Bubble

Bubbles are recurring objects in the Mario franchise and related media. They first appear in Super Mario World.

Description[]

Bubbles have a variety of roles, most commonly being a form of transportation for characters and floating around with items or objects in them. In some games, underwater bubbles can also replenish the air meter of Mario or another playable character.

In Super Mario series[]

Super Mario World[]

Bubbles float around in three levels: Forest of Illusion 3, Chocolate Island 2, and Chocolate Island 5. In most cases, a Bubble contains an enemy—either a Bob-omb, a Goomba, or a Cheep Cheep—while some have a Super Mushroom. If a Bubble is touched by Mario or Luigi, it bursts, and whatever was contained in the Bubble falls down.

Large green bubbles are featured as obstacles in Vanilla Ghost House and Valley Ghost House.

New Super Mario Bros.[]

Bubbles are found in underwater levels, carrying coins inside of them.

Super Mario Galaxy[]

In Super Mario Galaxy, Bubbles appear around Mario (or Luigi) whenever they use a Pull Star. They can use the Star Cursor to guide Mario from between Pull Stars, and the Bubble will travel to that location. If let go, the bubble will drift around before dissipating. The bubble can also pop if it is hit by a hazard such as a Fire Arm or a Mine of if it lingers in the air for too long so avoid any of these. Bubbles are also present in Galaxies such as the Bubble Breeze Galaxy and the Bubble Blast Galaxy where they are the main requirement for transport around the gauntlets of those Galaxies. The bubbles can be blown with the Star Cursor from each side. These bubbles are far from invincible so if it makes a hit with any hazard or is pinched in between two walls, it will burst. To get out of the bubble, a Ground Pound is required.

Bubbles are also present underwater and are necessary to collect to preserve air while swimming. If Mario (or Luigi) falls off the Comet Observatory, they will be placed in a magical bubble which transports them right back to safety.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii[]

Luigi inside of a Bubble in New Super Mario Bros — Luigi inside of a Bubble in *New Super Mario Bros. Wii*

The game's multiplayer mode (excluding Coin Battle) involves has mechanics where characters can travel around in bubbles. Here, if a character loses an extra life, they spawn back inside of a bubble. A character can willingly enter a bubble by pressing , if the Wii Remote is held horizontally, or , if it has a Nunchuk attachment. While a character is inside of a Bubble, they are protected from taking damage. The player can have their trapped character move closer to another character by shaking their Wii Remote, during which the character can be heard making a plea for help from the Wii Remote's speaker. A character can be released from their bubble by touching one of the other playable characters. If all character's end up in a bubble, a short tune plays, then they are forced back to the world map, as if they had lost a life, though such an event causes them to lose only their current power-up.

Coins and items can be found in bubbles floating around some levels, particularly in Free Mode, and like in New Super Mario Bros., there are bubbles containing a coin in the underwater levels.

World 7-2 uniquely features water bubbles, called Water Balls, which the characters have to swim around in to progress.

New Super Mario Bros. U[]

Bubbles can be spit out by a Bubble Baby Yoshi if a character is holding it. These bubbles can trap enemies, turning them into either three coins (six coins from certain larger enemies), a Super Mushroom, a Fire Flower, an Ice Flower, a Super Acorn, or a 1-Up Mushroom for the playable characters to collected. Whether a Bubble produced from a Baby Bubble Yoshi contains coins or a power-up item is decided by the game at random. However, if an enemy turns into a power-up item, the one that is produced always depends on what current form the player is in: Small Mario and Mini Mario yield a Super Mushroom; Super Mario yields a Fire Flower; Fire Mario yields an Ice Flower; Ice Mario yields a Super Acorn; and Flying Squirrel Mario, P Flying Squirrel Mario, Propeller Mario, Penguin Mario, and Peachette (exclusively in New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe) yield a 1-Up Mushroom.

Other than trapping enemies, bubbles can be used by the playable characters to access higher areas. Just like in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, a character can trap themselves into a Bubble in multiplayer mode.

New Super Mario Bros. 2[]

Bubbles appear in two-player mode, functioning mostly the same as in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Either player controlling Mario or Luigi can have their character a bubble by tapping a certain button on the Touch Screen, and a character in a bubble can approach the other by pressing . If the lead character travels too far offscreen, they return onscreen in a bubble, instead of lose a life like in New Super Mario Bros. Wii.

Super Mario 3D World[]

Bubbles are used if a player activates it. While in a bubble, the player can float towards his partner(s) and they, on the other hand, can pop it and release the player. Unlike the New Super Mario games, you cannot get closer to the other players. You always float behind them. You also cannot bubble while in the air.

Super Mario Odyssey[]

The bubble brings Mario back up to a platforms when he falls off of them in Assist Mode.

In Yoshi's Island series[]

In the Yoshi's Island series, starting with Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, whenever Yoshi is hit by an enemy, the Baby he is carrying will be placed in a bubble that floats around and start crying. Yoshi will start losing Stars as long as this is happening, if Yoshi's star count reaches 0, Kamek's Toadies arrive and kidnap the Baby and whisk him/her away. Yoshi can burst the bubble and retrieve the baby by hitting it or sticking his tongue out, tossing an egg at the bubble will make it move close to Yoshi.

Whenever Yoshi touches a Morph Bubble to take on a temporary transformation, Baby Mario (or possibly one of the other babies in Yoshi's Island DS) is with Yoshi appears in a temporary bubble until Yoshi transforms back. During this, the baby does not cry because it is not under threat.

In Paper Mario series[]

Paper Mario[]

Bubbles are produced from a Bubble Plant found on Flower Fields. Mario can use the Bubble to float across the bed of thorns to make it to the other side. The Bubble Plant can produce Bubbles after being fed a Bubble Berry.

Paper Mario: Color Splash[]

During the Snifit or Whiffit Game Show, Mario answers the questions from inside a Bubble (as the Game Show takes place underwater and paper and water don't mix), Host Snifit answers Mario the questions, when Mario wins the game show, his bubble floats him to the prize room. If Mario gets wrong answers, a Mega Urchin will lower itself onto Mario's bubble. If Mario gets too many incorrect answers, the Mega Urchin will burst the bubble killing Mario and Huey which results in a Game Over.

In Mario Kart Tour[]

Some characters have the Bubble as a special item, and with it, they can float fast through the track without crashing. After a short time, the bubble will pop.

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