Metal Cap

Metal Cap
The "Metal Mario Cap" as it appears in Super Mario Odyssey
First appearance	Super Mario 64 (1996)
Latest appearance	Super Mario 3D All-Stars (2020)
Effect	Turns Mario into Metal Mario

“Hidden inside the green block is the amazing Metal Cap. Wearing it, you won't catch fire or be hurt by enemy attacks. You don't even have to breathe while wearing it. The only problem: You can't swim in it.”

—Sign in the Hazy Maze Cave, Super Mario 64

“A metal cap that seems somehow familiar...”

—Metal Mario Cap description, Super Mario Odyssey

Mario wearing the Metal Cap

The Metal Cap is an accessory that makes its debut in Super Mario 64. It is usually found in green blocks, which become solid upon the player pressing the Metal Cap Switch in the Cavern of the Metal Cap. The Metal Cap turns Mario into Metal Mario, making him invulnerable and extremely heavy. Because of this, he can no longer make very high jumps or Long Jumps, cannot swim, and sinks faster in quicksand. However, Metal Mario is also unaffected by strange clouds and cannot drown. The effect lasts for 20 seconds.

If Mario gets another power when the Metal Cap is in effect, they will combine. This is possible in Dire, Dire Docks, where a green block is located directly beside a blue block, and in Wet-Dry World, where the player can drain the water in the downtown area and collect the Metal Cap, then jump down and collect the Vanish Cap. Collecting both gives Mario the powers of both his Vanish form and Metal form. An unused texture in the game shows a metallic version of the wings from the Wing Cap, suggesting that it would have been possible to combine the Wing Cap with the Metal Cap as well.

In Super Mario 64 DS, the Metal Cap itself does not appear. Instead, Wario becomes Metal Wario when he grabs a Power Flower but still retains the same properties as Metal Mario, and the music associated with the Metal Cap is retained.

A similar item, the Metal Mushroom Orb from the Mario Party series, additionally transforms characters into metal forms.

In Super Mario Odyssey, the Metal Cap (referred to as the Metal Mario Cap) appears as a cap that can be purchased from Crazy Cap stores, having a physical appearance similar to that of Super Mario 64. The cap becomes available after the player has collected 560 Power Moons, and it costs 1,000 coins. Aside from the ability to use the cap in conjunction with either the Mario 64 Outfit or the Metal Mario Outfit to enter a specific area in the Mushroom Kingdom, the cap is aesthetic and serves no other gameplay advantages.

Course locations

• Whomp's Fortress
• Bowser in the Dark World
• Jolly Roger Bay
• Hazy Maze Cave
• Dire, Dire Docks
• Wet-Dry World
• Cavern of the Metal Cap

Media

Metallic Mario - Metal Cap theme

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The theme "Metallic Mario" is a heavy metal arrangement of the Super Star theme. In Super Mario 64 DS, this theme receives two arrangements for when the player character is in Mega form and when Yoshi has Fire Power.

Profiles

Super Mario 3D All-Stars

• North American website bio: "Metal Mario can ram into foes to defeat them, and his heavy body will sink in the water."

Gallery

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  Model from Super Mario 64

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  Mario grabs the Metal Cap in the Super Mario manga.

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  The "Super Mario Power Up" series of keychains from Nintendo TOKYO

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	メタルぼうし Metaru Bōshi メタルのぼうし Metaru no Bōshi メタルマリオ帽ぼう Metaru Mario Bō	Metal Cap (Super Mario 64) Metal Mario Cap (Super Mario Odyssey)
Chinese (simplified)	金属帽 (Super Mario 64) Jīnshǔ Mào	Metal Cap
	金属马力欧帽 (Super Mario Odyssey)[?] Jīnshǔ Mǎlì'ōu Mào	Metal Mario Cap
Chinese (traditional)	金屬瑪利歐帽[?] Jīnshǔ Mǎlì'ōu Mào	Metal Mario Cap
French	Casquette de métal Casquette métal (Super Mario 3D All-Stars)	Metal Cap
Italian	Cappello di Metallo Cappello Armatura (Virtual Console)[?]	Metal Cap Armor Hat