Ice Mario (Super Mario Galaxy)

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Ice Mario
Ice Mario from Mario Kart Tour
Artwork of Ice Mario for Mario Kart Tour
Applies to Mario, Luigi
Item needed Ice Flower
Power(s) given Walk or skate across water and lava, cling onto and Wall Jump off of waterfalls, fire and ice immunity
First appearance Super Mario Galaxy (2007)
Latest appearance Super Mario 3D All-Stars (2020)

Ice Mario is a form that Mario can take upon touching an Ice Flower in Super Mario Galaxy. In this form, Mario's body turns into solid ice with cold air flowing out and gains the ability to skate on water. A different form of the same name was introduced in New Super Mario Bros. Wii.

History[edit]

Super Mario Galaxy[edit]

Ice Mario in Freezeflame Galaxy of Super Mario Galaxy
Ice Mario in Freezeflame Galaxy

While in this form, any water or lava Mario touches freezes solid in the form of a hexagonal platform (which melts after a period of time if left unoccupied). This allows Mario to walk or skate across vast distances of water or lava with ease and safety. Ice Mario can also reach higher places by freezing water spouts and Wall Jumping off of waterfalls, though unlike regular walls, Ice Mario can cling onto waterfalls for a few seconds before he drops down. This form also makes its user immune to fire attacks, as seen when a Magikoopa fires a fireball at Ice Mario; it also prevents damage from torches when the player jumps on it. Ice Mario can also safely defeat ice bats by spinning and stomping, though this is only possible to see with hacking.[1] Like Fire Mario, this power-up has a time limit.

A downside of this power-up is that Ice Mario's midair spin is diminished. Ice Mario's midair spin gains almost no height, unlike Mario's regular form. Therefore, Ice Mario cannot jump as high.

This power-up is introduced in the Freezeflame Galaxy, but can also be found in the Beach Bowl Galaxy and the Deep Dark Galaxy.

This form originally had a freezing ability, which went unused. If the player spun at an Electrogoomba, it would be frozen into an Ice Block that could be slid around by kicking it or destroyed by spinning it, ground-pounding on top of it, or if it slid into a wall. Destroying an Ice Block would have granted the player three Star Bits and a coin. Due to it only freezing Electrogoombas and a bug that causes the player to fall through the ground, this ability may have been unfinished and was scrapped early in development. A similar concept of freezing enemies into Ice Blocks would later be used for a different form of the same name introduced in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, but with Iceballs instead.[2]

Mario Kart Tour[edit]

Ice Mario appears as a playable High-End driver in Mario Kart Tour, introduced in the Ice Tour. His special skill is the Ice Flower. Ice Mario shares his animations with Metal Mario but has the same voice clips as regular Mario (albeit with a harsher reverb); he also has his own unique emblem, which is a cyan version of Mario's emblem. In this game, Ice Mario lacks irises like Metal Mario does (although they can still be seen in his artwork, which is reused from Super Mario Galaxy). When Ice Mario appears in a course icon, his artwork is mirrored. There is also an Ice Mario Cup, introduced in the Hammer Bro Tour.

Since his debut tour, Ice Mario has appeared in all regular tour pipes, including All-Clear Pipes. However, he is currently not a part of the Daily Selects set. The following table lists other availabilities for Ice Mario by tour.

Tour Availability
Ice Tour Ice Mario Pack
$39.99 / €43.99 / AU$62.99
January 14, 2020 – January 21, 2020
Marine Tour Blue Seven Pack
$39.99 / €43.99 / AU$62.99
June 30, 2020 – July 14, 2020
Mario vs. Luigi Tour (2020) Tier Shop
12,000 coins
November 18, 2020 - November 24, 2020
Rosalina Tour Shivers Pipe
Snow Tour Ice Mario Pack
$19.99 / €21.99 / AU$30.99
March 3, 2021 – March 9, 2021
Sydney Tour (April–May 2021) Blizzard Balloons Pack
$39.99 / €43.99 / AU$62.99
April 28, 2021 – May 4, 2021
Wedding Tour Premium Challenges card completion reward
Frost Tour Ice Mario Pack
$19.99 / €21.99 / AU$30.99
August 11, 2021 – August 24, 2021
Toad vs. Toadette Tour Token Shop

