Clash of the Elements

""Gods are powerful beings. They can have a multitude of strange and mystifying powers. They could use these powers as keepers of the peace, or become creatures of rampant destruction...""

- First line of Part 1

Clash of the Elements is an adventure/fantasy genre Super Mario Bros fanfic by mewmaster93. It was started on November 9th, 2011 with Part 1: A Flame Reborn, which was finished on April 2nd, 2012 with the uploading of the Extra Chapter (Though the author has stated that he will update the page again later with a What If story.). Movie 1 was started on April 6th of the same year and finished on the 24th of that very month. Part 2 was started on the 26th and is currently ongoing.

The story of Part 1 follows Mario as he hears from Professor E. Gadd about the legacy of the Elemental Overlord, a being who quite obviously was able to control all the elements. The legends spoke of how the Overlord had to seal his powers away, and that a new heir needed to be found in order to inherit his powers, since the time was approaching of the day prophecy. Using the Professor's new device to head to the planet Earth, Mario comes across the boy of prophecy, an 11-Year Old named Alex Whiter, who joins him on a journey across the Mushroom Kingdom to find the seven Elemental Stones needed to awaken the Elemental Overlord's powers.

Part 1 can be found here, Movie 1 can be found here and Part 2 here. It is highly suggested by the author that you start from Part 1 and don't jump in to the later parts, but the links are there just for the sake of this description.

Clash of the Elements provides examples of:

 * Action Girl:  turns out to be one, especially seeing as she is the first one to force   to go all-out in his base form.
 * The Ageless:, who haven't aged for over two-thousand years.
 * Arm Cannon:  has the ability to create one of these from both of his robotic arms. The primary function of them seems to be to shoot ionic energy in the form of a concentrated laser beam, but only time will tell if they are capable of shooting more.
 * Apocalypse How: After taking control of  body, the   set in motion events that would bring about a Class 5 to Plit.
 * Later on, at the peak of his Villainous Breakdown  starts charging up an attack that was stated by the Star Spirits to be capable of causing a Class X variation.
 * Ax Crazy: Joe Dark.
 * Back-to-Back Badasses: Driad and Luigi
 * Badass: All the heroes get their moments throughout the story, though specific mention has to go to Gemini and
 * Badass Beard:
 * Badass Mustache: Mario and Luigi, as to be expected.
 * Beware the Nice Ones: Driad.
 * Big Damn Heroes: Gemini,, and   pull off one of these moments in the very chapters that they end up joining the group in, saving the heroes from the outer guardian of the Lightning Palace,   and   respectively.
 * does this as well in Chapter 46, saving Mario from dying at the hands of
 * In return, Mario does this for Alex in Chapter 54
 * Bloodless Carnage:
 * Boobs of Steel:  is the strongest female member of the   and is also the most-endowed.
 * Book Ends: Alex Whiter's journey in Part 1 begins as it ends, traveling through the Stargadd portal to reach Plit.
 * Breath Weapon: Bowser's Fire Breath
 * Canon Foreigner: Driad, Gemini, and
 * The Cameo:
 * In Movie 1, Queen Bean and Lady Lima make brief appearances at the beginning, while  appears in the ending.
 * The Chosen One: Alex Whiter is the one foretold in the prophecy to become the next Elemental Overlord. However, Alex points out to Mario how improbable it is that he fits the role so perfectly.
 * Deal with the Devil: Joe Dark  so he can have the capability to destroy Alex Whiter.
 * Designated Hero: Brought up In-Universe by Joe Dark, who claims that Alex Whiter is getting undeserved treatment as a good guy after some sort of atrocities he committed in the past.
 * Despair Event Horizon: According to Joe Dark's backstory, he went through this when
 * Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?:  does this quite literally to Joe Dark
 * Elemental Powers: The Elemental Overlord had control over a wide variety of these. Over the course of the story the heroes come across temples based on these such as Nature, Water, Wind, Lightning, Earth, Ice, and Fire. By the end of Part 1, Alex Whiter has gained the ability to use these powers as well.
 * Eleventh-Hour Superpower:
 * Foreshadowing: Hints of future plot events are thrown out quite often in Part 1 alone. A few examples include:
 * Big Damn Heroes moment, were it not easy enough to figure out before, had the clearest hint given at the end of Chapter 35 with the words:
 * Likewise, Mario  is hinted at during previous battles against him, where.
 * This hint is a bit of a stretch towards the end result, but  was more than likely foreshadowed by this line:
 * This hint is a bit of a stretch towards the end result, but  was more than likely foreshadowed by this line:

