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Super Mario Spikers

- Cape Feather Tier
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Mario Kart (Series)
Super Mario World
Cape Feather
Admiral Bobbery
New Donk City
Super Mario RPG
Super Mario Odyssey

- Kuribo's Shoe Tier
Rosalina
Luigi Wins Without Doing Anything
Super Mario Bros. 3
Kuribo's Shoe
Paper Mario
Super Mario 64
Bowser (RPG Versions)
Mario Kart 64
Fire Flower
Super Paper Mario
Waluigi
Mario Tennis (N64)
1-1 Theme
Yoshi
Super Mario 64 DS
Minus World
Stretchy Mario Face (Mario 64)
Culex
Count Bleck
Bowsette
There Will Be Brawl
Mario, the Idea vs Mario, the Man
Luigi
Bayonetta Nintendo Content
Thwomp
Charles Martinet
Hammer Bros.
Brawl in the Family
Rawk Hawk
Glitzville
Pirahna Plants on Parade (Level)
Super Mario Maker 2
Hexagon Heat
Mario vs Crono Rivalry
Poltergust G-00

- Hammer Suit Tier
Paratroopas
Dire Dire Docks (Theme)
Link (Mario Kart)
Dr. Goomba Tower
Italians
Chris Pratt
Triple Jump
Timed Hits
Super Mario Bros. Movie
SupperMarioBroth
Super Mario Bros.
Postgame Optional Challenge Levels
Isle Delfino
Beep Block Skyway
Vivian
Bowser
Hell Valley Sky Trees
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Death-Obsessed Luma (Film): Everyone loves this little guy. Having a little cute kid say horrifying things is a classic comedy (and horror) move, and it's funnier because everyone's reactions of being like "woaaaaaaaah!" Easily the most memorable original character from the movie.
Cappy
Shy Guy
Valentina
Lack of Mario vs Sonic (Character Battles)
Smash 64 Commercial
Pirahna Plant (Smash Bros)
Mysterious (Mario Paint)
Peach's Castle
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): Man, this is really pushing it for "Mario-adjacent," but I guess I'll allow it. I haven't watched the Netflix series, but I have read the comics and played the game. I bought the game on Steam again because I wanted to replay it, but it keeps crashing my computer, and I don't know why, does anyone know why it would do that? Anyway, this movie. It's fine. It's casted pretty well, at least. I know people complained at the time that Cera isn't a good Scott, but he's fine. Everything about this movie is fine. I liked the joke at the end where it looks like he's going to fight Nega-Scott, then it cuts to them just being friends and parting on good terms. Compare that to the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, which are better in general, but rely way too heavily on jokes like that, to the point where any time things seem serious, you just immediately know a joke is coming. This is the only joke like that in the movie, so it works much better.
Mario Lemieux
Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy
Mario/Sonic Rivalry
Swapping Cartridges
Tanooki Suit
Delay Lama
Super Mario Bros Plumbing Commercial
Mario Kart: Super Circuit: I played this game quite a lot as a kid. Perfectly good entry into the franchise, perfectly good translation into the handheld sphere... But again, like I said for some other game, it's kind of fascinating how basic the list of characters is. Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad, Yoshi, DK, Wario, and Bowser, just the mandatory ones. No frills here. Wait a second, according to the hidden stats column on the Wiki, Luigi is equal to or better than Mario in every way. And Toad is listed as 5 speed, 1 weight, but his hidden stats say 2 speed? I don't understand how these stats work at all. This is super confusing.
Warp Whistle
Beware the Forest's Mushrooms
Shigeru Miyamoto
Wario
Super Mario Land 2
FLUDD
The Final-Final Test Badge Marathon: I watched a speedrun of this. It's like... Yes, the is is the appropriate level of difficulty for a challenge level. I can imagine myself beating this. I won't go back and do so, but if I really wanted to, I'm pretty sure I could beat this level. I like the lightning section, the pounding the platform into the goop section, the stupid talking flowers, the vine climbing section... maybe not the invisible section, I don't know about that ones. Let me tell you, I got to the second-to-last level in Celeste, and there's a message that says "go back and collect all of the hidden items and come back lmao" and I was like "no u" and just watched the final level on youtube, and I was like "there it no possible way I could ever beat this even if I put in the hours to learn, I'm just straight-up not good enough at video games to do this." Again: screw kaizo stuff.

