The effects of a Pal Pill

“These are Pal Pills! Little pals will follow you and damage any enemy they hit.”

—In-game text,Super Paper Mario

APal Pill is an item inSuper Paper Mario. They are located inside of? Blocks. When a Pal Pill is collected, the player character is circled by eight miniature, 8-bit copies of themselves, all shown with sprites and sound effects fromSuper Mario Bros. Each pal mimics their movement at an offset until it either touches an enemy, falls down a pit, or the player leaves the area. If the player switches characters when they have Pal Pills, the pals do not change their appearance to match.

A similar attack is used bySuper Dimentio by releasing slightly larger 8-bitLuigis that become defeated instantly upon touching an object.

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Notes[edit]

• The coloration of the Pal Pill item reflects Mario's color palette in true color, unlike the pals it creates, which follow the color limitations of theirSuper Mario Bros. sprites. This may be a leftover frompre-release versions of the game in which Mario'sMega Star form also used the same colors.
• In theSuper Mario World animated series episode "Rock TV", an item similar to the Pill Pals appears. By hitting a ? Block,Princess Toadstool releases a brigade of miniatureMarios who begin to attack the nearbyKoopalings.

See also[edit]

• Copy Flower
• Double Cherry

References[edit]

• Clones
• Power-ups
• Mario lookalikes
• Luigi lookalikes
• Princess Peach lookalikes
• Bowser lookalikes
• Super Paper Mario items

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