History WebVideo / ThereWillBeBrawl

** The electronic chirps and beeps of the [[spoiler: [[UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch Game & Watches]]]].

** [[spoiler:The kids are from ''Videogame/{{Earthbound}}'', a game where everything starts looking childish and innocent,]] but ends up being full of NightmareFuel. [[spoiler:Lucas and Ness look nice at first,]] but it turns out they are not what they seem.

!!This show provides examples of:

%% * GloryDays: An underlying theme of the series.

%% * TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil: Red and Luigi are Good; The mob bosses are Bad; Kirby and [[spoiler: Ness and Lucas,]] are completely batshit ''evil incarnate''.

* HijackedByGanon:
** Both in terms of EnsembleDarkHorse and its original intent.

* HypocriticalHeartwarming:
-->'''Captain Falcon''': ''I may have held mercy for you... but there is only'' '''''one''''' ''fist that can bruise the face of my angel.'' '''''FALCOOOOOON... PUNCH!'''''

%%* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Link in the final episode by fighting Ganondorf. It could actually count as a DoubleSubversion, since he had an apparent HeelFaceDoorSlam in the previous episode, thanks to Zelda's (quite literal) backstabbing. However, he gets better just long enough to face down Ganondorf one final time as a true hero.

%%* TrophyRoom: In Episode 10.

%% * BigDamnHeroes:
%%** [[spoiler:Captain Falcon, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pI4lpc1CrA and how.]]]]

%%* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Mr. Game & Watch, Ness and Lucas.]]
%% * ChildrenAreInnocent: forms the ArcWords in Episode 4, and appear throughout the story. This is eventually subverted in the endgame, where [[spoiler:Ness and Lucas were behind the killings all along.]]

%% * CrapsackWorld: See the introduction at the top of this page.

%% * DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Peach turns out to be exactly this at the end of the series.]]
%% * DeconstructionCrossover: Using the pre-existing ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' MassiveMultiplayerCrossover.

%% * DevourTheDragon: The final scene of the series strongly implies [[spoiler:Kirby did this to Ness.]]

%%* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:Red]]

%%* LonelyFuneral: [[spoiler:Red]]'s.

%%* ManlyGay: [[VideoGame/FZero Captain Falcon]]

%%* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:Mewtwo, Pichu, Roy, and Princess Daisy. ''Especially'' Mewtwo.]]

%%* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Both [[spoiler:Link and Zelda.]]

%%* SeekerArchetype: Luigi.

%%* TakeThatKiss: [[spoiler:Zelda kissing Ganondorf.]]

%%* TitleDrop:
%%** In Episode 4 by Luigi.
%%** In Episode 5 by King Dedede.
%%** In Episode 8 by Olimar.
%%** In Episode 9 by [[spoiler:Bowser]].

* WhamEpisode: The final episode comes along... [[spoiler:in which more than half of the remaining cast dies.]]
%%** Most episodes have their own varying degrees of whamness.
%%** Episode 9 takes the cake.

** In episode 3, when Mario and Luigi are arguing, just after Luigi notices the pills Mario took, Mario pins Luigi against the wall, and you'll notice a poster for ''Film/SuperMarioBros''.

%%** Captain Falcon cranks the hamminess UpToEleven in his appearance in Episode 7.

* DaChief: [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]] is in charge of the police force of the Mushroom Kingdom, and he's not afraid to remind you about it either. At the end of the series, [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/FireEmblemAkaneia Marth]] takes up this position.]]

** The identities of the serial killer's first victims: Pichu, [[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Roy]], and [[spoiler:Mewtwo]]. (They were playable in ''Melee'', but weren't included in ''Brawl''.)

* PoliceBrutality: [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Ike]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblem and]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAkaneia Marth]] go from a recurring ThoseTwoGuys duo to outright {{Jerkass}}es when they pick on a couple of homeless characters in Episode 4. The brutality [[FromBadToWorse gets worse]] from there.

* StraightGay: VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Ike and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAkaneia Marth.]] Unlike Captain Falcon and Pit, they could easily pass for HeterosexualLifePartners, if it wasn't for a few lines. The dancing together in a [[WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame gay bar]] was sort of a hint too.

