Web Animation / Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers

Kicking ass and losing IQ since 2011!

"If I could describe SMG4, it's if you got Mario and dropped him into a barrel of acid, then he comes crawling out as this demented monster, constantly humping spaghetti. It's really uh... a magical channel, I guess you could put it."

— Luke Lerdwichagul, 2020

SuperMemeGuardian4, formerly known as Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers and officially shortened as simply SMG4, is a Super Mario 64 Bloopers series created in 2011 by Luke "Supermarioglitchy4" Lerdwichagul (later assisted by his brother Kevin Lerdwichagul). This show, compared to the other Super Mario 64 Bloopers that inspired it, was notable for being much crazier and chaotic as it chronicled the insane misadventures of a dumber spaghetti-obsessed Mario, the eponymous "meme man" SMG4, and their many friends.

Earlier bloopers were Nintendo-related parodies which primarily featured the main Mario cast (and Steve from Minecraft), along with SMG4 and several other Super Mario 64 YouTubers. Later videos sideline most of the older characters to bring in newer, more fleshed-out Original Characters, and focus on original lore that distances itself from the Mario franchise.

The series has two special events: the annual War of the Fat Italians, officially shortened to "WOTFI", where SMG4 and Mario (later installments include others too) face off in challenges submitted by fans; and SSENMODNAR, a collection of random short skits made and submitted by fans and/or SMG4 himself as a part of a Milestone Celebration.^note  As of 2023, "The 3,826,412 Sub Special" from June 2020 is the last official SSENMODNAR. Beginning in 2018, the series started introducing story arcs with darker and more serious tones, Character Development, and overarching plots which have also led into a series of feature-length Big Damn Movies. Additionally, the series used WOTFI in 2018, 2020, 2021, and 2022 to serve as story arc finales.

The popularity of this series led Luke and Kevin to start their own studio, GLITCH Productions, which focuses on animation of original properties, some created by Luke & Kevin while others are collaborations with independent artists. The former include Meta Runner, an entirely separate series whose protagonist, Tari, debuted in SMG4 first as Production Foreshadowing about 3 months prior to its official announcement – she remains a regular character in SMG4 due to fan popularity; and Sunset Paradise, a direct spin-off featuring Breakout Character Meggy Splezter fighting crime on vacation in an original art style.

See also Guards N' Retards, a spin-off featuring two guards named Chris and Swagmaster animated in GoldenEye (1997) – this series merged into SMG4 proper after Youtube cracked down on usage of the word "retard"; and SMG4 Crew, a spin off with Mario doing let's plays and reaction videos that somehow manages to be even Denser and Wackier than the main series.

A page showing all the times the channel has broken the fourth wall is currently being made.

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"Goddammit, Mario! Look at all of these tropes!"

