Super Mario: Verloren in der Zeit
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Super Mario: Verloren in der Zeit (English translation: Super Mario: Lost in time) is the name of a 16-page comic in four parts, the first one being published in the 5/1993 issue of the German Club Nintendo magazine, the others in the following issues.
Plot Synopsis
Part One (5/1993)
The comic begins with Mario getting a package by his mailman. He finds an alarm clock inside, donated to him by his most loyal fan, as the note inside reads. However, it turns out that the mailman was Dr. Wily, Mega Man's main antagonist, who plans to rule over the whole city. Unsuspectingly, Mario tries to set the alarm but immediately is gripped by a time slip, making him land right on the back of a dinosaur. The plumber doesn't believe his eyes and drops his alarm clock. When the dinosaur disappears, Mario spots some cave men. He tries to make his confusion known to them, but they don't understand him and instead smask his head with their mace.
After this encounter, Mario is hungry and enters DinoBurgers, a stone-age fast food restaurant. Asking for a "huge burger", he is given the Tyrannoburger. Instead of asking for money, the salesclerk just takes his hat in exchange. Outside, and obviously fatter in appearance, Mario meets a Yoshi wearing a hat which reads "Taxi". The Yoshi offers his services to him but Mario declines. Instead he leaves all his clothes in a shop and buys a cave man outfit made of coat. Soon after he spots some cave women running right towards him. Mario, thinking they were zealous of his new outfit, is glad to see them. However, it turns out that the girls were fleeing from a Tyrannosaurus rex which now is about to attack Mario. Luckily for him, he spots a Fire Flower nearby and eats it. Turned into Fire Mario, he throws Fireballs at the dinosaur that falls to the ground and spits out Mario's alarm clock. Thinking that the clock will bring him back to the future, he tries to set it again.
Trivia
- Mario is breaking the Fourth Wall in the first part of the comic. After the cave men hit his head, he's referring to the illustrator, asking why he is so flat in appearance.