- Super Mushroom Tier
Mario Party (Series)
Bob-omb Battlefield: One of the definitive first stages of all time. I sure as hell don't remember the first stage of Galaxy or Odyssey! I only remember Sunshine's first stage because I had to start the game over like five times to finally power through it to the end. Didn't beat that game until like 2012. Anyway, I think it's kind of interesting that there's just this battle going on between black and pink bob-ombs? Obviously the pink bob-ombs are angry about bob-omb racism and are fighting for their rights, and Mario heroically joins their cause because he's the hero. But like, in all seriousness, is this the only time in Mario history that there's just a straight-up battle going on that Mario isn't really party to? There's just an unrelated intra-bob-omb war going on well before Mario enters the fray.
How Many Super Mario Games Are There? (Video)
Metal Mario
Luigi's Up-Taunt
Staff Roll Theme (Mario 64)
Disco Devil (Theme)
Shy Guys on Stilts: Actually, was Yoshi's Island the game that introduced Yoshi being able to float? I just realized that. Contrary to the name, there are several shy guys in this stage who aren't on stilts. Look, there's not a lot for me to talk about here. This level doesn't have some crazy mechanic or insane difficulty, it's literally just a stage of walking and jumping around with some shy guys on stilts. The most difficult part is probably the dark section. I guess it is weirdly long, though. Don't know what motivated that decision. Is this a beloved major level among Yoshi lovers? Because to me, it couldn't be more of a "oh, it's that level" level.
Super Mario Strikers (2005)
Shellcreeper
Stealing Stars with Boo
Pipes
Bowser Meets Bowser
"So long, gay Bowser!"
Sammer's Kingdom (Theme)
Hide and Seek mods
Bowser Theme (Super Mario World 2)
Mario Quiz Cards
Puzzle Plank Galaxy (Theme)
Mario Tennis: Power Tour
Bah (NSMB Music)
March 10th
Super Mario Sunshine: Back in the 2000s, everyone on Board 8 considered this to be the weakest full console Mario game. And yes, it is. I cannot in good conscience say it's better than SMB1, 2, 3, SMW, SM64, SMG, SMG2, SM3DW, or SMO. I'm not even sure I'd say it's better than the NSMB games. What it comes down to with SMS is how much stock you place in controls. Because the game controls like ass. SM64, it gets a pass, but every other Mario game needs to feel perfect. Mario needs to have the most polished, flawless controls in gaming. And SMS does not. Mario is so floatly and weirdly frictionless in this game. FLUDD adds an entire extra dimension to his movement, but it's not actually precise. It's just as awkward as Mario's normal movement, like every time you panickingly tap the hover mode (and you will, every time you flub a jump), you're going to float forward slightly despite not wanting to. And the fact that you have to replace the nozzles as you go along, it's like, one more awkward extra thing, even though it's just the new power-up. And then you have the added awkwardness of the FLUDDless levels, which wouldn't be a problem in a normal Mario game, but here are a nightmare because of weird Mario controls. So in pure gameplay terms, this is probably the weakest real game. And yet... this game introduces an entire city for you to explore, which we didn't get again until New Donk City (which yes completely embarrasses Delfino Plaza), the levels are diagetically integrated into the theme of a tropical island resort, and everything looks really nice. It's very difficult to put my feelings about this game into words, because it's simultaneously kind of bad and kind of