Surprise Box

When Mario jumped up and punched that box covered in question marks he had no idea what sort of surprise awaited him inside, but when he discovered that it housed a puppet on a spring shaped just like him he wondered to himself “who could have thought up such a cruel prank?”

One big brute named Bowser immediately sprang to mind, but this trick seemed a little too obvious, and not deadly enough, to be one of his, so who has played this cruel trick on Mario? The world may never know…