Trick door
- Not to be confused with Fake door.
| Trick door | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Sprite from New Super Mario Bros. Wii | |||
| First appearance | New Super Mario Bros. Wii (2009) | ||
| Latest appearance | New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (2019) | ||
| Variant of | Door | ||
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Trick doors,[1] also known as fake doors[2] (sometimes capitalized)[3]:149 or Ghost Doors[3]:200, 215 (alternatively Ghost-Doors),[4] are door projections created by Boos[citation needed] that appear in all installments of the New Super Mario Bros. series except New Super Mario Bros., and in Super Mario Run. They can only be found in Ghost Houses, and look identical to real doors. Attempting to open one makes it dissipate into four cackling Boos and release a coin before vanishing.
Trick doors appear in every Ghost House from New Super Mario Bros. Wii, except World 
Coin-3, and in every Ghost House from New Super Mario Bros. U. Only one trick door can be found in New Super Luigi U, appearing in Vanishing Ghost House. These roles are reprised in New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe.
In Super Mario Run, trick doors only appear in the course Ghost-Door Deception. Every interior room of the course has two trick doors and one normal door. Like normal doors in the game, and in a deviation from how trick doors work in other games, they are entered by being on the ground while near them. Entering a trick door makes the player exit from the red door each room of Ghost-Door Deception's interior starts at, resetting the player's progress through the room, after which the trick door vanishes as normal. Like with normal doors, the animation for entering a trick door and exiting from the red door makes all enemies, objects, and items stop moving and prevents the course's Time Limit from counting down. Trick doors do not create a coin when they are used. Trick doors can be distinguished from real doors before opening them in this game as trick doors shake periodically while normal doors do not.
Conceptually, trick doors resemble illusions from Super Mario 3D World as well as Noknoks from Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
Gallery[edit]
Sprite from New Super Mario Bros. 2
Sprite from New Super Mario Bros. U
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ニセ扉[5] Nise Tobira |
Fake Door | |
| おばけドア[4] Obake Doa |
Ghost Door | Super Mario Run | |
| Chinese | 鬼門大[4] Guǐmén dà |
Ghost door | |
| Dutch | Spookdeuren[4] | Ghost door | |
| French | Porte fantôme[4] | Ghost door | |
| German | Trügerische Tür[4] | Decieving door | |
| Italian | Porta spettrale[4][6]:200 | Spectral door | |
| Porta Falsa[7]:150 | Fake Door | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia (first edition) | |
| Porta falsa[7]:200, 216[6]:150, 216 | Fake door | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia | |
| Korean | 유령 문[4] Yulyeong Mun |
Ghost Door | |
| Russian | Дверь-призрак[4] Dver'-prizrak |
Ghost door |
References[edit]
- ^ Stratton, Steve (2012). New Super Mario Bros. U: PRIMA Official Game Guide. Roseville: Prima Games. ISBN 978-0-307-89690-2. Page 10, 84.
- ^ Bueno, Fernando (2009). New Super Mario Bros. Wii: PRIMA Official Game Guide. Roseville: Prima Games (English). ISBN 978-0-3074-6767-6. Page 62.
- ^ a b Roberts, Rachel, and Cardner Clark, editors (2018). Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia: The Official Guide to the First 30 Years (First English Edition). Translated by William Flanagan and Zack Davisson. Milwaukie: Dark Horse Books. ISBN 978-1-50670-897-3.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Ghost-Door Deception
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2015). 『スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 978-4-09-106569-8. Page 150, 200, 216.
- ^ a b Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2025). Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia (2nd ed.). Translated by Alessandro Apreda. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 979-1259575760.
- ^ a b Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2018). Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Translated by Marco Amerighi. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X.
