History VideoGame / ASuperMarioThing

The game stars Demo Roseclair[[note]]and, if you choose Player 2, her slightly purpler PaletteSwap, Iris[[/note]], an [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot armless cycloptic demon alien minion]], which pretty much summarizes the nature of the game. During an attempt to purchase vegetables for her anonymous master, [[TeleporterAccident something goes wrong]] and she is sent to what appears to be the Mushroom Kingdom of the future- a BadFuture where Mario is nowhere to be seen and the world is ruled by the tyrannical [[BigBad King Charles IV]], ruler of the Charlies (Chargin' Chucks). After falling right into (or as it were, onto) a deep-seated political conflict about food and meeting up with the Yoshi resistance, Demo sets out to murder the king, who resides deep within a volcano beyond a great veil of NintendoHard platforming, item puzzles, silly ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' {{shout out}}s and other assorted obstacles.

%% * NintendoHard

** Although the game normally qualifies as a NintendoHard hack, there is one section in King Charles's Castle that first of all, disables Spin Jumps. So? Well there's a spinning Koopa Shell that you have to jump over and avoid... while in a room with a disco-light like dealing with giant spiked pillars, Thwimps, Thwomps, blocks that enemies can go through but you fall through, and Fishing Boos. raocow even calls this specific room "Hell".

* SequelGap: A nearly 10-year gap between the release of ''[=A2XT's=]'' first and second episodes.

** Semi-averted in A2MT's Smouldering Stones. While you're still not hurt for being near the lava, it does heat up the ''ground'', so you have to keep jumping frequently or else it'll burn you.

* StylisticSuck: the hardest lvl, A Terrible Level, 26th - AUS - 'Level1 - Winter City', and My First SMB Level, to varying degrees.
* SuddenDownerEnding: A2XT: Episode 1 ends with [[spoiler: the entire reality being destroyed. Very little of it is played for laughs and the credits scene is rather somber compared to the overall wacky feel of the game.]]

** [[DropTheHammer Hammer Suits]] are Gourds. Demo's transformation with this is by far the weirdest of any power-up in the game, becoming a ''[[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext barrel that throws out fish]]''.

* ItMakesSenseInContext: As raocow mentions after finding a bunch of easter eggs, the non-fans playing the games will have a lot of trouble understanding all the references. See WidgetSeries for an example.

* WidgetSeries: Inverted: [[http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm15837620 Japanese Let's Players]] seem to be utterly confused by this hack.

** ''Blue Surfer'' is pretty much a level from the infamous ''VideoGame/SilverSurfer'' video game, including walls that kill you on touch.

* StupidStatementDanceMix: The background music for "Pavlov Gold" is [=GenericCaw=]'s remix of raocow's "Yellow hurts."

* NostalgiaLevel: The Castle of Absolutely No Significance returns as a level in ''[=A2XT=]''.

* NotGoodWithPeople: Con when you try to talk to him in person.
* NintendoHard
* OneManArmy: Or armless cyclops lady.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Demo's and Iris's hair matches their respective clothing.

* ChickMagnet: GenderInverted. [[spoiler:Con and King Charles both fall for Demo. So does Kood in the prequel.]]

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: In one of the prequel's postgame levels you play as [[spoiler: VideoGame/{{T|ouhou}}ewi]].

* GottaCatchEmAll: The Parrot Coins in [=A2MT=]. Given that [[DevelopmentHell it's impossible to play every level in any given version of the game]], [[UnwinnableByMistake it's impossible to do this without cheating]].

* BubblyClouds: A whole world of them!

* InvisibleAnatomy: Demo and Iris have no arms, despite the fact they can lift shells and such just like Mario would normally.
** Fixed in the prequel; apparently they are ''very'' good at balancing something on one leg while managing to move around normally with the other.

* LethalLavaLand:
** King Charles' Castle, in parts.

''A Super Mario Thing'' is an aptly named [[GameMod ROM Hack]] of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' by Talkhaus, the community surrounding [[LetsPlay Let's Player]] LetsPlay/{{Raocow}}. Originally made as a "tribute" to his hack-related efforts, it's a game that follows his, at times, Surrealistic commentary to a T, even moreso if one doesn't know about the plethora of insider jokes with which the community could not help but fill the game. It was started and originally managed by Kristian, and later taken up in the management department by [=YoshiCookieZeus=].