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• Abnormal Ammo:
  • A Goomba successfully weaponizes a black Yoshi in "The Great Yoshi Race". You can even hear a gun clicking sound as the Yoshi is caught by the Goomba.
  • The Waluigi Launcher, which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
• Accidental Pervert: When SMG3 and Bowser team up to kidnap the Princess, Bowser knocks out a security guard using a rock and they both walk into the room, only to find Peach taking a shower. Luckily though, the curtain is closed.
• Acid-Trip Dimension: Weegee World, where every surface is covered in Weegee's image.
• Action Girl: Meggy Spletzer and Saiko Bitchitaru, especially the former, though Princess Peach, Tari and Belle Fontiere have their moments.
• Adaptational Personality Change: Everyone, to the point where it would be harder to name characters that haven't had their personalities changed. The Genesis Arc reveals that this is actually justified: nearly everyone in the universe was corrupted by memes released by SMG4's USB.
  • Mario is a horrendously stupid fatass addicted to spaghetti.
  • Bowser is Affably Evil, known for being gay, and has worked with the evil doppelganger of the Author Avatar.
  • Luigi is an Ambiguously Gay Butt-Monkey, and much more likely to get scared than in Mario canon.
  • Wario and Waluigi are brothers pulling off attempts to become rich, starring in their own series. Waluigi in particular is now a Physical God, powered by years of abuse and being rejected from becoming a playable fighter in Super Smash Bros..
  • Peach is more of a nagging Sore Loser with many a Berserk Button. Ironically, she didn't get corrupted by SMG4's USB, and implicitly went insane due to everyone else being corrupted.
  • Toad has a split personality and is the least cheerful person in the series. His girlfriend Toadette, on the other hand, is a Yandere.
  • Dr. Eggman is a weirdo who is more sided to being stupid and loves saying "pingas". Nearly every other Sonic character that's appeared in the videos is horribly retarded. Sonic himself, on the other hand...
  • Steve is a fool who loves chickens and speaks in recycled voice clips.
  • The Villager is an Ax-Crazy serial killer with a love for Doritos.
  • The Animatronics are mostly tamer... with some exceptions.
  • The Teletubbies went from babyish children's characters to xenophobic Butt-Monkey criminals.
  • Remember that cute baby penguin from Cool, Cool Mountain in Super Mario 64? It's now another sadistic serial killer.
• A Day in the Limelight: Apart from Mario and SMG4 taking charge of most episodes, several of them focuses on other characters.
  • Luigi has: "Luigi and the Haunted Mansion", "A Lost Luigi", "Revenge of Freddy's Spaghettiria", "Meet the Luigi", "Luigi's Retarded Mansion" and "Stupid Luigi's Mansion", among others.
  • SMG3 has: "SMG3's Plan to Destroy SMG4 Cause He Felt Like It", "Join the Evil Side", "Two Evil Friends" and "SMG3's Gauntlet of Gloom", among others.
  • Meggy Spletzer has: "The XMAS Discovery", "Meggy's Bootcamp", "There's Something Up with Meggy", "Little Penguin Lost", "Meggy Moves In", among others.
  • Fishy Boopkins had two with "Doki Doki Mario Club" and "Stupid Mario Tennis Aces"^* shared with Waluigi.
  • Shroomy has "Mario's Valentine Advice" and "The Demon Among Us".
  • Tari has: "The Tari Abnormality", "If Mario is in... Meta Runner"^* (shared with Belle Fontiere) and "Into the Marioverse".
  • Bob has "The Corn Trip"^* (shared with Rob).
  • Whimpu has "[TEXTURE NOT FOUND]" and "War of the Simps"^* (shared with Fishy Boopkins and Saiko Bichitaru)
• Affably Evil: Bowser, starting from "Hotel Mario".
• Alliterative Title: A few episodes have these titles, including "Problematic Pipe Problems", "Smexy Soccer" and "Luigi Labyrinth".
• All Just a Dream:
  • In "A Trip to Teletubbie Land", Mario has a nasty accident while fixing the castle pipes and ends up in a land full of Teletubbies. At the end, it was revealed to be a dream, and the pipes weren't fixed after all.
  • "Ssenmodnar 11" turns out to be a nightmare Professor E. Gadd was having. This inspired him to create something original...memes.
  • "Marioception" is Mario going through the different dreams of the citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom only for the ending of the video to reveal that it was all just one big dream of Mario's coordinated by Toad and E. Gadd.
• all lowercase letters: All text was written like this in the 2011-2013 bloopers, except when a character was voicing strong emotion. This is rarely invoked from 2014 onward.
• Alternate Continuity: Considering it's a Denser and Wackier take on the Super Mario universe, this is something to be expected. The series has many of the established elements that are rooted directly from the games (with some loose adaptations of modern ones), but scenarios based on those existing games will be changed, altered or go in a completely different direction, only keeping the basis of the plot intact. Many exclusive characters (either they're Canon Foreigner or from other franchises) pop up here and there, and much of society in the Mushroom Kingdom is heavily saccharine. Furthermore, "If Mario was in... Starfox" shows that memes are the keystones for planets to survive. Without them, the planets will slowly start to lose life and cease to exist. Additionally, worlds and places from other games are established to exist alongside the Mushroom Kingdom. SMG4's Origins eventually reveals that there is an In-Universe reason for this.
• Ambidextrous Sprite: A man is seen holding a "!raeN si dnE ehT" at one point. He actually says it this way as well, and Nintendofan997 dismisses him:
  Nintendofan997: I don't want your Japanese crap.
• Ambiguously Gay:
  • A lot of characters have such moments, but Toad, Luigi, Bowser (following his Heel–Face Turn), Mario, and Waluigi stand out.
  • Every Mook in "Operation G.A.Y." was a sprite of Luigi, with some of them wearing Princess Peach dresses.
• Amnesiac Hero: SMG4 is revealed to be one in the Genesis Arc, as he has no memories of anything that happened before his debut episode.
• And I Must Scream:
  • The implied fate of those infected with the T-Pose virus.
  • Mario Gets【Ｗｏｋｅ】 has an omnipotent remote that can pretty much make its user a god. One of its effects is to freeze the target via "pausing" them. What makes it this trope is that if the target was experiencing pain, they can still feel it.
  • Super Meme Guardians have the power to transform memes into energy. Considering that memes are considered citizens in-universe, they probably don't appreciate this transformation. While it's possible for them to revert back, using them for certain purposes (such as absorbing them into Mario or using them as offensive projectiles), can cause a Cessation of Existence.
• Animated Shock Comedy: Zigzagged. The series does feature a lot of swearing, immature sex jokes, and (sometimes) occasional gore, but they are usually used to add to the show's stupid tone rather than to offend people.
• Animation Bump:
  • When Meggy was still an Inkling, her animation was smoother than the rest of the cast, due to being animated using Henry's Animation Tool.
  • A few shorts have more fluid GMod animation. This would be carried over to "Mario Reacts To Funny Tik Toks".
  • After TheInvertedShadow joined the show’s staff, the animation has become smoother, most noticeable in action scenes like the final challenge in The Meme Games 2022 and with Zero’s true form in REVELATIONS.
• Apathetic Clerk: Karen, mostly because of Mario's antics.
• Apocalypse How:
  • "Ssenmodnar 10 (350k apocalypse special)" is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, with a "crazy hobo guy" trying to destroy the planet. This being an SMG4 blooper, his weapon of choice is a giant Mario head from Mario Teaches Typing 2, likely referencing The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. As in that game, the implication is most likely Total Extinction.
  • By the penultimate episode of the Waluigi Arc, the Mushroom Kingdom becomes this.
• Arc Words: “It’s gotta be perfect” is this for the 2023 arc. It’s written all over SMG4‘s room in one of the teasers for the arc, SMG4 says it three times while ridding the castle of all the guests who came over for Mario Day and later again in the movie trailer, SMG4 repeatedly says it during the livestream, and both the livestream and the movie itself are called it.
• Arc Villain:
  • Waluigi is set up as one from "Mario and the T-Pose Virus" until War of the Fat Italians 2018, with "Waluigi's Time" serving as said antagonist's Start of Darkness.
  • Bob from "Mario And... The Well" up until his Redemption Quest in "SMG4 Christmas 2018: The Most Important Thing".
  • Peach and The Guards for the first part of the Anime Arc, and Francis for the second part.
  • SMG3 and his Anti-Cast throughout the YouTube Arc, starting from "Mario's Spicy Day" up until "War of the Fat Italians 2020".
  • Zero made his first appearance in the 10th Anniversary Special, but it wasn't until his return in "Into the Dark Web" that he would take the position as the Big Bad of the Genesis Arc.
• Art Evolution:
  • As the years have gone by, many characters have either received updated models (Luigi, Daisy, Yoshi, Meggy), SM64 models that use Mario's movements (Toad, Peach, Toadsworth, McShyGuy) or entirely original models for SM64 (Bob, Fishy Boopkins, E. Gadd, Rosalina).
  • Wario and Waluigi were originally just Palette Swaps of Mario and Luigi respectively, but starting from "The Wacky Wario Bros.", they changed over to their Mario Party 3 models.
  • The text style of the bloopers has also gone through many revisions over the years before finally settling down on a stylized version of the Super Mario 256 font after "War of the Fat Italians 2015", with newer characters (a notable example being Meggy, who uses the block text font from Splatoon) getting their own custom speech fonts.
  • Around the end of 2018, some changes were made to certain models. Bob's eyes were updated so he can show more expressions, and the SM64 models, most notably Luigi, were given updated facial expressions. This is also around the point where the animation styles started to blend for certain characters such as Saiko and Tari, with them able to alternate facial expressions while still moving as GMod ragdolls.
• The Artifact: Despite SM64 no longer being a focus in the modern era, the Marios, E. Gadd, Bob, and Boopkins still occasionally use their N64 models.
• Artifact Title: War of the Fat Italians seems to be slipping into this, as the original namesake was after Mario and SMG4, but WOTFI 2020 heavily featured challenges that involved neither of them and WOTFI 2021 focuses on challenges against just Mario. Even moreso as of WOTFI 2023, where SMG4 and SMG3 are no longer Italian due to their redesigns, leaving Mario as the only true Italian in the equation (if Marty isn't to be counted).
• Art Shift:
  • Done deliberately whenever a character is doing something not possible in Super Mario 64, where Garry's Mod ragdolls are used instead. Characters can also become a model or a sprite that isn't even SM64-styled. The series itself would all-but shift to GMOD in later years.
  • The 2015 Christmas Special had Enzo's face replaced with Burgerpants' whenever he donned his Slasher Smile.
  • Especially in later videos, SM64 green screened characters are rendered in 16:9 stretch aspect ratio, resulting in the characters appearing slightly wider.
• Ascended Meme: Several jokes and memes within the SMG4 fandom were later used in the series itself to such hilarious effect.
  • One fan's hilarious edit of a SMG4 model and a poorly-made drawing of SMG4 were both been respectively used as a sort of a Running Gag in 2020 episodes, as well as the focus of one particular episode.
  • Meggy Spletzer is often being joked of having an anime voice actor once she turned human. Cue "War of the Fat Italians 2020", with Lizzie Freeman, voice actor of Trish Una, providing her new voice lines.
  • A Twitter account under the name "No Context SMG4" run by Vicilis which criticizes/mocks the series has been the source of a few memes. Long SMG4 would eventually appear on occasion and SMG4 would later start mimicking a few of the other memes the No Context account made.
• Asian Speekee Engrish: The Japanese islander (later revealed to be SMG3's henchman) when SMG4 meets him a second time in "Super Happy Magical Fun Fun Island".
• Aspect Ratio Switch: More recent episodes frequently switch to widescreen during serious or dramatic scenes. SMG4 Movie: Revelations is shot almost entirely in widescreen to reflect its Darker and Edgier tone, with only one fullscreen shot when Mario tries to throw a rock at Zero.
• Ass Shove:
  • "Cooking with Bowser & Mario 2" has Bowser escaping from an old man that attacked Mario earlier, which leads to the man ramming himself into Bowser's butt repeatedly. Mario's answer? Taking out a tank and blasting a bomb towards Bowser's butt, hoping to take out the old man in the process. The bomb does not detonate, and it is shown still stuck up Bowser's ass.
  • Po the Teletubby threatens SMG4 and Luigi with this in "The Mario Purge".
    Po: Look, I don't wanna be too direct but uh, this calculator is going up your ass tonight.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever:
  • A giant Mario besieges the castle in "Scatman's Revenge".
  • Mario himself becomes this in "Free Lunch for Mario" after eating a Mega Mushroom.
  • And again in "A SM64 Fairytale" to fight Bowser, who has also become giant.
  • The severed Mario head from Mario Teaches Typing 2 in the 8th and 10th Ssenmodnar videos and "Mario Learns To Type".
  • In the video "The Spaghettipocalypse", Mario uses some of E. Gadd's "Magic Powder" to make a giant spaghetti monster, which then proceeds to attack the Mushroom Kingdom. Thankfully, the same "Magic Powder" is used on a cupcake to battle the pasta titan and save the day. Not before Mario eats through the spaghetti monster, though, with an accompanying lawnmower sound.
  • In "The Super Dudes", Wario (with Power Glove) enlarges Waluigi to attack the team. A Groin Attack by Captain Steve puts a stop to that.
  • A giant Justin Bieber attacked the heroes in "Legend of steve".
• Attempted Rape:
  • Implied. A large Boo in "Luigi's Retarded Mansion" upon its first glimpse of Luigi's butt. Thankfully, Luigi is pulled out of the room by the person who kidnapped Mario before the Boo reaches him.
  • In "Stupid Luigi's Mansion", King Boo becomes trapped in a painting with a naked Mario, who chases him around while commenting on his arousal.
• Author Avatar: SMG4.
• Autobots, Rock Out!:
  • "Mario And The Diss Track" had our heroes join forces with Saiko to compose Darkest Hour, an incredibly rockin’ counter-diss against Bob both in-universe and out.
  • "War of the Fat Italians 2020" has an awesome rap battle between SMG4 and SMG3's respective groups, complete with Meggy pulling out one heck of a triumphant verse (courtesy of Lizzie Freeman)!
  • This would happen again in "War of the Fat Italians 2021", with the amazing rap battle that precedes… let's just say… quite unfortunate events.
• Awesome, but Impractical: In "Mario for Hire", Mario tries to win a race using a rocket-powered kart. Predictably enough, the kart is impossible to maneuver.
• Ax-Crazy:
  • Enzo was a reasonable guy, until the day when his party gets ruined. His descent into insanity sticks throughout the series up until his last appearance in "Christmas Crazies".
  • Occasionally Mario, such as when he threatened SMG4 with a knife while speaking Angrish about wanting to kill him, and all because SMG4 wanted some spaghetti...
  • The Villager in general. He even wields an axe!
  • And now we have Saiko Bichitaru.
  • The Teletubbies started off as this, and still are when they're not being used as servants, employees, or punch-lines.
• Back from the Dead: This applied rather frequently with the use of 1-Up Mushrooms in the older videos thanks to Rule of Funny, but you'd be hard pressed to find this occurring anywhere in the modern era. Except for one unfavorable excepti0n.
• Badass in Distress: Meggy is kidnapped in the second half of the Anime Arc for her anime-producing ink. Desti manages to break her out briefly, but they are recaptured.
• Bait-and-Switch:
  • Throughout all of "MARIO'S CHALLENGE", there's a lot of suspense as to who will make it to the top and win the titular challenge, with focus being given to Luigi, Bowser, and especially the returning fan favorite Meggy. The last shot of the final floor has the three, among a few others, racing to the elevator... only for the victor to be revealed as Shroomy, a character who had never appeared before. Even Mario is taken aback and confused about the result.
  • In "Mario is Canceled", the main reason why Mario is canceled is he was going to say the N-Word, causing Susan to appear out of nowhere, cuts it short, and pause the video, calling him out for being racist. At the end of the video, Mario says it in full, but it’s not the N-Word you probably expect:
  Mario: Nintendo!
• The Bad Guy Wins:
  • Downplayed in "Mario Runs Out of Toilet Paper", where Papa John, the SMG4 universe's Satan, wanted to destroy the world (for no good reason). Although he himself was stopped and Mario managed to do what he always wanted to do since the episode's start: Taking a dump. However, the intensity blows up the planet anyway.
  • Played shockingly straight in "Deleted." when SMG3 and his crew succeeds in erasing SMG4 and his friends from existence via a YouTube Remote-powered timeline meddling, ensuring his rival will never ever stop his plans from succeeding. Thankfully subverted in the next episode, however, as it only makes them "irrelevant" enough to be sent to the Internet Graveyard.