good, but not damningly bad or overwhelmingly good. It all melds together into this really uneven mess, as opposed to SMG always being good, but having nothing memorable in it whatsoever. And I'll say this: even at Mario's weirdest and worst, his game is still way, way better than the best Sonic, Crash, Spyro, Ray Man, or Earthworm Jim game. Like, imagine this entirely playable, kind of nice-looking 4/10 game being the worst thing in your catalog; Mario's mainline games are THAT strong. Even Zelda can't promise that. Even Pokemon flubs some of its single-player experiences. Is there any other series with as many games as the mainline Mario where even the worst one is still basically okay, just kind of disappointing?
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Mario + Rabbids
Slider (Theme)
Starman
Donkey Kong (1981)
Wreck-It Ralph
Wiggler
Mushroomy Kingdom
Giga Bowser
Chargin' Chuck
Rainbow Road (Fat Bearded Guy Song)
Jim Carrey as Wario in SMB2
Gust Garden Galaxy (Theme)
Tonkachi Mario
Kaizo Mario World
Super Mario 3D Land: Sometimes 3D, sometimes 2D, always 3D... graphically. This is possibly the most forgettable mainline Mario game. Like, seriously, 3D World at least has that it got an expansion seven years after the fact and has five playable characters. This is just the prototype for 3D World, which is already not exactly the best Mario game. Like, again to compare Mario to Zelda, Mario has way more "shitty random pointless little adventure" games than Zelda. Also, I looked up this game on the Wiki again and actually looked up the plot, and Peach manages to get kidnapped by Bowser twice. In a random side game. Embarrassing. I hope she gets kidnapped at least once in the new movie, just for old time's sake. Or I hope Bowser kidnaps Daisy in the next game, and Daisy is just excited to finally get some attention.
Talking Flowers
Trials of Death
Mallow
Baby Park
Mary O
Brooklyn
Dennis Hopper
Anya Taylor-Joy
Tumble (Mario Party 3)
Angry Sun
I'm a Chuckster
Captain Toad
Do the Mario
Fireworks (End of Level)
Eely-Mouth
Super Mario Bros Super Show
Kublai Khan
Tetris Attack
7 Grand Dad
Toaster
Super Mario Bros. 2
Wario Land (Virtual Boy): I'm told this is the best VB game, which given its library of 22 games, is maybe not the most impressive title ever. I watched part of the game on Youtube, and God, the VB color scheme, use of 3D, and double vision thing makes everything kind of painful to look at. The idea of Wario being able to launch himself into the background actually is kind of interesting and novel for the time, but like... I don't know, even in 1995, it's not THAT novel. God, some of the backgrounds are basically impossible to look at thanks to the color scheme. There's this one part with giant spiked balls swinging from the background to the foreground on a really a complex temple background, and I just don't want to look at it at all. And like... I know I gave a lot of shit to the Koopalings, but they ARE better than the bosses in this game, featuring such famous faces as "Dinosur Fish," "Sand Fish," "Tank and Operator," and "Demon Head." Look, I'm chalking this game up as "okay ideas and execution, but severly held back by the technology it was built with." Even if I'd owned this as a kid, I'm sure I wouldn't have bothered beating it. I can definitely see why this is the most loved VB game, but they should have known that the technology for VR wasn't there yet. It's still only kind of here, and we live like thirty years later.
Backwards Long Jump
Parental Controls (Nintendo Switch)
Chuckya
Reznor
Final Fantasy Characters (Mario Hoops 3-on-3)
Mouser

