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  • Why do you need tons of Luiginoids to make Luigi giga if New Super Mario Bros. just has you eat a Mega Mushroom? Is it the Dream World's laws being in effect? Or is Giga Dreamy Luigi bigger than Mega Mario & Luigi in NSMB?
    • It's simply game mechanics in effect. The Luiginoids are one of the main gameplay gimmicks, so nearly everything is gonna revolve around them. It's also a fairly common for a large amount of the same being to merge into a GIANT version of the being. It's also just cool.
    • Maybe it has been a long time since Luigi saw a Mega Mushroom, and thus they aren't available in the Dream World. Additionally, most of the Giant Bosses destroy the area around them after they appear, making items harder to find.
    • Why is the Mega Mushroom relevant if Mario and Luigi didn't have access to them in the dream world, anyway? It's never said that something like a Mega Mushroom wouldn't have worked, it's just that they didn't have any to use. You have to rely on the Luiginoids because they're the only supersizing method available.
  • After a certain point in the game, you have the opportunity to fight Gold Beanies that drop some very nice rewards. However, they are only found in the Dream World and apparently do not exist outside of it. So what about those Gold Beanies from Superstar Saga?
    • After Superstar Saga, the Gold Beanies went extinct. The ones you see in the Dream World are the imaginations of the normal Beanies.
  • The gravity-based Luiginary Work you use is controlled by spinning around the platform Luigi's sleeping on. The only problem is, how is Luigi's body and subconscious supposed to know what direction you've spun the platform? The platform's as level as it will get because it's floating on the water, and it could be possible Luigi doesn't sleep on it perfectly aligned. It might have something to do with the fact that it's a Dreampoint.
    • I think, since it's a Dreampoint, the platform itself is affecting the Dream World, as opposed to Luigi.
    • Luigi's sleep could be just light enough that he can feel the movement of the floatie as it rotates, which manifests in his dream as a change in gravity. It's shown that sleeping too deeply causes the dream portal to close up, and using the other Luiginary Works (by pulling his mustache, tickling him, altering the surrounding temperature, etc.) show that he is still attuned to goings-on in the real world.
  • Why did the Zeekeeper turn the Dreamstone dust into a giant coin again? Of course his reasoning is that the Pi'illo Kingdom can rebuild on its own and that they don't need the Dream Stone to do so, and it's pretty much implied he's doing it for himself since he loves coins, but what of the Dream Stone's spirit? One imagines he probably cares if the Dream Stone hasn't been restored when it could've been. In fact, what happened to the Dream Stone's Spirit? Was he destroyed? If so, was it during the first breakage or the second one after Dreamy Bowser is beaten? Has he become a golden coin with eyes?
    • The Dream Stone's spirit is a jerk. Even some of the Pi'illos seem to know that, as one of them recounts it to you after being rescued. Chances are slim that anyone who'd actually met the spirit would stop and question the Zeekeeper's decision.
  • Is it "PAH-ja-MAH-ja" or "Pa-JAH-ma-ja"? Is the pronunciation supposed to emphasize the word "pajama" or is it supposed to make it more subtle?
  • A lot of fuss is made over Dreambert "forgetting" about the block that releases the warp pipes across the island, but why? The block was hidden at the peak of Mount Pajamaja, and you can't pipe to a place that you haven't already been to on foot. Him remembering it any sooner wouldn't have helped them since they weren't able to retrieve it yet.
  • Why didn't Antasma escape into the real world the first time a dream portal was opened? It's never mentioned that there are any types of bonds keeping him there — he was able to escape later just by hitching a ride with Bowser. And the first portal is opened while Dreambert and the other Pi'illos are still petrified, so they'd be no threat to him. Why not escape right then?
  • Early in the game, it's established that sleeping atop a Pi'illo is all it takes for Luigi to be able to manifest in the dream world and create a portal for Mario to enter it as well. However, about midway through the game, you start needing to find designated Dreampoints in order to access the dream world, even though rescuing the petrified Pi'illos is still a gameplay element. Since the heroes have Dreambert with them, why is finding Dreampoints necessary? Why can't Luigi just create a portal by napping on top of him?
