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* RedEyesTakeWarning: When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WISDmoGnWFs Bowser kidnaps Daisy]], Luigi's eyes turn red and he stretches himself to his limits to save her.

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* RedEyesTakeWarning: When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WISDmoGnWFs Bowser kidnaps Daisy]], Luigi's eyes turn red and he stretches himself to his limits to save her. It also glows whenever Luigi is about to use reality bending powers. Turns out that this is actually the result of [[spoiler:Luigi being possessed by a malevolent entity known as Level Down]].
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* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:Level Down is the evil counterpart to Level Up and uses his reality-warping powers to possess and destroy things instead of creating]].


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* OriginalCharacter: In a first for the series, which tends to use existing characters or make new ones out of recolors, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMN7lYxu8t8 Level UP Vs. the Soulless]] introduces [[spoiler:Princess Plum of the Moonlight Kingdom]].

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* StoryArc: Two so far. In Mariocraft, after [[YouHaveFailedMe Bowser killed his wife for failing to kill Mario]], [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal Magikoopa unleashes his rage onto the entire kingdom]] using the world of Minecraft. In Goomba Revolution, [[TheStarscream the Goombas betray Bowser]] and seek to take over the kingdom by stealing six powerful weapons from different video games.
** Then there's the God Mode Luigi arc, where Luigi became powerful enough to banish the creator to another dimension and take over the channel.

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In Mariocraft, after [[YouHaveFailedMe Bowser killed his wife for failing to kill Mario]], [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal Magikoopa unleashes his rage onto the entire kingdom]] using the world of Minecraft. Minecraft.
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In Goomba Revolution, [[TheStarscream the Goombas betray Bowser]] and seek to take over the kingdom by stealing six powerful weapons from different video games.
** Then there's the The God Mode Luigi arc, where Luigi became powerful enough to banish the creator to another dimension and take over the channel.
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** Then there's the God Mode Luigi arc, where Luigi became powerful enough to banish the creator to another dimension and take over the channel.

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* EnemyMine: Bowser and Mario team up in Mario Craft. Luigi, Toad, Yoshi, and Sir Buppington also team up with Ludwig and Roy Koopa of the Koopalings.

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* EnemyMine: EnemyMine:
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Bowser and Mario team up in Mario Craft. Luigi, Toad, Yoshi, and Sir Buppington also team up with Ludwig and Roy Koopa of the Koopalings.Koopalings.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPGS_R_48NQ God Mode Luigi UNLEASHED]] features Bowser rallying Peach, Mario, and the Mushroom Kingdom to defend it against God Mode Luigi.
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* VoidBetweenTheWorlds: Seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qq7DIPrzAc The Void between Worlds]], a dimension where objects and enemies from many different games appear. Staying too long causes your soul to be lost.
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* DemonicPossession: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOlX54PTcyE God Mode Luigi vs the Stone Statues Temple]], it's revealed that [[spoiler:Luigi himself is possessed by an evil entity that grants him godlike abilities]].
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* HostileShowTakeover: At the end of "God Mode Luigi vs the Cavern of Arrows," [[spoiler:Luigi becomes too powerful for Level UP to despawn, defeats the creator, and takes over the channel]].
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* MiniMe: Some videos have characters and their Tiny counterparts working together to solve puzzles.


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* RaceAgainstTheClock: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ryn60wypo Mario finds a Mega Mushroom but never stops growing]] has Mario slowly growing after eating a Mega Mushroom and having to navigate a level quickly before his new size turns against him.
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* ZombieApocalypse: The "Mario and the Zombie Apocalypse" videos have him and Toadette trying to survive an ever-evolving wave of undead, which are eventually led by [[spoiler:Zombie Toadette]].
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IyiQgl-57s Goomba's Balloon Gets Stuck in a Tree]] stars a Goomba as the protagonist.
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* ContinuityNod: Several places Luigi passes through in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WISDmoGnWFs Bowser Kidnaps Daisy and then this happened]] are from older videos, including the Giant BOOM Box maze and the submarine video.


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* RedEyesTakeWarning: When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WISDmoGnWFs Bowser kidnaps Daisy]], Luigi's eyes turn red and he stretches himself to his limits to save her.
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* RiseToTheChallenge: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BFtr09eJ_Y Mario's Rising Lava Escape]] has him try to escape a room full of rising lava.

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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: When Mario touches a Colossal Mushroom he grows so big he straddles the planet.

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When Mario touches a Colossal Mushroom he grows so big he straddles the planet.planet.
** Balloon Bowser is a gigantic inflatable version of the Koopa King.



** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA_FVDfo4EI If Fighting Bowser Had An Impossible Mode 2]] has Bowser defeat Mario on every single life.