* ShowWithinAShow: Mushroom Kingdom News.

* SoundtrackDissonance: [[spoiler:Leaf plays a tape of Red singing a slower, almost melancholy rendition of the main Pokémon theme (Gotta Catch 'Em All) at Red's funeral.]] Considering the circumstances, it was almost an unintentional VideoWill.

* VillainousBreakdown: Ganondorf, once he realizes [[spoiler: how much he's being used by Ness and Lucas.]]
* TheVoiceless: The Ice Climbers (well, Popo technically has one speaking line in Episode 7), [[spoiler:Ness and Lucas]].

* AnnoyingArrows: [[spoiler:Link]] shoots Ganondorf twice in the shoulder, to no effect whatsoever.

* AsTheGoodBookSays: Episode 1 starts off by quoting the Book of Genesis.

* BackToBackBadasses:[[spoiler:Marth and Fox in Episode 10.]] The former even being there counted as his HeelFaceTurn, while the latter had one two episodes prior.

* BerserkButton: Never, ''ever'', call Mario a plumber if you value your teeth at all.

%% * BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Captain Falcon, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pI4lpc1CrA and how.]]]] And then [[spoiler:Link, Pit, and Samus in the final episode.]]

** Also [[spoiler:Leaf]] after [[spoiler:Red dies]].
** And [[spoiler:Zelda]], right before [[spoiler:Ganon kills Link]]

* BreatherEpisode: Between Episode 4 and 5, and again between 7 and 8, consisting of gag reels from the Mushroom Kingdom news station.

* DarkerAndEdgier: And how! Kirby is probably the greatest example of this, while Red is pretty much the only one to be unchanged or otherwise untainted - if not even ''more'' innocent.

* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Ganondorf]]'s motivation in Episode 10 appears to more or less boil down to "how can heroes possibly go on when evil like [[spoiler:Ness and Lucas]] exists?" The same applies to villains. See EvenEvilHasStandards below.

* DrowningMySorrows: Both Mario brothers have a tendency to do this at times, Mario more so than Luigi. So does Link, as we see when he interrogates Luigi.

* FallenHero: Mario was on the border for awhile, but after [[spoiler:hospitalizing Franchise/DonkeyKong in a bar fight]], he crossed into outright AntiHero territory. That's not to say that most of the cast aren't {{Anti Hero}}es to begin with though.

%% * FlamboyantGay: [[VideoGame/FZero Captain Falcon]] and [[VideoGame/KidIcarus Pit]]
** -->''"Come back sometime, and maybe you can... show me your moves."''
%% * {{Foreshadowing}}: In episode 8, Zelda appears to break up a fight between Mario and Link, and the 2 men start arguing about princesses, to which Mario responds: "That bitch will be the death of you!", [[spoiler:and in episode 9...]]
%% ** Bowser gives one too: ''"[[spoiler:Let them know...no one made a trophy out of the king!]]"''

%% * GainaxEnding: Wait, [[spoiler:Kirby? Miyamoto? Kirby?]] What the... What!?
%% ** *reads credits* [[spoiler:Sakurai's LEGS?!]]

* GreyAndGreyMorality: Very few characters are clear-cut good or evil in TWBB. [[ChildrenAreInnocent Red]] is the only completely Good characters, while only Kirby, [[GodGuise Olimar]], and [[AxCrazy the Ice Climbers]] are clear-cut Evil. Kirby himself is explicitly stated to be the reason everything fell apart--he taught the people to fear and it broke Mushroom Kingdom culture in half. Peach is the exact opposite--she's been explicitly stated to be the one thing holding the whole place together.
** The finale [[TheReveal reveals]] that [[spoiler: [[CreepyChild Ness and Lucas]] are also VERY clear-cut evil. Of course, they've been completely broken by Kirby, so there's the question of how responsible they are for their own actions that makes their morality far more ambiguous.]]

