Trivia / Mario & Luigi

• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Fawful is often cited as saying "I am the mustard of your doom!" This exact phrasing never appeared in any of the games and the mustard wasn't referenced in relation to himself, but to the Evil Plan he and Cackletta were carrying out. It was also part of a longer sandwich metaphor, which is often lost, making the phrase seem even more nonsensical than intended.
• Creator-Driven Successor: To Super Mario RPG in a sense, although said game features completely different gameplay mechanics and character roster, its director and producer moved to work under different company AlphaDream and created this series. A few nods to Super Mario RPG have appeared through the series as well:
  • A Geno doll appears in the Star 'Stache Smash minigame in the GBA version of the first game.
  • There is a Koopa Shell Bros. Item in the second game onwards which is used by kicking it to the enemy, similar to Mario's Nok Nok (Koopa Troopa) Shell weapon.
  • Bowser's Castle and troops are taken over once again just like in SMRPG in the third game, and Bowser returns as a playable character in an RPG.
  • All of the games' soundtracks were composed by Yoko Shimomura, who also composed SMRPG's music, and some pieces have small musical nods to SMRPG in them.
• Creator Killer: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr's Journey sold so poorly that it bankrupted series developer AlphaDream, together with increasing development costs.
• Franchise Killer: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey was a devastating flop in sales. The poor sales along with the increasing development costs caused the team behind the series, AlphaDream, to declare bankruptcy on October 1st, 2019, leaving the fate of the series itself uncertain.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Superstar Saga (The Original GBA version) is the only one safe from this fate (due to being available on Switch Online). Every other game isn't.
• The Other Darrin: Coinciding with the vocal changes in the main Mario series, Bowser and Peach's voice actors have changed a couple of times throughout the series:
  • In the first two games, Bowser was voiced by Scott Burns. Starting with Bowser's Inside Story, however, he's voiced by Kenny James.
  • Peach went from Jen Taylor (Superstar Saga) to Nicole Mills (Partners in Time) to Samantha Kelly (Bowser's Inside Story onwards).

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