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**** [[ShootTheShaggyDog Then they wouldn't have to play the game in the first place, now would they?]]
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** Likely it was just Peasley messing with everyone and being stingy. RuleOfFunny, I guess.
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* How did the Mushroom Kingdom economy crash so bad at the end of Superstar Saga? And what does this mean for everything else in the series concerning the value of coins?
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* There's a little piece of brilliance here if you look a little further - A time machine appearing would also include a very large amount of energy being released, theoretically, so the Shroobs detected that and worked from there. If Peach hadn't traveled back in tine, the Shroobs would never have found the Mushroom Kingdom.
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***** It might also be worth mentioning that the Mushroom Kingdom constantly suffers from one problem or another. Back story for SuperMarioBros says most of the population into blocks. Bowser has been and will be a constant problem on many levels for the kingdom, not counting at least two alien invasions other than the Shroobs. ButForMeItWasTuesday may apply here. In addition, the people in the past might not have been able to understand why the Shroobs disappeared without a trace thanks to the [[DeusExMachina Baby Tears]]. Add all this together and it might just be a particularly odd [[NoodleIncident footnote]] in the history of a rather odd kingdom in constant war with other odd kingdoms.
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*** Are you saying that [[GhostTrick their use of technology is just plain off]]?

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***** Who survived to remember it? Toad Town was completely taken out, save two very old women--assuming Toads have a terribly long lifespan to begin with. The Yoshis are distant and carefree, and didn't see the bulk of the invasion. Everyone else... not as many creatures seem to be sentient as in Paper Mario.
Toadsworth has no excuse, though.
What I want to know is, what happened to the Beanbean Kingdom when this was happening? Apparently nothing too serious, if it turned out okay without needing to be saved...
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*** True. There are the stuff like that hammer minigame in the third game with the synapses or whatever they were though, and the Thwacks on Thwomp Volcano in the second game, where it's simply indicated by color. But yeah, color-blind people might still get hindered, but not as much as I initially thought.
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** Many of the red and green elements are also marked with M's and L's. Not all, but many.




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** [[PutOnABus There's a trope for that.]]
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** The proper solution is and has always been mushroom-shaped blocks.
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* He didn't want Bowser to get too involved?

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* In Superstar saga, it is revealed that [[spoiler: Birdo's voice was stolen instead of Peach's]]. While this was a great relief to the heroes, what about [[spoiler: Birdo]]? Shouldn't there still be great concern about [[spoiler: Birdo's explosive vocabulary]]?

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* In Superstar saga, Saga, it is revealed that [[spoiler: Birdo's voice was stolen instead of Peach's]]. While this was a great relief to the heroes, what about [[spoiler: Birdo]]? Shouldn't there still be great concern about [[spoiler: Birdo's explosive vocabulary]]?


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* In the third game, where were Bowser's kids when Fawful took over Bowser Castle?

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***** The games are very inconsistent about Bowser's shell. A good example would be how much of Bowser's body is shell, and how much is just his body. Half the time the green part with spikes on his back is his shell. The other half the back part and his front part are the entire shell. The Smash Bros. series is a great place to see this.




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**** Does it really matter how young they are? They are clearly old enough to handle weapons, to talk, and perform other basics actions that babies in general aren't old enough to do. Is it really so much of a stretch to say that they should remember going on a huge adventure filled with peril, danger, and many near fatal incidents that finally ended with them ''saving the entire world from an insane alien species''. Even if they can't remember it exactly, they should atleast have some memory of it.

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*** Yeah, I'd say that this game works in a single time stream and that when the game began, all of the actions done in the past had already happened. In other words, the Mario Bros. were pretty much destined to defeat the Shroobs, acting out stuff exactly the way people who lived back then had remembered it.


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* With everything in all of the Mario & Luigi games being [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience color-coded red for Mario and green for Luigi]], how does someone who's red-green or entirely color-blind play this game? Any guesses would be welcome, but I would like to hear from someone who has such color-blindedness.
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* In Superstar saga, it is revealed that [[spoiler: Birdo's voice was stolen instead of Peach's]]. While this was a great relief to the heroes, what about [[spoiler: Birdo]]? Shouldn't there still be great concern about [[spoiler: Birdo's explosive vocabulary]]?
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** Was I the only one who took forever to realize that Bowser counters BOTH of their attacks by punching (rather than punching to counter one attack and crouching to counter the other attack)?


