Editing Cosmic Mario

{{distinguish|Cosmic Clone}}
{{character-infobox
|image=[[File:Cosmic Mario.png|145px]]<br>Cosmic Mario, as he appears in ''Super Mario Galaxy''
|species=[[Cosmic Clone]]
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' ([[List of games by date#2007|2007]])
}}

'''Cosmic Mario''' is a character that appears in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''. His physical shape is identical to [[Mario]], while his outer appearance is blue with stars all over, as if he were made of cosmic matter. He also has an unusually high-pitched voice. If Mario enters a galaxy when a [[Prankster Comet#Cosmic Comet|Cosmic Comet]] is orbiting a galaxy, Cosmic Mario appears at the beginning at the level and challenges the player to a race. The player must then race through numerous obstacles and reach the [[Power Star]] before Cosmic Mario does. If Cosmic Mario manages to reach the Power Star first, Mario will lose a life and must restart the race. Colliding with him during the race causes him to release [[Star Bit]]s.

A similar entity based on Cosmic Mario appear in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'' and ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'' in the form of the [[Cosmic Clone]]s. Other entities are the [[Cosmic Spirit]] from ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'' and [[Mummy-Me]] from ''[[Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker]]''.
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==Cosmic Luigi==
'''Cosmic Luigi''' also appears, replacing Cosmic Mario when playing as [[Luigi]]. He is very similar to Cosmic Mario, with the only major difference being that he takes advantage of shortcuts more often and uses a lot of [[Long Jump]]s, making him faster and much harder to beat than his counterpart.

In ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'', despite not being in the game while playing as Luigi, Cosmic Clones behave very similarly, being slightly faster.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
CosmicMario-SMG.png|[[Honeyhive Galaxy]]
SMG Freezeflame Frosty Cosmic Mario.png|[[Freezeflame Galaxy]]
Cosmic Mario Forest Race Infobox Image.png|[[Gold Leaf Galaxy]]
SMG Sea Slide Underwater Cosmic Mario.png|[[Sea Slide Galaxy]]
SMG Cosmic Luigi.png|Cosmic Luigi
Cosmic Luigi.png|Luigi and Cosmic Luigi during the countdown
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=シャドウマリオ<br/>''Shadō Mario''
|JapM=Shadow Mario
|Spa=Mario Fantasma
|SpaM=Phantom Mario
|Ger=Schatten-Mario
|GerM= Shadow Mario
|Kor=그림자 마리오
|KorR=Geurimja Mario
|KorM=Shadow Mario
|Ita=Mario Cosmico
|ItaM=Cosmic Mario
|FraE=Mario Cosmique
|FraEM=Cosmic Mario}}

==See also==
*[[Shadow Mario]]
*[[Cosmic Spirit]]
*[[Cosmic Clone]]
*[[Mummy-Me]]

==Trivia==
*At the start of a race, if the player holds the {{button|wii|Stick}} up, then {{button|wii|Z}} when the timer hits 2, and then hits {{button|wii|A}} just as the race starts, Mario or Luigi will get an extra boost at the beginning of the race, shown by a yellow color appearing on Mario/Luigi, shrinking gradually as a marker of the end of this effect. This is similar to the [[Rocket Start]] from the ''[[Mario Kart (series)|Mario Kart]]'' games.
*Cosmic Mario shares its voice clips with the [[Cosmic Clones]].
*An unused variant of the Cosmic Mario Race in [[Space Junk Galaxy]] is found in the game files. When players start a race, they start at the coordinate 0,0,0, which is the air that they land on the starting planet. Cosmic Mario cannot win on this race, and players still have to use [[Star Chips]] to unlock a [[Launch Star]], but Cosmic Mario does not need to use the Star Chips to use a Launch Star. Cosmic Mario does not use voice clips in this variant.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjkf8fJZ6PY</ref>
*Cosmic Mario/Cosmic Luigi's theme uses a similar arrangement to [[Shadow Mario]]'s theme of the same music, the underground theme from ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''.

==References==
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