Metal Cap
The Metal Cap is an accessory that appears in Super Mario 64 and Super Mario 64 DS. It is usually found in Metal Boxes. The Metal Cap can turn Mario into Metal Mario, which makes him invulnerable and extremely heavy. The side effects of this temporary invulnerability are that he can no longer make very high or long jumps, cannot swim, and will sink faster in quicksand. Fortunately, while in metal form, Mario is also unaffected by toxic fog, and cannot drown; he is also capable of extremely powerful Ground Pounds.
If Mario gets another cap while the Metal Cap is in effect, the two effects will combine; this is possible only in Dire Dire Docks, where a Metal Box is located directly beside a blue ! Block; collecting both will give Mario the powers of both his Vanish and Metal forms. An unused texture in the game shows a metallic version of the wings from the Wing Cap, suggesting that it would've been possible to combine the Wing Cap with the Metal Cap as well.[1]
In Super Mario 64 DS, the Metal Cap does not appear. Instead, Wario becomes Metal Wario when he grabs a Power Flower, but still retains the same properties as Metal Mario and the music from the Metal Cap is retained.
A similar item, the Metal Mushroom Orb from the Mario Party series, additionally transforms characters to their metal forms.
Course locations
- Whomp's Fortress
- Bowser in the Dark World
- Jolly Roger Bay
- Hazy Maze Cave
- Dire, Dire Docks
- Wet-Dry World
- Cavern of the Metal Cap
Trivia
- The Metal Cap music is a heavy metal remix of the Starman's theme from Super Mario Bros.