Unused appearances[edit]

Super Mario Galaxy 2[edit]

The Ice Flower was originally going to appear in Super Mario Galaxy 2, with an updated version of its theme being present on the disc and a code being able to spawn the Ice Flower, though a model for it does not appear in the game. However, attempting to collect said Ice Flower results in the game crashing, so the item was scrapped.[3] Ice Mario is one of two power-ups in Super Mario Galaxy that does not return in its sequel, Super Mario Galaxy 2, the other being Flying Mario.

Profiles and statistics[edit]

Super Mario Galaxy[edit]

IceMarioTradingCard.png
  • Trading card description: A CHILLY kind of flower power, Ice Mario is a form that Mario can take when he grabs an Ice Flower. When he powers up to this transformation, he can walk on any body of water or lava by freezing the liquid in hexagonal platforms and simply walking across.

Mario Kart Tour[edit]

Special skill Ice Flower from Mario Kart Tour Ice Flower
Favorite courses
(Three items per Item Box)
MKT Icon DK Pass RT.png
DS DK Pass R/T
MKT Icon Frappe Snowland RT.png
N64 Frappe Snowland R/T
MKT Icon Vanilla Lake 1.png
SNES Vanilla Lake 1
MKT Icon Vanilla Lake 1R.png
SNES Vanilla Lake 1R
Vancouver Velocity T from Mario Kart Tour
Vancouver Velocity T
SNES Rainbow Road from Mario Kart Tour
SNES Rainbow Road
SNES Rainbow Road R from Mario Kart Tour
SNES Rainbow Road R
3DS Rainbow Road R from Mario Kart Tour
3DS Rainbow Road R
3DS Rainbow Road T from Mario Kart Tour
3DS Rainbow Road T
MKT Icon Mario Circuit 1RT.png
SNES Mario Circuit 1R/T
MKT Icon Mario Circuit 2RT.png
SNES Mario Circuit 2R/T
MKT Icon Neo Bowser City RT.png
3DS Neo Bowser City R/T
3DS Rainbow Road R/T from Mario Kart Tour
3DS Rainbow Road R/T
MKT Icon Koopa Troopa Beach 2T.png
SNES Koopa Troopa Beach 2T
MKT Icon Rosalina's Ice World R.png
3DS Rosalina's Ice World R
MKT Icon Donut Plains 2R.png
SNES Donut Plains 2R
RMX Vanilla Lake 1R from Mario Kart Tour
RMX Vanilla Lake 1R
MKT Icon DK Summit RT.png
Wii DK Summit R/T
Rome Avanti 3R/T from Mario Kart Tour
Rome Avanti 3R/T
Favored courses
(Two items per Item Box)
MKT Icon Mario Circuit 3RT.png
SNES Mario Circuit 3R/T
MKT Icon Frappe Snowland.png
N64 Frappe Snowland
MKT Icon Frappe Snowland R.png
N64 Frappe Snowland R
MKT Icon Frappe Snowland T.png
N64 Frappe Snowland T***
MKT Icon Vanilla Lake 1T.png
SNES Vanilla Lake 1T**
Vancouver Velocity R from Mario Kart Tour
Vancouver Velocity R
RMX Mario Circuit 1 from Mario Kart Tour
RMX Mario Circuit 1**
RMX Mario Circuit 1T from Mario Kart Tour
RMX Mario Circuit 1T
3DS Mario Circuit R/T from Mario Kart Tour
3DS Mario Circuit R/T*
London Loop 2T from Mario Kart Tour
London Loop 2T
London Loop 2R/T from Mario Kart Tour
London Loop 2R/T
MKT Icon Koopa Troopa Beach 2.png
SNES Koopa Troopa Beach 2
MKT Icon Koopa Troopa Beach 2R.png
SNES Koopa Troopa Beach 2R*
MKT Icon Rosalina's Ice World T.png
3DS Rosalina's Ice World T
MKT Icon Donut Plains 2.png
SNES Donut Plains 2
Sydney Sprint T from Mario Kart Tour
Sydney Sprint T
MKT Icon Vanilla Lake 2T.png
SNES Vanilla Lake 2T
MKT Icon Koopa Cape T.png
Wii Koopa Cape T
Sky-High Sundae T from Mario Kart Tour
Sky-High Sundae T
MKT Icon Twilight House.png
DS Twilight House
MKT Icon Snow Land T.png
GBA Snow Land T
Madrid Drive R from Mario Kart Tour
Madrid Drive R
RMX Vanilla Lake 2R/T from Mario Kart Tour
RMX Vanilla Lake 2R/T
Rome Avanti 3R from Mario Kart Tour
Rome Avanti 3R

