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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 02/09/2026

Thinking about The Japanese game reception wiki's page for Hotel Mario

Screencap of a gcmatome page with the following writing

"t was never released in Japan and was only released on a very niche platform, so it's not very well known in Japan.
However, this is also famous as a meme overseas. The interaction between Mario and Luigi in the opening movie is particularly well-known.
The scene where Mario sounds like he's calling Luigi "gay," and then Luigi immediately follows up with the line, "I wonder if there's lots of spaghetti," which is a simplistic use of the Italian stereotype, are often parodied.
Even poorly animated movies can be surreal and funny when viewed as a joke , and are popular for a different reason.
Because only the anime portion was picked up online and became famous on its own, some people apparently didn't realize it was a game .
In English-speaking countries , a character named "Weegee," based on a misheard line about Luigi in this game and the graphics of Luigi from " Mario is Missing! ", has spread as an internet meme. See the entry for that game for more details."

Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 07/08/2026

The final match brings a bit of sibling rivalry with it! Vote one last time in the All-Time Favorite Character Bracket to crown the winner! www.mariowiki.com/MarioWiki:An...

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 31/07/2026

The green machines duke it out on one side, and a rivalry that once rocked the arcades reignites on the other! It's time to vote in the semi-finals! www.mariowiki.com/MarioWiki:An...

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 25/07/2026

It's the quarter finals! Just eight characters remain - who will survive? That's up to you! Round 3 voting of the All-Time Favorite Character Bracket is open until July 31st, vote now! www.mariowiki.com/MarioWiki:An...

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 17/07/2026

Sixteen characters remain! Who will advance into the great eight? That's up to you! Round 3 voting is open until July 24th, so stop by and cast your votes! www.mariowiki.com/MarioWiki:An...

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 15/07/2026

The secret of Mario Jump's physics

Eno: Action games are tough. There are so many invisible elements. Actually, there's one thing I want to demystify today. Take the jump in 2D Mario games. Other companies' Mario-like games usually have you jump along a fixed trajectory or a simple quadratic curve. But with Mario's jump, if you hold the A button down past a certain duration, it feels like you get a slight extra bit of distance at the very end, almost like a special bonus. It feels as if a separate jumping equation kicks in and pushes Mario horizontally.

Miyamoto: We don't actually do that. What happens is that the moment you release the button, we increase the gravity slightly. Because of that, the trajectory feels different depending on whether you hold the A button to the very end or let go halfway through. You're looking at it very closely, though.

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 15/07/2026

LRT: Were any of you as perturbed by the gritty realism of Super Mario 64 as Kenji Eno was

Screencap of a shmuplation article with the text "Eno: To jump right into the thick of things today, the truth is I actually haven't beaten Mario 64 yet. I love the Mario series. I used to leave my Famicom turned on for so long playing Super Mario Bros. 3 that the console would overheat. But I just haven't been able to get into Mario 64. My wife won't play it either. I kept wondering why that was, but when I first tried Mario 64 at the Shoshinkai show, I felt this incredible sense of freedom in its world. You could get carried away by a bird, run through a field of flowers and be startled by butterflies, plunge down a waterfall, or fly through the sky. It felt like you could just mess around aimlessly, and anyone who wanted to dive deeper could master it.

But with the final retail version, I felt like I had suddenly joined a really strict after-school sports club. I found myself unable to get into the mindset of meticulously reading every signpost or trying to collect dozens of stars. To me, Mario 64 was supposed to be about a very loose, free atmosphere. When I first saw Super Mario Bros., it blew my mind. There was this mustachioed middle-aged guy, pipes, mountains, sky, ground, and blocks. I was a Namco fan who preferred Pac-Man, so it was completely unexpected.

But on the N64, Princess Peach and Bowser have become so realistic, and her getting kidnapped and needing help feels so real that I can't just relax and enjoy it. It's like a yonkoma (four-panel comic) strip suddenly turned into a gritty graphic novel. I always thought of you, Miyamoto-san, as someone who draws a lot of high-quality four-panel comics. I wanted to hear your thoughts on that."

