History Recap / GoomzillaE8LuigisQuest

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* DamselInDistress: Taken UpToEleven with Peach, a prisoner not only to Bowser, but to [[HypnotizeTheCaptive her own mind]] as well.

* DamselInDistress: Taken UpToEleven with Peach, a prisoner not only to Bowser, but to [[HypnotizeThePrincess her own mind]] as well.

* HypnotizeThePrincess: When Peach almost rescues Mario with the power she's gotten from him, Bowser opts for this so she won't do that again.

* FamousLastWords:
-->'''Solus:''' No...no...I had the power of Super Mario, and I lost to the lesser brother?! This can't be the end...

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** There's a brief bit in Part 4 where Luigi and Yoshi were asking questions in a game show asking who was the fake Bootler. Before Luigi asks the final question, "who's the most beautiful person you know?", we hear a voice clip of Luigi quietly uttering Mario's name. [[WordOfGod Goomzilla himself admitted in the comments]] that he slipped it in there on purpose.
** Most of the victims of the Diode get cords attached to their...[[AssShove you don't want to know]].

** There's a [[NinjaPirateRobotZombie Spiked Paragoomba]] that's absorbed all of Kamek's magic. He completely disappears from the rest of the story, his new powers difficult to control. Come [[Recap/GoomzillaE10MariosUnexpectedTransformation Mario's Unexpected Transformation]], this Goomba shows to be in perfect control of his powers--and decides to torment Mario a little with them.

* NotUsingTheZWord: An interesting case. Peach has been hypnotized to serve Bowser, but never once do the characters say that she's been "hypnotized," "controlled," "brainwashed," or anything like that. Justified because 1. Few characters speak in Goomzilla's videos and 2. It would kinda give away the surprise. Although the list of game references and Goomzilla's comment replies still mention hypnosis.

-->'''Kamek:''' [[MyGodAreYouSerious Oh, are you serious]]?

-->'''Kamek:''' [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe Oh, are you serious]]?

* GenreSavvy:
** Bowser. When Peach tries to use the power she gained from Mario to rescue him, Bowser sees through this before she can and, to make sure she doesn't try that again, takes her to a hypnotist to make her loyal to him, something most Mario fans feel he should have done a long time ago.
** Koopa also qualifies. He manages to successfully follow Luigi to Rogueport, and would have succeeded in capturing him too had it not been for the trapdoor he fell in. Then, when that doesn't work, he puts a tracking chip onto Captain Toad's back to give Luigi away. And when Yoshi was on his tail, he fights him off until they get to the Diode, where he takes Yoshi's energy.

* GadgeteerGenius: Captain Toad manages to build a ray gun in Luigi's Quest ''on his own''. Considering him and his Brigade built the Starshroom in ''Super Mario Galaxy'', it makes sense.

* KilledOffForReal: Solus, presumably.

* AmbiguousSituation: By the end, Kamek gets himself completely weakened by the Diode, and especially with the Diode being presumably destroyed, this is something that would be quite difficult to recover from. What's the word on Kamek's condition after all this? Nobody knows. [[ShrugOfGod Not even Goomzilla himself]].

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Francis.

* TookALevelInKindness: Lady Bow isn't quite as feisty as she was in ''VideoGame/PaperMario64''.

** There's a reference to ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' during the Francis scene in Part 3, though it may be hard to find.

** There's a reference to ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' during the Francis scene in Part 3.

* PaletteSwap: Before Solus’ accident, his Koopa Troopa plush was the same one used for Koopa, just with hair sticking up.

* AmbiguousSituation: By the end, Kamek gets himself completely weakened by the Diode, and especially with the Diode being presumably destroyed, this is something that would be quite difficult to recover from. His appearance back on his feet in Yoshi and the Lost Egg is technically non-canon, but him still being on Bowser's list of minions in Mario's Unexpected Transformation makes one question things. What's the word on Kamek's condition after all this? Nobody knows. [[ShrugOfGod Not even Goomzilla himself]].