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1[[quoteright:256:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/asmt_6420.png]]
2->''"Hey there LetsPlay/{{Raocow}}, this is everyone!"''
3
4''A Super Mario Thing'' is an aptly named [[GameMod ROM Hack]] of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' by Talkhaus, the community surrounding [[LetsPlay Let's Player]] LetsPlay/{{Raocow}}. Originally made as a "tribute" to his hack-related efforts, it's a game that follows his, at times, Surrealistic commentary to a T, even more so if one doesn't know about the plethora of insider jokes with which the community could not help but fill the game. It was started and originally managed by Kristian, and later taken up in the management department by [=YoshiCookieZeus=].
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6The game stars Demo Roseclair[[note]]and, if you choose Player 2, her slightly purpler PaletteSwap, Iris[[/note]], an [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot armless cycloptic demon alien minion]], which pretty much summarizes the nature of the game. During an attempt to purchase vegetables for her anonymous master, [[TeleporterAccident something goes wrong]] and she is sent to what appears to be the Mushroom Kingdom of the future- a BadFuture where Mario is nowhere to be seen and the world is ruled by the tyrannical [[BigBad King Charles IV]], ruler of the Charlies (Chargin' Chucks). After falling right into (or as it were, onto) a deep-seated political conflict about food and meeting up with the Yoshi resistance, Demo sets out to murder the king, who resides deep within a volcano beyond a great veil of NintendoHard platforming, item puzzles, silly ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' {{shout out}}s and other assorted obstacles.
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8You can find the game as an .ips patch on ROM Hack archive [[http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=10088 SMWCentral]].
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10A sequel, ''A Second Mario Thing'' (''[=A2MT=]''), was stuck in DevelopmentHell for a while before being officially discontinued on January 25th, 2014, but that didn't stop raocow from playing it anyway. However, in August 28, 2016, it was announced that [[http://talkhaus.raocow.com/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=16886 the game was finally complete]], so it was SavedFromDevelopmentHell.
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12Finally, in March 2013, Talkhaus released a prequel on the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosX'' engine: ''A Super Mario Bros. X Thing: Prelude to the Stupid'', which throws in even more raocow-fan-bonuses, up to and including raocow himself being a playable character. The plot finds Demo and her sister Iris in the Castle of Absolutely No Significance, where they plan to stock up on vegetables. Meanwhile, Kood[[note]]the EnsembleDarkhorse star of another ''Super Mario World'' hack, ''Drama Mistery''[[/note]] is infiltrating the same castle for unknown reasons, Sheath[[note]]the protagonist of raocow's webcomic, ''Webcomic/ArtificialTimeXS''[[/note]] sort of falls into their reality, and [[LetsPlay/{{Raocow}} a certain wacky Let's Player]] finds himself surrounded by his own creations...
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14The sequel to ''that'' game, ''[=A2MBXT=]''[[note]]Or, [[SequelEscalation because of the sheer scale of work involved in its production compared to the last installment]], ''[=A2MBXT=] [[EpisodicGame Episode 1]]: Analog Funk''[[/note]], was released in August 2014. Demo and Iris, having completed their excursion through the Castle of Absolutely No Significance, return to their mothership to find that someone had broken in and stolen all the Super Leeks powering it. Not long after the cycloptic sisters are sent back to investigate, Kood teleports to them in time to warn them about someone creating a generator of dimensional portals using the stolen leeks--threatening to rip apart the multiverse in the process. It is now up to the three of them (and Sheath and LetsPlay/{{Raocow}}) to journey across the dimensions to recover the Super Leeks and "save the everything" at all costs. But there is something more sinister afoot than before...
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16A spinoff game called ''A VideoGame/ZeldaClassic Thing'' is also [[http://talkhaus.raocow.com/viewforum.php?f=34 being made]]. Demo also originally starred in a duo of PlatformHell ROM hacks, ''What the Hell?'' and ''What the Hell? 2'', by raocow himself. One of [=A2XT=]'s plot writers has stated they take place before the rest of the series, and they occasionally receive callbacks and references in the ASMT series proper, but they are mostly unconnected otherwise. Both cyclops sisters are playable in ''Superb Demo Sisters'', a mostly unrelated ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''-type [=SMBX=] game also made by the Talkhaus.
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18See [[Characters/{{Raocow}} raocow's characters page]] for ASMT's character sheets.
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20!!Tropes that apply to ''A Super Mario Thing'':
21* AccidentalMisnaming:
22** For some reason, Demo, Kood, and Iris call [[Webcomic/ArtificialTimeXS Feed]] "Stephen".
23** The Siblings can't tell that the green-shelled guy insisting that he's not Iris actually isn't Iris.
24** The [=A2XT=] credits keep referring to Iris as "Green Demo".
25* AccidentalMurder: raocow inadvertently kills [[spoiler:Mario]].
