There Will Be Nintendo is a parody/“counter-fic” of There Will Be Brawl, originally a concept conceived in spite of the web series when the writer, AceTrainerErika604, also known as shonengirl on This Very Wiki, was 14.
It begins in a similar way to the original: Luigi lives in Brawl City in the Mushroom Kingdom with his alcoholic short-tempered brother Mario. The kingdom is a Crapsack World; it is ridden with crime and corruption, the residents are often cynical jerks, and any hope gets stamped out faster than a snowflake melts in hell. It’s also been fused with fragments of various other worlds in an event merely called The Merge, and flooded with refugees from these now destroyed worlds.
However, Luigi starts realizing something; is this the real him? Would the real him turn to drug dealing? Would the real Mario really become a drunk, short-tempered grouch? Why did the Mushroom Kingdom deteriorate so much suddenly, anyway?
It turns out, The Writer, the Big Bad behind Kirby the Cannibal, is slowly corrupting everyone, brainwashing many others directly to further spread misery. As more and more heroes start gaining awareness of the lie they’re living, or already remember their past, they start to rebel. They must revive the Old Gods of Nintendo and bring Nintendo Magic back. The story then derails into a mix of major events from the original and a completely new story about rising up against the entity that has corrupted the once joyful Mushroom Kingdom.
Tropes in There Will Be Nintendo include:
- Anyone Can Die: As a general rule, if a character dies in the original, they die here.
- Berserk Button: Do not bring harm to Pit if Captain Falcon or Samus can know about it. When Captain Falcon and Samus find out exactly what job Pit has at the bar he works at, they absolutely wreck the place, Falcon beating the owner of the store within an inch of his life before Pit makes him stop.
- Big "NO!": Red when he sees what happened to Ness and Lucas.
- The Cassandra: While in the original Red was rather oblivious to the bad stuff going on around him, here he’s perceptive and has long realized that something is up; he apparently tried to reach Mewtwo, knowing that the crime lord persona wasn’t the “real” him, trying to disband the gang by appealing to Mewtwo. At the beginning he tries to tell Luigi and Mario about The Corruption, but they don’t believe him, believing Red to be Just a Kid.
- Child Soldiers: The Corruption takes root especially in traumatized children’s minds, though adults can also be corrupted (and to great effect, descending on the person). While Red is killed by Wario due to being deemed useless for Corruption, and Pit never gets dragged away, Ness, Lucas, Popo, and Nana aren’t so lucky. Kirby, The Brute, is also one of these, and Patient Zero for the Corruption.
- Creepy Child: Corrupted!Kirby. Corrupted!Kirby. He’s just as much of a Hannibal Lector Expy as the original TWBB Kirby, but it’s made clear he’s a child.
- Corrupted!Ness, Lucas, and the Ice Climbers as well.
- Corrupt Cops: Well, literally. In “Trouble At The Station”, relatively early in the story, Ike, Marth, Saki, and Issac are Trophyfied and taken away, with Ike and Marth facilitating Link, Zelda, and Mist’s escape. They’re, to Link’s horror, subsequently subject to The Corruption and rebuilt into the Black Knights so The Writer can enforce their rule through them. Ike is the least affected, keeping some of his old personality and mercifulness, Marth becomes arrogant, spiteful, and brutal, but still is shown to have mercy left in him (this is impressive as they’re both forced to relive their friends’ deaths in the Merge, with Marth also being tortured with his wife’s memory especially), but poor Issac and Saki are deeply corrupted to the point of insanity and they become sadistic monsters.
- The Dragon: Gandondorf.
- For the Evulz: The Writer’s motivation. He wants to create as much misery as possible because “That makes a good story, does it not?”
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: What Ike and Marth, as well as Captain Falcon and Pit have been changed to.
- Captain Falcon sees Pit as a cute little brother, calling him “Brother” and “Angel Boy”, providing for him and giving him support alongside Samus after he’s been separated from Palutena.
- Ike and Marth, as well as the former’s sister Mist, have stuck together since the Merge, finding solace in their similar backstories as the only survivors of their respective armies. They are still basically inseparable. Marth and Roy also were this back when Roy was alive.
