History VideoGame / MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime

* DarkerAndEdgier: Just compare this game to the [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga first]]. You've seen the AndIMustScream trope in the list, above, right? [[ItGotWorse It gets worse]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: ''Tons'',[[spoiler:The captured toads are never rescued, Yoob is literally left hanging, Junior Shrooboid just vanishes, Toadiko and Toadbert are never seen returning to the present, and the remaining Shroob forces are not accounted for.]] The last two, however, are addressed in the sequel. [[spoiler:Toadbert at least made it back, and The Koopa-Troop slaughtered the shroob army and froze the survivors.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: ''Tons'',[[spoiler:The captured toads are never rescued, Yoob is literally left hanging, Junior Shrooboid just vanishes, Toadiko and Toadbert are never seen returning to the present, and the remaining Shroob forces are not accounted for. The last two, however, are addressed in the sequel. Toadbert at least made it back, and The Koopa-Troop slaughtered the shroob army and froze the survivors.]]

* ButtMonkey: Luigi, as usual.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: ''Tons'', The captured toads are never rescued, Yoob is literally left hanging, Junior Shrooboid just vanishes, Toadiko and Toadbert are never seen returning to the present, and the remaining Shroob forces are not accounted for.]] The last two, however, are adressed in the sequel.

** [[spoiler: They get healed during the dissolving of most of the remaining Shroobs]]
* BackFromTheDead: Interestingly, Fawful returns in this game as a shopkeeper despite apparently dying in Superstar Saga.
** Who said he was dead? He was just thrown out of Bowser's Castle... thousands of feet in the air...

** [[spoiler: Which makes you [[FridgeLogic wonder]] why they and her sister didn't do anything when she split into six.]]
** [[spoiler: Actually, the Shroobs spend the entire game trying to stop the Mario Bros. from reassembling the Colbalt Star. It seems they weren't big fans of the Elder Princess Shroob.]]

* EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion: The Shroobs. [[spoiler:Turns out that baby tears dissolve them]].

* PostClimaxConfrontation: [[spoiler: When Mario, Luigi, and the babies return to the present after defeating both Shroob Princesses along with the rest of the Shroobs, what's left of the Elder Princess Shroob possesses Bowser for one last battle.]]
** Which happens to be quite an [[AnticlimaxBoss anti-climax]].

* TimeyWimeyBall: It's probably best not to analyze this at all, as the time travel doesn't even try to make sense.
** Considering the series made little sense, anyway.....
** I thought they just traveled back and forth, between 2 different time periods, like [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]?
** There's a great timey-wimey scene that combines MeanwhileInTheFuture with RippleEffectProofMemory -- The Bros give younger Professor E. Gadd a EurekaMoment, and we cut to older Professor Gadd, who is ''having the idea at the same time, and is aware that it's because his memory is changing''.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:In the ending, when the Shroobs and their creations are eradicated, we don't see what (if anything) happens to Yoob. (We also don't see Toadbert or Toadiko returning to the present, but since Toadbert appears looking the same in [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory the next game]], it's likely that Toadiko made it back as well.)]]

* FridgeLogic: In ''Partners In Time'', apparently Mario was content to let the Shroobs destroy the past world as long as Peach is safe. Also, why would the old Toadsworth not recognize the young Toadworth, since he himself should've been able to remember that, as he was like an adult then?

* TheFaceless: Princess Shroob's face is not actually seen up until the point you enter the Koopaseum.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Plenty.

* ClimaxBoss: The fight against Bowser and Baby Bowser.

The game changes a few game mechanics from the first one, and teams the brothers up with their time-travelling baby selves (who otherwise appeared in the ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' games) using [[TimeyWimeyBall hilariously bad time travel "logic"]]. Princess Peach travels to the past and is [[DistressedDamsel promptly kidnapped]] when the Mushroom Kingdom of the past is invaded by the alien Shroobs. Our Heroes go into the past to find her and have to collect the [[PlotCoupon crystal shards]] that formed the Cobalt Star that was used to power the time machine in the first place while teaming up with their infant selves as well. Other than that, it's still pretty much the same game with witty dialogue and funny animations and some limited usage of the DS's features. The move-sets were altered to give each pair (bros and babies) unique items and moves, such as only the babies using hammers, and the Bros. moves in battle have been replaced by Bros. items instead.

*** inverse: when you first arrive in the past, the first area has a bouncy, lively rendition of the original Mario theme, but then you get to HolliJolli village, in a similar state to Toad Town with an equally depressing track; a sad version of "Jingle Bells".

The game changes a few game mechanics from the first one, and teams the brothers up with their time-travelling baby selves (who otherwise appeared in the ''[[VideoGame/YoshisIsland Yoshi's Island]]'' games) using [[TimeyWimeyBall hilariously bad time travel "logic"]]. Princess Peach travels to the past and is [[DistressedDamsel promptly kidnapped]] when the Mushroom Kingdom of the past is invaded by the alien Shroobs. Our Heroes go into the past to find her and have to collect the [[PlotCoupon crystal shards]] that formed the Cobalt Star that was used to power the time machine in the first place while teaming up with their infant selves as well. Other than that, it's still pretty much the same game with witty dialogue and funny animations and some limited usage of the DS's features. The move-sets were altered to give each pair (bros and babies) unique items and moves, such as only the babies using hammers, and the Bros. moves in battle have been replaced by Bros. items instead.

* TimeTravel: The plot is half this and half {{Alien Invasion}}.

** I thought they just traveled back and forth, between 2 different time periods, like OcarinaOfTime?

* ThisIsSPARTA: Fawful. I WILL! HAVE! FURY!

* Foreshadowing: Plenty.

** There's a good degree of [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened To The Vim Factory]] as well. Technically, Mario and Luigi only killed a bunch of security guard monsters, looted items and money, and [[spoiler:destroyed [[RidiculousFuelInflation Swiggler]], the monster that provided Shroob flying saucers with fuel ]]. But they didn't blow up the place or even free any of the innocent Toads that were getting their life energy slowly sucked out by evil trees to be converted into Shroob ship fuel]]! The Shroobs could easily bio-engineer another [[spoiler: Swiggler]] and get the factory up and running again!

* WombLevel: Yoob's stomach.

** Technically [[spoiler: they get healed during the dissolving of most of the remaining Shroobs]]

** Then, technically, he didn't die. He was thrown out the window in the last game.