Editing Super Mario-kun Volume 12

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|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]

|release={{flag list|Japan|March 28, 1995|France|March 22, 2017|Spain|March 20, 2018}}

|series=Super Mario-kun

After their quest in [[Sherbet Land (world)|Sherbet Land]], [[Mario]], [[Yoshi]], and [[Wario]] have returned to the mainland and are now lost in the steaming hot caves of [[Mt. Teapot]]. Their torture is not over when they find the exit, as it leads to the even hotter magma region of the [[Stove Canyon]]. They are relieved by what seems like rain, only to discover that it is the sweat of the area boss: the [[Devil's Head]]. Disgusted by the "rain" they tasted, the trio punches the boss and flees. However, the Devil's Head starts the lava flow as a trap, forcing the trio to run back and causing the lava flow to hit the Devil's Head. Mario presses on Wario's nose, turning him into a [[10-Coin|10 Gold Coin]] to use as an obstruction to the lava, but he does not last long before turning into [[Tiny Wario]]. Yoshi then proposes solidifying the lava with an electric cooler but has nowhere to plug it in.

The Devil's Head is patiently waiting for Mario, Yoshi, and Wario, but even his patience is put to the test when the heroes spend too much time on the minecart section to the point that, when they finally reach the boss stage, the Devil's Head has grown a beard that covers his entire face. Mario helps him shave, peeling off his eyes and nose in the process that Yoshi badly replaces. Angry, the Devil's Head attempts to stab them with his long tongue, but Mario squirts some mustard paste on it, causing him pain from the spiciness. Rocks then start to rain, which Mario catches with the intention of attacking the Devil's Head with, only to be disgusted to discover that the rocks are the Devil's Head's boogers.

With Mario's guard down as he washes his hands, the Devil's Head coils the heroes with his tongue. Yoshi manages to free them by letting a fart out, knocking the face down, but when Devil's Head gets up, a barrage of strange attacks are launched: lightning from the eyes, ear-missiles, and a forehead cuckoo clock alarm. It is revealed that Devil's Head is a war robot guided by some [[Black Sugar Gang]] pirates (Bō on the tongue, [[Wanderin' Goom]]s at the forehead, [[Guragura]] at the eyes and nose and [[Konotako]] at the ears, plus [[Pirate Goom]]s and [[Watch]]es).

Scared by the machine, Wario attempts to join the pirates, but Mario squashes him with a giant fly swatter, making him drop all of his items. Mario grabs a [[Jet Pot]] and turns into [[Jet Wario|Jet Mario]], but he is unable to stay balanced and slams into a wall. Wario tries to attack, only to be stunned by the Devil's Head spinning eyes. To beat Yoshi, the Devil's Head opens up and releases the pirates to beat him up. With the heroes defeated, the Devil's Head laughs, not realizing that a [[bomb]] fuse is dangling from his nostril after a Guragura passed through it. Yoshi points this out to Mario, who tosses a [[fireball]] at it, causing the Devil's Head to explode.

In the cargo hold of the ship, Mario and Yoshi find Wario trapped in a web created by a [[Paidan]] that, under the order of the Pirate Goom, attacks Mario with its webs. Mario is entangled, but Yoshi eats the web, which he states is as good as cotton candy. The Paidan then entangles Yoshi, but Mario frees him with his fireballs. Angry, the Paidan tries to entangle both Mario and Yoshi at the same time, but Mario molds Yoshi into a [[fan]] and sends the webs back, entangling the spider. The Pirate Gooms surrender, Wario is freed and, with a strong kick to his backside, he spits out the key. Mario asks the Gooms what the key is for, and they say it is for their [[treasure chest]] full of food. Angry, Wario and Yoshi open the chest, but as the Gooms reveal, they lost the key a year ago and, as such, the food is now rotten.

