't take more than 1/64th of a second to figure that out. Of course, it doesn't help it's also one of the few times it's not him.

* [[Global Currency Exception]]: 1 million ''rubees'' to pay for the vase.

** He's got a reason to be happy, though, as he's {{spoiler|[[Taking You With Me|taking the whole multiverse with him]].}}

* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: "DOOFUSES!" from Mimi; it makes sense, though, as she's [[Psychopathic Manchild|intentionally meant to be childish]].

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Most of the main villains, including Count Bleck, team up to help you stop Dimentio.}}

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]/[[The Power of Love]]: {{spoiler|Done by Count Bleck and Tippi to destroy the Chaos Heart}}.

* [[Hollywood Chameleon]]: Francis.

* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: Francis again.

* [[Hub Level]]: Flipside and Flopside.

* [[Humanity Ensues]]: {{spoiler|Nastasia is probably a transformed bat}}.

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: The Brobots.

* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Listing all the punny names, events, and other innuendos in this game could take up an entire article on its own.

* [[Hypnotize the Princess]]: Peach in the beginning of the game, to make her cooperate with being married to Bowser.

* [[I Can't Use These Things Together]]: Bowser, when he attempts to climb ladders.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: It's more or less at the core of the game's humor.

* [[Last of His Kind]]: {{spoiler|Squirps}}.

* [[Leap of Faith]]: Occasionally appears.

* [[Leitmotif]]:

* [[Nostalgia Level]]: A room in chapter 3-1 is identical to level 1-2 from the original ''Super Mario Bros'', complete with warp zone.

* [[Not Me This Time]]: Peach is kidnapped at the beginning. Immediately, Mario and Luigi go to Bowser's castle to rescue her. However, it turns out that Bowser was in the middle of a rallying speech in preparation for invading Peach's castle and did not actually ''do'' anything yet.

* [[Number of the Beast]]: Well, sort of referenced. They used 667 instead of 666 for one of Dorguy's questions referencing the unlucky numbers.

{{quote| "Shayde B buys 667 pens for [[Thirteen Is Unlucky|13]] coins and buys [[One Hundred Eight|108]] notebooks for [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|42]] coins each.}}

* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: Your partners are the lady who's typically your [[Damsel in Distress]], the giant monster who's typically your arch-nemesis, and your typical sidekick, who bears a [[Paper-Thin Disguise|striking resemblance]] to one of the [[Big Bad]]'s minions. And you have about a dozen [[Fairy Companion|Fairy Companions]], all of whom have their own eccentricities from thinking a princess in a pink dress is worth lots of girth to constantly singing in a French accent.

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Mimi gives on to Peach. [[Unstoppable Rage|Big mistake.]]

* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: {{spoiler|Tiptron for Tippi, despite a mild identity crisis on whether she really is Tippi or was created by Francis. Trust me, you will ''want'' to buy Tiptron -- still heartbreaking to see the circles at the ends of her antennae, though}}.

* [[Retraux]]: The Bitlands.

* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: Nolrem, the Flopside counterpart of Merlon.

* [[Secret Diary]]: Dimentio quotes Mimi's and asks if she was dreaming about "pools of gems and hunky pool boys." Mimi turns into Bowser as she yells at Dimentio for reading her diary, in a [[Continuity Nod]] to the first [[Paper Mario]].

* [[Sequel Escalation]]: The previous game merely involved [[Saving the World]]; this game has you traveling across dimensions to save the ''multiverse''.

* [[Serious Business]]: It's implied left and right that Francis lost friends over arguments about their favorite shows.

* [[Shipper On Deck]]: Luvbi spends at least half of her screentime speculating about relationships between the characters.

** This is arguably an example of [[Fridge Brilliance]], since Luvbi is {{spoiler|actually one of the Pure Hearts and would thus be made completely out of love, so it is absolutely logical and perhaps even expected for her to be interested in the love affairs of others.}}

** Just about every Sammer Guy's name is a reference to something in the series. Some highlights: Hill With Eyes, [[Super Mario Bros 3 (Video Game)|Shoe of]] [[Blind Idiot Translation|Kuribo]], [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle|Another Castle]], [[Power-Up Letdown|Useless Badge]], [[Super Mario Sunshine (Video Game)|Sunshine Flood]], [[Warp Whistle|Mystical Whistle]], [[Action Commands|Action Commander]], Warping Pipe, [[Good Bad Bugs|The Negative One]], [[Unwinnable By Mistake|Over The Flagpole]], [[Mario and Luigi (Video Game)|Mustard of Doom]], [[Infinite One Ups|Infinite Jump]], [[Secret Level|Alternate Path]], [[Pop Quiz|Quizmo Question That Has No Answer]], and [[Final Boss|End Boss]].

** Let's not forget that Francis has a [[Ace Attorney|Pink Princess poster]].

*** Afterwards you can find a woman in his place waiting for him. She figures out he's gone and cries "Bring back my Whackaaaaaa". As if you needed to feel even worse.

** And if you talk to him in between the whacks leading up, he apparently becomes [[Sanity Slippage|more and more incoherent and confused.]] So not only do you kill him, but you give him brain damage leading up to it as well.

** Do you know what? You don't even NEED to whack Whacka at all in Super Paper Mario. Do you know why? Because you can buy Whacka Bumps in the Flipside Arcade.

*** Makes you wonder where the Arcade gets those Bumps...

* [[Wedding Day]]: The game opens with Peach being forcibly wed to Bowser. Amusingly, he insists on referring to himself as her husband for the rest of the game, and even <s>sort of</s> ''acts'' like it, lending credence to the theory that he's in love with her.

** When Bowser {{spoiler|sacrifices himself in Count Bleck's castle}}, Peach ''turns around to look at him one more time before she goes''. It [[Star-Crossed Lovers|may not]] just be Bowser.

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: Chapter 7 is full of it, such as the forbidden apple that brings trouble when eaten, the chapter boss being {{spoiler|a former Nimbi who was exiled to the Underwhere}}, the Nimbis' battle with the Skellobits, and the fact that {{spoiler|the daughter of a seemingly deistic figure sacrifices herself to save the universe}}.

** In Sammer's Kingdom, you might notice lycoris flowers growing along the path. In legends, they're often believed to grow when people who meet shall never see each other again. Pretty epic foreshadowing for {{spoiler|[[The End of the World As We Know It]]}}.