26* ActionGirl: Demo, Iris, and Sheath.
27* AddedAlliterativeAppeal:
28** Present in the ending of the first game, as seen in raocow's LP:
29--->'''???:''' We have been awaiting the voluminous vegetal victuals, minion. We are so pleased you have finally returned.
30** Also appears in a level in ''[=A2XT=]'':
31--->'''Toad in the Leek Pillar Sanctuary:''' Man, a multitude of men whose monikers mostly 'mence with M! More members, ''merci''!
32* AdvancingBossOfDoom: King Charles
33** [[spoiler:The Universe]], overlapping with the following trope. Honestly, it would fit better in the latter trope's section if it wasn't [[OneWingedAngel the fifth stage of the boss fight.]]
34* AdvancingWallOfDoom:
35** Pressure Point
36** ''Ascend'' uses Rising Lava Of Doom.
37* AfterBossRecovery: TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon has 2 mushrooms after each of the pre-boss bosses.
38* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: In one of the prequel's postgame levels you play as [[spoiler: [[Franchise/TouhouProject Tewi]]]].
39* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Vehemently defied in ''Edge of the Universe''. Cue boss fight.
40* AntiClimaxBoss: {{Invoked|Trope}}. Black Plague, the true final boss, is deliberately incredibly easy. According to raocow himself, who designed that battle as a joke, what little difficulty involved was supposed to come from the time limit. The timer in that room is disabled.
41* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:Damn near a Class Z]].
42* ArcWords: [=ASMT=] and its variants show up in a fair number of levels.
43* ArmlessBiped: Demo, Iris, and a good number of enemies. Arms are not appreciated in the Mushroom Kingdom of the future.
44** [=A2MT=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8ROyO5oJ1k&feature=youtu.be will apparently feature]] more of whatever Demo and Iris are ([[DevelopmentHell or would have, at least]]).
45*** They're demons, apparently. Mishi from the linked vid is incidentally part goat.
46* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "CAUTION! Dimensional rifts ahead! Excessive warping is known to cause muscular atrophy, insanity, death, and itchy scalp. Beware!"
47* BackForTheFinale: In ASMBXT, [[spoiler:raocow is the one to defeat the final boss.]] Well, actually it's [[spoiler:Demo in a [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman Raoican suit]]]]. On that note, [[spoiler:the final boss itself]] as well.
48* TheBackwardsR: Present at the very end of the End of World 4 Cutscene in [=A2XT=]. Or rather, the ЕИБ ОГ йОЯЛБ (Yeib og Shoyalb) 4 Cutscene.[[labelnote:But to be fair...]]the game does get the Cyrillic symbol for the "l" sound right.[[/labelnote]]
49* BadFuture:
50** The game takes place in the Mushroom Kingdom many years after the disappearance of all the familiar characters, with Mario missing, King Charles taking Bowser's place as BigBad, and the Yoshis living as refugees.
51** Happens again in the prequel in a certain level that takes place in the Mushroom Kingdom, wherein you have to fight your way through Bowser's army. Dying in this level replaces it with a decidedly more... ''bleak'' version where the Mushroom Kingdom is a lava and soot-covered wasteland. Don't worry though, beating the BadFuture version restores the level to its original state.
52* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Most of Demo and Iris's siblings look considerably less humanoid than they do, and they're antagonists (and varying degrees of mentally unstable, ranging from the mere delusions of grandeur possessed by Garish to the downright AxCrazy Pandamona). Calleoca, on the other hand, looks very similar to them and serves as a helpful NPC [[spoiler:at least until World 8, where she is finally fought...and it still applies since she's the only one of the siblings to turn into something else for her fight, rather than the familiar form she's been using all game. Pily, on the other hand, looks even ''more'' like a PaletteSwap of Demo than Calleoca does, and proves to be BrainwashedAndCrazy rather than an actual antagonist.]]
53* BeeBeeGun: One fortress level has cannons that launch bees.
54* BeePeople: Acting as minions for a snail. Yeah.
55* BerserkButton: Did you ever try stealing a 1-up from Demo? [[spoiler:Tewi]] did [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jiGt79eGEnY#t=67s once]].
56* BilingualBonus: TĂȘte D'Feu is (Quebecer) French for "Head of Fire"
57* BittersweetEnding: ''[=A2XT=]'' Episode 1; [[spoiler:Reality is destroyed, but at least there's hope that Sheath can undo the entire thing]].
58* BookEnds:
59** At the end of the intro cutscene after you warp to the Mushroom Kingdom, you end up landing on a Charlie's head. [[spoiler:At the beginning of the final stage of the King Charles fight, you end up landing on his head.]]
60** ''[=A2XT=]'' Ep.1 World 4 begins with ''Demo Roseclaire and the Militarists'', and the final stage is called ''Johnson [=McCain=] and the Communists''.
