Double Cherry
- This article is about the item introduced in Super Mario 3D World. For the generic fruit, see Cherry.
| Double Cherry | |
|---|---|
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| First appearance | Super Mario 3D World (2013) |
| Latest appearance | The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (cameo) (2026) |
| Effect | Creates a double of the player. |
- “Lickety-split! This power-up helps you divide and conquer. Duplicate your character up to five times! There is power in numbers, so the more, the merrier, right?”
- —Play Nintendo[1]
The Double Cherry is an item first appearing in Super Mario 3D World. The Double Cherry's conception comes from the result of a mistake made by a staff member with the placement tool, which created two player Marios. The staff thought it was a good idea and decided to implement it in the game.[2]
History[edit]
Super Mario 3D World / Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury[edit]
Double Cherries first appear in Super Mario 3D World and return in its Nintendo Switch port. When characters grab this item, a clone of themselves appears and says a short phrase depending on who picked it up. The clones keep the original characters' state (for example, Fire Mario gets a clone that also has a Fire Flower), power-ups affect all of them, and they all move identically. The clones can be used to activate certain switches and platforms. There can be up to five clones at one time. If players hit ? Blocks that contain Double Cherries when five clones exist, a coin will come out instead. The clones disintegrate if harmed or if they fall too far behind, and they all disappear when the player grabs the Goal Pole, awarding 1,000 points per clone. The players can also ground-pound on other players to steal their double power.
Through hacking, collecting another Double Cherry to spawn a sixth clone would cause the game to crash.[3]
Mario Kart series[edit]
Mario Kart 8 / Mario Kart 8 Deluxe[edit]
In Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, a Double Cherry can be seen on the redesigned Tropical Grocery logos. The Cherry Cup, whose emblem is represented by a Double Cherry, appears in Wave 5 of the Booster Course Pass.
Mario Kart Tour[edit]
The Double Cherry appears in Mario Kart Tour as a badge icon for all challenges pertaining to infant characters.
Mario Kart World[edit]
In Mario Kart World, the Double Cherry is represented as the emblem for the Cherry Rally.
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker[edit]
Double Cherries also appear in Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker and its Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS ports, acting mostly identically to how they did in Super Mario 3D World. In addition to the usefulness of Captain Toad and Toadette copies in collecting coins, simultaneously pressing P Panels, and activating Multi-Vators, they can also be used to pluck multiple objects simultaneously. When a copy reaches the Power Star, each other copy is converted into ten coins. The power-up's titular courses, Double Cherry Palace and Double Cherry Spires, focus on using two copies to solve puzzles. They contain no ways for the player to take damage and lose a copy, and both courses make use of dividers so that each copy has a section of the course that only it can access. P Switches are present so that actions in one copy's section of the course can affect the other copy's section. Both courses use a Multi-Vator to enforce bringing both instances of the player characters together before they can collect the Power Star. The bonus objective of some courses with Double Cherries is to reach the Power Star with at least a specific number of Toads or Toadettes.
The Double Cherry Mystery Boxes of Coins Galore, More Coins Galore, and Even More Coins Galore lead to ten second challenges that make use of the properties of Double Cherries to allow the player to collect hundreds of coins at a time.
The Nintendo 3DS version of the game removes some Double Cherries from courses with more than one of them. The bonus objectives of these courses, which are always to reach the Power Star with at least a specific number of Toads or Toadettes in the other versions of the game, are changed to different objectives.
Profiles[edit]
Super Mario 3D World[edit]
- Instruction manual (American English): Adds another Mario to your team.
- Instruction manual (British English): Splits Mario into Double Mario.
- Instructie-handleiding (Nederlands (Nederland)): Maakt een kloon van het personage waarmee je speelt.
- Instructie-handleiding (Nederlands (België)): Maakt een kloon van het personage waarmee je speelt.
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker[edit]
- Instruction manual: Collect one to create a copy of Captain Toad.
Gallery[edit]
Super Mario 3D World
Model of the Double Cherry in Super Mario 3D World
Tropical Grocery, a sponsor in Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart Tour
The Cherry Cup emblem in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe cup selection screen with the Cherry Cup highlighted and Double Cherry designs on the course slots
Pictogram of two cherries used to represent the Double Cherry in a video about Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury power-ups on the Play Nintendo YouTube channel
The Cherry Rally emblem in Mario Kart World
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Note(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ダブルチェリー Daburu Cherī | Double Cherry | [?] | |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 双樱桃 Shuāng Yīngtáo | Double Cherry | [4] | |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 雙櫻桃 Shuāng Yīngtáo | [5] | ||
| 分身櫻桃 Fēnshēn Yīngtáo | Monopoly: Super Mario Celebration! | [6] | ||
| Dutch | Dubbele kers | Double Cherry | [?] | |
| Double Cherry | Monopoly: Super Mario Celebration! | [7] | ||
| French | Double cerise | Double cherry | [?] | |
| German | Doppelkirsche | Double Cherry | [?] | |
| Italian | Doppia ciliegia | Double cherry | [?] | |
| Korean | 더블체리 Deobeul-cheri | Double Cherry | [?] | |
| 더블 체리 Deobeul Cheri | Monopoly: Super Mario Celebration! | [8] | ||
| Portuguese | Duplicereja | Portmanteau of duplicar ("to duplicate") and cereja ("cherry") | [?] | |
| Russian | Двойная вишня Dvoynaya vishnya | Double Cherry | [?] | |
| Spanish | Duplicerezas | From duplicar ("to duplicate") and cerezas ("cherries") | [9] |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Play Nintendo (April 30, 2022). Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury 😸🔥 10 Power-Ups! | @Play Nintendo. YouTube. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
- ^ rawmeatcowboy (November 14, 2013). Iwata Asks: SM3DW - Cherry a mistake, dev team size, no tea table upending, Toad fans, returning to Galaxy. GoNintendo Version 4.0. Retrieved January 3, 2024. (Archived January 3, 2024, 20:20:56 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6dJQMdIkeo&t=30s
- ^ Nintendo HK官方頻道 (January 13, 2020). 《超级马力欧 ３Ｄ世界 ＋ 狂怒世界》介绍视频（简体中文） YouTube. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
- ^ Nintendo HK官方頻道 (January 13, 2020). 《超級瑪利歐 ３Ｄ世界 ＋ 狂怒世界》介紹影片（香港） YouTube. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
- ^ 【NSEWatch開箱】Hasbro 超級瑪利歐慶典版大富翁 (中文版)！Monopoly Super Mario！
- ^ https://instructions.hasbro.com/api/download/E9517_nl-nl_monopoly-super-mario-celebration-editie-bordspel.pdf
- ^ https://sksn.tistory.com/560142
- ^ Guía Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker Spanish guide. www.guiasnintendo.com (Spanish).
