History Headscratchers / SuperMarioBros

** Because pets aren't allowed in Big Boo's Haunt.

*** GodNeverSaidThat. Miyamoto only ''thinks of the'' character as actors playing their roles, basically to fit the ever-changing nature of the Mario franchise. In other words, it's just his personal headcanon, meaning that it's not necessarily canon.

*** GodNeverSaidThat. Miyamoto only ''thinks of the'' character as actors playing their roles, basically to fit the ever-changing nature of the Mario franchise.

* How do bad guys and non-baddies survive getting blown up? In both Odyssey and 3D world, rabbits can poof into dust and stars. The rabbits you chase for green starrs poof into nothing after they give away their green star, and the bad rabbits from Odyssey do the same after they've been defeated? Is it some sort of thing that only rabbits can do?

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* How do bad guys and non-baddies survive getting blown up? In both Odyssey and 3D world, rabbits can poof into dust and stars. The rabbits you chase for green starrs poof into nothing after they give away their green star, and the bad rabbits from Odyssey do the same after they've been defeated? Is it some sort of rabbit teleportation?

** Bowser was realizes that the back door needed more security?

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** What's funny is that the Koopalings have been long dismissed as Bowser's children leaving his only son being Bowser Jr. And Bowser Jr. has shown to be ''very'' good at [[GadgetgeerGenius constructing large robots and battleships]]. Especially since Bowser Jr. is more than willing to assist his dad and should anything happen to Bowser Jr., [[PapaWolf you'll be dealing with one pissed-off Koopa King]].

** They were most likely designed this way to show that they're the obvious EvilCounterparts to Mario and Luigi. Though elves aren't evil for the most part, they are definitely mischievous which perfectly describes the sneaky duo of Wario and Waluigi. Mario and Luigi are more "cartoonish" resembling stand-out cartoon heroes usually with bigger noses and brighter clothing. Wario and Waluigi being designed as Gonky elves makes sense.

*** And by SMB2, you mean what is often called The Lost Levels, right? I mean, since Bowser isn't in SMB2 / SMBUSA at all; the BigBad there is Wart.

*** Actually, a few games make passing mention of the Mario Bros. being from Brooklyn (documented on MarioWiki), and WordOfGod says that the Mario Bros. arcade game takes place in the New York sewer system. It can work with the timeline; maybe their parents moved out of the Mushroom Kingdom with them for safety reasons or something, and they rediscovered the kingdom later as adults while in the plumbing business?

** [[AWizardDidIt Boswer is a fairly powerful wizard.]] It's something people forget because it's rarely referenced but all the blocks in the games? Former citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom. The bosses of worlds 1 through 7 in the original game? Transformed mooks. Mario 3 he and his kids defeated seven magic wand wielding kings and turned them into Darwin's Grab Bag. Mario World, he sealed a fully grown dinosaur in an egg! It wouldn't surprise me at all to find out that Bowser (except in New Super Mario Bros for some reason) some kind of contingency spell that roughly reads "if the shit hits the fan put me in protective stasis until someone gets me!"

* What was with the 8-Bit Luigis in SuperMario3DWorld?

* In the Adventures of SMB3 episode "Mush-Rumors", why would someone build a road leading into an imaginary world?

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* Nice of the princess to invite us over for a picnic, eh, Luigi?
** I hope she bring lots of spaghetti!
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** Because he is a {{villain}}, thus he is [[BondVillainStupidity forbidden by plot-wise cosmic laws]].

* So the opening current in Super Mario Advanced 2 (GBA port of SMW) established that the cape crater has the power to fly across the entire island. The map of the game shows that Chocolate Island (where the final main world in the game is located) is just a flight away from the first world. Why didn't Mario just fly across the gap and saved Peach in a much shorter time?

* So the opening current in Super Mario Advanced 2 (GBA port of SMW) established that the cape crater has the power to fly across the entire island. The map of the game shows that Chocolate Island (where the final main world in the game is located) is just a flight away from the first world. Why didn-t Mario just fly across the gap and saved Peach in a much shorter time.

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*** I thought that sort of rule applied to [[{{Disney/WreckItRalph}} dying outside your own game.]]

* I've noticed that, in regards to Bowser having been used to be called King Koopa, everyone claims Nintendo of America didn't name him Bowser 'till a certain point in the 1990s that they can't seem to agree on. Now to clear this up, he's '''always''' had the name Bowser in America; his name was given as "Bowser, King of the Koopas" in the first SMB's instruction manual's enemy list, though the rest of the book just referred to him as "the [adjective] Koopa King". But some of the "fans" act like he didn't get the name Bowser 'till ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' (though that ''was'' where it became more common to call him that), ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', or (get this) ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' (according to one commenter on Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses!). Have any of these people actually read the original game's instruction book?