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Title: Hats or heads?
Post by: kamikaze koopa on April 08, 2004, 07:32:52 PM
Forgive me if someone elese has already brought this up, but I'm curious as to whether the mushroom people's heads are actually like mushrooms or if they're hats.  I've people say both, but I don't know what the official answer is.
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Post by: Screech on April 08, 2004, 07:45:16 PM
They're mushroom people. It's not a hat.

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Post by: Hirocon on April 08, 2004, 08:12:39 PM
I don't think any official Nintendo lore has explicitly stated that the mushroom caps atop mushroom people are their actual heads, but it's supposed to be assumed.  If they were only hats, then by now we would have seen a picture of a mushroom person with their hat off.

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Post by: MEGAߥTE on April 08, 2004, 09:46:29 PM
That happened in the cartoon.  Maybe in the comics as well, but I can't remember.
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Post by: Forest Guy on April 08, 2004, 09:52:19 PM
Yeah the cartoon messed everyone up...

I don't base any of my facts or theories on the cartoon. Even though it was officially endorsed by Nintendo, they didn't proof-check it for actual facts and stuff.

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Post by: Nameneko on April 08, 2004, 11:04:39 PM
Hey, I was reading Super Mario-kun (comic) and there was this one part of it where the shyguys were stealing stuff from Toad Town (Paper Mario).  Mario goes up to Tayce T. and asks what's going on and she says that shyguys are stealing stuff from around the town and her frypan was stolen.  Then a shyguy comes up and steals her mushroom cap.  And she's bald!  Although it sortof adds to the topic, it was completely humor-based, therefore it won't assist your conversation...  I'll try to upload a picture sometime.

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Post by: Nameneko on April 08, 2004, 11:04:40 PM
Whoops, double-post.

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Title: Re: Hats or heads?
Post by: Popple on April 09, 2004, 12:11:50 AM
I theorize that it's probably like a haircut when their shroom top is removed. It is a piece of them but isn't needed to live and can be removed. They wouldn't very well be mushroom people if their only mushroom feature were a hat.



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Post by: WarpRattler on April 09, 2004, 12:56:07 AM
What he^ said.

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Post by: Forest Guy on April 09, 2004, 12:03:55 PM
Good job, Popple.

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Post by: Hirocon on April 09, 2004, 01:08:04 PM
So if it can be cut like hair, why do all the mushroom people wear the same hairdo?  I'd love to see a mushroom person with their mushroom cap "carved" into some shape, like a Mohawk or something.

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Post by: TEM on April 09, 2004, 02:42:36 PM
Maybe the Mushroom King is some kind of weirdo dictatorish king who makes his kingdom's people wear the same mushroom cap/hair/head.

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Post by: kamikaze koopa on April 09, 2004, 04:57:39 PM
"So if it can be cut like hair, why do all the mushroom people wear the same hairdo? I'd love to see a mushroom person with their mushroom cap "carved" into some shape, like a Mohawk or something."



Well if the mushroom is actually a portion of their head, then it probably would be a good idea to carve it up.  I mean, I know that realistic biology isn't often considered in the Mario universe, but I would imagine that the mushroom portion of their head would contain their brain or something.  That's just what I think, anyway.
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Post by: Nameneko on April 09, 2004, 08:31:04 PM
Actually, if you take REAL biology into account, you'd realize that if you cut open a toad's cap, etc., spores would come out and create mini-toads (?).  Also un SMS, if you jump/spray a toad and they gat mad at you, they might shake their heads at you.  Then if you listen, you can hear a rattling.

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Post by: Markio on April 09, 2004, 09:18:39 PM
Well, since the games don't tell us directly whether thay're hats or heads, then anything is possible.  So basically, there isn't really a right answer, it's up to your imagination to solve what the things on their heads are.

I think they're part of their heads, because if you look at a real mushroom, the top doesn't just come off.

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Post by: Nameneko on April 11, 2004, 12:14:09 AM
Well, the top of a mushroom actually DOES come off pretty cleanly if you pull a bit.  Although if it were a Toad, it'd be pretty painful for it.

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Post by: NintendoIke64 on April 13, 2004, 03:02:27 PM
Perhaps their "hats" are like clothes. They feel naked underneath them, and although they may slightly vary in color and size, the basic shape remains the same.

