Mario Portal

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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. 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.

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.

Naming Misconceptions

• On all the sections featuring them, the Podoboos are labelled as Lava Bubbles. Even in games such as Super Mario Bros. and New Super Mario Bros. Wii where they were clearly labeled as Podoboos (whether it be in-game or in the guides). "Lava Bubble" has become a common name for the Podoboo since Super Mario Maker (although it was first used in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island) and is also the name of a subspecies of them in the early Paper Mario games. This misconception is repeated in every game section suggesting that this error was derived from the Super Mario Wiki.
• Similarly, on the Super Mario Bros. section, the Bloopers are labelled under their current name despite the fact that they were referred to as Bloobers in that game. They first used the name "Blooper" in Super Mario Bros. 3 and this became their permanent name starting with Paper Mario, other enemies with similar errors include the Goomba (which was labelled as "Little Goomba") and Piranha Plant (which was labelled as "Pirana Plant").
• In the Super Mario Bros. 3 section, all the large enemies which include the Grand Goomba, Gargantua Koopa Troopa, Piranhacus Giganticus, and Colossal Paratroopa are all labelled merely as "Mega Goomba", "Mega Koopa Troopa", "Mega Piranha Plant", and "Mega Koopa Paratroopa". These names are obviously false as the enemies were all given better names by the official guide for the game (alongside other guides) and it has been confirmed that Mega Goombas are not the same as a Grand Goomba as Grand Goombas are Goombas that are naturally large while it is shown in Paper Mario: Color Splash and Mario Party: Star Rush that the Mega Goombas are normal-sized Goombas that have been enlarged by Kamek (or have used a Mega Mushroom as seen in New Super Mario Bros.). Additionally, the Grand Goomba's trophy description in SSBB confirms that the two Goomba variants are different.
• The section also has the Shoe Goomba and Flame Chomp listed under their respective current names despite the fact that at the time of the game, the two enemies were called Kuribo's Goombas and Fire Chomps respectively, the Kuribo's Goomba became Shoe Goomba in Super Mario Maker and the Fire Chomp became Flame Chomp in New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
• On the same game, they also have the Micro-Goomba listed as "Mini Goomba" (an alternate name for the Micro Goomba in some game guides) despite the fact that all the guides and instruction booklets referring to the game call them "Micro-Goombas", they still have the Pile-driver Micro-Goombas labelled correctly suggesting that they also took this from the Super Mario Wiki.
• Another error from the Super Mario Bros. 3 section, they also have the Boss Bass labelled as "Mega Cheep Cheep" (an unrelated Cheep Cheep variant which doesn't act anything like a Boss Bass, not to mention the fact that the game's guide has confirmed the Boss Bass's name).
• The Super Mario World section also labels the Galoombas 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 Swoopers 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) 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 64 section also has several errors, one of the most notable being that it labels the Unagi as "Maw-Ray" (a similar Eel enemy appearing in Super Mario Odyssey which the Super Mario Wiki has merged with Unagi due to a few similarities) despite the fact that the enemy was referred to as a "Unagi" by the guide additionally, the guide identifies this Unagi as a standalone Unagi named Unagi the Eel. A couple more errors included in the section include naming the Grand Goomba as "Big Goomba" (taken from the Super Mario Wiki due to their merge of "Grand Goomba" and "Mega Goomba"), the Micro Goomba being labeled merely as "Small Goomba", both Venus Fire Trap varieties being labelled as "Small Fire Piranha Plant" and "Big Fire Piranha Plant" respectively (both of which were taken from the Super Mario Wiki) Bub and Bubba are also misnamed as "Cheep Cheep" and "Cheep Chomp" respectively despite being confirmed to be a separate species by the guides, and also looking drastically different, (the Cheep-Chomp didn't make it's debut until New Super Mario Bros. in 2006), the Snufits are misnamed as Snifits (their living counterparts), and the King Bob-omb is also under his current name despite him being named Big Bob-omb in this game (he wouldn't be officially named "King Bob-omb" until the USA version of Mario Party 9 in 2012).
• 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" (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 bosses manned by the Undergrunt Gunners as "Water Bazooka" and "Electric Bazooka" respectively, naming the Octopus (who's name is said in-game by a Toad on Kamella's Airship) as "Rocto", treating the second King Kaliente as a seperate individual naming him "King Kaliente (black)", naming the Underwater Mines as "Mikey Mine", the Pokeys as "Pokeynuts", the Red Pokeys as "Pokeyplants", the Boulders as "Ruby Rocks", the Galactic Tornadoes as "Bone Twisters", 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 Plants"), 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 Bouncers as "Lava Bubbles" (an alternate name for the Podoboos used since Super Mario Maker and the name of an unrelated fire ghost enemy from the Paper Mario series), the Big Amps as "Zap Balls", the Banzai Bills 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 larger Jellyfish), the Chomp Pup as "Mini Chomp", and the "Big Goomba" and "Mini Goomba" names which were cited from the Super Mario Wiki.