Web Animation / Level UP

Level UP is a YouTube channel that focuses on humorous video game-based animations, particularly Super Mario Bros. and Pokémon, as well as other games. Some videos are short and standalone, while others are longer and have a sense of continuity.

Hallmarks of the channel include custom sprite animations, a focus on video game logic and crossovers between characters and genres, and a recurring Goomba and Koopa, as well as Freeze Frame Bonuses and minigames. Level UP is also affiliated with Hat-Loving Gamer, and is part of Team Level UP.

The channel can be found here.

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These videos contain examples of:

• Aborted Arc: The channel has left many stories unfinished over the years. For example, Mario's Balloon Cruise and Mario's Pokémon moves calamity both ended in a Cliffhanger, with the former explicitly teasing its next chapter, but neither has been followed up on despite having been uploaded in August 2021 and June 2018 respectively. Even Mariocraft, one of the channel's earliest and most iconic story arcs, remains unfinished and hasn't been touched or mentioned since March 2020, while the very first story, Chiz the Cheese, never got past the second episode.
• Accidental Murder: In "When everything Mario jumps on E X P A N D S" Mario abuses his Superpowers For A Day to make a gold coin enormous. He continues to stomp on the coin until it becomes so huge that it completely destroys Earth, causing literally everyone on the planet to lose a life, including Mario himself. The lives lost shown includes minor enemies, some friendly NPCs, Mario's friends, Princess Plum, and even Level UP himself. Waluigi in particular was on his last life when the world was destroyed and received a Game Over.
• Achievements in Ignorance: As shown in Goomba Revolution Shorts- Prank Wars!, apparently, using rollout can reflect magic, and no one but Hat Goomba notices.
• Actionized Adaptation: Red's Boulder Badge Calamity and Cascade Badge Calamity imagine the Pokemon world as having lethal obstacle courses to get a badge, with Red having to traverse pits, hostile Pokemon, and more.
• Adaptational Badass: Mario has several moves from different games including Super Smash Bros., Goombas know multiple parkour skills, and Koopa Troopas can throw their shells and catch them.
• All for Nothing:
  • The 2021 Christmas special involves Mario collecting a lot of coins to give Peach a Bowser repellent spray for the next time he tries to kidnap her...only for Bowser to reveal he'd built up an immunity to it and kidnapping her anyway.
  • Played for Laughs with "Mario's 1-Up Mayhem" where, after Mario has gotten plenty of extra lives to endure the deadly obstacle course, the course is finally shown to be MUCH easier than anticipated, and Mario doesn't lose a single life to it.
• Alternate Continuity: For the most part, the Team Level UP videos aren't canon to the main series. Subverted with Rise of Hat Goomba, where it turns out that he's working with Gold Goomba, making him a Canon Immigrant.
• Arc Welding: The Goomba Revolution and the attack of Level Down, initially completely separate story arcs, are combined in Into the Void.
• Armor-Piercing Attack: Level DOWN's forbidden technique God Mode may be powerful, but its Nigh-Invulnerability is no match for the power of a Gold Mushroom, as Gold Goomba demonstrates by knocking out two soulless Pokemon with God Mode activated at once.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever:
  • When Mario touches a Colossal Mushroom he grows so big he straddles the planet. Later, Bowser does his best to stop him.
  • Balloon Bowser is a gigantic inflatable version of the Koopa King.
  • In one video, anything that Mario lands on feet first turns enormous. Emphasis on the anything, as this extends to inanimate objects, characters, and items.
• Audience Participation:
  • The one million subscribers video was a collaboration with fans, using many of their suggestions in the video.
  • Sir Buppington's name was picked from a response to a post on Twitter asking what to name the Toad Warrior.
• Author Appeal: Some videos feature Ditto to some extent.
• Badass Normal: Eyepatch Goomba doesn't use any power-ups, instead using improved skills that most other Goombas don't know such as wall jumping and roll attacks.
• The Bad Guy Wins:
  • Mario Party Mayhem has Wario and Waluigi beat Mario and Luigi in a mini-game.
  • If Fighting Bowser Had An Impossible Mode 2 has Bowser defeat Mario on every single life. Balloon Bowser gives Mario a similar treatment.
  • A good deal of the shorts involving Baldi have him winning in the end. Averted in the Sonic short, where Tails is able to solve the impossible question and calm him down.
  • Mario fails to defeat the Goombas in the Giant Goomba Maze, letting them continue their revolution unopposed.