    • From what I understand, the Pi'illos' dream worlds are not the same as those of the dream worlds accessed by Dreampoints. As in, each Pi'illo or group of Pi'illos have a designated dream world attached to them, while Dreampoints give access to a dream world unnattached to any Pi'illo. And while some dream worlds are connected, not all are, like how the four Seadrings were in four separate dream worlds in Dozing Sands, and the Zeekeeper resides in a dream world accessible from one specific dream point in Somnom Woods.
  • I get that Luigi is able to tell Starlow in his sleep what parts of his face to manipulate, but how does she know what movements to make specifically? For example, early puzzles require specific movements of Luigi’s mustache that I doubt Starlow would think to make at random, and she doesn’t seem to be able to see what goes on in Luigi’s dreams.
    • The implication is that Dreambert, communicating through Luigi, tells Starlow what to do as well as exactly how to do it. You just don't see it happen for every Luiginary Work, because that would get really boring after a while. This is best demonstrated the first time Luigi gets supersized; when Starlow briefly taps at Luigi's cap and the Luiginoids start to conglomerate, Dreambert says (from the Dream World) "Starlow! Do that again!", and then Starlow replies in the real world with something to the effect of "Eh? I should touch the L on Luigi's cap?"
  • The two Block-people massaging Rose Broquet are revealed to be Peach and Toadsworth in elaborate costumes. Then, after the cutscene, they take the costumes off. Why didn't they just leave them on? Bowser would never have found Peach in a million years!
    • It's possible that by that point she had already been taken. It's not like he was just going to walk up and take her, she could have even been snagged while she was going to the bathroom. Plus, it's the Dream Stone. It would likely know who she is anyway, and bring her to Bowser still inside the suit. The only way she could possibly have been safe is if Bowser never got the Dream Stone in the first place.
  • Kylie Koopa hasn't aged a day between her appearances in Partners in Time and Dream Team, despite being from the past in the former. We know a significant amount of time has passed between the past and the present in PiT because the Mario Bros., Bowser, Peach, Toadsworth, and E. Gadd are all much older in the present. Either Koopas are exceptionally long-lived and age slowly, we have a case of identical descendants, or the writers forgot her backstory.
  • It has always bothered me how neither Popple nor Kylie recognize the Mario Bros. Popple even recalls the events of Superstar Saga and actually compares the Mario Bros. with themselves but he doesn't make a connection?! Kylie, however, does state, that she's had many jobs over the years and that she doesn't remember her time as a journalist that well. But that's no excuse to simply forget a freaking alien invasion, about which she had even written a book!
    • Popple specifically remembers a pair of red and green that ruined everything for him, it was just meant to be ironic that he was talking to that exact pair and couldn't put two and two together. And considering all of the other things that have happened to the Mushroom Kingdom as the Mario Bros. grew up, it wouldn't be so far out there for Kylie to have simply forgotten at least one of those decade-old events, as well as the fact that she had written a novel about it, assuming she does the same for every other event that transpires in the kingdom.

  • If you decide to restore your health by using the hotel's services, you'll note that the bros go into the room next to the desk since it's the only free one available. It has a double bed. Not twins; double. Make of that what you will.
    • It's not unheard of for siblings to share a bed together, especially when it's their only option. Both brothers are also known to conk out and rest in even the most bizarre and dangerous locations, so it's possible one of them just slept on the floor.
  • Somnom Woods is said by much of the staff to be entirely unexplored virgin forest that hasn't had a lick of human contact in thousands of years, yet not long after going into the forest you meet the Nomnoms. And there's also a lot of boomerang bros, but those Koopa troop members could have been some of the first non-native visitors to the woods since antiquity.
  • Why do the Pi'illos know so much about modern slang and technology? Look at some of the devices they built, many of which would be extremely high-tech even for this day and age (such as Pi'illodium for example).
  • Gold Beanies are susceptible to any Luiginary attack except Luiginary Flame because the melting point of gold is almost 2000 degrees.

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