I know there's some speculation that the next Mario movie is going to be a spinoff rather than a sequel since Shigeru Miyamoto worded the announcement as "a new animated film based on the world of Super Mario Bros."
However, in that same announcement, the CEO of Illumnation said the movie will be "a return to The Super Mario Brothers," so consider this:
The specific wording wasn't a hint that the movie's going to be a spinoff, but a hint that it is going to be loosely based on "Super Mario World."
When you think of enemies from Super Mario Bros. 2, who comes to mind? Personally, one of the first that comes to MY mind are those weird birds that you find as early as World 1. The borderline flightless ones that were colored red, white and black in the original, but weirdly got some purple coloring in the All-Stars remake — the ones who weirdly barely appeared again. You know,
Name: Pidgit
Debut: Super Mario Bros. 2/ Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic
Did I actually trick anyone into thinking today’s enemy would be sweet old Tweeter? I don’t know if Tweeter is well-known enough to get that kind of anticipation!
Regardless, Pidgit’s a weird enemy, to be certain! Of course, one could say almost all Super Mario Bros. 2 enemies are weird, but “flightless crow riding on a carpet” is a bit more weird than enemies like “walking bomb”, “walking cactus”, and “bird that drops walking bomb”.
And that’s right: despite its name, Pidgit is a crow, which is not a pigeon at all! It is actually more wrong to name Pidgit after a pigeon than it is to name a gorilla enemy with some sort of hare-related pun in mind. And that’s science!
However, even its original Japanese name is just a portmanteau of “dodo” and “Rodrigues solitaire”, both of which are pigeons…this is Pidgit’s Trick.
This guy’s an oddball, one that didn’t debut in a Mario game and has had very few reappearances since, but has left an inescapable impact since. Before that, though, let’s cherish the reappearances it HAS had!
Pidgit’s first reappearance is a weird one—instead of riding a magic carpet, it finds itself being blasted out of Turtle Cannons in Fall as the Pidgit Bill! Super Mario World sure seems pretty fond of Super Mario Bros. 2, and this might be one of its most blatant callbacks. Funnily enough, in the SNES version only horizontally-moving Bullet Bills get replaced, which seems fine until you realize Super Mario World also introduces vertically- and diagonally-inclined Bullet Bills. Woopsie!
Pidgit Bills appear in the ending of Super Princess Peach, too, congratulating the player! That’s cute.
Pidgit’s next appearance would be another weird one. Wario’s Woods has it be one of Wario’s goons, replacing the fairy when Wario appears on the upper right screen to drop only bombs. Remember when Wario was a villain who could have minions? Yeah. Pidgit can fly here without a carpet at all, no foolin’! Is this part of the spell Wario put over his Woods? Is this why Pidgits fight for him? I don’t know! I think they just forgot.
They wouldn’t reappear until Partners in Time, and wow! This might actually be their only in-game reappearance where they actually ride their carpets! Which reminds me, do Pidgits make their own carpets, or do they get them from somewhere, or…?
I’ve never had nor played this game so I don’t know exactly how they act, but what I do know is that in the American version, they’re stronger and more likely to drop loot than any other version! That’s fun.
Do you remember 12 paragraphs ago, when you still had your youth and I said we’d get back to how Pidgit left an inescapable impact on the franchise? Well, that time is now, and that inescapable impact is the Lakitu!
“But Weirdma Rio Enemies dot Tumblr dot Com!,” you cry. “Lakitu debuted in Super Mario Bros., before Doki Doki Panic and thus long before Super Mario Bros. 2 was even conceived!” And on that, you’re right. But let’s look at an attribute unique to Pidgit!
You see, Pidgit rides a magic carpet, yes, but when it’s picked up, the player can ride the carpet themselves temporarily — after a certain amount of time, though, the carpet starts flashing before disappearing completely. Sound familiar?
Sounds a lot like Lakitu’s Cloud, if you ask me! While Lakitus have been riding their fair-weather friends since 1985, we weren’t privy to that same experience till long after Super Mario Bros. 2, in a little game called…Super Mario World! In a game which already has Pidgit, is it truly at all absurd to say it would have just one more reference to it?
So remember, in every game where you can ride a truculent terrapin’s silly cirrus, be sure to thank your local Pidgit!
…man, too bad we couldn’t segue into at least something about Tweeter, huh? First they were bought out by a rich muskrat, now this. Is there anything Tweeterheads get to look forward to?
the answer is ME!!!!!!
Hi!! I’m Mod Tweeter, and today’s post was written by none other than moi! It’s a real tweat and an honour to join the cast of Oddball Red-Cloaked-Daisy Critters, and I hope you will all enjoy my writings about more sillybeasts in the future!
For now, let’s close this post with a smooth songbird’s swingin’ serenade…
Humans don't exist in Sonic World they say. And Eggman? Isn't he a human?
I think, my only issue with humans (beside Eggman) in general is... why they often are realistic while the other animals are furries - like Disney/Warner/Rubber Hose style?
The snotty brat (hidden face just because)... It has nothing to do with Sonic.
It works (But I think the size difference should be increased. And hedgehogs are small animals, so it won't hurt).
Does not work!
it sucks, too... not to say the design is bad, is just, she should belong in some dark majokko anime like Puella Magi Madoka Magica, where the only talking beasts are little cute four legged maine coon kittens without feelings like Kyuubey.
Call an exorcist!!!
Way better. Those are well designed humans.
While Sonic and Mario aren't part of the same world, togheter they fit perfectly.
I wondered if this is from the Sims 2... in the cas he seems to be the model #2
I was watching a video of Mario RPG glitches and saw the level up ally move glitch, and saw Geno with a pink cape. Was like gonna draw that hehe it’s silly. Geno would so love pink capes any color in general no questions ask alshdklrkrj xD the third and fourth drawings were sorta a stupid idea idk why it was in my mind lmao ;w; for those who don’t believe me the pink Geno glitch is real the screenshot is under the cut :)
I haven’t seen much people talk about it and I wanna talk about it 😭💫
Super Mario Bros. Wonder still looks great and is a much needed style refresh for 2D Mario but part of me still hopes they eventually flesh out the true 2.5D style they had with 3D World in Mario Maker 2, like imagine that but expanded to modern DKC levels of polish
I feel that Wonder retaining the 2D tile-set presentation is currently the biggest missed opportunity, but at least they're also basically cranking the weird level gimmicks from New Super Mario Bros. DS up to eleven and I am 100% on board with that concept
The Super Mario Bros the Movie 2 The Age of Beans and the year of ….
Cackletta
map art made by me adding the Beabean Kingdom since it and the Mushoroom Kingdom share the border and Cackletta is back beautiful people, a future au out there 🫘🫘🫘🫘🫘🫘🫘🫘🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄❤️💚
if you've played this game at all in any part of your life at least one of the world themes will get stuck in your head periodically at random for the rest of your life
While people are excited about King Boo's return, I'm crying tears of joy about the return of the Ninjis and Lil Sparkies/Hot Head in Super Mario Wonder