* HeroicNeutral: Captain Falcon.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Bowser, Fox and Zelda. [[SenselessSacrifice Zelda's...didn't quite work.]]]]
* [[spoiler:HijackedByGanon]]: Both in terms of EnsembleDarkHorse and its original intent.
** [[spoiler:Also, when Kirby shows up at the end of Episode 10 and tells Ganondorf he did a good job of watching the butchers in his absence before lopping his head off with Meta Knight's sword.]]

* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler:Olimar tries to sacrifice Mario for his cult. He ends up using himself when Mario shatters his helmet.]]
** [[spoiler:Olimar was about to take a knife to Falco for this purpose when Mario showed up.]]

* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:Red]]

** Captain Falcon cranks the hamminess UpToEleven in his appearance in Episode 7.
*** He most certainly gets away with it. Watch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pI4lpc1CrA this clip]] to find out why.
* LeaveHimToMe: [[spoiler:Meta Knight to Kirby]] and [[spoiler:Link to Mario.]]
* LibationForTheDead: [[spoiler:Fox pours a drink on the graves of Wolf and Falco before heading off the battle.]]

* LightFlickerTeleportation
* LoveTriangle: Between Mario, Luigi, and Peach.
** Zelda, Link and [[spoiler: Ganondorf, duh.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Ganondorf was manipulating both Zelda, Olimar and the butcher(s)]] the whole time.

** In the last shot of the last episode, [[spoiler:a man in a suit [[TheFaceless with his back to the camera]] walks into Miyamoto's office. Was there someone out there ''even worse than Kirby?'']]
*** Or is [[spoiler:Kirby about to eat Miyamoto?]]
*** No one can [[spoiler:eat Miyamoto!]]
* ManlyGay[=/=]{{Seme}}: [[VideoGame/FZero Captain Falcon]]
* MeaningfulFuneral[=/=]LonelyFuneral: [[spoiler:Red]]'s.
* MindScrew: The series leaves constant clues in reference to the identity of the butcher; in Episode 9 we're led to believe [[spoiler:that it's Zelda.]] In Episode 10 the [[spoiler:butchers turn out to be Ness and Lucas (two characters that had gotten no direct clues associated with them and have only had four seconds of total screentime ''in the entire series'' before Episode 10).]]
** Depending on how strict or loose you are in deciding which ones count, there were somewhere around ''sixteen'' "___ is the killer" or "___ did it" WildMassGuessing threads, and ''not a single one of them'' got it.
* MobWar: Between Bowser, Ganondorf, King [=Dedede=], and Mewtwo. [[spoiler:By Episode 9, only Ganondorf is left standing,]] and then [[spoiler:it comes full circle when he's killed by Kirby, the original cause of the chaos.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Wario]], who sells the main characters out to the corrupt police force.

* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Kirby.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After Zelda [[spoiler:murders Link]] at the end of episode 9, episode 10 opens with her crying in the bathroom.

* MythologyGag: Too many to list here, but we'll try anyway.

** In episode 3, when Mario and Luigi are arguing, just after Luigi notices the pills Mario took, Mario pins Luigi against the wall, and you'll notice a poster for Film/SuperMarioBros.
** Luigi drinks from one of those Potion Flasks you got in Super Mario Bros. 2.

** When Luigi unlocks his apartment door in episode 1, he uses a key from Super Mario Bros. 2, then one of those floating mask enemies appears behind him.

*** Relatedly, this may be why Waluigi is a mentally challenged man obsessed with games: he's never been in a proper Mario game.