61* BootstrappedTheme: The Lullaby, a small little song raocow improvised on the spot while playing one of the (bgm-less) endgame levels in [=ASMT=], can be heard in several levels in the subsequent games in the series. It was even planned as the final boss theme in [=A2MT=], and [[spoiler:Science gets a wonderful remix for his first two battles in [=A2XT=]]].
62* BottomlessPitRescueService: The credits.
63* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Pily]]
64* BrickJoke:
65** The final boss of ASMBXT [[spoiler: is the Key Boss from ''Mario Gives Up''.]] For context, [[spoiler:people nagged raocow for a ''long'' while to defeat said key boss, and his response was [[TrollingCreator spliced out of order in a confusing manner]]]].
66** The legendarily hilarious boss [[spoiler:Black Plague]] joins in both ASMT and [=A2MBXT=], several years after his first (and only, outside of this series) appearance.
67* BrutalBonusLevel:
68** [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace murder death place zone]]. Given its [[LetsPlay/{{Raocow}} creator]], this doubles as yet another [[HoistByHisOwnPetard petard hoist]].
69** Zebraspace in ''[=A2XT=]''. The intro level says that it's a place where you can practice dying.
70* BuildLikeAnEgyptian: Ancient Tomb from ASMBXT.
71* BullfightBoss: King Charles.
72** And a regular Charlie in the prequel.
73* BulletHell:
74** Fittingly, [[spoiler:[[Franchise/TouhouProject Rumia and Yukari]]]] are about as close to Bullet Hell as SMW can get.
75** ''Panic in the Outhouse'' is filled with Bullet and Banzai Bills, making it, effectively, a bullet hell stage in its own right. Notably, there are a bunch of coins that spell HELL.
76** ''The Everyday Life of a Ladder'' in ASMBXT, too.
77** As is ''Castle on the Moonlit Hill'', from ASMBXT. It contains everything from shell-throwing Blue Goopas to Bullet Bills to Podaboos, and even has a forced [[VideoGame/CatPlanet Little Angel Girl]] segment to better simulate the movement type from ''Franchise/TouhouProject''--which, unsurprisingly, provides the stage's BGM (Retribution for the Eternal Night, to be specific).
78** ''Curtain Tortoise'' is a [[GratuitousJapanese Kamemaku]] level, of course.
79** The final battle against [[spoiler:Science]] in [=A2MBXT=], complete with a ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' theme replacing [[spoiler:the Lullaby]] which had been used for all previous fights.
80* CallBack:
81-->''(at the beginning of the game)''\
82'''Demo:''' Oh dear. This certainly isn't a grocery store. What to do?\
83''(later, at the beginning of the bonus world)''\
84'''Demo:''' Oh dear. These certainly are not my master's quarters. What to do?
85* TheCameo: Very frequently throughout the series. Characters from ''Touhou'', games raocow's played, Mario and Nintendo in general, ''Webcomic/ArtificialTimeXS'' characters, users who helped contribute to the game, and many, many others show up to make brief appearances, and sometimes [[AscendedExtra not so brief appearances]].
86* ChainOfDeals: Necessary to obtain the Mantreopolis leek.
87* CheatCode: The prequel has a password hidden in every world in the HubLevel. They can be used to unlock cheat codes that can spawn items, [[{{Undercrank}} speed up the game]], or activate [[GodMode the classic]].
88* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Trial of Chaos.
89** Trial of Chaos got heavily toned down and is much more playable in the public release thanks to all the interface screws being removed.
90* ConvectionSchmonvection:
91** The big standout in this hack is level Overly Hot Beach. It's a beach... with lava at the bottom instead of water! Also, Boss Bass is in the lava, apparently a reference to Cheep Cheeps being able to survive in lava in VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3 and VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine.
92** Semi-averted in [=A2MT=]'s Smouldering Stones. While you're still not hurt for being near the lava, it does heat up the ''ground'', so you have to keep jumping frequently or else it'll burn you.
93* CoolStarship: [=A2MT=] takes place aboard Demo and Iris's mothership, which contains a number of different biomes, buildings, and more. As you may expect, some of the areas are pretty wacky. Due to the game being incomplete, though, this being the location for the game is only brought up twice in two separate stages via message boxes.
94* CouchGag: The entrance to the HubLevel in the prequel.
95* CreditsGag:
96** Immediately after "In-House Porting" comes "[[ToiletHumor Out-House]] Porting"
97** There are also voice acting credits, despite there being no voice acting. These range from known voice actors to raocow's cat and a rubber duck.
98** There's also a caterer, procrastinators, and USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS HACK.
99** ''[=A2XT=]'' has some humorous music credits. The sound of wind is credited to Nature, and even the ''lack'' of music is credited. For example, the first instance is credited to Music/JohnCage.