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Post by: Nameneko on April 13, 2004, 03:59:54 PM
Maybe it's a fashion trend...

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Post by: Markio on April 13, 2004, 04:03:55 PM
I meant that the top is connected to the stem, so it's probably part of the body.

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Post by: WarioLandMan on April 13, 2004, 04:42:54 PM
 maybe they have fungal growth. Like foot fungus, but on their head.

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Post by: Hope(N Forever) on April 14, 2004, 07:39:43 AM
The way the female Toads were drawn in Paper Mario signifies or hints that the mushroom caps are hats...

As you notice, part of their hair is invisible under the mushroom caps, then they must be hats, hats that is the culture of the Toads...



In addition, DiC somehow show us in their cartoons that the Toad we know removes his cap sometimes, although nobody should take the cartoons seriously...



Besides, the pattern on mushroom caps like that of Vanna T.'s is not normal, therefore, it must be artificial!!

I mean, look closely at Harry's cap !!

Do you notice the green rim at the forehead?



Conclusion: The mushroom caps of the Toads are HATS!!



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Title: Re: Hats or heads?
Post by: Do The Mario! on April 14, 2004, 09:49:24 AM
That's no proof. What I think is that they're born with the mushrooms (I guess they can have different designs) and could take them off, but they're Toads and it's a big part of them. Normally I wouldn't think this, but considering that they never say it can't come off, but in some sources (even if only approved by Nintendo) it can, so I guess it'd be smart just to stick with that. I mean, why would they all wear similar hats (and some females have hair, so don't say baldness)? Oh, and it could be like their turban for all we know...

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Post by: WarioLandMan on April 14, 2004, 10:52:29 AM
more Nintendo weirdness... Sheesh!

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Post by: nintendofreak on April 14, 2004, 01:58:15 PM
All of those Toads were from Paper Mario, Hope(N Forever). You can't prove any theory with something from one game.



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Post by: Popple on April 14, 2004, 04:24:02 PM
That hat rim could be a visor or a growth that he was given after becoming a salestoad. A toadette's hair comes from the mushroom top it's self. Just look at Toadette's pigtails in MK:DD. Vanna T.was probably born with heart shaped spots out of chance, just as Toadsworth's happens to, by chance, be gold. there are explainations for any hat reasoning, and reasonable arguements against them. You can't attempt to apply sence and logic to a game full of living mushrooms, ghosts, dinosaurs, leafs that make you a flying racoon, shine sprites, magikoopas, and other such magical and impossible things.

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Post by: Hope(N Forever) on April 15, 2004, 08:44:20 AM
You people obviously forgot about the parade in the end of the game, where some of the Toads, at night, had flashing mushroom caps!!

Is this natural!? No way!!

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Post by: Fifth on April 15, 2004, 12:00:50 PM
What?  There are such things as mushrooms that emit light.

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Post by: Forest Guy on April 15, 2004, 01:28:42 PM
Bioluminescence, my friend.

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Post by: n/a on April 15, 2004, 02:15:29 PM
"Is this natural? No way!!"

It could be something artificial done to their natural head, like how people put braids in their hair, or dye their hair colors, it doesn't mean their hair is artificial, just whatever they did to it.

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Post by: Vidgmchtr on April 15, 2004, 05:50:23 PM
I've never really given it much thought if they were hats or a part of their heads. And, basically, I don't care, either....It's just some thing that you see, but don't care about.
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Post by: Do The Mario! on April 24, 2004, 05:08:43 PM
I now think that they grow like mushrooms except on Toads' heads, so you could pull them off, but it would be hard and it would hurt them. Also for the designs, maybe in Toad birth, the design is just what they want it to be, or it's random and just happens some of them have the ability to "glow in the dark" as whoever was talking about that. (sorry if that sounded incorrect at all, I changed my wording a little)

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Post by: WarioLandMan on April 29, 2004, 04:55:01 PM
oooh! Glow-in-the-dark! Where are the glow-Toads?

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Title: Re: Hats or heads?
Post by: Popple on April 29, 2004, 11:28:40 PM
At the parade  at the end of paper mario


Edited by - Popple on 4/29/2004 10:29:36 PM