Super Mario Bros. Z: Difference between revisions

''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' + ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' + ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' = this series.

 

 

Combining references to games both old and new, physical comedy (mostly at [[Butt Monkey|Luigi's expense]]), and some rather spectacular battle sequences, the series has gained quite a following.

[http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/supermariobrosz.html Hosted on] [[Newgrounds]], eight episodes were made, with a 9th one left unfinished. There was a 45 episode saga (3 seasons of 15 episodes each) planned, [[Cut Short|but the series was discontinued in March 2012]] after nearly two and a half years since the release of Episode 8.

 

 

 

* [[Action Bomb]]: Waluigi shows why these should never be used as grenades.

* [[Airplane Arms]]: Mario, Luigi, and Sonic. That ''is'' how they run in their games, however.

* [[Another Dimension]]: Mobius is this to the Mushroom Kingdom.

* [[Avenging the Villain]]: Basilisx wants revenge on Mario because he killed his best friend, which by the sound of his description, was an unimportant Koopa in one of the castles of ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]''... although some have have noted that the details he provides don't match up with the game, throwing some suspicion on whether his motives are truthful.

** Then again, because of the experiments done onto Basilisx to make him super-powerful, maybe the procedure really messed up his memories, and he could be talking about some other Koopa Troopa Mario killed. Another possibility is that the events in question are lies fabricated by Bowser to increase Basilisx's rage.

** Considering [[Wolverine|who Basilisx might be based off...]]

* [[Badass]]: Mecha Sonic. Whenever he gets involved in the action, some ''serious'' ass-kicking [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Z1PjFXYcs is about to ensue.] But then again, everybody has been badassed-up to some extent — even Luigi.

* [[Bash Brothers]]: To an art form.

* [[Beam Spam]] / [[Bullet Hell]]: Inverted. With very few exceptions, the more projectiles used in a given attack, the less effectiveness that attack will have. Heroes and villains alike casually wade through a sea of beams or hammers without a scratch, but single projectile attacks nearly always hit.

** On a larger scale, [[Wave Motion Gun|the Omega Doomship Main Energy Cannon in Episode 8]].

** Between the two sits the Breaker Beam. Back in Super Mario RPG, it might, oh, take half your HP or so. But when Axem Red hooks up a Chaos Emerald, it ''levels the mountains on Yoshi's Island from a single shot''. That didn't stop Mecha Sonic, though...

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Sonic and Shadow in 2, Yoshi in 5, Shadow in 7.

* [[Big Red Button]]: {{spoiler|Eggman}}'s button.

* [[Bolivian Army Ending]]: Kind of: {{spoiler|In the trailer for Episode 9, showing the progress he made for the episode before cancelling it, Basilisx, after Luigi broke out of his rocky prison via the Tanooki Suit's powers and saved Mario from Basilisx, is last seen telling his soldiers to attack Mario and Luigi as the trailer ends.}} Because of the nature of the cancellation<ref>Although Alvin Earthworm officially stated that he is cancelling the series, he also placed a "The End?" at the replay screen, implying that he may have plans to continue at a future point.</ref>, it's currently unknown what exactly will happen.

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]:

* [[Bullet Time]]: Mario, Sonic, and Mecha Sonic do this a lot. Particularly notable in Episode 7, where Sonic and Mecha Sonic are fighting so fast that Mario appears to stand still.

* [[But for Me It Was Tuesday]]: ''Mario'' evokes this. See [[What the Hell, Hero?]], below.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Luigi, Wario, and Waluigi.

** ...Aaaand then the lens is completely shattered in Episode 8 by a startled mook.

* [[The Cameo]]: [[Punch Clock Villain|Jeff and Hal]] of ''[[Bowser's Kingdom]]'', another Newgrounds Mario series, make a cameo appearance in Episode 7.

* [[Canon Foreigner]]: {{spoiler|Mecha Mario}}, Captain Basilisx.