- Frog Suit Tier
Great Giana Sisters
Mario's Picross: Picross is this old? I thought it was a 2000s thing. Anyway, contextualizing the logic of picross as Mario being an archeologist searching for stuff isn't a bad idea. But like... there is a very limited amount of picross I feel like playing. I played a game last year, Murder by Numbers, that's just like fifty rounds of picross, and I was ready for it be over like halfway through.
Peach Blossom
Wall Kicks Will Work (Star)
Super Mario Spikers: ... A cancelled volleyball game I've never heard of? Well, okay, that's plausible. Wait, it's a volleyball-wrestling game? And Nintendo rejected it solely because realistic wrestling moves are off-brand for Mario? Am I crazy for thinking that you could easily make unrealistic wrestling moves? Like, Mario grabs someone and throws a fireball at them, or Yoshi grabs someone, eats them, and spits them into the wall? Surely it's not that difficult to make this idea work. That said, I have difficulty connecting volleyball to wrestling, it's difficult to imagine two sports with less in common. I dunno, I guess luge + baseball would be harder to make work. Honestly, I don't feel like we lost much by not actually getting this game.
Lou Albano
Shadow Mario Paint
Practice Makes Perfect (Legacy X)
Flutter
Toad (Character)
Blindfolded Mario Maker Guy
Dong Dong Never Die
Super Princess Peach: This is one of those games that exists, but no one ever thinks about or talks about. Look, man. I said that Peach is the ultimate video game "the Girl," and I meant it, and I was right. You want to talk about harmful stereotypes in gaming, Peach finally gets her own game where she's not a damsel, where she's the hero who needs to rescue Mario (and Luigi and Toad, just to establish that there's no one more competent than her... And yeah, I guess I would say Toad is better at his job than Peach), and the gimmick of the game is just that Peach has to feel emotions really hard to solve problems. Being happy makes you fly, being angry makes you catch fire, being sad makes you produce water that makes plants grow, and being calm makes you find a husband and make a sandwich for him. Like, even in 2005, I was like "does Peach really have nothing you can make a game out of for her, other than that she is a girl?" Like, I'm imagining a more traditional Peach platformer, and you keep the part where Mario and Luigi are kidnapped, and like, you design it around her floating powers, maybe you give her the ability to use power-ups like Mario, I don't know. Someone made a conscious decision to lean into Peach being "the Girl," and this what we got. I do like the ending, where she rescues the boys, then ignores Luigi and Mario takes her into his arms even though she's the one who rescued him. I obviously can't rank Peach's upcoming game, but making it stageplay-themed where she has to dress up in different oufits to gain new powers isn't a bad idea. I wonder if they'll bother explaining why Mario doesn't just solve the problem for her, though. The enemies are grape-themed? What a bizarre idea, that has nothing to do with theaters. I guess because peach vs grapes? I don't really think of those as opposites, though. Oh, because peaches are sweet and grapes can be sour? I GUESS that makes sense, but that is not immediately obvious. Alright, let's check out these costumes... Swordfighter, Detective, Patissiere, Kung Fu, Ninja, Cowgirl, Figure Skater, Thief, Mermaid, Superhero. Yeah, sure, I guess. It does look better than SPP, so I'll give it that.
3-Up Moon
Mario Bros.
Peach
Pauline
Stanley the Bugman
Chill (Dr. Mario Theme)
Green Missile Random Misfires: This is less terrible than Brawl's random tripping, because at least you have control over when you misfire. But I hate using this mechanic. It's not reliable, and having one horizontal recovery and one vertical recovery is very awkward. Yeah, I realize that fits Luigi's awkwardness, but the result of this is that I haven't played him since like Smash 64. Maybe when I'm unlocking stuff or something, I don't remember.
Torpedo Ted
Mario Finale
Monkey! (Dennis Hopper)
"It's a stone, Luigi. You didn't make it!"
Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix
L is Real 2401
WarioWare
King Boo
New Super Mario Bros. (Series)
Grandpa Mario (Serving Tray)
Gooper Blooper
Mario Clash
Mama Luigi
Lakilester
Steak (Boss Fight)
The Beat Goes On: I typed this into google, was surprised to see a Sonny and Cher song, and was like "oh, there must be a Mario cover of this I didn't know about." Imagine my disappointment to learn that this is also the name of a Mario Party 3 minigame. God, the N64's graphics are so ugly. Is this game just a "repeat the buttons pressed by the computer" thing? God, how many of those are there in video gamedom? Almost as basic as sliding image puzzles. Contextualizing it as having to follow the rhythm provided by jungle-dwelling tribal shy guys is really weird, too.
NBA Street V3
Coins (Mario Kart)
Luigi Mario
Mario Paint
Fortune Street
Yoshi's Safari
Mario and Wario (Game): I watched some gameplay of this, and man, I forgot about Mario throwing up the peace sign when he finishes a level. He doesn't still do that, right? It's been a really long time since I can remember him doing that. Don't tell me it's in Galaxy and Odyssey, and I just have brain problems. Anyway, the music in this game is like the worst, most un-Mario stuff ever. Completely generic medieval fantasy-esque music for a lot of it. So, the logic of this game is that Wario was flying a plane over a forest, threw a bucket off of it, and it landed on Mario's head, and a fairy felt bad for him and decided to help guide him? Why can't Mario just remove the bucket? Ugh, anyway, the actual gameplay of having to summon blocks for a blind Mario to walk on isn't bad. But like... I just have zero interest in ever playing this crappy early 90s puzzle game. Luckily, it was never released outside of Japan, so I'll never have to. I'm just going to say, if Nintendo released this today, surely instead of just a dumb bucket, they'd have like Mario's hat be cursed to be really big and get all over his eyes, or something like that, right? Like, having something on Mario's head that's not a red hat is so off-brand that they'd never even think of doing it again. Even Link is allowed to wear other hats, but not Mario. Like, in any other franchise, surely there'd have been at least one joke by now where Mario and Luigi switch costumes, right?
Move Faster, Pokey!
Super Mario 64: Chaos Edition
Racist Mario
Jump Rope Challenge (SMO)
Mario Tennis N64/GBC Transfer Pack Functionality
Wario's Woods
Giga Bowser Punch
Fat Yoshi
Mike Tyson
Thunder Cloud (Mario Kart)
Mario Golf
Personalized Mario 64 Cartridge Theory
LUEshi
Boswer's Clown Car
Super Mario Bros.
Casio Hellburst
Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels
Wario's Mario Party 1 and 2 Voice
Donkey Kong Jr. (1982)
Yoshi's Cookie
Bowser is Pissed (Theme)
Yoshi (Game)
Special Mariko Broken (Sket Dance Chapter 91/Episode 39)
Mario is Missing