• Bathos: Even when the show gets serious and dramatic, it doesn't change the fact that it stars an idiotic incarnation of Mario taking place in a bizarre world revolving around Internet memes.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Mario shouts out loud in "Return to Freddy's Spaghettiria" that he's good enough to teleport himself into the game and beat the animatronics. Next time, Mario, make sure the Rock Wizard isn't nearby before you say the same thing again.
  Mario: I'M SO GOOD I CAN TRANSPORT MYSELF INTO THE GAME AND BEAT THOSE ROBOTIC ASSES... AGAIN!
  Rock Wizard: Oookey-dokey!
  Mario: WAIT WAIT WAIT!
• Berserk Button:
  • If Mario ever hears you trash talk about spaghetti, pray he kills you quickly.
  • Don't say no when the Mario Head asks you to hand him golden spaghetti. Otherwise, he'll suck up EVERYTHING, including the spaghetti.
  • Don't ever touch SMG4's computer or even hack his account (the latter if said culprit is SMG3). Otherwise, you're in for a world of pain.
  • Don't mess with the Teletubbies' Tubby Custard or mention Justin Bieber around them.
  • Pretty much everyone has their own unique Berserk Button. Special mention goes to Shroomy, who immediately switches into his "Demon Hunter Anti-Shroomy" persona whenever there's a demon nearby... or if Bowser happens upon him.
  • Mario has formed one in the SMG4 Crew series in the form of Among Us memes. It's gotten to the point where he went through Frankie's computer and threatens to kill him if he makes another Among Us meme.
• Bestiality Is Depraved: Mario seems to have a thing for Minecraft pigs, as shown in "Mineswap".
• Big Bad:
  • SMG3 is commonly considered the overall villain of the series. Made fully realized in the YouTube Arc.
  • Waluigi, in the Waluigi Arc.
  • Bob, in the Rapper Bob Arc.
  • Peach and Francis in the first and second halves of the Anime Arc, respectively.
  • Ztar, in the videos "Bad Star" and "Bad Star's Back".
  • Zero in the 10th Anniversary movie and the Genesis Arc in general.
  • Killer Ink, in Meggy's Destiny.
  • Ernie, in If Mario Was In Fall Guys.
  • Brown Crewmate, in If Mario Was Among Us.
  • Niles for the Revelations arc, and as it turns out, the Cosmology Saga as a whole.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • The policeman in "Birthday Freakout" who arrested Enzo, followed in the next episode, "Luigi's Retarded Mansion", with Dr. Robotnik saving Luigi from a possessed flying chair.
  • Attempted twice in "The Visitor", with another policeman trying to arrest Enzo before being shot while shouting his Catchphrase. Then, SMG3 appears and tries to slam into Enzo with a Koopa Clown Car, but he misses.
  • In "Mushroom Wars", to save R2-D2 from a flock of Teletubbies, Mario winds up almost attacked by them until SMG4^note (named "Hobo-Wan Kenobo" in this special) barges into action and saves Mario.
  • The finale of "SMG4: Mario The Boy Scout" brought us two such moments back to back, courtesy of Bob and Fishy Boopkins.
  • Princess Peach shows up in Mario and the T-Pose Virus, just when Mario is about to be attacked by the T-pose zombies, to cure everyone affected using a gatling gun that fires 1-UP Mushrooms.
  • In Mario and the Experiment, Desti shows up to save Meggy. She claims it was to humiliate her for being rescued by her enemy, but they seem to start to like each other. Unfortunately, they are recaptured.
  • In "Final Hours", Bob and the Guards arrive just in time with a tank, saving the gang from the 100 Sephiroth replicas created by Francis.
• Black Comedy: SMG4 is naturally good at doing dark humorous jokes, and it shows the Stylistic Suck really helps the writers get away with making these horrifying things look hilarious or funny.
• Big Damn Movie:
  • "Meggy's Destiny: An SMG4 Movie", which focuses on Meggy and pals competing in the final Splatfest, clocks in at 44 minutes, technically making it feature-length.
  • "The SMG4 Movie: 10 Year Anniversary Special" is another 40-minute extravaganza, being a Milestone Celebration.
• Big Eater:
  • Mario has been shown to scarf down 35 bowls of spaghetti in exactly five seconds.
  • In War of the Fat Italians 2017, Mario eats Waluigi's Taco Stand, which included 7,324,654 tacos, the stand itself AND Waluigi!
• Big "NO!":
  • SMG4 when he's about to be squished by Gourmet Guy in "Mini Italians".
  • Luigi in "The Switcherooveralls":
    Luigi: Please don't leave me! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
  • SMG4 again in "Smart(Ass) Mario":
    SMG4: Mario! Have you eaten any spaghetti?
    Mario: What's spaghetti?
    SMG4: (in Darth Vader's voice) NOOOOOOO-
    Mario: Shut up! I'm trying to read!
  • Again, this time by Mario, in "Bob-ombache":
    Dr. Mario: I'm so sorry...I'm afraid you're pregnant...
    Mario: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
  • And again by Mario in "Boil the Big Bully":
    Mario: (sees a Bully knock over his fridge, causing his spaghetti to come out) NOOOOOOO!!
  • Luigi again (twice) in "The Visitor":
    Dr. Mario: (checks a collapsed Toad by repeatedly crouching and standing on him, then jumps and sniffs) He's dead.
    Luigi: OH, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
    SMG4: Shouldn't we...uhh...call the police?
    Mario: Meh, it's just Toad.
    SMG4: Okay, I guess that makes sense.
  • The Shy Guy in "Ssenmodnar 9" yells one out right before Gourmet Guy sits on him, complete with an Expressive Mask.
  • Mario again for the third time in "Shoot to the Observatory in the sky". See Death Is Cheap.
  • Sonic in The "Item Brick" after Robotnik destroys the world by crushing the titular brick and rebuilds it...in his image.
  • Once again, by Mario in Can the Villager Come Out to Play? when he finds out his spaghetti supply is covered in ketchup. He gets briefly interrupted by Toad (who's dead, but Mario doesn't care) and resumes screaming for the remainder of the scene.
  • Meggy lets out a very anguished one when Desti is mortally wounded by a replica of Sephiroth.
• Biting-the-Hand Humour: Any episode where YouTube is involved, but the crown jewel is the YouTube Arc. At no point is Susan Wojcicki's name ever spelled correctly.
• Bittersweet Ending:
  • The Anime Arc. The Inkweaver is returned to Axol, all the Inklings are rescued, Francis meets his demise in his island's explosion, and the main cast make it out safely with Meggy thanks to Ultra Instinct Shaggy. However, Desti is killed for her troubles (a funeral is even held for her) and Meggy is permanently transformed into a human due to sacrificing what's left of her ink to save her friends.
  • The Genesis Arc: Zero is defeated, the universe is saved, and SMG4 and SMG3 finally make peace… but Melony was forced to kill Axol in order to stop Zero, which devastates her. Made Harsher in Hindsight when Zero comes back in a way no one expected, rendering Axol's sacrifice void.
  • Played for Laughs (mostly) with the Lawsuit Arc. Lawyer Kong is defeated and surprisingly makes peace with the gang, SMG4 and his OCs have legally proven their right to exist, and Shigeru Miyamoto gives Mario his blessing to stay with the gang. However, Miyamoto's condition for Mario getting to stay is for SMG4, SMG3, Bob, and Fishy Boopkins to get new designs so they no longer look like Nintendo characters.
• Bizarro World: The entire world of SMG4 started out as a clone of the 'real' Nintendo Universe, a simulated universe true to Super Mario canon where everyone acted exactly like their video game counterparts, which was then intentionally warped by installing SMG4 and SMG3, whose USB-Ships drove the inhabitants permanently insane and bizarre. In fact, SMG4 had to partially fix their total madness by making memes of everyone, which somehow sent a feedback pulse through the internet to zap the characters from 'incapable of coherency' to 'unhinged but sapient'.
  • This is also the case for the universes SMG0, SMG-1 (Nils), SMG1, and SMG2 'improved', which didn't survive Nils' psychotic rampage.
• Blatant Lies: Mario claims to have never used Scatman John's music in his life. Uses one just to invoke the Hard-Work Montage trope.
• Body Horror:
  • Toad's "dance" while in his original SM64 model has his head detaching and rotating 90 degrees clockwise reattaching on its side, and his limbs merging into his body.
  • In Mario for Hire, Mario gets a very brutal and rather grotesque off-screen beating by the cashier that Mario attempted to convince to let him "buy" a kart for free as a promise. He returns to Peach's Castle with a very bloody and distorted face, resulting in Mario letting out a Precision F-Strike followed by an Oh, Crap! reaction from Peach.
  • Mario gets another yet Mario for Hire-esque face in "The Toad, the Fat and the Ugly", following the shenanigan where he's shot down by Toadette.
  • In "If Mario was in... Team Fortress 2", Heavy gets some very disturbing (or funny) closeups when he meets Mario and forces him to work for Team RED. The others in the TF2 cast get a few Gross-Up Close-Ups during the video.
  • SMG3 in "Mario Gladiators", after everyone is done with him.
  • Somehow, Mario develops the ability to twist his body into a misshapen monster, as seen in WOTFI 2023.
• Boom, Headshot!:
  • Done by the Heavy in "The Mario Channel: Mario's Challenge", to a goomba. Later done to Bowser by Toad, which doesn't end well for him]].
  • Done by Toad of all characters to Bowser in "Stupid Mario Sports Mix". Sure, it's with a basketball, but it's flung with enough force to flatten the upper half of Bowser's face.
    Toad: I'm the best...bitch!
  • Another one done by Jevil, to Ralsei, with a scythe in "If Mario was in... Deltarune".
• Bootstrapped Theme: The "Birabuto Kingdom" theme from Super Mario Land, which is heard at the end of each video.
• Bowel-Breaking Bricks: In "M. K. Nature Channel", it is revealed that King Bob-omb poops out black balls, which roll down the mountain until they become Bob-ombs. SMG4's reaction? Take a wild guess.
• Brain Bleach: The sight of (naked) Mario defecating straight-up kills a Mr. I in ‘The Lost Gems Part 2’.
• Breather Episode:
  • "Stupid Mario Paint", and "Mario The Ultimate Gamer'', despite being between two major episodes in the Waluigi Arc ("Mario And The T-Pose Virus" and "Mario SAW"), have pretty much nothing to do with the aforementioned Arc. Waluigi isn't even mentioned at all in either of these. Even "The Mario Cafe", which features Waluigi, does not have any major implications beside teasing a twist in "Mario SAW" with what appears to be a simply a continuity gag.
  • The 3 million subscriber Milestone Celebration collaboration video, which was released in the middle of the Anime arc during Meggy's kidnapping, has nothing to do with its events.
• Broken Ace: Meggy is revealed to be one in “Meggy’s Bootcamp”. It’s surprisingly sad.
• Broken Tears:
  • In the endings of both "If Mario was in...Baldi's Basics" and "Freddy's Ultimate Custom Spaghetteria", the answer to SMG4 asking if Mario enjoyed the experience is the latter sobbing.
  • "Final Hours" begins with a shocked and heartbroken Meggy as she watches her friends mourning Desti, who died in the previous episode via Francis' Sephiroth replica.
  • The ending of "Deleted." has Mario witness SMG4 seemingly being disintegrated in front of him, which completely breaks him.
• Brown Note: Mario is forcefully clad in rainbow clothes in "Scatman's Revenge" that cause weird things to happen to anyone who sees him. On a recurring note and also in "Scatman's Revenge"), Justin Bieber's "Baby" often gets used as this.
• Butt Cannon: Dr. Robotnik's Eggbot has one.
  "BUTT ATTACK!"
• Butt-Monkey:
  • Of all the characters in the series, Toad gets hit the worst, especially in episodes that only feature Luigi, the residential Chew Toy, as a one-off background character.
  • Fishy Boopkins and Bob sometimes share this role whenever they're on screen.
  • In "Mario goes to DIDNEY WORL", Mickey Mouse plays this role, constantly suffering abuse as he tries (and fails) to capture Mario, SMG4, and Toad.
  • Tari in "Mario the Ultimate Gamer", and in most of her future appearances.
  • Bowser also serves as this, especially in the 2019 and 2020 episodes.
  • Morshu is used to explain the concept of Corrupted Memes and Anti-Memes in the Cosmology Saga.
• But Thou Must!:
  • Try to choose any option that doesn't make progress towards saving the princess in Mario Simulator Interactive. All of them will lead to failure. Hey, at least they're funny.
  • In "SMG4: SSENMODNAR - 3,826,412 SUB SPECIAL", Bob's question: "Who is the sexiest man alive?" has four answers: Bob, bob, bOb, and BOB. Mario defies the choices by saying himself. Naturally, Bob takes the interface and throws it at Mario in retribution.
• The Bus Came Back:
  • FM returns in "Mario Battle Royale" as well as X appearing outside of a "War Of The Fat Italians".
  • After a long absence, Chris and Swagmaster return in the Anime Arc.
  • Axol makes his return after a long absence since the YouTube Arc in "Mario's Mask of Madness".
• Call-Back: This became the norm as the series shifted to a more solid continuity beginning around 2017, but a few popped up in "Classic" episodes too. Here are some examples…
  • Remember that guy wearing monochrome clothes in "Mario Goes Shopping" that tried to tell a baby not to play in the streets before getting run over by Mario? He comes back in "Mario for Hire" to do the same thing to another baby and, like before, he's run over by Mario.
  • Some objects from past 2014/late 2013 bloopers reappear in the intro of "Ssenmodnar 7".
• The Cameo: Occurs a lot throughout the series:
  • Harry Potter appears briefly before getting run over by a tank.
  • John in "The Mystery of the Missing White and Blue". He also appears in other bloopers.
  • Game Reviewer in "Ssenmodnar 3". Apparently, he's the Super Mario 64 version of The Angry Video Game Nerd.
  • Shrek in "Cooking with Bowser & Mario 2". He also makes a brief cameo in "Retarded64: Mario for Hire" as well.
  • Buzz Lightyear and Woody, the former in "Mario for Hire" and the latter in "Spells n' Wizards", "Mario the Olympian", "Wild Wild Mario", and "Mario and the Waluigi Apocalypse".
  • Wattson shows up in the gang of cannibalistic old men on Isle Delfino.
  • Exaggerated in the final minutes of "Mario and...The Well" with cameos from The Police, X, FM, Yoshi, Wario, Waluigi, The Teletubbies, Donkey Kong, Toadsworth, E. Gadd, SMG3, Steve, Old Man Hobo, McShyGuy and finally, Swagmaster and Chris.
• Cannibal Clan: SMG4 makes the horrifying discovery that the elderly men in "Problematic Pipe Problems" want to eat him.
• Can't You Read the Sign?: In "Mario for Hire", on his quest to buy a new kart, Mario humps a kart, much to the salesman's annoyance at his direct defiance of a sign banning the exact thing Mario is doing.
  no humping the cars!
• The Cartel: One for anime of all things after it is banned. Their leader is the geeky chameleon Francis.
• Catchphrase:
  • "Mamma-f***er!" for Mario.
  • "Aw crap! My ovaries/scrotum!" for Bob and sometimes Fishy Boopkins.
  • "Goddammit, Mario!" for SMG4, sometimes.
  • "Woomy!" and "That's (very) illegal!" for Meggy Spletzer.
  • "Hi guys!"^note (everyone annoyed) Hi, Steve. for Steve. "I'm ready I'm ready!" in "Stupid Mario Sports Mix".
• Casino Episode: In the episode "Casino, Cards, and Chaos", Mario heads to a casino in desperate need of money. He doesn't do well on his own, but when he learns that Luigi has an innate power to win every game, Mario uses him to get rich.
  • War of the Fat Italians 2023 is about SMG3 and SMG4 breaking into Marty's casino to steal their stuff back. The first time they cheat at a high-stakes game, it critically succeeds because Boopkins was running the table. The second time... not so much.
• Catapult Nightmare:
  • Mario gets one in "Peachosal Love" when Toad appears in his Dream Sequence.
  • Happens in the beginning of "The 1337 Police" when Luigi announces he's pregnant.
  • "Freddy's Ultimate Custom Spaghetteria" has this for the Five Nights at Freddy's 4 segment.
• Cerebus Syndrome: From mid-2018 onwards, the series starts delving deeper into more plot-driven story arcs with some genuine dramatic moments and Character Development mixed in with the usual silly gags. The series has kept the Dramedy tone set by these arcs going forward, featuring themes of rejection, betrayal, kidnapping, death, identity erasure, Demonic Possession, and even straight-up cosmic horror. Compare this to the early seasons, which featured silly and light-hearted fare such as a parody of "Who Let The Dogs Out" and Mario inexplicably dreaming about literal crap.
• Cessation of Existence:
  • Wario nearly inflicts this on Mario, Bowser, Steve, and Fishy Boopkins in "The Super Dudes". Fortunately, it's averted by Luigi.
  • If planets are harvested of their memes, they cease to exist.
  • In "Deleted.", SMG3 and his crew do this to almost all of SMG4's friends and SMG4 himself by altering the events of their debut episodes, ensuring they'll never meet Mario at all. Subverted in the next episode, however, partly because it instead makes them "irrelevant" enough to be sent into the Internet Graveyard.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • After Mario and SMG4 defeat Weegee in "War of the Fat Italians 2014", they find a "Weegee Board" in the aftermath. Not knowing what to do with it, the board is placed into the castle basement, and in the next episode, Mario finds the Weegee board covered in cobwebs, and when he brings it upstairs to show SMG4, he summons Weegee into the castle. Fortunately, he's friendly to everyone in the castle, except Mario.
  • In "Stupid Mario Kart", during the Battle Royale, whenever someone is eliminated, a sound byte of The Heavy saying "You are dead!" is played. Fishy Boopkins did not get the sound byte, and was later responsible for the draw.
    Fishy Boopkins: Surprise, bitches! I'm not dead yet! (throws banana peels everywhere)
  • At least three in "Christmas Crazies".
    • Peach has a random 1-up mushroom in her purse. It is later used to revive Santa, who pacifies Enzo and the Villager.
    • The "Steve Firework Rocket". It is used by Mario to escape the Villager, and is later used to take down Enzo in the Clown Car.
