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'''Super Mario in Die Nacht des Grauens''' | '''Super Mario in Die Nacht des Grauens''' (referred to as simply '''Die Nacht des Grauens''' in the second part, English translation: ''[[Mario|Super Mario]] in The Night of Horror'') is the name of a 12-page comic in two parts, the first one being published in the 5/1996 issue of the [[Club Nintendo (German magazine)|German ''Club Nintendo'' magazine]]. The story was not continued until one year later, when the second part was published in issue 5/1997. It is the only comic in the magazine to be continued after such a long break. | ||
==Plot | ==Plot Synopsis== | ||
===Part | ===Part One (5/1996)=== | ||
[[File:DNDG CN1.jpg|thumb|Toadstool and Mario enjoying their meal, shortly before the lightning strikes.]] | [[File:DNDG CN1.jpg|thumb|Toadstool and Mario enjoying their meal, shortly before the lightning strikes.]] | ||
It is Halloween and shortly before midnight, and a heavy storm is coming over [[New York City]]. Mario and [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]], who live in a huge [[Wolkenkratzer|skyscraper]] in the heart of [[Brooklyn]] together with various other [[Nintendo]] characters, are enjoying the comfortable atmosphere and their midnight dinner. They are just about to kiss, when suddenly a bolt of lightning strikes and puts the building into complete darkness. | It is Halloween and shortly before midnight, and a heavy storm is coming over [[New York City]]. Mario and [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]], who live in a huge [[Wolkenkratzer|skyscraper]] in the heart of [[Brooklyn]] together with various other [[Nintendo]] characters, are enjoying the comfortable atmosphere and their midnight dinner. They are just about to kiss, when suddenly a bolt of lightning strikes and puts the building into complete darkness. | ||
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After saying good-bye to Donkey and Diddy Kong, Mario and his friends contentedly doff their clothing and weapons and put them away into the chest again. Link thinks they might need them again, but Mario believes it is best to put the chest into a dark corner of the cellar so nobody would find it. After this is done, Kirby realizes that he is tired, and the friends decide to go to their apartments and to bed. Mario opens the door to his apartment, expecting to find Toadstool sleeping. However, she still sits in her armchair. Mario, who only sees her back, talks to her, but she does not reply. When he finally sees her face, he finds that she has turned into a zombie, with a wan face and cavernous eye-holes. | After saying good-bye to Donkey and Diddy Kong, Mario and his friends contentedly doff their clothing and weapons and put them away into the chest again. Link thinks they might need them again, but Mario believes it is best to put the chest into a dark corner of the cellar so nobody would find it. After this is done, Kirby realizes that he is tired, and the friends decide to go to their apartments and to bed. Mario opens the door to his apartment, expecting to find Toadstool sleeping. However, she still sits in her armchair. Mario, who only sees her back, talks to her, but she does not reply. When he finally sees her face, he finds that she has turned into a zombie, with a wan face and cavernous eye-holes. | ||
===Part | ===Part Two (5/1997)=== | ||
[[File:DNDG CN3.jpg|thumb|Mario and his friends expect to find Toadstool, but there is only a golden die.]] | [[File:DNDG CN3.jpg|thumb|Mario and his friends expect to find Toadstool, but there is only a golden die.]] | ||
Kirby and Link are in their room, watching TV and eating pizza. Suddenly someone knocks at the door, and Kirby wonders whether he should open it. When doing it, Mario comes storming in, squashing Kirby with the door. While Link pumps his friend up with an air-pump, Mario reports what has happened to [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]]. | Kirby and Link are in their room, watching TV and eating pizza. Suddenly someone knocks at the door, and Kirby wonders whether he should open it. When doing it, Mario comes storming in, squashing Kirby with the door. While Link pumps his friend up with an air-pump, Mario reports what has happened to [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]]. | ||
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Link finds that the only thing they are lacking now is a spell to get back to their normal world. Mario tries one out, and after being sucked into a light beam, they pop amidst a public event. It turns out to be the "Musikantenstadl", which Mario declares for being worse than hell, while Link and Kirby are enjoying the party. | Link finds that the only thing they are lacking now is a spell to get back to their normal world. Mario tries one out, and after being sucked into a light beam, they pop amidst a public event. It turns out to be the "Musikantenstadl", which Mario declares for being worse than hell, while Link and Kirby are enjoying the party. | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
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*While Mario is wearing Van Helsing's clothes, he uses a whip for a weapon. Coincidentally, the original ''Dracula'' novel was retconned to be part of the canon in Konami's ''{{wp|Castlevania}}'' series, which also uses a whip as the main method to fight against Dracula. | *While Mario is wearing Van Helsing's clothes, he uses a whip for a weapon. Coincidentally, the original ''Dracula'' novel was retconned to be part of the canon in Konami's ''{{wp|Castlevania}}'' series, which also uses a whip as the main method to fight against Dracula. | ||
**The Van Helsing clothing that Mario wears also bears a striking resemblance to the outfit worn by Gabriel Van Helsing in {{wp|Van Helsing (film)|the movie of the same name}}, despite the film not entering production until the early 2000's, a few years after this comic was published. | **The Van Helsing clothing that Mario wears also bears a striking resemblance to the outfit worn by Gabriel Van Helsing in {{wp|Van Helsing (film)|the movie of the same name}}, despite the film not entering production until the early 2000's, a few years after this comic was published. | ||
*The skeletal hand from a grave labeled "{{wp|Ash Williams|ASH}}" | *The skeletal hand from a grave labeled "{{wp|Ash Williams|ASH}}" and the book that it is holding resembles the ''{{wp|Necronomicon}} Ex-Mortis'', references to the ''{{wp|Evil Dead}}'' franchise. | ||
==External | ==External Links== | ||
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120128065111/http://www.classic-zone.de/comics.php The comic (German)] | |||
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/miloscat/sets/72157648882263092/ The comic (English)] | *[https://www.flickr.com/photos/miloscat/sets/72157648882263092/ The comic (English)] | ||
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