Metal Box

The Metal Box as it appears in Brawl.

The Metal Box is an item from the Mario series that appears in Super Smash Brothers Melee and Super Smash Brothers Brawl. The Metal Box encases the character's bodies with metal for a short period of time.

Item description

The Metal Box made its debut in Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64. The Metal Box is a cubed shaped green-colored box that has an exclaimation point in the center of the box. Mario could unlock the Metal Box by activating the secret switch that was located in the Hazy Mazy Cave course. When the box was broken, a metal Mario-styled hat dropped out of the box. When Mario put the hat on, his whole body would become encased in metal for a short period of time. Mario will be allowed to walk under water and become impervious to other enemies' attacks while encased in the metal. However, his movement will become slower.

In the Super Smash Brothers series

The Metal Box encases the character's body in metal. While the character is metal, the weight of the character will increase. As a result, the knockback the character recieves will be reduced. However, the falling speed of the character will increase while the speed of the character will decrease. The effect of the Metal Box is not quite as drastic as the various Metal fights in Classic Mode.

Super Smash Brothers

While the Metal Box does not appear in SSB, Metal Mario appears as a foe the player must battle in the 1-Player Game. Metal Mario here can take far over 300% damage before being sent flying.

Super Smash Brothers Melee

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The Metal Box in Melee.

The Metal Box makes its debut in Melee. In this game, when a character breaks the Metal Box with a physical attack (or a direct attack such as a sword), their whole body will be encased with metal. The metal condition will last around twelve seconds and will then fade away. During this period they will be approximately 3 times heavier than normal. If a projectile destroys the Metal Box, then no one will receive the metal condition. Interestingly, Ness' dash attack destroys the box, but does not give him the metal status. His yoyos do, however. The character can fight Metal Mario and/or Metal Luigi in Adventure Mode. In addition, they also fight a random metal character in Classic Mode. The Metal Box also appears as a collectible trophy.

Super Smash Brothers Brawl

The Metal Box appears again in Brawl with its effect unaltered, although it will not react to projectiles. In addition, a "Metal" option exists in Special Brawl, which gives every player a permanent Metal Box. It also has an effect on the new ability to swim; while characters will not sink as they did in Super Mario 64, they will submerge deeper when falling into the water, which is used to reach a secret area in the Subspace Emissary mode. Additionally, the Metal Box also appears as a collectible trophy.

Trophy description

A green box that transforms whoever attacks it into metal. In metal form, you're a lot heavier than normal, so middling and even strong attacks don't move you too much, and standard attacks won't even make you flinch. The time you spend in metal form decreases with the damage you take. In Super Mario 64, the weight of the metal form allowed you to walk underwater.

Super Mario 64 (1996)

Trivia

• When characters with multiple double jumps (Kirby, Jigglypuff, Meta Knight, Pit, Dedede, Charizard) use a Metal Box, their midair jumps become utterly useless, and do little more than slow their descents.