- Blooper: The Pure Heart you get for finishing Chapter 6 is supposed to be purple, is placed in the purple Heart Pillar and unlocks the purple-colored door to Chapter 7. But when it’s shown to the heroes by King Sammer and later repaired by Queen Jaydes, it’s erroneously shown as the indigo Pure Heart, which was originally from Chapter 5.
- Creator Backlash: Neither Shigeru Miyamoto nor Kensuke Tanabe are fond of this game's story, feeling that it was too far removed
from the Mario universe. This sentiment has played a role in both the simplified stories in later Paper Mario installments and restriction-imposing mandates on all Mario Spin-Off material from then on. - Defictionalization: Digibutter.nerr is now a fansite for Paper Mario games.
- Development Gag: During the dating-sim dialogue with Francis, he offers to gift Princess Peach a rare "Pink Princess" poster. Supposedly, this poster is super-rare because it was signed by the director who changed after season three. Very interestingly, Paper Mario series director Ryota Kawade who had worked on the first three games up until Super Paper Mario, would not return for later sequels. This may have been a nod to Kawade's disinterest in working on any further sequels.
- Dummied Out: A particularly strange example. Eleven unused maps were uncovered in December 2018 that only seem to exist in Korean copies of the game. Many of the maps are large, open areas in the style of the first two games, and a few contain these unknown feline NPCs that can’t be spoken to and don’t fit with SPM's art style at all. One theory is that someone on the Korean team was dabbling in making their own game inside this one.
- Late Export for You: This game wasn’t released in South Korea until 2009, two years after the rest of the world.
- Moved to the Next Console: The game was initially going to be a Nintendo GameCube title that would have been released in 2006. Leftover graphics from the GameCube version remain unused in the game's files, and some very minor graphical glitches occur in some places when the game is played in widescreen, indicating that the game was initially designed with a 4:3 aspect ratio in mind, which is what the GameCube usually outputted.note
- Prop Recycling: Sprites for Mario's companions from 64 were originally meant to be used in The Thousand-Year Door, but aren't used in that game. These sprites would eventually get used for their Catch Cards.
- The Original Darrin: Peach is voiced by Leslie Swan, who previously voiced the character during the N64 era, most notably Super Mario 64.
- The Other Darrin: In this game Bowser is voiced by Eric Newsome, who voices Meta Knight in Super Smash Bros..
- What Could Have Been:
- Seth Gordon (who also directed The King of Kong) expressed interest in directing a movie based on the game at one point, which would have been a 3D movie that would've used the effects in lieu of flipping. Nothing came of it.
- Mario would have been given the ability to flip into 3D by a Pixl that was shaped like a ladder.
- Fracktail/Wracktail would have been organic dragons as opposed to robots created by the Ancients, as evidenced by unused graphics that show their weak spots as palm trees as opposed to radio antennae.
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