Elephant Mario

ELEPHANT MARIO

As our heroes greet Prince Florian, Bowser shows up to crash the party. Touching a Wonder Flower and not knowing what it does, he finds himself merged with Florian’s castle and his own Klown Kar, becoming a giant flying castle spreading darkness all over the kingdom. Mario and his friends race off to stop him, and soon encounter their first new powerup: an apple with a nose like an elephant.

This is the Elephant Fruit, a fruit that transforms the player into an elephant. Not just an elephant suit, like we’re used to, but a full transformation into an anthropomorphic elephant. This powerup makes them heavy and powerful, with trunks that knock away opponents and carry water.

As a fighter, each of the major Elephant transformations will be represented as color swaps, their moveset pulling from the elephant power’s moves and a few other moves from the game. They will be strong and heavy, and just a little slow.

Likelihood rating: Piranha Plant clause.

Character Sheet: Elephant Mario

ELEPHANT MARIO

And now, we have six brand-new characters to add in to the Mario rosters, including those from the Mario + Rabbids DLC and Super Mario Wonder. They are:

1. Elephant Mario

2. Prince Florian

3. Allegra

4. Poplin

5. Spark Hunters (split from Edge)

6. The Phantom

We'll start with Elephant Mario, the brand new power up that transforms Mario and his friends into elephants, a powerup that Rule 34 hasn't had so much fun with since Bowsette. The Elephant powerup made Mario and his friends incredibly heavy, gave them a trunk that flicks away opponents, allowed them to collect water and spray it out, and gave them incredibly powerful charges and butt bashes. Couple that with maybe a few game gimmicks and we have a character.

Here's the moveset I came up with:

Standard B: Water Spray

The elephant will fill up their trunk with one press, then spray it out with a second.

Side B: Charge

The elephant will charge forward at high speed, plowing into opponents.

Up B: Parachute Cap

One that the elephant form at least can use, the elephant will expand its cap into a parachute and rise into the air.

Down B: Butt Bash

The elephant will flip up and then bash back down with crushing weight.

Final Smash: Bulrush Stampede

The elephant will touch a Wonder Flower, which will cause a stampede of bulrushes to flood across the stage.

Entrance: The player will pick up an Elephant Fruit and transform.

Taunts: Up, the elephant will flip its trunk. Side, the elephant will bend over and let out as strong trumpet blast. Down, the elephant will drink up some water.

Kirby Hat: What Kirby would look like if he picked it up.

Kart: A Bulrush-based Kart

Special Move: The elephant will be able to use its trunk to flick away any item that comes its way.

Spirit Battle: One of all of the main seven, on Flower Kingdom.

Victory Screen: The elephant will do its "facing backwards" pose from one of the songs as Piranha Plants sing around it.

Losing Screen: The elephant will lose its power-up and revert back to the player.

Color Swaps: Elephant Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Blue Toad, Yellow Toad, Toadette, and what a Rosalina version would look like.

Thanks for reading! Next up, their faithful companion Prince Florian.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder

SUPER MARIO BROS. WONDER

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the newest 2D Mario game and the first appearance of Kevin Afghani as the new voice of Mario and Luigi since Charles Martinet's retirement from the role. The game features Mario and friends visiting the Flower Kingdom, when Bowser accidentally makes contact with a Wonder Flower, a plant with some seriously trippy reality-bending powers, and ends up fused with Prince Florian's castle.

Our playable characters in this game include Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Princess Daisy, both the blue and yellow Toads, Toadette, four colors of Yoshi, and Nabbit. All play more or less the same, though the Yoshis and Nabbit all act as the game's easy mode. This includes running and jumping, with powerups including the Fire Flower and Super Star, and the new Elephant Fruit, Bubble Flower, and Drill Mushroom. The Elephant Fruit specifically turns the player into an elephant who can charge, butt bash, flick with their trunk, and carry and shoot water.

