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All Toads have special mushroom caps on the top of their heads, just like actual [[mushroom]]s. Whether the mushroom cap is a hat or part of Toad physiology was never explicitly revealed in the games and is usually left somewhat ambiguous. However, according to [[Yoshiaki Koizumi]], the director of ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]'', a Toad's mushroom cap is in fact not a hat but a part of the Toad's head.<ref>Nintendo. (February 5, 2018). [https://youtu.be/EVNYfoFcrZY Super Mario Odyssey Dev. Talk - ft. Mr. Koizumi]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved February 5, 2018.</ref> This is further implied in ''Mario Kart Tour'' where Toad characters who don't wear something on their cap cannot win challenges involving characters wearing hats. Additionally in ''[[Super Mario Bros. Wonder]]'', when [[Blue Toad (character)|Blue Toad]], [[Yellow Toad (New Super Mario Bros. series)|Yellow Toad]], and [[Toadette]] use the Parachute Cap badge, they do not use their caps as parachutes, but rather pull out caps similar to those of [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] like the other characters.<ref>GameXplain (September 1, 2023). [https://youtu.be/3FiaIIB3qG8 Toad's Hat is DEAD! (Long Live Toad's Head)]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved September 2, 2023.</ref> '' | All Toads have special mushroom caps on the top of their heads, just like actual [[mushroom]]s. Whether the mushroom cap is a hat or part of Toad physiology was never explicitly revealed in the games and is usually left somewhat ambiguous. However, according to [[Yoshiaki Koizumi]], the director of ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]'', a Toad's mushroom cap is in fact not a hat but a part of the Toad's head.<ref>Nintendo. (February 5, 2018). [https://youtu.be/EVNYfoFcrZY Super Mario Odyssey Dev. Talk - ft. Mr. Koizumi]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved February 5, 2018.</ref> This is further implied in ''Mario Kart Tour'' where Toad characters who don't wear something on their cap cannot win challenges involving characters wearing hats. Shinya Hiratake, the director of ''[[Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker]]'', made a reference to Toad caps by mentioning "[[Captain Toad|Captain Toad's]] mushroom head".<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20160911004113/https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAAADVHivJJYRCA Shinya Hiratake in a Miiverse interview:] "''I always thought Captain Toad's mushroom head looks sort of like a turban, so I tried to give the world a bit of an Arabian Nights theme, which you don't really see a lot of in the Mario series.''" Retrieved July 18, 2017.</ref> Additionally in ''[[Super Mario Bros. Wonder]]'', when [[Blue Toad (character)|Blue Toad]], [[Yellow Toad (New Super Mario Bros. series)|Yellow Toad]], and [[Toadette]] use the Parachute Cap badge, they do not use their caps as parachutes, but rather pull out caps similar to those of [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] like the other characters.<ref>GameXplain (September 1, 2023). [https://youtu.be/3FiaIIB3qG8 Toad's Hat is DEAD! (Long Live Toad's Head)]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved September 2, 2023.</ref> An official Japanese news article for ''Super Mario Bros. Wonder'' further confirms this by stating that "Their big head is not a hat."<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20230913170344/https://topics.nintendo.co.jp/article/6e4c7b40-bd33-4556-8ec3-0c865904ef13 キノコ王国の住人。 大きな頭は帽子ではない。]". ''Nintendo'' (Archived on September 13, 2023), retrieved September 13, 2023.</ref> | ||
When Toads are hit, they seem to drop spores (as seen in ''Mario Tennis'' and the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series). Indeed, the [[Toad Minister|Chancellor]] of [[Toad Town|Mushroom Kingdom]] claims to have "almost dropped [his] spores" after hearing [[Exor]] crash into [[Bowser's Castle|Bowser's Keep]] in ''Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars''. | ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'' and ''[[The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' show that the cap is simply a type of hat (or at least that it can be safely removed). When Toad took off his mushroom cap in these cartoons, he revealed his round head with a few strands of hair. ''Paper Mario'' depicts the Toad conductor's hat (which itself is too small to house a mushroom cap) briefly coming off [http://www.spriters-resource.com/nintendo_64/pm/sheet/12752/ revealing] a bald head without a mushroom cap. Various Toads are also shown to have hair hanging down from underneath their caps, such as [[Toadofsky]] and [[Jolene]]. | ||
In ''[[Mario Strikers Charged]]'', a Toad's skeleton is briefly seen when they are shocked, showing their cap is not a part of their skull. When Toads are hit, they seem to drop spores (as seen in ''Mario Tennis'' and the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series). Indeed, the [[Toad Minister|Chancellor]] of [[Toad Town|Mushroom Kingdom]] claims to have "almost dropped [his] spores" after hearing [[Exor]] crash into [[Bowser's Castle|Bowser's Keep]] in ''Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars''. | |||
While most Toads wear white mushroom caps with different colored spots, there are exceptions. Toadette wears a pink-colored mushroom cap with white spots (another example being [[Toadiko]]), and [[Toadsworth]] wears a yellowish-colored mushroom cap with brown spots. Some Toads even have caps that are an inverted version of the regular caps, like [[Toadbert]], who has a blue cap with white spots. In ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'', the color of a Toad's cap can change via power-ups such as the [[Fire Flower]], where Fire Yellow Toad's cap turns yellow with red spots, resembling that of a [[Mega Mushroom]], and Fire Blue Toad's turns blue with red spots. Furthermore, some Toads have other shapes on their caps, such as the yellow stars on [[Dr. Toadley]]'s cap; additionally, the [[Excess Express waitress]] and [[Vanna T.]] have hearts on their caps, while the [[Excess Express engineer]] has a much smaller cap without a mushroom shape at all. | While most Toads wear white mushroom caps with different colored spots, there are exceptions. Toadette wears a pink-colored mushroom cap with white spots (another example being [[Toadiko]]), and [[Toadsworth]] wears a yellowish-colored mushroom cap with brown spots. Some Toads even have caps that are an inverted version of the regular caps, like [[Toadbert]], who has a blue cap with white spots. In ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'', the color of a Toad's cap can change via power-ups such as the [[Fire Flower]], where Fire Yellow Toad's cap turns yellow with red spots, resembling that of a [[Mega Mushroom]], and Fire Blue Toad's turns blue with red spots. Furthermore, some Toads have other shapes on their caps, such as the yellow stars on [[Dr. Toadley]]'s cap; additionally, the [[Excess Express waitress]] and [[Vanna T.]] have hearts on their caps, while the [[Excess Express engineer]] has a much smaller cap without a mushroom shape at all. | ||