- Ness, Lucas, and Red are very close. Red was understandably heartbroken when Ness and Lucas disappeared along with their families one day. He’s especially heartbroken when he sees that Ness and Lucas have been corrupted and were the Butcherers all along.
- Handicapped Badass: Ascended Extra Sonic the Hedgehog; his legs have been paralyzed, and he’s understandably depressed about it when Mario and Luigi encounter him; Tails can’t access the tech needed to make advanced enough prosthetics at this time. However, Yoshi gives him another option to fight; Sonic can ride him into battle, spin dashing and using himself as a slingshot bullet. He becomes a mainstay combatant as a result.
- Hot-Blooded: Captain Falcon. Enough said.
- Red also has his pre-timeskip personality from Pokemon Pixel, which is that of a plucky, but Adorakable kid who will charge into danger if it’s for what’s right.
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Samus, as in the original. Though as she remembers her past, she starts lamenting how she has fallen, though she keeps it up because it’s useful in gathering information.
- Disturbingly, Pit, who is physically and mentally 13. To make it worse, Pit was inspired by Samus to take this path. Though he initially claims that he “serves drinks” at the bar. The owner deliberately puts him only on serving duty when Falcon comes for a drink, and the charade keeps up until Pit finally confesses.
- Lovable Coward:
- Luigi has shades of this, though not as much as in canon Mario material.
- Green Oak does not want anything to do with his terrible surroundings and constantly lives in fear. He naturally thinks Red and Leaf are nuts for what they do, though he pretends to not be afraid. However, this isn’t portrayed as a bad thing, and more a reasonable response for an 11/12 year old to his surroundings. Still, he charges into battle atop his Charizard, Sepaltra’s - the one he lent to Red - back in the climax, leading the other Pokémon alongside Yellow and Luka.
- Mad Scientist: Corrupted!Olimar, AKA End of Days. Distraught by the death of his family, he’s been corrupted by The Writer and driven to insanity, building a cult around him.
- Mind Rape: The Corruption process is basically torture. Apparently it’s easier for it to take root if the target is traumatized, and especially if the target is a child.
- The Mourning After: To say Marth is very distressed with not only the survivor’s guilt of seeing all his friends die in the Merge and knowing his kingdom is destroyed, but about the death of Caeda, his wife, is an understatement. He basically keeps her Wing Spear as a Security Blanket, having an almost creepy obsession with it and clinging onto it for dear life. He does try to act like he’s okay on the surface, but he never truly gets over Caeda, and Mist once catches him crying Caeda’s name in bed as he hugs the spear. He cannot bare the idea of losing someone else, so he desperately hopes that Roy is still alive, much like Eliwood, both of them almost delusional in their belief due to the fact that a body was never found. Turns out Marth and Eliwood were right though.
- Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Roy is actually alive. He’s being used as a test subject for The Corruption, but manages to maintain his sanity somehow throughout it all. When he’s freed, he joins the resistance. Eventually, he talks sense into Marth, freeing him of his Corruption.Roy: Yes, I am alive. But Ike is dead, Marth. He is dead. I am sorry.
- Ship Sinking: Marth x Ike and Falcon x Pit. In this version Marth is too busy grieving over Caeda, his canonical wife, and Pit is explicitly a child.
- Survivor's Guilt: Marth, Ike, and Mist, but especially Marth, due to the deaths of their entire armies in the Merge. Marth and Mist bond over this in one early chapter; Marth apparently has had suicidal thoughts over this before.
- Take Up My Sword: Before he dies, Ike tells Mist to give Raganel to Marth if he gets freed from The Corruption. Marth indeed gets Raganel, and dual-wields it with Falchion in the climax.
- Tragic Keepsake: Caeda’s Wing Spear for Marth.
- Also Mist ties Ike’s headband around her head to honor her brother, after taking up a sword herself.
- Vice City: Brawl City.
- Would Hurt a Child: The villains. In fact, they’d especially hurt children.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Hinawa and Claus were actually revived in the new world created by the Merge; only for them to be brutally killed again in front of Lucas in order to facilitate his Corruption.
