History Characters / SuperMarioRPG

* FusionDance: It's formed on-screen by multiple Pyrospheres/[[AdaptationNameChange Lava Babbles]] fusing into a single form.

* EnemyMine: He allies with Mario to get his home back, since Bowser is clearly outmatched and Smithy is a much more dangerous threat to the world than Bowser ever was.

* DeathByIrony: He tries to summon his biggest bomb yet to blow up Mario, and it falls and crushes him.

* {{Expy}}: The Czar Dragon looks suspiciously like the Blarggs from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''. They both live in lava, they're both reptillian in nature, and they both have similar goofy faces with nearly the same eyes. Blarggs as a species are otherwise absent from the game, and it's not actually related to the species, having been formed instead through members of the Lava Bubble species.

* FusionDance: It's formed on-screen by multiple Pyrospheres fusing into a single form.

* BouncingBattler: Mack is a giant pogo stick-like sword with a swarm of Shy Guys hopping on similar pogo sticks.

* FlatCharacter: Appears in only one scene and has only a few lines that don’t reveal much.

* InterfaceScrew: [[spoiler:In the rematch against 3D Culex, the Wind Crystal takes a page from Bowyer's book and can disable one of your buttons]].

* FoodEatsYou: Bundt and Raspberry somehow become sentient and attacks Mario and co. with no explaination why it happened.

* TrickBoss: Chef Torte and his apprentice are the ones who initiate the boss fight and are the ones to attack during the first few turns, but you can't target them, and they're pathetically weak. Suddenly, the cake starts moving and takes over as the boss of the fight, scaring the two away.

* TrickBoss: After being defeated, the Czar Dragon immediately comes back as [[DemBones Zombone]], who is fought in the second phase. Doubles as this to the Axem Rangers since you fight them right after.

* DubNameChange: His name is changed from Yaridovihhi (Japanese) to Yaridovich (English). The remake changes it to Speardovich.

* OneHitKill: In the remake, his train attack in his post-game rematch does ''9999'' damage unblocked. Your party's HP never goes over three digits. Fortunately, your other two party members swap in for the fallen ones.

** Amusingly subverted in the 2023 remake. His new profiles mention that the increased costs of maintaining his tower and railroad mean he can't afford to fix his front door after Bowser smashed it down. He also had to sell his favorite video game to a kid in the Mushroom Kingdom to raise money.

* BossAlteringConsequence: Whichever jester is still alive after the other dies[[note]]should both die at the same time, then Cloaker is considered the casualty and Domino survives[[/note]] will merge with their pet cobra, and the other cobra isn't fought ([[AntiFrustrationFeature though you still get their entry]]). The remake's MonsterCompendium entries for Bad Adder and Mad Adder even allude to this:

* GeminiDestructionLaw: Subverted. One might assume it's possible skip the second half of the fight if both Cloaker and Domino are defeated in the same attack, but doing so will cause Cloaker to go down first (as he's the first target), and Domino will immediately merge with the cobra to form Mad Adder.

* LadyOfBlackMagic: Valentina is a powerful spellcaster, having the largest spell pool out of *any* enemy in the entire game.

* AnIcePerson: Most of Valentina's attacks, including Blizzard, Solidify and Diamond Saw, manifest as ice.

* BigBadWannabe: His main goal is to get his castle back and reassert himself as Mario's true ArchEnemy. Unfortunately, [[BigBad Smithy]] is a far greater threat for the time being, necessitating Bowser's EnemyMine with Mario.

* TheKlutz: Hilariously, Axem Red is this. According to the in-game encyclopedia, Red wants to look threatening, but comes across more as a clumsy bumbler thanks to his inability to get his poses or speeches right, and many of his team's thoughts are complaints about his constant ineptitude. At one point, he ''drops the all-important Star Piece'' they just stole, prompting an annoyed Axem Yellow to have to fall back to retrieve it, loudly delcaring that Red is "all thumbs."

* TheKlutz: Hilariously, Axem Red is this. He wants to look threatening, but comes across as a bumbler thanks to his inability to get his poses or speeches right, and many of his team's thoughts are complaints about his constant ineptitude at projecting competence and coolness.

* VillainousGlutton: Implied with [[FatBastard Axem Yellow]]; his remark upon defeat is him saying he's hungry.

* EvilVersusOblivion: Bowser is an evil tyrant who wants to defeat Mario andtake over the Mushroom Kingdom. Smithy is an evil tyrant who wants to defeat Mario and take over the Mushroom Kingdom… as well as utterly decimate it and turn it into a wasteland populated by nothing but machines and weapons. Naturally, Bowser ends up helping in the war against Smithy.