History VideoGame / MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam

* DreamSue: Dreamy Luigi is slightly...different then he is in the real world. A bit taller and a bit more handsome, and his 'stache has a sort of "oomph" to it that the real Luigi's doesn't. He's a dreamboat, as Dreamy Broque Monsieur might say.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Miracle Badge and Gold Badge combo + max level + high stats + Zee Egg and Star Rocket over and over + Duplex Crown = 99,999 damage on weak enemies. Enough to destroy the first monsters you see twelve thousand times over!

* WhamLine: [[spoiler:In Neo Bowser Castle, after Antasma declares that he has Bowser on his side to back him up, Bowser throws him to the ground and reveals that he was just using Antasma all along.]]

* DismantledMacguffin: The Ultibed, which is needed to [[spoiler: wake the Zeekeeper.]] Its components are scattered throughout Pi'illo Island. And ''then'' you also have to find the Bedsmith, the only one capable of putting the pieces together.

** When Antasma first teams up with Bowser he ''outright states'' his intentions for teaming up with Bowser, albeit in a way that makes it easily overlooked. [[spoiler: "I vanted to steal Peach's power...But I changed my mind! You are much stronger...and evil!" Is it any wonder Bowser ended up playing him for the fool?]]

* MetaTwist: [[spoiler: No, Bowser does not get betrayed by Antasma when he outlives his usefulness. It's the other way around for once.]]

* ResetButton: The Miracle/Silver Badge combo is a badge effect that acts as an any time player-activated version of this, reverting your status to what it was at the beginning of the battle, including returning all used items.

* SaveThePrincess: This time, she's lost in Luigi's dreams. [[spoiler:For a while, anyway. At some point Kamek [[DisguisedInDrag takes her place]] and the real Peach is taken to Neo Bowser Castle]].

* FakeSpecialAttack: When you encounter Bowser's lackeys in his castle, they opt to use their special move: "LETHAL RETREAT!"

** Goombas are first encountered around the midgame. What do you expect of Bowser's lowest henchmen that are usually easily squished in many other Mario games (and are usually the first enemies fought in other Mario {{RPG}}s)? These Goombas are pretty powerful for when you fight them and they even have a slightly more powerful version later on. There's also the Goombas that fight alongside the Elite Trio ... they can swarm up on you and do an almost unavoidable attack on you.

** Just as well? Remember Private Goomp, Corporal Paraplonk and Sergeant Guy? The three ragtag rookie minions from Bowser's Inside Story, who Bowser allowed back under the stipulation that they pull their weight? Guess what they go by these days? ''The Elite Trio''. You even have a boss battle against them, wherein Goomp commands the entire Goomba army, Paraplonk airlifts Giant Bob-Ombs and becomes a whirling shell of death, and Guy has a ''Banzai Bill Cannon'' and a magic scepter--the kind the ''Magikoopas'' use. Nice job, guys.

* BlockPuzzle: Several times in Dreamy Mt. Pajamaja, with an ice block. It's a standard platform in frozen form, but when the area gets thawed it melts into a water trampoline (hat still retains its block shape) to reach higher areas. It can only be psushed by the bros. when in frozen form.

** At the beginning of the "Massif Brothers' Tour" arc, you find out that the Massif Brothers have long desired to gain enough muscles to break open the gate that's in front of them. When you free both gatekeeper Mega Pi'illos, they open the gate by... smashing them into pieces. Cue the Massif Brothers praising them and calling them "Muscle Lords" (all the while the Mega Pi'illos kept on insisting they're not "Muscle Lords").
** An easy to miss brick joke involves the Shelltop cleaner in [[spoiler:Pi'illoper's house]]. When you first encounter him, he claims he could've sworn the house had a basement at one point. [[spoiler:When you finally find Pi'illoper by going to the second floor of his house, he promptly drops down to reveal the entrance to his basement. Talking to the Shelltop again will cause him to comment on both the "secret basement" and the fact that there's people falling from the "second floor", causing him to essentially go "What's wrong with this house!?!".]]

* OneDimensionalThinking: Mario and Luigi do a lot of running away from foes in boss battles, usually towards the camera. They never think to just step sideways a bit.

* BlockPuzzle: Several times in Dreamy Mt. Pajamaja, with an ice block. It's a standard platform in frozen form, but when he area gets thawed it becomes a trampoline to reach higher areas. It can only be psushed by the bros. when in frozen form.

** PlayedForLaughs, of course. [[spoiler:The Zeekeeper refuses to piece the Dream Stone's dust back into its original form because he doesn't want people to use a trinket to get their jobs done for them... Instead, he turns the dust into a massive Dream Coin that he breaks through to shower the island with coins, and then he adds that the money will pay for his illogical services for helping the heroes. Dreambert is ''crushed'' by this action.]]
** [[spoiler:The Zeekeeper also says people shouldn't use the Dream Stone for material gain... [[HypocriticalHumor right before he shouts how much he loves coins and uses up the Dream Stone to shower the island with money.]]]]