    • When Toad tries to escape and get help, he's carried off by Klepto. When Enzo drops Peach to her doom, Toad and Klepto rescue her.
  • The weapons Mario picks up in Mario Battle Royale, including a hammer and a pistol. During the battle against SMG4, he uses these to fend off his opponent, culminating in drawing his second pistol and shooting SMG4, thus eliminating him.
  • The Rejection-powered controller Tari uses to temporarily control Master Hand in "Mario and the Waluigi Apocalypse" is used again in "War of the Fat Italians 2018" to take control of SMG4 away from Waluigi.
  • Toad is a living one in "Mad Mario", having gone into a Heroic BSoD due to the lack of internet. In the final minutes of the blooper, Mario hurls Toad at SMG3. Toad beats him up, and this allows everyone to get their internet back.
  • The Language Caption function of the YouTube Remote. First appearing as a gag involving Meggy, this would come into play later in "War of the Fat Italians 2020" when a stray blast of this function struck Meggy, granting her a permanent English voice that she used to convince the Anti-Cast to turn against SMG3.
  • Hobo 1 and Hobo 2 are living examples of this trope. Initially, they just seem like two random minor hobos who worship the number 4, but, as revealed in the 10 Year Anniversary, they are actually SMG1 and SMG2, who have been trying to warn everyone of the eventual arrival of Zero, but merely came off as crazy hobos to the characters.
• The Chew Toy: Luigi, Toad and Tari, though Luigi is usually the one being most mistreated by the cast.
• Christmas Episode: One made per year.
• Chroma Key: Whenever a scene is depicted using anything other than a Super Mario 64 environment (either one in vanilla SM64 or a ROM hack) such as Minecraft or Garry's Mod, a green screen will be used to represent the characters.
• Circus Episode: In the infamous"Mario joins the Circus'' video, Mario gets kicked out of Peach's castle because everyone is fed up with him, so he joins a circus owned by Waluigi and takes on different, menial jobs, such as cleaning up gorilla poop and taking care of the clowns (who are so hungry for affection that they need to be hugged every two minutes).
• Cloud Cuckooland: Peach's castle... and everywhere in general.
• Clumsy Copyright Censorship: Due to YouTube's copyright rules becoming stricter, many episodes were temporarily taken down around 2021 for using copyrighted music for certain scenes. All of these episodes were later reuploaded, albeit with the scenes containing the music being completely muted with no explanation given in the episodes.
• College Is "High School, Part 2": Episodes taking place at Omnia Academy are like this. This includes school plays, detentions, clubs and a student president election. Given that Luke himself is a self-admitted dropout who never attended college, it makes some sense that his knowledge of how college works would be rather limited.
• Collective Death Glare: Played for Laughs in the episode "Mario Waits For Pizza" when everyone glares at SMG4 for ordering pineapple pizza (including Meggy).
• Competition Freak:
  • SMG4 in "The Blooper Competition" and Mario in "Mario the Olympian", plus the War of the Fat Italians.
  • Meggy is this, all stemming from her rivalry with Desti and her inability to win a single Splatfest, driving her to train even more, though her interactions with Mario and his friends mellows it down.
• Content Warnings: Parodied in "castle jumping = time tavelling = zombies" with a warning that reads "The following video may contain: Mario some scenes may frighten old people since they don't like to see Mario"
• Continuity Nod:
  • The van Mario used to deliver spaghetti makes a brief cameo in the mall scene of "Mario for Hire", where it's shown alongside the kart that's on sale. The modified Pink Cabriolet driven by the Tubby Custard salesman from that episode is also present.
  • During the archery segment in "Stupid Mario Sports Mix", Bob mentions he was a native American in his past life.
  • In "The Super Mario Stupid Show", Mario mentions not having seen Paisano Mario "since the hotel".
  • Several of the later videos give a nod to Waluigi's descent into villainy, either mentioning it offhand or Waluigi himself appearing.
  • Certain episodes, specifically Meggy-focused ones, take time to reference both Desti and her death, and her own former status as an Inkling at some capacity, either as a gag or as a part of Meggy's character development.
• Cosmic Keystone: If Mario was in... Starfox reveals that memes (represented as Robotnik heads) are this in the SMG4verse, as planets that are completely drained of their memes cease to exist.
• Couch Gag:
  • The intro for the 2015 videos, starting with "Smexy Soccer", has SMG4 get knocked aside by the SMG4 logo, followed by either Mario appearing and saying a random quote, or a random character appearing in place of Mario.
  • Returned for the 2020 videos, starting with "Mario Gets His PINGAS Stuck In The Door", with a character, usually Mario, says a catchphrase after the logo drop.
• Courtroom Episode:
  • "Spaghetti Law", wherein Mario and SMG4 end up getting spaghetti banned in the Mushroom Kingdom thanks to some guy owning a house. They get it reversed in the end, but also end up with 20 years of community service because they were caught by the police.
  • The entire premise of "Super Mario Attorney", complete with references to Phoenix Wright.
  • The second class in "Mario University" is Law class. Mario is accused of trashing the cafeteria and Meggy has to defend him. Turns out SMG4 did it.
• Crazy-Prepared: Princess Peach in Mario and the T-Pose Virus, who was able to cure the victims of the T-Pose Virus with minimal effort thanks to having done her homework on it.
  Princess Peach: Being the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom I gotta know these things.
• Creator Thumbprint: Expect Mario's default expression in SMG4's recent thumbnails to have Fish Eyes and a triangle mouth.
• Crossover:
  • The whole series is a crossover itself as it utilizes random characters from every last nook and cranny of the barrel.
  • "Mario's Prison Escape" is the first full crossover with Guards N' Retards.
  • "War of the Simps" is one with Nathaniel Bandy^note A fellow friend of Luke and Kevin Lerdwichagul who does reviews on Nintendo games, and a part of Minus World, a collective group of Nintendo-focused YouTubers in which the Hobo Bros. were also a part of..
• Crossover Punchline:
  • The main cast of Scooby-Doo made a cameo appearance in "SMG4 vs. SMG3" during a joke.
  • Squidward appeared for a while in "Mario's Spageti Delivary" and "SwagQuest".
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Steve, like Mario, is obsessed-chicken idiot who's intelligence is just smart as the retarded plumber. However, in "Mario vs. Steve", Steve gives an incredible fight to Mario for most of the episode after hearing Minecraft is bad game. He eventually defeats the plumber by transforming into Super Saiyan 3, almost killing him by a massive beatdown and wins.
• Cruel and Unusual Death:
  • In "ṩṩἔᾗмὄḋᾗᾄʀ 8 (150k special)" SMG69 is thrown into the sun by SMG4
  • In the Anime Arc, Francis has all of his bodily fluids slowly sucked out by his own machine, the Ink Zuccer, plus, even if that didn’t kill him, the island would later end up exploding.
  • In "Mario goes to subway and orders 1 tuna sandwich with extra mayo", it’s shown that Subway gets their tuna for sandwiches by ripping out the innards of fishes.
  • In "Mario’s Bed and Breakfast", three Nostalgia Critics are burned to death in the Spa Room by Luigi.
  • Zero is an expert at inflicting these, be it sapping out all your life energy leaving you as a soulless, cracked, desaturated husk, or possessing you and inflicting more and more Body Horror throughout the possession until your girlfriend eventually needs to Mercy Kill you.
  • Once the Box Club Leader gets to the God Box, he dives in immediately, but the power is too much for him to handle and he gets incinerated.
• Cue the Rain: Lampshaded in "Scatman's Revenge":
  Mario: Oh great, the weather's is being a troll again. Yeah, well I like water! Beat that!!!
• Curbstomp Battle:
  • Seems to happen a lot, but the most notable time would have to be in "Mario in real life!?" when Luke, outside of the video game world, fights the entire cast and wins flawlessly... until Toad knocks him out as he's celebrating.
  • In "The Mario Channel: MARIO'S CHALLENGE", Shroomy effortlessly defeats Mario with a rocket launcher before the latter can even attack.
  • Meggy does this to practically anyone who upsets or challenges her.
  • Waluigi inflicts this on the entire world after he gains the Power of Rejection.
  • After releasing Axol from his chains in Francis’s fortress, Meggy and Desti inflict this on his anime-lover Mooks. They are then on the receiving end against a Goku anime construct, who knocks them out with a ki blast.
  • Twice in Final Hours: When Francis uses Axol's Inkweaver at 100% power to create a Super Saiyan God Blue Goku construct, the gang charges at it one after another. Everybody except Tari and Axol gets swiftly dispatched. Later in the episode, Axol manages to tap into his Inkweaver's full potential to summon Ultra Instinct Shaggy, who deals one right back at the Goku construct.
• Curse Cut Short: Happens often to characters who speak in soundbites (such as SMG4).
• Dance-Off: In "The Mario Channel: MARIO'S CHALLENGE", Fishy Boopkins and Bowser end up tap-dancing against each other, going so fast that they set themselves on fire.
• Darker and Edgier:
  • Mario and the T-Pose Virus is considerably darker than most SMG4 episodes, featuring a horde of World War Z styled zombies^note An earlier episode did something similar with Luigi dolls, but the Luigi dolls still had some level of sentience and were more Played for Laughs than the T-pose zombies are., an overall less comedic atmosphere, and Waluigi beginning his destructive fury after the events of Waluigi's Time, setting up an overarching plot.
  • The second half of the Anime Arc also has a darker theme, dealing with the kidnapping and twisted experiments on a species by Francis, plus having the first instance of a character being Killed Off for Real.
  • The YouTube Arc was perhaps even darker than the Waluigi Arc with SMG3 and his crew deleting SMG4 and everyone else from existence via a horrifying mix of Cosmic Retcon, Set Wrong What Went Right and Ret-Gone! This is also where SMG3 completely drops his usual bumbling villain shtick and became a shockingly-competent villain who is able to think one step ahead of everyone else.
  • The Genesis Arc (and the Cosmology saga as a whole) and how. It may as well be this trope turned up to eleven.
    • Subverted with the Revelations Arc, the second half of the Cosmology saga. It initially starts as a light-hearted romp about Melony and friends going to college. It isn’t until "Absolute Betrayal" (and to a lesser extent, "Mario and the God Box") that the seriousness reaches the levels of the Genesis Arc.
• Dark Horse Victory:
  • Steve and his crude Minecraft-styled Yoshi win the Yoshi race in "SM64 bloopers: The Great Yoshi Race." while Mario, Waluigi, and Bowser are distracted through battling each other on the track.
  • "The Mario Channel: MARIO'S CHALLENGE": The one to make it to the top and challenge Mario is a character relatively new to the SMG4 universe - an anthropomorphic mushroom scout named Shroomy. Even Mario is startled.
• Darkness Equals Death: In the Five Nights at Freddy's parody. It's not what you think.
• Death Is Cheap: Characters die all the time only to show up perfectly fine later, sometimes even in the same video. Some videos suggest that the setting runs on a system of lives or continues, and Toad actually lampshades his many, many deaths in "Mario Joins the Circus". The story arcs from 2019 onward avert this, however, starting with Desti's death.
• Denser and Wackier:
  • Though the videos weren't really that cartoonish in the beginning, by mid-2013 they started delving into this, with Flanderization on the characters, specifically Peach, SMG4 and Fishy Boopkins, and a heavy reliance on Garry's Mod, becoming more and more random and chaotic as it went on.
  • Ever since Kevin took on the bloopers’ direction, the randomness, chaos and mayhem started to have more logical causes and effects, and the videos themselves began to have a darker, more serious tone. However, the trope is still in effect.
• Defeat by Modesty:
  • In "Smexy Soccer", when Bowser Jr. appears to reclaim "his" soccer field, Mario tries to convince him to share the field with Bobby the Bob-Omb and Goombs the Goomba. Jr. responds by pulling down Mario's clothing, stripping him entirely naked and making him run across the road in fear while causing a car accident and scarring a Toad for life.
  • Saiko also does a similar thing to the sentient VTubers in "War of the Simps" by holding a naked Mario, scaring them away.
• Deus ex Machina: The sudden 1UP Mushroom at the end of "99.5% Crazy", which cures Mario's episode-long Mushroom Samba.
• Didn't Think This Through: After being told by SMG3 he wasn't evil, Eggman uses a missile that brings a giant alien monster into the city, which then proceeds to destroy everything.
• The Diss Track: In the Rapper Bob Arc, Bob does this to the main cast in a petty attempt to be more popular. The cast responds with their own diss track, which is so effective that it ruins his career.
• The Ditz:
  • Mario, Steve, Bob and Bowser frequently fall into this category.
  • Frankie. He apparently doesn't even listen to Toad when the latter tells him to "get [his] paws of [Toad's] 'Kool-Aid'".
• Don't Celebrate Just Yet: A common flaw that the gang has. When it happens in arcs, it always ends in disaster.
• Don't Try This at Home: "Don't do drugs" is repeatedly used in the bloopers, such as in "Super Happy Magical Fun Fun Island", "Ssenmodnar 2", and "Yoshrooms".
• Donut Mess with a Cop: In "crime time", when two parked police officers notice Mario and Luigi drive by in a stolen police car, one of them notes that they're speeding, but the other officer is unconcerned. Then they point out that they didn't see them with any donuts, which prompts the other officer to start chasing them down.
• Dope Slap: Happens quite often. Usually directed at Mario.
• Downer Ending: See here.
• Dream Intro:
  • "the 1337 p0lice". At the start, Mario has a dream about a paradise where he flies past Wario and Toad, and lands in front of a distorted Peach, whom he dances with. Then the dream switches to him and Luigi reuniting together, when suddenly Luigi says he's pregnant, causing Mario to wake up with a start.
  • In "The Bootleg Dimension", the episode starts off with him flying through the sky until he lands on a nearby platform. Then he sees Princess Peach (who looks happy for once) with some spaghetti. Then she calls for his attention and says...
    Princess Peach: WAKE THE FUCK UUUUP!!!
  • "Marioception" begins with Mario attempting to eat a truckload full of spaghetti. He then falls off the bed in typical SMG4 fashion.
• Dream Within a Dream: Near the end of "Marioception", Mario goes through these, and each of them contains Toad. This is because he is the one responsible for putting on the dream cap in the real world, and high-fives Prof. E. Gadd for getting his revenge.
• Driven to Madness:
  • Enzo, featured in "Birthday Freakout", is driven to killing Mario after he destroys Peach's Castle, where he was having his birthday party. Thankfully the police are able to arrest him at his house after he corners Mario with a small bomb, but Enzo still swears that one day he will successfully kill Mario, once and for all.
  • The Villager, from "Can the Villager Come Out to Play?", goes Ax-Crazy after Tom Nook knocks his bag of Doritos into the river. He chases Mario throughout the castle and its foundations, only being stopped by Toadsworth blowing up the room when it was filled with gas. It's thought that the Villager died in the explosion, but the end of the video reveals he's still alive.
  • Saiko Bichitaru from "Doki Doki Mario Club" was already an Ax-Crazy Yandere, but she became even more psychotic after she was rejected by Fishy Boopkins. It gets to the point where she attacks him with a Mini-Mecha.
  • Waluigi, after being rejected from Super Smash Bros. AGAIN. He manages to gain the Power of Rejection, which lets him start a zombie apocalypse (twice!), go power-mad, and would've putting the entire world under his iron grip haven't Tari arrived to save the day.
  • A lot of people in "Mad Mario" have been Driven to Madness by the lack of internet. Of note is both Meggy and Tari, along with Saiko, forming a gang and attacking anyone that goes near them.
  • SMG3, after having his studio ruined by SMG4 (under the assumption that he's still evil), round up his own team to counter SMG4's Gang, steals Susan's YouTube Remote in an elaborated heist that somehow got Mario involved, and used said remote to erase SMG4's Gang from existence before subsequently takes over the latter's channel. For a while.
  • Pretty much the entire world was driven insane in "SMG4's Origins", when SMG4's spaceship crash-landed in the Mushroom Kingdom and zapped everyone with insanity-inducing memes while adding sentient memes of its own. SMG4 managed to restore the functionality of the world by uploading their memes on the internet, but it didn't cure them completely and has directly led to the World Gone Mad of the series, especially Mario.
• Driven to Suicide:
  • Mario after spaghetti gets outlawed in "Spaghetti Law". At first he does indeed die, before respawning in 3 seconds.
  • Mario does mention wanting to kill himself after he is made into a Minecraft character.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: When Francis drew his Sephiroth anime construct in "World War Mario" to battle Mario and his group, Mario assumed the construct was a girl.
• Dug Too Deep: Part of the plot of "Problematic Pipe Problems".

