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Post by vnisanian2001 on Mar 6, 2020 23:31:56 GMT -5
As most Mario fans know, there are three mushrooms, Super, 1-Up, and Poison. But, why were they given the colors of red, green, and purple respectively? That's what I'd like to know.
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Post by shelverton on Mar 7, 2020 8:10:51 GMT -5
While I have no answer for this very burning question, I do wanna know if there’s actual lore behind the mushrooms?
Also: Is Toad part mushroom?
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Post by kaoru on Mar 7, 2020 8:32:13 GMT -5
They are growing baby Toads. Green is freshly sprout, Red means it is almost done becoming a Toad person, Purple are the failed ones.
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Post by shelverton on Mar 7, 2020 11:48:23 GMT -5
They are growing baby Toads. Green is freshly sprout, Red means it is almost done becoming a Toad person, Purple are the failed ones. I want to die now. |
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Post by ommadawnyawn2 on Mar 7, 2020 17:08:17 GMT -5
Mario eats the children and collects all the money for himself, to increase his lifespan forever. Bowser is really the hero.
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Post by windfisch on Mar 7, 2020 18:13:42 GMT -5
Being the capitalist supremacist that he is he could easily run for US president.
Wario is the only honest depiction of Mario we'll ever get.
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Post by kaoru on Mar 7, 2020 19:52:47 GMT -5
Going to foreign shores and bettering ourselves by destroying native life is what we Europeans do. Please respect our culture, thanks.
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Post by blackdrazon on Mar 7, 2020 21:55:11 GMT -5
Real answer: their palettes are probably shared with other major recurring elements, but I couldn't tell you which.
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Post by shelverton on Mar 8, 2020 5:08:26 GMT -5
There are Mario games where Toad eats mushrooms too. He eats his own kind... fetuses at that.
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Post by windfisch on Mar 8, 2020 6:36:11 GMT -5
^ How very Greek (old school). Going to foreign shores and bettering ourselves by destroying native life is what we Europeans do. Please respect our culture, thanks. Being of Italian descent, Mario also stands for European values, I guess. |
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Post by chronotigger65 on Mar 8, 2020 16:48:13 GMT -5
They are growing baby Toads. Green is freshly sprout, Red means it is almost done becoming a Toad person, Purple are the failed ones. Sounds more like some kind of twisted fan theory to me. |
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Post by spanky on Mar 8, 2020 19:56:29 GMT -5
Man! What was Miyamoto smoking when he came up with Mario eating 'shrooms!!! That's what I want to know!!
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Post by dsparil on Mar 9, 2020 9:24:09 GMT -5
In the original SMB and 2JP, blackdrazon is right. The Super Mushroom uses Mario's palette, 1-Up Mushroom is Luigi's and the Poison Mushroom uses the Goombas' so it can vary depending on the stage. The similarity in color between the Super and Poison mushroom (in above ground stages) may intentionally mimic the similarity between several edible varieties and the highly poisonous death cap mushroom which is responsible for the most poisonings. In the later games, they seeming just made the spot color the main color and made the spots white. This does give the Super Mushroom an unmistakable similarly to the classic fly agaric mushroom ( Amanita muscaria), and I suspect that they went backwards from there in recoloring the 1-Up. A. muscaria is poisonous (but not fatally so) and hallucinogenic when raw but is perfectly edible and non-hallucinogenic when properly prepared. They are in fact eaten in Japan particularly around Nagano and traditionally in some Northern European countries. Supposedly the reason they are even eaten at all is because the red type is easily identifiable and impossible to confuse with a totally inedible and poisonous variety. Purple poison mushrooms are an easy explanation though. Purple is frequently associated with poison in Eastern cultures. |
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Post by windfisch on Mar 9, 2020 13:51:06 GMT -5
Man! What was Miyamoto smoking when he came up with Mario eating 'shrooms!!! That's what I want to know!! That remains a mystery....
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