Also of note is our new badge mechanic, provided by Prince Florian, which gives you an added ability that you can equip from the start of any level. These include, as specific actions: the Parachute Cap, the Floating High Jump, the Boosting Spin Jump, the Wall Jump Climb, the Crouching High Jump, the Grappling Vine, the Dolphin Kick, the Timed High Jump, and the Fast Dash. Others give you some form of boost, such as a safety bounce, becoming a coin magnet, an item sensor, and just having certain items automatically, and others are expert level boosts, including invisibility, a jet run, and spring boots.

As for other allies, we have the Poplins, Florian's people, who can break up rocks and build bridges, some work as anglers, and others can teleport. It might be fair to attach things like the propeller flower to them as well. Then we have Captain Toad who pops up now and then, and the Talking Flowers, who are just great and comment on random things going on in each level.

Bowser is our main villain. He can breathe fire and flies around in his Klown Kar. After being merged with the castle, he shoots out fireballs that move like chomping piranha plants, attack with giant hands, and throw spike balls. Bowser Jr. pops up as a boss frequently, rolling around in his shell and butt bashing for most of his boss fights, but also using Wonder Flower power to grow, shrink, and alter the stage in some way. Kamek also appears, typically calling in airships to act as mid-level boss fights and such.

Our returning enemies include: Koopa Troopas, Koopa Paratroopas, Dry Bones, Goombas, Goombrats, Bone Goombas, Boos, Piranha Plants, Fire Piranha Plants, Bone Piranha Plants, Munchers, Nippers, Ninjis, Cheep Cheeps, Urchins, Bullet Bills, Bob-Ombs, Hotheads, Pokeys, Buzzy Beetles, Spinies, Lakitus, Spikes, Hammer Bros, Mechakoopas, Thwomps, and even King Boo in one level. Newcomers include: flying Anglefish, rolling Armads, Blewbirds, inflated frogs called Bloomps, charging Bulrushes, Condarts, Gnawshers, fat Hoppos, jumping Hoppycats, Thwomp-like Konks, eating Maw-Maws, Missile Megs, unwrappable Mumsies, kicking Outmaways, Pokipedes, Blaarghs that fall from the ceiling called Raarghs, Revvers, Robbirds, Bullet Bills that heat-seek, Shovas that push things, Skedaddlers that run and spit projectiles, Smackerels, Smogrins, rolling Snootles, Sproings, Tailies that hang from the ceiling, blobby Wubbas, and a bunch of guys that don't have names yet, like little green snails, mimic doors, owls, turtles, snakes in pots, walking fireworks, and a shadowy Mario that follows you around.

The whole game takes place in the Flower Kingdom, with its local Beach-themed area Petal Isles as the central hub connecting you to Pipe Rock Plateau, a grassy/mountainous region; Fluff-Puff Peaks, a sky region; Shining Falls, a strange polygonal mountainous world; Sunbaked Desert, a desert of course; Fungi Mines, a forest-y cave area filled with mushrooms; and Deep Magma Bog, a lava world. Each one of these has an access to the Special World, not unlike the one from Super Mario World.

And I think that's about it! Here's what we've got so far:

Characters:

Elephant Mario/etc.: charge, butt bash, trunk, shoot water

Prince Florian: Parachute Cap, Floating High Jump, Boosting Spin Jump, Wall Jump Climb, Crouching High Jump, Grappling Vine, Dolphin Kick, Timed High Jump, Fast Dash, safety bounce, coin magnet, item sensor, invisibility, jet run, spring boots

Poplins: break up rocks, build bridges, anglers, teleport, propeller flower

Spawny

Madame Bwahstrella

Kanya: Mecha King Bob-Omb

Allegra: Dorrie, tuning fork, musical blast, flip, water spit, vibrations

Rayman

Phantom: vanish, invulnerable spotlight, musical blast, sonic wave, sets

Stages: 

Tower of Doooooom!

Melodic Gardens

Phantom Show

Flower Kingdom

Petal Isles

Pipe Rock Plateau

Fluff-Puff Peaks

Shining Falls

Sunbaked Desert

Fungi Mines

Deep Magma Bog

Special World

Thanks for reading! Next up, we technically have another new game coming out this Friday, but we're not there yet, so we'll start with our newcomer characters, starting off with the hefty boy himself.