History VideoGame / MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga

* DiscOneFinalBoss: Cackletta, and she has somewhat nasty attacks to boot too.
* DiscOneFinalDungeon: [=HooHoo=] Hooniversity houses the fight with [[DiscOneFinalBoss Cackletta]] stated above.

* TheComputerisaCheatingBastard: One Toad in Little Fungitown is playing an arcade game like this.

* ButtMonkey / ChewToy: Poor [[spoiler:Bowser]]. Let's see, during this game, he [[spoiler: gets [[CurbStompBattle curbstomped]] by Fawful, gets stuck in a cannon, gets fired out of it, hits his head so hard he loses his memory, works as Poffle's lackey for some time as "Rookie", finally regains his memory only to fall who-knows-how-far from the Beanstar, gets possessed by Cackletta, gets his castle blown up, gets beaten up by the Mario Brothers, then finally gets blown up ''with'' the castle and hits the screen, and is then dragged home by the plane and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking it's implied he got a cold]]. He's not gonna try to kidnap Peach for ''a while''.]]

* FridgeBrilliance: Why is an obscene amount of Mushroom Kingdom coins worth so little Beanbean coins? In the usual Mario games that take place in the Mushroom Kingdom, coins are very abundant and it would be very easy to rack up several thousands. Not so much in the Beanbean Kingdom.

* GlobalCurrencyException: That 100 coins you got at the beginning of the game turn out to be Mushroom Coins, and is worth 10 Beanbean Coins. (doesn't matter, as you have to surrender it immediately.) And later, when you get an impossibly high amount of Coins, it turns out to be Mushroom coins, and is worth... 99 coins. [[FridgeLogic But how could the exchange rate fluctuate so fast?]]

*** Wait, if you account that in the exchange rate, [[FridgeLogic Tolstar would have asked for more...]]

* ButtMonkey / ChewToy: Poor [[spoiler:Bowser]]. Let's see, during this game, he [[spoiler: gets [[CurbStompBattle curbstomped]] by Fawful, gets stuck in a cannon, gets fired out of it, hits his head so hard he loses his memory, finally regains it only to fall who-knows-how-far from the beanstar, gets possessed by Cackletta, gets his castle blown up, gets beaten up by the Mario Brothers, then finally gets blown up ''with'' the castle and hits the screen, and is then dragged home by the plane and it's implied he got a cold. He's not gonna try to kidnap Peach for ''awhile''.]]

* BishieSparkle: When Prince Peasley flips his hair, [[UpToEleven the entire screen sparkles]].

* BishieSparkle: When Prince Peasley flips his hair, the entire screen sparkles.

The dialogue is sparklingly witty and self-aware. There's TheDragon Fawful, for example, the baddie who talks in [[IntentionalEngrishForFunny deliberate Engrish]] in the localization. And the endless commentary on Luigi's second-fiddle status. Also, the audio ends up SpeakingSimlish pretty convincingly.

* DummiedOut: There exists dialogue in the game code for several different characters giving you the different accessories from [[ItemCrafting mixing bean juice]]: [[VideoGame/WarioLand Wario]] for the Greed Wallet, [[{{Metroid}} Samus Aran]] for the Power Grip, [[LegendOfZelda Link]] for the Great Force, [[VideoGame/StarFox Fox McCloud]] for the Bonus Ring, [[{{Pikmin}} Captain Olimar]] (who speaks in boxless dialogue) for the Cobalt Necktie, and the racer from [[{{Excite}} Excitebike]] for the Excite Spring. [[VideoGame/LuigisMansion Professor E. Gadd]] would only show up to deliver the Game Boy Horror.

** The Chuckola Bounce minigame features monsters that spit rocks at you called [[TheLegendOfZelda Chuckoroks]].

* ZeroEffortBoss: Bowser, as the tutorial. He does one point of damage to you (you have 11), and is automatically defeated when he is damaged on the sixth turn. Your only battle command is to attack him and hence damage him, so it's impossible to ''lose'' this fight.

* YourMoneyIsNoGoodHere: That 100 coins you got at the beginning of the game turn out to be Mushroom Coins, and is worth 10 Beanbean Coins. (doesn't matter, as you have to surrender it immediately.) And later, when you get an impossibly high amount of Coins, it turns out to be Mushroom coins, and is worth... 99 coins. [[FridgeLogic But how could the exchange rate fluctuate so fast?]]
** Didn't Peasley say something regarding the Mushroom Kingdom plunging into some sort of panic over the loss of their princess?
** Tolstar probably just lied to you because he's a greedy bastard.
*** Wait, if you account that in the exchange rate, [[FridgeLogic Tolstar would have asked for more...]]
** The only logical, foolproof explaination is: The RuleOfFunny.

* LetsPlay: In progress, by [=MyNameIsKaz=] and Medibot, using a Gamecube/Game Boy Advance Player in a mildly convoluted setup to allow Kaz to control Mario and Medibot, Luigi.

* XanatosGambit: And how. Most allied [=NPCs=] were chessmasters at one point or another, with instances including (but not limited to) swapping Luigi and Peach to have him infiltrate the Koopa Cruiser and completely anticipating Cackletta's fake gift and kidnapping of the princess (and on a sidenote, knowing that the guards would be useless), countering the plan by swapping out her and Birdo, of all things, before the opening cutscene, and nobody knew what was going on until halfway through the game.
** Cackletta also manipulated crazy situations, such as making you fix the plumbing to cancel the castle security system. (... In hindsight, that makes even less sense.) By the end, you wouldn't have been surprised if the XanatosGambit set up by the heroes was really just the villains in disguise.

The dialogue is sparklingly witty and self-aware. There's TheDragon Fawful, for example, the baddie who talks in [[ZeroWingrish deliberate Engrish]] in the localization. And the endless commentary on Luigi's second-fiddle status. Also, the audio ends up SpeakingSimlish pretty convincingly.

* ZeroWingrish (pretty much everything Fawful says)
** Which is also a {{Woolseyism}}. In the original Japanese version, he [[VerbalTic adds "rururururu" to the end of his sentences]].

* FridgeBrillance: Why is an obscene amount of Mushroom Kingdom coins worth so little Beanbean coins? In the usual Mario games that take place in the Mushroom Kingdom, coins are very abundant and it would be very easy to rack up several thousands. Not so much in the Beanbean Kingdom.

** Tolstar probably just lied to you because he's a greedy jerkface.

** Tolstar probably just lied to you because he's a greedy bastard.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: [[ThatOneLevel Joke's End]] to many players. The statues found in Joke's End depict great suffering, with hands placed over their ears and tears streaming down their cheeks. It's almost like the place is the hell of the Beanbean Kingdom. [[FridgeLogic And it is. The theme of the Beanbean Kingdom is laughter, and Joke's End is the final resting place for cruddy jokes. The miserable-looking statues covering their ears may be meant to represent just how horrible a bad joke can be to the people of Beanbean.]]

* AttackItWeakPoint: Trunkle's tree on its head, as using several bros attacks on it can take it out before it is able to divide.

* ReviveKillsZombie: Use Chopper Bros. on that tree on Trunkle's forehead! Boom, ThatOneBoss is history.

* AdiposeRex: Queen Bean