100* CrosshairAware: [[spoiler:Yukari Yakumo.]]
101* CutAndPasteEnvironments
102* CuteKitten: The fishcats.
103* {{Cyberspace}}: Midway through King Charles's castle.
104* DamselInDistress: Inverted by the princesses of ''[[MemeticMutation Another Castle]]'', who have taken Bowser prisoner.
105* DeathCourse: Trial of Iron
106* DefeatEqualsFriendship: [[spoiler:Pily]].
107* DirtyCommunists: The communinjis are friendly enough, but Dr. Lakituvitch is the Boss of ''[=A2XT=]'' World 4.
108* DudeMagnet: [[spoiler:Con and King Charles both fall for Demo. So does Kood in the prequel.]]
109* DungeonBypass:
110** Some parts of levels are skippable if you have a cape.
111** One glaring example is in Trial of Iron, which has a door at the beginning which takes you straight to the final boss.
112* EasyAmnesia: Kood in [=A2XT=], by way of [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope not being the same Kood who was playable in the previous game]]]].
113* ElaborateUndergroundBase: King Charles' castle takes place in a volcano, and is rather large.
114* EldritchLocation:
115** The inside of [[spoiler:the Fleshlord]].
116** [[spoiler:Zebraspace]] turns out to be this as well.
117* EvilOverlord: King Charles, in a sense. He reigns over nearly everything.
118* ExpositionBreak: [[DefiedTrope Yes, Kood, nobody else cares about what is going on, and nobody wants to listen to your exposition.]]
119** At the end of World 6 in [=A2XT=], Pily offers a 5-minute-long plot dump. [[spoiler:Everybody leaves. [[ExpositionFairy Except for Kood]]. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And Sheath]], [[RunningGag who was also there]].]]
120* {{Expy}}: The robotic Thwomp King Charles's pilots in his boss fight is clearly inspired by [[VideoGame/CaveStory the Heavy Press]].
121* FakeTrap:
122** [[spoiler:"the hardest lvl"]] is a parody of Kaizo hacks. That said, not everything in that level is a fake trap. As LetsPlay/PinkKittyRose [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFw93Ylcbu8 points out]], the rule seems to be that anything nigh-impossible is fake, but anything reasonably doable is real.
123** ''Spin! Pierce the Heavens!'' has an invisible block + spike pit trap. [[spoiler:Falling into it teleports you right to the leek.]]
124* FakeDifficulty: Trial of Chaos.
125* FantasticFruitsAndVegetables: [[StealthPun Serve]] as the SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for the generic Mario power-ups:
126** [[IGotBigger Mushrooms]] are replaced with Beets. 1-Up Beets are a green PaletteSwap.
127** [[PlayingWithFire Fire Flowers]] are potted Cacti. [[ShownTheirWork Yes, the general consensus is that edible cacti are vegetables.]]
128** [[NotQuiteFlight Feathers/Leaves]] are... well, still leaves, but it's a Spinach leaf instead of a stock leaf. The transformations differ between characters in ASMBXT: Demo gets the classic Mario cape, while Iris gets the traditional raccoon ears and tail.
129** [[NotQuiteFlight Tanooki]] [[ElementalShapeshifter Suits]] are replaced by Onions. Using this turns Demo into a CuteWitch with a FlyingBroomstick, while it turns Iris into a BedsheetGhost that can turn transparent like a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Boo]].
130** Hammer Suits are Gourds. Demo's transformation with this is by far the weirdest of any power-up in the game, becoming a ''[[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext barrel that throws out fish]]''.
131** [[InvincibilityPowerUp Stars]] are Leeks. They play the [[MemeticMutation Leekspin Song]] when you grab them. They're only seen as the LevelGoal in ''ASMBXT''.
132* FantasticRacism: ''[[MythologyGag Dodge the Beefsteak]]'' in the prequel has blue goopas killing red goopas for probably this reason.
133%%* FinalBossNewDimension
134* FissionMailed:
135** OAME GVER.
136** The ''Plains of [[MeaningfulName Ulysses]] [[{{Troll}} Mad]]'' is all about this.
137* ForegoneVictory: The credits; you can get hurt, but you cannot die.
138* {{Foreshadowing}}:
139** The introductory level of World 4 in [=A2XT=] features statues of several Goopas [[spoiler:and Garish]]. [[spoiler:In the cutscene after the last level, Garish shows up in the flesh, leading his army of Grey Goopas]]. Additionally, his alias [[spoiler:Johnson [=McCain=]]] is mentioned a few times beforehand, especially in the final level of the world.
140** The music in Science's lair is a slowed-down version of ''[[Franchise/TouhouProject Legendary Illusion ~ Infinite Being]]''. [[spoiler:His final boss fight is a straight up BulletHell fight]].