* [[Catapult Nightmare]]: Sonic.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Luigi's 1-Up mushroom; Professor Kolorado's Subconian stopwatch.

** The former looks ready to be fired again. As hopeless as everything looks, E. Gadd packed the heroes a 1-Up and Sonic won another one killing enemies...

* [[Cliff Stack]]: Sonic is a reoccurring victim of this.

* [[Colony Drop]]: The Death Egg crashes on Mobius, with some incredibly-devastating consequences.

* [[Cool Plane]]: [[Super Mario Land|Sky Pop]] Mark II. It doesn't use a runway for takeoff — [[Crowning Moment of Funny|It uses a slingshot!]]

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Basilisx has absolutely no qualms about using [[Poison Mushroom|Poison Mushrooms]] to weaken his opponent or Luigi as a shield/bludgeon.

** ''Subverted'' because Basilisx has the power of Stone Gaze. He states himself that he could "turn Mario to stone and grind him into dust", and judging by what he did to the others he is '''not''' bluffing. Yet he insists on fighting Mario without his Stone Gaze, claiming that killing a flesh-and-blood Mario would be much more satisfying.

* [[Combination Attack]]: The Koopa Bros.' finishing move; Axem Ranger Green and Black's spinning attack; Sonic and Mario's double attack when empowered by the Super Star.

*** Luigi is particularly fond of these, using the Blue Shell and Tanooki Suits to transform himself into a weapon/vehicle for others to use.

* [[Conspicuous CG]]: The Doomship.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Luigi might be cowardly, but he can sure put up a fight when needed.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: the series LOVES those, whether it's just one side brutally dominating the other (like Metal Sonic did to Yoshi, though Yoshi did manage to land a couple of hits) either it starts with one side dominating the other, then something miraculous happens and the other side crushes the opposition with equal ease (Mario vs Metal Bowser).

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Basilisx.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Shadow.

* [[Death From Above]]: Mecha Sonic's ginormous energy ball, which in appearance is a ''miniature Sun'', which was hurled at Yoshi's Island.

* [[Death World]]: {{spoiler|Moebius}}

* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: Luigi's flashback in Episode 6.

* [[Face Fault]]: Several, including Sonic's death animation standing in for one.

* [[The Faceless]]: {{spoiler|Eggman}}, though it's obvious who it is... or maybe it's {{spoiler|Nega-Eggman from the ''Sonic Rush'' games}}? The shadow may also hide the fact that he's the {{spoiler|Robo-Robotnik from the Archie comics}}.

** Then there's his gruesome killing of the Axem Rangers. It's really saying something when being completely vaporized down to the last atom is the ''tamest'' death of a battle, although compared to ''decapitating Axem Green's head and then crushing it in his hand''... anything is tame.

* [[Fastball Special]]: Wario attempts this with Waluigi in Episode 8. It [[Goldfish Poop Gang|doesn't exactly work out]].

** Mario and Luigi often use their hammers to launch Sonic, Shadow, or Luigi with his blue shell armor. Yoshi uses a variation where he eats an ally and spits them out as an attack.

* [[Le Parkour]]: Sonic in the underground.

* [[Made of Iron]]: All fighters.

* [[Melee a Trois]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDrukfontFg The big free-for-all] between Mario and the crew, the Koopa Bros. and the Axem Rangers. And then [[It Got Worse|Mecha Sonic]] [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|joins in.]]

* [[Meteor Move]]: Mecha Sonic does this a lot during his fights.

* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Averted.

* [[No Ending]]: With the series discontinued in March 2012, the fate of Mario and the Mushroom Kingdom is pretty much left up to the audience now

* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Mecha Sonic to the Axems, as well as Mecha Sonic to Yoshi in Episode 3.

