#5 – Chain Chomps Are Real!
Ok so maybe the heading here is a tiny wee bit misleading, but the Chain Chomps that have been a staple in the Super Mario Bros series pretty much from the start and have quite the sinister back story. While we just see them as an annoyance for the Mario creature, Shigeru Miyamoto says the Chain Chops haunt him every night.
The story of the Chain Chomps is that they were created due to a bad childhood memory of Mr Miyamoto. He had a neighbor who had a big scary dog when he was a child. And it would run at him only to be dragged back by his chain. It was this traumatic childhood memory that led to the creation of one of the oldest bad guys in the Mario universe.