Grass
Grass is an object encountered in some Super Mario games, first appearing as a gameplay mechanic in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2. In most appearances, characters can pull up the grass to obtain and use various items.
History
Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic / Super Mario Bros. 2
In Super Mario Bros. 2, Mario and company can pull on tall blades of red grass (black in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic) emerging from the ground by pressing 
. While this often pulls out a vegetable, it can also pull out several other objects: Magical Potions, bombs, Bob-Ombs, Turtle Shells, Stop Watches, coins (in Subspace only), or Rockets. Super Mario Advance also adds Heart Radishes and large turnips called Giant Vegetables, which take longer to pull out. They work just like their normal-sized counterparts, but can hit more enemies, due to their bigger size.
Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3
Grass returns in Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 as an e-Reader exclusive feature: scanning the Blue Green Switch will activate grass patches with vegetables below them in the main game. They also appear by default in several World-e levels - namely Vegetable Volley, The ol' Switcheroo, A Sky-High Adventure, Ice Cubed, Ground Work and Treacherous Halls. The grass is colored green to match the vegetable leaves, and turnips are the only vegetables to appear; they are found in both their unripe and ripe forms, as well as the giant turnip that was introduced in Super Mario Advance. Some grass patches are "fake roots"[1] that also hide single coins, five coins, 1-Up Mushrooms, or even e-Coins or Poison Mushrooms, or Monty Moles (in Ground Work only).
Super Smash Bros. series
In the Super Smash Bros. games, grass tufts first appear in Super Smash Bros. Melee as 2D background decorations in Mushroom Kingdom II, using their appearance from Super Mario Bros. 2. Peach also has an attack, the Vegetable, that acts as her down special and mimics the function of grass in previous appearances to pull up vegetables from the ground.
Grass later appears as an actual item in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U. When a player pulls on blades of grass emerging from the floor of the stage, any random item that can normally spawn will be plucked into the player's hands, with status or recovery items activating immediately upon being plucked.
In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, grass returns as an item and also reappears on the Mushroom Kingdom II stage, with their design now more similar to Super Mario All-Stars.
Mario Golf series
Grass also has an important role in the Mario Golf series, where it acts as the lie of the ball, and determines the size of the impact bar. It comes in the form of the Fairway, Fast Fairway, Rough, Heavy Rough and the Green. Grass also serves a purpose in Mario Tennis games as a court with fast speed and low bounce.
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U trophy information
| Name | Image | Appears In (Wii U version only) |
American English description | British English description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grass | 
|
NES Super Mario Bros. 2 (10/1988) | This special grass first appeared in Super Mario Bros. 2, where plucking it revealed hidden items. It works exactly the same way in Smash Bros.-if you pluck the grass, maybe you'll find a game-changing object! If only cleaning an unkempt lawn would reveal such neat things... | A patch of overgrown grass with an item buried underneath. Grass like this grew all over the place in Super Mario Bros. 2, and Mario and co. could pull it up to get all kinds of handy items for their quest. It works the same way in this game: pull it up to get an item. Who knows what it'll be? |
Gallery
Super Mario All-Stars (Super Mario Bros. 2)
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese | 草[?] Cǎo |
Grass | |
| Dutch | Graspol[?] | Grass | |
| French | Herbe[?] | Grass | |
| German | Grasbüschel[?] | Tuft of Gras | |
| Italian | Erba Ciuffo d'erba[3][4][5] |
Grass Tuft of grass |
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| Portuguese | Erva[?] | Grass | |
| Russian | Трава[?] Trava |
Grass | |
| Spanish | Hierba[?] | Grass |
See also
References
- ^ Hodgson, David S J. Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Page 117. "BLOCK-ROCKIN' BEETS! Ever wished you could relive Super Mario 2 in the entire main world of Super Mario Bros. 3? Then switch this e-Switch, my plump plumber friend! This crazy device adds a selection of turnips to each and every level. Not only that, but these come in small, medium (as shown in the screen above), and large sizes, as well as fake roots that explode with Coins or Poison Mushrooms that take your Super Mario powers away! Replay the game using turnips to knock down enemies and prizes for more fun that ever."
- ^ Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic instruction booklet, pages 20 and 26.
- ^ NES Remix 2, Remix 1 level 10-1, "Scopri cosa c'è sotto i 2 ciuffi d'erba!"
- ^ Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition Italian manual, pag. 36
- ^ Super Mario Bros. 2 (3DS - Virtual Console) Italian e-manual, pag. 10