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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA_FVDfo4EI If Fighting Bowser Had An Impossible Mode 2]] has Bowser defeat Mario on every single life. Balloon Bowser gives Mario a similar treatment.


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* DefeatEqualsExplosion: Balloon enemies explode shortly after defeat if they weren't already popped. Said explosion is also rather violent and can result in a TakingYouWithMe if the victim is within vicinity.


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* GlassCannon: Balloon enemies can be easily popped by sharp or sufficiently heavy objects, but some of the bigger ones otherwise have little problem tearing through walls and will make their victims meet an explosive end.


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* StrongerThanTheyLook: Balloon enemies and their attacks. They're rather light and they pop easily. The problem is, part of their strength ''lies'' in the fact that they pop easily since their explosion can result in a TakingYouWithMe.

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: The Goombas in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WciPi0GXubQ Level UP: Mario vs the Giant BOOM Block Maze]] realize that they have no way of leaving the BOOM Block after Mario evades them.



* HeroicMime: Much like in canon, Mario doesn't speak in full sentences and only speaks in occasional catchphrases and grunts. He along with Luigi and Yoshi are the only characters to never have speech bubbles. {{Subverted}} in "If Peach and Mario switched places," "Mario Kart in a Nutshell," and "Mario's Mega Grrrol Escape," the latter in which Mario is fully voiced.

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* HeroicMime: Much like in canon, Mario doesn't speak in full sentences and only speaks in occasional catchphrases and grunts. He along with Luigi and Yoshi are the only characters to never have speech bubbles. {{Subverted}} in "If Peach and Mario switched places," "Mario Kart in a Nutshell," and "Mario's Mega Grrrol Escape," Escape". As of the latter in which latter, Mario is now fully voiced.voiced in a few episodes and in every outro where he appears.



* NowYouTellMe: Needless to say, in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WciPi0GXubQ Level UP: Mario vs the Giant BOOM Block Maze]] Mario's quite disappointed when the game tells him to never hit or break the big BOOM block ''after'' he dies to it.
-->'''Mario:''' ''Now'' you tell me?



* SpecialGuest: [[https://www.youtube.com/c/SlickFrame Slick Frame]], known for his "Ask Mario" series, voices Mario in the 200 episode special. Mario would continue to use this voice in the outros of the videos he appears in.

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* SpecialGuest: [[https://www.youtube.com/c/SlickFrame Slick Frame]], known for his "Ask Mario" series, voices Mario in the 200 episode special. Mario would continue to use this voice in the outros of the later videos he appears in.
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* ShaggyDogStory: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1XJkif55pY Mario's 1-Up Mayhem]] has Mario seeing a difficult challenge and gathering many 1-Up Mushrooms to help him... only to learn the challenge was extremely easy and not losing a single life.
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* RecycledInSpace: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4NKS-HKn98 This video]] transports Luigi, Goombas, and Bowser into outer space, and Luigi still wins by doing absolutely nothing.
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* ActionizedAdaptation: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPbSCneiCNE Red's Boulder Badge Calamity]] imagines the Pokemon world as having lethal obstacle courses to get a badge, with Red having to traverse pits, hostile Pokemon, and more.

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* ActionizedAdaptation: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPbSCneiCNE Red's Boulder Badge Calamity]] imagines and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOr7T86MevQ Cascade Badge Calamity]] imagine the Pokemon world as having lethal obstacle courses to get a badge, with Red having to traverse pits, hostile Pokemon, and more.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Mario has several moves from different games including ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', Goombas know multiple parkour skills, and Koopa Troopas can throw their shells and catch them.

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* CreatorCameo: Nelly's AuthorAvatar appears in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nax7kBUI9So Zombie Mario's Maze Mayhem]]

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* CreatorCameo: Nelly's (Level UP) AuthorAvatar appears in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nax7kBUI9So Zombie Mario's Maze Mayhem]]Mayhem]] as one of the zombies Zombie Mario awakens.


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* NotSoStoic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nax7kBUI9So Zombie Mario's Maze Mayhem]] shows a zombie Goomba being saddened over being unable to jump high enough to reach a pipe. Zombie Mario promptly comes back through the pipe to help him through.


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* TooDumbToLive: Zombified characters tend to be unable to progress because they don't know that they can't jump. Either they're told by a more intelligent zombie how to do something or they learn through trial and error.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The zombies are surprisingly sociable with each other, even if only exclusively each other. Zombie Peach takes it a step further and gives the living Mario a cake.
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* BodyBackupDrive: This is how extra lives work in some episodes. If Mario died by zombification, his old body will remain even when he respawns and it may try to attack him. One Mario zombie somehow even gets his own extra lives.

