List of the powers of the characters

[Koopalmier]

a.k.a. What happens when I don't have nothing better to do. Wait, actually I do. But, heh, it's fun. Note that there are magical AND logical abilities. For instance, Mario's fire powers are magical, but Luigi's Luigi Rocket is logical (as it doesn't involve an illogic energy but instead only strength). And, finally, I don't care about continuity. However I'll only count techniques that appeared in Mario games - for instance, if a move is only in a Smash Bros. game, it won't be listed here. The only exceptions are Final Smashes. Oh, and basic moves such as the High Jump, Spin Jump... aren't counted.

MARIO

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- Fire Orb / Super Flame / Ultra Flame
Description: Mario shoots an incredibly large amount of gigantic fireballs at the enemies in a short time.
Type: Special Attack (fire)
First appearance: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Latest appearance: Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Note: Very powerful and dangerous. May come from an overdose of Fire Flowers. Mario seemingly forgot how to use this attack, maybe due to a lack of training.

- Firebrand and related fire abilities
Description: Mario generates a bit of fire. He can also put things on fire, and use it underwater.
Type: Normal Attack (fire)
First appearance: Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
Latest appearance: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
Note: Quite weak. Learnt by the Fire God. A object can be entirely put on fire immediately, but the effect may be limited depending of the size of the object.

- Spin / Star Spin
Description: Mario does a powerful spin powered-up by his own skills and by Star energy.
Type: Normal Attack (physical + magic)
First appearance: Super Mario Galaxy
Latest appearance: Super Mario Galaxy 2
Note: Used during Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games. Maybe that the beige Luma left a bit of star energy to Mario, allowing him to still execute a weaker version of the Star Spin. Is a mix of the Star Spin and the Spin Jump.

- Fiery Metal Mario
Description: Mario transforms into Metal Mario and uses his Firebrand to become a burning metal man.
Type: Mega Strike (fire + metal)
First appearance: Mario Strikers Charged
Latest appearance: Mario Strikers Charged
Note: Ridiculously powerful, but only seen once. It's unknow how Mario got the ability to transform into his metal form without a Metal Cap. Due to the power of this attack, it may only be used in extremely urgent cases.

- Mario Finale
Description: Mario throws two big fire balls that move in a way to imitate an energy blast. It's like a down-graded verson of the Fire Orb. It doesn't hurt too much but it can be used to push opponents away.
Type: Final Smash (fire)
First appearance: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Latest appearance: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Note: As the name says, it's Mario's finisher attack. Surprisingly enough it's somewhat weak, but Mario apparently enjoys using it.

LUIGI

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- Green Fire
Description: Luigi's version of the Fire Orb, but the fire is green. Note that green fire can be made.
Type: Special Attack (fire)
First appearance: Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Latest appearance: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
Note: It's unknow when or where Luigi learnt this attack. It may also come from an overdose of Fire Flowers, or Mario learnt him how to do it.

- Luigi Rocket
Description: Luigi uses his own strength to launch himself like a missile.
Type: Normal Attack (physical)
First appearance: Super Smash Bros. Melee
Latest appearance: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
Note: Sometimes very strong, sometimes ridiculously weak. This attack is somewhat random. Can be used to reach a far distance that can't be reached with a Long Jump. Well, if the move doesn't fail at least...

- Luigi Cyclone
Description: Luigi spins so fast that he flies, or even creates a cyclone.
Type: Special Attack (physical)
First appearance: Super Smash Bros.
Latest appearance: Mario Super Sluggers
Note: Quite powerful. Luigi must be stronger than it appears, because creating a whole cyclone by yourself is the kind of quality the strongest superhero would have.

- Thunderhand
Description: Luigi generates a bit of electricity, and can fill an object with electricity. However it may be limited by the size of said object.
Type: Normal Attack (electricity)
First appearance: Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
Latest appearance: Mario Strikers Charged
Note: Very weak. Learnt by the Thunder God. Can be used underwater. Luigi rarely uses it.