• Big Bad:
  • Magikoopa for the Mariocraft series.
  • Level DOWN, as it turns out, has been possessing Luigi for quite a while and granted him God Mode abilities. He was so good at hiding it that Luigi himself was unaware of the possession. He eventually takes action in God Mode Luigi vs. the Cavern of Arrows, where he banishes Level UP to the Void and later attacks the Mushroom Kingdom, taking many lives in the process.
• Big Good:
  • Level UP takes on this role during the God Luigi arc. After being banished to the Void, he intends to make his goal to escape from it, recruit some allies, and stop Level DOWN from taking control of the Mushroom Kingdom. He ultimately takes action in The Goomba Revolution - Into the Void where he summons the top ranking members of the Goomba Revolution to fight off the Pokémon Soulless and enlist them to help save the world from Level DOWN, and then reclaim his channel from his evil counterpart.
  • Princess Plum also fills this role during the God Luigi arc. After Level UP and Wolfie get captured by the Soulless in Princess Plum vs The Soulless, she makes her goal to rescue them and aid Level UP escape from the Void in order to stop Level DOWN.
• Body Backup Drive: This is how extra lives work in some episodes. If Mario died by zombification, his old body will remain even when he respawns and it may try to attack him. One Mario zombie somehow even gets his own extra lives. Toadette also ends up suffering from this, leading to the creation of Zombie Toadette.
• Body Horror: One of the Cursed Mushroom effects has Mario's body fall apart pixel by pixel, while another turns him into a block. Similarly, Luigi getting the Weird Mushroom allows him to fold himself and stretch to uncomfortably long lengths.
• Boss Battle: These are common at the end of most animations. Bowser usually serves as the boss in the Mario-related animations, though there are times when this varies, such as Bowser Jr. or a Goomba Revolution member being the final threat.
• Boss in Mook Clothing: In Goomba Revolution related mazes, the maze bosses include professionally trained Goombas. To put in perspective, Mario ends up losing to Eyepatch Goomba (a basic Goomba) and a Paragoomba.
• Brick Joke: At the start of If Pokémon moves were SUPER realistic, an Aggron is sent out during a wild encounter at sea, and immediately sinks. The video ends underwater, with that same Aggron landing on a Feebas and the narration saying "Aggron used Stomp!"
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Eyepatch Goomba had previously encountered Mario as a regular Goomba and isn't surprised when Mario doesn't remember him from back then.
• Butt-Monkey: Toads, Goombas, and Waluigi are often on the receiving end of comic mistreatment, and even when Waluigi wins he still tends to get hurt somehow.
• Canon Immigrant: Hat Goomba debuted in a Team Level UP video, which normally isn't canon to the main series. He makes his first appearance in the main channel in Mario vs the Great Pyramid of Goomba where he rescues Eyepatch Goomba from sinking into the lava after Mario beats him.
• Casual Danger Dialogue: At the end of "Giant Balloon Enemies would be OP in Super Mario Bros.", the giant balloon Bowser comes along to attack. Mario's last words before being effortlessly kicked off-screen by the inflatable titan?
  "Hey, let's-a play checkers!"
• Christmas Episode: Some shorts revolve around characters celebrating holidays, like Halloween, Easter, or Christmas.
• Cliffhanger:
  • Mario's Pokemon Moves Calamity and Red's Boulder Badge Calamity end on hooks for sequels.
  • Mario vs Bowser's Mega Submarine ended with a teaser for Mario's Balloon Cruise, which itself ended with a teaser for Mario and the Rainbow Road Express.
• Continuity Nod: Several places Luigi passes through in Bowser Kidnaps Daisy and then this happened are from older videos, including the Giant BOOM Box maze and the submarine video.
• Co-Dragons: Magigoomba, Eyepatch Goomba, Hat Goomba, Sea Captain Goomba, and a Paragoomba serve as these to Gold Goomba.
• Creator Cameo: Nelly's (Level UP) Author Avatar appears in Zombie Mario's Maze Mayhem as one of the zombies Zombie Mario awakens.
• Curbstomp Battle: The titular battle in the first episode of The Goomba Revolution starts out as one, with the Ghosts always able to respawn thanks to the center box, alongside Pac-Man holding out well against Gold Goomba, which gives the Goombas a lot of trouble. It takes Magigoomba locking out the box with a spell for things to finally turn in their favor.
