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The Never Ending Mario Story
is/was a nonsensical Round Robin fanfic created by the users of Nsider 2 Forums. As the name implies, the story's main focus is on the characters of the Super Mario Bros. series, but as the plot went on it inevitably began to draw in elements from just about everything else. Surprisingly, however, the story was for the most part actually able to hold together a coherent plot, and featured several story arcs before becoming a Dead Fic.
Since then, a few brave individuals on Nsider have attempted to begin another "Never Ending _____ Story" on the forums, but none have been as successful as this one.
The Never-Ending Mario Story contains examples of the following tropes:
- Big Bad: King K. Rool ( Or rather, the demon that was possessing him) in the first arc, Bill Murray in the second, Captain Olimar in the third.
- Big Damn Heroes: Toad, when he assembles an army of Pokémon to save the others from Team Rocket.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: Since "evil" Mario can't kill Mario and co., he attempts to do the next best thing by forcing them to listen to The Twilight Saga on tape.
- The Death of Death: Death is killed, resulting in everyone else being unable to die until he is revived.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Villainous example: Ridley somehow murders Death.
- Don't Fear the Reaper: Death is actually helpful to Mario and co., though you still shouldn't get on his bad side.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Alucard is crushed under a spaceship piloted by Kirby.
- Enemy Mine: Bowser teams up with Mario yet again in this fic.
- Evil Twin: The "evil" counterparts. Also, Toad's twin brother Ignuf.
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Follow the Leader: As mentioned above, a few users have attempted to make similar group fics since this one ended, but most of them lose momentum quickly. - Fusion Dance: Captain Falcon and Chuck Norris combine to become the most powerful being in existance: Bruce Lee.
- Gender Bender: Kamek is transformed into a woman by Toad's wish, and remains as such for the duration of the story. Heavy Weapons Guy also has a sex change, Though she was actually a woman to begin with.
- Humongous Mecha: Peach and Bowser's Castles apparently still have their mecha components from Bowser's Inside Story, and they can even combine.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Toad, causing him to believe that he is Ash Ketchum.
- MacGuffin: Several over the course of the course of the story, such as the Legendary Ruby Burritos, the Dragon Balls, and the Ultimate Power.
- Mirror Universe: Where the "evil" counterparts are suspected to have come from. But it ends up being subverted.
- Non-Indicative Name: "The Land of Chocolates, which in fact had no chocolate at all and no one there knew what chocolate was."
- Off with His Head!: "Evil" Luigi. He survives it.
- The Psycho Rangers: The "evil" duplicates of the heroes, created by a space-time paradox.
- Samus Is a Girl: Heavy is a woman.
- Super Hero: Toad's alter ego, Mushroom Man.
- Super Not-Drowning Skills: Justified in that the Mario Bros. have been able to breathe underwater in the past.
- Villainous Rescue: K. Rool unwittingly saves Mario and the gang from their "evil" counterparts.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: The "evil" twins of the heroes, who are actually duplicates created by the distortion of the time-space continuum, and are only trying to fix said distortion.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Yoshi lampshades the fact that he doesn't appear until twenty pages into the story. Peach also ends up having to rescue herself when Mario and co. get sidetracked.
- Yin-Yang Clash: Bruce Lee vs. Demon K. Rool.
