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Hills are large cylindrical mountains with rounded tops, often present as background elements throughout the Super Mario franchise. They are primarily seen as an iconic landscape element of the Mushroom Kingdom, but have appeared in other places, such as Dinosaur Land. Hills come in a variety of colors and patterns, varying from plain greens to vibrant purples and reds. Super Mario Run describes those hills as being covered in various natural materials, such as leaves, grass, flowers or fruit.

History

Super Mario series

Super Mario Bros. 3

Super Mario Bros. 3 is the first game in the Super Mario franchise to feature cyllindrical hills. Green hills with eyes can be seen on the world map for Grass Land, while smaller hills in two sizes appear in the background of various levels throughout the game. Green hills with a checkered pattern also appear in backgrounds of levels and in the title screen. Tan versions of all three types of hills can be found in Desert Land. White outlines of hills sometimes appear at the end of levels.

Hills (World 1)
Grass Land world map
The two sizes of hills in World 1-2
The green hills in the title screen

Super Mario World

Large green hills with eyes return in Super Mario World, alongside smaller versions without eyes, in Dinosaur Land's world map. As levels are cleared, hills grow or are replaced by paths. A particularly large hill appears on top of Cookie Mountain. In the cutscene after Mario beats #4 Ludwig's Castle, the hill is damaged when he launches the castle at it, and gains a bandage for the remainder of the game. Blue hills with lighter spots also appear in the backgrounds for Yoshi's House, Yoshi's Island 1 and every Castle's entrance, except for Lemmy's and Larry's.

Hills of various sizes in the world map of Yoshi's Island
The damaged hill on Cookie Mountain
Blue hills in Yoshi's Island 1

Super Mario Land 2

Green hills with eyes reappear in the world map for Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins.

Map artwork depicting the hills
A few hills near theHippo level

Super Mario All-Stars

Super Mario All-Stars adds several backgrounds featuring hills to levels in Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels levels. Three groups of differently colored hills were added: Yellow, green and blue hills with lighter spots, light red, light blue and light green with white spots, and brown, dark yellow and dark pink hills with lighter spots.

World 6-1 of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
World 3-1 of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
World 8-2 of Super Mario Bros.

Super Mario All-Stars also adds many different types of hills to Super Mario Bros. 3. Green hills with yellow spots found in Grass Land, with a paler version found in Desert Land, and green diamond-patterned hills with a lighter top peeking through clouds. The latter also appears in night and snowy backgrounds. In addition to the large background hills, the hills found in the near-level backgrounds have returned, with some having been updated. The previously plain hills now have cross patterns on them, while the hills with a checkered pattern now have diagonal stripes instead.

World 1-2
World 1-4
World 1-
World 3-
World 2-2
World 6-3

Super Mario Bros. Deluxe

With the addition of world maps to Super Mario Bros. in Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, green hills with eyes reappear, decorating every world map up to World 7. The green hills with yellow spots from the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros. 3 also appear in artwork for this game.

Box art
World 1
Fireworks picture

New Super Mario Bros.

In New Super Mario Bros., yellow hills appear in World 1. Blue hills with a diamond pattern and covered in snow appear in World 3, while green hills with tan spots appear in World 7.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

Hills reappear as background elements in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Hills of various color appear in the background of World 1, either with lighter spots or with wavy stripes. Blue hills with a diamond pattern and covered in snow also reappear from New Super Mario Bros. in World 3. Colored hills also appear in the World 7 map, despite not appearing in the background of any levels in it.

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Green, pink and blue hills in the prologue for Super Mario Galaxy 2, where they are shown with their bottom half uncovered, revealing a rocky pillar underneath them.

The game's intro

Super Mario 3D Land

A bunch of stuff.

New Super Mario Bros. 2

Colored hills appear in World 1 and World 5 in New Super Mario Bros. 2 with a new design. They are now brighter in color than in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, with zigzagging lines of darker and lighter shades. The blue snowy hills from New Super Mario Bros. return again in World 4, with the same design. World 5-3 and World 5-A also feature tall cyllindrical stone towers with domed roofs covered in green, making them resemble hills.

New Super Mario Bros. U / New Super Luigi U

Colored hills appear in New Super Mario Bros. U, New Super Luigi U and their ports, near Peach's Castle when seen in the beginning of Acorn Plains Way. More hills also appear in the backgrounds of Meringue Clouds and Peach's Castle, resembling their appearances in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. In Meringue Clouds, they also appear in a sunset setting.

Super Mario 3D World / Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury

Colored hills make a brief appearance at the start of Super Mario 3D World and its port, where they are seen in the Mushroom Kingdom next to Peach's Castle. In Bowser's Fury, they appear in the same place, in the mode's intro.

Super Mario 3D World intro
Bowser's Fury intro

Super Mario Maker

In Super Mario Maker, green hills with a checkered pattern return in the Ground theme of the Super Mario Bros. 3 style, while white outlines of hills return at the end of levels in the same style. In the New Super Mario Bros. U style, colored hills can be seen in the far background next to Peach's Castle in the Ground theme, like in the original game.

Super Mario Run

Since the backgrounds in Super Mario Run are taken from New Super Mario Bros. U, colored hills reappear in the far background of the Ground theme, although without Peach's Castle next to them. Colored hills also appear as purchasable decorations and in the background of the Kingdom Builder mode of the game.