""Do you go easy on them or something, or do you keep forgetting to check and make sure that you weren’t fighting copies of their true selves?""
 * Giant Mook: The outer guardian of the Lightning Palace is already bigger than the average Koopa, but he is able to take this trope Up to Eleven by using the metal straps on his body to turn his body into a lightning rod and increase his size even further via the electricity that is drawn to him.
 * Hoist by His Own Petard: However, it is because of that very ability that Gemini is able to ultimately kill him, by overloading him with electricity to the point that his heart suffers from too much strain and shuts down.
 * Good All Along: Gemini discusses this trope with Mallow in Part 2, more specifically referring to  when he does so.
 * Heroic Sacrifice: Driad REALLY doesn't like the implementation of this trope, and the one deciding factor that made him dislike it is when
 * Kid Hero: Alex Whiter, Mallow
 * Not Quite Dead: Cackletta, Fawful,  . The return of the third guy is brought up and Lampshaded by Mallow to Mario in Chapter 3 of Part 2:
 * Not Quite Dead: Cackletta, Fawful,  . The return of the third guy is brought up and Lampshaded by Mallow to Mario in Chapter 3 of Part 2:
 * Not Quite Dead: Cackletta, Fawful,  . The return of the third guy is brought up and Lampshaded by Mallow to Mario in Chapter 3 of Part 2:


 * Obviously Evil: Joe Dark. If the red eyes and skull and crossbones shirt didn't make this blatant enough, just look at his last name for crying out loud!
 * Older Than They Look: Driad,
 * One-Winged Angel:  An interesting variation of this trope because in this case
 * Joe Dark's
 * Averted in  case, for instead of going with the form he used in the original game   Though it still proves deadly enough once he starts fighting.
 * Out of Focus: This happens a few times in Part 1 to some of the heroes once the group gets big enough, but the most obvious example of this trope is Mallow, who save for Mario really doesn't get a character arc devoted to him throughout the story. He is also the only one whose fight is not given any attention to in Movie 1.
 * However, this is subverted in Part 2, where not only does he share plenty of screentime with Gemini during the  arc, but it is because of him that Gemini
 * Plot Coupons: The Elemental Stones
 * Power Gives You Wings:  and
 * The Professor: E. Gadd.
 * The Psycho Rangers:
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Cackletta gives one of these to Alex.
 * Sealed Evil in a Can:
 * Sequel Hook: In the Epilogue of Part 1, where
 * This also happens in Movie 1, with Alex promising  that he will   by finding and killing
 * Shout-Out: To Super Mario Bros Z in Chapter 45  a concept which, while it didn't get to appear in the actual series, at least got shown in the intro. Thankfully, the author gives Alvin-Earthworm full credit for the idea instead of claiming it as his own.
 * Another example of this trope with the same series happens in Part 2, where  appear in the early chapters.
 * Slasher Smile: Joe Dark REALLY likes doing this.
 * This Trope Is Bleep: At the end of chapter 40 of Part 1, as  is beating up , her swear words are censored out by his screams of pain.
 * Time Travel: This happens involuntarily to Alex Whiter in Part 1's Extra Chapter, which sends him two-thousand years into the past. Though the cause is not stated at the moment
 * Tomato in the Mirror:
 * The Unfought: The inner guardians of the Terra Cave, Frozen Palace, and Ignitor Cave.  This also counts as an example of The Unseen.
 * Unwitting Pawn: As revealed in the Epilogue for Part 1,  was this to
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Joe Dark  he is one of these, but as Alex points out to him , his ends don't really justify the means.
 * , on the other hand, actually fits the definition of this trope.
 * Wham! Episode: Chapter 22 of Part 2. To shortly sum things up...
 * Wham! Line: Two of these in Chapter 24, though only one will hit you if . The first is said by , the second by  :