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* UnderwaterCity: Mertroplis from the episode "The Ugly Mermaid". It was a bizarre case in that the city was inside a large dome with air inside, despite the merfolk not being able to breathe air, which meant they walked around wearing fishbowls filled with water.

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* UnderwaterCity: Mertroplis from the episode "The Ugly Mermaid". It was a bizarre case in that the city was inside a large dome with air inside, despite the native merfolk not being able to breathe air, which meant they walked around wearing fishbowls filled with water.

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* FishPeople: The episode "The Ugly Mermaid" features a race of water-breathing fish people who live in a domed city under the water.

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* FishPeople: The episode "The Ugly Mermaid" features a race of water-breathing fish people who live in a domed city under the water. Strangely, the fish-peolpe can't breath air, yet they fill their dome with air and walk around with fishbowls filled with water to breathe.



* MermaidProblem: In one episode Mario was rescued by a mermaid named Holly Mackerel, who fell in love with him. Complicating matters was the fact that [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent she was a reverse mermaid]], and that she saw him in his Frog Suit, which made her think he was a frog.

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* MermaidProblem: In one episode Mario was rescued by a mermaid named Holly Mackerel, who fell in love with him. Complicating matters was the fact that she was closer in appearance to the Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon than a [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent she was a reverse mermaid]], typical mermaid,]] and the fact that she saw him Mario in his Frog Suit, which made her think he was a frog.



* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: In "The Ugly Mermaid" Mario met a tribe of mermaids who are fishy on top but have human legs. They can also only breathe water and need water-filled bubble helmets out of it. For some reason they live in an air-filled dome, yet King Koopa flooding it's treated like a bad thing.

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* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: In "The Ugly Mermaid" Mario met a tribe of mermaids "mermaids" who are fishy on top but have human legs.resemble the Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon. They can also only breathe water and need water-filled bubble helmets out of it. For some reason they live in an air-filled dome, yet King Koopa flooding it's treated like a bad thing.


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* UnderwaterCity: Mertroplis from the episode "The Ugly Mermaid". It was a bizarre case in that the city was inside a large dome with air inside, despite the merfolk not being able to breathe air, which meant they walked around wearing fishbowls filled with water.
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* OffModel: As with the Super Show, Mario and Luigi still appear off model with their overalls and shirts having the colors swapped, despite that the appearance they have today was used in the game this cartoon was based on. The show also frequently miscolors the Koopa Kids' heads or mixes up their sizes.

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* OffModel: As with the Super Show, Mario and Luigi still appear off model with their overalls and shirts having the colors swapped, despite that the appearance they have today was used in the game this cartoon was based on. The show also frequently miscolors the Koopa Kids' heads or mixes up their sizes. There is an extremely severe case of this near the end "Mind Your Mummy, Mario" in which Hip and Hop are drawn with noticeably plump bodies and elongated snouts.
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* OffModel: As with the Super Show, Mario and Luigi still appear off model with their overalls and shirts having the colors swapped, despite that the appearance they have today was used in the game this cartoon was based on.

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* OffModel: As with the Super Show, Mario and Luigi still appear off model with their overalls and shirts having the colors swapped, despite that the appearance they have today was used in the game this cartoon was based on. The show also frequently miscolors the Koopa Kids' heads or mixes up their sizes.
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* BagOfKidnapping: In a rare villain example, this happens to the Koopa Kids in "Crimes R Us". Crimewave Clyde and the Mario Bros. throw them in a dollar-sign bag bound and gagged and sends it to Koopa in the Doomship.

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* BagOfKidnapping: In a rare villain example, this happens to the Koopa Kids in "Crimes R Us". Crimewave Clyde and the Mario Bros. throw them in a dollar-sign bag bag, bound and gagged and sends gagged, then send it to Koopa in the Doomship.
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* GadgeteerGenius: Kooky can build machines that do just about anything, but Luigi has also been shown to built complex machinery on a few occasions.