- Poison Mushroom Tier
I Am A Teacher: Super Mario no Sweater
Mario Kart Tour
Mario Teaches Typing
Rubberbanding
Super Mario Bros. Special
Doctor Finale
Super Mario Land
Puzzle & Dragons
Bowser's Big Blast
Watch for Rolling Rocks (0.5x A Presses)
Luigi Meeting Himself
Mario Screaming (Video)
Tatanga
Super Hornio Brothers
Daisy Blossom
Toadette
Hand Injuries (Mario Party)
Pink Gold Peach
Paper Mario: Sticker Star
Pachinko Game (SMS)
Robirdo
Yakuman DS
Big Bertha x Mario (Mario Comics)
Wendy O. Koopa
Hotel Mario Cutscenes
Petey Piranha
Mario Galaxy 2 Glitch

- Blue Shell Tier
Subspace Dubbed Over
Mario Pissing
Blue Shells just Before the Finish Line
Birdo

Charles Martinet's cameo in the Mario movie

Steam Gardens

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/878da983.jpg

You realize that you said Sunshine is below all other mainline Marios as you ranked it directly above SMG2?

Anyway, nominate Super Mario Galaxy

Supernintendo Chalmers

Nabbit

Flurrie

redrocket posted...

You realize that you said Sunshine is below all other mainline Marios as you ranked it directly above SMG2?

I'm not even going to fix that!

Super Nintendo

Wet Dry World

Mario Kart Rainbow Roads

General Guy

Bikes in Mario Kart Wii

Mario

Not sure if I missed it but I don't think you've done Mario himself yet.

Dropping baby penguins off the cliff in Cool Cool Mountain

Super Guide

The Wright Brothers vs. The Mario Brothers (Epic Rap Battles of History)

Weegee

The Year of Luigi

the e-Reader functions of Super Mario Advance 4

Booster (Super Mario RPG)

The Beat Goes On: I typed this into google, was surprised to see a Sonny and Cher song, and was like "oh, there must be a Mario cover of this I didn't know about." Imagine my disappointment to learn that this is also the name of a Mario Party 3 minigame. God, the N64's graphics are so ugly. Is this game just a "repeat the buttons pressed by the computer" thing? God, how many of those are there in video gamedom? Almost as basic as sliding image puzzles. Contextualizing it as having to follow the rhythm provided by jungle-dwelling tribal shy guys is really weird, too.

Having played a ton of MP3 multiplayer, this is the worst mini-game of the N64 ones, right up there with the MP1 rotate control stick mini-games. It's a "memorize the pattern" but done incredibly slowly. And it almost always goes to the very end and is a draw and no one gets coins. Just an annoying game.

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

Bitto posted...

Having played a ton of MP3 multiplayer, this is the worst mini-game of the N64 ones, right up there with the MP1 rotate control stick mini-games. It's a "memorize the pattern" but done incredibly slowly. And it almost always goes to the very end and is a draw and no one gets coins. Just an annoying game.

Oh, I didn't even consider the slowness, which is weird because I watched it in action. I can see that being murderously annoying.

Another one where I remember The Runaway Guys playthrough where they kept getting it and groaning over it outside of the one time where the three of them AND the computer player teamed up to keep BAZA BAZA BAZA going. I was going to ask you to rank the Baza Baza meme but decided not to after your non-reaction to Move Faster Pokey and not getting the Should We Do Daisy on Hard meme.

Next to rank: A Day at the Races (Mario Party 2 minigame)

- Cape Feather Tier
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Mario Kart (Series)
Super Mario World
Cape Feather
Admiral Bobbery
New Donk City
Super Mario RPG
Super Mario Odyssey
Super Nintendo: The last completely good Nintendo console. I know the Wii sold like gangbusters, but dedicated gamers were never going to like the controls. The SNES just did everything right... except alienate every third party developer, of course.