141* GameMod: ''ASMT'' is, of course, a VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld GameMod. ''ASMBXT'' modded quite a few assets of the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosX'' engine, and an extension module was created for ''[=A2MBXT=]'' in order to extend the engine's functionality even further.
142* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Parodied with Black Plague.
143* GimmickLevel: The later in the game you get, the more of these you see.
144* GottaCatchEmAll: The Parrot Coins in [=A2MT=]. Given that [[DevelopmentHell it's impossible to play every level in any given version of the game]], [[UnintentionallyUnwinnable it's impossible to do this without cheating]].
145* GratuitousGerman: [[VideoGame/{{Rosenkreuzstilette}} Spiritia]] is guilty of this when you find her in ''[=A2XT=]'''s level Farina Station.
146* GravityScrew: One sublevel of King Charles' Castle.
147%%* GreenHillZone: Easy Peasy: Planet of the Cheezy
148%%* GraffitiTown: Mantreol
149* GustyGlade: Currents.
150* HailfirePeaks:
151** "Below the Ice" contains ice blocks in lava caves... somehow.
152** The area in King Charles's castle with tides of lava AND water.
153** ''Elemental Confusion'''s first half is an underwater LethalLavaLand. The second half adds [[SlippySlideyIceWorld frozen platforms]] for good measure.
154* TheHeroDies: ''[[spoiler:Everybody]]'' dies at the end of [=A2XT=] Episode 1. [[spoiler:Except for Sheath]].
155* HeyYou: Done literally to Demo in [=A2XT=]. Iris, [[TheUnfavourite ironically enough]], gets addressed by her name.
156* HypocriticalHumor: Catnip calls Demo and Iris out for eating a Toad whole in ''[=A2XT=]'''s Fun Fungus Function...despite being the stand-in for a particular stupid horse that does essentially the same thing all the time.
157* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: Murder death place zone.
158* IfICantHaveYou: King Charles when he realizes Demo's affections towards Con.
159* InNameOnly: One would expect a boss-level named ''"In Flandre's Skies"'' to feature a ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' boss, right? Well, wrong, the boss is actually [[spoiler:Garish and his army of cyclops goopas]].
160* IKnowMaddenKombat: Charlies (Chargin' Chucks).
161* InSeriesNickname: "Samuel, or raocow, as we like to call him."
162* InterfaceScrew: Trial of Chaos; Beware the Physics.
163* InvisibleAnatomy: Demo and Iris have no arms, despite the fact they can lift shells and such just like Mario would normally. Fixed in the prequel; apparently they are ''very'' good at balancing something on one leg while managing to move around normally with the other.
164* ItMakesSenseInContext: As raocow mentions after finding a bunch of easter eggs, the non-fans playing the games will have a lot of trouble understanding all the references.
165* KaizoTrap:
166** You are told to press L via coins at the goal of Overly Hot Beach. If you don't, a Boss Bass eats you during the victory sequence.
167** ''Red Koopa's Red Sparkling Death'' is filled with exit-spheres that cause Demo to walk into BottomlessPits.
168* KingMook: King Charles the Fourth and Master Snailington.
169* KnightOfCerebus: The moment that [[spoiler:Garish and the other siblings]] show up, ''[=A2XT=]'' goes from a MacGuffin hunt to having something resembling a serious plot.
170* LadderPhysics: With vines and fences, and without arms.
171* LaserGuidedKarma: The ''Revenge of a Much Abused Horse'' is all about this.
172%%* LethalLavaLand:
173%%** King Charles' Castle, in parts.
174%%** LethalLavaLand: Anti-Nirvana
175%%* LevelInTheClouds: A whole world of them!
176* LooseCanon:
177** The postgame of Analog Funk logically can't happen given [[spoiler:the ending]], so it's non-canon, but it does give more presumably canon characterization for Serac and [[spoiler:Zebraspace]].
178** Earlier on, Castle of the World has the characters destroying the world. Luckily, the game continues afterwards because they reached it with the Ambiguously Cannon, which is ambiguously canon.
179%%* TheLostWoods: The Planet of Preventable Forests
180* MadLibsCatchPhrase: In a sense, the Switch Palace messages, which each have a different line at the end of their otherwise identical messages:
181-->'''Red Switch:''' I know. It's amazing.\
182'''Blue Switch:''' Seriously? Seriously.\
183'''Green Switch:''' It's a thing.\
184'''Yellow Switch:''' It's pretty rad.
185* MarathonBoss: The ASMBXT postgame level "Edge of the Universe" features [[spoiler:the Universe itself]]. It has five phases. The first is easy and has no special attacks besides flying around. Phase two removes its vulnerability to being jumped on, forcing you to throw blocks at it, and also gives it three special attacks, one of which would not be out of place in a BulletHell game. The third phase is strictly a survival segment featuring more BulletHell-inspired attacks. The fourth phase is similar to the second, only with toned down versions of both of the previous two phases' special attacks and with the boss staying near the top of the screen, making it tough to even get a block up to it. Finally, the fifth phase is an AdvancingBossOfDoom.
