Editing Fortress

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'''Fortresses''', also known as '''forts''', are fortified buildings that appear in many ''Mario'' games, starting with ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' Usually, fortresses are found at the end of levels, behind [[Goal Pole]]s. After reaching the fortress, [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]] can advance to the next level.

====''Super Mario Bros.''====

In ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'', fortresses are usually made from red bricks (except for the one at the very beginning of World 6-3, which is colored gray like the rest of the level), and are usually located at the end of most levels, except for the third and fourth levels of each world, which end with a castle and taking place inside that castle respectively. They also appear at the very beginning of underground and underwater levels, where Mario/Luigi enters said level via a Warp Pipe. Additionally, [[castle]]s appear to be a fortress stacked upon a larger section. For some reason, World 5-1 of the original game and World 1-1 of ''Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels'' both begin with Mario/Luigi exiting a fortress, despite the level before the former taking place inside a castle and the latter being the very first level.

In ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', the fortresses that advance Mario to the next level do not appear. Instead, fortresses, also known as '''Mini-Fortresses'''<ref name=SMB3>''Super Mario Bros. 3'' English instruction booklet, page 22.</ref>, are usually found in the middle of worlds. They are levels with [[Boom Boom]] as their only boss, and he must be defeated to open Locked Doors<ref name=SMB3/> and gain access to other parts of the world.

In the NES version, fortresses (barring {{world-link|2|fort|World 2-Fortress}} and {{world-link|6|fort|World 6-Fortress 2}} 2) can have any of three different color schemes:

*Gray wall and red pipes

*Cyan wall and white pipes

 

In ''[[Super Mario All-Stars]]'', however, all of the fortresses have blue walls.

The end-of-level fortresses later return in ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'', ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'', ''[[New Super Mario Bros. 2]]'', and ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]'' and reprise their earlier role from the first ''Super Mario Bros.'' game, allowing Mario, Luigi, and/or the [[Toad (species)|Toad]]s to continue to the next level. Black fortresses appear as parts of secret exits, except in the original ''New Super Mario Bros.'' Their mid-world role in ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' is replaced by [[tower]]s, which in ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' are called fortresses;<ref>''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'' instruction booklet, page 9.</ref> however, one of the [[New Super Mario Bros.#Mario Vs. Luigi|Mario Vs. Luigi]] courses in the original ''New Super Mario Bros.'' is a Fortress.<ref>Loe, Casey. ''New Super Mario Bros.'' Player's Guide. Page 121.</ref>

===''Yoshi'' franchise===

Forts also appear in the [[Yoshi (franchise)|''Yoshi'' franchise]] as the mini-boss levels of each world.

===''Paper Mario'' series===

====''Paper Mario''====

In ''[[Paper Mario]]'', the [[Koopa Bros. Fortress]] appears in the game.

====''Super Paper Mario''====

''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' includes [[Fort Francis]].

====''Paper Mario: Sticker Star''====

In ''[[Paper Mario: Sticker Star]]'', [[Goomba Fortress]] appears.

===Other appearances===

In ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', the [[Bowser Jr.]] levels at the end of Worlds 1, 3, and 5 are represented in the map as fortresses. However, only [[Bowser Jr.'s Fiery Flotilla|the first world's last level]] includes a fortress within it.

Fortresses return in ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'' but only in [[World 2-3 (Super Mario 3D Land)|World 2-3]] and [[Special 1-3]], where they look as they did in ''Super Mario Bros.'' As in that game, they appear behind the levels' Goal Poles and can be entered, this time for a [[1-Up Mushroom]].

In ''[[Super Mario Run]]'', Bowser's Fortress is a fortress replica that appears as a [[List of Kingdom Builder items in Super Mario Run|Kingdom Builder]] decoration. In World Tour and Remix 10, castles have fortress icons.

In ''[[Super Mario Maker]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Maker 2]]'', the castle theme in the ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' style is based on the gray-wall color scheme of the fortresses from the original game.

====Appearances in other media====

In ''[[nookipedia:Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp|Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp]]'', the fortress as it appears in ''Super Mario Bros.'' could be obtained as special furniture in Fishing Tourney #12 (themed after the ''Mario'' franchise in celebration of [[Mario Day]] 2019), after passing the 4,900; 5,900; 7,100; 8,300; or 9,800 cm milestone.

SMM-SMB-Castle-Forrtress.png|''Super Mario Maker'' (''Super Mario Bros.''-style, Castle theme)

|Jap=<span class="explain" title="とりで">砦</span><ref>''Super Mario Bros. 3'' Japanese instruction booklet, page 20.</ref><ref>''Super Mario World'' Japanese instruction booklet (foldout)</ref>

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|GerM=Stronghold<br>Tower