Ice Mario (Super Mario Galaxy): Difference between revisions

|image=[[File:SMG Artwork Ice Mario.png|200px]]<br>Artwork of Ice Mario for ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''

'''Ice Mario''' is a form that [[Mario]] can take upon touching an [[Ice Flower]] in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''. In this form, Mario's body turns into solid ice with cold air flowing out and gains the ability to [[skate]] on water. A [[Ice Mario|different form of the same name]] appears in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'' and ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]''.

While in this form, any water or [[lava]] Mario touches freezes solid in the form of a hexagonal platform (which melts after a period of time if left unoccupied). This allows Mario to walk or [[skate]] across vast distances of water or lava with ease and safety. Ice Mario can also reach higher places by freezing water spouts and [[Wall Jump]]ing off of waterfalls, though unlike regular walls, Ice Mario can cling onto waterfalls for a few seconds before he drops down. This form also makes its user immune to fire attacks, as seen when a [[Magikoopa]] fires a fireball at Ice Mario; it also prevents damage from torches when the player jumps on it. Ice Mario can also safely defeat [[ice bat]]s by spinning and stomping, though this is only possible to see with hacking.<ref>Mayro (July 30, 2017). [https://youtu.be/K1KotxwdXPw?t=839 Neo Mario Galaxy - Part 2 - Ice spy some idiocy]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved March 11, 2018.</ref> Like [[Fire Mario]], this power-up has a time limit.

This power-up is introduced in the [[Freezeflame Galaxy]], but can also be found in the [[Beach Bowl Galaxy]] and the [[Deep Dark Galaxy]]. Ice Mario is one of two power-ups in the game that was not carried over to its sequel, ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', the other being [[Flying Mario]].

This form originally had a freezing ability, which eventually went [[List of Super Mario Galaxy pre-release and unused content|unused]]. If the player spun at an [[Octoomba]], it would be frozen into an [[Ice Block]] that could be slid around by kicking it or destroyed by spinning it, [[Ground Pound]]ing on top of it, or if it slid into a wall. Destroying an Ice Block would have granted the player three [[Star Bit]]s and a [[coin]]. Due to it only freezing Octoombas and a bug that causes the player to fall through the ground, this ability may have been unfinished and was scrapped early in development. A similar concept of freezing enemies into Ice Blocks would later be used for a [[Ice Mario|different form]] of the same name in ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'', but with [[Iceball]]s instead. This unused behavior does not appear unused in the sequel.<ref>SPG64 (October 12, 2020). [https://youtu.be/OLVOY_qlWsM Ice Mario's Unused Attack in Super Mario Galaxy]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved February 12, 2021.</ref>

Ice Mario appears as a High-End driver in ''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'', introduced as part of the [[Ice Tour]]. His [[Special skill (Mario Kart Tour)|special skill]] is the [[Ice Flower]]. Ice Mario appears as a variant to [[Metal Mario]] due to sharing the same animations as him and lacking irises (although they still can be seen in his artwork, which is reused from ''Super Mario Galaxy''), but has the same voice clips as regular Mario's (albeit with a harsher reverb). When Ice Mario appears in a course icon, his artwork is reversed. Starting with the [[Hammer Bro Tour]], Ice Mario also has his own [[Ice Mario Cup|self-named cup]]. He can also make appearances in all pipes except special pipes.

Since his debut tour, Ice Mario has appeared in all regular tour pipes, including All-Clear Pipes. However, he is currently not a part of the Daily Selects set. The following table lists other availabilities for the driver by tour.  

|[[Mario vs. Luigi Tour]]

[[File:IceMarioTradingCard.png|thumb|right|150px]]

*'''''Mario Kart Tour'' Twitter:''' ''Ice Mario is almost as shiny as he is slippery. Just watch out for his Ice Flower! It's a special item that can send opponents sliding forward by freezing their controls for a short time.''<ref>mariokarttourEN (January 18, 2020). [https://twitter.com/mariokarttourEN/status/1218307008052502531 ''Twitter'']. Retrieved March 26, 2020.</ref>

|Fra=Mario de glace

|FraM=Ice Mario

[[File:SMG2 Hot and Cold.png|thumb|right|Ice platforms based on Ice Mario/Luigi's in ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'']]

*Although the form does not appear in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', an updated version of its theme is present on the disc. There is code that can spawn the Ice Flower though a model for it does not appear in the game. Attempting to collect said Ice Flower results in the game crashing. The ice platforms Ice Mario/Luigi creates are still used in the [[Shiverburn Galaxy]]; formed when [[Ice Meteor]]s fall into lava on the Ice Magma Skate Planet.<ref>[https://tcrf.net/Super_Mario_Galaxy_2#Unused_Power-Ups Super Mario Galaxy 2  § Unused Power-Ups]. ''The Cutting Room Floor''. Retrieved January 21, 2018.</ref>