Lightning

Lightning appears throughout video games as magic elements and even items in the Mario Kart series. In many RPG's, Lightning is better known as Thunder.

Mario Kart series
Lightning first appeared as an item in the SNES video game Super Mario Kart. In the game, the item would shrink literally every other player in the race except the one who launched the attack. Once shrunk, the larger player could crush everyone else by ramming into them. If two shrunken players ran into each other, then they'd both shrink. The shrinking aspect of the item was retained in every other video game following Super Mario Kart. So far, this item has appeared in the following:


 * Super Mario Kart - SNES
 * Mario Kart 64 - Nintendo 64
 * Mario Kart: Double Dash!! - GameCube
 * Mario Kart DS - Nintendo DS
 * Mario Kart Wii - Wii

The only video games in the series not to include Lightning are Mario Kart Super Circuit for the Game Boy Advance and the arcade titles.