Toad Strikes Back is a highly successful fangame made by Thunder Dragon.
Several hundred years have passed since the legendary Super Mario defeated the evil King Koopa. Since then, the stories of his adventures have long since faded into legend. However, when Kamek, the descendant of the original, and the Koopa Clan attempt to resurrect King Koopa using the Mushroom Kingdom's 7 Starspheres, one ordinary Toad decides to rise up against Kamek and embark on an adventure to get them back in order to prevent the resurrection from coming to pass.
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. See also Toadette Strikes, the sequel.
Examples:
- A Day in the Limelight: For Toad, who is the player character of the game.
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Anti-Climax Boss: Justified for Kamek's case; since Toad has defeated all his decent henchmen, Kamek is forced to empower a GOOMBA of all Mooks to fight Toad. - A Winner Is You: Beating the True Final Boss, King Koopa, nets you an extra message.. and nothing else.
- Bait-and-Switch Boss: At the end of World 5, a Hammer Bro arrives and twirls his hammer, ready to fight, until a Bullet Bill comes out of nowhere and knocks him away, being the real Mook that is being empowered for the boss battle.
- Big Bad: Kamek Koopa, the Identical Grandson of the original Kamek, steals the 7 Starspheres in an attempt to resurrect the long-dead King Koopa.
- Defeat Equals Explosion: Happens to most bosses upon defeat.
- Distant Sequel: Takes place several hundred years after the canon Mario franchise.
- Final Boss: Kamek himself, who empowers himself through his own magic to take on Toad.
- From Zero to Hero: Toad goes from being just an ordinary citizen to a hero on the same level as Super Mario.
- Greater-Scope Villain: King Koopa himself, as the game takes place long after his death. His army, led by Big Bad Kamek, aim to resurrect him.
- He Knows About Timed Hits: Several NPCs will tell you button functions and such.
- Hub Level: Each world has one where you can talk to NPCs and play levels in any order you want.
- King Mook: Borrowing from Yoshi's Island, most of the bosses are mooks empowered by Kamek.
- MacGuffin: The Starspheres.
- Sanity Slippage: Kamek has gone off the rockers during the last boss fight:Kamek: Fungus? Alive?! Why you...no matter, I won't let anything stand in my way...King Koopa WILL live! Fungus WON'T! Hehehehehe...HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE!...hehe. ...HEE!
- Super-Empowering: Every boss at the end of each world is a random mook empowered by Kamek's magic. Kamek does this to himself at the end of the final world to serve as the final boss.
- True Final Boss: The resurrected King Koopa himself, who can be fought after collecting every single Mushroom Coin in World 7.
- You Can't Thwart Stage One: Even after being Kamek and getting back the 7 Starspheres, King Koopa is still resurrected to become the True Final Boss.
