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==Incorrect Naming==
Following the launch of the English Mario Portal, it was found that those who made the site had taken names (conjectural, foreign, or standard) for enemies from other ''Mario''-related websites such as the Super Mario Wiki and MarioWiki (on Fandom/Wikia). Other names used were either outright false or names that were merely lost in translation. In some cases, it has been shown for the Portal to use names for enemies that weren't used in that game (despite the enemy clearly being named in-game) and sometimes it uses the name of a completely different enemy or gets the names of two enemies mixed up (whether they are related to each other or not), the section below describes all the inaccuracies, their possible origins, and the correct names and terms.
Despite the illegitimacy of the enemy names from the Mario Portal and the amount of errors and misinformation the source had, the Super Mario Wiki itself would later go on to incorrectly use names from the English Mario Portal as either the main names or alternate names for various enemies (even when the Mario Portal names were obviously errors or misnames of the enemies (e.g. [[Monty]] being incorrectly referred to as [[Rocky Wrench]] by the Mario Portal was treated as an alternate name for Monty on their Super Mario Wiki page, despite it obviously being an error)). Additionally, the Super Mario Wiki prioritized the English Mario Portal enemy names over actual legitimate sources such as official Japanese names, filenames, names taken from guidebooks, and even in-game names.
==Naming Misconceptions==
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*Most of the errors in the ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]'' are similar to that of previous sections but there are a couple new ones too. Some of these errors include labeling the [[Venus Ice Trap]] as "[[Frost Piranha]]" (a similar ice-powered [[Piranha Plant]] variety found in the ''[[Paper Mario (series)|Paper Mario]]'' series), [[Kamek]] as "[[Magikoopa]]" (which is literally the name of his species and not the name of the character), the [[Piranha Plant Egg]] as "Piranha Pod", the [[Parabomb]] as "Parachute Bob-omb", the [[Banzai Bill]] as "Bomber Bill", the [[Micro Goomba]] as "Mini Goomba" (an alternate name from some guides), the [[Missile Bill]] as "Bull's-Eye Bill" (despite their name still being "Missile Bill" in this game), the [[Venus Fire Trap]] as "Fire Piranha Plant" (the name of a similar fire-spitting Piranha Plant which debuted in ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]''), the [[Swooper]] as "Swoop", and more.
**And then there's the larger enemies, while the [[Big Boo]], [[Big Amp]] and [[Big Buzzy Beetle]] are labelled correctly, the [[Grand Goomba]], [[Gargantua Koopa Troopa]], [[Piranhacus Giganticus]], [[Super Piranha Plant]], [[Giant Pokey]], [[Super Thwomp]], [[Super Dry Bones]], [[Mega Fuzzy]], [[Mega Urchin]], and [[Mega Wiggler]], are all (erroneously) generically labeled as "Big [insert enemy name here]" rather than by their traditional names given by Nintendo Power.
*In the ''[[Super Mario 3D World]]'' section, there were a few errors, some of these include labeling the larger [[Piranha Plant]]s as "Big Piranha Plants" despite being labelled as [[Mega Piranha Plant]]s in this game, [[Queen Hisstocrat]] as "Hisstocrat (pink)", the [[Banzai Bill]] as "Bomber Bill", the [[Cat Banzai Bill]] as "Cat Bomber Bill", and the [[Micro Goomba]] as "Mini Goomba."
*There were slightly less errors in the ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]'' section but there were still several, examples include labelling the [[Mega Poison Piranha Plant]] as "Big Poison Piranha Plant", the [[Banzai Bill]] as "Bomber Bill", and the [[Micro Goomba]] as "Mini Goomba" (once agin a nickname). [[Goombette (Super Mario Odyssey)|Goombette]] is also labelled as an enemy despite not technically being one.
*It is also worth noting that in all the sections featuring them, the [[Koopalings]] merely use their shorthand names and aren't seen using their full names (eg. [[Larry Koopa]], [[Roy Koopa]], [[Lemmy Koopa]], [[Wendy O. Koopa]], [[Iggy Koopa]], [[Morton Koopa Jr.]], and [[Ludwig Von Koopa]] are all merely labelled as "Larry", "Roy", "Lemmy", "Wendy", "Iggy", "Morton", and "Ludwig").
==Trivia==
*Although the ''Mario Portal'' incorrectly calls [[Banzai Bill]]s as "Bomber Bills," ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'' would later go on to have [[Bowser]] refer to the Banzai
**Similarly, the movie also referred to the [[Spiny Shell (blue)|Spiny Shell]]
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