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 11/07/2026

The second round of our All-Time Favorite Character Bracket is live! You can cast your votes for the new matchups until July 17th, and don't miss the link to Round 1 results at the page's end! www.mariowiki.com/MarioWiki:An...

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 06/07/2026

Thinking about The logo for the developers of Hotel Mario

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 03/07/2026

Haven't had enough of voting in the Mario Awards? Come participate in our special All-Time Favorite Character Bracket! First round voting is open until July 10th, with a new round of the bracket opening each subsequent week! www.mariowiki.com/MarioWiki:An...

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 13/06/2026

Voting is now open in the Mario Awards! Come vote for the best and worst of the Mario franchise. Polls run until June 26th. www.mariowiki.com/MarioWiki:An...

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 30/05/2026

Issue 173 of Nintendo Dream Magazine includes a recipe for a unholy Wario-themed "Garlic cake"

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 28/05/2026

According to former Sega employee Mike Fischer, when Sega signed on to publish Gamecube games, Nintendo posted a guy in a Mario costume to greet the Sonic mascot.

Sega-16: You were only at Sega this time for for a couple years. Why did you leave?

Mike Fischer: I was there there to basically put the Dreamcast to bed, but my real my real task was to shift Sega over from a first party to a third party. A big part of that was rebuilding the relationships with Nintendo and PlayStation and then forging the relationship with Xbox. It was tough all around, and I think credit goes to both Sony and Nintendo. Andy House was Vice-President of Marketing at Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) at that time, and Peter had run some trade ads kind of making fun of the PlayStation shortage. I remember Andy calling me because I’ve known him from my Namco days, and he’s just yelling at me. He’s like, “This is not professional! We’re gentlemen in this industry! This is not how we treat each other.!” I had to call Andy back and say, “Listen, man. We have no money to market these games, you know? Can you help us out?” And he did. He gave us a million dollars of TV advertising for Virtua Fighter.

The sweetest thing was we we brought the the Sonic the Hedgehog mascot character up to Nintendo, and the Mario mascot character was there at the door of Nintendo of America and gave him a hug and welcomed him in. I think Arakawa-san from Nintendo of America was there. I’m not going to lie, I got a little teary-eyed when I saw that happen. It was really sweet. Of course, the Xbox guys danced from day one.

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 01/05/2026

If anyone is willing to provide the translation for a bunch of Thai names for Super Mario Bros. Wonder stuff (everything under "T" here), we're interested!

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 29/04/2026

According to a recent article by Japanese outler gamebiz, Goro Abe and the WarioWare team had the incredible motto of "let's waste the latest technology"

Screencap of a machine-translated article from gamebiz.jp, the text visible states "Osaka Electro-Communication University announced that in April 2026, it had recruited two professors, Kenichi Sugino and Goro Abe, who had been involved in the production of globally successful products and popular titles at Nintendo.

Since establishing its Digital Game Department in 2003, the university has built a strong track record as a leader in game education for 23 years. With the addition of these two professionals, the university plans to build a more practical and multifaceted educational system that covers everything from game development to the social applications of games, thereby accelerating the development of the next generation of talent.

Among the newly appointed faculty members, Professor Kenichi Sugino has joined the Department of Electronic and Mechanical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering. Professor Sugino joined Nintendo in April 1989 and built his career as a product designer in the handheld game console development division. He was in charge of the design and development of globally successful products such as the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance, and later worked as a design director on the development of the DS and 3DS. In addition to product development, he was also deeply involved in the training and recruitment of product designers.

Meanwhile, Professor Goro Abe, who took up a position in the Department of Digital Games, specializing in Game and Social Design, at the Faculty of Information Sciences, joined Nintendo in April 1999. After participating as a programmer and designer in "Made in Wario," released by Nintendo in 2003, he served as director for the series, leading the production of all 12 titles. Professor Abe spearheaded original game production, creating numerous unique mini-games under the motto of "wasting the latest technology" for titles for new hardware."