The game stars Demo Roseclair[[note]]and, if you choose Player 2, her slightly purpler PaletteSwap, Iris[[/note]], an [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot armless cycloptic demon alien minion]], which pretty much summarizes the nature of the game. During an attempt to purchase vegetables for her anonymous master, [[TeleporterAccident something goes wrong]] and she is sent to what appears to be the Mushroom Kingdom of the future- a BadFuture where Mario is nowhere to be seen and the world is ruled by the tyrannical [[BigBad King Charles IV]], ruler of the Charlies (Chargin' Chucks). After falling right into (or as it were, onto) a deep-seated political conflict about food and meeting up with the Yoshi resistance, Demo sets out to murder the king, who resides deep within a volcano beyond a great veil of NintendoHard platforming, item puzzles, silly ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' {{shout out}}s and other assorted obstacles.

** Fittingly, [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Rumia and Yukari]]]] are about as close to Bullet Hell as SMW can get.

** As is ''Castle on the Moonlit Hill'', from ASMBXT. It contains everything from shell-throwing Blue Goopas to Bullet Bills to Podaboos, and even has a forced [[VideoGame/CatPlanet Little Angel Girl]] segment to better simulate the movement type from ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}''--which, unsurprisingly, provides the stage's BGM (Retribution for the Eternal Night, to be specific).

** The final battle against [[spoiler:Science]] in [=A2MBXT=], complete with a ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' theme replacing [[spoiler:the Lullaby]] which had been used for all previous fights.

* FinalBossNewDimension

** The music in Science's lair is a slowed-down version of ''[[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Legendary Illusion ~ Infinite Being]]''. [[spoiler:His final boss fight is a straight up BulletHell fight]].

* InNameOnly: One would expect a boss-level named ''"In Flandre's Skies"'' to feature a ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' boss, right? Well, wrong, the boss is actually [[spoiler:Garish and his army of cyclops goopas]].

* RuleOfSymbolism: InUniverse -- "Each Bowser represents a game [[LetsPlay/{{Raocow}} you]] don't LP." [[labelnote:Which ones?]]In order: ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', ''VideoGame/YumeNikki'', ''VideoGame/{{Jumper}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'', ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', ''Euro Truck Driving Simulator 2'', ''Hong Kong '97'', ''Lasabirdie'', ''Shadow of Ganymede'', ''Erika to Satoru no Yume Bouken'', ''VideoGame/{{Slender}}'', and ''VideoGame/WiiSports''.[[/labelnote]] Then you start shooting them with bullet bills.

** The game is basically made out of shout outs to raocow and stuff he played, such as other [[GameMod ROM Hacks]] (2chan's Vip and Wall Mix series in particular), ''VideoGame/CatPlanet'', ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' and a lot of other things.

* DummiedOut: Technically, the Yellow Submarines in the original [=ASMT=] (some appear in actual levels in the prequel). See "Unique Enemy" below.

** King Charles' Castle, potentially. Trial of Iron.

A spinoff game called ''A VideoGame/ZeldaClassic Thing'' is also [[http://talkhaus.raocow.com/viewforum.php?f=34 being made]]. Demo also originally starred in a duo of PlatformHell ROM hacks, ''What the Hell?'' and ''What the Hell? 2'', by raocow himself. One of [=A2XT=]'s plot writers has stated they take place before the rest of the series, and they occasionally receive callbacks and references in the ASMT series proper, but they are mostly unconnected otherwise. Both cyclops sisters are playable in ''Superb Demo Sisters'', a mostly unrelated ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrothers''-type [=SMBX=] game also made by the Talkhaus.

* DifficultySpike:
** In ''[=A2XT=]'', Feed has the courtesy to warn you that things will become much harder once you begin World 4. Another more subtle one happens [[spoiler:after the siblings are introduced, who now have boss fights dotted around every world map]] starting from the fifth.
** [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] and [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] by ''[=A2XT=]''s "most challenging part of the game," which is hidden in World One because the level designer snuck it in at the last second (please don't ban him). It's actually a fairly easy level for anyone experienced in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'': the numerous obstacles are easy to dodge, there are [[PowerUp Power-Ups]] scattered about, and [[spoiler:the boss is an AnticlimaxBoss]]. The person who designed the level, Septentrion Euchoreutes, [[http://youtu.be/DOejMur1_rU?t=3m37s even intended it to be a confidence booster]].