Why did Bowser's famous black magic get retconned in the later games?
Why did Bowser's famous black magic get retconned in the later games?
Jason Nelson
Joshua Sanders
Because it was retarded and added nothing to the game. Seriously, why does the fucking ground need a backstory?
Julian Hall
he still uses dark magic in some games, but the role of a big brute suits him more and Kamek makes more sense to use as a magic sorcerer
Nolan Jenkins
can't have been that famous
Dominic Hughes
what if in a future game Kamek GIVES Bowser magic and we get something like "Sorceror Bowser" as a form and final boss
would be aesthetic imo
Colton Ramirez
How dare you question Mario lore you little cunt.
Mario 64 was the only time his magic appeared again.
Colton Parker
And the Galaxy games.
Christian Hughes
Wait, so whenever you broke a block you were killing some toad?
Henry Sullivan
Bowser's inside story has him use magic to ignite goombas for a special attack
Hudson Collins
No, those were just regular floating brick blocks
The Toads were transformed into ? blocks and brick blocks that hold coins/powerups like the 10 coin blocks
Jordan Roberts
What kind of an axe is that? looks like shit
Austin Hill
Mario killed King Koopa during the NES era and Bowser took his place
Asher Sanders
Remember when Bowser had a brother that looked like him but was just colored blue in SMB1/Lost Levels? And then never showed up again?
Did Mario kill him?
Kevin Allen
He retired to the old villains home along with Fake Kraid.
Ryan Martin
there can only be one heir to the koopa throne, why do you think jr has no siblings?
Josiah Taylor
Well, according to the super mario bros anime movie, the toads were actually transformed into coins and trapped inside the blocks
Cooper Wood
>he doesn't know
Alexander Fisher
>Japanese only OVA that ends with Mario getting NTR'd
>live action movie written by people with only passing knowledge of the games
I hope the new one is good bros
Justin Brooks
>I hope the new one is good bros
I would wish so too, but i'm completely expecting a generic mario plot with the same generic 8 worlds and characters, but as a movie. We will be lucky to see someone like Wario at all
Mason Morgan
Wasn't this directed by a couple that really just wanted to make a bladerunner like movie and divorced midproduction?
Gabriel Powell
>famous
ok nigger
Ethan Allen
The Japanese one is good except for the fucking ending with that plot twist of the fucking dog actually being a prince, and Mario getting friend zoned dispite the fact that they showed us that Mario and peach loved each other throughout the entire fucking movie
Sebastian Wright
they literally reconned that in the remake.
thanks, miyamoto!
Jaxon Bailey
But Shy Guy first appeared in SMB2us, and in that game standing on an enemy's head would not kill them. In fact, you could ride any enemy that didn't damage you on contact and it wouldn't hurt them at all.
Julian Peterson
But you can kill them by stopping on them in the yoshi games
Adrian Kelly
That's a great picture, I love Mario's smug aura there. Beautiful.
Kevin Morris
what the fuck
Logan Nelson
That's just what video game villains did back then. They just had bizarre incongruent magic.
A lot of games back then were like fairy tales, movies and the like; bad guys were sorcerers with ill-defined powers to do whatever nefarious acts the plot required, and when you killed them all the bad stuff instantly stopped happening.
Plus they probably didn't want to deal with the implications of Mario shattering blocks, though you could maybe argue the ones that shatter are just normal blocks and the ones that are brick blocks but dole out items and coins are the ones that are Toads.
Villains just casting curses and turning people into other stuff like creatures or objects is a common theme in fairy tales and myths. Most famously, Bowser's horned bull-like appearance compared to the beaked turtles that koopas are is derived from the Ox King from Toei's animated adaptation of Journey to the West(localized as Alakazam the Great), one of whose animators, Yoichi Kotabe, decades later went to Nintendo and his first job there was doing illustrations and design for Super Mario Bros.
But then Mario and Bowser got a more fleshed out supporting cast. If Bowser needed some magic done, he had Kamek, Kammy and the magikoopas to do whatever the hell he needed to give context to Mario slaughtering a hundred fucking dudes. And Bowser's plots became more zany afterwards anyway. Going from transforming kings into creatures to whatever the fuck he was doing in 3D World(putting fairies in bottles?).
Leo Jenkins
His only problem with those spells is that he knows not what they tell, so every hex left him perplexed when all he wanted were those plumbing fools.
Wyatt Thomas