History VideoGame / SuperMarioBros2

* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Pluckable Bombs are a common item that are found in grass patches and can be used to blow up walls and destroy enemies. Mouser also uses Bombs as his main weapon of choice. Players have to be careful using bombs however, because they cause damage to anything in the blast radius, including [[HoistByHisOwnPetard your own character]]!

* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Pluckable Bombs are a common item that are found in grass patches and can be used to blow up walls and destroy enemies. Mouser also uses Bombs as his main weapon of choice. Players have to be careful using bombs however, because they cause damage to anything in the blast radius, including [[HoistByYHisOwnPetard your own character]]!

* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Pluckable Bombs are a common item that are found in grass patches and can be used to blow up walls and destroy enemies. Mouser also uses Bombs as his main weapon of choice. Players have to be careful using bombs however, because they cause damage to anything in the blast radius, including [[HoistByYourOwnPetard your own character]]!

* TooDumbToLive: Sure Wart, fight the PlayerCharacter [[BossArenaIdiocy while the malfunctioning/rebellious Dream Machine is tossing out vegetables everywhere]] when your [[WeaksauceWeakness one weakness is vegetables]], and your primary form of attack is to [[TacticalSuicideBoss open your mouth to spit bubbles]]. How, exactly, did you think this would go well for you? Bonus idiot points for the Dream Machine being ''right in front of you''.

* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: In World 2-2 where you must dig through sand, it's possible to force yourself into a dead-end by digging up every sand block until they're out of your jumping range. Since the game has no timer, you're stuck there. The only way out without resetting the game is to use the suicide code (Up+A+B on the second controller). This provides the trope image. ''Advance'' also adds a vase to the bottom, and entering and exiting it will respawn the sand, making it impossible to trap yourself in the first place.

* FlashOfPain: Bosses when damaged. The sound effect is sligthly different from ''Doki doki Panic'', due to the more primitive sound chip of the NES compared to that of the Famicon Disk System. The flash rapidly varies through shades of white, green and pink.

* BettingMiniGame: The Bonus Chance after completing a level through a Mask Gate and not by warping. In ''Advance'', the player can wager multiple coins at once to earn a multiplied amount of lives.

** The instruction manual of the NES game described Birdo as "[thinking] he's a girl who'd rather be called Birdetta". This line was removed in the instruction manual of the game's rereleases, and other games featuring Birdo simply refer to her as female to properly acknowledge her gender identity.

* KingMook: Clawgrip is revealed in the ''Advance'' version to be a Sidestepper (the crustacean enemy from the arcade ''VideoGame/MarioBros'') that grows in size and strength thanks to the power of Wart's bubbles. This version also introduces Robirdo, a MechanicalMonster modeled after Birdo.

[[DescribeTopicHere Describe Doki Doki Panic, uh... Super Mario USA, um... Super Mario Bros. 2 here.]]

* OddballInTheSeries: One of the first video game examples. However, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools it was well enough received]] that many of the gameplay elements and enemies were incorporated into following games.

--> '''Mouser:''' "[[TotallyRadical No Way!]]"
--> '''Tryclyde:''' "IM-POSSIBLE!"
--> '''Birdo/Robirdo:''' "How could you?"
--> '''Wart:''' NO! [[VerbalTic Ribbit!]] NOOOOOO!

* SteamVentObstacle: The geysers of water spouted by the Whales in World 4 hurts upon contact. It's still [[BlownUpwardsByABlowhole safe to stand on]], however.

* BlownUpwardByABlowhole: One screen of World 4-2 features a pod of whales that sporadically spurt water from their blowholes. The player can jump on the tops of these water spouts to reach the other platforms in the area. The spouts are apparently so high pressure that if you touch the sides of them, you'll take damage.

* SteamVentObstacle: The geysers of water spouted by the Whales in World 4 hurts upon contact. It's still safe to stand on, however.

*** Second, you find out immediately that you can't hurt enemies by jumping on them, and since a player will be familiar with the run button (which worked as the fireball button in the previous game), they will likely find out right away that you can pick up an enemy when you're moving or running on them, and since a second enemy is nearby, the player may realize he can attack him by throwing the Shyguy they're holding. Naturally, this new discovery may encourage the player to see if he can grab other objects, such as the nearest patch of grass, which gives you a throwable vegetable.

* AbsenteeActor: One of the few ''Mario'' platform games to not have Bowser as the BigBad, and one of the very few in the whole ''franchise'' where he doesn't appear at all.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: During the conversion from ''VideoGame/DokiDokiPanic'', the Big Face item (a ganguro head) was changed to a Koopa shell due to its high resemblance to {{Blackface}}.

* CartoonBomb: Mouser throws these and you can occasionally throw them too.

%%* GasMaskMooks: The bullet-spitting Snifits.

* WombLevel: World 5-3. Your character has to make his or her way up the insides of a giant tree.

