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The Wright Brothers vs. The Mario Brothers (Epic Rap Battles of History): One of their best. I love the theramin and shitty 1910s silent movie look (even if they're obviously not silent), I love how they have to immediately resort to making jokes about having sex with Peach because these real life scientists have nothing in common with Mario and Luigi besides being brothers, I love the sheer stupidity of the premise. The Wright Brothers sections are way better than the Mario Brothers sections, though. Normally, I'm of the opinion that whoever gets the last word is usually the winner, unless the first verse is just overwhelmingly powerful, like in Artists vs Turtles. But this time, the Wright Brothers aren't completely overwhelming, but the Mario Brothers' verses kind of suck. They must have at least considered making the Mario sections be him jumping around saying "Woohoo!" while Luigi cringes, and I'm sure that would make for a worse song, but the fact that Mario and Luigi do have defined personalities, and yet were changed into totally different people isn't perfect. The comparison is Superman, who in his video is very arrogant and crude, but he does still have the confidence and charisma that the real Superman has, so I dunno.
Dropping Baby Penguins off the Cliff in Cool Cool Mountain: Monstrous.
Mini-Yoshi (TTYD)
Koopa Bros
Hurly Gloves
Tubular
Koji Kondo
Staff Roll (Mario Kart 64)
Autumn Mountain Battle Theme
Fawful
Axem Rangers
Scott Pilgrim vs the World (Film)
Super Mario Christmas Carol: See, the reason this doesn't work is that it's actually too clever for Nintendo. Wario as Scrooge, DK as the Ghost of Christmas Present, Waluigi as Jacob Marley, Baby Mario as Tiny Tim? This is way too smart and attentive to detail, especially DK. In reality, the story has ghosts in it, so Nintendo would make Luigi be Scrooge, and all of the living characters would be Toads with different-colored spots, and the ghosts would just be Boos, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come would be King Boo, and Jacob Marley would be played by a ghost Goomba or something. And they're never letting Waluigi into anything, you're out of your mind.
Mario Lemieux
Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy
Mario/Sonic Rivalry
Swapping Cartridges
Tanooki Suit
Delay Lama
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga: This is the only game in the series I played. It was... fine. It's not Paper Mario, but what is? And the idea of controlling both brothers at once is a cool one. "Like Paper Mario the game is an spiritual successor to Super Mario RPG." Wow, this Wiki needs some serious editing. Luckily, I'm too lazy to fix it. I think the RPGs benefit more than any of the other games from having unique villains that aren't Bowser, and I think the reason for this is obvious: it lets Bowser do other things, it lets them have motives that aren't Peach-centric (although, in the five Mario-based RPGs I've played, three of them had villains with Peach-centric plans anyway), and it lets you have more characters with wackier personalities. Like, yeah, everyone loves Fawful, and for good reason. Huh, Toadsworth is in this game, what was his last non-remake appearance? I... actually can't find the answer. Does anyone know when Toadsworth last appeared outside of a remake?
Super Mario Bros Plumbing Commercial
Mario Kart: Super Circuit
Warp Whistle
General Guy: At first, I supported his coup d'etat. I know it's a controversial position, but he did live in a very unstable country, and the government was clearly corrupt. There was a possibility of setting things right and stepping aside. I guess I was too naive, though, because after he made that deal with Russia to put Wagner mercenaries to guard his local resources, it became clear that he didn't care about the people at all. Forget the explicit atrocities; after a point, something like 92% of his country's GDP was wrapped up in the export of resources to Russia and the import of Russian weaponry. I know that American interventionalism is a controversial subject and sort of a remnant of colonialism, but I don't think anyone can pretend they were sad when the Green Berets busted into his mansion and ended things. I'm not going to pretend that the Americans did this purely out of the goodness of their hearts, but things have undeniably gotten better for the people in the time since, so I'm going to say this worked out mostly well.
Beware the Forest's Mushrooms
Booster (Super Mario RPG): Oh, I thought he'd be the sword. So be it. "hen Exor crashes into Bowser's Keep, Mario, Bowser and Princess Peach are sent flying in different directions. While Mario lands safely at his house, Peach lands at Booster's Tower. In response to this, Booster decides he must marry this woman who fell from the sky. Booster locks Peach on the balcony of his tower." Can Peach go ten seconds without being kidnapped, I swear to God, Mario rescues her from Bowser and she immediately flies to get kidnapped by this loser. He doesn't even seem that interested in marrying Peach, mostly it's just a thing to do for him because she randomly dropped in. I did not at all remember that he marries Valentina in the ending, okay. I kind of like his hideous appearance, to be honest. He's one of the Mario RPG characters I can imagine in a real game.
Shigeru Miyamoto
Wario
Bikes (Mario Kart Wii): Yes, I actually do remember back when bikes had the ability to do wheelies. It made them absolutely superior to karts if you knew what you were doing, and it basically had to be taken out to keep the game sort of balanced. There's now effectively no difference between them and lightweight karts anymore. It's disappointing, but it had to happen, because balancing wheelies was obviously never going to be possible. Restricting our discussion purely to MKWii, though, I always felt like I was playing suboptimally if I didn't use a bike, so I just felt compelled to try them... but yeah, they were kind of fun.
Super Mario Land 2
FLUDD
The Final-Final Test Badge Marathon