This article is about the items fromSuper Mario Bros. 2. For Princess Peach's and Princess Daisy's down special move in theSuper Smash Bros. series, seeVegetable (move).

Vegetable
First appearance	Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic (1987, overall) Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988,Super Mario franchise)
Latest appearance	Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition (2024)
Variants Giant Vegetable

Vegetables^{[1][2][3][4][5]} (also shortened toveggies)^[4][5] appear in theSuper Mario franchise as objects that can pulled out of the ground and thrown at enemies to damage or defeat them. They are introduced inYume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic andSuper Mario Bros. 2. The most commonly recurring vegetable in the franchise is theturnip, which has made several appearances followingSuper Mario Bros. 2.

History[edit]

Super Mario series[edit]

Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic /Super Mario Bros. 2 /Super Mario Advance[edit]

Unripe and ripe vegetables, and the red grass pulled to acquire them

Vegetables (also calledLarge Vegetables^[6]) are first found inSubcon inYume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic andSuper Mario Bros. 2. They can be plucked with and thrown at enemies.Unripened vegetables^[1][7] (also calledSprouts,^[2][3]Tiny Vegetables,^[4] orSmall Vegetables^[5]) are smaller than the ripe ones but are just as effective when throwing. Almost all the redgrass in the game is a vegetable when plucked. Vegetables have a distinct appearance depending on the world's theme: the grass worlds (Worlds 1, 3, and 5, where they appear asturnips), the desert worlds (Worlds 2 and 6), the ice world (World 4), and the cloud world (World 7 - its design differs betweenDoki Doki Panic andSuper Mario Bros. 2) each have a unique vegetable design. In addition, the Dream Machine in World 7-2 has two unique vegetable designs of its own. If four large vegetables are picked up in the same stage, picking up what is supposed to be the fifth one will reveal aStop Watch. In the remakes, the desert worlds' vegetables are green instead of red, and have replaced one of the Dream Machine's unique vegetables. Additionally, theSuper Mario Advance remake adds large turnips calledGiant Vegetables, which take longer to pull out and can hit more enemies in succession.

Wart is said to hate vegetables in the game's story; he needs to be force-fed six vegetables to be beaten (four inDoki Doki Panic).

BS Super Mario USA[edit]

Vegetables returned inBS Super Mario USA, where they were used in an identical manner as inSuper Mario Bros. 2. The game introduced giant turnips, which could not be picked up; instead, these giant vegetables were thrown by Princess Peach off-screen when the game's time reached certain points in the script. The giant turnip took out any enemy in its path, but it could also hurt the player's character. Likewise, black giant turnips with angry faces were also thrown by the villains from off-screen.

Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3[edit]

InSuper Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, scanning theBlue Green Switch will activategrass patches with vegetables below them in the main game. They also appear by default in severalWorld-e levels, namelyVegetable Volley,The ol' Switcheroo,A Sky-High Adventure,Ice Cubed,Ground Work andTreacherous Halls. Note that in this game, only turnips appear, in both their unripe and ripe forms, as well as the giant turnip that was introduced inSuper Mario Advance. In this game, vegetables can defeat certain enemies likeDry Bones andChain Chomps instantly, but the player will only float on water if holding one, requiring it to be thrown away in order to swim.

The Super Mario Bros. Super Show![edit]

Vegetables appear in some episodes ofThe Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Mario and Luigi use them in various episodes to defeat their enemies, theKoopa Pack andKing Koopa like inSuper Mario Bros. 2. The vegetable-throwing sound fromSuper Mario Bros. 2 is also commonly used in the show even for things such as the firing of aBullet Bill and the throwing of afireball.

Mario vs. Wario[edit]

Vegetables were given a minor appearance in one of theMario vs. Wario comics. The first page of this comic showed Mario recalling "playing in the garden" withWario when the two were friends; during this scene, several vegetables are present and Wario even picks one upSuper Mario Bros. 2-style. Wario, too, remembers this garden scene on the next page, although his memory is a little less fair: he recalls Mario asking for help in the garden and taking a row of turnips as his own, leaving Wario to tackle thePiranha Plants on his own.

