it's snowing somewhere

The first looks very similar to beanish people from the final game, while the second appears to have a bean mustache.

It is unknown what the animation may have been intended for, though it appears the characters are blushing and something is happening to their hair.

There was an earlier design for Bowletta found in the prototype! She looks a lot more like Bowser, but has sunken-in eyes and more of a mohawk. She has quite a few early animations, and you can kind of see how these eventually became her final design.

Laughing

Angry (I could only find the side sprite)

Shocked

Shocked & pointing

I have already made a few posts about a couple enemies I found (a beanish Hammer Bro and Pea-pod Goomba) and Jinx from SMRPG being hidden in the prototype build, but I just recently discovered several more (pretty bizarre) scrapped enemies.

First there's a two-headed Chain Chomp with the body of a regular dog. It, like a lot of these scrapped enemies, don't have any animations.

An enemy that resembles Diskun (Famicom mascot) but with angry eyebrows.

A Lakitu being whipped by its cloud.

A bizarre enemy made of shells.

A flounder enemy with a boot print on its side.

A regular Chain Chomp that slightly resembles how they look in Paper Mario.

Jinx from Super Mario RPG was going to be in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.

A new unused enemy has been discovered for Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga! I was checking through enemy sprites in the recently found prototype and found this enemy. They appear to be similar to Troopeas and other beanish Koopa Bro species.

During the events of Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story, Fawful’s age is never explicitly mentioned in the English version, as is common with many Mario characters. However, in the original Japanese version, as well as in German and French Canadian translations, Fawful is referred to as a man by multiple characters.

Translations have been provided below:

Japanese: “According to eyewitness accounts, the salesman seems to be a man wearing a cloak.”

German: “The vendor is said to be a man in a cloak.”

French Canadian (Kamek): “Your scaliness! That man is STRANGE. You should not eat that thing…”

When Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga was released in the US, it was commemorated with a knock-knock joke contest where entries would be judged by Kathy Griffin. The winner earned a Gamecube, Gamecube & GBA games, Gamecube peripherals, as well as a year’s worth of comedy-writing classes at Writers’ Village University.

While I’m active for a moment, I want to show that Blockhopper was scrapped from Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story! It may have been scrapped early or was only intended to be an NPC that you talk to. It seems to be missing its bricks it usually has on its head for some reason.