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Unused "sad Mario running with an empty tin of cookies" sprite, found in the data of the NES version of Yoshi's Cookie.

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Concept art for the 2023 Super Mario Bros. movie.

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Most games that have a dialogue system making use of more than one text style have an internal markup system (similar to e.g. HTML tags) used to determine properties of the text, such as size, color etc. inside the message.

In the Super Mario Galaxy games, some of these tags are not merely redundant but outright self-defeating, so that one tag may change the text properties only to be immediately undone by a different tag changing them to something else.

The image shows a baffling example of a message in Super Mario Galaxy 2 that visually changes color 5 times (starting with black, to red, to black, to blue and finally back to black), which would normally need no more than 5 color change tags.

However, internally, the game instead changes the color 10 times, including multiple times in a row into the same color. This messy implementation is likely a remnant of various rewrites of the original message whereby the tags were never cleaned up between revisions.

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Super Mario Drive, a 1993 battery car from Japan. Despite the nonstandard striped mushroom design and Yoshi's expression creating the impression of this being an unlicensed product, this ride is in fact officially licensed.

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Officially licensed 2002 shirt embroidered with "Super Mario" on the front.

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Behind-the-scenes photo of an unknown woman working on music or sound effects for Super Mario Bros. 3 in 1988.

While no one except Koji Kondo is credited in the "sound" section of the game's credits, it is possible that this is Soyo Oka, known most prominently for her Super Mario Kart soundtrack, who was hired the previous year. She has worked with Koji Kondo and has in fact studied his work before even joining Nintendo, so it is possible that she either did a small uncredited amount of composing work to help him on Super Mario Bros. 3, or is merely doing some technical sound programming instead of directly composing (also uncredited).

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The "Mario in Real Time" Mario head, known widely from its prominent appearance in Mario Teaches Typing 2, appearing briefly during a 1993 Philadelphia Flyers hockey match due to a Nintendo sponsorship.

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Officially licensed 2024 Mario and Luigi plushes with removable hats, from Japan.

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Graphics of unique drawings of a Cheep Cheep, a Goomba, a Boo and a Wiggler, extracted from the files of the "Double Vision" minigame in Mario Party DS.

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On the Coconut Mall track in Mario Kart Wii, the skybox outside the mall only has clouds near the horizon, and a completely clear blue sky directly above the track.

However, when inside, a sky with many clouds can be seen through the glass roof of the mall, when there should not be any clouds in the sky in those locations according to the sky outside.

This is accomplished by surrounding the glass roof with a fake sky that has more clouds than the real sky, which is shown at the end of the loop in the footage. It is possible that the developers thought that a glass roof would look more visually appealing if many clouds could be seen through it. However, why they opted to not make the two skies match is unknown.

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Truck used to promote a 1999 Donkey Kong 64 Nintendo/Blockbuster Video event called "The Beast Is Back Tour".

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I love Madohomu not because I think Madoka and Homura would actually make a good couple and would be good for each other, but because their relationship is so beautifully tragic. What if Satan became a fallen angel not because he would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven, but because he loved God too much, loved him in a way he could never be loved back? Madoka loves Homura in the way that God loves all his children. Homura loves Madoka in the way that only a true devout loves her God, in a way that goes beyond admiration to the point of infatuation. Homura loves her God so much she wished to bring her down to earth so she could love her as humans love each other. She loved her God so much she became a blasphemer, a fallen angel. PMMM said what if Paradise Lost was Yuri and that goes so incredibly hard I'm still thinking about it years later.

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sometimes a girl just needs "Garden of Glass" on her dashboard

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Officially licensed 2015 claw machine-exclusive Shy Boo plush from Japan.

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