"Nana why is it that we don't have guns?"
"How should I know?" Nana snapped at Popo. "They didn't give us guns when we popped up!"
The Ice Climbers had to be on their top game for they were being chased by zombies, with the Eskimo pair having been randomly selected in a mode and forced to contend with it. Of course they could have easily just used their frosty powers to settle this predicament; they could have also relied on their trusty smashing skills with their mallets, but they objected to not being as broken as they were known to be. Alas this would be their undoing!