New Item: Warp Pipe

[Johans Nidorino]

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Name: Warp Pipe



From: Super Mario Bros. (NES, 1985)

Description:

If you throw this at an opponent, it will give them a damage equal to that of a Crate container.

Throw this pipe at the ground to set it, and one of the countless Mario alter egos from Nintendo's history will appear to assist you on beating your opponents. Some of them are:

• Referee Mario
  
• Pinball Mario
  
• Marine Pop Mario
  
• Sky Pop Mario
  
• Tanooki Mario
  
• Hammer Mario
  
• Kuribo's Shoe Mario
  
• Kart Pilot Mario
  
• Baker Mario
  
• Archaeologist Mario
  
• Super Star Baby Mario
  
• Wing Mario
  
• Vanish Mario
  
• Paper Mario
  
• Spray Nozzle Mario
  
• Turbo Nozzle Mario
  
• Pinball Ball Mario
  
• Mega Mario
  
• Mini Mario (not to be confused with Mini-Mario toys)
  
• Shell Mario
  
• Bee Mario
  
• Boo Mario

You guys and I could expand this list and describe each "Mario Assist" (provisional name) on detail separatedly later.

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There are many Pokémon, so SSB has Poké Balls. There are many Nintendo characters, so SSB has Assist Trophies. So, isn't an item like this a coherent one?

[parrothead1983]

Here are more Marios:

Customer Service Mario (Many instruction manuals of Nintendo software and hardware)
Cleaning Mario (NES and SNES Cleaning Kits)
Military Mario (Mario's Bombs Away)
Astronaut Mario (Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins)
Bunny Mario (Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins)
Super Ball Mario (Super Mario Land 1) (Similar to Fire Mario, but he actually throws some kind of ball that bounces around the screen)
Wrecking Mario (Wrecking Crew and Wrecking Crew '98)
Paddle Mario (Alleyway)
Golf Mario (Mario Golf series)
Tennis Mario (Mario Tennis series)
Game & Watch Mario (Some Mario and Donkey Kong Game & Watch titles)
Magician Mario (front cover of Super Mario All*Stars)
Ceremony Mario (title screen of Game & Watch Gallery 3)
Scuba Mario (Modern Octopus in Game & Watch Gallery 1 and 4)
Baseball Mario (Mario Superstar Baseball)
African Mario (Game Boy version of Qix) IMAGE
Mexican Mario (Game Boy version of Qix) IMAGE
Cape Mario (Super Mario World)
RPG Mario (Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars)
Raccoon Mario (Super Mario Bros. 3)
Dr. Mario (Dr. Mario series) (if he doesn't return as a playable character)
Frog Mario (Super Mario Bros. 3)
Time Mario (Mario's Time Machine)
Paint Mario (Mario Paint and Mario Artist)
Artist Mario (Mario Paint and Mario Artist)
Painting Mario (Luigi's Mansion)
3D Mario (Famicom 3D System) IMAGE
Rally Mario (Famicom Grand Prix II: 3D Hot Rally) IMAGE
F-1 Mario (Famicom Grand Prix I: F-1 Race) IMAGE

These are about all I could think of. What if the Wii isn't powerful enough to fill up the screen with a bunch of Assist Trophies, Pokeballs, and Warp Pipes?

[IVIr.G]

Blue Shell Mario (NSMB )
Strikers Mario (Mariuo Strikers)
Jumpman (Donkey Kong)
Baby Mario (Yoshi's Island)
Mega Mario (NSMB
Yoshi Mario (SMW)

All I can think of.

Also, I don't really like the idea much. I think we have enough of those items.

[Johans Nidorino]

parrothead1983 said:

What if the Wii isn't powerful enough to fill up the screen with a bunch of Assist Trophies, Pokeballs, and Warp Pipes?

Hmm... That'd be a good question, but unfortunately we don't know the way those guys are programming the presence of such characters/objects in stage.

If the amount of object categories (Assist Trophies, Poké Balls, etc.) is too big, then they'd have to restrict how many overall containers could be on stage at once, just like how you can't make infinite Poké Balls appear in SSBM's Training Mode.