E-I

• Early-Bird Cameo:
  • Purple Guy makes a cameo appearance in "Ssenmodnar 10", an episode before his major appearance in "Retarded64: Return to Freddy's Spaghettiria".
  • “Mario the Ultimate Gamer”, which featured the debut of Tari, premiered just over 3 months before the announcement of her own series.
  • SMG1 and SMG2 made appearances in “The Pursuit of Happiness” and “Mario’s Bed and Breakfast” before they came to prominence in the 10 Year Anniversary Special.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Many of the earlier episodes are quite different in that they're entirely filmed in Super Mario 64, in contrast to modern episodes being mostly filmed in Garry's Mod with only the character animations being taken from 64. This is especially evident with the very first episode, "the cake is a lie!", which was filmed in an entirely different manner than the rest of the series.
  • WOTFI didn't end in rap battles until 2015, which is nearly halfway into the series entire run at this point.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Super Saiyan Mario causes the Earth to explode at the end of "Mario Simulator" after throwing the game into the sun.
• Eldritch Location:
  • The world of SMG4 is full of this, especially the Mushroom Kingdom itself.
  • The Internet Graveyard definitely counts, being a graveyard for everything YouTube-related if it became too "irrelevant".
  • The God Box is this from the perspective of the main cahracters, being a chaotic mess of dead universes. To us, it's a cardboard box full of old computer parts.
  • Ohio as shown in "Mario Goes to Ohio". The state is depicted as a nonsensical land where the laws of physics apply even less than usual in the SMG4-verse and is populated by strange people and creatures that walk on the ground sideways, speak in unintelligible gibberish and loud screams, reproduce by mitosis via drinking "cabbage milk", and get around by spontaneously sprouting wheels from their hands and feet and moving around like cars.
• Enfant Terrible:
  • Baby Mario (or Pepsi as Mario calls him) in "The Babysitters". His monster form makes a reappearance in "The Monster".
• Enraged by Idiocy:
  • SMG3 demonstrates this when he chastises Bowser for not knowing what shampoo is.
  • SMG3 continues this by showing flashbacks in Meet The Bowser, such as Bowser being busy dancing while he shows his evil plan and Bowser hitting an old lady over the cops.
• Equippable Ally: Some episodes tends to make use of this trope to a T whenever the situation calls for it. Such as the Waluigi Launcher, Luigi Sword, Mario Battering Ram and the Super Meggy Bat.
• Epic Fail:
  • When SMG3 calls for the escape submarine in "Super Happy Magical Fun Fun Island", a truck drops instead.
  • In "Mario's Spageti Delivary", Mario winds up chasing Po on foot, only for them to escape in their car. As it begins to fly away, it suddenly crashes into the boundaries of the map, falls to the ground, and blows up.
    Mario: You don't. F***. With Mario.
  • A lot of SMG3's plans fall into this, unless he comes close to succeeding.
  • In "Mario University", most of the characters only "passed" their courses because, as Kermit put it:
    Kermit: Some of you did exceptionally well, while most of you failed so badly we just want you to get out of this college already.
  • SMG4's painting in "Stupid Mario Paint", which was just 4 poorly drawn shapes. What was it supposed to be? A self portrait.
• Everybody Lives: Everybody, including the recolored Marios survives the 10th Anniversary Special.
• Everything Explodes Ending: Features in "Mario Plays Friday Night Funkin" as a consequence of Mario abusing Luigi's demonic powers to win at Friday Night Funkin' against Weegee.
• Everything Trying to Kill You: When Mario, SMG4, and X all become Incredible Shrinking Men in "Mini Italians", they find out the hard way that life sucks when one is the size of an ant.
• Everyone Has Standards: When Meggy decides to crash into Mr. Blizzard to escape the Mother Penguin, Mario shouts "Meggy! Stop! Murder isn't the answer!". Remember, this is Mario saying this!
• Evil Laugh:
  • SMG3 will almost always introduce himself with this.
  • Done by both Wario and Mario in "Stupid Mario Maker".
  • Saiko Bichitaru has one during her time as a villain.
• Evil Is Petty: Nearly everyone who has ever served an antagonistic role in SMG4’s videos has done so for trivial and/or idiotic reasons. Assuming that they even HAVE a reason in the first place. Waluigi subverts this in that his Start of Darkness was sparked by endless rejection and abuse, but what set him off was being snubbed from a spot in a video game.
• Evolving Title Screen: More like "Evolving banner," but especially during arcs, the banner will change to reflect what happened in the latest episode. While the banner will usually be replaced by an advertisement for a spin-off series or a huge episode after the arc, it can instead feature the characters hanging out.
• Extra-Long Episode:
  • Meggy’s Destiny, being a movie, clocks in at about 44 minutes long, the length of 4 normal length episodes.
  • War Of The Fat Italians 2020 and 2021, being arc finales, both are half an hour long.
  • The 10 Year Anniversary, being another movie, is 39 minutes long.
  • REVELATIONS is probably the best example in the series, clocking in at 50 MINUTES LONG due to being the Grand Finale of the Cosmology Lore trilogy.
• Face–Heel Turn:
  • Enzo in "Birthday Freakout" after having his birthday party wrecked by Mario.
  • Waluigi in "Waluigi's Time" after being rejected from Smash at the end of the episode.
  • Bob does this for a bit after his rapping career is greatly set back by Boopkins. He comes around, though.
• Fake-Out Fade-Out: "SM64: Mario VS Pokémon GO" has one about a minute in, where the game crashes followed by the typical end-of-video screen... before the game suddenly finishes loading.
• Fan Disservice:
  • Mario getting naked.
  • What is the first thing Mario does when he receives his new kart in "Retard Karts 101"? He strips and starts humping the front of it.
  • This universe's Mos Eisley Cantina is actually a gay nudist night club.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • Toad in the Real Life episode. When Luke tries to pass him off as a talking toy to his brother, the most distinct phrase in Toad's rambling is "...smack the Chinese out of you!!"
  • This exchange when the Mario Bros. see Waluigi disguised as Hideo Kojima in "The Mario Convention!":
  Luigi: OH MY GOD! MARIO! DO YOU KNOW WHO THAT IS?!
  Mario: An asian.
  • "Meggy's Destiny" reveals the Inklings are prejudiced against humans and passively make their city uncomfortable for them. Half the services and shops will not serve humans, even if they were born in Inkopolis. Or used to be Inklings.
• "Fantastic Voyage" Plot: The plot of "Mario's Inside Story". Due to eating rotten spaghetti hidden behind his toilet, Saiko and Luigi are shrunken by E. Gadd and sent inside Mario's body by SMG4 to save Mario.
• Fate Worse than Death:
  • Victims of the T-Pose virus.
  • Played for Laughs with SMG3 at the end of "The Day SMG4 Posted Cringe". Also doubles as his Laser-Guided Karma. In this case, he is forced to watch 10 hours of UwU ASMR.
  • Anyone sent to the Internet Graveyard, as seen with Axol and SMG3.
• Female Groin Invincibility: Played with. Bob identifies as male but when he's hit he usually shouts "Ow, my ovaries!" At least once, he managed to tank a kick to the crotch from Saiko because of it.
• Fictional Video Game: Several have appeared over the series' run, such as Super Mario Go and Princess Capturing Simulator and the Super Smash Each Other in the Ass Bros. series.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing:
  • "Mario Waits In Line For Some Spaghetti" has Waluigi standing in a massive line for the bank while holding a gun, which he is told by Swagmaster to put away. Shortly afterwards, Waluigi gives a signal to Wario to start their robbery of the bank.
  • In "Final Hours", Axol is forced by Meggy to activate the Ink-Zuccer 3000 at ???% capacity in order for their plan to stop Francis to work. As she is painfully drained of what remains of her ink in her body, Meggy's face starts to crack.
  • In "Mario's Mask of Madness", Axol tells Melony that she can be best girl despite being a literal watermelon wearing Meggy's headgear. Melony gets turned into a human thanks to the Fierce Deity Mask being carelessly thrown onto her by a Mario Mask-possessed Axol.
• Flanderization:
  • SMG4 and Princess Peach started out as Mario's foils and voices of reason, however they were gradually flanderized into being "the meme man" and a naggy housewife figure that usually just screams, respectively.
  • Fishy Boopkins went from being a socially awkward loser to an anime-obsessed weaboo starting with "High School Mario".
  • Mario has been the resident dumbass of the SMG4 series since day one, but his stupidity was originally shown as a complete lack of common sense, gullibility, and Insane Troll Logic. But from the second half of 2022 onwards, Mario is portrayed as having the mental and emotional development of a spoiled toddler (with all the tantrums and selfishness it entails), making him get treated like a child and/or pest by the people who he repeatedly calls his friends.
  • Meggy Spletzer went from being an impressively athletic Inkling with self-doubt issues underneath a confident demeanor to a human girl with a more level-headed approach to everything and relatable character traits.
  • Bowser started out as a villain like his canon counterpart, but was also more of a silly, childish crybaby who was friends with Mario depending on the situation. Episodes since "Bowser Loses Custody Of His Children" mostly just focus on his relationship with his children, specifically Bowser Jr.
  • Axol went through two instances of this:
    • He initially started out as an eccentric manga artist who nicknames people and seems to not exactly have touch with reality. Starting with "The Internet Graveyard", his insanity as a result of being trapped in the Graveyard for 5 years becomes prominent.
    • Starting in "Mario's Mask of Madness", he goes through another. Upon seeing Human Melony for the first time, he develops a crush on her, and this crush comes to dominate his character, removing what little of his original personality he had left. While "If Mario Was In... Anime" sets him up to undergo Character Rerailment, he is Killed Off for Real before he can act on it.
  • The sentient Mario Mask in "Mario's Mask of Madness" can inflict this and crank it up to eleven on top of turning them into a dumbass like Mario, such as turning Luigi, Axol and Meggy into a flamboyant idiot, a spaghetti-obsessed weaboo, and an extremely-overpowered dumbass, respectively.
• Flashback Cut: Done with the numerous times Mario invokes Scatman John's music in "Scatman's Revenge".
• Flat "What": In "Ssenmodnar 7" during a skit involving Wario and Waluigi repeatedly saying "WAH!", Luigi joins in with a small "Wah."^note the audio actually came from this short
• Flipping the Bird: Mario flipped off Baldi on his third guess. He was not amused by it (though he was going to punish him anyways for his errors).
• Foreshadowing:
  • The twist that the kidnapper in "Mario SAW" is Waluigi is cleverly hinted at throughout the episode.
    • After Mario pisses him off by throwing a Monty Mole at him, just before the two are sent off to the punishment round, the glow around his body is the exact same color as Waluigi under his Power of Rejection.
    • After Luigi sacrifices himself to let Mario live (not knowing the lava is actually watermelon kool-aid), the kidnapper commends him and says that he "wished his brother loved him that much". Viewers who have seen "Waluigi Origins" will remember that in the SMG4 Universe, Wario and Waluigi are brothers.
  • In Mario And... the Well, Bob walking away from the well at the start of the episode foreshadows him coming to save Boopkins at the end. In addition, in The Mario Concert we discover why Bob was there in the first place: he was the one who pushed him down the well.
  • Mixed with a dash of irony, Meggy Spletzer's transformation into a human was foreshadowed multiple times throughout the Anime Arc.
    • In "Meggy's Bootcamp", Meggy laments about how her mistreatment of her friends and her inability to win a single Splatfest causing her to "lose sight of herself". In "Final Hours", Meggy survived her Heroic Sacrifice, all at the cost of being turning into a human, losing sight of her true self.
    • Out of all the character who helped in the un-banning of Princess Peach’s "Anime Prohibition Act", Meggy is one of the first to volunteer. Keep in mind that she has a phobia of anime.
    • When Axol is forced by Meggy to activate the Ink-Zuccer 3000 and endure another round of having her remained ink drained in order for their plan to defeat Francis to work, Meggy's face starts to crack...
  • One of Axol's expositions about the Internet Graveyard is that this is the fate of those who lost their relevance in YouTube. SMG4 and his friends (and Susan Wojcicki) being in the Internet Graveyard in "A Totally Normal SMG4 Episode" implies that SMG3's tampering with the timeline makes their debut episodes "irrelevant", instead of erasing them from existence as he planned.
  • In "Mario Gets【Ｗｏｋｅ】", one of the pranks Mario has done with the YouTube Remote is to make Meggy speak English '''and''' Japanese. Cue "War of the Fat Italians 2020", where a stray blast from the Remote (courtesy of SMG3 being tackled by Mario before he can get a cheap shot with the YouTube Remote) gave Meggy her permanent English voice.
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You:
  • In "Scatman's Revenge", after examining his cursed clothes' effects on the characters (but not before making King Bob-omb explode), Mario asks the viewers if they still love him... and then the video drops in quality and gets static playing over it because of his cursed clothes. Oddly, Mario is aware of this.
    Mario: oh great now I'm all grainy
  • With the exception of the Rapper Bob Arc, eagle-eyed fans can tell when the series has an ongoing story arc just by looking at the channel banner:
    • The Waluigi Arc: After Mario SAW came out, Waluigi started appearing in the channel banner, getting closer with each subsequent blooper throughout the arc (and nearly making Mario, SMG4, Luigi and Meggy disappear from the banner) until "War of the Fat Italians 2018.
    • The Anime arc: Episodes from "The Splatfest Incident" until "Final Hours" had Meggy's face burned off from the banner.
    • The YouTube Arc: Similar to the Waluigi Arc, the banner slowly glitches with each passing episode from "The Internet Graveyard" onward, until it completely replaces SMG4 and the main cast (sans an increasingly horrified Mario) with SMG3 and his Anti-Cast.
    • The Genesis Arc, starting from "Doomsday but Mario’s Okay" changes to Mario and SMG4 chasing after Axol, who is mysteriously looking into the right side of the banner, and with each new episode of the arc following that, a new SMG is added and Axol slowly begins to change into each stage of Zero possessing him, with a strange black void slowly filling the background.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip:
  • Done between Mario and SMG4 in "The Swap" with some magic spells from a wizard...and the latter is applying for a job. Hilarity Ensues, unsurprisingly, until SMG4 is fired thanks to the wizard who swapped them. "Switcheroooveralls" had a similar plot, but instead involving more than two characters.
  • Done again with Mario and Steve in "Mineswap", where Mario becomes a Minecraft character and Steve (aside from getting lighter skin) a Super Mario 64 character. Steve seems quite sexily happy with the swap, while Mario gets very frustrated, such as not being able to turn the knobs on doors with his blocky hands and destroying toilets and plates/bowls of spaghetti. He and SMG4 fail to get it reversed in the end.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Bob, very much so. This is ESPECIALLY pronounced near the climax of the Rapper Bob Arc, where his Attention Whore tendencies and douchebaggery reached its peak, with the entire cast hating his guts as a result. Even when they made amends in the arc’s finale, nobody greets Bob when his party reunites with the other half of the group in “The Mario Showdown”.
• A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: Whenever Wario and Waluigi actually do become rich, this tends to happen. Otherwise, the "Wacky Wario Bros." series is just the duo's Get Rich Quick Schemes utterly failing. Mario has also become fantastically wealthy on at least two occasions only to lose everything by the end of the episode.
• Forced to Watch: Mario becomes forced to watch Tubbie TV in the titular episode.
• Forced Transformation:
  • Mario once ate a strange mushroom that turned him into a banana, which became pretty nasty once Donkey Kong happened upon him.
  • "If Mario Was In... SKYRIM" has a scene where the Dragonborn, attempting to get rid of Mario, inadvertently turns a random man into a chicken. Mario names him Mr. Cockington, and ends up bringing him along on their journey.
  • Toad does it to himself in "Mushrooms and Morons: Hunt for the Egg of Draconius GO", turning himself into a rock to sneak past the troll guarding the cave. It works.
  • Mario, Meggy, Luigi, Axol and Melony end up subjected to this in "Mario's Mask of Madness" thanks to the numerous masks left behind by the Happy Mask Salesman, such as a sentient Mario Mask that turns anyone who wears it (sometimes by force) into a dumbass like Mario. While the masks are retrieved and the problem is been solved, he wasn't successful in getting the Fierce Deity Mask back from Melony.
• Formula-Breaking Episode:
  • The Sonic the Derphog videos puts Sonic the Hedgehog and its characters in the spotlight as opposed to Mario.
  • The SMG4 Shorts videos were basically this, being bite-sized SMG4 episodes revolving on the lives of other characters.
• Funny Background Event:
  • While Mario and Luigi discuss spaghetti in one blooper, Toad is seen burning in the background.
  • The plane scene in "Super Happy Magical Fun Fun Island", featuring cameos of a Luigi plush (from Mario Party 2), a dead Teletubby, and a small glimpse of Pikachu.
  • In "0% of spaghetti", as Mario is in the supermarket arguing with the cashier, SMG4 is seen being chased and later attacked by Po after mentioning Justin Bieber to her.
• Fun with Acronyms: After the antics of Mario, Bob, and Boopkins destroy Peach’s Castle in “Mario And The Anime Challenge”, the princess banned all anime in the Mushroom Kingdom and formed the Anime Secret Service to enforce the ban. Lampshaded by Mario:
  Mario: “Haha! Ass!” (Gets smacked)
• Fun with Subtitles: The closed captions, until they were discontinued by YouTube, often had snarky comments on what’s going on in the videos provided by fans. Exaggerated with "Mario’s Preschool" where they get infected with a virus that makes anything they say get censored.
• Gag Series: It's off the wall surrealistic humor that would make any other gag comedy proud. Well, most of the time, at least...
• Genius Ditz: Though Mario is indeed retarded, he can sometimes be smart. For example: he is the MASTER at eating spaghetti; 35 bowls in five seconds should sum that up.
  • Just the fact that he made the whole gauntlet of challenges all by himself in "MARIO'S CHALLENGE"...
  • He manages to weaponize his stupidity and pull off a victory in the gladiator arena in Mario Gladiators, against Bowser, Wario and Waluigi, Toad, Luigi, SMG4, Old Man Hobo, a small army of Teletubbies, Steve (plus a literal Stone Wall) and his chickens, the duo of Bob and Boopkins (in a kart race, but still) and finally SMG3 during the finale, in part thanks to Bob.
• Giant Enemy Crab: In "Castle Royale", the "animal guard" of the Woopwoop Kingdom is a Corphish, who suddenly morphs into a Ohumein-Conga and chases Luigi around the courtyard until Luigi bails out. It later goes in after him.
• Gilligan Cut:
  • Parodied and Played for Laughs in "Boil the Big Bully":
  Bully Boss: The only way I can let you live is if you can transform into a Pepsi machine...
  Mario: Hmm...
  (Cut to a room in Peach's Castle, with Mario's face on a Pepsi machine. Mario barfs out soda and a moment after closes his mouth. He then burps.)
  Mario (as a Pepsi machine): Hey! That was pretty good!
  • Again in "Mario Gladiators", during the finale.
    (a door opens, revealing every competitor maimed in some way)
    SMG3: Ah crap! Hehehe... no hard feelings guys?
    (Cut to a mangled, maimed, stabbed and burning SMG3 hanging in front of the castle)
• Girls vs. Boys Plot: As evident by the title "Boys vs. Girls" is this.
  • "Mad Mario" also falls under this trope in the scene where the Wild Childs^note Meggy, Saiko, and Tari. capture and then attempt to kill SMG4, Mario, and Luigi.
  • In "Food Wars", after Meggy attacks Mario with a candy chainsaw, with the gang broken into Candy lovers and Pizza lovers, Mario responds by saying that it’s boys (pizza) vs girls (candy), until Saiko tells Mario that she and Belle are both females supporting pizza. It is also worth noting that Axol, Bob, JubJub, Boopkins, and Luigi, who are all male, all were Candy supporters.
• Give Me Back My Wallet: Mario when Yoshi steals his wallet in "Wallets and Dinosaurs" which breaks into an all-out war for the wallet.
• Gone Horribly Right: In “Mario’s Amazing Bed and Breakfast”, Mario and Bob’s efforts in turning Meggy’s house into a hotel turn out wildly successful... but as it turns out, too successful, as they end up stealing business from every other hotel, leading to the Hotel Owners Association trying to shut them down by invading and review-bombing it with a massive army of Nostalgia Critics.
• Go Out with a Smile: It's become something of a tradition for characters to do this when they're being permanently killed off. Desti smiles as she makes her Last Request for Meggy to win Splatfest. Greg smiles as he tells Mario that he loves him. Axol smiles as he thanks Melony for "the adventure". And Zero smiles as he accepts his fate in the exploding God Box.
• Great Escape:
  • "Crime Time", "Party Rock Prisoners" and "Mario's Dangerous Delivery" has the characters(s) trying to break out of jail. The former blooper has Mario helping Luigi escape from jail. The second blooper has Mario and Toad trying to escape from jail together. The third has both Mario and Luigi try to break out Frankie before Toadsworth finds out he even got jailed in the first place.
  • Mario's Prison Escape has Mario and the gang escaping prison yet again, only this time, Swagmaster and Chris try to stop them.
  • In Mario and the Experiment, Meggy attempts to escape from Francis’s base with some help from Desti. They manage to escape their confines and get Axol out of his, but they are quickly recaptured by a Goku anime construct.
• Greed:
  • Mario when he won a million coins in "Rich Glitch".
  • Toad in "Toad Gold" and "Stupid Mario Party".
  • Wario and Waluigi, especially the former.
• Groin Attack: Now has its own page.
• "Groundhog Day" Loop: Wario is put through this in "Wario Tries To Stop Himself From Dying." He eventually gets so angry and spiteful that he actively fights his way to 12 AM on the dot and finds out the next morning he broke a curse placed on him by Death for buying up all the ice cream a few days ago
• Gut Punch: During the penultimate episode of the Anime Arc, Francis murders Desti, making this the first time in the series where a character was Killed Off for Real.
• Had the Silly Thing in Reverse: In "If Mario was in... Team Fortress 2", Mario gets a chance to use the Sniper's sniper rifle. However, he gets drunk from some Jarate (confusing it for lemonade) and when he goes in for a clean shot against a BLU Pyro, he snipes himself in the face because he was holding the gun backwards.
• Halfway Plot Switch: While the first minute of "Goodbye, SMG4" is about SMG4's demise, the rest of the video is about Mario getting depressed over from the loss of his friends and SMG4, and him later getting the parody contract from Phoenix Wright and trying to show it to the judge to save his friends while escaping from Lawyer Kong and Nintendo. SMG4, and along with his and Mario's friends, did return at the end, only because they were summoned for a trial.
• Halloween Episode: Just like the Christmas Episode trope mentioned above, SMG4 has made one for every year starting from 2011.
• Hard-Work Montage: Mario attempts to invoke a "searching montage" with Scatman John's music playing in one episode. This ends up bringing his ghost to him.
• Hate Sink:
  • Francis gets hit hard with Adaptational Villainy. Already now the boss of the Anime Cartel, he goes the extra mile by kidnapping Inklings to harness their ink to create a harem of anime girls for his hedonistic pleasure. He later sends a Sephiroth replica to impale Desti and laughs maniacally at the others mourning her. When he was finally defeated, he cowardly prayed for mercy. Luke would explain why after the Anime arc concluded.
    Luke: And we made Francis bad because... who the hell would like this guy? Look how punchable his face is!
  • Team Killer Ink's Leader. As a racist Splatfest team leader, she constantly insults Meggy and her teammates for being humans. During the second round of the final Splatfest, she even tried to kill Meggy. When she loses, she angrily kicks one of her teammates. While she didn't get a more deserved punishment for Meggy's attempted murder in the film, when she returned in "SMG4 2020 COLLABORATION", she was devoured by SCP-939 (though, this was a fan-submission and likely not canon).
  • Since 2018, Peach has been flanderized into a naggy, annoying housewife, whereas in the older videos she was just a level-headed Cloudcuckoolander's Minder to Mario's destructive antics.
  • King Ernie from If Mario Was In... Fall Guys. He was the Evil Prince of Fall Guys, who took over the original king's (Bert) kingdom by paralyzing him, leaving the poor guy confined to a wheelchair. Bad enough. After that, he created challenges for crown, which he won by cheating, and then went the extra mile by FLAYING the losers' skin and turning them into costumes for the inhabitants. When Mario won by BLJ-ing, thus getting Bert's crown back, Ernie demanded his disqualification for cheating even though he cheated himself. Mario soon has the inhabitants of Fall Guys give him some well-deserved Laser-Guided Karma.
  • The Box Club Leader of Omina Academy is, beneath his rather wacky box motif, an Ax-Crazy cultist who worships the "God Box", an Artifact of Doom from outside the SMG4 universe. He bribes Mario into doing his dirty work to gather countless students so he can sacrifice them to summon the box, which terrifies SMG1 and SMG2 on the same level as the previous Arc Villain Zero, all to achieve godhood. But what really solidifies his spot on here is that he sacrifices his own cultists and willingly joins forces with Zero/Niles who is possessing Melony to punch a hole between dimensions, nearly destroying the universe, to go seek out the God Box. Unlike Niles, who wants to rebuild his own universe at the expense of others, the Box Club Leader is just a power-hungry psychopath with no Freudian Excuse that the rest of the Arc Villains have.
• Heel–Face Turn:
  • Implied to have happened with Bowser, as his own minions threw him out of his castle, forcing him to live with the Mario Bros., Toad, Peach, Lakitu and SMG4.
  • Enzo and the Villager when they get presents in "Christmas Crazies".
  • Saiko Bichitaru after befriending Luigi in "Luigi's Lesson".
  • The Anti-Cast after Meggy convinced them to ditch SMG3 through song.
• Heroic BSoD: Luigi undergoes one in "The Babysitters" after seeing Baby Mario on top of the castle.
• Here We Go Again!:
  • In "time freeze", Mario breaks the clock's pendulum, causing the titular time freeze. When he fixes it at the end of the episode, he immediately breaks it again.
  • At the end of "99.5% Crazy", Luigi goes by Mario, Toad and SMG4, apparently drugged.
  • At the end of "The Wacky Wario Bros.: Wario's Treasure Hunting Time", Donkey Kong appears in front of the Wario Bros., from their newly-found gold and diamonds.
  • The ending of "Meggy's Part-Time Job" has Meggy having to babysit a demonic eye, and this is after having a hard time babysitting Jub-Jub while trying to fend off a demonic eye (that she somehow created while making pancakes) and Anti-Shroomy at the same time.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • "Final Hours" has Meggy voluntarily having the last of her ink drained from her body to help Axol defeat Francis, knowing fully well that enduring another round in the Ink-Zuccer 3000 in such a weakened state will kill her. Subverted near the end as this act, along with taking a ki blast from Francis' Goku replica, turned her into a human girl.
  • In "The Weegee Uprising," a descendant of Mario stays behind to hold back a swarm of Weegee dolls so that Luigi, Shroomy, and Boopkins can go back in time and undo the Bad Future.
• He's Dead, Jim: Dr. Mario tells the gang that Toad is dead in "The Visitor" after checking the latter's corpse, leading Luigi to bolt out a Big "NO!" and start crying over Toad's death.
• Hoist by His Own Petard:
  • In "Retarded64: Mario the Olympian", Mario swallows a Kamehame Hadoken from the Old Man and breathes it back, killing him and Frankie in an instant.
  • In Final Hours, Francis is thrown into one of his own "Ink-Zuccer" machines. He is also on the island when his own creation self-destructs and takes his Ink Facility with it.
  • A funny one happens in "Deleted...". complete with a funny background music. When Saiko stops Whimpu by smashing his head into Boopkins' laptop, it gets destroyed. However, as that was Boopkins' only laptop, he had no way to bring her past self back to life, she could only do an Aside Glance as she turns to dust.
• Hope Spot: The ending of World War Mario. Desti and Axol escape their bonds and turn off the machine draining Meggy's ink, and the rescue team unleash a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown against Sephiroth, destroying him. Francis simply creates a new one that immediately impales Desti. Roll credits.
• How the Character Stole Christmas: Bowser briefly in "The bowser that stole christmas.", simply because he didn't get any Christmas presents from Santa. He is still trying to "destroy" Santa as of "Christmas Crazies". He succeeds, but incurs the wrath of Enzo and the Villager in the process. Peach later revives Santa with a 1-up.
• Humiliation Conga: In "Mario For Hire". After Luigi tells the Heavy that it was Mario who ate his sandvich, Heavy not only beats up Mario, sending him flying, but throws the car that Mario spent the entire episode trying to buy at him, causing it to explode on him.
• Hypocritical Humour: Bob finds Swagmaster's and Chris's text to speech voices annoying. He also speaks with a text to speech program.
• I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!: Tubby Custard, as shown in "Mario's Spageti Delivary".
• I Ate WHAT?!: When Saiko finds out that Bob's "special juice" is not wine, but gasoline; she promptly throws the bottle on the floor.
• I Have Many Names: A slight confusing variation regarding the Cosmology Lore. Canonically, SMG4 actually stands for Super Meme Guardian 4, with SuperMarioGlitchy4 being considered a fake name after the retcon. However, in real life, Luke continues to go by SuperMarioGlitchy4.
• I Surrender, Suckers: Mario does this to Meggy in War of the Fat Italians 2017. It doesn't work.
• Incredible Shrinking Man: The plot of "Mini Italians" revolves around Mario, SMG4, and Nintendofan997 all eating a strange mushroom that shrinks them.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Desti is stabbed fatally by Sephiroth in "World War Mario". Unlike most deaths in the series, this death sticks, making this the first time a character was Killed Off for Real.
• In Name Only:
  • Post-2017 bloopers have little to do with the Super Mario series aside from some episode titles and Mario and Luigi being main characters, focusing mostly on the original characters and the in-universe lore. The "Stupid Mario" series, while scarce since 2019, is the only exception.
  • "Mario and the Experiment" is an extreme case of this, with most of the focus being on Meggy, Desti, and Axol.
  • "If Mario was in... Meta Runner" is another case, as it mostly revolves on Tari and Belle under the guise of a comedic retelling of Meta Runner Season 1.
• Infernal Background: In "THE BOOTLEG DIMENSION", a fiery background appears behind Professor E. Gadd when he warns Mario not to touch his malfunctioning Portal Picture that leads to the titular world.
• Insane Troll Logic: All over the place. In "Mario and... The Well", for example, Fishy has fallen down a well, and how does Mario help? By throwing him a shovel and telling him to "dig up"!
• Insistent Terminology: In a meta sense, the crew doesn't consider most storylines to be "arcs" unless it gets dark and/or depressing in a way, and even then some of those storylines aren't considered arcs if they only serve to lead up to a movie.
• Interface Screw:
  • Happens In-Universe when Scatman John covers the castle with his likeness (put under some Windows Movie Maker filters), making everything else completely black.
  • What ultimately defeats SMG3 in "Super Happy Magical Fun Fun Island".
• Interrupted by the End: In "the visitor" (the 2011 one), God is about to reveal what The Meaning of Life is, but the sentence is cut off after "is" and the video abruptly ends.
• Island Base: The "Super Happy Magical Fun Fun Island" is actually a base for SMG3.
• It Runs on Nonsensoleum: Everything that exists runs on memes, according to "If Mario Was In... Starfox (Starlink: Battle for Atlas).

