Cosmic Mario



Cosmic Mario is a character in the game Super Mario Galaxy. He appears as a starry clone of Mario, similar in appearance to Shadow Mario. When a Cosmic Comet is orbiting a galaxy, Cosmic Mario will appear from it and challenge Mario to a race. Mario then has to race through numerous obstacles against Cosmic Mario to get to the Power Star.

If the player is playing as Luigi, Cosmic Luigi will appear in place of Cosmic Mario. Cosmic Luigi is far more intelligent, making use of short cuts and many long jumps. As a result, he is much faster than Cosmic Mario. This is done to add some extra challenge when playing as Luigi.

Cosmic Mario has a very high-pitched voice. However, Cosmic Luigi's voice sounds the same as Cosmic Mario's, despite normal Mario and Luigi having different sounding voices.

Cosmic Mario appears to be the equivalent of Koopa the Quick and Il Piantissimo from Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine, respectively. Spooky Speedster, also from Super Mario Galaxy, is a racer as well.

Trivia

 * At the start of a race, if the player holds Z at the beginning of the countdown, and then hits A just as the race starts, Mario (or Luigi) will get a extra boost at the beginning of the race. This move is called the Starting Boost.
 * A completely different character called Cosmic Wario has a very similar name.
 * During the "Underwater Cosmic Mario Race" Cosmic Mario's Koopa Shell is Blue.
 * Cosmic Mario's theme is a remix of the Super Mario Bros. Ground theme, the Super Mario Bros. Underground theme and Shadow Mario theme (this music contains some original parts despite being a Super Mario Bros. Underground theme remix).
 * If you jump on him or run into him (which is risky just running into him), starbits come out.