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* At the end of the second game, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse what happened to Yoob?]] [[spoiler:Did he disintegrate, turn into a normal (possibly still giant) Yoshi, or was he unaffected?]] The third game's Fawful Guys and Dark Fawful guys add even more confusion to this: one of their attacks has them get eaten and spit out as eggs by some offscreen, Yoob-like creature (and this can happen even after Bowser inhales them!).

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* At the end of the second game, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse what happened to Yoob?]] [[spoiler:Did he disintegrate, turn into a normal (possibly still giant) Yoshi, or was he unaffected?]] The third game's Fawful Guys and Dark Fawful guys Guys add even more confusion to this: one of their attacks has them get eaten and spit out as eggs by some offscreen, Yoob-like creature (and this can happen even after Bowser inhales them!).
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** Maybe he was playing dumb in case Cackletta had left a spy behind?

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* In the second game, our heroes get eaten by Yoob, a Shroobish Yoshi monster. Now you see, baby tears are highly corrosive to the Shroobs and all of their biological creations. The very first thing Baby Mario and Baby Luigi do after landing in Yoob's small intestine is '''cry'''. Shouldn't that kinda dissolve Yoob's flesh?
** Perhaps the dissolving only works from the outside in?
** Not enough tears.

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* In the second game, our heroes get eaten by Yoob, a Shroobish Yoshi monster. Now you see, baby [[spoiler:baby tears are highly corrosive to the Shroobs and all of their biological creations. The very first thing Baby Mario and Baby Luigi do after landing in Yoob's small intestine is '''cry'''. Shouldn't that kinda dissolve Yoob's flesh?
flesh?]]
** Perhaps [[spoiler:Perhaps the dissolving only works from the outside in?
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** Not [[spoiler:Not enough tears.]]
** [[spoiler:Maybe Yoob is immune to the tears. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse The ending didn't show what (if anything) happened to him]]--see the next JBM.]]

* At the end of the second game, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse what happened to Yoob?]] [[spoiler:Did he disintegrate, turn into a normal (possibly still giant) Yoshi, or was he unaffected?]] The third game's Fawful Guys and Dark Fawful guys add even more confusion to this: one of their attacks has them get eaten and spit out as eggs by some offscreen, Yoob-like creature (and this can happen even after Bowser inhales them!).

* In the first game, if [[spoiler:Toadsworth was in on the "swap Birdo with Peach" plan, why did he just give Mario & Luigi a suitcase and send them on their way as if he had no idea about it?]]
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** To be honest, to me it just ends up sounding like he somehow gets roid-rage-induced bloodshot eyes from smoking too much weed.
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** My theory is going to burn some brains so sit down and relax: Theoretically a possible future with a link to the past (no reference intended)is not affected by the past until all links are severed like at the end of the game. Also the future/present may or may not snap into the future/present whereas the shroos had won, that is; if the Marios and Luigis had relaxed until after the holes had closed the future would have perhaps snapped into the shroob-conquered future, whether anyone had Time Traveller's Immunity is another Question.
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***** Perhaps he can bend his shell?

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** Fawful often refers to the Mario Bros. as "Red" and "Green", he's talking about them rather than the colours.
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** Not enough tears.

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** Or he could've just done it to [[ForTheEvulz cause havoc]]

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** Or he could've just done it to [[ForTheEvulz cause havoc]]
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**Or he could've just done it to [[ForTheEvulz cause havoc]]
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** This question reminds me of one of the least popular aspects of the NES game ''TheMagicOfScheherazade''. At one point a character asks the player if he is afraid of monsters. If you answer "Yes", the game takes it to mean that you're giving up and you get a GameOver.
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** Perhaps the dissolving only works from the outside in?
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*In the second game, our heroes get eaten by Yoob, a Shroobish Yoshi monster. Now you see, baby tears are highly corrosive to the Shroobs and all of their biological creations. The very first thing Baby Mario and Baby Luigi do after landing in Yoob's small intestine is '''cry'''. Shouldn't that kinda dissolve Yoob's flesh?
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*** Mario, Luigi, and Peach were babies during the invasion so they were too young to remember. Egadd is old enough to remember but he was wrapped up in his own research and likely missed the whole thing. If you visit a room off to the right of the library late in the game a Toad mentions finding a book about the invasion written by Kylie Koopa. So SOME people do remember the invasion.

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