Editing Meat

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|image=[[File:Meat cracked SMO.png|200px]]<br>Screenshot from ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]''

|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[List of games by date#2004|2004]])

|latest_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)|Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' ([[Nintendo Switch]]) ([[List of games by date#2024|2024]])

}}

'''Meat''' appears in the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]] as a common item. Meat takes on a variety of appearances, most commonly as the flesh of an animal with a bone sticking out of it.

Meat appears in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' during [[Bowser]]'s sidescrolling level segments ([[World 1 (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)|World 1]], [[World 2 (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)|World 2]], and [[World 3 (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)|World 3]]) in his intermissions. Like the Mushrooms that make [[Mario]] grow when he is in [[Small Mario]] form, meat makes Bowser larger. Meat can be found by hitting certain [[? Block]]s. If Bowser takes a hit from an enemy, he will shrink down by one level. Getting enough pieces of meat in one level will make Bowser gigantic, allowing him to smash through everything in the level, similar to [[Mega Mario]]. The meat used in the game resembles a leg of lamb.

In ''[[Paper Mario: Color Splash]]'', Mario is given the task of preparing a [[steak]] for [[Larry]] at the [[Tangerino Grill]]. To perfectly tenderize, season, and cook the steak, Mario must use a [[Hammer]], [[Salt and Pepper]], the [[Charcoal Grill]] or two [[Big Fire Flower]]s, and a [[Lemon (Thing)|Lemon]], respectively.

{{quote|See that slab of meat? Sure you do. But [[Cookatiel|that bird]] hasn't. Not yet. Don't know what he's waiting for. When he sees it though? That bird's gonna make off with our meat. I bet you do anything he does! |Volbonan|Super Mario Odyssey}}

A huge chunk of meat appears in ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]'' as a [[Capture|capturable]] object in the [[Luncheon Kingdom]], during the objective [[Big Pot on the Volcano: Dive In!]], residing on the [[Meat Plateau]]. After capturing the meat, [[Mario]] shakes off the salt covering it. This causes [[Cookatiel]] to come and pick the meat up in its talons, dropping it into the huge bowl of [[Stupendous Stew]] on top of Mount Volbono. Once there, the player can reach the mission's [[Multi Moon]]. The meat is the only capturable target in the game that can be captured only once and never again post-game.

 

A [[List of Super Mario Odyssey pre-release and unused content|scenario]] in ''[[The Art of Super Mario Odyssey]]'' depicts [[Volbonan]]s seizing a sleeping [[T-Rex]] and "turning it" into this slab of meat,<ref>{{cite|author=Kanmuri, Yukari Tasai; Roberts, Rachel; Blenk, Jenny (editors)|title=''[[The Art of Super Mario Odyssey]]''|translator=TransPerfect|format=First English Edition|location=Milwaukie|publisher=[[Dark Horse Books]]|date=2019|page=248}}</ref> but no such scenario is depicted in the final game or implied to have happened. T-Rexes do not occur in the Luncheon Kingdom.

In ''[[Mario & Luigi: Dream Team]]'', in [[Dreamy Neo Bowser Castle]], [[Shy Guy]]s and [[Koopa Paratroopa]]s serve Bowser meat so that he can grow [[Giant Bowser|gigantic]]. Bowser inhales multiple servings, but they run out before he gets very large. Regardless, Bowser still becomes giant for a boss battle. During the battle, one attack has [[Spear Guy]]s come out of a fortress carrying meat. This meat is thrown in a arc and into Bowser's mouth, which heals him. This can be negated by swinging [[Giant Luigi]]'s [[hammer]] into the bridge, using the shockwave to disrupt Bowser's attempt to eat. Bowser's final form, [[Dreamy Bowser]], can retreat into the background while leaving enemies for Mario and Luigi to fight against. Until all of the enemies are defeated, he uses his turn to create and eat a pile of meat, healing his arms by 200 HP and his body by 150 HP.

 

In ''[[WarioWare Gold]]'', [[Lulu]]'s [[List of souvenirs in WarioWare Gold#Cards|Rank B Character Card]] says one of her favorite foods is '''slabs o' fried meat'''. While no such meat appears in the game proper, this kind of meat is pictured on the WarioWare Inc, website.

 

 

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