Boring, but Practical: Shaking the controller in midair makes your character spin and keeps them in the air slightly longer.The Toads who stayed at the castle aided Mario, Luigi, and the Blue and Yellow Toads on their mission by shooting power-ups throughout the land out of a cannon, scattering them across the lands. Blatant Item Placement: Oddly enough for the franchise, Justified.In them, there's usually an object or item that illuminates part of the path, and they become essential to avoid touching unseen hazards. Blackout Basement: A number of levels.
And Your Reward Is Clothes: Inverted: Mario loses his hat if you have 99 lives (he gets his hat back should he lose a life).Air Jousting: The World 6 boss battle involves the player(s) and Bowser Jr both riding Clown Cars like the one from Super Mario World and trying to send each other flying into electric fences in mid air.