186* MarathonLevel:
187** King Charles' Castle definitely qualifies. Even for not playing the level in full, you have to face through 6 rooms (of a total of 24 rooms) of varying hazards, one of them being long as an actual full-on level itself. Then you get sent to a Cyberspace area and a red hallway, both which are of reasonable length. After that, you face two two bosses.
188** ''Luna Tower'' in the prequel. Made less aggravating by having plenty of shortcuts.
189* MeaningfulEcho: When you start up the game -- "Hey there raocow, this is everyone!"
190* MeaningfulName: Iris (who is the second player), TĂȘte D'Feu.
191* MetaGuy: raocow, in ASMBXT. His crouch sprite shows him sitting down, his legs hanging over the platform. He also sings along to the BGM in certain levels.
192* MonsterArena: The Arena
193* {{Mordor}}: Totally Rad Volcano, where King Charles' Castle is located.
194* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: "Sheath was there too." is a RunningGag in ''[=A2XT=]''.
195* MyNameIsQuestionMarks: King Charles and Black Plague when introduced.
196* MythologyGag:
197** ''[=A2XT=]'' wastes little time in referring to Kood's relative lack of presence in its predecessor (for which see OutOfFocus below).
198-->'''Demo:''' Why are you asking us for help [saving the universe,] Kood? You hardly know us.\
199'''Kood:''' But what about our amazing adventures in the Castle of No Significance?\
200'''Demo:''' From what I remember, you sort of just stared at us creepily from across the room and then stood silhouetted with us after we killed that key.\
201'''Kood:''' No, I'm sure [[SelfServingMemory we totally talked and all became great friends along with raocow and Sheath]].\
202'''Iris:''' Who the heck is Sheath?\
203'''Demo:''' I'm almost certain you dreamt that.
204** Much of the games references raocow's previous [=LP=]s, such as:
205*** Levels that are based on games he's played (e.g. ''[[VideoGame/CatPlanet Four of a Kind]]'' in ''[=ASMBXT=]'')
206*** Cameo appearances of characters (e.g. Kood and Jowey the poison cow in ''[=ASMBXT=]'')
207*** Music using soundbytes from his videos or lifted from the games (e.g. the music from ''Hina's Fluffy Dream'' used in ''[=A2XT=]'')
208*** Raoquotes (e.g. Garish's battle cry, some books in the ''[=A2XT=]'' library)
209* NeverSayDie: Those aren't deaths, they are very much intentional demos.
210* NoFourthWall:
211** ''ASMBXT'' has "Technical Difficulties," where one of the pipes will take you directly outside of raocow's house as he does a LetsPlay.
212** This even happens InUniverse: a particularly powerful ComputerVirus destroys raocow's computer to such an extent that it ''breaks reality'', causing him to go and kill the virus ''physically'', winding up right at Demo's side at the Castle Of Absolutely No Significance afterwards. He's understandably freaked out by standing face-to-face with his own creation. In raocow's own LetsPlay of ''ASMBXT'', this even doubles as RecursiveReality.
213** You can speak to one of the grass-patches outside the castle in ASMBXT, and it will tell you what version you're playing, [[CouchGag along with some nonsensical message]].) On the final update, the message is addressed to "Samuel"[[note]]raocow's real first name[[/note]].
214* NostalgiaLevel:
215** The Castle of Absolutely No Significance returns as a level in ''[=A2XT=]''.
216** The entrance to [[spoiler:Black Plague's]] tower as well.
217%% * NintendoHard
218%% * OneManArmy: Or armless cyclops lady.
219* OurMonstersAreWeird: Doughnuts of Doom! A flying lighter that throws out enemies who don't want their heads on fire, torpedoes with Groucho Marx faces, [[{{Memes/Anime}} Yaranaika]] Bullets.
220* OutOfFocus: While Demo and Iris are the only characters that are playable for a vast majority of ASMBXT, Kood still stands out because, until you unlock the "Turn into Everything!" room, he only features in ''one single level''. The sequel lampshades this hilariously.
221* PalmtreePanic: And So It Began, Water Water Everywhere, Overly Hot Beach
222* PipeMaze: In a literal sense in The Switch Where Yoshi Jumps A Lot. Played straight in a later level.
223* PlatformHell:
224** Although the game normally qualifies as a NintendoHard hack, there is one section in King Charles's Castle that first of all, disables Spin Jumps. So? Well there's a spinning Koopa Shell that you have to jump over and avoid... while in a room with a disco-light like dealing with giant spiked pillars, Thwimps, Thwomps, blocks that enemies can go through but you fall through, and Fishing Boos. raocow even calls this specific room "Hell".
