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From the Game mechanics page
- In-game, Mario can get knocked out by a Goomba in a few hits and cannot even dent Thwomps without the use of invincibility stars. But in canon, Mario has the strength to effortlessly lift an entire fortress containing entire armies of Goombas, Koopa Troopas, Thwomps, etcetera, and he can toss them all off the screen. And he can also crush the same castles thus one-shotting all of them just by jumping on it.
- In a lot of video games, such as the Mario Bros and Kirby franchises, even the most low-level flunkies and mini-bosses tend to be able to defeat the protagonists with just a few basic hits during game play, or to be treated as being on an almost level playing field during sport events. It is also common that the protagonists can be killed or knocked out by comparatively very minor impacts, despite that the lore and cutscenes have displayed numerous planetary and interstellar feats. However, the regular fodder enemies have very poor feats and combat records compared to the main characters, so scaling the former to the latter should not be an accepted practice.
