Frog Suit

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The Frog Suit is a fictional costume featured in Super Mario Bros. 3. It is a suit that Mario and/or Luigi can equip. It can usually be picked up from the treasure chests inside Toad's House.

Wearing the Frog Suit vastly improves Mario's swimming in aquatic levels. He can stay afloat in one position without sinking, and also swims much faster; easily influenced by the controls.

However, the Frog Suit is not so useful on land. Frog Mario can merely hop at a medium pace. However, he is at least able to leap a good distance, given the animal the suit is based on. If Mario happens to be holding an item such as a shell or ice block, he would resume his normal bipedal speed.

In comic books, the Frog Suit's only appearance was "Love Flounders," where Mario is forced to fetch the rare Chuckberries for Princess Toadstool's breakfast cereal. He dons a Frog Suit in order to do this, and as a result of this, he is mistaken for a real frog by Bertha the Boss Bass (a former girlfriend of Stanley the Talking Fish), who does not realize her mistake until she kisses him, which removes his Frog Suit. "Love Flounders" apparently occurs before the events of Super Mario Bros. 3, as evidenced by the fact that Toad says that Mario is "dressed as a frog" rather than that he is "wearing a Frog Suit."

The Frog Suit was also featured frequently in the animated series based on the game. On The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, the characters often wore Frog Suits as scuba gear or in place of swimming trunks. One episode, "The Ugly Mermaid", even featured a storyline not unlike that of "Love Flounders", except in that case, Mario's would-be paramour, the mermaid princess Holly Mackerel, never finds out that Mario is not really a frog. The Princess and Toad are also shown using the Frog Suit, and Bowser even briefly uses it himself in the episode '"Super Koopa".