225** Parodied in "the hardest lvl".
226* PlayerHeadquarters: Well, plot headquarters, And Then There Was A Resistance Base.
227* PromotedToPlayable: Suddenly [[spoiler:Nevada]].
228* PuzzleBoss: ''[=A2XT=]'' has [[spoiler:Mario]], who is basically ''Videogame/SuperMarioBros3'' Bowser except there's an unbreakable floor under the breakable bricks. You have to lure him into the lava on the sides.
229* RecursiveReality: ASMBXT is a ShowWithinAShow in ''[=A2XT=]'', which is either this or BasedOnATrueStory.
230* TheReveal: After defeating [[spoiler:Pily, she]] reveals the true nature of Demo, Iris, and the Siblings.[[labelnote:*]][[spoiler: She reveals that the cyclops were minions kept in line by [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing]] for "the great space masters of space", due to their [[ResurrectiveImmortality ability to be revived.]] A [[LaResistance grand rebellion]] known as [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "the Grand Rebellion"]] took place, but took place during the Great Green Radish Famine of October. Eventually, all cyclops were starved, [[ResurrectiveImmortality revived]], and then starved again. Eventually, they starved [[KilledOffForReal "to complete death"]]. [[GreaterScopeVillain The Artist]] learned of their former existence, and attempted to recreate the cyclops to assist him in [[TakeOverTheWorld taking over the galaxy]]. He created, respectively, Science, Pandamona, Garish, Nevada, Mishi, Pily ([[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments who is perfect in every way]]), Calleoca, and finally, Demo and Iris. Each sibling following Science was made with different catalysts in an attempt to balance them out. Demo and Iris were made from a bunch of packing peanuts, a slab of meat, a lead weight, asbestos, and most importantly, a kangaroo. Demo and Iris escaped brainwashing and became servants of one of the masters of space. Now Demo and Iris must [[ItsUpToYou free the rest of their siblings from their brainwashing.]]]][[/labelnote]]
231* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Big Squee is so called for a reason.
232* RingOutBoss: King Charles, Spinning Sand Castle Thwomps
233* RuinsForRuinsSake: Munchy Plant Ruins.
234* RuleOfSymbolism: InUniverse -- "Each Bowser represents a game [[LetsPlay/{{Raocow}} you]] don't LP." [[labelnote:Which ones?]]In order: ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', ''VideoGame/YumeNikki'', ''VideoGame/{{Jumper}}'', ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', ''Euro Truck Driving Simulator 2'', ''Hong Kong '97'', ''Lasabirdie'', ''Shadow of Ganymede'', ''Erika to Satoru no Yume Bouken'', ''VideoGame/{{Slender}}'', and ''VideoGame/WiiSports''.[[/labelnote]] Then you start shooting them with bullet bills.
235* {{Sampling}}: The background music for "Pavlov Gold" is [=GenericCaw=]'s remix of raocow's "Yellow hurts."
236* SchizophrenicDifficulty: The very final level of ''[=A2XT=]'' is a patchwork level, with every screen of content having been contributed by a different person. This leads to stuff like confusing platforming areas leading into harmless jokes.
237* SelfDuplication: The ''Super Demo 128'' stage's gimmick in ASMBXT. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=eTJ_lTAxuII#t=167s Here]] it is if you want to see it.
238-->'''raocow''': What wonders do you hide within your body, Demo?
239* SeriesMascot: Demo.
240* SequelHook:
241** Added in the public release where [[spoiler:Demo returns to her master's ship to find everybody gone.]]
242** In [=A2XT=], [[spoiler:Pandamona destroys the universe and everybody dies, except for Sheath, who is told by Science to undo it. Demo walks through the credits as a ghost, and the sequence closes with an image of Sheath, still alive.]]
243%%* ShiftingSandLand: The Beach Episode Planet
244* ShoutOut:
245** The game is basically made out of shout outs to raocow and stuff he played, such as other [[GameMod ROM Hacks]] (2chan's Vip and Wall Mix series in particular), ''VideoGame/CatPlanet'', ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' and a lot of other things.
246** In addition, one of the levels in the prequel, "Blood Cavern", is a {{homage}} to ''VideoGame/SpaceFuneral'', ''VideoGame/{{Eversion}}'', and other games with a creepy aesthetic.
247** More bizarrely, the ASMBXT level "Oh, No! It's Lakitu!" contains numerous shout outs to Music/{{Devo}}. WordOfGod from the creator of the level says they were sneaked through the development process to see if any of the other contributors would notice them. They didn't.
248** "Ascend", one of the final levels in ''ASMBXT'', is named for a [[ArcWords recurring word]] in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', and uses a [[Music/{{Homestuck}} "Sburban Jungle"]] MIDI as background music.
249** [[VideoGame/BadDudes Are you a bad enough minion to make the proletariat eat soup?]]