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* CreatorCameo: Nelly's AuthorAvatar appears in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nax7kBUI9So Zombie Mario's Maze Mayhem]]



** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nax7kBUI9So Zombie Mario's Maze Mayhem]] has one of Mario's zombified bodies as the main character, along with other infected characters.



* SpecialGuest: [[https://www.youtube.com/c/SlickFrame Slick Frame]], known for his "Ask Mario" series, voices Mario in the 200 episode special.

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* SpecialGuest: [[https://www.youtube.com/c/SlickFrame Slick Frame]], known for his "Ask Mario" series, voices Mario in the 200 episode special. Mario would continue to use this voice in the outros of the videos he appears in.
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* TheStarscream: Through a well planned out takeover, an army of Goombas led by a Goomba who consumed a Gold Mushroom took out Bowser and stole his resources, intending to collect six MacGuffins from different games to take over the world themselves.

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* TheStarscream: Through a well planned out takeover, an army of Goombas led by a Goomba who consumed a Gold Mushroom took out Bowser and stole his resources, intending to collect six MacGuffins artifacts from different games to take over the world themselves.
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* RagtagGangOfMisfits: Toad, Nurse Goomba, and Baby Yoshi team up to escape [[TheStarscream Gold Goomba's army]] took over. They go further underground the prison to bust out the rest of the prisoners to make an army to stop the revolution.

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* RagtagGangOfMisfits: RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Toad, Nurse Goomba, and Baby Yoshi team up to escape [[TheStarscream Gold Goomba's army]] took over. They go further underground the prison to bust out the rest of the prisoners to make an army to stop the revolution.
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* SpaceEpisode: Several episodes take place in the depths of outer space, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUUnGdY94Mo Pac-Man and the Asteroid Belt Maze]] having Pac-Man navigate asteroids, moons, and a planet populated by ghosts.

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* CoDragons: Magigoomba, Eyepatch Goomba, Hat Goomba, Sea Captain Goomba, and a Paragoomba serve as these to Gold Goomba.



* TheHeavy: While Gold Goomba does plenty of fighting himself, Eyepatch Goomba is the one to grief Mario the most often.



* TheStarscream: Through a well planned out takeover, an army of Goombas led by a Goomba who consumed a Gold Mushroom took out Bowser and stole his resources, intending to collect six MacGuffins from different games to take over the world themselves.



* TheStarscream: Through a well planned out takeover, an army of Goombas led by a Goomba who consumed a Gold Mushroom took out Bowser and stole his resources, intending to collect six MacGuffins to take over the world themselves.
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* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Nurse Goomba, who would normally antagonize anyone who hurts Goombas, refuses to heal them after they and Bowser arrest her for taking care of a Yoshi egg.


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* RagtagGangOfMisfits: Toad, Nurse Goomba, and Baby Yoshi team up to escape [[TheStarscream Gold Goomba's army]] took over. They go further underground the prison to bust out the rest of the prisoners to make an army to stop the revolution.


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* TheStarscream: Through a well planned out takeover, an army of Goombas led by a Goomba who consumed a Gold Mushroom took out Bowser and stole his resources, intending to collect six MacGuffins to take over the world themselves.


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* TokenGoodTeammate: Nurse Goomba is a female Goomba whose job is to rescue flattened Goombas and nurse them back to health. She normally antagonizes anyone who attacks (or she thinks attacks) Goombas, particularly Mario. However, she is the only member of Bowser's army who cares for a lost Yoshi egg she found in a rainy day and she is jailed along with the egg for taking care of the offspring of a species that Bowser's army antagonizes, leading to her teaming up with Toad to stop the Goomba Revolution.
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* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Characters like Mario and Luigi have several lives, as well as sometimes Bowser and certain [[VillainProtagonist enemy protagonists]]. Even if Mario loses all of his lives, he'll still be able to come back, but he'll be kicked out of the mission he's in and will have less lives when he continues. Seems to be averted in the Mariocraft and The Goomba Revolution story arcs, where in the former Mario and Bowser are actually in risk of getting killed by either Magikoopa or the Minecraft world, and in the latter

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* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Characters like Mario and Luigi have several lives, as well as sometimes Bowser and certain [[VillainProtagonist enemy protagonists]]. Even if Mario loses all of his lives, he'll still be able to come back, but he'll be kicked out of the mission he's in and will have less lives when he continues. Seems to be averted in the Mariocraft and The Goomba Revolution story arcs, where in the former Mario and Bowser are actually in risk of getting killed by either Magikoopa or the Minecraft world, and in the latterlatter, Bowser is temporarily taken out of commission for a while after being overthrown.

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* AudienceParticipation: The one million subscribers video was a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0uUZ5D_-io collaboration]] with fans, using many of their suggestions in the video.

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