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'''Mario Portal''' is a website manned by [[Nintendo]] of Japan that was opened in 2017. It details all the characters, games, and informations, in the ''[[Mario (franchise)|Mario]]'' franchise. Upon the site's release, it was written entirely in Japanese however in mid-2022, an English version of the site was also released (which can be accessed by typing "?lang=en" at the end of the site's URL). The site itself includes four main sectors which include a Home Page, Game Archives (which list the informations of each game), a list of Characters, and a lineup of recently released games.

 

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.

 

*The ''[[Super Mario World]]'' section also labels the [[Galoomba]]s by their current name despite the fact that in this game, they were still known as "Goombas" and they didn't earn the name "Galoomba" until ''[[Super Mario 3D World]]''.

*Also on the ''[[Super Mario World]]'' section, they have the [[Swooper]]s labeled as "Swoop" (another name for the Swooper in some recent games (the two names appear to be used interchangeably) and also the name used for them on the Super Mario Wiki since mid-2014) despite the fact that they were referred to as Swoopers in the game as well as the guide for the game. Additionally, the [[Amazing Flying Hammer Brother]]'s name is shortened to A. F. H. Bro which was their abbreviated name in ''[[Super Princess Peach]]''.

*The ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'' section has a handful of errors and most of the names included in these sections are either false or lost in translation, many of the misnames in this section include naming the [[Wind Duppy]]/[[Wind Spirit]] as "Cyclo", the [[Coo Coo]] as "Plirp", the [[Jumping Blooper]] as "Bloopad", the [[Pokey Sprout]] as "[[Pokey Head]]" (the name of a similar enemy from ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''), the [[Sleeping Boo]] as "[[Big Boo]]" (an unrelated variant of [[Boo]]), the [[Huge Red Electro-Koopa]] as "Electro-Koopa King", the [[Polluted Piranha Plant]] as "Proto Piranha", the [[Soarin' Stu]]/[[Winged Strollin' Stu]] as "Swipin' Stu (blue)" (the name of a similar flying Stu enemy that steals [[Mario]]'s Cap whereas the aforementioned "Soarin' Stus" don't), the [[Swoopin' Stu]] as "Gooble" ([[List of misconceptions#Gooble Name|based on a misjudgment the Super Mario Wiki made with the ''MGTT'' scoreboards]]), the [[Pink Boo]] as "Block Boo", and [[Mecha-Bowser]] as "[[Mechakoopa]]" (probably the biggest error of all in this section, as "Mechakoopa" is the name of an unrelated wind-up Koopa toy not to mention that the robot is literally named Mecha-Bowser in-game).

*The ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' section also came with a fair share of inaccuracies too, most of them were naming the enemies by their names from the game's sequel. Many of the names used were false and completely mismatch what is said by the game, the guide, and Nintendo Power some examples include labelling the [[Bubble Cannon]] and [[Cannon (boss)|Cannon]] bosses manned by the [[Undergrunt Gunner]]s as "Water Bazooka" and "Electric Bazooka" respectively, naming the [[Octopus (Super Mario Galaxy)|Octopus]] (who's name is said in-game by a [[Toad (species)|Toad]] on [[Kamella]]'s Airship) as "Rocto", treating the second [[King Kaliente]] as a seperate individual naming him "King Kaliente (black)", naming the [[Underwater Mine]]s as "Mikey Mine", the [[Pokey]]s<ref>''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' Official Prima Games Guide - "There is a Pokey lording over the next planetoid. Mario cannot touch Pokeys because they hurt, just like a...prickly plant?"</ref> as "Pokeynuts", the [[Red Pokey]]s as "Pokeyplants", the [[Boulder]]s as "Ruby Rocks", the [[Galactic Tornado]]es as "Bone Twisters", [[Fiery Dino Piranha]] as "Dino Piranha (black)" (even though his name is literally said in-game and he's moreso a dark red), the [[Prickly Piranha Plant]] as "Spiny Piranha Plant" (the alternate name for the [[Spiky Piranha Plant]] from the next game, not to mention at the time of this game, the Prickly Piranha Plants were merely called "[[Purple Piranha Plant]]s"), the [[Puffer Fish]] as "[[Spiny Cheep Cheep]]" an unrelated species of [[Cheep-Cheep]] from the mainline games which behaves very differently, with the mis or notion likely stemming from the Super Mario Wiki merging the two species), the [[Lava Bouncer]]s as "Lava Bubbles" (an alternate name for the [[Podoboo]]s used since ''[[Super Mario Maker]]'' and the name of an [[Lava Bubble|unrelated fire ghost enemy from the ''Paper Mario'' series]]), the [[Big Amp]]s as "Zap Balls", the [[Banzai Bill]]s as "Bomber Bills", the [[Monty]] as "[[Rocky Wrench]]" (an unrelated enemy from the [[Monty Mole]] species that is from the mainline ''Mario'' games which although attacks similarly, is totally unrelated to Monty and has no connections to them. This incorrect name likely stemmed from a misconception that some fans and YouTube videos made which made people incorrectly think that Monty and Rocky Wrench were the exact same), the [[Spike Beamer]] as "Pulse Beam", the [[Mechakoopa]] as "Micro Mecha-Bowser", the [[Jammyfish]] as "Jam-o'-War", the [[Preying Mantas]] as "[[Jammyfish]]" (which is actually the name of the previously mentioned larger Jellyfish which was labeled as "Jam-o'-War"), the [[Chomp Pup]] as "Mini Chomp", and the "Big Goomba" and "Mini Goomba" names which were cited from the Super Mario Wiki. They also have the [[Clam]]s labelled as "[[Clampy|Clampies]], a Clam species debuting in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'' which looks rather different along with the name never being used for the Clams from ''SMG'' (this was also likely done due to a hasty merge on the Super Mario Wiki's part in late 2017).