• Darker and Edgier: Battle for the Mushroom Kingdom has a terrifyingly large body count for the Toads. While several Toads do the usual Death Throw, some Toads leave behind corpses, two of which Level DOWN sends to the void. Toadette in particular goes slack jawed upon being slammed into the wall lethally hard. Worse still, the whole thing ends on a Downer Ending, with Mario and Daisy on the brink of being finished off, and Luigi, trapped in his own mind, unable to do anything to stop it.
• A Day in the Limelight:
  • If Toad was the Main Hero of Super Mario Bros. has Toad in the starring role as Mario goes on vacation and Toad fights to save Peach from Goomba and Koopa.
  • Luigi's Balloon Cruise has Luigi in a starring action role as he battles a giant Bowser balloon.
  • Zombie Mario's Maze Mayhem has one of Mario's zombified bodies as the main character, along with other infected characters.
  • Goomba's Balloon Gets Stuck in a Tree stars a Goomba as the protagonist.
• Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: Characters like Mario and Luigi have several lives, as well as sometimes Bowser and certain enemy protagonists. Even if Mario loses all of his lives, he'll still be able to come back, but he'll be kicked out of the mission he's in and will have less lives when he continues. Seems to be averted in the Mariocraft and The Goomba Revolution story arcs, where in the former Mario and Bowser are actually in risk of getting killed by either Magikoopa or the Minecraft world, and in the latter, Bowser is temporarily taken out of commission for a while after being overthrown.
• Defeat Equals Explosion: Balloon enemies explode shortly after defeat if they weren't already popped. Said explosion is also rather violent and can result in a Taking You with Me if the victim is within vicinity.
• Demonic Possession: In God Mode Luigi vs the Stone Statues Temple, it's revealed that Luigi himself is possessed by an evil entity that grants him godlike abilities.
• Didn't Think This Through: The Goombas in Level UP: Mario vs the Giant BOOM Block Maze realize that they have no way of leaving the BOOM Block after Mario evades them.
• The Dog Bites Back: The Goomba Revolution has Goombas overthrow Bowser and invade other games, starting with Pac-Man.
• Down to the Last Play: Maze levels and other challenges usually have Mario win on his very last life.
• Downer Ending: Mario fails to clear the Death Trap Mayhem, getting a Game Over right before reaching the flag.
• Early-Bird Cameo: In Stretchy Luigi's REVENGE, it's been confirmed that the volcanic location Luigi passes by is for the yet-to-be-released "Mario vs. The World of Fire" animation.
• Early-Installment Weirdness:
  • Earlier videos had more blood as well as a tendency toward violent humor, while later videos have characters die like they do in the games and are more family-friendly. Some episodes still have Family Unfriendly Deaths though.
  • In its beginnings, the channel uploaded content from a variety of works, with Mario being slightly more frequent but not dominant. Over time, Mario got more and more focus, and nowadays the channel is almost exclusively Mario themed content, with the occassional non-Mario video once in a blue Moon.
• Enemy Mine:
  • Bowser and Mario team up in Mariocraft. Luigi, Toad, Yoshi, and Sir Buppington also team up with Ludwig and Roy Koopa of the Koopalings.
  • In the first episode of The Goomba Revolution, Pac-Man and the four Ghosts, normally never amicable with one another, work together to combat the common threat in the Goombas.
  • God Mode Luigi UNLEASHED features Bowser rallying Peach, Mario, and the Mushroom Kingdom to defend it against God Mode Luigi.
  • At the end of the fight between the top Goomba Revolution members and the Pokémon Soulless, Level UP enlists their help to join him, Wolfie and Plum in stopping Level DOWN. They initially refuse this call, though soon agree when Level UP makes it clear that Level DOWN will start attacking other universes after he's finished with the main one. Even Gold Goomba is quick to understand that Level DOWN is going to seriously jeopardise his efforts and make them All for Nothing if he succeeds.
• Enraged by Idiocy: In the Level DOWN arc, Princess Plum is enraged when Level UP summons a bunch of Goombas to take down the soulless Pokemon infused with God Mode. Said Goombas are the top ranking members of the Goomba Revolution. The Pokémon never had a chance.
• Extreme Omnivore: When Mario collects multiple Weird Mushrooms, he goes from eating Pac-Man dots to eating pipes, platforms, and Bowser's castle, as well as enemies.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The zombies are surprisingly sociable with each other, even if only exclusively each other. Zombie Peach takes it a step further and gives the living Mario a cake.
