History Headscratchers / SuperMarioRPG

** [[HiddenDepths Maybe he was secretly really invested in Mallow's quest to meet his parents and wanted to see it through?]]

** [[HiddenDepths Maybe he was secretly really invested in Mallow’s quest to meet his parents again?]]

** [[Hidden Depths Maybe he was secretly really invested in Mallow’s quest to meet his parents again?]]

* This really only applies to the remake, but the Clown Car Barrage Triple Move utilizes Bowser's Koopa Clown Car. If Bowser has access to his Clown Car, why not ride it over to his keep long before reaching Nimbus Land? Sure, it would've been cumbersome to transport all of Bowser's minions to the keep before their numbers started to dwindle, but by the time he joins up with Mario, it couldn't have required more than two trips to get the whole party across.

** It's also possible that Booster has heard of Mario's reputation, but doesn't know what he looks like. As far as he knows, the toys are just cool dolls that he picked up somewhere (presumably from the same company that Gaz frequents). Perhaps the dolls come in packaging that vaguely describes who they're based on ("Now ''you'' can save the Princess just like Mario!"), so Booster assumes they're simply characters and not real people.

** The long, overly complicated: Some people are just not very good at mentally linking concepts together, even when to others it seems like a no-brainer. This troper isn't exactly sure how to best explain it, but imagine that a young child is a really big fan of WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures , but didn't realize that Creator/JackieChan [[EskimosArentReal is a real person]]. If he had seen Jackie Chan in person or heard someone say the name "Jackie", he'd probably just write it off as merely a coincidence.

** It's also possible that Booster has heard of Mario's reputation, but doesn't know what he looks like. As far as he knows, the toys are just cool dolls that he picked up somewhere (presumably from the same company that Gaz frequents). Perhaps the dolls come in packaging that vaguely describes who they're based on ("Now ''you'' can save the Princess just like Mario!"), so Booster assumes they're simply characters and not real people.
* Regarding the legal issues involving Square (Enix), this game's original characters like Geno and Mallow, and the ContinuityLockOut - let's assume that it's true that Square owns those characters and Nintendo can't use them without permission (because otherwise, how could Disney make a Franchise/KingdomHearts game for mobile phones without any involvement from Square, but Nintendo can't have the same treatment?). This troper believes that the reason for this is for Square to use those characters as a bargaining chip whenever they want to do something with Nintendo (because otherwise, what could they possibly want with characters that probably wouldn't fit anywhere ''outside'' of a Mario game?). So then why haven't these characters appeared in any other SE + Nintendo collaboration, such as VideoGame/MarioSportsMix or VideoGame/FortuneStreet ?
** My guess is that the fanbase for this game just isn't large enough. It was apparently the ''Majora's Mask'' or ''Shantae'' of the SNES -- a game that came out on the cusp of a newser console's release, which led to it being heavily overshadowed. And the two games you've listed already feature very recognizable and marketable ''Super Mario RPG'' characters. I doubt that many people who haven't bought them already are going to do so just because two of the more obscure ones are in them.