Editing Mario's face

Mario's floating head first appears on ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'' Mario's head appears during [[Mario Brothers Rap|The Mario Rap]] and as a transition during live-action segments.

===''Mario Teaches Typing'' series===

Mario's floating head (animated with [[Mario in Real Time|VActor technology]]) later appears in the [[Mario Teaches Typing (series)|''Mario Teaches Typing'' series]]. He narrates players' lessons and actions as they learn to type, while also making random small talk, sometimes invoking jokes and comments about his lack of body.

Mario's head later appears on the title screen of ''[[Super Mario 64]]'', where players can tug and stretch his facial features (his nose, his ears, his cheeks, his chin, and [[Mario Cap|his cap]]) to various positions. The model originates from a demo for real-time vertex calculations by ex-[[Nintendo]] programmer {{wp|Giles Goddard (video game programmer)|Giles Goddard}}, which featured a primitive Mario head controlled via movement from a camera on an {{wp|SGI Indy}} workstation.<ref>Green, Mark (September 10, 2010). [https://pixelatron.com/blog/the-making-of-super-mario-64-full-giles-goddard-interview-ngc/ The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (NGC)]. ''Pixelatron''. Retrieved June 26, 2023. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20230328155419/https://pixelatron.com/blog/the-making-of-super-mario-64-full-giles-goddard-interview-ngc/ Archived] March 28, 2023, 15:54:19 UTC via Wayback Machine.)</ref> As ''Super Mario 64'' was Nintendo's first title for the [[Nintendo 64]], an interactive Mario face served to familiarize the player with the [[Nintendo 64#Controller|Nintendo 64 Controller]] without worrying about the actual gameplay. Additionally, Mario's head appears dazed and worn out on the [[Game Over]] screen.

In the remake ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]'', Mario's head appears along with a [[Yoshi]] head. In this game, Mario's face can turn into an ink outline version of itself, which can be distorted with the [[Nintendo DS#Stylus|stylus]] or various buttons. The player can also erase the face and draw their own creations.

Mario's face is also a feature in some of the [[minigame]]s in ''Super Mario 64 DS''. When the player opens a [[treasure chest]] in [[Boom Box (minigame)|Boom Box]], the chest makes a sound, astonishing Mario's face on the top screen. If the player makes a mistake, Mario's face frowns, while if the player succeeds, Mario's face beams joyously at the player. Mario's face yells and looks dazed if the player gets a Game Over in any minigame. When the player clears any minigame round or beats a high score, Mario's face is astonished, then suddenly begins laughing. In [[Tox Box Shuffle]], if the player finds Yoshi in the right [[Tox Box]], Mario's head begins laughing like when the player succeeds in Boom Box; if the player loses twice in a round, Mario's head yells.

Although a floating Mario head does not appear in ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'', it has appeared in website advertisements for certain events that promoted the game. In the [[Guide Book]], an icon of Mario's face represents the area on the map of [[Isle Delfino]] he is in. The game's save data icon in the [[Nintendo GameCube]] main menu is additionally an animation of Mario's disembodied head.

The heads of Mario, [[Luigi]], [[Princess Peach|Peach]], Yoshi, and [[Toad]], along with [[Mii]] heads, have appeared in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'' as file icons. In ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'', a [[Rosalina]] head can be unlocked as a file icon when the player collects 120 [[Power Star|Star]]s and unlocks the [[Prankster Comet#Green Comet|Green Comet]]s. Also, the Peach head has her neck removed unlike in the predecessor, allowing more of a disembodied feature.

 

 

In ''[[Mario Superstar Baseball]]'', Mario's head appears in a variant of its own loading screen. Peach's head, Yoshi's head, [[Wario]]'s head, [[Donkey Kong]]'s head, and [[Bowser]]'s head also have their own loading screen variants.

Mario's face is also referenced in the beginning chapter of volume 16 of ''[[Super Mario-kun]]''. This volume also follows ''Super Mario 64''{{'}}s story. Later in the volume, there is a 4-koma that involves Yoshi playing the game and not only moving Mario's face to bizarre positions but also drawing on it.

Mario's face later appears in the ''[[Mario Party 2]]'' version of [[Face-Lift (minigame)|Face Lift]] (also in ''[[Mario Party]]'', ''[[Mario Party: The Top 100]]'', and ''[[Mario Party Superstars]]'' but with Bowser's face and no other faces), where the player has to alter the face of Mario or other characters in the game. The more accurately the face is changed to match a picture, the more [[point]]s the player receives. The player who earns the most points wins, although two players can win if they earn the same number of points. Mario's head, along with a Luigi head, Peach head, Yoshi head, Wario head, and Donkey Kong head, appears in the 1-vs-3 minigame [[Look Away]], where each head has to dance along to the music, and the team of three heads must avoid looking in the same direction as the single player head. In ''[[Mario Party 3]]'', Mario's face is one of the faces (alongside [[Wiggler]] and Toad) to appear in the minigame [[Picture Imperfect]]. The player must get his ''M'' on his hat right, nose right, mustache right, mouth right, and eyes right. In ''[[Super Mario Party]]'', the minigame [[Making Faces]] involves players recreating Mario's or Bowser's face as accurately as possible.

Mario's face appears as an icon and on a TV screen during the minigame [[Gnat Attack]] in a prototype of ''[[Mario Artist: Paint Studio]]''.<ref>{{file link|Mario-artist-gnat-attack.png|Image of the minigame, featuring Mario's face in the top-left corner of the screen}}</ref> Additionally, according to an image shared by Nintendo of America's Twitter account on [[Mario Day|Mar10 Day]] 2023, Mario's face in ''Super Mario 64'' was taken from a prototype of what eventually became this game,<ref>Nintendo of America. [https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1634252793795039232 MAR10DAY post]. ''Twitter''. Retrieved March 10, 2023.</ref> previously referred to by [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] as ''Mario Paint 3D''.<ref>[https://shmuplations.com/mario64/ Super Mario 64 – 1996 Developer Interviews]. ''shmuplations''. Retrieved January 27, 2022.</ref>

 

MarioHeadSM64DS.png|In-game model from ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''

File:Boom Box.png|[[Boom Box (minigame)|Boom Box]] from ''Super Mario 64 DS''

==List of appearances==

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|Cameo on a TV screen, and appears exactly as in ''Super Mario 64''.

|Featured in one of the loading screens, similarly to Peach's, Yoshi's, Wario's, Donkey Kong's, and Bowser's heads each having their own loading screen variation.

*''"Hey, don't leave me all alone! Hey, where is everybody? Come back!"''

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