History Fridge / SuperMarioBros

* Some Mario enemies and bosses have bandages signifying weak points (Whomps and the Hisstocrats, for example). This isn't just a simple way of marking it- they're weak points because you're ''hitting them where it already hurts''. You're essentially taking advantage of existing injuries and making them much worse.

** Second, she's Mario's ex. In her debut game, she was his LoveInterest, but that's clearly changed ([[AmiableExes at least there's no hard feelings over it]]). She still gets invitations to major planned events, but it'd be probably be a little awkward if she spent more casual time around Mario or Peach outside these events.

* So Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto originally based Bowser's design on an ox, which eventually ended up as a part ox-part turtle. So, a [[MixandMatchCritters creature that's part bovine and part turtle]], in a land where characters can change their size by eating mushrooms. [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Where have we heard that before?]]

* Why does Kamek and Toadette have an OddFriendship going on? Well, if you've paid close enough attention to VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker, you might have came to realize that Toadette isn't the most... [[CorruptCorporateExecutive heedful boss in the world]]. In fact, many of the Toads [[BadBoss resent her for her business tactics and the ways that she treats them]].

* Why does Kamek and Toadette have an OddFriendship going on? Well, if you've paid close enough attention to VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker, you might have come to realize that Toadette isn't the most... [[CorruptCorporateExecutive heedful boss in the world]]. In fact, many of the Toads [[BadBoss resent her for her business tactics and the way that she treats them]].

* Why do Kamek and Toadette's have an OddFriendship? Well, if you've paid close enough attention to VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker, you might have come to realize that Toadette isn't the most... [[CorruptCorporateExecutive heedful boss in the world]]. In fact, many of the Toads [[BadBoss resent her for her business tactics and the way that she treats them]].

* From [[Film/SuperMarioBros the film]]: Toad's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWJy7_lJs0o song]] tells us that in Dinohattan, cars run on electricity because fossil fuels are sacred. But then, how is electricity generated in the first place? Well, since water is a scarce commodity in Dinohattan, not through hydropower. And not through thermal or nuclear power either, because they involve boiling water and using steam to move turbines. What remains? Geothermal? Possibly. But there is one cheap, disposable, renewable resource that dictators have no remorse to exploit. [[SlaveMooks Manpower]]. Considering Koopa's attitude, electricity in Dinohattan could very well be generated by workers whose job is to use their own muscular force to move the turbines all day. Probably, had such a scene been shot with the naive vision of the 1990s, the workers would have been slaves or prisoners. But the modern cynical attitude would suggest a much more horrific alternative: a Dinohattan with a skyrocketing unemployment rate and Koopa's promise of new jobs, which he implements as gulag-like labor camps, where people are forced to produce electricity for the city and are paid a pittance, faced with the only alternative to get no money at all.

* Why is a ''plumber'', of all trades, not only [[Super Strength fit]] [[SuperSpeed enough]] to [[OneManArmy take on Bowser's entire military]] and [[ZombieNinjaPirateRobot the turtle dragon wizard himself]], with only the aid of [[PowerUp assorted foodstuffs, plants, and shinies]]? And where does he learn to do things like [[InASingleBound leap multiple times his body height]], [[EverythingsBetterWithSpinning spin like a top while he jumps]], or [[DropTheHammer wield a hammer so well]]? We finally get an answer when the Mario Bros. travel to [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga the Beanbean Kingdom]]: Assuming plumbing jobs in the Mushroom Kingdom are anything like they are in the Beanbean Kingdom, the sewers get so nasty that you ''need'' those traits. Hell, if we count [[VideoGame/MarioBros New York City]], he's [[WaxOnWaxOff been training to rescue Peach all his life]]!

* Why do Kamek and Toadette's have an OddFriendship? Well, if you've payed close enough attention to VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker, you might have come to realise that Toadette isn't the most... [[CorruptCorporateExecutive heedful boss in the world]]. In fact, many of the Toads [[BadBoss resent her for her business tactics and the way that she treats them]].

* May also be FridgeHorror depending on one's viewpoint, but recall how in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'', the Boos all had [[https://www.mariowiki.com/images/thumb/e/e9/Booshine.jpeg/180px-Booshine.jpeg dopey-looking expressions]] that we don't see anywhere else in the series. Remember that throughout the series, Boos are consistently shown to prefer [[BigBoosHaunt dark, dank places]], and ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', explicitly shows them to be WeakenedByTheLight. Now consider that Super Mario Sunshine is set on a [[PalmTreePanic tropical island]], and it's no wonder they look so out of it; the poor things must be suffering from ''heatstroke''.

* Why do Kamek and Toadette's have an OddFriendship? Well, if you've payed close enough attention to VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker, you might have come to realise that Toadette isn't the most... [[CorruptCorporateExecutive heedful boss in the world]]. In fact, many of the Toads [[BadBoss resent her for business practices and the way that she treats them]].

* Why do Kamek and Toadette's have an OddFriendship? Well, if you've payed close enough attention to VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker, you might have come to realise that Toadette isn't the most... [[CorruptCorporateExecutive heedful boss in the world]]. In fact, many of the Toads [[BadBoss resent her for business practices and the way that she treats them]].