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• Jerkass:
  • Mario, who is an endless nuisance to everyone around him, due to his stupidity. Though he has improved since 2018, he still can be a jackass sometimes.
  • Bob Bobowski, he was nice at first but he got worse as he started to seek lots of attention and became really self-centered, but after The Rapper Bob Arc, his jerkish and selfish behavior started to tone down a bit.
  • Saiko Bichitaru, she is an Ax-Crazy anime girl, she, like Bob, is an Attention Whore, but after Luigi gave her lessons on how to be nice, she started to become nicer to her friends and helped them diss Bob and rescue Meggy from Francis.
  • Toad, due to his annoyance of Mario, started to lose his kindness and his sanity, however unlike the aforementioned jerkasses above, he has not changed his behaviour and still acts the way he is.
• Jump Scare:
  • Toad gives one to Mario early in "youtube mario?".
  • Parodied at the beginning of the Halloweegee special. The same parody shows up again for the second Five Night's At Freddy's episode, both of which have their own jump scares of Mario scaring the remaining animatronics.
• Kamehame Hadoken:
  • Old Man Hobo dishes one out in "Mario the Olympian" only for Mario to eat it and belch it right back at him and Frankie.
  • Bob performs a kamehameha by name in Mario and the Anime Challenge against Mario. Said attack also kickstarts the plot of the Anime Arc.
• Killed Off for Real: Starting from the Anime Arc onwards, if a character dies during an arc and isn't a part of the main cast or the focus of that story arc, they will stay dead.
• Knight of Cerebus:
  • Ztar is the first main example in the series, being taken as a genuine threat by the main cast despite being quite comedic.
  • Waluigi surprisingly becomes one in The Waluigi Arc. Sure, he’s still Waluigi, and sure, he is still Laughably Evil, but for the majority of The Waluigi Arc, he’s played dead seriously, and the serious tone he brings in sticks with following arcs, with each being worse than the last.
  • Francis is easily one of the best examples of this. Once he is revealed to be the one kidnapping all the Inklings, all his actions are played dead seriously, while he is still comedic, but far less than the previous two Knights of Cerebus that came before him, and plus, he is the first ever villain to permanently kill off a character.
  • SMG3 zig-zags this trope. While he is a main threat to the cast, he is not played seriously in the slightest. This trope ends up being played straight in The YouTube Arc, where he is genuinely taken seriously for once and nearly succeeds in killing the entire main cast.
  • Zero ( or Niles) easily takes the cake as the show’s biggest example of this trope. The one time he is comedic is more gross than funny, and every other time he is on screen, he is played dead seriously. Also, he has successfully committed crimes on an unheard level for the series, is the only villain thus far to have permanently (albeit indirectly) killed a main cast member and got the closest one can possibly get to killing Mario not once, but TWICE.
• Kudzu Plot: The show has been beginning to gain one as it went along. The first 7 seasons were incredibly basic in terms of lore, with just random chaos without much of a plot. Season 8 however would end up giving the show some actual lore, with Waluigi being revealed to have the power of rejection as well as several main stay characters getting introduced like Saiko and Tari. Season 9 would end up introducing Axol and Inkweaver, both of which would become major plot points in later parts of the series, as well as permanently kill off a major character for the first ever time in the series with Desti, and permanently transform Meggy into a human. Then with Season 10, SMG3 would finally retake his role of Big Bad for the first time since Season 6, the Internet Graveyard gets introduced, Fishy Boopkins gets a younger brother, Steve created a corn obsessed scarecrow, Belle Fontiere exists in this universe, and near the end of the season, Melony ends up obtaining a human form. Then with Season 11 and the Genesis Arc, the entire lore starts to spiral out of control, with the introduction of the Meme Life Cycle and corrupted memes, SMG4 being an Amnesiac Hero and coming from a giant USB, everyone in the kingdom starting normal before getting hit with Adaptational Dumbass by SMG4’s arrival, Melony has the powers of the Fierce Deity, The Multiverse exists, SMG3 was meant to initially land in the Internet Graveyard before getting knocked off course by the Greater-Scope Villain, there is an SMG1 and SMG2 whose universe was destroyed by an SMG0, all the Newgrounds characters originated from SMG1 and SMG2’s universe, Mario’s death will destroy the entire universe, the entire multiverse is made up of Meme energy, and Melony ends up needing to kill Axol to save the universe. And it only gets more complex with 2022, which reveals that SMG0 is just a fusion between the real SMG0 and his partner SMG, Niles, Niles had been created by an Artifact of Doom known as the God Box, the God Box is made up of the remnants of destroyed universes (or Luke’s broken PC parts), the game Saiko originated from had another character who’d also end up getting brought into the real world, and SMG4, SMG3, Fishy Boopkins and Bob all get redesigned. With all the plot points and necessary events throughout the series, it’s nearly impossible to watch just random episodes anymore.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Happens to SMG4 after he gets knocked out in "The Hangover".
• Late-Arrival Spoiler:
  • If you want to watch "The Visitor" without being spoiled of the Serial Killer's true identity, don't scroll down and view SMG4's comment.
  SMG4: Some guy is killing everyone! HELP! also happy birthday enzo.
  • Every video featuring Meggy post-Anime Arc, due to her transformation into a human.
  • If you didn't watch the whole Genesis Arc, there's absolutely no way you can't spoil yourself with the two hobos' names: SMG1 and SMG2.
  • One day after the reveal that Niles is really a piece of Zero stuck in Melony's mind and that no one else can see him, Luke posted a tweet with a gif of Niles dancing telling people to "cry about it," which gives away to people who didn't watch the latest episode that Niles is a bad guy.
  • It is pretty much impossible to not get spoiled with the new redesigns for SMG4, SMG3, Fishy Boopkins and Bob had you not watched the Lawsuit Arc.
  • Alright, there isn't really a single SMG4 video that doesn't expect you to have watched all of the previous turning points in the series or the other series.
• Later-Installment Weirdness:
  • From "If Mario Was In Minecraft" onwards, "If Mario Was In" videos don't use the original intros, lacking the Paper Mario music.
  • All Christmas Specials from 2020 onwards are simply titled "SMG4 Christmas Special [Year]."
• Le Parkour: In "Birthday Freakout", SMG3 is shown to successfully leap directly from the castle grounds into the second floor of the castle where Mario sleeps.
• Lethal Chef:
  • Mario, who cannot cook to save his life. Meggy is even worse in this regard.
  • In Mario's Hell Kitchen, Team Thicc (Luigi, Saiko, Tari, Toad and Shroomy) make a chicken that "tastes like penis" according to Bowser. The cake made by Team Spicy (Boopkins, Bob, SMG4, Meggy and Mario) is so delicious the taste folds Bowser's head in half and kills him.
• Letting the Air out of the Band: The title card for "99.5% Crazy" has the famous Mario Bros. theme deflating after Mario is crushed by the title text.
• Lighter and Softer:
  • Videos from 2017 and early 2018 are more lighthearted and less sadistic than they were previously, and the main cast are all friends with each other rather than having a love-hate relationship with Mario. Subverted however once the arcs come in the following year, arguably being even more dark than the classic era.
  • The Rapper Bob Arc, compared the Waluigi Arc, and pretty much every other arc in general. While it does cover some heavy themes involving Bob's Jerkass behavior reaching all new lows, it doesn't have nearly as much of a dark atmosphere and apocalyptic stakes as the Waluigi arc.
  • Subverted for the Revelations Arc. It starts out innocently with the gang going to a college where Meggy seeks to become a sports trainer and Melony wishes to be strong enough to protect her friends. Then it's revealed that the club of Cloudcuckoolanders seeks an Artifact of Doom known as the God Box, and if that wasn't bad enough, Niles, actually a piece of Zero, takes control of Melony in order to use her deity powers to reach the God Box.
• Like Brother and Sister: Mario and Meggy. She even admits so in her Q&A.
• List of Transgressions: In "Can the Villager Come Out To Play", FM goes over a hilariously long list of crimes the Villager committed, except the murders.
  FM: Driving under the influence, driving with an open container, possession of narcotics, possession of firearms without a license, possession of military grade explosives, vandalism, desecration of human remains-
  (After a scene with Mario and the Villager, it cuts back to FM, who is STILL reading the charges)
  FM:-reckless endangerment, performing an illegal u-turn in a school zone and running over 11 students in the process.
• Logging onto the Fourth Wall:
  • Mario's YouTube account, which debuted in the aptly-named "youtube mario?", actually exists.
  • Bob's SoundCloud from the Rapper Bob arc.
  • In "My Mario Academia", SMG4's tweet about Meggy having "big, meaty claws" actually exists.
• Lonely at the Top: Discussed in Mario and the Diss Track: Darkest Hour is about how Bob, in his attempt to build his career, has cut ties with everyone he cares about.
• Long-Lost Relative: SMG4's long lost "brother", Superluigiglitchy4 (SLG4), in "Sup' Bro?" Later in the blooper though, he's revealed to work for SMG3.
• Long Runner: Uploading continously since 2011, SMG4 is the second-longest-running web series after Red vs. Blue.
• Loud of War: Scatman John's ghost and Mario do this in "Scatman's Revenge".
• Love Potion:
  • Mario and Luigi use this on Peach and Daisy in "Awkward Weddings" to get them to like them, but it backfires on SMG4 and X.
  • In "Peachosal Love", one is used by Mario on Peach, but with SMG4 instead of Luigi, and without Daisy. However, it turns Peach into a monster instead.
• The Mafia:
  • The Mushroom Mafia & the Fire Flower Mafia. Mario is forced to work for the former in one blooper thanks to Donkey Kong, with one of his tasks being to invade the latter.
  • Both Mario and Bowser run different ones in The Mario Mafia, and they go to war with each other. Mario's mafia wins.
  • Jeeves runs his milk business like a mafia empire, up to and including destroying his competitors' stalls.
  • The Anime Cartel, run by Francis, acts as a shady organization dealing in (banned) anime.
• Magical Land:
  • Apparently the land in "The Land That Never Was", because there was no exit... until Mario found one.
  • It even makes a return in "Hide and Seek", but with SMG4 and X instead of Mario. One of the parts of the land made a cameo in this blooper because SMG4 fell into another part of the land.
• Made of Explodium: Heck, just about any character or object can suddenly self-destruct at any given time.
• Major Injury Underreaction: Countless characters are regularly set on fire, blown up, decapitated, or pumped with twenty cartridges’ worth of lead among other nasty ways to get hurt, but unless it isn’t used as a gag, all it does is temporarily inconvenience them.
• The Many Deaths of You:
  • "101 Ways for Mario to Die (The Right Way!)" is just Mario being killed over and over again.
  • "Wario Tries To Stop Himself From Dying" has Wario trapped in a "Groundhog Day" Loop where he loops back to when he wakes up if he dies. Naturally, many deaths ensue.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!":
  • Mario and the gang have this reaction in "Christmas Crazies" right after Santa's magic wears off of Enzo and the Villager, and they turn evil again as a result.
  • Everyone has one heck of a reaction in "World War Mario" when Desti is Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by a Sephiroth replica and dies.
• May the Farce Be with You: Mushroom Wars, to the point where it even includes R2-D2 and full, authentic Stormtroopers.
• Medium Blending: This show uses Super Mario 64 Movie Maker, Garry's Mod, 2D GIFs, and more.
• Men Are the Expendable Gender: Since Meggy’s introduction, this trope became increasingly more apparent in SMG4‘s videos. While the girls suffer a fair bit of slapstick, they are far less likely to fall victim to it than their male co-stars, who nearly ALWAYS get humiliated. Reaches its logical conclusion where the girls hate the boys for pranking Tari by getting her run over by a bear despite the girls performing crueler pranks on the boys much earlier in the episode.
• Minor Injury Overreaction: Conversely, if any character gets injured in a way that they should be able to shake off, expect them to either have a bawling fit and/or go on a revenge rampage.
• Minus World: "The Glitch" causes the castle to become this, but with flying characters and objects.
• Mood Whiplash:
  • The ending of "Spells n' Wiztards": Dumbledore is left utterly distraught after SMG4 and SMG3's battle destroys Hobowarts Academy. Somber music plays as Dumbledore looks over the ruins of his academy... only for Harry Potter to suddenly appear onscreen, screaming randomly.
• Myth Arc:
  • "The Lost Gems", "The Adventures of Mario & Luigi", and "A SM64 Fairytale", with the former being split into three parts and the latter two being split into four parts.
  • "Mushroom Wars", a parody of Star Wars is also split up into multiple parts.
  • The story arcs, by their nature, are naturally this and go on the longest.
• Mushroom Samba:
  • Mario undergoes one in "99.5% Crazy" after eating a strange mushroom. It lasts for the rest of the video.
  • Repeated in "Mushroom Wars", which results in Mario stripping and breakdancing. Thankfully SMG4 breaks him out of it rather quickly, using Justin Bieber's song "Baby".
  • "Yoshrooms" features Yoshi who endlessly demands Mario's supply of spaghetti after eating one bowl himself. To shut him up, Mario feeds him a Poison Mushroom which kicks Yoshi into a Samba. Luigi manages to even trick Mario to take a bite out of one himself, launching the two into a dream where they fly on a flying Magikarp while A Whole New World plays in the background. One week later, Mario eventually snaps out on his own, but Yoshi remains in the Samba for over two weeks.
  • "Ssenmodnar 9" has Shy Guy eating a Mushroom which causes him to go into one of these, involving Shy Gals twerking. He sees one of the Gals, then tells her to "bring [him] that ass". However the Mushroom Samba wears off and the girl is revealed to be Gourmet Guy, who promptly then sits on Shy Guy.
  • Mario again in "Can the Villager come out to play?". He inhales emergency toxic flammable gas and goes into a Samba for the remainder of the blooper, saying random things such as "I JUST SH** MY PANTS!"^note The same quote he uses at the end of "Ssenmodnar 2" and "99% Broken". The Villager inhales the gas as well, but only receives a flashback to their origin as a Serial Killer and snaps out of it after a few minutes.
  • Wario gets high from snorting a whole box of baking soda in "High School Mario".
  • Bowser, at the end of "Princess Capturing Simulator", gives up and smokes some shrooms, shrinking the top of his head.
• The Multiverse: What If..? Shows multiple alternate universes after Mario touches cans of radioactive waste.
• My Eyes Are Up Here: As R2-D2 is projecting a holographic speech of Princess Peach to Mario in "Mushroom Wars", Mario is distracted by her breasts.
  Peach: AND STOP STARING AT MY BOOBS! MY EYES ARE UP HERE!
• My Name Is ???: Any character who speaks but whose name is not yet revealed is represented by this.
• Myth Arc:
  • After years of being a purely comedic gag series, SMG4 got its first real story arc in mid-2018 involving Waluigi finally snapping from a lifetime of being rejected, putting the world in danger.
  • "The Mario Concert" officially began the second arc, dubbed by Word of God the Rapper Bob Arc, where Bob, after having his rise to fame and fortune accidentally ruined by Boopkins and furiously revealing that he never cared for anyone but himself, resolves to recreate his rap career without having to rely on anyone else.
  • The third arc began with "Mario and the Anime Challenge". After Mario and co's actions in that blooper and their destructive consequences cause a mass ban on all things anime in the Mushroom Kingdom in the following blooper, "Mario's Illegal Operation", Mario ends up getting roped into helping out the new "Anime Cartel". Meanwhile, Boopkins, Bob, Saiko and SMG4 head to Japan to escape Peach's new Secret Police. While all of that is going on, Meggy prepares to settle her rivalry with Desti once and for all in the upcoming Splatfest.
  • The fourth story arc started with "Mario's Spicy Day" because of SMG4 ruining SMG3's chance of redemption, causing the latter to fall back to full-on villainy, and forms an elaborate fool-proof scheme involving the formation of his own gang to counter SMG4 and his gang, stealing Susan's YouTube Remote, and using said remote to erase SMG4 and his gang from existence and take over his rival's channel once and for all.
  • A fifth arc started at the end of “Mario Babies” when SMG4 realized he had no memories prior to his first appearance in “account loss”. "SMG4’s Origins" and the 10 Year Anniversary Special movie go on to reveal the existence of a race of “SMGs”, with the movie ending on a Sequel Hook where the Glitchy Gang plan to find answers on the Guardian Pod of SMG1 and 2.
  • A sixth arc, a direct continuation of the previous arc, technically started with "Mario Goes To College", which seemed innocent enough of a storyline, Meggy training to be a sports trainer and Melony controlling her powers, until the first bomb was dropped that the group of what seemed to be a bunch of innocent Cloudcuckoolanders were searching for an Artifact of Doom called the God Box which they believe grants unlimited power, then the second bomb was dropped that the guy who was helping Melony train her powers was actually the previous Arc Villain trapped in her head, who possesses her so that he can reach the God Box.