250** The intro for World 5 of ''[=A2XT=]'' is a (doable) take on the intro of ''What The Hell'', raocow's infamous PlatformHell romhack.
251** Whatever is inside the flesh-lord bears a strong resemblance to the [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Fly of Despair]], with a guest appearance from Zbambabar.
252** ''Blue Surfer'' is pretty much a level from the infamous ''VideoGame/SilverSurfer1990'', including walls that kill you on touch.
253** ''[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Monty Mole's Aerial Extravaganza]]''
254* ShowWithinAShow: "Talkhaus presents ASMBXT". [[spoiler:TheStinger reveals that it was a movie/show/whatever that Nevada was watching (on screen), making it a Show within a Show within a Show]].
255* SongsInTheKeyOfPanic: Intentionally taken to hilarious extremes in "Panic Puzzle". The level starts with 100 seconds' worth of time, which, once it counts down to 99, speeds up the already somewhat frantic-sounding level music. The level is designed in such a way that the repeated going through of pipes is necessary, and the timer is reset to 100 seconds every time Demo passes through a pipe, which then triggers the speed-up in the level music once again. By the time the player reaches the end of the level, the music will have become a chaotic-sounding mess.
256* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Colonial Seattle
257* StationaryBoss: Phase 1 of King Charles' battle.
258* StealthBasedMission: ''[=A2XT=]'''s World 7 ghost house has one to get the leek.
259* StealthPun:
260** raocow likes to call Yoshis horses. Some Yoshi {{Turncoat}}s have joined the Charlie army. Put them together and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_horse what do you get]]?
261** World 3's castle, Chocolate Castle. ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''.
262** World 4's castle, a Honeypot Trap, uses a different set of sprites than the rest of the hack, with many of the enemies being replaced by bees--specifically, all of the ghost-type enemies like Eeries and Boos. The latter are therefore Boo Bees.
263* StylisticSuck: the hardest lvl, A Terrible Level, 26th - AUS - '[=Level1=] - Winter City', and My First SMB Level, to varying degrees.
264* SuddenDownerEnding: [=A2XT=]: Episode 1 ends with [[spoiler: the entire reality being destroyed. Very little of it is played for laughs and the credits scene is rather somber compared to the overall wacky feel of the game.]]
265* SurrealHorror: [=A2MBXT=] starts taking this approach as the game progresses, with a (relatively) abnormally high frequency of unnerving levels. There's also a noticeable quantity of unsettling easter eggs hidden in otherwise-normal levels.
266* SurrealHumor: Gives off this feel with some of the particularly inexplicable parts of the game.
267* TakeThat: The ASMBXT level Toad Central is essentially a giant satire of the main ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' hacking community [[http://www.smwcentral.net/ SMWCentral]], particularly the perception that they prioritize visuals and story above gameplay and their love of {{Lock And Key Puzzle}}s.
268* TimeLimitBoss: The World 7 boss. Good luck navigating that shell!
269* TitleDrop: Science, right before his final battle, vows to destroy "this Super Mario Bros. X Thing".
270* TokenGoodTeammate: Calleoca appears to be this for the Siblings, as she appears many times as a helpful NPC. [[spoiler:It's actually Pily, who claims to have been mind-controlled following her defeat and joins Demo and Iris. Calleoca finally battles Demo in World 8.]]
271* UniqueEnemy: In the original [=ASMT=], the Worms' Cave is the only level in the game that has Blarggs other than the credits. And since the Worms' Cave's gimmick is that all of the regular sprites are replaced with worm sprites, this means that the Blarggs' normal replacement for the game, the Yellow Submarine, ''only'' appears in the credits sequence.
272* UnusualUserInterface: ''USS Suboptimal'' in ASMBXT, which you control by [[spoiler:guiding a Parakoopa with the chasing AI to where you want to go.]]
273** ''murder death place zone'', also in ASMBXT, has you climbing on a grate that's controlled by the Boo AI.
274%%* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: A Final Thing (Name Pending)
275* VideoGameCaringPotential: There's a sidequest in the [=A2XT=] World 4 level ''Fahren'' which tasks you with finding a homeowner's missing pet Furbas which have wandered off into the cold. Completing it not only nets you another leek, but it also [[GoodFeelsGood makes you feel good for helping someone in need]].
276* ViolationOfCommonSense: Mercilessly lampshaded in "Island Place That Somehow Floats" from [=A2XT=], which requires you to duck-slide and then wall-glitch to reach the secret exit.
277* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Con, your Yoshi informant.
278* WaddlingHead: TĂȘte D'Feu, Furba.
279* {{Western}}: [[AllLowercaseLetters the good, the bad and the stupid]] is a homage to this genre, [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] included.
280* WorldOfChaos: As if the Mushroom Kingdom wasn't strange enough already...

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