* Why do Kamek and Toadette's have an OddFriendship? Well, if you've payed close enough attention to VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker, you might have come to realize that Toadette isn't the... [[CorruptCorporateExecutive most reasonable eperson in the world]].

* Ever wondered why Mario and his friends are always willing to have a round of GoKartingWithBowser? Because, [[WordOfGod if Miyamoto's words are anything to go by]], all of the cast are actors playing their parts. Ergo, what better way to unwind after a long day of work by letting loose and having some fun with racing and sports?

* ''Super Mario Bros 2'' is the first game where Princess Toadstool/Peach is playable, and she's able to defeat as many enemies as Mario is able to. Later on you find out that it's AllJustADream. This dream could have taken place at any time, including after all the countless adventures that Mario's had, saving Peach over and over and over... the fact that Peach is able to fight is a manifestation of Mario's subconscious desire that he is far too polite to ever voice that Peach be able to finally take care of herself instead of him having to save her all the time. Or it's a subconscious desire to have her fight by his side as a teammate, knowing he'll be able to better keep the girl he cares about safe if they stick together. Note how happy he is when she joins the team in VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG.

* In ''Super Mario 64'', Snowman's Land's name is a spoof on "no man's land!" Which makes sense because no man's land is usually a war term describing a dangerous place that nobody wants to occupy, and that level is one of the hardest in the game.

* From [[Film/SuperMarioBros the film]]: When Koopa is walking, you might notice that he keeps his hands at chest level, curling them. This is likely because it's a minor evolutionary holdover as Koopa descended from ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' who were known to have relatively small arms kept close to their bodies. He is momentarily de-evolved into a Tyrannosaurus in the climax.
** Also, check out the Tyrannosaurus's coloring, just before it turns into slime. Yellow muzzle and belly, green elsewhere... it's Bowser's color scheme!
** The Mushroom King is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin!
** Scapelli is Mario's biggest enemy before he meets Koopa. Scapelli is turned into an ape. Scapelli is Franchise/DonkeyKong. Another thing Scapelli and Donkey Kong have in common? They both sabotaged a construction site in progress...
** 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 EvolutionaryLevels, there are separate settings on the de-evolution ray for physical and intellectual transformation. This means Koopa intentionally let the King retain his intelligence [[AndIMustScream as a way of tormenting him]]. This [[HoistByHisOwnPetard comes back to bite him]] when the King intentionally chokes the city and helps the Mario Bros.

* From [[Film/SuperMarioBros the film]]: When Koopa is walking, you might notice that he keeps his hands at chest level, curling them. This is likely because it's a minor evolutionary holdover as Koopa descended from ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' who were known to have relatively small arms kept close to their bodies. [[spoiler:He is momentarily de-evolved into a Tyrannosaurus in the climax]].
** Also, check out [[spoiler:the Tyrannosaurus's]] coloring, just before it [[spoiler:[[AntiClimaxBoss turns into slime]]]]. Yellow muzzle and belly, green elsewhere... it's Bowser's color scheme!

** Scapelli is Mario's biggest enemy before he meets Koopa. Scapelli is [[spoiler:turned into an ape. Scapelli is Franchise/DonkeyKong.]]
*** Another thing Scapelli and Donkey Kong have in common? They both sabotaged some structure in progress...

* From [[Film/SuperMarioBros the film]]: Toad's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWJy7_lJs0o song]] tells us that in Dinohattan, cars run on electricity because fossil fuel is sacred. But then, how is electricity generated in the first place? Well, since water is a scarce commodity in Dinohattan, not through hydropower. And not through thermal or nuclear power either, because they involve boiling water and using steam to move turbines. What remains? Geothermal? Possibly. But there is one cheap, disposable, renewable resource that dictators have no remorse to exploit. [[SlaveMooks Manpower]]. Considering Koopa's attitude, electricity in Dinohattan could very well be generated by workers whose job is to use their own muscular force to move the turbines all day. Probably, had such a scene been shot with the naive vision of the 1990s, the workers would have been slaves or prisoners. But the modern cynical attitude would suggest a much more horrific alternative: a Dinohattan with a skyrocketing unemployment rate and Koopa's promise of new jobs, which he implements as gulag-like labor camps, where people are forced to produce electricity for the city and are paid a pittance, faced with the only alternative to get no money at all.
** According to WordOfGod, confirmed by [[http://www.smbmovie.com/SMBArchive/specials/editorials/ecology-lindsayb.html concept art]], electricity in Dinohattan comes from the meteorite's geomagnetic energy. The meteorite chamber was supposed to be a wide, deep underground abyss, with tunnels at the two extremities, connected by a bridge high above the chasm and with a huge machine above the bridge to collect the energy. The only reason it did not look like that in the final movie was budget, which led to SpecialEffectsFailure.

* From [[Film/SuperMarioBros the film]]: When Koopa is walking, you might notice that he keeps his hands at chest level, curling his hands. [[spoiler:He is transformed into a Tyrannosaurus later]].