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• Naked People Are Funny:
  • Mario ends up naked on a disturbingly frequent basis. Lampshaded in "Birthday Freakout":
    Bowser: ...he's always naked and loves to hump things...
  • SMG4, a guy's friend and Luigi even did this once.
• Nested Story Reveal: At the end of "Super BACKWARDS Bros.", it's revealed that everything that happened was just a fanfic Bowser was reading to his son before bed.
• Never Trust a Title:
  • “If Mario Was In The Sonic Movie” is basically a Sonic the Derphog episode in all but name. The only things it has in common with the movie it’s allegedly tying in to is the thumbnail with Mario screaming alongside Movie Sonic (who never appears in the video proper), the plot point of Sonic being chased by Eggman and the military, and Sonic uttering the infamous “Uh... meow?” line at the beginning. Ultimately justified at the end:
    SMG4: Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! Er, what? Oh, it was meant to be about the Sonic movie.... er... (beat) Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!
  • "A Totally Normal SMG4 Episode", period. While the title makes it sound like a normal SMG4 episode, the episode itself... not so much.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Suffice to say, there's not a single episode in which SMG4, Mario and their friends doesn't screw up and setting up the plot of every episode.
  • In "War of the Fat Italians 2013", Mario tells Toad if he got the camera, to which he replies no. Mario thinks it's a yes and then slams down on SMG4. If he didn't though, the main plot of "War of the Fat Italians 2013" wouldn't have happened.
  • The whole plot of "Bad Stars" started just because SMG4 threw a book out the window and it fell on SMG3.
  • During "The Pirate Plumbers", Mario and Luigi are trapped in the sewers when Cap'n Lardbutt asks them what they are doing in his territory. Ben says they were here to find his pet Mr. Squidge, only for Lardbutt to mistake it for a legend. He joins them on board to find the "squid monster".
    • Earlier in the blooper Mario was "fixing" a toilet, and then throws a Bob-omb on it. He claims himself as a genius only for the Bob-omb to explode, hurling him into a wall. Guess what happens next?
  • Due to Mario's stupidity, when he asks SMG4 if he wants to see him taking a stroll naked, the latter replies no. But Mario thinks it's a yes, which leads to...
  • If Mario hadn't explored a dark forest, he wouldn't have met Slenderman, Wario's parents would be still alive, and no hilarity would've ensued.
  • In "The Swap", Mario shouts at a wizard to get out. After much shouting and beating from SMG4, the wizard admits the two are the worst possible people he has ever seen, and then curses them by switching their bodies. Congratulations, Mario. You just caused a problem for you both.
  • "Spaghetti Law" has Mario and SMG4 escape the Rainbow Ride level after a guy shouts at them for getting in his house. But unfortunately they end up causing a chain reaction which leads to the Castle Inspector being poisoned and spaghetti being banned from the Mushroom Kingdom for that reason.
  • Waluigi being involved in "Super Mario Attorney" is all because of Mario, who said he was hired by SMG4.
  • Mario is apparently blamed for the plot of "A Lost Luigi". Nice job throwing Luigi out of your house.
  • "Birthday Freakout". If Mario never even got to Peach's Castle at the start of the blooper in the first place, Enzo would've been a nice guy forever, and not the Ax-Crazy guy he is today.
  • "The Hangover" has done this not once, not twice, but multiple times. After each instance of this in the aforementioned blooper, the problem gets worse.
    • First, Mario throws drugged spaghetti at Toadsworth. This is what started the whole mess.
    • Then Mario throws a Golden Mushroom at Yoshi to try to get him to swallow Toadsworth, only for him to start sticking his tongue out so much that he turns Luigi into an egg, becomes a helicopter and crashes Bowser and his Koopa Clown Car into the Castle.
    • Mario again, throws Peach at a missile launcher resembling SMG4's Pingas Cannon. This only causes the missile launcher to stick out a Warp Pipe from where a Shy Guy comes out saying he is starving.
    • Mario ends up tying an unconscious Bowser's body up the ceiling and dresses him up as a fairy princess. Luckily the Shy Guy (a Gourmet Guy at this point) gets amused upon seeing Bowser.
    • Mario Again. Freaking. Throws. Rocks at a wall. This spawns a portal which may be the reason for the Teletubbies, Steve, a demon and Hagrid in the Castle during the blooper.
    • Toadsworth uses a cannon to shoot a now-naked Mario at SMG4, knocking him out and causing him to forget everything that happened during the blooper's premise. If he didn't do this though, SMG4 would still remember what happened.
  • "Mario the Olympian": Event 5 opens with Mario getting impatient for food, causing him to resort to shooting Albus Dumbledore and making a break for it. In response, Albus dubs the final event "Shoot the Mario!", sending everyone else after Mario.
  • "The Mario Mafia": Mario doesn't invite Bowser to his party. This starts a chain of events that starts with Mario freaking out about his destroyed spaghetti, then forming a mafia group to find the culprit and ends in a freaking gang war.
  • "Mario and the Bob Mansion" has four of these.
    • Bowser asks Meggy to paint cooking oil on the turkey to cook it. Keyword being Paint, Meggy goes all Trigger-Happy and paints it (and the entire kitchen) with too much oil. If Bowser had specified how much oil the turkey needed, or said something different, the following events might not have happened.
    • Meggy then puts the over-oiled turkey in the oven before Bowser could stop her. Too much cooking oil + oven = Incendiary Exponent.
    • Bob forgot to explain that in place of fire extinguishers, there are flamethrowers that look like fire extinguishers. As such, when Bowser finds a fire extinguisher to put out the fire - it turns out to be a flamethrower. If only Bob had explained it beforehand!
    • Finally, Saiko finds Bob's "special juice" which turns out to be gasoline, so she throws it on the floor. Then the fire below reaches the ceiling, and Saiko only has time to realize what's about to happen before the ceiling, and mansion, collapse.
    • As revealed in "The Mario Concert", it turns out Bob exploited this in all four instances. He deliberately set up the flamethrowers, the gasoline and Meggy's bad cooking skills so he could get his mansion burned down. All because he wanted to make himself famous.
  • After the events of Mario and the Anime Challenge cause mass damage to the Mushroom Kingdom, Princess Peach decides to ban anime completely, setting up the third arc of the series. Saiko is banned as well, and goes to Japan.
  • While searching for a missing Meggy in "The Splatfest Incident", Desti puts together the evidence and accuses manga artist Axol of abducting the squid - within earshot of Saiko, who practically owes her life to him after he got anime unbanned. Naturally, Saiko gets pissed at her. This starts a long argument as to whether Axol did the deed, culminating in a full-scale civil war. The result is time wasted fighting each other instead of searching for Meggy, and the splitting of the teams between those that are in search for Axol and those that believe he's innocent. Nice going, Desti!
  • SMG4, you should be lucky you and your friends got sent to the Internet Graveyard after you ruined SMG3's chance to redeem himself, and not getting erased from existence by the latter. Otherwise, SMG3 and his Anti-Cast would have take over your channel once and for all!
  • One notable example where it wasn't any of the gang's fault was what kickstarted the Genesis Arc: Before the SM64 universe even existed, Zero destroyed the old universe by killing its avatar, forcing everyone to evacuate to the newly created Mario universe while accidently taking Zero with them. Though, the gang still contributed to the arc anyway due to Bob inadvertently allowing Zero's eye to follow him back home and SMG4 unlocking SMG1's guardian pod in the search for the SMG's past, allowing Zero's eye to summon the guardian pod trapping the rest of his body to Mario's universe.
• Nice Mean And In Between:
  • The trio of Meggy, Tari, and Saiko fits this trope: Tari is the gentlest of the three and also shy, Saiko used to be an Ax-Crazy Yandere before mellowing into a foul-tempered Tsundere, and while Meggy is nowhere near as mean as Saiko, she’s also not the complete pushover that Tari is.
  • Luigi, Mario and SMG4 fill these roles respectively, with Luigi being the Nice Guy that can be an Extreme Doormat at times, Mario being a Sociopathic Hero at his worst but a Jerk with a Heart of Gold at his best and The Youtuber Himself serving as the In-Between being an Anti-Hero and the Not So Above It All Only Sane Man who is a Nice Guy but can have his moments of Jerkness.
• Nightmare Face:
  • Heavy gives one to Mario in Mario For Hire when he learns that Mario ate his sandvich.
  • Mario can deliver some shockingly hair-raising faces himself, especially when he assumes "overgrown mustache and wide open mouth" mode.
  • Meggy Spletzer is prone to this every so often. Most prominently in The XMAS Discovery and Final Fantasy Mario.
• N-Word Privileges: In the Spaghetti Factory episode, Mario says it to the guard who finds out he broke out of the cell.
  • The plot of "Mario is Cancelled" begins with this only for Susan to appear, calls him a racist and banished him to the Internet Graveyard, all without knowing what he wanted to say in the first place.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Subverted in "Mario and... the Well" where Bob saves Fishy Boopkins from the well using a helicopter as thanks for letting him into the castle in "The Purge". Double Subverted when Bob reveals in "The Mario Concert" that he pushed Boopkins in the well in the first place and he saved him only because he wanted to be famous.
• Non-Standard Character Design:
  • Meggy, particularly in how she’s animated. While everyone else's ragdolls are contorted and positioned to look as ridiculous as possible, Meggy is carefully animated using Henry's Animation Tool, resulting in unusually smooth, flowing animation. Even her basic look is a bit more detailed than the Inkling Girl from Splatoon. This only increased after she turned human.
  • Saiko, who is more Animesque in comparison to the rest of the gang.
  • Nathaniel Bandy, whose Super Mario 64 model is completely custom rather than a mere Mario recolour.
  • SMG1, SMG2 and Zero are all arguably the biggest examples of this trope for the series. While most original characters in the series are either humanoid or based on something recognisable, these three don’t match any of them, with 1 and 2 looking like an amalgamation of shapes akin to Super Paper Mario, and Zero being an Eldritch Abomination with connected horns, a single red eye with a zero for a pupil and bones sticking out of his body. All three of these are justified, as they all hail from alternate universes. That's not even getting into the unique designs of characters from the Revelations Arc...
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Bendy in "BENDY and the SPAGHETTI MACHINE" turns out to be this, as he just wanted to play with Mario, and saves him from Hagrid.
• Not Quite Dead:
  • Yoshi in Yoshrooms, surprisingly.
  • Luigi in Ssenmodnar 9 when he crashes his kart. He falls unconscious, jumps out of it, and says it's a good thing the crash didn't kill him...before getting run down by Mario seconds later.
  • Meggy in "Final Hours" when she seemingly dies from a ki blast while being drained of her ink inside the Ink-Zuccer 3000. Thankfully, she survived, but at a cost of being permanently turned into a human.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Mario gets pissed, all hell breaks loose.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: "The Super Mario Bros. Stupid Show" implies that this might be the case with Mario.
  Mario: "SMG4, has your perpetual lack of human interaction and crippling social anxiety resulting from severely unethical work hours finally made you go coo-coo crazy?"
  (beat; SMG4 and Luigi stare at Mario)
  (Mario goes back to his dopey look) "Uh... I mean penis."
• Officially Shortened Title: The channel used to be called Supermarioglitchy4, before it was changed to SMG4.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: In "SM64: Mario in real life!? (200 vid special)", when real-life SMG4 leads almost all of his characters into his room, he hits Mario with a flat object (likely a baking tray). We never get to see the impact as it just cuts to when SMG4 drags Mario out, post-impact.
• Off with His Head!: Happens to Mario so frequently it's pointless to list all the examples here. He considers it a minor annoyance at worst. As for others…
  • Luigi is more prone to being reduced to a skeleton, but he did get decapatated in "Mushroom Wars" as L-3Gi (Luigi as C-3PO) after a jet crash next to Mario's farm, like his other counterpart, Luigi. He retrieves it eventually.
  • SMG4 loses his head to an intoxicated Mario (who later becomes giant) in "Free Lunch for Mario".
  • SMG4 gets beheaded by a Chain Chomp in "M. K. Nature Channel" (complete with some blood). He recovers instantly the next scene... only to lose it a second time to a giant Cheep Cheep (referred to as "Killer Cheep Cheep").
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Frequently; for one example, Mario freaks out when he sees the giant clone of himself running towards the castle in "Scatman's Revenge".
  • SMG4 on the Mushroom Kingdom Nature Channel when the Toads' part comes up. And for good reason.
  • SMG4 in Mario in Real Life!? when the main cast turns on him. They're no match for him, though.
  • Once again by SMG4 in "Mario's Late!" when he reveals that he was joking about blowing up the internet router only for the deactivation remote to explode. When Bowser asks him if h was really dumb enough to strap real explosives onto the router, SMG4 realises his mistake of using a real bomb and freaks out.
• The Olympics: "mario at the olympic games" and "Mario the Olympian".
• Once per Episode: Mario tends to get naked at one point in pretty much every episode.
• One-Word Title: Many of the titles of the videos are this.
• Only Sane Man:
  • SMG4 is usually seen as the rational one in most episodes, especially in comparison to Mario, though he's not without his moments.
  • Peach in most of her earlier appearances as well as in "Stupid Mario 3D World".
  • Meggy also tends to be more mature and level headed than most others. That being said, however...
  • In videos he appears in, Starman3. While he does have his moments, he is the one that has the least amount of unsafe plans.
  • Sonic in the "Sonic the derphog" videos is this to Eggman's idiocy.
  • Mario becomes this in Mario Goes to the Zoo, (previously named World War Monke.) lacking his usual retardedness for most of the episode.
• Open the Iris: The Tubby Custard Salesman's Tubby Custard can apparently cause this, as shown in "Mario's Spageti Delivery".
• Opening Scroll: In line of it being a Star Wars parody, "Mushroom Wars" does this. It ends rather quickly.
• Operation: [Blank]: "Operation G.A.Y."
• Or Was It a Dream?: Most of the All Just a Dream examples end up with this.
  • "Ssenmodnar 5": Toad appears at the end.
  • "A Trip to Teletubby Land": The pipes weren't fixed yet.
  • "A Lost Luigi": A bunch of characters from Luigi's dream appear at his and Mario's house and beat him up. Also, Luigi is still hatless.
• Original Character: As of 2022, at least half of the main cast are characters created specifically for the series (or in Tari's case, for a different series by the same people). Additionally, five major cast members who started as Nintendo characters got redesigns between 2019 and 2022 to cut down on infringement and make them truly original.^note  Those would be Meggy (Inkling to Human), Bob (Garo to less obvious Garo), Boopkins (Spike to fish-thing), plus SMG4 and SMG3 no longer being Mario recolors.
• Overused Running Gag: "Scatman's Revenge" hangs a community-wide lampshade on it, admtting that Supermarioglitchy4 and several other SM64 Bloopers creators always use Scatman John's songs in their videos and jokes. Eventually the ghost of John himself gets sick of it and starts coming after Mario to make him stop. To be fair, he does relent when Mario tells him that Youtube's obsessed with John's music because of love.
• Palette Swap:
  • Due to being in a community full of this, SM64 machinimists' avatars are mostly Mario recolors, even if they're female (Pinkolol16 and SMG4's clone). Eventually, this was lampshaded in "The Mario Parable" with the narrator pointing out how everyone looks exactly like Mario.
  • Luigi suffered the same fate for a few years, before eventually transitioning into his own unique model.
  • There are also a couple of Peach recolors present, mostly to colorize her like Daisy (there is a Rosalina model too). However they are not as common, nor were they brought up in the above-mentioned lampshading.
  • Every Toad, logically, is a swap of the main Toad (white and red cap, blue vest), including Toadette.
  • Averted with Wario and Waluigi; previously they played this trope straight, but starting from "The Wacky Wario Bros", they use green-screened models from Mario Party 3.
  • Becomes sort of a key point for the SMGs. A Super Meme Guardian copies the shape of their universe's avatar albeit with a different color scheme. SMG1 and SMG2 get their forms from Spudnick, while SMG3 and SMG4 get their forms from Mario (SMG1 is an interesting case, as he doesn't match Spudnick's shape). If their avatar dies, their textures become damaged. SMG0, introduced in the Revelations Arc, also applies as a blue version of Fred, but Niles only barely resembles either of them, although this could be chalked up to being created by the God Box as opposed to being created alongside SMG0.
• Paper-Thin Disguise:
  • Mario and Bowser wear Toad hats in "A Fungus Among us" to get into Peach's castle after it's raided by Toads. At first it works, even after the cap falls off Mario in his initial visit of the invaded castle. Only after it falls of a second time does the disguise fail.
  • Mario and SMG4 simply paint their faces black to infiltrate Peach's castle, which is overrun by Bullies. It works, but then one of them points out there is an impostor in their midst... which turns out to be Steve. So it works until Mario meets the Bully Boss.
  • In "Castle Royale", after Mario sees Bowser joining the parade instead of capturing Peach, he plans his own mission to get Peach himself. Luigi, Toad and Toadsworth are all disguised, with Luigi wearing a princess costume for only the first few moments, Toad disguised as Toadwardo from "Sonic the Derphog: the Evilness of Eggman (?)" and Toadsworth having put on a watermelon costume.
  • In "M. K. Nature Channel", SMG4, during a segment on Chain Chomps, puts on a Chain Chomp mask to fool the Chain Chomp into thinking it's one of his own kind, until the mask malfunctions and SMG4 is forced to remove it. His Pac-Man mask fails horribly.
  • Mario and SMG4 dress as Tinky Winky and Po in "Where the Wild Teletubbies Are".
  • Bowser tries this with a plant on his head to sneak past the bomb-throwing Creepy Changing Painting in "SMG3's Gauntlet of Gloom". He fails and is found out, but makes it past anyway.
    Bowser: OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT
• Pass the Popcorn: As the Wizard Duel between SMG4 and SMG3 in "Spells n' Wiztards" kicks off, Mario is snacking on some popcorn with Bowser sitting alongside him. He asks Mario to pass the popcorn, but Mario declines.
• Pineapple Ruins Pizza: In "Mario Waits For Pizza", Bowser hosts a party and orders pizza, asking everyone what toppings they want. SMG4 himself asks for pineapple, prompting looks from everyone. Bowser then orders the pizza and reluctantly orders SMG4 a pineapple pizza.
  Bowser: [On the phone ordering pizza] Yes, a meatlovers, a vegetarian, a spaghetti and... pineapple... no, it's not for me... Yes, he does have a mental disability.
• A Pirate 400 Years Too Late: Cap'n Lardbutt from "The Pirate Plumbers".
• Pirate Episode: "The Pirate Plumbers" has Mario, Luigi, and Ben become pirates so they find Ben's missing pet squid.
• Police Are Useless: Zigzagged. The Police, more often than not, aren't able to stop the main cast from breaking the law and evading them, though there are times when they have been successfully able to arrest them.
• Powered by a Forsaken Child: Meggy is kidnapped and put into an ink suction machine to power the Inkweaver up to its maximum.
• Power Gives You Wings: Mario feeds some Toads Golden Mushrooms in "The bowser that stole christmas"., causing them to grow wings.
• President Evil: Toad when he becomes president for a day in "President Toad Washington".
• Product Placement: "Mushrooms & Morons: Hunt for the Egg of Draconius GO" is essentially a ten-minute advertisement for the titular Pokémon GO rip-off, Draconius GO, as the video was sponsored by the developers. Despite this, the video manages to remain just as wacky and surreal as all of the others. Several future episodes would contain advertisements for sponsors, such as "Mario and the Waluigi Apocalypse" containing an ad for the mobile game Guns of Boom.
• Purgatory and Limbo: The Internet Graveyard, a place where dead memes (and unpopular YouTube channels) are taken by the children of the C.E.O. of YouTube, called Oof Buttons, should it became too "irrelevant". It serves as the titular setting for the episode, and the fate of SMG3.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Enzo after "Birthday Freakout" basically became this until "Christmas Crazies".
• Real-World Episode: The video "SM64: Mario in real life!? (200 vid special)". See Roger Rabbit Effect below. As of January 3rd, 2016, the video has a sequel.
• Reality-Changing Miniature: "Stupid Mario Maker" features a special Nintendo Switch that warps reality via Super Mario Maker gameplay.
• Recycled Title: "The Visitor" is the name of two bloopes, one from 2011 and one from 2014; they both involve a killer coming to the castle but are otherwise unrelated.^note Well, if you want to be pedantic, the first one is called "the visitor" and the second one is called "The Visitor".
• Red Eyes, Take Warning:
  • Downplayed with SMG3 until his 2023 redesign. He also had red eyes in the 10 Year Anniversary Poster. Years before it became official, fanart would often depict him with red eyes.
  • Downplayed even more with Melony. Her human form has red eyes and she wields the power of the Fierce Deity, but her Fierce Deity form has white eyes and black sclerae.
  • Zero possesses a single red eye with a slashed zero for a pupil, and he is the Greater-Scope Villain.
• Reference Overdosed:
  • Among others, "Scatman's Revenge" references The Three Little Pigs, King Kong, and has a cameo by an Arwing.
  • "The Visitor" has such a case: it references Five Nights at Freddy's when Lakitu is looking through the security cameras, The Simpsons and its Movie when Bowser repeatedly says he's invisible and when Luigi uses his Poltergust (respectively), and Super Mario World when SMG3 is riding in a Koopa Clown Car.
• Refuge in Audacity: This trope is prevalent throughout practically all of Luke’s bloopers, and is a major factor in their appeal. Guards N’ Retards is especially prone to these moments.
• Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: The Cosmology saga is made up of two arcs: The Genesis Arc and The Revelations Arc.
• Retcon:
  • "Meet the Toad" states that Toad and Toadette have been in a romantic relationship since before Toad started working at Peach's Castle, contradicting "The Toad, The Fat and the Ugly" where Toad falls in love with Toadette, only to find out she's nine years old.
  • "Mario's Spicy Day" reveals that SMG4 and SMG3 first met when they both went to Meme school together rather than "Smg4 vs Smg3" establishing their long rivalry, despite SMG3 explicitly stating in the latter video that it was nice to meet him. "SMG4's Origins" then retcons this by showing that their actual first meeting happened before Meme School.
  • "SMG4's Origins" reveals the SMG4 Universe branched off from the canon Mario universe starting from the end of Super Mario 64. When SMG4's USB landed in the Mushroom Kingdom, everyone zapped by it became stupid and insane, retconning the numerous backstories the cast had in earlier episodes. This also retconned "ṩṩἔᾗмὄḋᾗᾄʀ 0 - Release the Retardness!", which implied that the TV zapping everyone was why the world was stupid.
  • "War Of The Fat Italians 2021" reveals that SMG does not stand for "SuperMarioGlitchy," but rather "Super Meme Guardian", meaning SMG4 and SMG3's real names are Super Meme Guardian 4 and 3.
  • The Revelations movie seems to entirely reton out the "Mario in real life" videos, as the cast that travel to the real world end up being miniscule compared to Luke instead of plush-sized and Mario doesn't recognize Luke.
• Reveal Shot:
  • In "Final Fantasy Mario". The gang hear laughter, not sure where it's coming from... the camera then reveals Saiko Bichitaru laughing and waving at them.
  • In "Mario SAW". Mario is strapped to a chair by the mysterious figure that set up the deathtraps throughout the episode. Mario refuses the figure's offer of friendship, the figure laughs...and Waluigi reveals himself.
  • "Final Hours" reveals that Meggy survived her apparent Heroic Sacrifice... then the camera pans back up to reveal her different appearance.
• Revenge:
  • The main plot of "Scatman's Revenge".
  • Enzo plots to kill Mario following the events of "Birthday Freakout". His revenge is handed out in a skit involving him, Mario, and Toad Birds during "Ssenmodnar 7", and much later on in "The Visitor"
  • Toad brings the giant Mario head back to crash into Peach's castle in "Ssenmodnar 10".
  • After Mario refused to invite Bowser to his party in "The Mario Mafia", Bowser sends a Goomba to touch Mario's spaghetti. Mario goes ballistic, forms a mafia and goes to war with Bowser and his mafia.
  • Part of SMG3's motive for the YouTube Arc involves this after SMG4 ruins his studio upon the assumption that SMG3 is still evil.
• Rewriting Reality: Although he needs his boss' approval to use them, Lawyer Kong's contracts accomplish this. With the power of DMCA and other litigations, he can produce a medley of effects - mind controlling characters, stripping away their memories and personalities to revert them to their canon versions, and even killing them on the spot if they're an original character. It's all undone, thankfully, but his control over law makes him extremely dangerous in a universe walking the thin edge of copyright infringement.
• Rich Bitch: The guy who bought the last spaghetti before Mario in "0% of Spaghetti".
• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: In "Mario for Hire", the guy who sells Mario his new kart is Saddam Hussein^note  The model depicts him between his capture and his execution.
• Road Apples:
  • Luigi shits in "The Babysitters" after Pepsi tells them to "BRING IT ON!".
  • An old man in "Desert Head" when seeing Mario holding a knife larger than his.
  • Luigi again in the 2013 Halloween Special before entering the basement.
  • In "Smexy Soccer", Mario attempts passing a soccer ball but to no avail, instead kicking the ball into one of the nets. He eventually gets enraged and powers up while Goombs the Goomba poops on the field in shock before kicking the ball into an old man, burning the soccer ball in the process.
  • The giant Easter Demoman during the Mushroom Samba caused by eating the chocolate egg in one of the videos. Mario soils himself.
    Mario: i think i just made a chocolate egg in my pants...
• Roger Rabbit Effect: "Mario in real life!?". Every major and recurring character in the series up to that point ends up in SMG4's real-life house.
• RPG Episode: The premise of the "Mushrooms & Morons" subseries, starring Mario, Luigi, Toad and Bowser.
• Rube Goldberg Device: "Cooking with Bowser & Mario 2" features one, all just to get a Yoshi egg from a pack of Yoshis sitting at a table for use in an omelet.
• Rule of Three: The Flashback Cut in "Scatman's Revenge".
• Running Gag: Has its own page.

