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- Kuribo's Shoe Tier
Rosalina
Kuribo's Shoe
1-1 Theme
Bowsette: I like how people took something as lame and stupid as Toadette turning into a copy of Peach named Peachette, when both Toadette and Peach are already girls and don't need the suffix, and turning it into a bizarre gender bender meme. This got big enough that Bowsette even has her own Wikipedia article. And that original comic! Almost perfectly done. The loneliness on Mario's and Bowser's faces, Peach's disgust while playing tennis, Luigi's surprise-but-not-disgust. I would say the only flaw is that Bowsette should really have red hair to match Bowser's, but whatever. Just the idea of Peach realizing that Mario's replaced her by turning their nemesis into her clone, and being completely appalled, is hilarious. This got so big that the original artist for Bowsette was given a trophy by Pixiv for inspiring so much fan art. Like, Bowsette was obviously a meme with a very limited shelf life, so I'm not sad that she's gone, but she was the best Mario meme in years when she came out.
Luigi
Bayonetta Nintendo Content: I hope you don't mind if I just do all of them at once, instead of just Peach. Again, it's insane that this is real. Nintendo is so protective of its properties, and yet it allowed Bayonetta to cosplay as Peach, Daisy, Link, Samus, and Star Fox. And yes, compared to Bayonetta's normal costumes, these are puritan-tier, but just the fact that they let the goth sex witch run around dressed in a sexy Halloween Peach costume in a real video game is bizarre. I wonder why they chose these particular characters, though. Like, there must be a reason they chose Link instead of Zelda. And looking at the Bayonetta Wiki to reacquaint myself with these, god, I forgot how much less hot Jeanne is than Bayonetta. I still need to play the third game, it's like more than a year old now. I am a big supporter of silly game crossover stuff like this, I put Link in SCII as the best Zelda thing in my ranking topic, and I am 100% supportive of more stuff like this.
Thwomp
Super Mario Maker 2
Hexagon Heat

- Hammer Suit Tier
Dr. Goomba Tower: It's a shitpost. I completely respect this. You think I'm going to complain about the lack of originality or whatever, but I 100% respect Dr. Mario World for making most of its characters into jokes. You think I'm going to complain about Dr. Baby Rosalina? Absolutely not. I have nothing but respect for Diddy Kong for finishing eight years of college and medical school as a teenage chimpanzee. Dr. Fire Rosalina? God, I love it. My only regret is that it has Dr. Peach instead of Dr. Nurse Peach. I would have given this enough bonus points to reach a higher tier if they'd done that.
Chris Pratt
SupperMarioBroth
Beep Block Skyway: Do people dislike this level? This is one of the few levels I specifically remember, because my sister came in while I was playing, she decided to play with me, and was way, way worse than me, and died like a million times. The literal only game she's better at than me is Ms. Pac-Man. Anyway, I don't know. The background and design of the blocks is lazy, but as far as a platforming challenge goes, this is completely fair and reasonable.
Hell Valley Sky Trees
Smash 64 Commercial

- Super Mushroom Tier
Staff Roll Theme (Mario 64): Perfectly serviceable end credits music. Fills you with, I don't know, the feeling that you're done. There's no more! Think about all those great memories, like when you jumped into the wrong portrait and fell down, or when you got the red coin a chain chomp was guarding, or I don't know, I haven't played Mario 64 since the DS one, and that was in like 2003 or something.
Hide and Seek mods
Starman: I remember when I was like 5, I read the manual for SMB1. I distinctly remember reading the section about power-ups, and it mentions the "invulnerability star." I didn't know what invulnerability meant, but I did know "invisibility," and I thought it was just a typo, so for like six months, I kept saying "invisibility star" because I thought the reason enemies couldn't damage you was that they couldn't see you. And the thing is, even when I was 5, I knew this was wrong, because if you're avoiding enemies, then you wouldn't also kill them on contact, but obviously the enemies all die when you touch them. I can't explain the logic I was operating under, it made no sense at all. Anyway, I was always annoyed to get these as rewards in Toad Houses in SMB3 as a kid, because obviously the power-ups that stay active are much more useful than a few seconds of invincibility at the start of a level, which is usually the safest part anyway. These were only useful for killing overworld bosses.
Donkey Kong (1981)
Gust Garden Galaxy (Theme): This is definitely *the* Mario Galaxy theme. It's not bad, and it's very adventure-y, but... there's nothing about it that feels space-y to me. Rosalina's Observatory has a space theme. This absolutely does not. Look, I'm a simple man, if I'm exploring the cosmos, I want to hear space music.
Tonkachi Mario
Talking Flowers: I don't really think they add anything, and their design is just gross in a way I can't really define, but is definitely related to Birdo's mouth. I don't hate them, though. As a way to add more dialogue into the Mario universe in a way that diegetic and non-obtrusive, they work really well. I like that some of them are kind of sassy and insult your skills.
Trials of Death
Anya Taylor-Joy
Kublai Khan
Tetris Attack: Wait, is this just Panel de Pon, but they replaced the fairy characters with Mario characters? Hilarious. I've never played this game, though, and I probably never will. It's strange how this was just a thing Nintendo did in the 90s, take a game from Japan and insert unrelated Mario stuff into it so it would sell better in the US. You couldn't really do that anymore, huh? I remember trying to explain that's what happened in SMB2 to my teacher in like 8th grade, telling him about "Dookie Dookie Panic," and him laughing and telling me that "dookie" has another meaning.
Toaster: Of all the appliances in my kitchen, this is probably the second-least used, barely beating out the coffee maker. I don't even drink coffee, but my parents gave it to me for free when they replaced theirs with a better one.
Klepto: What a lazy name. Odyssey came out in 2017? God, I'm so old. Anyway, this is the most nothing character. It's just a vulture who carries a star, and you have to hit him so he stops and you can collect it. It could have as easily been a paratroopa.