Boot

"*Live by the boot, die by the boot.*" —Ancient boot proverb[src]
**Boots** and **Shoes** are fashionable footwear in the Mario Universe. When in a boot, a boot fashionista can bounce uncontrollably yet defend their feet from ouching spikes. Boots are found in the Goomba Shoe Cavern and Wendy's Shoe Factory. They are most popular among Yoshmen, from whose culture they originate, but they are probably most valued by Goombas, who use them for the ability to easily jump. Less powerful boots are also worn by Bulbous Heads and some humans.

People who wear boots are called **Boot Guys**, with the most dedicated of their membership being **Big Boot Guys**.

## Types of Boots

### Human Boots

Humans like Mario and Luigi wear a lesser brand of boots through their adventures and everyday life. Although these boots are certainly fashionable, they offer little to no protection from damage. Bulbous Heads wear these boots too, although they may just be part of their confusing anatomy.

One theory about Mario Physics is that Human Boots are made of a special kind of matter that protects the Mario Crew from the Mushroom Kingdom's antimatter and gives its ranks a high jump.

### Yoshman Boots

Yoshmen wear boots, also called **Yoshi's Shoes** or **Yoshman's Shoes**, allowing their feet to avoid taking taking damage from things like ouching spikes.

### Goomba Boots

Unlike human or Yoshman boots, Goomba boots do not come in pairs and are only worn as a single large boot. A Goomba with a Boot—a Goomba Boot Guy—is called a **Boot Goomba**.

#### Goomba's Shoes

**Goomba's Shoes**, also mistranslated **Kuribo's Shoes** (*Goomba's Shoes*), **Kuribo's Goombas** (*Goomba's Goombas*), or **Karoobis**, are worn by Goombas to give them the ability to jump. A human can wear these boots for the same abilities as Yoshman Boots.

#### Ice Skates

**Ice Skates** are a special type of Boot that builds momentum and can traverse both ice and lava, but are fragile and break upon crashing. These skates were used in the Sprixie Invasion.

#### Big Boots

An upsized Goomba's Shoe, a **Big Boot** can be used to ground pound, defeating Munchers, Williams, and Boos as well as stunning other Made Marios.

## Boot Technology

### Flubs

#### Bootless Flub

A **Bootless Flub** is a flub involving a player's inability or refusal to wear a Boot, resulting in throwing.

In a fortunate turn of events that led to Meowser giving up, RedFalcon once narrowly survived a **Shoeless** Flub and defeated BlueNotSus, but it is possible that the Boot still could have helped him.

#### Boot Theft

"*You stole my Boot! You thief! [...] Now you're just gonna throw it in the pit like that? Disrespectful. Honestly? Direspectful.*" —Raysfire[src]
A **Boot Thief** is one who steals another person's **boot** and then disrespects it, discarding it in a pit rather than give it an honorable funeral. Raysfire successfully killed an defeated a Boot Thief in May 2021.

## List of notable Boot Guys

* Texans
	+ Raysfire
* Big Boot Gamer

## History

### Real World

"*I live in Texas! Everyone here is required to have a pair of boots! (...) We love boots in Texas.*" —Raysfire[src]
In or before May 2021, the state of Texas passed a law that all Texans must own at least one pair of Boots. Although Texans love Boots, this makes them weak to hubris and the belief that Boots can or would not possibly harm them.

### Mario Universe

#### Global Fashion Phenomenon

Prized by the Yoshmen by 1983 at the latest, Boots spread to the humans sometime between the 1980s and 2000s. During this time, the Mario Bros. learned to embrace the Boots. Although they wore generic colorful shoes in their infancy, the brothers wore Boots by adulthood. Although the Boots of the humans and Bulbous Heads were less powerful than the Yoshmen's, they were and are still considered fashionable.

#### Use by the Goombas

A powerful Boot model eventually spread to the Goombas, who used the footwear to gain the ability to jump. The boots were used by the Koopa Troop Goombas circa 2010 in *Super Mario Bros. 3*, but were abandoned until 2013, when Goombas used Ice Skates in *Super Mario 3D World*. Resembling the Goomba Boot model, Red Mario used Super Boots in *Paper Mario: Sticker Star* and the Boot Car in *Paper Mario: The Origami King* in 2014.[citation needed]

For some reason, Boots still have yet to see mainstream use in battle.

### *Super Mario Maker 2*

#### 2021

##### April

Raysfire was a Big Boot Guy in the Taco Bell Gaming Moment (name pending) on April 15.

##### May

In one battle of the Lag War, where pred lost his Boot and was forced to give up. Raysfire, however, still carried the Boot mission to success.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ Comment on P-SWITCH ASMR
2. ↑ This Level ABUSES a Tech from the WORST Item
3. ↑ I betrayed the fans.
4. ↑ The Worst Mario Maker Hitbox of All Time
5. ↑ If Everyone Sees Me Die
6. ↑ The Mario enemy Nintendo doesn't want you to know about...
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Playing EVERY POPULAR LEVEL at Once in Multiplayer Versus
8. ↑ Mario and Luigi's birth incites the events of *Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island*. They were likely born around 1983 in-universe, as balloons reading "30" are prominent in *Dr. Luigi*, a Year of Luigi game. This would imply that Luigi (and therefore Mario) was born 30 years before *Dr. Luigi*. Another *Dr. Luigi* title is *Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon*, where King Boo is imprisoned in a portrait. *Dark Moon* probably takes place between *Mario Kart Wii* (marking late 2013) and *Mario Kart 7* (marking early 2014), implying a c. 2013 date for the Year of Luigi.
9. ↑ As a Year of Luigi title with 8-Bit Luigis, *Super Mario 3D World* probably takes place around the time of *Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon*. As it introduces the Poltergust 5000, *Dark Moon* probably takes place after *Mario Kart DS* (set in late 2013), where Luigi has the Poltergust 4000. It also probably takes place before *Mario Kart 7* (set in early 2014), which does not include King Boo despite his appearance in both *Mario Kart Wii*, its immediate predecessor, and *Mario Kart 8*, its immediate successor, likely because of his imprisonment. This sets *Dark Moon* and *3D World* around late 2013.
10. ↑ This is the hardest 1-1 remake.