* BuffySpeak: Dreambert's comment before the Earthwake battle is this. "Dreamy Luigi! Focus! Don't freak out! Be at one with defeating this giant... town... monster."

** [[spoiler:Also pertaining to Giant Bowser: instead of the usual transformation method, he is instead trying to grow giant in his dream by [[VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor eating a lot of meat]] ([[ExtremeOmnivore and a bunch of background objects]]), but it just doesn't cut it before the Mario Bros. arrive. So he presumably [[DrivenToSuicide jumps off the wall to his death]]... and then you remember that a NearDeathExperience was the [[DesperationAttack regular trigger for his supersizing]].]]

** Halfway during Kamek's second fight, Kamek will summon some Dry Bones to take you on while he heals in the background. You're supposed to take out the Dry Bones first (or else you can't attack him directly), but if you're wise enough to try to use a Taunt Ball on Kamek, the game will allow you to do so... only for Kamek to briefly appear in the foreground to state that his Dry Bones are fully capable of defeating you before he goes back to the background.

* ItAmusedMe: The events at Driftwood Shore only transpire he way they do because [[spoiler:Kamek wanted to mess with the Bros., for kicks (he actually did say the latter two words to drive the point home).]]

* MarathonLevel: Actually invoked; Dreamy Driftwood Shore is not as large as other Dream areas, but the bros make it their mission to expand it multiple times [[spoiler:in order to hid Peach.]]

** The boss of the Dream World version of Mount Pajamaja is... Mount Pajamaja. The volcano itself is sapient and wants to kill you.

** Hermite Crabs, which have two different species, are absolutely tiny... but surprisingly tough when they do attack.

** At one point in Dreamy Mt. Pajamaja, the screen starts becoming covered with snow. You need to use a recently learned Luiginary technique in order to clear the screen so that you can see what you're doing.

* {{Jerkass}}: The Dream Stone's Spirit. So you just want some information on where the real world Dream Stone is. Well, he'd be happy to... NOT TELL YOU! You still insist? SHADDUP! SHADDUP! GO TO SHADDUPVILLE! Oh, you've bumped into it with a Luigi stack? GET THE [[HumongousMecha BIG GUNS]] OUT! At least until you kick his backside upon which it will finally, ''finally'' divulge the secret with "big green".

'''Seatoon:''' ... [-No.-] '''Not right AT ALL!'''

* LoneWolfBoss: Grobot, Torkscrew, Drilldigger, Big Massif, Mammoshka, Mount Pajamaja, Wiggler, Popple, Pi'llodium, [[spoiler:Zeekeeper]]... About half your opponents are just jerks or characters with no real connection to the BigBad.

** In an almost literal sense-just before Dreamy Mount Pajamaja runs over Mario, Luigi turns giant and sends him flying with a hammer swing.
** [[spoiler:[[DamselInDistress Princess Peach]] and [[ExpositionFairy Starlow]] of all people get one right before the final battle with Bowser, when they combine their [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower good feelings]] together into a pair of FrickinLaserBeams to shatter the Dream Stone ... [[NiceJobBreakingItHero too bad]] Bowser immediately turns around and inhales the Dream Stone fragments, turning into [[OneWingedAngel Dreamy Bowser]].]]

-->'''Toadsworth:''' Mm hmm... So Princess Peach [[spoiler:was an impostor]], was she?

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* SentientSands: The Sandoons enemies are little more than, well, sand dunes with eyes and three pink antennae. They only appear in the Dozing Sands.

** Luigi [[http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/213/2/0/a_face_of_happiness_by_catimakittykat-d76ttqy.jpg apparently likes being touched somewhere on the side of his face]] as well, making a rather pleased sound. Go figure.

* AirborneMook: Par for the course, some enemies fly and can't be hit with hammers or other ground-based attacks. A variation later in the game involves enemies appearing in the background where they cannot be attacked directly. The Taunt Ball item can either defeat them, provoke them into the foreground or provoke an attack that can let the bros do tons of damage via counter-attacks.

* AmbidextrousSprite: Averted. The bros have unique sprites for running and jumping in ''16'' different directions, as opposed to 8 directions in the previous games. Because Mario always raises his left arm when jumping and Luigi has an L letter on his cap, mirroring their moves would look glaringly obvious.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Oh no, you didn't finish the "Dodge 10 Attacks" Challenge in Pi'illo Castle and now you're level 40? Don't worry, you can use Boo Biscuits, which have the effects of making the bros both take and deal zero damage, as well as not letting them take turns either, meaning that the enemies get to do free attacks on the bros that count toward completing Expert Challenges.

** Animations, especially noticeable with the Mario Bros, have more frames, making them smoother. Characters also now have separate idle animations, instead of just using the first frame of their walking animation for all but a few characters like the previous games.