Up and Over
Kingdom Builder

Super Mario Maker 2

Colored hills present in Super Mario Maker return in Super Mario Maker 2, along with a few more appearances. Green hills with eyes return from Super Mario Bros. 3 in the Forest-themed levels in that game's style. Blue hills with lighter spots return from Super Mario World, now seen in Snow-themed levels in that game's style. Various types of hills can be placed in the World Maker mode

Super Mario Bros. Wonder

Colored hills make a brief cameo at the start of Super Mario Bros. Wonder. They can be seen in the far background in the intro and in Welcome to the Flower Kingdom!, where they represent the Mushroom Kingdom in the distance.

The game's intro

Mario Kart series

Super Mario Kart

Green and brown spiral ones in the Donut Plains style

White ones in the Vanilla Lake style

Mario Kart: Super Circuit

Green with mossy tops in Mario Circuit Green in Peach Circuit

Mario Kart DS

Green and green with stripes in Peach Gardens

Peach Circuit and Donut Plains 1 return

Mario Kart Wii

Same ones from NSMB return in Mario Circuit, Luigi Circuit, Toad Factory and Mushroom Gorge

Peach Garden returns

Mario Kart 7

Orange stripy in Toad Circuit

Yellow, red and green with lighter spots in Mario Circuit and Rock Rock Mountain

Buildings in Neo Bowser City

Green with lighter spots in the returning Mushroom Gorge (different from MKW)

Mario Kart 8 / Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Spooky hills in Twisted Mansion

Buildings in Neo Bowser City

Green with darker waves in GBA Mario Circuit (different from MKSC)

Green, light green and brown in SNES Donut Plains 3

Booster Course Pass

Orange stripy in 3DS Toad Circuit

Blue and green with lighter spots in Wii Mushroom Gorge

Orange, blue and green wavy in 3DS Rock Rock Mountain

Green stripy in DS Peach Gardens

Red, green and yellow with lighter spots in DS Mario Circuit (not in MKDS)

Mario Kart Tour

Green stripy in returning SNES Donut Plains and RMX

White zigzagging in returning SNES Vanilla Lake and RMX (different from SMK)

Yellow, pink and green with lighter spots in N64 Luigi Raceway, Mario Raceway and Royal Raceway (not in MK64)

Green and green wavy ones in GBA Peach Circuit (different from MKSC)

Green plain, stripy and wavy in GCN Baby Park (not in MKDD)

Green plain and stripy in DS Peach Gardens (different from MKDS)

Blue and green with lighter spots in Wii Mushroom Gorge (different from MKW)

Orange stripy in 3DS Toad Circuit

Yellow, red and green with lighter spots in 3DS Mario Circuit

Orange, blue and green wavy in 3DS Rock Rock Mountain (different from MK7)

Yoshi's Safari

Blue in title screen, purple in Hard Mode

Blue with eyes in Grass Land, pink in hard mode

Green with darker stripes in Mushroom Land, pale yellow with darker stripes in Hard Mode

Tetris Attack

Blue hills with light yellow tops on title screen and Yoshi's stage

Yoshi's Cookie (SNES)

Green spotted hills in title screen

Wavy striped hills in Round 1

Spotted snowy hills in Round 6

Blue spotted hills in Round 8

Yoshi's Cookie (Nintendo Puzzle Collection)

Pink hills in Round 5

Yoshi's Island series

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

Light turquoise: 2-1
Pink: 2-7, 4-3, 4-7
Snowy: 5-1, 5-3
Nighttime/purple: 6-6
Smiley: 1-3, 3-8

Yoshi's New Island

Smiley: 1-6
Green: 2-6
Sunset: 4-3
Snowy: 5-1, 5-3, 5-6
Nighttime: 6-6

Paper Mario series

Paper Mario / Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Although hills are not seen in Paper Mario, their likeness is incorporated in the Candy Canes seen in Pleasant Path. They have the same shape as the cylindrical hills, and the same eyes. Unlike them, however, they are small objects encountered in the foreground, and their color is a striped blue and turquoise. One of them will follow Mario with its eyes.

They also return in the successor game, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, this time referred to as "Candy Pops". They are found in Petal Meadows.

A Candy Cane from Paper Mario.
Mario amid Candy Canes in Pleasant Path. (Paper Mario)
Candy Pops in Petal Meadows. (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)

Super Paper Mario

In Super Paper Mario, the traditional hills with eyes are indirectly acknowledged by a Sammer Guy bearing the name Hill with Eyes, who claims to always be watching the player.

Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros Edition

The maps for Worlds 1 and 6 (and their Special World versions) have zigzag stripe hills.

Courses: spotted hills in some grassland ones; zigzag striped ones in some sky courses.

List of Profiles

Super Mario Run Kingdom Builder

Blue Hill: A blue hill that blends in with the sky and is a common sight in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Green Hill: A green hill that is covered with grass. It's a common sight in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Red Hill A hill colored a burning red. It looks like it's covered in autumn leaves year-round.
Purple Hill A hill colored a vivid purple. This hill is flush with lots of fruit.
Yellow Hill A yellow hill that shines brightly thanks to the numerous flowers on its slopes.
Blue Hill Pair These hills blend in with the sky. You can almost hear the echoes of the voices of blue Toads...
Green Hill Pair These hills are covered with grass. You can almost hear the echoes of the voices of green Toads...
Red Hill Pair These hills are colored a burning red. You can almost hear the echoes of the voices of red Toads...
Purple Hill Pair These hills are a vivid purple. You can almost hear the echoes of the voices of purple Toads...
Yellow Hill Pair These hills shine brightly thanks to the flowers on their slopes. You can hear yellow Toad voices echoing.