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Fridge Brilliance:
- Getting all or any of the switch palaces basically enables easy mode. It was kind of a clever way to allow players difficulty options.
- The color scheme "yellow, red, blue and green" shows up in the switch palaces, Yoshi colors, and shell colors. This is because those are the colors on the Japanese SNES controller, and Super Mario World was a SNES launch title.
- Related to this, one may notice that the Koopalings in this game also follow this color scheme, with some (Roy and Ludwig being notable examples) being drastically different to their Super Mario Bros. 3 colors; Larry and Morton are green, Wendy is red, Iggy and Roy are blue, and Lemmy and Ludwig are yellow. This corresponds to the order they are fought in 3 (which is also thought to be their birth order from youngest to oldest). Just as the green Koopa Troopas are the most basic and the yellow ones are the strongest, the green Koopalings are the youngest and the yellow Koopalings are the oldest.
- Why do the blocks activated by the Switch Palaces have exclamation points rather than question marks? Because you always know exactly what they'll contain (Yellow: Super Mushroom, Green: Feather, Red & Blue: Nothing).
- After completing the Special zone, the whole game world gets a cosmetic upgrade to a Halloween theme, with autumn colors, Piranha Plants replaced by pumpkins, and Koopa Troopas wearing Mario masks. Why Mario masks? Because Halloween masks are supposed to be scary, and to Koopa Troopas, the plumber who regularly stomps them is the scariest of all.
- Since Mario and Luigi are both surnamed "Mario", it makes instances where Luigi beats a castle, and the text stating Mario did the job still technically accurate.
Fridge Horror:
- How did the Sunken Ghost Ship get to be so ludicrously full of ghosts? It apparently crashed into the sea... meaning that the various Koopa Troopas and Rocky Wrenches that we saw aboard the airships in the previous game likely died on impact, and are doomed to haunt the wreck forever.
- What makes matters worse is the last area. It's implied there are survivor Koopa Troopas that were forgotten by Bowser and the Koopalings ... especially for the fact that it's not too far from Wendy's castle.