- Kuribo's Shoe Tier
Rosalina
Luigi Wins Without Doing Anything
Super Mario Bros. 3
Kuribo's Shoe
Paper Mario
Super Mario 64
Bowser (RPG Versions)
Mario Kart 64
Fire Flower
Super Paper Mario
Waluigi
Mario Tennis (N64)
1-1 Theme
Rainbow Road (General): This is perfect, conceptually, as the "ultimate level" in a Mario racing game. The earlier ones are better, though, back when they were trying to be hard as balls. Back when there were no rails, and my sister simply could not get anything but last place, and would throw the controller down in frustration. I like the idea of every Mario Kart having a different super long, complicated final level that's a big rainbow turned into a road. It's such a part of Marioness that it's even in the film!
Yoshi
Super Mario 64 DS
Minus World
Stretchy Mario Face (Mario 64)
Culex
Count Bleck
Bowsette
There Will Be Brawl
Mario, the Idea vs Mario, the Man
Luigi
Bayonetta Nintendo Content
Thwomp
Charles Martinet
Hammer Bros.
Brawl in the Family
Rawk Hawk
Glitzville
Pirahna Plants on Parade (Level)
Super Mario Maker 2
Hexagon Heat
Mario vs Crono Rivalry
Poltergust G-00
Mario (Character): It's-a him, Mario! I wonder where Mario ranks in the most well-known fictional characters of all time. Like, is he more famous than Superman? I don't know! I'll give Mario the second highest tier, but honestly, he is, as we all know, a noncharacter. The most noncharacter of them all, except for Peach. The easiest comparison is Link. Link, to me, is designed to be the embodiment of "the Hero." He's always has his little hero's journey story going on, he always has his classic sword and shield, he always has to obtain The Magic Sword that lets you defeat The Villain, he always has to achieve whatever number of deeds before riding to fight The Villain, the world is always at stake, and so on, and so forth. Mario is the hero of his story, but everything is taken less seriously (even the most serious Mario title is way cartoonier than the least serious Zelda one), he doesn't look or act or sound like a The Hero, his skills aren't similar to what you'd expect from The Hero, he doesn't need weapons or magic to triumph, and he never gets anything at the end of the story as a reward. I guess Peach baked him a cake once. Mario games are almost the anti-Hero's Journey, in that nothing is learned, nothing is really at stake that much, and nothing needs to be achieved besides punching Bowser a lot. I think this is why Luigi is such a more compelling character, because he's the one who has to overcome his fears and insecurities to achieve things, he's the one who needs help from others to accomplish his goals, and he's the one who sort of learns and grows (in comparison to Mario, at least) at the end of his journeys. Then again, maybe I'm just wrong, because I still like Mario way more than Sonic, who also has all of those qualities.

- Hammer Suit Tier
Paratroopas
Dire Dire Docks (Theme)
Link (Mario Kart)
Dr. Goomba Tower
Italians
Charles Martinent's Cameo (Film): Martinet voicing Mario and Luigi's father is a sensible use of him, as is the random guy saying their voices sound good. I dunno what you expect me to say here. You know, looking at a random frame of Giuseppe from the movie, I'm wondering... how old are Mario and Luigi supposed to actually be? Because I've never seen a mustache like that on anyone under the age of 50.
Chris Pratt
Triple Jump
Timed Hits
Super Mario Bros. Movie
SupperMarioBroth
Super Mario Bros.
Postgame Optional Challenge Levels
Isle Delfino
Beep Block Skyway
Vivian
Nabbit: He's fine. One of the better random extra characters added since, jeez, what counts as modern Mario? He's from 2012, I don't even know if that counts anymore. The pun in his name is really good, and I like his kerchief. Is he the first intentionally overpowered player character added to a Mario game to be easy mode? I'm fine with Mario adding a character to the recurring roster who's neither hero nor villain. Honestly a better morally ambiguous character who is ambivalent toward both good and evil than Shadow the Hedgehog.
Bowser
Supernintendo Chalmers: I rewatched the clip for this. I like Chalmers going from happy to angry when Ralph says his name. He'd probably get over it if he ate an unforgettable luncheon, though. Is Chalmers the Simpsons character with the greatest meme presence relative to his importance in the show, discounting Sneed?
Hell Valley Sky Trees
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Death-Obsessed Luma (Film)
Cappy
Shy Guy
Valentina
Lack of Mario vs Sonic (Character Battles)
Smash 64 Commercial
Pirahna Plant (Smash Bros)
Mysterious (Mario Paint)
Peach's Castle