- Negative Zone
Description: Luigi does a bizarre dance that creates a zone of negative energy around him. Anyone else than Luigi who enters this zone feels sick, depressive, hurt, delirious, bored... and can't move well. Plus Luigi becomes multiple times stronger in this zone.
Type: Final Smash (magic + darkness)
First appearance: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Latest appearance: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Note: This attack is a reflection of the dark side Luigi obtained in Mario's shadow. Is Luigi secretly an evil wizard or something ? In any ways, this attack is extremely powerful. No wonder this is Luigi's ultimate move.

PEACH

- PSI
Description: Peach can use psychic powers to do things such as creating a thunderbolt, move distant objects around...
Type: Normal Attack (psychic)
First appearance: Mario Tennis
Latest appearance: Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Note: Peach seriously lacks training due to her duty as a kingdom ruler, and thus her powers are almost unexisting. However, if she's powered-up (i.e. by the Shadow Queen, or by Starlow), her powers can be devasting. Note that people of the Mushroom Kingdom think it's magic. If she could train, maybe that she'd beat Bowser easily...

- Heart-related moves
Description: Peach's heart is so pure that, with her psychic powers, she can convert her purity into a powerful, heart-shaped energy that can have multiple effects: moving distant objects, acting on other people's feelings, or simply hurt.
Type: Special Attack (psychic)
First appearance: Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Latest appearance: Mario Super Sluggers
Note: Peach is probably the only person in the whole universe to still have a pure heart.

- Float
Description: Peach can float in the air for a short period of time. Originally she had to do it using her dress, but recently she's got stronger and can do it by holding herself with PSI.
Type: Normal Attack (psychic)
First appearance: Super Mario Bros. 2
Latest appearance: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
Note: While her umbrella allows her to fall slower, her Float ability actually allows her to defy gravity. For a short time, that's it.

- Empress Peach
Description: Peach grows wings and her crown becomes bigger and looks like a halo. In that form, her psychic powers are over-multiplicated.
Type: Mega Strike (fly + psychic)
First appearance: Mario Strikers Charged
Latest appearance: Mario Strikers Charged
Note: Peach's EX form. It may be about her psychic powers because she can hit the ball with moving her hands but withtout touching it.

- Peach Blossom
Description: Peach does a strange dance and the zone surrounding her becomes trapped by peach trees and pictures of her. People (but her) in that aera fall asleep and suffer at the same time. The closer they are to Peach, the deeper their sleep will be and the more they'll be hurt. Then peaches fall from the sky.
Type: Final Smash (magic)
First appearance: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Latest appearance: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Note: This attack can be used by Peach to defend herself and escape, but... why does she never use it ? Does she like to be kidnapped by Bowser or something ?

YOSHI

- Egg Roll
Description: Yoshi traps himself in an egg and can roll around at very fast speeds. All Yoshis can do that, but it's extremely hard - sometimes impossible - for them. Yoshi, on the other side, can do it easily.
Type: Normal Attack (physical)
First appearance: Super Smash Bros. Melee
Latest appearance: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Note: This move is more based on speed than strength. Yoshi used it in Mario Power Tennis.

- Rainbow-related moves
Description: Yoshi is always so happy that, using magic, he can give his happiness and excitement to an object. For instance, a golf ball will go farther, or a baseball ball will jump in every direction. That happiness looks like a rainbow.
Type: Special Attack (magic)
First appearance: Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour
Latest appearance: Mario Super Sluggers

- Tongue
Description: Unlike other Yoshis, Yoshi's tongue is so long that he can grab something 50 ft away with it.
Type: Normal Attack (physical)
First appearance: Super Mario World
Latest appearance: Super Mario Galaxy 2
Note: Yoshi's tongue is sticky so he can use it to eat something far away.

- Super Dragon
Description: Yoshi transforms. He grows wings, can spit fireballs and breath fire. Additionally, he creates earthquakes when he stomps the ground. However he eventually comes back to normal.
Type: Special Attack / Final Smash / Mega Strike (fire + fly + earth)
First appearance: Super Mario World
Latest appearance: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Note: Very, very powerful. Basically Yoshi's true power, to compensate his weak attacks and moves. However he once needed to eat an Invincible Shell to get this ability.