• Evil Counterpart: Level Down is the evil counterpart to Level Up and uses his reality-warping powers to possess and destroy things instead of creating.
• Evolving Title Screen: This happens quite a bit throughout the Level DOWN arc. When Luigi first takes over, the intro sequence is changed to say "Luigi UP". After Level DOWN is fully introduced, the intro changes to his likeness. Finally, when Level UP regains his energy, he personally restores the Level UP intro screen back to normal.
• Face on a Milk Carton: Princess Peach shows up as missing on the back of Mario's cereal box, driving him to go rescue her again.
• Fighting from the Inside: Luigi refuses to destroy his friends and family when ordered to, so Level DOWN assumes direct control.
• Foregone Conclusion: Seeing that Mario mistakes a regular Magikoopa for the Big Bad of Mariocraft in a collab entry by Level UP, Mario and Bowser had already defeated Mariocraft's Magikoopa.
• Game-Breaker: In-universe, there's a collection of videos about characters being OP in Super Mario Bros and other games with videos detailing why.
• Glass Cannon: Balloon enemies can be easily popped by sharp or sufficiently heavy objects, but some of the bigger ones otherwise have little problem tearing through walls and will make their victims meet an explosive end.
• Greed: One of Mario's most notable character traits is his love for gold, which very often ends up being a Fatal Flaw for him and has caused a fair share of his deaths.
• The Ground Is Lava: Some animations have this as a prime gimmick. Others swap out the lava for other nasty properties, such as acid, radioactive waste or even liquid nitrogen.
• Halloween Episode:
  • The Mario Goes Trick or Treating series has Mario and the Mushroom Kingdom inhabitants dressed up and getting candy, with special costumes giving Mario powers based on what he's wearing.
  • The Zombie Invasion has the revolting Goombas from "The Goomba Revolution" series having to survive a zombie invasion.
• The Heavy: While Gold Goomba does plenty of fighting himself, Eyepatch Goomba is the one to grief Mario the most often.
• Hero Antagonist: Some shorts feature Mario as the antagonist, such as Here's How Mario can beat the Impossible Mode Bowser shorts, with Bowser losing lives instead of Mario.
• Heroic Mime: Much like in canon, Mario doesn't speak in full sentences and only speaks in occasional catchphrases and grunts. He along with Luigi and Yoshi are the only characters to never have speech bubbles. Subverted in "If Peach and Mario switched places," "Mario Kart in a Nutshell," and "Mario's Mega Grrrol Escape". As of the latter, Mario is now fully voiced in a few episodes and in every outro where he appears.
• Horrifying the Horror: In one of the comments animated in "I animated your Mario ideas!", after Shrek overpowers Impossible Mode Bowser without breaking a sweat, Level DOWN actually expresses shock and immediately shuts the adjacent door to keep Shrek out.
• Hostile Show Takeover: At the end of "God Mode Luigi vs the Cavern of Arrows," Luigi becomes too powerful for Level UP to despawn, defeats the creator, and takes over the channel.
• Identical Stranger: In Level UP's entry for one of his collabs, a normal Magikoopa is mistaken by Mario to be the Big Bad of Mariocraft.
• Inexplicably Awesome: Luigi can range from being a Butt-Monkey to being this depending on the episode. How much of this being a result of him being possessed by an entity giving him God Mode is unclear, but at least one scenario shows that he had 99 lives while everyone else besides Mario, Bowser, and Waluigi (the latter whom was on his last life) had two lives remaining.
• Later-Installment Weirdness: In some later videos, Peach uses her Mystery Mushroom costume's sprites from Super Mario Maker as her idle animation and walking animations.
• Lame Pun Reaction: At the end of "Mario vs. The Cavern of Arrows" following the plumber's defeat, Bowser snarks that he's glad Mario got the point. Considering he made other arrow-based puns leading into the fight, it's no wonder Level UP's Author Avatar gives an unamused look towards him, prompting him to cut it out.
• Mini-Me: Some videos have characters and their Tiny counterparts working together to solve puzzles.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Nurse Goomba, who would normally antagonize anyone who hurts Goombas, refuses to heal them after they and Bowser arrest her for taking care of a Yoshi egg.
• Mundane Made Awesome: This video shows the Mario cast in a game of checkers filled with epic music, strategies, and power-ups.
