Superball Flower
First appearance	Super Mario Land (1989)
Latest appearance	Mario Kart World (cameo) (2025)
Effect	TurnsMario intoSuperball Mario.
Variant of	Fire Flower

Superball Flowers, originally calledFlowers^[1] (orflowers^[2]) orsuper flowers,^[3] areitems inSuper Mario Land and reappear inSuper Mario Maker 2. These power-up flowers turnMario into hisSuperball form, giving him the ability to shoot Superballs.

History[edit]

Super Mario Land[edit]

Flowers are items inSuper Mario Land. Although black-and-white in game due to graphical limitations of theGame Boy, they are depicted as being black and blue in the Game Boy Player's Guide. Flowers are very similar toFire Flowers in appearance and in abilities granted, and can only be found in blocks if Mario is Super Mario or won in thebonus game. Superballs areSuper Mario Land's equivalent tofireballs; only one can be fired at a time, though, and they bounce diagonally at 90° angles. Superballs will collect any coins they make contact with. While one Superball can typically defeat any non-boss enemy, many enemies require multiple Superballs to defeat. Superball Mario looks identical toSuper Mario.

Super Mario Maker 2[edit]

Superball Flowers reappear under their current name inSuper Mario Maker 2. They are only available in theSuper Mario Bros. game style as an alternate form of the Fire Flower, and retain their properties fromSuper Mario Land; Superballs can additionally lightBob-ombs, collectKeys andPink Coins, and activateP Switches andPOW Blocks. The character who picks them up takes on monochromatic shades of green, and the background music will also change to an arrangement of "Birabuto Kingdom BGM" fromSuper Mario Land for that character. Superball Flowers are unlocked for use withCourse Maker in the Story Mode by finding a? Block that is initially covered byHard Blocks; after Mario is given the jobSpiny Shell Smashers by Purple Toad and clears it, the blocks will be removed, allowing Mario access.

Mario Kart World[edit]

InMario Kart World, a statue of a Superball Flower can be seen on top of the fountain in front of thetholobate inShy Guy Bazaar.

Gallery[edit]

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  Sprite fromSuper Mario Land

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  Animated sprite fromSuper Mario Land

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  A Superball Flower as one of the available prizes in thebonus game

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  Artwork from theGame Boy Player's Guide

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  Super Mario Land Kessen Meiro

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  Banner from topic for introducing Superball Flower from official Japanese website forSuper Mario Maker 2

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  Sprite fromSuper Mario Maker 2

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  Animated sprite fromSuper Mario Maker 2

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  Superball Flower with aSuper Mushroom modifier inSuper Mario Maker 2

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  Mario Kart World

Names in other languages[edit]

References[edit]

• Flower power-ups
• Super Mario Land items
• Super Mario Maker 2 items

• Articles with unsourced foreign names