
Informed Species: The condor looks more like a red pterodactyl.Inconveniently-Placed Conveyor Belt: Takes a form of surfaces of diagonal lines.An Ice Suit: The player characters wear sensible arctic clothing, the polar bears wear swim trunks.In this game, to get to higher levels, you typically have to slightly overlap a higher platform as you're jumping up in order to land on it. Hitbox Dissonance: In most platformers, you have to be right on top of a platform when you're trying to land on it.The most they are concerned with is repairing the stages. The Goomba: The Yeti/Topi will not actively try to attack you.Excuse Plot: Something about the condor stealing all the vegetables.In VS., a player is given re-access to previous mountains once all 48 of them are cleared. Endless Game: Played with, as the stage layouts don't actually repeat until mountain 32 is cleared.Edible Collectible: Four stolen vegetables are dropped in the Bonus Stage top part of each level, and can be recovered for points.Drop the Hammer: Nana and Popo's weapons of choice are hammers, which they can use to either bop birds or seals/yetis over the head or smash the ice floor above them to jump up to it.Death Throws: Nana and Popo's death animations involve them getting thrown offscreen.The first 24 have a blue mountain peak while the latter 24 have a red peak. Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The 48 mountains in "VS." are split into two sets.Color-Coded Characters: Blue for Popo (player 1) and pink for Nana (player 2).The condor doesn't hurt you at all and must be collided with to get your bonus. Collision Damage: What every enemy is limited to except for the polar bears and the condor.gives access to the "Super Bonus Stage" where the platforms are much smaller and gaps are plenty.


Ice Climber increases the number of mountains from 32 to 48, has a new bee enemy, some levels feature wind, and players can select any mountain they want. This work shows examples of the following tropes (put all references to Super Smash Bros.