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* GadgeteerGenius: Kooky can build machines that do just about anything, but Luigi has also been shown to built build complex machinery on a few occasions.
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* TheFullNameAdventuresTheFullNameAdventures: The Adventures of '''Super Mario''' Bros. 3.



* GadgeteerGenius: Luigi.

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* GadgeteerGenius: Luigi.Kooky can build machines that do just about anything, but Luigi has also been shown to built complex machinery on a few occasions.
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* AffablyEvil: King Koopa, in contrast to his FauxAffablyEvil nature in Super Show and his CardCarryingVillain status, he actually does genuinely care about the Koopa Kids. He especially loves Kootie Pie to the point where he'd conquer America for her if she asked for it, just to make her happy, though even he knows how to discipline them when needed.

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* AffablyEvil: King Koopa, in contrast to his FauxAffablyEvil nature in Super Show and his CardCarryingVillain status, he actually does genuinely care about the Koopa Kids. He especially loves Kootie Pie to the point where he'd conquer America for her if she asked for it, just to make her happy, and stop whinning, though even he knows how to discipline them when needed.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: According to the show's backstory, the Mario Bros.' last encounter with King Koopa ended with him being chased into a Banishment Zone, where he was sealed away with 10,000 bricks. This notably does not happen at any point in ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''.
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* FishPeople: The episode "The Ugly Mermaid" features a race of water-breathing fish people who live in a domed city under the water.
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* PaperThinDisguise: The episode "Reign Storm" has Kooky building a robot look-alike of Princess Toadstool to bring ruin to the Mushroom Kingdom and then turn it over to King Koopa. Somehow, Mario and Luigi are completely fooled by the robot, despite it having obvious robotic lines on its arms and [[RoboSpeak speaking in a voice so monotone that anyone with ears could tell it wasn't the real Princess]].)

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* PaperThinDisguise: The episode "Reign Storm" has Kooky building a robot look-alike of Princess Toadstool to bring ruin to the Mushroom Kingdom and then turn it over to King Koopa. Somehow, Mario and Luigi are completely fooled by the robot, despite it having obvious robotic lines on its arms and [[RoboSpeak speaking in a voice so monotone that anyone with ears could tell it wasn't the real Princess]].)
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* DiabolicalDogCatcher: The episode "Life's Ruff" features a dog catcher dead set on catching a pair of dogs, who happen to be a transformed Luigi and King Windbag, and locking them away in his "Poochitentiary."

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* MoralDissonance: In the episode "7 Continents for 7 Koopas", Bully Koopa grafittis the Great Wall of China. How does Mario solve this? [[ScaledUp He turns the wall into a dragon.]] That's more of a problem than what Bully originally did to it.
** He also floods the Louvre to fix the artwork that Kootie Pie ruined.

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* MoralDissonance: In the episode Several times in "7 Continents for 7 Koopas", Koopas":
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Bully Koopa grafittis the Great Wall of China. How does Mario solve this? [[ScaledUp He turns the wall into a dragon.]] That's more of a problem than what Bully originally did to it.
** He Mario also floods the Louvre to fix the artwork that Kootie Pie ruined.



* NearVillainVictory: Koopa came THIS close to winning in "Never Koop A Koopa". He had ''everyone'' captured and at the mercy of Bob-Ombs...and lost cause Cheatsy decided to cheat him.
** He came as close in "Crimes R Us". The entire Mushroom Kingdom Treasury could have been Koopa's for the taking had it not been for Crimewave Clyde foiling the Koopa Kids' plan to destroy him and his subsequent HeelFaceTurn.

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* NearVillainVictory: MushroomHouse: The Toads live in large mushrooms, which in this case are solid brown and with upturned caps with purple gills, with doors in their stems and windows in their caps.
* NearVillainVictory:
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Koopa came THIS comes very close to winning in "Never Koop A a Koopa". He had ''everyone'' has everyone captured and at the mercy of Bob-Ombs...Bob-Ombs... and lost loses cause Cheatsy decided to cheat him.
** He came comes as close in "Crimes R Us". The entire Mushroom Kingdom Treasury could have been Koopa's for the taking had it not been for Crimewave Clyde foiling the Koopa Kids' plan to destroy him and his subsequent HeelFaceTurn.

