Talk:Super Smash Bros. 64 Battle Royale/@comment-96.231.157.146-20150320232929/@comment-26367254-20150402221239

I watched that scene over, and nothing hit Mario. At all. Not even the shrapnel in the ensuing cutscene. The only one who was visibly hit by anything from that explosion was Bowser, as he was in the middle of all that mess. Mario was nowhere to be seen from that area and likely wasn't around (as he was at Peach's castle when we next see him, which presumably was away from the blast).

As for the second one (where the universe basically reset), the Lumas were visibly helping Mario. If it weren't for them, one of two things would happen - Mario and the gang would be killed from the sheer forces they'd be under (that's a supermassive black hole we're talking here) or Mario would be protected anyway via plot armour, the strongest armour there is in fiction. And plot armour instances aren't really reliable in any scenario. Including this one.