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 25/04/2026

In 2000, IGN Pocket posted a mysterious image, allegedly from "a Japanese correspondent", showing what appeared to be a Yoshi game or tech demo for GBA. As it turns out, the thing was a mock-up by Famitsu 64 magazine. Creds to PineappleCarl from the Gaming Alexandria Discord for the find!

The msyterious image, showing a purple yoshi Space Harrier-ing it up.

page 10 from the July 2000 issue of Famitsu 64 magazine.

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 24/04/2026

Thanks to an image uploaded by twitter user Wifi_h1024, we now know that Sonic appeared in an episode of Lily Franky Theater!

Screenshot of a yet-unuploaded episode of Lily Franky Theater where Sonic steps on something. Toad is shown saying "なにしゃがんで! うわープ"

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 01/04/2026

On what streamer will you be watching Toad?

Availability: The series will be available to stream on Gooble in the United States. Due to Gooble not being available in Canada, the series will instead air on Glorpedo[2]. In most of Western Europe, the series will stream on Beezley except in the Netherlands where it instead will stream on Biddybud. In Southern Azerbaijan, the series is licensed to Bomp.

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 01/04/2026

Morgan Freeman on being Doshin: "I got to play God again."

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 01/04/2026

Charlize Theron on being Claudia: "I've been a fan of Nintendo Badge Arcade since I was 42-years old so it's an honour to embody the internationally-renowned character!"

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 01/04/2026

George Clooney on Noshi: "Super Mario World is my kid's favourite game so I am beyond thrilled to provide the voice for its beloved dinosaur character!""

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 01/04/2026

John Travolta on being Belome: "I got the call from Chris Meleandari and I told him 'Y'know Chris, it has to be Belome'. There was no negotiating to be had. The part is amazing and I am beyond thankful for getting the opportunity to play this beloved character"

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 01/04/2026

Michael Caine on playing the role of Professor E. Gadd: "I know I had announced my retirement but after getting offered the job The Last Witch Hunter 2 and being offered to play the popular character from Louie's Haunted House, I knew I wasn't done yet."

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 31/03/2026

The Super Mario Super Show has started airing on MEtv using some kind of AI upscaling ,and the results are as good as you'd expect

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 12/02/2026

Thinking about This old revision for the Bowling Goonie image

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 09/02/2026

The 2nd issue of Valiant Comic's "Game Boy" series made an incredibly wrong prediction about the outcome of the 1991 Super Bowl

BLOCKBUSTER !
Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs predict Super Bowl winners!
It's the Jets in '91 (but the ancient seers were wrong about Denver last year!)

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 04/02/2026

"Ask Uncle Tusk" was an on and off feature on Rareware's website where fans could send questions for the privilege of being roasted by a Rare employee pretending to be the dude from Killer Instinct II. One reader asked for nudes of Dixie Kong.

"Dear Uncle Tusk,
First of all, I simply have to commend you (through a mouthful of cookies n' cream) on the sheer quality of this site. I can't recall a game designer/publisher's site that was just this great. You really give the gamers what they want. Great job! OK I really do have a question, two or three if I can think of that many while I'm writing:

1. Did you ever plan to give Pocket Tales a GB Color palette, or were you just too far into development at the time of the hardware's release?
2. I remember when news of Rare's defection from Nintendo to solo-publishing was all the rave; It was sometimes assumed that Rare did this to be able to design games for Sony's PSX. Are there or were there ever plans to make a game for the CD-based system, and if not, any input on why the N64 is favored to develop on? (Sometimes I just think the PSX has been around waaaay too long.)
3. Can I clean your toilets for money, or at least a chance to see the Rare pad from the inside?
4. Where can I find nude pictures of Dixie Kong? ;>"

"Uncle Tusk replies:

1. I'll pretend you asked this question after we posted the colour screenshots, just to make you look stupid.
2. It's hardly a "defection", is it? We're still Nintendo-exclusive, and no, there were never any plans to develop for other formats.
3. The DKC3 designer wants me to make a crude joke about pads and toilets, but I'm above that sort of thing.
4. Make them yourself if you're that desperate (but don't forget to publicly flog yourself afterwards)."

