Magical Potion

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Magical Potion
Magical Potion artwork from Super Mario Advance
Artwork from Super Mario Advance
First appearance Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988)
Latest appearance Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition (2024)
Effect Create doors that lead to Subspace.

Magical Potions,[1] also called Magic Potions[2][3][4][5] or simply Potions,[6] are items in Super Mario Bros. 2, resembling a flask with a bubbling liquid inside. They replaced the Magic Lamps from Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic.

History[edit]

Super Mario series[edit]

Super Mario Bros. 2[edit]

Mario lifting a Magical Potion that leads to Subspace in World 1-1 of Super Mario Bros. 2
Screenshot from Super Mario Bros. 2

Magical Potions in Super Mario Bros. 2 can be picked up and thrown to the ground to create a temporary door from which the player character can enter Subspace. Magical Potions cannot create doors within a jar, over another door, or on unstable surfaces like quicksand.

BS Super Mario USA[edit]

Magical Potions are items in BS Super Mario USA. They are necessary to find Wart in one of Subspace's jars as he is always hidden in these dimensions.

The Super Mario Bros. Super Show![edit]

A Magical Potion is sometimes pulled out by King Koopa at the end of an episode in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, usually when he is outmatched by Mario's group, in episodes such as "Bad Rap" and "Mario Meets Koop-zilla" and throws it, creating a Warp Zone for him to escape. The episode "Princess, I Shrunk the Mario Brothers" introduces two types of potions called the Magic Shrink Potion and Magic Growing Potion.

Magical Potions appear in the following episodes:

Super Mario-kun[edit]

Magical Potion. Page 38, volume 8 of Super Mario-kun.
A Magic Potion in Super Mario-kun

A Magical Potion has appeared in volume 8 of Super Mario-kun briefly, where Luigi tries to give it to Mario to try and help him defeat Tryclyde. Toad has also used the Magical Potion in a fight with Wart. He enters the door the potion creates and then gives powerups to aid Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi during the fight, including Super Leaves, P-Wings, and Frog Suits.

Nintendo Adventure Books[edit]

In Doors to Doom, when Mario and Luigi escape a stampede of Ninjis by jumping off a cliff while using a parasol to safely float down, they decide to escape by revealing a bottle of Magic Potion from a tuft of grass. However, this particular bottle of potion creates a door which has a lock displaying a shoelace puzzle on it. Mario and Luigi must solve the puzzle and push the correct button in order to escape the area; pushing the incorrect button makes the door lead them to an encounter where they get shot point-blank by a Shy Guy riding an Autobomb, leading to a Game Over.

Profiles[edit]

Super Mario Bros. 2[edit]

  • Wii Virtual Console manual: "Throw one of these to make a door appear, then pass through one of these doors to get to Sub-space."

Super Mario Advance[edit]

  • European instruction booklet: "If you pick up a magic potion and toss it down, a door to Subspace will appear. Press +Control Pad up to enter the doorway. In Subspace, the grass you pull up will sometimes produce coins, and depending on where you open the doorway, 1-Up Mushrooms may also appear."

Gallery[edit]

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese 魔法まほうくすり[?]
Mahō no Kusuri
Magic Potion
Chinese 魔法瓶[14]
Mófǎ Píng
Magic Bottle
French Potion Magique[?] Magic Potion
German Zaubertrank[?] Magical Potion
Italian Pozione magica[7][8][9][10][11][12] Magic potion
Pozione Magica[13] Magic Potion

References[edit]

  1. ^ 1993. Super Mario All-Stars instruction booklet. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 21.
  2. ^ 1988. Super Mario Bros. 2 instruction booklet. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 20.
  3. ^ Nintendo PlayChoice-10 Super Mario Bros. 2 instructions
  4. ^ July/August 1988. Nintendo Power Volume 1. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 10.
  5. ^ 1993. Super Mario All-Stars Player's Guide. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 88Media:SMAS Guide 88.jpg.
  6. ^ Super Mario All-Stars Player's Guide. Page 94, 95, 99.
  7. ^ Super Mario Bros. 2 Italian manual. Page 20.
  8. ^ Super Mario Bros. 2 Italian e-manual. Page 6.
  9. ^ 2001. Super Mario Advance European manual. Nintendo of Europe (Italian). Page 111.
  10. ^ 2010. Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition Italian manual. Nintendo of Europe (Italian). Page 32.
  11. ^ Super Mario Bros. 2 (3DS - Virtual Console) Italian e-manual. Page 10.
  12. ^ November 15, 2018. Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 70.
  13. ^ Super Mario All-Stars Italian manual. Page 21.
  14. ^ iQue. 小神游GBA官方游戏宣传视频. Bilibili (Simplified Chinese). Retrieved July 6, 2024.