** [[spoiler:The kids are from Videogame/{{Earthbound}}, a game where everything starts looking childish and innocent,]] but ends up being full of NightmareFuel. [[spoiler:Lucas and Ness looked nice at first,]] but it turned out they were not what they seemed.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Mario goes to root out the corruption in the police department and save his brother. He even uses the Master Key to open up and rescue everyone unfairly imprisoned... but he also ends up freeing Kirby. Oops.]]
** [[spoiler:Not only that, but remember how Meta Knight was killed by being burned so badly that they mistook his corpse for Kirby's? Kirby probably did that with the fire flower that Mario was carrying around and dropped in the confusion. If not for Kirby getting hold of the fire flower there's at least a decent chance Meta Knight would have beaten him again.]]
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Link. Doesn't last long, though.]]
* OldShame: Mario very nearly goes [[BerserkButton berserk]] InUniverse when the addled Waluigi says at his arrival, ''"It's Mario... It's a '''Mario party!'''"''
** Also, any mention of plumbers, for both Mario Brothers. Luigi is rather annoyed, but it's Mario's BerserkButton.
* OneLastSmoke: In a form; the last thing [[spoiler:Red]] does is [[spoiler:give Luigi a Jigglypuff so he could listen to her singing. One last random act of kindness.]] What's even ''worse'' is that [[spoiler:Jigglypuff was also already killed in the blast and Red doesn't realize it.]]
** [[spoiler:Jigglypuff actually managed to survive. Leaf attacked Wario with her and then gave her to [[Videogame/{{Earthbound}} Paula]] at the end of Episode 10.]]
*** [[spoiler:Maybe Jigglypuff had merely fainted?]]
* TheOner: In the finale, the scene where Mario [[spoiler: uses an Invincibility Star to pound his way through about twenty of Wario's goons for nearly a minute]] is shot without any breaks. A particularly impressive bit of work, considering the both the low-budget style of the series and the relatively complex fighting that ensues.
* OneWomanWail: Or in this case, One-Pokémon Trainer Wail. [[spoiler:It provides the background for Peach's kidnapping.]]
** Red does it again [[spoiler:over his own funeral and Yoshi's murder]].
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Meta Knight seems to be this way with Kirby, seemingly dedicating his life to keeping guard over him. And then when Kirby escapes, Meta Knight responds to it by saying to Luigi; "He's mine... At last." before proceeding to fight him.

* PetTheDog: [[VideoGame/WarioLand Wario]] looks after his mentally handicapped brother, Waluigi. Of course, he later had Waluigi [[spoiler:assist in the murder of Red.]]
* PoliceBrutality: [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Ike]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblem and]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAkaneia Marth]] go from a recurring ThoseTwoGuys duo to outright [[JerkAss Jerkasses]] when they pick on a couple of homeless characters in Episode 4. The brutality [[FromBadToWorse gets worse]] from there.
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:Mewtwo, Pichu, Roy, and Princess Daisy]].
** [[spoiler:''Especially'' Mewtwo.]]

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Both [[spoiler:Link and Zelda.]]
* RedHerring: The characters don't notice or mention it at all, but there's a brilliant one directed toward the viewers in the form of [[spoiler:Jigglypuff. Red was seen conspicuously hiding her from the others a few times early on, which directly led to a few WildMassGuessing theories involving either Red or Jigglypuff being the murderer. Episode 9 reveals that both were innocent in [[ChildrenAreInnocent every sense of the word]], and Red was merely trying to keep Jigglypuff a surprise for Luigi until he finished training her to sing.
** Another one: [[spoiler:Bowser was innocent all along]].
** And yet another one, one that was believed far more frequently: [[spoiler:Meta Knight wasn't the butcher; he was killed by Kirby, who turned out to be the BigBad, but not the butcher]].

* ScareChord:
** The music playing when [[VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} Olimar]] takes Luigi to his spaceship in Episode 5 is haunting, but not quite scary. It does, however, start setting the tone for what comes next. Once they enter the spaceship, the music gets creepier, and the [[PsychoStrings violin screeches]] when Olimar [[spoiler: kills and chops up the Pikmin, combined with their death screams,]] will make you shudder every single time, even when you know it's coming.

* SerialKiller: Six years prior to the events of the series, Kirby was incarcerated for a cannibalistic killing spree.

* ShoutOut: ''[[Film/JurassicPark "Clever bitches..."]]''

** And similarly, but much, much creepier - Kirby: [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros "Hiiiiiii..."]]

** The way [[spoiler: Mario discovers Yoshi's death]] is a reference to the [[spoiler: Horsehead scene]] from The Godfather.