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 03/02/2026

A wiki user has emailed DiC Mario cartoon writer Perry Martin about his work on the three shows. Lots of insight about the production of the shows is included here, included unused episode premises!

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 24/01/2026

They would not let their souls be weighted down by gravity

Screencap of an old mariowiki page with the statement "Goombas appear in Super Mario Galaxy, leaving the confines of Mushroom World to set up camp on other planets." and a picture of two Goombas starring blankly at the reader

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 14/01/2026

Another year, Another time, And Still Wondering, what the fuck does Barnacle Bear does in Donkey Konga 3?

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 24/12/2025

It's Christmas's eve. You know what it means.

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 25/11/2025

Fun fax: Longtime Nintendo artist Masanori Sato (who did the character and promotional artwork for the first two Mario & Luigi, among other things) is also the creator of Mega Man 2's Metal Man!

Screencap of an 2024 interview with Sato. Relevant text:

Sato: The games I was into when I was in college were Super Mario Bros. 3 and Final Fantasy. I remember when I was in high school, an illustration I drew was used as the boss character of Mega Man 2. The character was called "Metal Man.

Oozu: What? You told us about it so casually, but isn't that a great story? ？？？？

Sato: At the time, we were looking for boss characters for Mega Man from the general public. One of the several chosen was "Metal Man," which I submitted. But when I told people about it, they didn't really take to it. LOL!

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 12/11/2025

In the ending credits for Mario Kart Arcade GP 2, Waluigi does the Akira bike slide

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 28/10/2025

Same voice actress (as of Mario Kart World)

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 12/10/2025

Crowdsourcing our research to the crowd: An editor of ours is curious because the yogurt brand Actimel is currently running a sweepstake, and for the countries of Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, and Spain, you have to answer a question.

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 12/09/2025

I can't believe Tom Leduc fucking won

Screenshot of a mariowiki image upload showing a Baby Waluigi picture uploaded on May 4 2008 with the caption "Baby Waluigi is the evil of baby luigi"

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 03/08/2025

We are now partnered with the independant French Wiki Mario as part of the Mushroom World Encyclopedia! Be sure to give 'em a visit wikimario.fr/Wiki_Mario

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 02/08/2025

A new episode of Lily Franky Theater has been dumped! In this one, Mario and Toad are on the run from the police after (accidentally?) killing a man, Toad gets an erection and they both argue over who is the real murderer. More info at superfamicom.org/blog/

Transcript of a page from the sattelaview blog with the following text:

"This episode is a rerun for interview reasons-
-Summary of previous episode-
Mario & Toad killed the woman’s lover. They tried to escape, but the search is progressing.
-Toad : Oyakata ! it’s over, we should give up.
-Mario : Huh ?!
-Mario : Idiot ! if we give up it’s the end of our lives !
-Toad : But I can’t do it anymore ! Even when I sleep, I remember that scene.
-Toad (who seems to have an erection) : Ah ! Toad-san don’t do that… That’s so embarrassing ! Here ! You’re in the habit of doing things like this ! hehehe! Ah, no, stop it… Ah, ah….
(Mario punches Toad again…)
-Toad : Acchonburike !
-Mario : What kind of people is this idiot !!!
-Mario : Besides… in fact, it was you who killed him, I didn’t know about it.
-Toad : That’s it !
-Mario : Oh my God ! I’m going to do something else than hiding. Don’t be afraid.
(Mario & Toad are fighting)
-Toad : That’s not true ! You old dumbass !!!
-Mario : What ?! YOU’RE the murderer !!!
(Someone knocked the door)
-Mario & Toad : Huh ?!
(It’s Bowser who finally found them !)
-Toad : Acchonburike !
-Bowser : It’s the police ! Follow me !
(To be continued…)"

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 01/07/2025

In a 2025 interview, DiC writer Phil Harnage explained the genesis of everyone's favourite caveman ratfuck, Oogtar

Screencap of an interview from the website "Tales from the Collection". The text goes as follow:

"The Genesis of Oogtar and Unintended Success
Super Mario World introduced new characters to the animated canon, one of the most memorable—and for some, infamous—being the caveboy Oogtar. Phil readily takes credit for the name:

“And I noticed you asked a question about Oogtar, which is interesting cause he seems to be universally hated… Well, I came up with a name. I’m happy to admit.”