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* AdaptationalBadass: Princess Toadstool, in stark contrast to most of her game appearances up to that point. "Reign Storm" ends with her surfing into the castle and taking her crown back with a harpoon gun, amongst other moments.

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* AdaptationalBadass: While in the game itself, Princess Toadstool, Toadstool is back to being a full time DamselInDistress, here she is still an active and cunning heroine as she was in stark contrast ''Super Show'', only occasionally needing to most of her game appearances up to that point.be rescued. "Reign Storm" ends with her surfing into the castle and taking her crown back with a harpoon gun, amongst other moments.


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* RunningGagged: After the odd attempt to maintain it early on, this series largely ditched the genre parody format of ''Super Show'', choosing for more conventional adventures.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** Mario and friends enjoy some wine at the beginning of "Never Koop a Koopa."
** In the german dub of "Kootie Pie for president", Big Mouth calls his sister a Schlampe (slut).

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* MsFanservice: Princess Toadstool.



* PantyShot: Princess Toadstool in "Up, Up, and a Koopa". In one frame, her white panties are inadvertently exposed in full frontal view when her castle shakes and causes her and Toad to fall back. The previous series also gave her one, but that was bloomers, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar this one not so]]...

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-->'''Toad:''' Another bag? Wait a second! Then Koopa ''didn't'' steal it! And the orphans had it all along! Then I didn’t need to... AAAAHH!



* HelpImStuck: When the crank breaks off the Doom Dancer Music Box, Koopa gets his claw caught in the hole. It falls off the Doomship and gets destroyed when Cheatsy, Big Mouth and Bully pry it off.

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* HelpImStuck: When the crank breaks off the Doom Dancer Music Box, Koopa gets his claw caught in the hole. It falls off the Doomship and gets destroyed when Cheatsy, Big Mouth and Bully pry it off.off, but it falls off the Doomship and gets destroyed.
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*ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: All of King Koopa's henchmen from the previous show, most notably [[TheDragon Mouser]], are completely absent from this show and the sequel series with no reason given for their disappearance, having been replaced by the Koopa Kids as his main goons.
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** "The Ugly Mermaid" spoofs ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''

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** "The Ugly Mermaid" spoofs ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989''

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* IdenticalGrandson: In "The Venice Menace," Mario and Luigi feel a strange connection to the titular city, but can't explain why. It's eventually revealed that they're the descendants of Marco Polo's official plumbers, who traveled to China with him and brought back the science of plumbing. A statue of the plumbers reveals that they look exactly like Mario and Luigi.



* PoorCommunicationKills: In "Tag Team Trouble," Toad delivers a huge sack of Gold Coins to a local orphanage, and is so exhausted from the trip that he falls asleep on the doorstep after ringing the bell. The orphanage's matron comes out and takes the bag with a smile, figuring it's better to let Toad rest than wake him. Unfortunately, when Toad ''does'' wake up, he immediately assumes that King Koopa stole the bag while he was asleep and decides to enter the titular wrestling tournament to make the money he "lost" back. At no point does he consider asking the matron about what happened, and at no point does she reach out to say "Thank you for the money, we took it inside while you were napping."



* SlowTransformation: Seen in "Recycled Koopa" with the humans' transformation into Koopa zombies.

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* SlowTransformation: Seen in "Recycled Koopa" with the humans' Mario's transformation into a Koopa zombies.Zombie. Oddly, he's the only one who suffers this--everyone else, including the mayor, is transformed fully as soon as they're exposed to the Koopa Kids' trash.