Still on the SS Tea Cup, the trio splits up to find another treasure, the "Ball of Friendship". While Mario and Yoshi battle [[Piranha Plant]]s, Wario finds the treasure alongside other kinds of balls and, not being able to determine which is the Ball of Friendship, returns to Mario with all of them. Some Pirate Gooms attack them and, with the intention of finding the right ball, Mario tosses a volleyball at them. The Gooms stop attacking and instead start kissing Mario, who realizes he must have used the "Ball of Love".

Next stop is [[Parsley Woods]], and Wario gets ahead of Mario and Yoshi and is about to enjoy the lake, preparing a picnic spot with his things, when someone surprises him from behind.

The ghost then orders Donkey Kong to fight Mario, but this time the plumber has the upper hand, kicking back the [[barrel]]s tossed at him and burning his fur with a fireball. The battle seems to be already over, but after the fur gets burned, Donkey Kong is revealed to be a robot: [[Mecha Donkey Kong]]. Mario now succumbs to the robot's strength in tossing the barrels, sharp horns, fire breath from the nose, and jetpacks, when Yoshi returns with Wario's picnic items. Mario shows interest in three of them: the bag, the umbrella, and the bag. Those are the same [[Pauline's lost items|lost items]] he needs to collect in ''[[Donkey Kong (Game Boy)|Donkey Kong]]'' to play at the Slot Machine minigame and earn some extra lives.

Mario plays the slot and gets a jackpot of 3UPs, and with [[San Mario|3 extra Marios]] that help him defeat the robot by pounding it with their [[hammer]]s. The robot is destroyed, but Jet Wario is revealed to be behind the control panel, only then Mario realizes that the robot used the abilities of Wario's power-ups. Wario explains he was forced to do this by the ghost and, while Mario and his three copies quarrels on who should keep the #1 crystal ball, Jet Wario swoops in and steals it and flies away, chased by everyone. Meanwhile, the ghost punishes the robot for the money he wasted on it, by compacting it into a cube.

The Marios are still upset at Wario, while Yoshi, to distinguish them, draws numbers on the three clones' hat emblems. The ghost reappears and seizes a [[Spike Ball|spiked ball]] on them that even manages to crush them, but luckily they all dodge the spikes and are just flattened by the smooth part. Angry, the ghost calls a [[Pikkarikun]] to evolve the spiked ball with its lightning: in doing so, the spiked ball becomes a [[Pouncer]]. Mario leads his clone towards it to reduce it in pieces, but the Pouncer grows limbs and the heroes flee in terror. Following Yoshi's suggestion, they jump onto a moving train passing nearby.

Wario then passes a giant glove to Mario, the "Powerful Glove". Wearing it, Mario throws a punch so powerful that destroys the Pouncer, revealing the second crystal ball inside of it. Wario, understanding his mistakes (and knowing that he is much safer with Mario) joins the group back. While picking the tossed treasures, Mario wears the mask and starts dancing uncontrollably, while Yoshi reads the treasure list: it is the "Dancing Mask" and the wearer can only remove it once they are exhausted from dancing.

There is only one more crystal ball to find before accessing Syrup Castle. Wario, who is holding the other two balls, is dragged by them towards the third one, to which they are attracted to, but the ball leads them to a giant cat. While the Marios are confused by it (and blaming Wario for it), the cat is revealed to be the ghost, showing off his shapeshifting skills, and flaunting the third crystal ball inside his coin purse, in which the two other balls and Wario are vacuumed into. The Marios and Yoshi jump onto the boss, but he makes use of his other powers and disappears, causing Yoshi to be hit instead by their punches and one of the Marios to slam onto a wall. Mario then uses some coins to lure him out in the open and make him lower his guard while he collects them, finally landing some punches on him.

The ghost then shapeshifts into a coin-shooting tank and a giant fist, but the coins do not hurt Mario and even the punches he throws at him hurt the ghost more when he lands on Mario's hard skull. Seemingly giving up, the ghost surrenders his purse, but unbeknownst to the heroes, the ghost munches on some coins and zaps Yoshi and the Marios, turning them into coins with faces. About to collect them, a 10 Gold Coin drops out of nowhere and the ghost goes to collect it, getting trapped under a basket. The trapper is revealed to be [[Luigi]], who came back out of the requests of fans. Unfortunately, the trap does not do anything, as the ghost can warp out of the basket.

