YMMV / Super Mario Adventures

• Catharsis Factor: Princess Toadstool going from being a Damsel in Distress to one hell of an Action Girl is pretty epic.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Princess Toadstool, due to being an Adaptational Badass.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Writer/translator Leslie Swan, who worked on the Super Mario Adventures comic, has voiced two female characters in the Mario series: Princess Peach in International versions of Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64, and Mona from the WarioWare series (until she was replaced by Stephanie Sheh starting with Gold). Now note the sequence where the Princess shows up as part of a pizza delivery, matching Mona's employment in Twisted. Better yet, the delivery was made by Yoshi, making him a Pizza Dinosaur.
  • One panel has Luigi staring intensely at Friendly Floyd in manner not unlike the (in)famous "Luigi Death Stare" meme spawned by Mario Kart 8.
  • A plot with Bowser kidnapping the Princess with the intent to marry was originally in the Super Mario Bros. anime, and would later be his in-game motivation. Peach can also be seen holding a bouquet of Piranha Plants in one panel.
• Inferred Holocaust: Toad is never seen after the eighth episode. Then we remember that Bowser threatened to turn the Princess' people into stone if she said no to his marriage request. Though as long as there are people like the Minister of Massage around, maybe not.
• Older Than They Think:
  • This comic was also one of the earliest media forms to show Peach's castle and her royal court.
  • The characters in Super Mario Adventures display some of the personality traits that would define them in later games — traits such as Luigi's cowardliness and fear of ghosts, Peach's willingness to fight to save Mario (which she does in Super Princess Peach), as well as the misconception that Yoshi can only say his name.
  • Mario crashing a shotgun wedding, as well as a homicidal wedding cake.
  • Also Luigi dressing as Peach.
  • In the first Mario vs. Wario comic, Mario is revealed to be only 20-something years old (it's been 20 years since he saw Wario, last time he did they were small children), long before Super Smash Bros. Melee confirmed his age at ~26.
  • Bowser has a Magikoopa acting as an advisor, four years before "Kamek" was introduced^note Kamek is the name used for all Magikoopas in Japanese and certain European languages, but one has a notable role in Yoshi's Island.
  • This comic was also the origin of "Weege(e)" (used here as Mario's affectionate nickname for Luigi), long before the Mario Is Missing! meme^note Or the Mario & Luigi RPGs, for that matter. In the second game, if Baby Luigi is knocked out, Baby Mario will cry out "Weegee!!"..
  • Wario's introduction to Mario towards the end of Mario vs. Wario: "It's me, Wario!" Jump forward three years and Mario would introduce himself in a similar way. And then another eleven years in Wario Ware Smooth Moves with another twist to it as "It's-a Wii! Wario!"
  • A stampeding herd of Yoshis, before it became part of the intro from Super Smash Bros. Melee and then Yoshi's Final Smash in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
• Sacred Cow: You're unlikely gonna see much criticism towards the manga at all as it is widely beloved by the fandom to where it's considered to be the best Mario adaptation by many (especially in the west).
• Spoiled by the Format: The trade's table of contents reveals in advance that chapter eight has more than two pages, making its premature The End card less convincing... Though considering the comic purposely sets up the fake ending as a joke, this isn't a problem.

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