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

- Super Mushroom Tier
Mario Party (Series)
Bob-omb Battlefield
How Many Super Mario Games Are There? (Video)
Metal Mario
Luigi's Up-Taunt
Staff Roll Theme (Mario 64)
Disco Devil (Theme)
Shy Guys on Stilts
Super Mario Strikers (2005)
Shellcreeper
Stealing Stars with Boo
Pipes
Bowser Meets Bowser
"So long, gay Bowser!"
Sammer's Kingdom (Theme)
Hide and Seek mods
Super Mario Galaxy: The most forgettable main Mario game, except SMG2 and maybe LL. SMB1 is the first, SMB2 has all of its weird history, SMB3 and SMW are just really good, SM64 took us into 3D, SMS is the bad one, and Odyssey just gets everything right. SMG gets respect for being generally good, but whatever innovation or interesting ideas it has are wrapped up entirely in playing with the environment, and those are mostly just "here's a cool gravity thing." Like, tell me a single boss in this game besides Bowser and the lava octopus. Tell me a single level with any kind of environmental storytelling besides Rosalina's spaceship. Like, all you need are some aliens you meet now and again instead of Toads, and they can be like "Bowser invaded our planet," and then later you find their planet and it's a city, but Bowser's guys are all over it. Done.
Bowser Theme (Super Mario World 2)
Mario Quiz Cards
Puzzle Plank Galaxy (Theme)
Mario Tennis: Power Tour
Bah (NSMB Music)
March 10th
Super Mario Sunshine
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Mario + Rabbids
Slider (Theme)
Starman
Donkey Kong (1981)
Wreck-It Ralph
Wiggler
Steam Gardens (Theme): I'm going to assume you mean the theme, and not the part of a level. This is... fine. It's not super woodsy, but it's a little woodsy. Honestly, the deep twangs remind me of like a pit stop on a desert road in the middle of the US, but I'll allow it.
Mushroomy Kingdom
Giga Bowser
Chargin' Chuck
Rainbow Road (Fat Bearded Guy Song)
Jim Carrey as Wario in SMB2
Gust Garden Galaxy (Theme)
Tonkachi Mario
Kaizo Mario World
Super Mario 3D Land
Wet-Dry World: You fool, it has a hyphen in its name. Anyway, as far as N64 water stages with rising and lowering water levels go, this is definitely better than the Water Temple. The background being a random city in Yemen is pretty surreal, I ddin't know that. Man, stop nominating the most random levels that no one remembers or cares about.
Talking Flowers
Trials of Death
Mallow
Baby Park
Mary O
Brooklyn
Dennis Hopper
Anya Taylor-Joy
Tumble (Mario Party 3)
Angry Sun
Weegee: I mean, it's easy to see why he's popular. The posture is super bizarre and awkward, his face is off-putting, everything about him is poorly-drawn, his eyebrows being arched makes him look super interested in whatever he's looking at, and Luigi is, in general, the most memeable Mario character. He may not have the biggest memes (Bowsette), but he definitely has the largest number of memes. But like, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that there is anything to this character or meme at all.
I'm a Chuckster
Captain Toad
Do the Mario
Fireworks (End of Level)
Eely-Mouth
Super Mario Bros Super Show
Kublai Khan
Tetris Attack
7 Grand Dad
Toaster
Super Mario Bros. 2
Wario Land (Virtual Boy)
Backwards Long Jump
Parental Controls (Nintendo Switch)
Chuckya
Reznor
Final Fantasy Characters (Mario Hoops 3-on-3)
Mouser

