Dark Secrets about Mario Hey guys!
Welcome back to Top 10 Gaming, I'm Ron McKenzie-Lefurgey.
Yesterday Kelly told you guys about the dark secrets of Sonic.
If you haven't seen that, it's linked right here (left).
But as cool as Sonic is, he doesn't have the Monopoly on dark secrets.
With Mario having been around for so many years, he was bound to have some skeletons
in his closet; and in the case of number 7, they're literally skeletons.
So let's talk about some of them!
Get ready, it's time for the Top 10 Dark Secrets of Mario!
Number 10: Rosalina's story.
Princess Rosalina is one of the newest additions to the Mario roster, but her story is one
of the saddest.
Apparently it was initially going to be a large part of Super Mario Galaxy, but when
Miyamoto told the game director he wanted the storyline to be minimalist, her story
was hidden away in a storybook.
It turns out, her mother had died, and was buried under the tree on the hill near their
home.
Damn Nintendo.
As a side note, some believe that her mother is Princess Peach, and that eventually the
cycle will have her give birth to Rosalina, and later die.
But I can't confirm that.
Number 9: Yoshi abuse.
Fans of Mario are definitely familiar with his propensity to take advantage of his buddy
Yoshi.
For years he's been hopping on the green guy's back, and Yoshi has happily eaten
up any enemies in the way.
Or has he?
There was speculation for some time that Mario punched Yoshi to get him to stick out his
tongue, and it was recently confirmed!
Developer Shigefumi Hino said in a 2017 interview, that he designed it so that Mario punches
Yoshi in the head, causing him to stick his tongue out in surprise.
The sound effects were even made to highlight this.
That's just cruel.
Number 8: The killer piano.
This one's a bit different, because the secret is that we were lied to.
As you may know, there's a Mad Piano in Super Mario 64 that's guarding a red coin.
It looks normal until you approach, then it opens up and tries to eat you.
The Nintendo Power Player's Guide says it's possible to defeat it, but players have tried
to do so for decades to no avail.
Turns out it can't be done.
That's one of the biggest trolls ever; I don't know HOW many hours were wasted trying
to beat that thing.
Number 7: Mario Strikers Charged Skeletons.
Super Mario Strikers is a pretty wicked game, but one secret hidden in the files is super
disconcerting.
For some reason, there are eerily detailed skeletons of various characters found in these
files.
I understand having a skeleton in the files, I'm not a programmer but from what I understand
that's part of building a character.
But they didn't need to make them look so spooky!
This is definitely above and beyond, although it really makes me want to play Super Mario
Skeletons now.
Number 6: The Luigi Suicide.
Yeah, yeah, I talked about this before, but not everyone sees every video and this is
dark as hell!
In one part of Luigi's Mansion, if you set it to the proper angle, you can see what looks
absurdly like a shadow of Luigi hanging by his neck.
Now granted, this is probably just a coincidence, but it's a pretty grim-looking coincidence.
Plus, hey, the shadow is dark, so this point is both dark in tone AND in appearance!
Boom! (high five)
Number 5: Buns of steel.
This one physically hurts me to watch.
In the Forest Fortress level in Super Mario World, you come up against Grinders, these
spinning blades that are supposedly unkillable.
But if you slide down a block just as the blade gets there, you can actually defeat
it, making it glitch off the screen.
I suppose this might be stretching the definition of "dark", but seeing Mario seemingly
destroy a spinning blade with his taint is disturbing as hell.
Number 4: The Beta game over screen in Luigi's Mansion.
It's been rather often thrown around that Luigi's Mansion was originally going to
be way scarier than it was, and this certainly supports that idea.
One Game Over screen found in the beta version shows this freaky, deathly-looking Luigi,
and it's honestly one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen.
That's exactly how I'd expect someone to look if they were killed by a bunch of
ghosts.
Number 3: Toad's murder.
Paper Mario is pretty well known for having snuck in a few adult themes into their game.
No, not nudity, at least, as far as I know.
But they definitely got a bit more murdery than usual, particularly in one scene that
ended up being censored for the North American release.
In The Thousand Year Door, if you go to the house in the alley of Rogueport's main square,
there was supposed to be a chalk outline of toad, with blood all around it.
Which is pretty awesome.
It's actually still there in the Japanese version, but the dumb ol' censors in the
West took it out, which is lame because it's pretty damn intriguing.
Number 2: The Origins of the Chain Chomp.
Considering the absolute terror these badboys strike into the hearts of many a child, it
may be no surprise that they have pretty dark origins.
It turns out they were based on a rather horrific experience in Shigeru Miyamoto's life.
He was once being chased by a dog, only to be saved when the dog reached the end of its
chain and was pulled back.
So he used this terrifying experience… to scare a bunch of other kids.
Jerk.
Number 1: Mario the Murderer.
So you know how Mario games are for kids?
And they try to keep murder out of it?
Well, I guess the people writing the manual for Super Mario Bros didn't get the memo,
because holy crap there's one heck of a dark secret in there.
Turns out, when the Mushroom People were invaded by the Koops, the invaders used black magic
to turn the people into bricks and plants.
So you know when Mario's smacking those bricks?
Those were people.
But hey, he got to hang out with Peach for 5 minutes before she ran off with Bowser again,
so totally worth all those lives.
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Later gamers!
Boo's origins.
There are some pretty crazy origins of some of the Mario characters, and Boo is no exception.
According to Shigeru Miyamoto, co-designer Takashi Tezuka's story about his wife inspired
the ghost that's sometimes shy, and sometimes menacing.
Apparently Tezuka's wife, who was normally very reserved, just let loose on him one night,
yelling about how he spent too much time working.
So how did he respond?
By going back to work, and then turning her into an evil character.
Yeah, I bet that went over GREAT when she found out she inspired an annoying ghost character.
That guy is playing with fire.
The Shiverburn Shadow People.
But that's only part of the reason this is on this list.
Because these guys are shadows.
Dark Shadows.
It's both dark in tone, and in appearance.
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