Upcoming: Bowser.

[Artemendo]

How are Final Smashes canon? They're way too overpowered and show-off-y. They're just there to provide players with eye candy, just like all other SSB moves, or SSB in general. It's fanservice.

[shadowgoomba]

Even if they are, it's the Smash Ball that gives them that energy.

[Koopalmier]

The Smash Ball allows them to use that attack, actually. Sonic doesn't need to be all-powerful to use the Chaos Emeralds, Fox doesn't need to be all-powerful to call a Landmaster, etc. I don't like Final Smashes much anyway.
I don't count Final Smashes as being canon either, but the characters still use it in a Nintendo product, so it can count.

EDIT: And the same applies to Mega Strikes.

[Artemendo]

The Smash Ball contains the concentrated energy of Fanservice. If the character that touches it already possesses a power that might be fanservice, the Smash Ball allows them to do it. If the character doesn't, the Smash Ball makes one up on the spot.

[Koopalmier]

Mario does. He can use a more powerful attack in Super Mario RPG.
Luigi apparently does. The game says he's got this ability by being in Mario's shadow for too long, not because of the Smash Ball.
Bowser can be much, much stronger than Giga Bowser in the Mario series.
The only character to actually have an all-new power is Peach.

[Artemendo]

Mario: But it doesn't look FLASHY enough!
Luigi: Yeah, I'll believe that when Luigi is a final boss- I mean, no. Also, it's mysterious and cool.
Bowser: But Giga Bowser is macho and brutal!
See? All fanservice.

Also, about Luigi being a boss, I really, really hope the next Paper Mario on 3DS will have Mario as the final boss. I mean, we've had Bowser, Peach, Luigi... maybe they could have Yoshi, but Yoshi has never been fought in any non-fighting game.

[Koopalmier]

It's all fanservice but it's still there. Dry Bowser's apparition in MKWii is fanservice, it doesn't mean he's not part of the characters. Final Smashes are fanservice, but they're still abilities Mario & co used in a Nintendo game so they count in the list.

[Artemendo]

Yeah, OK. I was just saying it's not canon because I was under the assumption you collect canon-only moves.

Haha, Dry Bowser. Really. But at least it's more funny and not as annoying and destructive to common sense as the baby characters. That Dry Bowser could be a magic copy of Bowser while he was a skeleton, but the babies? Time machine? Cloning? Ugh.

[cheat-master30]

What about Wario? My guess:

His normal powers are probably extremely high physical strength, at least in the adventure/platformer games. This allows him to punch the ground, throw and pick up enemies bigger than he is, and take near enough any physical attack without major damage. He's not quite invincible like in the second and third games, but he's probably about the toughness of Bowser as far as being able to take damage goes.

For transformations, he's likely got some weird allergy thing going on, since because he's nigh invulnerable, any attacks seem to just have a sometimes beneficial effect on him. Toon physics I guess, because each transformation is probably about what would happen to anyone if they could stand such attacks without being literally torn to pieces.

He can also vacuum up enemies and objects, as well as bite objects bigger than he is to damage then (Wario World, Smash Bros)

Wario Man transformations are probably near enough voluntary now. They've gone from being a result of weird experiments to being something that can be switched on from eating certain food.

So, what do you think Waluigi's powers are?

[Artemendo]

Weird that you mention Waluigi's powers, I was planning to do some artwork of a few power-ups he might be using. Like Blooper Waluigi, which turns the whole course into imaginary water for Waluigi to imaginarily swim through (based on Mario Tennis), but runs out after 30 seconds.

On topic: Waluigi's powers? He seems to have strength from Mario Party 3 (but then again, less strength than Daisy has). Besides that, he swims through imaginary water, can make vine walls appear, and throws eggplants. Which all could be just made up on the spot since he hasn't been in a real adventure yet from which to induce his actual powers. I bet if Waluigi ever has a game, he won't be able to do ANY of this stuff since the designers will probably see him as a blank slate.

[EpicGyllynn]

Aug 17, 2010 13:47:10 GMT -5 Artemendo said:

How are Final Smashes canon? They're way too overpowered and show-off-y. They're just there to provide players with eye candy, just like all other SSB moves, or SSB in general. It's fanservice.