- Frog Suit Tier
Great Giana Sisters
Mario's Picross
e-Reader Functions (Super Mario Advance 4): God, now I have to look this up again. Wait, you need to link a GBA to a second GBA that has a e-Reader installed? You can't just use the first GBA? Bizarre. Okay, so three types of cards: power-up cards, whatever, basically just an amiibo. Demo cards, video of Mario speedrunning a level, wow I don't care. Level cards, installs a new level into the game. Well, that one is actually content, so it wins based just on that, but my instinct is that the new levels will be lazy trash. Let's check them out. You know, maybe I was wrong. They don't look AMAZING, but they do look to be about the same quality as a random average Mario level of the era, maybe a little lower. I dunno, man, Nintendo has to have known even at the time that interacting with physical objects is a pain for these kinds of things. The fact that there is actual real content to them is a bonus, as opposed to Amiibo "you can train an AI to fight without you playing!" content, so it does have that going for it.
Peach Blossom
Wall Kicks Will Work (Star)
Super Mario Spikers
A Day at the Races (Mario Party 2): This is another one of those trash minigames. Whomever gets to choose last is at a huge disadvantage, the Thwomp basically never wins, there is functionally no player interaction (you look at the racers before the race, check to see who moves fastest in their idle animation, and vote for them), and it's basically just another random chance game, except that the first three can sabotage the last by not choosing Thwomp. Conceptually, this is better than the other one, though, because the idea of Mario enemies racing, and each of them having distinct advantages and disadvantages, is actually good. The execution is bad, though.
Lou Albano
Shadow Mario Paint
Practice Makes Perfect (Legacy X)
Flutter
Toad (Character)
Year of Luigi: More than ten years ago. Alright, so let's check what games came out: Luigi's Mansion 2, Mario & Luigi 4, New Super Luigi U, Luigi Bros in Super Mario 3D World, Dr. Luigi, and Super Luigi Bros in NES Remix 2. I have played exactly one of these, which is NSLU. I'm not going to lie here: the Year of Luigi is super unimpressive. He really needed some kickass game to turn things around, and the best he got was another 3DS horror title. Man, the Year of Luigi was to honor thirty years since Luigi's creation. You know what? In 2026, we'll have thirty years since Pokemon.
Blindfolded Mario Maker Guy
Dong Dong Never Die
Super Princess Peach
Super Guide: I mean... I guess I can't have a problem with this in theory. It doesn't affect people trying to play the game normally, and you can always just ignore it. But, like... It just FEELS wrong, you know? I realize that it means more people can enjoy the game at zero cost to anyone, but I know that I would have been too proud to use this as a kid, even if it meant I couldn't beat the game. And I would have made fun of my friends for using it. I know because I made of them for cheating in emulated games.
3-Up Moon
Mario Bros.
Peach
Pauline
Stanley the Bugman
Chill (Dr. Mario Theme)
Green Missile Random Misfires
Torpedo Ted
Mario Finale
Monkey! (Dennis Hopper)
"It's a stone, Luigi. You didn't make it!"
Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix
L is Real 2401
WarioWare
King Boo
New Super Mario Bros. (Series)
Grandpa Mario (Serving Tray)
Gooper Blooper
Mario Clash
Mama Luigi
Lakilester
Steak (Boss Fight)
The Beat Goes On
NBA Street V3
Coins (Mario Kart)
Luigi Mario
Mario Paint
Fortune Street
Yoshi's Safari
Mario and Wario (Game)
Move Faster, Pokey!
Super Mario 64: Chaos Edition
Racist Mario
Jump Rope Challenge (SMO)
Mario Tennis N64/GBC Transfer Pack Functionality
Wario's Woods
Giga Bowser Punch
Fat Yoshi
Mike Tyson
Thunder Cloud (Mario Kart)
Mario Golf
Personalized Mario 64 Cartridge Theory
LUEshi
Boswer's Clown Car
Super Mario Bros.
Casio Hellburst
Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels
Wario's Mario Party 1 and 2 Voice
Donkey Kong Jr. (1982)
Yoshi's Cookie
Bowser is Pissed (Theme)
Yoshi (Game)
Special Mariko Broken (Sket Dance Chapter 91/Episode 39)
Mario is Missing

- Poison Mushroom Tier
I Am A Teacher: Super Mario no Sweater
Mario Kart Tour
Mario Teaches Typing
Rubberbanding
Super Mario Bros. Special
Doctor Finale
Super Mario Land
Puzzle & Dragons
Bowser's Big Blast
Madame Flurrie: She's so gross and bad. It's especially weird, because wind spirits aren't a thing in Mario, so they specifically made a new species to add instead of using an existing enemy race. Why? I don't really know. She's really bad in combat, too, because any enemy with even low defense completely walls her. I don't know if anyone actually likes her.
Watch for Rolling Rocks (0.5x A Presses)
Luigi Meeting Himself
Mario Screaming (Video)
Tatanga
Super Hornio Brothers
Daisy Blossom
Toadette
Hand Injuries (Mario Party)
Pink Gold Peach
Paper Mario: Sticker Star
Pachinko Game (SMS)
Robirdo
Yakuman DS
Big Bertha x Mario (Mario Comics)
Wendy O. Koopa
Hotel Mario Cutscenes
Petey Piranha
Mario Galaxy 2 Glitch

- Blue Shell Tier
Subspace Dubbed Over
Mario Pissing
Blue Shells just Before the Finish Line
Birdo

Dorrie

Mushroom

Boomerang Suit

Super Mario Run

the flyswatting minigame in Mario Paint

The Ultimate Show

Anagram posted...

Man, stop nominating the most random levels that no one remembers or cares about.

No :3

Nominating: Shy Guy's Toybox (Paper Mario) (apologies if I got the name wrong)

Blue Shell (NSMB powerup)

Yeah, I like the aesthetics of that rap battle more than I like the actual content. They could have made more deep cuts.

Anyway...
Negative Zone

Wow, what is this Super Mario Galaxy disrespect?

Nominate Wart (the final boss of Mario 2)

Somari

Super Mario 3D World

Anagram posted...

(even the most serious Mario title is way cartoonier than the least serious Zelda one)

I dunno, Triforce Heroes is pretty silly

Mario Mandate

Mario Kart 8

WarThaNemesis2 posted...

Mushroom

Mushrooms in general, or the super mushroom, what?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pja-AkTH4fA

Donkey Kong arcade cabinet art