• Nintendo Hard: Invoked with the If Fighting Bowser Had An Impossible Mode videos, which show ridiculously hard Bowser fights that take all of Mario's skill to overcome.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: Mario vs Bowser's Mega Submarine has Bowser sink Mario's boat and kill him before he even realizes there's a threat. Luckily, a 1-Up revives him and lets him combat Bowser.
• Not Completely Useless: In "Mario's Pokemon Moves Calamity," the near-useless Splash move is ultimately what gets him safely across a lava pit.
• Not So Invincible After All:
  • New Super Luigi Bloopers has the normally unflappable Luigi fail at winning by doing nothing.
  • Near the end of "The Zombie Invasion", Gold Goomba is knocked out by a few of the Toad zombies, forcing Magigoomba and Para-Goomba to carry him out of their reach.
• Not So Stoic: Zombie Mario's Maze Mayhem shows a zombie Goomba being saddened over being unable to jump high enough to reach a pipe. Zombie Mario promptly comes back through the pipe to help him through.
• Now You Tell Me: Needless to say, in Level UP: Mario vs the Giant BOOM Block Maze Mario's quite disappointed when the game tells him to never hit or break the big BOOM block after he dies to it.
  Mario: Now it tells me?
• Open Sesame: Occasionally, in the absence of a lever to open a door, Mario will resort to saying "Open Salami". And it works.
• Original Character: In a first for the series, which tends to use existing characters or make new ones out of recolors, Level UP Vs. the Soulless introduces Princess Plum of the Moonlight Kingdom.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: In "Mario Ate a Bowl of Cereal and This Happened", Bowser breaks into Mario's house while wearing a green cap and fake moustache, doing nothing to conceal his reptilian features, and still Mario thinks he's Luigi.
• Plot Armor: Most named characters who don't have extra lives have this. Sir Buppington in particular gets launched away from the chaos during Level DOWN's attack on the Mushroom Kingdom, sparing him from a devastating ground pound.
• Race Against the Clock: Mario finds a Mega Mushroom but never stops growing has Mario slowly growing after eating a Mega Mushroom and having to navigate a level quickly before his new size turns against him.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Toad, Nurse Goomba, and Baby Yoshi team up to escape after Gold Goomba's army took over. They go further underground to the prison to bust out the rest of the prisoners and make an army to stop the revolution.
• Rapid-Fire Comedy: The "A Legit Speedrun" series specializes in this; think of Something About as a sprite animation and you pretty much have it.
• Recursive Reality: Mario and the Ladder of Worlds has ladders so huge each individual rung has an entire world in it.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: When Bowser kidnaps Daisy, Luigi's eyes turn red and he stretches himself to his limits to save her. It also glows whenever Luigi is about to use reality bending powers. Turns out that this is actually the result of Luigi being possessed by a malevolent entity known as Level Down.
• Resized Vocals: Tiny Mario and Tiny Luigi (and, to a lesser extent, the Tiny versions of other characters) use high-pitched versions of the voice clips of their regular counterparts. This also applies to sound effects, so when someone gets a mini 1-Up Mushroom or travels through a mini Warp Pipe, a high pitched version of their respective sounds play.
• Rise to the Challenge: Mario's Rising Lava Escape has him try to escape a room full of rising lava.
• Rubber Man: Luigi gains these powers upon eating a Weird Mushroom and keeps them, even across lives, averting Status Quo Is God.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Level DOWN arrives with Luigi to attack the Mushroom Kingdom, Bowser retreats to his own kingdom to prepare its defences, leaving the Mushroom Kingdom to tend to their own. To his credit, he did at least give the Mushroom Kingdom a heads up of what's to come, and retreating was a smart move on his part considering how quickly Level DOWN is able to mow down the Toads.
• Self-Disposing Villain: Mario eats a bowl of cereal has Bowser trying to overkill Mario in disguise, only to fall victim to his own machinations while Mario is completely oblivious.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: Mario's 1-Up Mayhem has Mario seeing a difficult challenge and gathering many 1-Up Mushrooms to help him... only to learn the challenge was extremely easy and not losing a single life.
• Space Episode: Several episodes take place in the depths of outer space, such as Pac-Man and the Asteroid Belt Maze having Pac-Man navigate asteroids, moons, and a planet populated by ghosts.
• Special Guest: Slick Frame, known for his "Ask Mario" series, voices Mario in the 200 episode special. Mario would continue to use this voice in later videos he appears in.
