#square cloud

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Square Cloud

Debut: New Super Mario Bros. Wii

The Mario franchise is no stranger to smiling clouds! In fact, it's a close neighbor! A very good friend! Maybe even something more? Ooh la la! But the fact of the matter is, these clouds are almost always Puffs. That's the perfect cloud shape! Fluffy and cute, and delightful to boot. In the case of Mario, the smiling clouds tend to have a rather condensed form, often needing to adhere to a square sprite canvas.

Even then, though, the fluffiness of the cloud is never compromised. Not even in the original Super Mario Bros., where some clouds were Blocks! This is still, without question, a Cloud. A lot of that is owed to the smile. Clouds are happy, and that's that! Except for when they're raining, because that means they're sad. If you're wondering why this hasn't been part of any science class you've taken, that's because no school teaches or has ever taught Cloud Biology. If you try to suggest it to the administration, they laugh at you and ask you to leave. I know this because my friend tried it once. It's so demeaning, it made me never want to show my face on that campus ever again. O-out of respect for the friend. So for now, we sadly must dissect preserved clouds on our own time.

Anyway, the Super Mario series had a pretty good run of compact-yet-not-quite-square smiling clouds for about 24 years. I think that demonstrates a commendable amount of restraint, considering how often clouds can be blocks in this line of work! Then New Super Mario Bros. Wii came along and made a Square Cloud. Was this throwing away the legacy of all the previous non-square clouds? No, it was not. Have some faith in new ideas. What this IS, is Funny! Look at it! I'm going to show you it up close again!

This is just a goofy looking thing. A white square with a face. Not fluffy or puffy at all! This looks like a marshmallow. And yet, when you look at it, you just Know it's a cloud. That's the kind of face a cloud has. The Mario series has conditioned us to recognize the face of a cloud. People think it's crazy when wasps are able to recognize human faces, but we recognize cloud faces! Animals aren't supposed to do that!

The true reason for this cloud being so totally blockular is to tell you that you should hit it from below. That's what you do with blocks, that's how you get the goods. And when you hit it, it turns into a Nice Lakitu! There was an entire turtle compacted into this square all along, and he's so happy to be free that he throws coins at you. I don't think I would feel comfortable accepting money from him after the pain he's surely been through in that square. I think he should buy himself a little something nice. But clearly, he's a generous fellow, and more people should be like him!

If you looked at Square Cloud from the side, it might look like this! A cube with some lips. Kiss it on them.

[manfrommarsworld]

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