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This looks really weird. What was the source of the image? Is there more SMB2 artwork there? - Walkazo 22:07, 26 April 2009 (EDT)
- I have the manual of the NES version of SMB2, and there Ninji really looks that odd. Several enemy artwork pieces there look notably different from more recent ones such as from Super Mario Advance. --Grandy02 09:36, 6 May 2009 (EDT)
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This image has been on the site for many years, and was treated as the "main" SMB2 Ninji image at first. We now know that's not the case for any version of the game, and while a similar piece of artwork labeled as being from "Nintendo Power" (actually a guidebook called Super Mario Bros. 2 Inside-Out) exists (and this was conjecturally labeled as also being from "Nintendo Power" due to their similarities), this artwork is in neither the magazine series nor the aforementioned guidebook (or any other guidebook, like Mario Mania) as far as me or a few others can tell. To me, this almost looks like someone took a distorted photo of the enemy page in the manual, put type 2's face on type 1's body (or otherwise awkwardly combined them), and vectorized it, similar to the history behind the orange Birdo image. Regardless, this image has been questionable for a long time. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 12:43, August 15, 2025 (EDT)
- It does seem that one of the Right&Wrong Brothers resembles it a little, though that still leaves the question on where this art came from. Doc von Schmeltwick (talk) 20:56, August 28, 2025 (EDT)
- The art is official, though the red coloring may have been added by an external party. Video Game History Foundation Kong (talk) 20:11, November 6, 2025 (EDT)