* ShutUpHannibal: By the time they meet in Episode 10, Luigi is in ''[[TalkToTheFist no mood whatsoever]]'' to put up with another one of [[spoiler:Ganondorf]]'s {{Hannibal Lecture}}s.
** Twice, in fact. Once to Olimar "Cut the ''crazy''.", and once to the above "[[PunctuatedPounding I've had enough! Of your HEADGAMES!]]"

* SinisterScrapingSound

-->[[spoiler:'''Red:''']] [[TearJerker So, uh... was I any good?]]

* TakeThat: Sonic and Snake, the two non-Nintendo characters in the SSB series, are depicted as homeless and crippled, living in boxes in a back alley. The living arrangements, as noted above, are a reference to their CanonImmigrant status. The handicaps, on the other hand, are pure TakeThat.
** There's another TakeThat in the first episode to nothing else but the Wii itself, with Luigi passing by a poster promoting Wii Fit while narrating: "[[TheyChangedItNowItSucks Things aren't the same anymore.]]"
*** Arguably the entire story could be considered to contain an underlying TakeThat against Nintendo's recent policies in marketing and game development. The NeglectfulPrecursors themes, the abandonment of the old "heroes and villains" dichotomy... perhaps a statement about Nintendo's apparent abandonment of old fan-favorite game styles to push for the non-gamer market?
*** This is heavily implied by End of Days in the final episode when he mentions how the Nintendo Building is a monument to those who had long abandoned them. Makes you wonder why [[spoiler:Kirby killed Sakurai at the end of the series when it was Nintendo's abandonement that caused his rise to power in the first place.]]
** This one is kind of a stealth TakeThat: Meta-Knight, who in Brawl is widely considered to be the best character in the game to the point of being a game-breaker, [[spoiler:gets his long-awaited fight with Kirby, who was ranked as one of, if not the worst character in Melee. And then loses. His body is so badly burned that he's mistaken for Kirby - Mario dropped a Fire Flower a few minutes earlier, presumably Kirby got hold of it and used it to win the fight.]] This could possibly be a TakeThat to people who prefer to use Meta-Knight in tournament play.
*** Alternatively it could be a TakeThat to item usage, implying it messes up the balance of the game.
* TakeThatKiss: [[spoiler:Zelda kissing Ganondorf]] grossed out some people. Most people agree that the [[spoiler:second kiss, after he stabbed her]] is squick, though.
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Fox pushed Marth out of the way of one of G&W's tentacles.]]
** [[spoiler:Zelda also tries to do this. It does not go well...]]

* ThoseTwoGuys: Marth and Ike, and after they get promoted to main characters, Isaac and Saki, [[spoiler:who get vaporized by a Falcon Punch]].

* TitleDrop: In Episode 4 by Luigi, Episode 5 by King Dedede, Episode 8 by Olimar, and Episode 9 by [[spoiler:Bowser]].

* TrophyRoom: A nightmare-inducing example in Episode 10.
* TheTwink[=/=]{{Uke}}: [[VideoGame/KidIcarus Pit]].
* TykeBomb: [[spoiler: Lucas and Ness]]

* WHAMEpisode: Most episodes have their own varying degrees of whamness, but Episode 9 takes the cake. Then the final episode came along... [[spoiler:in which more than half of the remaining cast dies.]]
* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Tingle]] owns a place like this. [[AmericansHateTingle Don't even bother acting surprised]].

* WildMassGuessing: Fan speculation as to who the killer is.
* WretchedHive: The Mushroom Kingdom. If you're not an ObstructiveBureaucrat, then you're a petty criminal or in the pockets of TheMafia. Or sometimes all three.
** Unless you're [[WideEyedIdealist Red]]. Or maybe Leaf, but she's such a minor character it's kind of irrelevant.
*** Even Red worked for the Mafia, he was just unaware that he did.
*** He was probably aware but didn't care, he mostly did deliveries and took care of the pokemon. Considering they were used in cockfight-like fights it was probably desperately needed.
*** Fighting rings? [[ChildrenAreInnocent No, the pocket monsters just play rough sometimes.]]
* [[spoiler:YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle]]: [[spoiler:In Episode 9, Bowser verbatim states this after Luigi comes looking for Peach.]]