** Does Mecha Sonic actually ''do anything else?''

** Mecha Sonic ''himself'' gets one in Episode 6. {{spoiler|After a powered-up Mario and Sonic bludgeon the Chaos Emeralds out of Mecha Sonic, Sonic prepares to finish him off with an energy blast. For a machine that doesn't show any expressions, Mecha Sonic's [[Oh Crap]] face was priceless. He's saved only by an ill-timed [[Power-Up Letdown]]}}

* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Given the shortage of audio clips of Italian-accented "Sonic", when Mario says it it sounds distinctly British.

* [[Petting Zoo People]]: Users of Super Leaves and Tanooki Suits become this.

* [[Playing with Fire]]: Mario and Fire Sonic.

* [[Power Glows]]: Mario, Sonic, and Mecha Sonic.

** Mario gets the most variety in his, getting a ''DBZ'' styled one with the Cape Feather, a flaming one for the Fire Flower, and ''DBZ'' style with [[Sparkles]] for the [[Invincibility Power-Up|Super Star]].

* [[The Professor]]: E. Gadd.

* [[The Psycho Rangers]]: The Axems

** The Koopalings, too.

* [[Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs]]: Mario and Basilisx, done with hammers and [[Wolverine Claws]].

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Shadow, Basilisx.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Shadow's the red oni to Sonic's blue.

* [[Robot Me]]: Mecha Sonic and {{spoiler|Mecha Mario}}.

** Might be a case of [[Fridge Brilliance]], as in his initial Mario appearance (Super Mario World), Yoshi is actually much more powerful than Mario himself.

** Plus Shadow is never depicted as being much stronger than any of the others, yet he's the only one ever able to land an effective hit in a square fight on Semi-Super Mecha Sonic in their battle. (Mario manages to interrupt an attack with a chargedd fireball, but he took Mecha Sonic by surprise)

** Something negative always happens to Luigi.

* [[Schedule Slip]]: There was a 16-month difference between the release of the sixth and seventh episodes.

'''Goombella:''' Aw, come on, Professor! [[Lampshade Hanging|That episode was released, like, a year and a half ago!]] [[Fleeting Demographic Rule|No one's going to remember what happened in it!]] }}

* [[Shock and Awe]]: Luigi with his Thunderhand ability.

** That hasn't been used yet, has it? In chapter 8, he just electrocuted himself on a computer in E. Gadd's lab...

** And to many other series. The dancing banana has made several cameos, and the characters sometimes mimic other characters when they fight, such as Mario imitating [[The Matrix|Neo]] and Sonic doing the [[Street Fighter|Tatsumakisenpuukyaku]] in Episode 5 or Mecha Sonic performing Akuma's devastating Shun Goku Satsu attack in Episode 6.

** Not to forget ''Futurama'':

* [[Spoiler Opening]]: The [[Anime Theme Song|anime-style opening]] was released after Episode 6. A number of characters appeared in it that hadn't shown up in the series at that time. That includes the Koopalings, {{spoiler|Eggman}}, {{spoiler|Wart}}, and {{spoiler|the Star Spirits and Twink}}.

* [[Sssssnaketalk]]: Basilisx.

** The Omega Doomship sports one as well in Episode 8.

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|What Measure Is A Robot]]: The Axems are the only characters to be killed on screen so far - Mecha Sonic simply ripped them apart. It wasn't pleasant to watch. Still, they didn't bleed, and Smithy can always rebuild them.

** Basilisx does the same to Mario later, recounting how gruesome his best friend's death was at Mario's feet. As stated above, Mario just [[But for Me It Was Tuesday|doesn't remember]].

** Here's the full quote, with [[Sssssnaketalk|enlongated "s" sounds]] edited out:

* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [http://smbz.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros._Z_Wiki Goongala!]

* [[Wolverine Claws]]: Basilisx. Cue [[Wolverine Publicity]].

* [[The Worf Barrage]]: Happens quite a few times. As befits its DBZ inspiration.

* [[You Monster!]]:

'''Mecha Sonic:''' Monster? I'm not a monster, ''[[A God Am I|I am a god!]]'' }}

 

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