However, Luigi came prepared and tosses a bunch of power-ups at Mario, but Yoshi ends up eating them out of hunger. Without hesitation, Mario and his clones jump in Yoshi's mouth and collect the power-up, respectively turning into [[Cape Mario]], [[Raccoon Mario]], [[Frog Mario]], and [[Bunny Mario]], and burst out from Yoshi. The ghost's powers are no match for the four Marios, and he is defeated, but his spirit transfers to his coin collection and, when the Marios get near to hit him, the coin mass gulps them. Inside the coin mass, Mario fuses together with his clones, becoming [[Super Power-Up Mario]], and bursts out of the coin mass, destroying it and the ghost. As the effect of the transformation wears off, Mario says goodbye to his clones as they fuse into him. Using the combined strength of his clones, Mario opens the coin purse, freeing Wario and obtaining the third and last crystal ball.

Inside the castle halls, the group proceeds with cautions, but Mario is bugged by someone who keeps pulling pranks from behind and he keeps blaming Yoshi, until Luigi states it was one of the hall armors. Now busted, the armor presents itself as the [[Knight]]. The Knight then starts to hit Mario with his spear, but Luigi kicks it away from him and Mario grabs it, but like a snake, the spear slithers back to its owner. The Knight then activates a button, causing a giant pendulum blade to swing at Wario, shaving off all of his facial hair. Luigi tries to fight fire with fire by activating another button, but Mario gets stabbed by a [[skewer]]. Luigi then tries another button, but Mario is stomped on by a giant foot coming from the wall. Yoshi then tries a dangling chain, but activates a toilet flush that wets Mario and Wario.

One last button remains and Luigi, not wanting to worsen the situation, decides to not press it, but is shoved by Yoshi and accidentally presses it. Two treasure chests fall onto Mario, containing the last treasures to find, but they are just the "Hand-held Whale" and the "Luxurious Ring". With all the buttons pressed, the Knight continues to stab Mario repeatedly with his spear and then summons a bunch of [[Batto Shuruken]] to finish him, but they are smitten by the Luxurious Ring, whose ability is to make people like the wearer. Hypnotized by the ring, the Batto Shuruken attach to Mario, creating an armor for him, nullifying the spear damage, Mario finally has the upper hand and pulls out the Hand-held Whale and squirts water onto the Knight, quickly rusting the armor and paralyzing it. The Knight is defeated, but Syrup is waiting for them, armed with a magic lamp.

Luigi is excited because the final battle is approaching, but when he turns around he sees his companions partying with alcohol and confetti. Wario and Yoshi explain that is their strategy to lower the enemy's guard down, but Mario had bought too much into their plan and is actually intoxicated, continuously arguing with a [[white puff]] that he mistook for his pillow. Captain Syrup appears in front of them, laughing at the state of the "great hero", while the others are surprised to discover that the pirate captain is a woman, already assuming it will be an easy battle for that. Amused by their thought process, Syrup pulls out her magic lamp and summons the [[Genie (Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3)|Genie]] inside it, who is summoned while still on the toilet bowl. After making him put on some pants, Syrup orders him to defeat her enemies, but the Genie refuses to follow her commands until she pays him first.

Luigi suggests using the Genie's greed to their advantage, but Wario reveals that the ghost already deprived them of all their coins. Syrup returns with a bunch of coins, and the Genie abides to her demand by zapping the heroes with magic. While Luigi, Yoshi, and Wario are getting zapped, Mario is still wandering around the room intoxicated, so Luigi grabs him and uses him as a human shield. The magic zap Mario received sobered him up and is now back in action, pointing out that, on their party table, there are some [[Power Up Pot]]s. Jet Mario, [[Bull Wario]], and [[Dragon Wario (Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3)|Dragon Luigi]] are now ready (and Yoshi is given the only hat that remained: a [[bucket]]). With Mario distracting him while he zooms all over the room, Bull Wario manages to [[Dash Attack|tackle]] him in his belly, Dragon Luigi to burn him up, and Yoshi even manages to hit him with the bucket.