Profiles and statistics[edit]

Super Mario Bros. 2[edit]

Vegetable

• Wii Virtual Console manual bio:Pull out a lot of these and something cool might happen...

• Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console manual description:
  • English (United Kingdom):
    Uproot enough of these and something special might happen.
  • Other languages:
    • French (European):
      Si vous en arrachez un certain nombre, vous pourriez avoir une surprise...
    • German:
      Sammele genug Gemüse ein vielleicht passiert etwas Besonderes.
    • Italian:
      Raccogline un bel po' e potrà accadere qualcosa di speciale.
    • Spanish (European):
      Arranca un número determinado y puede que pase algo especial...

Unripened Vegetable

• Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console manual description:
  • English (United Kingdom):
    It doesn't matter how many of these you uproot. Nothing special will appear!
  • Other languages:
    • French (European):
      Peu importe la quantité ramassée, rien de spécial n'apparaîtra !
    • German:
      Es ist egal, wie viele dieser Items du ausrupfst. Nichts Besonderes wird passieren!
    • Italian:
      Non importa quanta ne riesci a raccogliere, perché pur facendolo non apparirà nulla di speciale!
    • Spanish (European):
      No importa cuántas arranques. ¡No pasará nada!

Super Mario Advance[edit]

Vegetable

• European instruction booklet:Carrots, radishes and more! Pull them out and throw them at your enemies.

Unripened Vegetable

• European instruction booklet:These young vegetables may not look like much, but try throwing them anyway.

Super Smash Bros. Melee[edit]

Trophy Vegetable
	Game/move: Super Mario Bros. 2 10/88
	How to unlock: Randomly obtainable only in single-player modes
	These vegetables, which first appeared in Super Mario Bros. 2, can be plucked from the ground and hurled at enemies. Unlike regular veggies, they often sport eyes or even faces; in fact, when Princess Peach plucks them from the ground to use as projectiles, the expressions on their faces dictate how much damage they'll do.

Gallery[edit]

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  Unripened Vegetable (Worlds 1, 3, and 5)

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  Unripened Vegetable (Worlds 1, 3, and 5) in theAll-Stars version

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  Vegetable (Worlds 1, 3, and 5; theturnip)

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  Vegetable (Worlds 1, 3, and 5; the turnip) in theAll-Stars version

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  Unripened Vegetable (Worlds 2 and 6)

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  Unripened Vegetable (Worlds 2 and 6) in theAll-Stars version

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  Vegetable (Worlds 2 and 6)

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  Vegetable (Worlds 2 and 6) in theAll-Stars version

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  Unripened Vegetable (World 4)

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  Unripened Vegetable (World 4) in theAll-Stars version

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  Vegetable (World 4)

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  Vegetable (World 4) in theAll-Stars version

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  Unripened Vegetable (World 7)

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  Unripened Vegetable (World 7) in theAll-Stars version

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  Vegetable (World 7)

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  Vegetable (World 7) in theAll-Stars version

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  Vegetable (World 7-2 - Dream Machine)

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  Vegetable (World 7-2 - Dream Machine), which goes unused (replaced by Worlds 2 and 6's Vegetable) in theAll-Stars version

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  Vegetable (World 7-2 - Dream Machine)

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  Vegetable (World 7-2 - Dream Machine) in theAll-Stars version

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  Vegetable (World 7,Doki Doki Panic only)

Names in other languages[edit]

Vegetable[edit]

Unripened vegetable[edit]

References[edit]

• Root vegetables
• Food
• Projectiles
• Super Mario Advance objects
• Super Mario Bros. 2 objects
• Super Smash Bros. Melee trophies
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl items
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate items
• The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! items

• Articles with unsourced foreign names