• The Starscream: Through a well planned out takeover, an army of Goombas led by a Goomba who consumed a Gold Mushroom took out Bowser and stole his resources, intending to collect six artifacts from different games to take over the world themselves.
• Status Quo Is God: Averted with Luigi, whose Rubber Man powers gained from eating a Weird Mushroom are permanent.
• Story Arc:
  • In Mariocraft, after Bowser killed his wife for failing to kill Mario, Magikoopa unleashes his rage onto the entire kingdom using the world of Minecraft.
  • In Goomba Revolution, the Goombas betray Bowser and seek to take over the kingdom by stealing six powerful weapons from different video games.
  • The God Mode Luigi arc, where Luigi became powerful enough to banish the creator to another dimension and take over the channel.
• Stronger Than They Look: Balloon enemies and their attacks. They're rather light and they pop easily. The problem is, part of their strength lies in the fact that they pop easily since their explosion can result in a Taking You with Me.
• Swapped Roles: Several videos are about characters switching places and roles, like Mario and Bowser and Mario and Peach.
• Stronger Than They Look: In Goomba Revolution Shorts - Prank Wars!, a Goomba shows off the rollout attack that Eyepatch Goomba taught him to another Goomba. The other Goomba simply saw this as showing off. Hat Goomba attempts to prank on the Goombas using Magigoomba's stolen wand, but the Goomba using rollout ends up reflecting the magic projectile Hat Goomba shot and hitting Hat Goomba with it, turning him into a frog.
• Suddenly Voiced: Princess Plum vs The Soulless contains the first use of full-on voice acting in the series as Plum narrates her journey.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: Noted in the Among Us crossover video when Potato takes note of Luigi doing nothing but staring menacingly, with Mario saying it's just something he does sometimes.
• Throw the Dog a Bone:
  • Smash Kingdom Mayhem has Toad finally win at something by being the last person standing at the end of the fight.
  • In Sonic's Monitor Calamity, the last monitor Sonic opens contained the Chaos Emeralds.
• Timed Mission: The Giant Bob-Omb Maze has Mario having to escape before the fuse ignites and it explodes. There are other animations that have this as well, such as when a Hammer Bro is given access to try and strike the huge BOOM Block, Mario having to act fast to knock it into the lava before it can achieve its aim.
• Token Good Teammate: Nurse Goomba is a female Goomba whose job is to rescue flattened Goombas and nurse them back to health. She normally antagonizes anyone who attacks (or she thinks attacks) Goombas, particularly Mario. However, she is the only member of Bowser's army who cares for a lost Yoshi egg she found in a rainy day and she is jailed along with the egg for taking care of the offspring of a species that Bowser's army antagonizes, leading to her teaming up with Toad to stop the Goomba Revolution.
• Too Dumb to Live: Zombified characters tend to be unable to progress because they don't know that they can't jump. Either they're told by a more intelligent zombie how to do something or they learn through trial and error.
• Uniformity Exception: Eyepatch Goomba is a Badass Normal Goomba who wears an eyepatch over his scarred eye.
• Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object: Lucky Mario vs Impossible Mode Bowser is essentially this as Mario's impossible luck and Bowser's unmatched skill clash in even matches.
• Villain Protagonist: Some shorts star Bowser or his minions. The Goomba Revolution series in particular focuses on a group of traitorous Goombas who seek power from other worlds.
• Villains Out Shopping: Bowser passes time waiting for Mario with mundane activities like cooking, painting, playing games, and bouncing on the axe chain. In the video where Toad fills in for Mario, Bowser is similarly occupied waiting in line at the ice cream truck.
• Void Between the Worlds: Seen in The Void between Worlds, a dimension where objects and enemies from many different games appear. Stay too long, and you may end up losing your soul to a Soulless... unless you happen to be very good at surviving, which Level UP, Wolfie and Princess Plum all demonstrate effectively.
• Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: Luigi has this as a trademark power. Other characters, such as Mario or Waluigi, sometimes attempt to copy his success but always fail.
• World of Pun: Chiz the Cheese, the channel's first work, is set in a world of animated food items who constantly make puns when talking.
• Your Size May Vary: Tiny characters can be anywhere from being proportional pixel-wise to the rest of the environment, to being smaller than a ground pixel.
• Zombie Apocalypse: The "Mario and the Zombie Apocalypse" videos have him and Toadette trying to survive an ever-evolving wave of undead, which are eventually led by Zombie Toadette.

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