''Super Mario Bros. 2'', originally released in 1988 in North America, 1989 in Europe and Australia, and 1992 in Japan, is the third installment in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series. It revolves about Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Peach (known in the West as Princess Toadstool back in the day) travelling to the land of Subcon to save it from the tyranny of Wart, which has turned it into a land of nightmares. In a literal sense, because he gained his power by corrupting the Dream Machine. Interestingly, this mission was entrusted to Mario by way of a strange dream, in which one of the land's inhabitants begged the famed plumber for his help. This means that Subcon is a DreamLand, to which Mario and company access through a gateway identical to the one seen in the aforementioned dream; hence why many of the events and situations they'll experience, as well as the enemies they'll face (especially ''how'' they're faced, since GoombaStomp no longer works), differ greatly from what Mario and his friends were used to until that point.

* CollisionDamage: Running into enemies results in your character losing a hexagon/heart, and their reaction determines how much they have left (Shrinking when they have one hit point left). Its even lampshaded with the game's Stop Watch item, which [[TimeStandsStill freezes all the action]] when you pick it up. Yes, you take damage from enemies, even when they're not even ''moving''.

** Though Birdo's artwork already despicted her with a red ribbon on top of her head, the ribbon is absent in her in-game sprite, likely due to technical limitations (this was later rectified in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioAllStars'', which was released on the more powerful SNES). Also, as shown in the Japanese commercial of ''All-Stars'' itself, Birdo was originally paired with Wart, while in later ''Mario'' games she's paired with Yoshi instead (making more sense since both are dinosaurs).

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Anything that moves in Subcon is not your friend. Aside from Wart's goons, there's homicidal cactus creatures in the desert, fireball-spewing flowers, and surly porcupines. Even the passive, non-threatening whales in World 4 are dangerous, as the geysers of water they spew out hurts Mario and crew on contact.

* EvolvingTitleScreen: In ''Advance'', a red sky and a Yoshi egg are added to the title screen after Wart has been defeated. Completing the "Yoshi's Challenge" hatches the egg to a full-grown Yoshi. Depending when all Ace Coins are collected, the egg or Yoshi turn red.

* GiantEnemyCrab: Clawgrip, the boss of World 5. It throws large, heavy rocks at Mario and his friends, who have to carefully grab the rocks from above and throw threm back at it (their weight means that trying to grab them from below only results in taking damage).

* TheGoomba: Shyguys, though the Tweeters are just as weak and non threatening.

** Fryguy in World 4-3 splits up into smaller fireballs after you hit him a few times, which can catch first time players off guard after being used to bosses being defeated after a few hits.

* LockedDoor: This is the first ''Mario'' game to implement doors, including locked ones and the keys that open them. The majority of the locked doors are in the dungeon levels (the ones housing the worlds' bosses). They can be opened by taking the keys to them, but during the process Phanto will continuously chase the characters.

* MercyInvincibility: What happens every time you get hit, along with knockback. However, the invincibility frames still tick down as the screen scrolls vertically, which means it can run out during scrolling and you can get blindsided without anyway to recover.
* MookMaker: Certain vases throughout the game spit out a constant and endless stream of Shyguys or Bob-Ombs. Placing a Mushroom block on top of the vase stops the stream, or it can can destroyed with a explosion.

* QuicksandSucks: Desert levels have two types; the first takes about 7-10 seconds to completely suck you in and is quite easy to jump out of, the second (sand ''waterfalls'') takes half as long as the first and renders attempting to jump out a hopeless endeavor, though fortunately the first type is typically near it. There's even a shortcut late in the game that involves going in almost to your cranium.

* ShockAndAwe: Beware of the Sparks, whose [[TheSpiny spiny]] status is justified due them being electrical beings that constantly race around platforms in the towers and castles. In ''Advance'', actually touching the Sparks causes the entire screen to flash briefly to indicate your character being shocked as they take damage.

* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: In World 2-2 where you must dig through sand, it's possible to force yourself into a dead end by digging up every sand block until they're out of your jumping range. Since the game has no timer, you're stuck there. The only way out without resetting the game is to use the suicide code (Up+A+B on the second controller). This provides the trope image. ''Advance'' also adds a vase to the bottom, and entering and exiting it will respawn the sand, making it impossible to trap yourself in the first place.

* UnsoundEffect: "BOMB!" Doubles as AccidentallyCorrectWriting, since "bomb" comes from Ancient Greek onomotopoeia referring to a booming[[labelnote:*]]or a humming, but that meaning doesn't apply.[[/labelnote]]

* DreamLand: Subcon may or [[AllJustADream may not]] really exist. According to ''BS Super Mario USA'', it does.

* CollisionDamage: Lampshaded with the game's Stop Watch item, which [[TimeStandsStill freezes all the action]] when you pick it up. Yes, you take damage from enemies, even when they're not ''moving''.