While I don't believe Final Smashes to be Canon, I think the Subspace Emissary Story is Canon in all participating Universes!

[Artemendo]

What? Subspace Emissary canon?! You can't be serious! That's like going to Lemmy's Land, picking out a random crossover fanfic, and calling that canon! It's Sakurai's personal stupid fanfic, and I refuse to believe it even COULD happen, much less actually happened.

AND: Miyamoto personally said "Mario will not appear in Zelda games, some worlds are just distinct." I guess he only tolerates SSB because it brings Nintendo mad cash.

[Koopalmier]

Fun fact: Peach actually uses her psychic powers for the first time in Mario Tennis 64, where she uses it to hold the trophy withtout touching it. As for her powers in Super Mario RPG, they come from her pure kindness and... err, purity, so it goes in the same section as "heart-related moves".

[EpicGyllynn]

Why is it hard to believe that the Nintendo Games are connected, Artemendo? I see absoloutly NO reason to disregard them! Does it Contradict Source Material(i.e. The Games)? No. Then why shouldn't we Consider it Canon?

[Koopalmier]

Because it contradicts the games. Some exemples:
- King DeDeDe's castle. Not only it's in a rocky aera (unlike in the Kirby series) but it's on the same planet as Mario's or Pit's.
- Master Hand is representing a child's hand. Why does it appear ?
- Lucas. Ness. Same time period.
- Many characters' sizes are inconsistent: Kirby (20 centimeters) is twice smaller than Mario (155 centimeters), Sonic (100 centimeters) is almost taller than Mario, etc...
- Porky. He's supposed to be in the Absolutely Safe Capsule. It can't be opened, it can't be destroyed.
- The Statue of Porky was originally destroyed.
- Ridley / Mecha Ridley.
- Bowser is much more evil than in the games.
- The Zoo from MOTHER is there. Would that mean the game happens on Earth ? Nah, the game calls it "Terra" ("This World" in the English version).
- Characters = trophies. Wut ?

[SMBBQ]

Alright, think about this:

-Trophies are a way of summoning a character. For example, the Mario trophywill be replaced with the real Mario.

-Much like SMB2, a character is pulled from their reality in their sleep. i.e. Lucas is asleep in Tazmily in his reality, but his dream self is in the Smash World.

-Characters sizes are changed around, such as Kirby. Keep in mind these are only their dream selves.

-The Smash World is made up of other worlds. The Zoo from MOTHER 1/EarthBound Zero and DeDeDe's Castle are here for that reason.

-Though the adventure takes place in one night's sleep, it could be a very long time for all of the characters brought there. As such, it could feel like years to them. Giving them ample time to get to know each other. (Like Peach, Zelda, Mario, and Kirby being friendly)

-Certain baddies were brought as well. Though Porky/Pokey isphysically trapped in that Absolutely Safe Capsule, his "Dream Self" is in the Smash World. Same goes for Bowser, Gannondorf, and Wario.


We've mentioned The Absolutely Safe Capsule so much we've probably ruined MOTHER 3 for anyone on this board who hasn't played it, haven't we?

[Koopalmier]

MOTHER 3 is four years old anyway.

The Smash World isn't a dream world though - more like the imagination of a young boy (represented by Master Hand). And DDD's castle is still not at the right place (instead of being in a meadow, it's in a Bowser-like location).

[SMBBQ]

Though the Smash World ismade up of bits from other Nintendo games, notall of them are in their correct places. DeDeDe's Castle is there for that reason. Besides, it's not his ACTUAL Castle, but one that was made from partof his subconsiouness.

About MOTHER 3, yes it's 4 years old, but I don't want to ruin the ending of it any more than we already have.

[Artemendo]

Even if it "actually happened" in their collective dreams (which it did not, as these characters reside in worlds so different they don't know of each other at all), it still didn't and couldn't happen in reality. Taking a crossover fanfic and putting millions of budget into it to make it all flashy doesn't make it more credible, or more likely to happen!