* BeefGate: The Hermite Crabs in Mushrise Park, near the entrance to Wakeport which appear as soon as you get the hammers (yes, you can fight them even before you get Bros Items). The Toad even warns you that you'll get mugged if you try to take on these monsters at this point. Played with in that although the Hermite Crabs are much tougher than the Thorbs or Capnaps in the rest of Mushrise Park and can do a lot more damage, their attack patterns are pretty easy to figure out and dodge, and if you do a preemptive strike where there's just two of them and don't forget which coconut they're hiding under, they'll never attack because they'll waste their turn getting new coconuts to hide under. Plus you can level up so quickly that it's essentially a DiscOneNuke against Grobot, Bowser and Antasma, and Torkscrew.

* BoltOfDivineRetribution: Damage dealt to the enemies or Bros as a result of gear effects is delivered via sudden lightning strike. [[UpToEleven Even if you're fighting underground.]]

*** Another subtle nod to the above game: The poses the bros make after certain Bros. Attacks are the same ones they made when victorious in battles from ''Inside Story''. Namely, their "level up" poses for the Bye-Bye Cannon, and their "battle victory" poses for the Star Rocket.

** Jet Board Bash can be absolutely DEVASTATING to a powerful enemy or even a boss, possibly dealing even more damage than a Zee Egg and Star Rocket, but at the cost of less BP than the former. However, it's not THAT difficult to use, and even if you mess up the timing a little bit, it'll still do at least twice as much damage as a successful bros shell, unlike attacks like the Slingsniper, which are all-or-nothing.

** As usual for the series, the bros' stats develop differently by nature, such as Luigi having greater defensive and 'stache stats than Mario at the cost of having lower speed and offensive stats (AKA ATK and Bros. Points). Level-up bonuses and beans can be used to balance this out or to specialize them more as the player wishes.

* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: The first battle with Bowser. At the end of the fight, he doesn't explode into sparkles like other bosses; instead, the fight ends when you pop Antasma out of Bowser, ending the FusionDance followed by a "SCREEK!" by Antasma. Their health depleted and realizing they can't win against you in their normal forms, he and Antasma simply leap offscreen, ending the battle. Afterward, Antasma uses his remaining power to power up Bowser, who knocks the bros. out with his super fire breath before they escape.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: Star Rocket and Zee Egg, the last two Bros Attacks. On the one hand, they're found quite out the way, with the former being hidden in the final dungeon and the latter requiring you to save all 52 Pi'illos first. On the other hand, they're by far the best weapons/attacks in the game, ludicrously easy to use and able to make every other attack you have obsolete immediately (especially with the Casual Bros rank up choice). [[spoiler:Bowser Jr. can steal these away from you though.]]

** Played straight later on with [[spoiler:the Zeekeeper]] talking about leading you into the light and Bowser wanting to make the Mario Bros "disappear", or at least cooked to a golden brown.

** The Fire Flower Bros Attack which is inferior to everything else for single enemies and outclassed by a massive degree in every respect by the Zee Egg. Fire Flower is, however, excellent for dealing with the {{Bee|Afraid}}hoss enemies of Somnom Woods, which have a [[KillItWithFire weakness to fire]].

* ShoutOut: Thunder Sass tells the Mario Bros that [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/do-you-even-lift "he can tell that they lift"]].

* TakingYouWithMe: The [[spoiler:Pi'illodium]] will self-destruct once it runs extremely low on HP. If you don't destroy it in time, it will self-destruct (taunting you before it does) and cause massive damage. If both of the Mario Bros get KO'd, it's a game over (or loss in the Battle Ring). Interestingly, the countdown is in real time, rather than being turn-based. As such, the execution time of attacks becomes critical.

** Pi'illodium looks like one when it activates the self destruct timer in its own battle (oddly, this is a 30 second count down in real time, despite the turn based battle format). However, its quite possible to survive the self-destruct and win anyway, especially with a Boo Biscuit which turns the Bros into [[{{Intangibility}} Intangible Men]]. It's also entirely possible for the player to defeat Pi'illodium before it even activates the self-destruct.

** Popple is much crueler in this game than in ''Superstar Saga'', especially when he [[spoiler:turns on the bros after they beat the Wiggler.]]

* VehicularTurnabout: If you use a jump attack on [[spoiler:Bowser Jr's Koopa Clown Car]] while he's not in it, the bros hijack it, and can then [[spoiler:chase ''him'', throwing random junk at him to do damage]].

** For Giant Luigi battles, Mount Pajamaja. The previous giant boss Drilldigger was pretty easy, and you even had a point in the fight where Dreambert tells Luigi to heal back to full health, then lets him use Rhythm Mushroom non-stop until he does. The battle with Mount Pajamaja? Has a strategy needed to weaken the boss for attack, a much wider range of moves, some attacks that knock Mario away, preventing the use of Bros attacks, and some nice strategy needed to stop him healing. Think of it as a nice warning about the next few such bosses, who will certainly not go kind on anyone...

* MatryoshkaObject: Mammoshka a mammoth like creature inside a whole horde of mammoth like shells each slightly bigger than the one inside it. The actual creature even turns out to be less than half the size of the thing the Mario Brothers start out facing!

** The art style got even more vibrant and colorful for this game, perfectly reflecting the theme about dreams.