The character’s creation, however, stemmed from a directive from DiC president Andy Heyward. The idea was to create a mischievous foil for Yoshi, pushing the gentle dinosaur into comical predicaments. Phil elaborated on the rationale behind Oogtar:

“Andy felt okay, we got this great character, Yoshi’s like this little kid, and Mario and Luigi have to take care of him and blah. But he felt we couldn’t make Yoshi ever do anything too bad… he thought that would be great fun if he had a little buddy who is always pushing the envelope and getting Yoshi into big trouble… So Oogtar was always gonna be the bad guy no matter what… and that was the idea to begin with.”

While Oogtar might have been designed to be an obnoxious character, Phil mused that the writers might have “took it a little too far, making him too obnoxious.” Yet, he offered a humorous perspective on characters who elicit strong negative reactions: “You know that you’ve done a successful show, if somebody in that show, or one character is hated by everybody. That’s a success.”"

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 27/06/2025

In the Japanese script of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Zip Toad (or Tron as he is named in it) is written as parody of the Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam character Quattro Bajeena

Screencap of a machine-translated Japanese mario wiki, stating "Some of the lines in the email sent by the real Tron are parodies of Quattro Bajeena (the temporary name used by Char Aznable in the series) from Mobile Suit Z Gundam. "So this is youth," and "A warrior must fight as long as he lives" are lines he actually uttered in the series."

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 20/06/2025

Fun fact: there is an official(?) Mario / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle crossover: The German translation of the Valiant comics included a number of original text stories, one of which was about Mario & Luigi being hired by Shredder to vacuum up the sewers

First page of "Die Mario Bruder und der Super Sauger"

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 03/06/2025

Sega's arcade game E-Swat includes a boss battle against an oversized gorilla that attacks by throwing barrels. I wonder what this could be a reference to?

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 21/05/2025

Thanks to the newest installment of Ask the Developers, the question everyone was asking is finally answered:

"Yabuki: Then, the question came up: “Does Mario, in fact, eat mushrooms?” (Laughs)

Jikumaru: So in the midst of development, we went up to Tezuka-san (8) and asked him to confirm, “Is Mario actually eating those mushrooms?”

(8) Takashi Tezuka. Executive Officer and Producer of the Planning & Development Division. Primarily involved in the development of 2D Mario games in the Super Mario Bros. series. Previously appeared in Ask the Developer Vol. 11, Super Mario Bros. Wonder.

Yabuki: That's right. And Tezuka-san answers, “Yeah, he is.”

Everyone: (Laughs)"

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 29/04/2025

In a 2024 documentary about the development of everyone's favourite C-tier N64 platformer Glover, the game's creators revealed that Nintendo was interested in publishing the game, with Miyamoto suggesting to retitle it "Mario's Glove".

An ugly hands freak is riding a ball while the castle behind him epically explodes.

The same ugly hands freaks but it says "Mario's Glove" in front of him.

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 22/04/2025

Ten years ago (goddamn), a legend was born.

Screeenshot of a Nintendo of America showing a picture of Waluigi riding Wiggler and the text "Reply "WAAAA" for #WaluigiWednesday. Reply "🌼" for #WiggerWednesday." The unpaid intern monkey forgot a very important letter.

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Super Mario Wiki @mariowiki.com · 10/04/2025

The climax of the Captain N episode "Simon the Ape-Man" has Donkey Kong's help defeat Dracula's zombie army. No doubt in reference to this classic moment of television, the masterpiece game Donkey Kong 5: The Journey over Time and Space features Dracula as the final boss.

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