Angry, the Genie summons from the lamp a bunch of tiny clones of himself that overwhelm the heroes and, once Mario and his friends are stuck under the tiny clones, the Genie farts on them. Seeing as he held that for centuries, due to being stuck inside the lamp, the gas is so strong to power the heroes down and knock them unconscious. As a final blow, the Genie traps Mario inside his lamp. As the Genie asks Syrup for an extra payment, Yoshi leaves the reader with a cliffhanger, promising the special appearance of the "Masked Gorilla" in the next episode.

Mario is still trapped in the magic lamp and his friends cannot set him free by rubbing it (and Wario is attempting his tactic of joining the pirates to be on the winning team). The Genie reveals that Mario is not alone in the lamp: the spirits of the island bosses are there to make him pay for defeating them, despite actually being calm and friendly with Mario and only attacking him when ordered by Genie. Just then, the self-proclaimed "Masked Gorilla" bursts into the castle, with the intention of helping the heroes. Luigi offers him a [[banana]], and the Masked Gorilla hits the lamp with a barrel, causing it to release a puff of smoke (the bosses' spirits) and a bruised Mario.

Not being done, Genie calls the spirits to him to lend him their strength, but all they seem to do is electrocute him. The Masked Gorilla, with the help of Mario, executes a [[Roll Attack]] to finish the Genie, but the effects of his magic are finally showing off, when he sends the ape flying using the spiked gloves of [[Penguin (boss)|Penguin]]. Mario jumps in to replace his ally, but is overwhelmed by another one of Penguin's punches, then Devil's Head's long tongue, and lastly the wing flaps of Bobo. When the heroes try to jump together at him, Genie uses [[Spiked Koopa]]'s shell to protect himself and sting them. Genie has now become a monstrous fusion of all the bosses, but Mario notices that Genie's hat has not changed, and therefore it must be his weak point.

The Masked Gorilla then shoves Mario inside a [[Blast Barrel]] and Mario is shot around the room, filled with other Blast Barrels that the ape placed beforehand. Genie cannot keep track of Mario's constantly-changing position and he finally lands a hit on his head so powerful that the spirits are spit out of Genie's mouth. Yoshi proceeds to eat the spirits, while Wario returns to the heroes (still angry at him). Genie gets back up, fuming in anger. Yoshi is scared, but Mario reassures him that they got a powerful ally on their side, pointing at the Masked Gorilla, but he explains he was just as a guest star and flies away on a [[Jumbo Barrel]], much to Mario's shock. While exiting the scene, the Masked Gorilla removes his mask, revealing himself as the new [[Donkey Kong]].

The next stop in [[Wario's Woods (location)|Wario's Woods]] is the "Lake of Beautiful Beauty", ruled by the water fairy [[Mad]] who can help Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, [[Birdo]], [[Toad]], and [[Wanda]] in their quest to free the forest from Wario. However, the lake is now a muddy dump, as Wario has polluted the lake with murky water containing evil toxins, turning Mad into a follower of Wario. Wario flies away, while ordering Mad to take care of Mario. An irate mermaid jumps out of the water and Wanda explains to Mario that this is not Mad's original form and usually she has the appearance of a lovely princess. Excited by this, Mario decides to help her, but Mad jumps back into the water and Mario's confidence disappears when looking at the very dirty water. Toad suggests using the [[bomb]]s to force Mad to resurface, but the plan backfires: the explosion not only has blasted away most of the lake, leaving it almost dry, but Mad has assumed her the liquid form, the Water Witch.

