Talk:Mario VS Kirby/@comment-28799749-20160414182546/@comment-26418719-20160416132414

Literally nothing else in the series supports them. Pretty sure that's the definition of 'outlier'.

And in fact, Paper Mario simply isn't that powerful without the Pure Hearts.

This is the definition of outlier, taken directly from VS Battles: ' An outlier is an event or incident that is considered to be completely and irreconcilably inconsistent with a character, entity, group, or series' normal displayed level of power. Outliers are generally regarded as unusable in some forums debates. However, all effort should be made to try to reconcile outliers with other canon information, and only the most extreme examples should be classed as completely unusable. Often there is disagreement on exactly what constitutes an outlier, and things that are considered an outlier by some might not be considered to be one by everyone. Careful judgement should be used in all cases.'

Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2, SPECIFICALLY the Bros., (Bowser has an excuse- he was amped) fall DIRECTLY into this situation, because Mario displays FAR more power than he has ever shown before or since. (Island-level to Multi-Solar System Level?) It doesn't exactly help that there's no way to determine how much time has passed between the last game and Galaxy. The power gap between Galaxy Mario and the rest of the series is just too large to be taken seriously, especially since there's no implied time gap, meaning Mario certainly couldn't have gotten it over time, and he never did anything that gave him a serious boost (For sake of example, the Super Saiyan God ritual of DB Super, or Sonic transforming into Super Sonic). It just... happened.