History YMMV / SuperMarioGalaxy

* CameraScrew: Mostly averted. The camera is mostly designed to give you the most convenient view when you're on a linear path. The screwing mostly happens when you're in an area that requires exploration.

* NauseaFuel: With the gravity and camera angles (you often appear sideways or upside-down), it can get a bit disorienting.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the storybook, what happened to [[spoiler:the girl's father and brother]]?

* ExcusePlot: The main plot is as simple as most ''Mario'' stories, but the extensive backstory to Rosalina given in the storybook isn't.

* FollowTheLeader: Since ''Galaxy'' first came out, there has been a large influx of gravity-based flash games across the internet.

** If you do two games, one with Mario and one with Luigi, Luigi actually gets more stars than Mario. In the main quest, Luigi finds 3 stars to help Mario, bringing the total stars Mario finds down to 118, not counting all the stars the Toad Brigade found. In Luigi's quest, you play as Luigi and have ''another'' Luigi shows up, thus bringing the total stars Luigi finds in that game to 121, add that with the total from the last quest, and Luigi's grand star total is 124 to Mario's 118.

* NightmareFuel: ADMIT IT, you were scared when [[spoiler: the universe was destroyed.]] If you understood the GainaxEnding quickly enough for the repercussions to take you by surprise, that is. Also, YMMV anyway.

** Rolling the Star Ball in the The Rolling Greens Galaxy, the last part of Mission 2 for Melty Molten Galaxy, and Rolling Gizmo Galaxy. Even [[{{Waggle}} a slight tip in the wrong direction of the Wii Remote]] has a chance of resulting in complete and utter failure.

** [[spoiler:Also, turning into what may or may not be a PhysicalGod at the end certainly helps.]]

* VillainDecay: Inverted; Bowser is ''much'' more threatening here than most other points in the series. Especially compared to ''SuperMarioSunshine''.

* FridgeLogic: See [[Headscratchers/SuperMarioGalaxy here]]

** [[spoiler: Don't forget when the Lumas sacrifice themselves to stop the black hole!]]

** Strangely enough, one of the most irritating bosses isn't even named. The Mole Gunner in the Toy Time Galaxy can be incredibly frustrating, especially since defeating requires use of the Spring Mushroom.

* VillainDecay: Inverted, Bowser is ''much'' more threatening here than most other points in the series. Especially compared to ''SuperMarioSunshine''.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the storybook, what happened to [[spoiler: the girl's father and brother]]?

* FridgeLogic: See [[JustBugsMe/SuperMarioGalaxy here]]

* [[{{Main/{{ptitlecphpgf78}} What Happened To The Mouse]]: In the storybook, what happened to [[spoiler: the girl's father and brother]]?

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: The flying powerup, an exhilarating ride through outer space set to epic music... which you can only use in the hub world.

** '''[[NintendoHard Bubble Blast Galaxy]]'''. Just Bubble Blast Galaxy.

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: The flying powerup, an exhilarating ride through outer space set to epic orchestrated music... which you can only use in the hub world.

* ThatOneBoss: Beating Bouldergeist the first time is relatively easy. Beating him again with ''one hit point'' for the Daredevil Comet star achieves controller-breaking levels of frustration.

* ThatOneLevel: Some of the Purple Coin missions, and especially ''Luigi's Purple Coins''

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: The flying powerup, an exhilarating ride through outer space set to epic [[strike:orchestrated]] music... which you can only use in the hub world.

** The lumas' cycle of gorging themselves, and then committing suicide by exploding into a new celestial object. They are eventually being reborn somehow, but these guys are happy that they are exploding.

* FridgeLogic: When a Hungry Luma turns into a galaxy or a planet, it's new, and Mario should always be the first one on it, so how the hell do people like the Toads get the power star before Mario? And how have penguins supposedly been living there for years when you just caused the galaxy to be formed?
** How did Bowser, [[spoiler:after getting thrown into the hollow sun around the planetoid where he is last fought (which I assume to be the titular Galaxy reactor), end up on the smaller lava planet? And whether or not you can explain that, why did that world implode into the black hole when the hollow sun is so much larger, and had the Grand Star removed from it (which was being used for ''something'')?]]
** How the hell did Guppy get from Sea Slide to the bottom of the underground lake in Deep Dark Galaxy?
*** Perhaps he's actually a SpaceWhale?
** You're getting rid of the trash in the ammo depot by blowing it up. [[SarcasmMode Because it's not like there would be debris or anything.]]
*** And if you don't destroy all the trash in 30 seconds, all of it magically re-appears!
*** Actually, when you think about it, it wouldn't leave debris, or at least nearly as much. It's ammo, it'd probably explode with the bomb. However, the debris from ammunition would likely be shrapnel, which is infamous for being deadly. So blowing up ammo dump just to clean it up would still be a HUGE mistake.
*** Another shining question: ''Why the hell is the mission timed in the first place?'' There's no real explanation for why there's a strict 30 second timer on the mission. In fact, all that's ever said about is is when you fail the mission, when the robot chastises you and says "No, no, no! You gotta do it faster!"
** As mentioned below, if you talk to a Gearmo after failing to get all the purple coins in the Battlerock and Dreadnought Galaxies, you instantly die. ''Why does that happen?'' Did the Gearmo kill you? And if so, '''''why?'''''
*** Because the game knows that the only way you're leaving the stage at that point is to die. You can't go back for the coins you missed, so the Gearmo acts as a way to put you out of your misery without having to jump into a pit.
** And they never do explain where Peach gets so damn many 1-Up mushrooms and how Bowser is stupid enough to let her send them to Mario. Or even how she knows where to send them.
** In [[TearJerker the storybook]], how exactly did a little girl and a Luma build [[spoiler: The Comet Observatory]] by themselves? It's mentioned that some furniture is buried within the comet of ice that they landed on, but how much, and how did they get it out?

* [[{{Main/{{ptitlecphpgf78}} What Happened To The Mouse]]: In the storybook, what happened to [[spoiler: the girl's father and brother]]?
* VillainDecay: Inverted, Bowser is ''much'' more threatening here than most other points in the series. Especially compared to ''SuperMarioSunshine''.

* [[{{Main/ptitlecphpgf78}} What Happened To The Mouse]]: In the storybook, what happened to [[spoiler: the girl's father and brother]]?

** That gigantic jellyfish you first see ''above your head'' while trying to swim up and around it.

* FridgeBrilliance: To anyone who may question where the mansion in Ghostly Galaxy came from, the answer ''does'' come from thinking about it. The simplest answer is that the Boos found in the level made the mansion like they created LuigisMansion.

** '''ANY''' of the Cosmic Luigi races. Sure, Cosmic Mario's easy enough to beat, since he basically just follows the beaten path, but Cosmic Luigi spams [[{{Speedrun}} speedrunning]] tactics like rapid long-jumping and taking extremely obscure shortcuts. Needless to say, if you can beat Cosmic Luigi, consider yourself a master of whatever level you're playing.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The Gusty Garden and Battlerock themes, among many others.

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: The flying powerup, an exhilarating ride through outer space set to epic orchestrated music... which you can only use in the hub world.