The heroes are exploring the mountain region of Wario's Woods following a snowy night. Due to the cold, Yoshi is about to sneeze, but Mario shuts his mouth off, afraid that it will cause an avalanche, but he ends up being the cause by letting a fart out. The avalanche separates the group, and Toad wakes up alone and scared, jolting at any noise he hears. His fear does not decrease when he trips on a veiled skull that is soon revealed to be a living skeleton. He introduces himself as [[Seizer]], Wario's herbalist, who came to the mountain to find some ingredients for his ill master, only to find death; even his monster minions have become skeletons. Seizer is only missing one more ingredient before returning to the base: mushroom powder. Toad soon realizes that means he is going to be harvested and attempts to run, but Seizer tosses his skeleton body at him, trapping him under his bones.

As Seizer's skull and the skeletal monsters approach him, something emerges from the ground beneath Toad, munching on the bones: it is Yoshi, alive and hungry. About to give himself an ice cream of [[Beaker]]s, Yoshi gets frozen by Seizer's magic. Toad tries, once again, to flee, but this time Seizer curses him by making him see things scarier than normal: a demon instead of a snowman, bombs instead of snowballs, and so on. Meanwhile, Mario, Luigi, Birdo, and Wanda arrive, but the brothers are weakened by a cold to help their friend. Tired of the scene, Seizer tries to zap Toad, but the still frozen Yoshi, manages to move enough to shove Toad away, getting himself zapped instead.

At the sight of Yoshi hurt because of his cowardice, Toad charges at Seizer and his newfound courage makes a sword powered by a [[Super Star]] appear in his hand, which he uses to defeat Seizer once and for all. Yoshi and the others congratulate Toad and, once healed, Yoshi sends a medicine to Wario under the pretense of being from Seizer. Wario takes it, and immediately rushes to a toilet as the medicine he swallowed was a powerful laxative.

Mario, Yoshi, DK, and Diddy Kong follow a trail of [[banana]]s and collect them. While collecting one, Mario instead grabs a [[Slippa]] that coils him. Yoshi tries to hypnotize the snake away with a flute, but ends up luring more Slippas to Mario. Diddy comes back with a [[TNT Barrel]] and DK tosses it at Mario to blow up the Slippas, hurting the plumber in the process. Later, the four arrive at the banana hoard and Mario attempts to rest by sitting on a rock, but the rock bites him: it is a [[Rock Kroc]]. DK attacks him with a Roll Attack, but he bounces off the enemy and instead lands on top of his friends. Donkey Kong grabs another TNT Barrel, but by the time he picks it up, the Rock Kroc has already camouflaged with the rocks, surprising DK whose barrel explodes in his hands. Mario takes a different approach and, promising a free coupon, lures the Rock Kroc out of his hiding spot, so that Mario can smash him into pieces with his [[hammer]].

The pieces, however, come together with the nearby rocks to form an even larger Rock Kroc. In panic, Yoshi starts eating some bananas and, while Mario shoves him away to save him from being stomped; he drops a banana peel on which the giant [[Kremling]] slips on, making him split into pieces again. This time, Donkey Kong makes sure to smash the sentient parts of the pieces, assuring he will not come back again. The banana hoard is rescued and Cranky invites Mario and Yoshi to the promised New Year banquet, which is made out of banana-based dishes, much to Mario's annoyance.

During the ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins'' arc, Wario invites all his minions to [[Mario's castle|his castle]] to celebrate the New Year. First, he forces his guests to greet him by bowing in a 100 degree angle, causing people's heads to go through the floor. Then, wanting to play {{wp|Hanetsuki}}, he squashes a [[Paragoomba]] into the missing {{wp|Shuttlecock|hane}} that he then powerfully dunks on his adversary's face. Following that, he asks to play with the kite, but not having one to fly, he squashes [[Octopus (boss)|octopus]] and makes one of him. Lastly, he turns his minions into {{wp|spinning top}}s and one [[Floating Face]] in a {{wp|Fukuwarai}}. He does all of this while using just his brute force to humiliate and force his minions.