* indicates a favored course upgraded to a favorite course after reaching level 3. ** indicates a favored course upgraded to a favorite course after reaching level 6.
*** indicates a favored course upgraded to a favorite course after reaching level 8.

  • Mario Kart Tour Twitter: Ice Mario is almost as shiny as he is slippery. Just watch out for his Ice Flower! It's a special item that can send opponents sliding forward by freezing their controls for a short time.[4]

Gallery[edit]

Artwork[edit]

Sprites and models[edit]

Emblems[edit]

Screenshots[edit]

Merchandise[edit]

Media[edit]

Audio.svg Ice Mario - Ice Mario's theme from Super Mario Galaxy
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Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning
Japanese アイスマリオ
Aisu Mario
Ice Mario

Chinese (simplified) 冰冻马力欧
Bīngdòng Mǎlì'ōu
Icy Mario

Chinese (traditional) 冰凍瑪利歐
Bīngdòng Mǎlì'ōu
Icy Mario

Dutch IJs-Mario
Ice Mario
French Mario de glace
Ice Mario
German Eis-Mario
Ice Mario
Italian Mario ghiaccio
Ice Mario
Korean 아이스마리오
Aiseu Mario
Ice Mario

Portuguese (NOA) Mario de gelo
Ice Mario
Portuguese (NOE) Mario de Gelo
Ice Mario
Spanish (NOA) Mario de hielo
Mario de Hielo (Mario Kart Tour)
Ice Mario
Spanish (NOE) Mario Gélido
Icy Mario

Trivia[edit]

Mario on the Hot and Cold Planet in the Shiverburn Galaxy.
Ice platforms based on Ice Mario/Luigi's in Super Mario Galaxy 2
  • The music played during the duration of this power up in Super Mario Galaxy closely resembles the music played for Fire Mario, but is played in A minor.
  • In Super Mario Galaxy 2, the ice platforms based on those that Ice Mario/Luigi creates are used in the Shiverburn Galaxy, formed when Ice Meteors fall into lava on the Ice Magma Skate Planet.
  • In Mario Golf: World Tour, when using the Ice Flower in item shots, the ball creates ice platforms each time it bounces on the water or terrain, similar to Ice Mario/Luigi's.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Mayro (July 30, 2017). Neo Mario Galaxy - Part 2 - Ice spy some idiocy. YouTube.
  2. ^ SPG64 (October 12, 2020). Ice Mario's Unused Attack in Super Mario Galaxy. YouTube. Retrieved February 12, 2021.
  3. ^ Super Mario Galaxy 2 § Unused Power-Ups. The Cutting Room Floor. Retrieved January 21, 2018.
  4. ^ @mariokarttourEN (January 18, 2020). Ice Mario is almost as shiny as he is slippery. Just watch out for his Ice Flower! It's a special item that can send opponents sliding forward by freezing their controls for a short time. #MarioKartTour. Twitter. Retrieved March 26, 2020.