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In ''Super Mario Sunshine'', graffiti is usually painted on walls, though it also appears on other flat surfaces. [[Mario]] can clean it off of surfaces by spraying it with [[F.L.U.D.D.|FLUDD]], and he must do so all at once or the graffiti will regenerate once he stops spraying. It is most commonly seen in the form of '''M Graffiti''',<ref name=Versus>Loe, Casey. ''Super Mario Sunshine'' Perfect Guide. Page 9.</ref> plain red paint in the shape of Shadow Mario's distinctive M signature, which also appears in the game's opening titles and is painted by Shadow Mario using regular goop on the [[Delfino Airstrip]] and in [[Delfino Plaza]], as well as with [[burning goop]] in [[Pianta Village]]. M Graffitis wildly vary in size, with most being roughly the same length as Mario’s height, but sometimes appearing slightly smaller or much larger, with a single M Graffiti covering a large portion of [[Pianta Village]] in Episode 3: [[The Goopy Inferno]]. Cleaning M Graffiti usually rewards Mario with a [[Blue Coin]], except for the two M Graffitis painted on [[water]] tanks on the [[Delfino Airstrip]], which reward Mario with standard [[coin]]s instead. These M Graffitis are also the only graffitis in the game that reappear if Mario revisits the area.

Along with M Graffiti, graffiti also appears in the form of various paired symbols, known as '''Paired Graffiti'''.<ref name=Versus/> The symbols that appear are "×" (X Graffiti),<ref>Loe, Casey. ''Super Mario Sunshine'' Perfect Guide. Page 12.</ref> "○" (O Graffiti),<ref>Loe, Casey. ''Super Mario Sunshine'' Perfect Guide. Page 31.</ref> and "△" (Triangle Graffiti).<ref>Loe, Casey. ''Super Mario Sunshine'' Perfect Guide. Page 54.</ref> Like M Graffiti, Paired Graffiti is usually drawn in plain red paint, though [[Ricco Harbor]] contains dull green Paired Graffiti as well. Unlike M Graffitis, Paired Graffiti always appears in a consistent size, being roughly the same length as Mario’s height. When Mario cleans an instance of Paired Graffiti, a Blue Coin appears at the location (or former location) of the other symbol of the same design in the area, which Mario has a limited time to collect. If Mario does not collect the Blue Coin in time, it disappears, and the graffiti he cleaned off reappears. He must then backtrack and clean the same graffiti a second time to make the Blue Coin appear once again. Two Blue Coins are obtainable for each pair of Paired Graffiti, one for each individual symbol.

Black graffiti is also used to deface the [[Shine Gate]]'s [[Shine Sprite]] statuemonument as well as the bells inside Delfino Plaza's two bell towers. Mario can earn a Shine Sprite each for cleaning the graffiti off the Shine Gate's statuemonument and each of the two bells.