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** In "Never Koop a Koopa," Cheatsy is inspired by his father's lessons on double-crossing and has Princess Toadstool sign the kingdom over to ''him'', and not Koopa. He then rushes off to brag about how he's in charge now and leaves the Princess to escape...and never bothers to look at the document, which she signed with a giant smiley face rather than her name (which apparently isn't legally binding).
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* ReReleaseSoundtrack: The episode "Kootie Pie Rocks" featured guest stars Music/MilliVanilli singing "Blame It on the Rain" and "Girl You Know It's True" in the original broadcast version. This was changed to a generic rock riff (an instrumental of the ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'' song "Mega Move") for re-runs and the home video version, and a reference to "Blame It on the Rain" in King Koopa's dialogue was excised. The fact that Milli Vanilli's lips don't match the music created a HilariousInHindsight moment when producer Frank Farian revealed in November of 1990 that the frontmen of Milli Vanilli had been lip-syncing to recordings by a much older ensemble of artists, ending the group's careers on the spot. Many speculate that the ensuing scandal from Farian's revelation played a considerable role in [=DiC=] choosing not to pursue regaining the license for the Milli Vanilli songs, though their track record with the original ''Super Show'' suggests that it was just another case of them deeming the licensing fees for including the music on home media and re-runs to be too much of a hassle.
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-->'''Big Mouth:''' I love being a Koopa!

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-->'''Big --->'''Big Mouth:''' I love being a Koopa!

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* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Played with. When Mario was brainwashed as mentioned above, Luigi tries to remind him of the good times they shared in order to snap him out of it, but this doesn't work. However, when Luigi then plays a prank on him [[ChekhovsGun as he had done earlier in the show while they were arguing]], (specifically, Luigi pulls on Mario's hat, then his overalls, and then his stache',) he snaps out of it.

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* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Played with. When Mario was brainwashed as mentioned above, Luigi tries to remind him of the good times they shared in order to snap him out of it, but this doesn't work. However, when Luigi then plays a prank on him [[ChekhovsGun as he had done earlier in the show while they were arguing]], (specifically, Luigi pulls on Mario's hat, then his overalls, and then his stache',) stache') he snaps out of it.



-->'''Big Mouth:''' I love being a Koopa!



** The "[[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Sneaky Lying Cheating Giant Ninja Koopas]]".
-->'''Big Mouth:''' I love being a Koopa!
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* NiceToTheWaiter: Used to show King Windbag's character development. He insults his servant at the beginning of the episode, but after he TookALevelInKindness, he's shown serving his servant dinner.
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* PantyShot: Princess Toadstool in "Up, Up, and a Koopa". In one frame, her white panties are inadvertently exposed in full frontal view when her castle shakes and causes her and Toad to fall back. The previous series also gave her one, but that one was bloomers, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar this one not so]]...

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* PantyShot: Princess Toadstool in "Up, Up, and a Koopa". In one frame, her white panties are inadvertently exposed in full frontal view when her castle shakes and causes her and Toad to fall back. The previous series also gave her one, but that one was bloomers, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar this one not so]]...
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* PantyShot: Princess Toadstool in "Up, Up, and a Koopa". In one frame, her white panties are inadvertently exposed in full frontal view when her castle shakes and causes her, and Toad to fall back. The previous series also gave her one, but that one was bloomers, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar this one not so]]...

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* PantyShot: Princess Toadstool in "Up, Up, and a Koopa". In one frame, her white panties are inadvertently exposed in full frontal view when her castle shakes and causes her, her and Toad to fall back. The previous series also gave her one, but that one was bloomers, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar this one not so]]...
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* PantyShot: Princess Toadstool in "Up, Up, and a Koopa". In a blink-or-miss-it moment, her white panties are inadvertently exposed in full frontal view when her castle shakes and causes her, and Toad to fall back.

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* PantyShot: Princess Toadstool in "Up, Up, and a Koopa". In a blink-or-miss-it moment, one frame, her white panties are inadvertently exposed in full frontal view when her castle shakes and causes her, and Toad to fall back.back. The previous series also gave her one, but that one was bloomers, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar this one not so]]...

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