In Super Mario Odyssey, the cutscene of Mario flying the Odyssey for the first time from the Cascade Kingdom to the Sand Kingdom assumes that Mario will be in his regular outfit and that he will be wearing the Captain’s Hat, since he should not have any access to other clothing at that point in the game. Due to this assumption, the game employs models in this scene that are not used when Mario’s outfit can be anything the player chooses him to wear.

By modifying the game’s code and letting Mario use the Metal Mario Suit during this scene, it is revealed that his hair used here is actually a separate copy of his regular hair. As such, the game superimposes Mario’s regular hair over Metal Mario as seen in the screenshot.

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The 2022 Holiday Tour in Mario Kart Tour used a promotional artwork that depicted Daisy as being cross-eyed. In the 2023 rerun of the same tour, the artwork was changed; while other small changes were made, the most visible one and the one most likely necessitating the update in the first place is making Daisy less cross-eyed.

The animation swaps between the 2022 image and the 2023 image every second, for comparison.

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Recreation of an extremely rare promotional Hanafuda card from the 2016 “Mario Pikachu” Japan-only cross-promotion event. As high-quality scans of the card are currently not available, this recreation was made using photos of the card instead.

It depicts Mario Pikachu emerging from what is most likely intended to be the Slowpoke Well from the 2nd generation of Pokémon games, as that well is also depicted as having a similar short ladder leaning against it in some artwork.

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Screenshots of the official Super Mario Sunshine Windows XP theme available for download from Nintendo’s official site in 2004.

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In Paper Mario: The Origami King, an elaborate series of glitches allows Bob-omb/Bobby to be duplicated up to 4 times for a party of up to 5 Bobbies following Mario around.

A humorous side effect of this is that whenever Mario takes the Eddy River minigame challenge, only one Bobby will be on the boat with him. The other Bobbies will be floating in mid-air along the river, and will be ignored by all characters (although the boat is still able to push them out of the way).

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Holiday-themed 1998 Japanese print ad for Yoshi’s Story.

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Unique illustration of Bunny Mario being shocked, from the official Japanese guide for Super Mario Land 2.

The artwork was drawn by Benimaru Itoh, known for being a comic artist for Nintendo Power, character designer/art director for the Mother series and illustrator/modeler for various Pokémon games.

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In Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story, Bowser meets the Koopa Corps, who are trapped in a cage, during the course of the game’s plot.

If the player chooses to not free them (which is highly encouraged but not actually mandatory) and ignores them instead, and then later returns to that area as Mario and Luigi, there will be obscure Easter egg dialogue from the Koopa Corps where they will first praise Bowser but then suddenly remember that he didn’t save them when he had the chance.

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Top: the empty Banana Hoard room near DK’s treehouse in Donkey Kong 64 is an area that exists purely for lore reasons (to show that his bananas were stolen) and is out of the way compared to all of the gameplay-relevant locations in that area, meaning that it is completely optional to ever see and some players would never visit it at all.

Bottom: despite this, the developers were so dedicated to providing an enjoyable experience visiting the area that they implemented a special “Funny Banana Floor” collision type (highlighted in blue) just for this room, whereby Donkey Kong would slip slightly whenever he touches a banana peel, accompanied by a funny noise.

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In Wario World, Wario sings a deliberately annoying chant on the pause screen. However, should the player stay on the pause screen for 50 minutes without closing it, Wario will say “Sorry” and stop chanting (on that instance of the pause screen; he will start again if it is closed and reopened).

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