Usually when capturing an enemy, the game will modify the appearance of the eyes of the enemy to those of Mario. In this case, some weird property of the game will revert the eyes of Paragoombas to the original one. This glitch is purely visual. The cause of this is mostly unknown but we do have a rough setup

File:Paragoomba Eyes Glitch

Reproduction Steps

To the best of our knowledge :

  • Grab a Paragoomba
  • Make your way somewhat far from the Paragoomba spawning point
  • Fall off somewhere with a sloped edge