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• Screams Like a Little Girl: Almost every male character in certain situations:
  • SMG4 in "Who let the Chomp out?", when the Chain Chomp approaches him and Mario, does this before throwing a Star at the Chomp, which turns it into Pac-Man.
  • Earlier in "Cooking with Bowser & Mario 2", Bowser screams like this when Mario finds the Old Man in the parking lot.
  • In "Can the Villager Come Out to Play?" when the Villager cuts through the door.
    Villager: Here's Johnny!
    Button prompt comes on screen: "PANIC LIKE A LITTLE GIRL". Mario screams.
  • In some cases, this is Inverted: a girl will scream like a man in some instances.
• Screwball Serum: The cursed clothes Mario unwittingly wears in "Scatman's Revenge" end up causing strange things to happen to anyone and anything who/that see(s) them, including Bowser bouncing, the trees disappearing, the screen dropping in quality... and King Bob-omb exploding.
• Sdrawkcab Name: "SSENMODNAR".
• Self-Deprecation:
  • The series occasionally brings up Meggy's tendency to cry a lot post-Anime Arc.
  • One of the SMG4 SHORTS has SMG4 acting like Rick, saying that "they should add more anime girls to the show". This is a reference to a common fan complaint that too many of the new main characters are humanoid animesque girls.
• Self-Destruct Mechanism:
  • SMG3's hidden base on the "Super Happy Magical Fun Fun Island" has one. Everyone survives thanks to SMG3's mecha being explosion-proof.
  • SMG3's Gauntlet of Gloom in the namesake episode has this. Everyone else escapes via elevator whilst SMG3 jumps out the window and sustains severe impact trauma.
• Send in the Clones: Mario makes hundreds of clones of himself in "Clone o' Mario".
• Serial Killer:
  • The shadowy figure in "The Visitor", who kills people and shoves their corpses into toilets. He later shows himself to be Enzo, who broke out of prison just so he could finally have the birthday party of his dreams.
  • The Villager, who wields an axe. Unlike the shadowy figure above, he wasn't shown killing any people (with the exception of Toad and some spaghetti), instead just chasing Mario here and there. Its implied that he killed Tom Nook after he knocked his bag of Doritos into a river.
• Series Mascot: SMG4 and Mario are this for the older era's comedy and insanity while Meggy Spletzer is considered one for the modern era's lore and storytelling.
• Serious Business: In "Mario Waits in Line for some Spaghetti", Swagmaster takes his job as a low-ranking security guard extremely seriously and makes an elaborate speech when Chris tells him it's just a line that he's watching.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: "Ssenmodnar 9" is meant to be a quest to prevent Luigi from being killed in a race. But, since it's Mario we're talking about...
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: "The Mario Hustle". After everyone manages to get SMG4's money back, he refuses to pay them back and tries to make a run for it, only to end up blowing up the truck with all the money in it, making his, and everyone else's efforts all for naught.
• Ship Sinking: The infamous ship of Mario and Meggy had been shot down a few times before being officially sunk for good:
  • "Mario Preschool" has Meggy visibly creeped out when Boopkins introduces her to shipping.
  • "Stupid Mario Tennis Aces" has Mario hold up a sign saying "Mario x spaghetti 4 life".
  • The final scene of "Mario's Valentine Advice" pretty much reveals the duo's asexuality:
    Luigi: Man...Love is complicated...
    Mario: Love is dumb.
    Meggy: (Face Palm) You guys got that right...
  • For a more subtle example, one of the collab entries included in the 3 million collab contains a framed photo of a parody of the Distracted Boyfriend meme with Mario rejecting Meggy in favor of a plate of spaghetti.
• Shirtless Scene: Waluigi in "Retard Karts 101". He stays like that for the rest of the blooper.
• Shoddy Knockoff Product: The titular Kushroom Mingdom in "Welcome To The Kushroom Mingdom" acts as this for the Mushroom Kingdom.
• Shout-Out:
  • "Mushroom Wars" is a Whole-Plot Reference to Star Wars.
  • In a couple episodes, Mario (and occasionally other characters too) sings the "We Did It" song from Dora the Explorer. In a couple other episodes, Mario's ringtone to his cell phone is the theme song from said show.
  • "Scatman's Revenge" has a Giant Mario on top of the castle with Peach in his hands.
  • In "Mario Simulator", when Mario is asking for food, he gets food that he doesn't want and begins to say "Feed me! FEED ME!"
    • The Heads-Up Display used in said blooper is straight out of this forum page.
    • At the end of the video, Mario, after seeing Miyamoto's ghost on the screen, gets so angry with his new game that he turns into a Super Saiyan, takes the game, flies up to the sun, and throws it into the sun to destroy it, killing everyone in the game in the process.
    • The episode's title is a parody of Goat Simulator.
  • "Freddy's Spaghettiria" is an obvious parody of Five Nights at Freddy's.
    • For another (more hidden) reference to the FNAF franchise, the closed captions of “The Bob Carnival” scene where Bob shifts the duck shooting game to “POWER DRIVE” difficulty, they say the game is in 20/20/20/20 mode.
  • The video "Luigi wants to build a snowman" is a parody of the "Do You Want to Build a Snowman" song from Frozen, with Luigi parodying Anna and Mario parodying Elsa.
    • The same video, near the end, also has Luigi making a face similar to Handsome Squidward.
  • In addition to occasionally using music from the series, Mario discovering the "murdered" spaghetti (and Toad) in "Can the Villager Come Out to Play?" is an homage to Danganronpa, with video distortion and disorienting camera angles.
  • Ever since its release, music and other nods to Undertale have made appearances in bloopers made in late 2015 and early 2016.
  • "The Hangover"'s plot is a complete reference to the other The Hangover.
  • In "Sonic the Derphog: Egg and Peach.", there is an appearance by, of all characters, Scratch and Grounder.
  • "Secret Life of Goombas"'s title is a reference to The Secret Life of Pets.
  • The staff used by Waluigi is Ashley's magic staff, with Waluigi's iconic moustache stuck on the orb.
  • "Mario and the Anime Challenge" had numerous to several popular shonen, including Naruto, Dragon Ball Z, and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure!
  • In "The Japan Trip", observant viewers may notice that Axol, while drawing manga, sits down like L.
    • Whenever Axol draws something, he shouts “ORAORAORAORAORA!”, another shout-out to Jojo’s.
  • “Mario Saves Anime” has a segment where Mario, Boopkins, and Axol sneak past A.S.S. guards with the guidance of Tari, which is a clear and lampshaded reference to Metal Gear Solid.
  • The entirety of "Deleted." is a Whole-Plot Reference to Avengers: Infinity War, complete with the Downer Ending of SMG4 and his friends (sans Mario) seemingly disintegrated from existence, similar to how Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, nearly all of the Guardians of the Galaxy and half of all life in the universe gets "dusted" by Thanos' Snap.
  • "War of the Fat Italians 2020" contains numerous references to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
    • Susan Wojcicki's Big Damn Heroes on SMG4 when SMG3 tries to delete the latter has the YouTube CEO standing behind SMG4, similar to how Stands were commonly summoned. Also, the song used in this scene is a fan remix of one of the battle themes from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind.
  • During one of the challenges^note "Who can get Meggy to watch anime?", Whimpu uttering the famous "Oh, you're approaching me?", followed by Boopkins and Whimpu recreating the "DIO and Jotaro Kujo approaches" scene.
  • Metawise, Meggy Spletzer's voice actor is Lizzie Freeman, who voiced Trish Una from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind.
  • SMG4's eldritch form in "IT'S GOTTA BE PERFECT" is his body fused into Red.
• Slave Race: Teletubbies are sometimes shown to be this in later bloopers, being everything from lieutenants to lottery number announcers.
• Spanner in the Works: One common Running Gag present within every arcs is that the series' original characters are the ones who resolve (or help resolve) the story arc in question.
  • The Waluigi Arc: Tari. Waluigi had all but won, mind-controlling Master Hand, turning everyone except Mario and SMG4 into T-Pose Zombies and forcing the two Italian men to fight for his amusement. He did not expect Tari's appearance, nor her gaming skills to surpass his, and he was especially caught off guard by her bold strategy of sending SMG4 straight for Waluigi. This leads to Waluigi being (temporarily) depowered and the T-Pose Zombies being freed, before Wario busts in to redeem him.
  • The Rapper Bob Arc: Saiko. After Bob had achieved his ill-gotten fame by manipulating the main cast into boosting his rap songs, causing everyone in the Mushroom Kingdom to be his fans, Saiko learns how Bob achieved his fame. That, as well as his diss track against the main cast to bump up the ratings causes Fishy Boopkins to go nearly catatonic, Saiko proceeds to diss him, exposing Bob's actions in the Arc and lose everything.
  • The Anime Arc: Axol and Desti. Using his powered-up Inkweaver, Axol convinces Peach to drop the "Anime Prohibition Act" by showing her the joys of anime. Also, using the last of Meggy's ink during the Battle on Anime Island, he creates the ultimate anime creation, Ultra Instinct Shaggy, to defeat Francis's Super Saiyan Blue Goku replica, allowing Francis to be finished off by Saiko. Desti, meanwhile, inspires Axol, who lost his Inkweaver to Francis, to fight back against him without it, allowing him to free himself and setting up for his creation of Ultra Instinct Shaggy.
  • The YouTube Arc: SMG3's Anti-Cast, which comprised of mostly OCs, and Meggy Spletzer, who completes her transition from an Inkling OC to an entirely Original Character. Meggy, using the new human voice granted by a stray blast from the YouTube Remote, convinces the Anti-Cast to ditch SMG3 (mostly due to all the abuse they received from him), which works and teams up with SMG4's Gang to defeat SMG3 once and for all after he swallows it to use its powers against both groups.
  • The Genesis Arc: Melony. With Axol's full possession, Zero becomes almost completely unstoppable, but him choosing to posses the person she cares about most makes her all the more determined to free him and take Zero down. She is also the most powerful member of the main cast at this point, making her the best choice to kill Zero (and Axol when that proves to no longer be an option), making her the key reason Zero ultimately doesn't achieve his goal during WOTFI 2021.
  • The Lawsuit Arc: Meggy. After Miyamoto signs a DMCA and gets the channel deleted, Mario finds her parody law contract in his hat after she slipped it in as she lay dying. This gives Mario the fighting chance he needed to undo the DMCA and get his friends back.
• Something Else Also Rises:
  • In "Mushroom Wars Part 1", upon hearing about Vader dancing on the Princess naked, Mario's lightsaber (which is being held just right) shoots out...
  • In "War of the Fat Italians 2020", one of the challenges involves Luigi and Melony trying to survive watching Axol's "Two Piece" anime. While Melony goes red just watching it, Luigi's nose suddenly grows longer...
• Soundtrack Dissonance: The attack of the giant Mario is set to a Scatman John song.
• Status Quo Is God: Almost entirely played straight as long as it isn't an arc.
• Stealth Sequel: "Mario The Scam Artist" acts as this AND a Stealth Prequel at the same time, simultaneously explaining how Mario got out of the chair in "Mario SAW" and ending with him going to Bob's Carnival, which has just opened, setting up "The Mario Carnival".
• Stranger in a Familiar Land: Meggy comes back to Inkopolis for the last Splatfest, only to realize the other Inklings don't take kindly to her human form. Or other humans, for that matter.
• Strong as They Need to Be: The giant Mario head's power tends to variate. On one occasion it takes a giant mushroom to beat, the other time it only takes a simple blast from a shotgun.
• Stock Scream: The Wilhelm scream shows up several times.
• Sudden Downer Ending: See here.
• Suddenly Voiced:
  • In "The Plumber Problem", rather than using voice clips from the games, Mario and Luigi are fully voiced, with the actors doing pretty good impressions of Charles Martinet.
  • Every once in a while, Toad gets spoken lines not taken from anywhere else.
  • Meggy gets this treatment in "Mario Gets【Woke】" when Mario goes on a YouTube Remote-powered pranking spree. It also cleverly foreshadows her permanent human voice.
• Stuff Blowing Up: Quite often. A Running Gag involves characters blowing up out of shock or frustration.
• Stylistic Suck:
  • After Mario's tampering with history too much during Ssenmodnar 9, everything becomes far more retarded than him and the people start physically acting insane with poorly done voices.
  • Bob's movie in "MarioTube" parodies terribly made YouTube movies, combining poor voice acting with terrible effects.
  • In "Deleted.", when SMG4 travels back to when Mario met him (in the 2011 blooper "account loss"), the style of the blooper is replicated, complete with Rouge Angles of Satin, pure Super Mario 64 footage and lowercase dialogue text. SMG4 even lampshades this.
    SMG4: "rememeber when my videos looked like this"
• Sudden Intelligence:
  • In "Smart(ass) Mario", after touching a magical crystal, Mario suddenly becomes much more intelligent than normal, but also develops amnesia from it. SMG4 and Starman3 spend the rest of the episode trying to get Mario back to normal.
  • Invoked in "Smart Mario" by his friends and Professor E. Gadd. after Mario burnt down the castle yet again with his stupidity. However, it goes horribly right once Mario gets denied from eating Luigi's lunch when he wanted it, and his friends have to also apply this trope onto Bob just to undo this on Mario (and later on, Bob himself).
• Summon Bigger Fish: Who could possibly defeat Francis’s Super Saiyan God Goku creation? Ultra Instinct Shaggy, of course!
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • The Grand Theft Auto V video shows what happens if an idiot tries to work together with professional criminals. Mario and the trio get arrested. Also, things that happen in the Mario world don't work in the GTA world such as killing pet turtles, which will only get Mario questioned of his actions.
  • Mariotale shows us just what happens if characters from games with a completely Silent Protagonist with little personality and interaction try to interact with someone who isn't. Examples include Flowey being uprooted by Mario and defeated early enough to negate his master plan, everything with the Teletubby, and Sans not expecting that Mario would change strategy fighting him (by distracting him long enough for Mario to get a clean hit on him).
    • Deltarune, follows up on this. Examples include Lancer joining early due to believing the fountain has Pepsi spewing out of it, K.Round being "tamed" and subsequently rampaging through the Forest and the Castle, knocking out the King in the process, and Mario tricking Jevil into spawning lethal weapons that are then used on him.
  • Mario's stupidity, while Played for Laughs, actually has real consequences. "Plumber Problems" shows that trying to unclog the toilet with a giant plunger going at missile speed ended up blowing up the house and his zany yet insane attempts to win Princess Peach's heart usually get him arrested.
  • Several injuries received to the characters, even if they're amusing, has pain that must really, really suck to feel.
  • In Castle Royale, Mario attempts to sabotage a royal wedding. In the end, despite managing to sabotage it, he is sent to prison due to the mayhem he caused.
  • Dr. Eggman has experimental pills as his secret weapon. They give him bad side effects upon ingestion.
  • He also has E-123 Omegas that twerk. Not only is it annoying rather than evil, but they can't defeat beings that can destroy cities.
  • In "Christmas Crazies", Mario put a Christmas reindeer costume on Bowser and told him to believe he can fly. The attempt fails because, at the end of the day, Bowser is too heavy and has no flight abilities. Mario is then convinced that Bowser doesn't believe hard enough.
  • Due to being an Inkling, Meggy isn't able to swim and drowns, though she respawns since Death Is Cheap. Interestingly, she is able to float in the water after getting a floatie from Bowser, which she isn't happy about. It's less that she ''dissolves in water'' as in her home game due to Inklings being made of ink and more that Meggy just can't swim. This changes at the end of Final Hours, where Meggy becomes human, and no longer faces the threat of dissolving, shown when as she pushes Desti's coffin of to sea, half her body is submerged in the water.
  • In "The Most Important Thing", Toad discovers that being a self-centered Jerkass to everyone would not endear him to old Saint Nick, and receives coal on Christmas.
  • A pretty tragic example in "World War Mario". The usual Death Is Cheap schtick does not come into play for Desti after getting impaled through the torso by a False Sephiroth. The next episode, "Final Hours", hammers in the fact that she's gone for good.
  • In "War of the Fat Italians 2019", in the challenge to steal Tari's rubber duck without dying while in Goldenrod City, Mario wears a blindfold so he can avoid her guilt-trip stare. Naturally, he can't see where he's going (in this case running over the train tracks) and gets run over by a train as a result.
  • In "Bowser Loses Custody Of His Children", all of Bowser's Abusive Parents antics in regards to Bowser Jr. and the Koopalings causes them to be taken away, with Bowser needing to take a parenting counseling class to reclaim them. Even then, a counseling class will not magically fix Bowser's attitude, with him ditching them again moments after reuniting.
• Synthetic Voice Actor:
  • Perhaps the earliest example would be the announcer in "How to make spaghetti", who uses the Microsoft Sam voice.
  • The Narrator in "The Mario Parable" is voiced by IVONA British Brian.
  • "Can Ganondorf come out to play?" introduces Bob the Garo, who speaks with the WillFromAfar text-to-speech engine.
  • Hal Monitor and Grand Dad are also voiced by Speakonia voices.
• Take That!:
  • "Scatman's Revenge" is basically one towards Justin Bieber. Several other anti-Bieber comments have been littered throughout the series and there's even a 3D model of Justin Bieber used just for these jokes.
  • In "Ssenmodnar 11", Mario sues Frankie for uploading a poorly made gameplay video, the same way The GMod Idiot Box 15 shows Mario suing a child for drawing a poorly made fanart. It seems that SMG4 agrees with DasBoSchitt about something.
  • "Mario Preschool" is essentially devoted to making fun of the YouTube copyright system and how anything that isn't kid-friendly gets demonetized.
  • The entirety of the Rapper Bob arc is one towards the "diss track" culture and various online celebrities' reliance on dissing others in hopes of gaining popularity.
  • The YouTube Remote serves as a metaphor for YouTube controlling everything in the website, from airing ads without warning and advertisements of misleading (and obnoxious) ads, to its infamy of cease-and-desisting videos and total removal of entire channels in general.
  • The Internet Graveyard is a metaphor for older videos, memes and YouTube channels deemed "dead" due to newer channels, videos and memes taking over. Among them are Fred and Annoying Orange, both infamous for being this.
  • "Mario Is Cancelled" is this to cancel culture in general. This is most notably parodied as a character representing Twitter viciously attacking anyone saying things he deems unacceptable.
  • In "Mario vs. Youtubers", Mario manages to defeat Pewdiepie by provoking him into saying the N-word, which causes Susan to banish him to the Internet Graveyard, referencing one of his more infamous moments where he blurted the N-word on stream while playing Player Unknowns Battlegrounds.
  • "If Mario Was In... Nickelodeon" pokes fun at Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl. Even Master Hand finds his cousin's idea bad, sincerely doubting that the Nickelodeon characters can actually fight on the same par as the Smash Bros. cast. Not only do the Nicktoons fail to hurt Mario once Mastero Mano corners him, but Mario kills all of the Nicktoons just by touching them when he gets the Smash Ball.
  • Non-fungible tokens get hit hard, specifically the NFT art world. At one point, while showing off his new house in "What If Mario Had $10,000,000?", Mario reveals an NFT that he paid $100,000 for, which is just a crappy stick figure. Mario immediately regrets it when he realizes he just spent $100,000 on an internet drawing. "Mario Gets Into NFTs" is an episode-long rag on them. None of Mario's friends are supportive of his newfound obsession with NFT's except for Bob, who later regrets supporting him. It ends with SMG4 delivering a HA HA HA—No reaction to Luigi asking if he'll ever do them.
  • "SMG4 Gets Sued" is one big middle finger towards Nintendo's harsh overprotection over their IPs, and their taking down derivative works of those IPs — fan games, emulators, ROM hacks — as well.
  • "Mario Breaks the McDonald's Ice Cream Machine" is a jab towards the McDonald's ice cream machine breaking down so much.
  • Boopkins date with Hatsune Miku was already going pretty terrible in "CEO of Rizz" due to his own lack of social skills and the crappy aid of SMG3, but he ruins it fully the moment SMG3 decides to have him take advice from Andrew Tate wich earns him a smack in the face and drives her off.
• Take That, Audience!:
  • Toad, of all characters, was used to represent the fans who wanted to submit their characters into the show.
  • Bob, in his early appearances, was used to mock people who would beg to get themselves put in SM64 machinimas.
  • In "Mario's Mask of Madness", Mario's reply to Meggy when they and Luigi are chasing after a Mario Mask-possessed Axol is a jab towards the fans who begged for the poor axolotl to have more appearances. Notably, Luke noted that this line was almost scrapped, but he kept it in because he thought it was a pretty good line.
    Mario: But why? He's finally an interesting character now!
  • "WHAT IF..." depicts the alternate scenarios and universes as toxic waste from a fan fic idea plant. In the end, SMG4 puts his foot down and tells the fans that it's time to stop.
  • The Idea Block is just a giant Take That towards the fans, specifically refering to people wanting the episodes to be released as fast as possible. This is more evident in the speech SMG4 gives to the angry crowd at the end of the episode.
• Tap on the Head:
  • In "The Hangover", SMG4 gets knocked out this way after a drugged Toadsworth shoots Mario at him. When he wakes up some time later, he has no memories of the past events.
  • Mario later gets knocked out by Franklin in "Grand Theft Mario - If Mario was in... GTA V".
• Tempting Fate: Happens in "Scatman's Revenge":
  Mario: trees if you hate me disapear
  (The trees disappear.)
  Mario: ...wow
• The Artifact: The series started out as Machinimas of Super Mario 64 and featured characters from the Super Mario series as the cast, but as the series went on non-Mario and some original characters were added to the cast,Garry's Mod became the primary game used for recording episodes, and some of the Mario characters have been Demoted to Extra. There's a reason why the series no longer goes by the name of Super Mario 64 Bloopers.
• The Can Kicked Him:
  • The "Toilet Pwned" death in "101 Ways For Mario to Die".
  • The method of the Serial Killer Enzo in "The Visitor".
• They Killed Kenny Again: As mentioned under Death Is Cheap, if a character dies, expect them to come back like nothing happened (sometimes within the episodes themselves). Toad lampshades his status as this in "Mario joins the Circus".
• Time Stands Still: The Wizard in "a SM64 Fairytale".
• Time Travel Episode: "Time Travel Tells", "Castle Jumping = Time Travelling = Zombies", "Ssenmodnar 9 (Time Travel Edition)", "2015: Retarded Recap" and "Deleted.".
• Toilet Humor: This is often literal, as seen in the TheAwesomeMario episode "the mario Happy face foundation".
• Torches and Pitchforks: A group of angry SMG4 fans wanting more YouTube videos attack the Castle in "The Idea Block", all because SMG4 was knocked out from a Bob-omb explosion for 3 weeks.
• Too Dumb to Live: Many instances. Special mentions has to go to Wario, who decided that eating right in the heart of a nuclear bomb testing site was a great idea.
• Tormented Teacher: "Mario UNIVERSITY", Princess Peach and Shroomy are tasked with looking after a hapless teacher's rambunctious class as one of the many exams they must take to pass. The teacher barely has has time to enjoy her freedom before Shroomy accientally throws a grenade one of her students brought staright towards her, while Peach manages to calm the class down via intimidation where Shroomy failed.
• Tournament Arc:
  • "the Wacky Wario bros: Golfing for gold" features the Wario Bros. entering a golfing tournament.
  • "The Mario Channel: MARIO'S CHALLENGE": one hundred-and-twenty characters from SMG4's canon compete in different events to reach the top of Mario's tower.
  • "Mario Gladiators": the main cast fight to the death to earn freedom (and 3 bucks) by SMG3.
  • The second half of The Anime Arc seems like it be this, until it’s revealed that Meggy has been kidnapped.
  • "Meggy’s Destiny" is basically this, with Meggy and her friends competes in the Splatfest for one last time.
• Tonight, Someone Dies: Since the Anime Arc, it has become tradition to kill off a reoccurring character whenever an arc rolls around (when they're not going through permanent design changes instead).
  • Anime Arc: Desti
  • YouTube Arc: Greg
  • Genesis Arc: Axol
  • Revelations Arc: Terrence
• Trademark Favorite Food:
  • Mario loves spaghetti (or as the series used to spell it, "sphagetti"). His extreme love for it is often shown in situations that Mario does not want to be part of... and then whoever wants him to come with them (SMG4 in most cases) tells them that spaghetti is in danger and Mario automatically joins along. It's also shown by Mario's sheer amount of anger when anyone insults spaghetti.
  • If "Birthday Freakout" is any indication, Steve sure loves to dine on cake.
  • Shy Guy...well, goes crazy over toast.
  • The Teletubbies and Tubby Custard, true to their roots.
  • Chica and pizza.
  • Frankie and muffins.
  • The Villager and Doritos, to the point of murdering people that destroy them.
  • The old woman and raisins.
  • Fishy Boopkins and rocks. He eats at least 354 in "Mario University".
  • Meggy and instant noodles. She also like McDonald's.
  • Saiko and KFC.
• Trapped in TV Land: Mario once had to fix the pipes in Peach's Castle and ended up having a bad accident that lead him to a land full of Teletubbies. Turns out at the end that it was All Just a Dream.
• Trenchcoat Storefront: Although having no trench coat, this trope was parodied by a Bandit in "Desert Head" after a cactus leaves Mario for mistaking it as Peach.
• Triangle Shades:
  • Bowser puts on a pair and breakdances after he successfully cooks some Italian Ravioli using only Doritos in "Cooking with Bowser & Mario 2!".
  • Occasionally happens with Teletubbies and Peach as well.
• A Twinkle in the Sky:
  • At the end of "The Wacky Wario Bros.: The Welcome Invitation", Mario kicks Wario and Waluigi out of the castle (and miles into the sky).
  • Happens again at the end of "101 Ways for Mario to Die (The Right Way!)", when SMG4 repeatedly punches Mario to the tune of Super Mario Bros. and then kicks him into the sky; Mario screams before twinkling.
  • Happens a third time in "Shell Shocked", when Bowser punches SMG3 into the sky.
  • And in "Mario Gladiators", when Bowser receives a mace up the ass, thanks to Mario.
  • Saiko gets punted to the sky at the end of one of the challenges in "War of the Fat Italians 2020", courtesy of Mr. Hall Monitor, due to violating the "No thots!" sign.
• The Virus:
  • The Luigi dolls in "Luigi Labyrinth", spreading The Virus via hugging.
  • Again in Mario and the T-Pose Virus, spreading through eating a T-pose shroom as well as being assaulted by the infected.
• Uncommon Time: There's a section in Objection! (the Wot FI 2022 rap) that is in 5/4 time that contrasts with the rest of the song that is written in common 4/4 time. For those curious, the 5/4 section starts right after Lawyer Kong yells "Objection!", and shifts back into 4/4 when Meggy yells "Objection!" afterwards.
• Unexplained Recovery: If someone suffers a grievous injury, expect them to be completely restored in the following scene.
• Unfinished Business: The ghost of Scatman John enacts his revenge on Mario in "Scatman's Revenge".
• Unfortunate Search Results:
  • In "Mario's Internet Safety", the narrator gives a warning that you should never search your own name if you're a female character in a work of fiction. Bob thinks he's exempt from the warning since he's male, so he searches his name only to find what's implied to be NSFW Rule 63 artwork of him.
  • In "War of the Fat Italians 2021", one of the challenges is to see who can last longer on the Internet without running into NSFW content. Tari believes NSFW stands for "Nigerian Spicy Fried Watermelon" because of Bob, so she gladly looks it up only to be shocked by the inappropriate content. Meanwhile, Mario looks up obvious trappings for NSFW content like "boobies" and "thicc fat ass" only to get clean results, but he finds NSFW content when he looks up "Super Mario".
• Unstoppable Rage: Many, many times. The best example of this is in "Freddy's spaghettiria", where Chica causes Mario to enter one after she exclaims that spaghetti "tastes like shit", resulting in Mario hunting down the four Five Nights at Freddy's animatronics for the rest of the night.

V-Z

• Valentine's Day Episodes: One each year from 2015-2020.
• Vocal Evolution:
  • Several characters have received new voice clips as time has passed. More notably, compare Fishy Boopkins' voice in "Seaside Stupidity" and his voice since 2019.
  • SMG4 started adding his own voice clips to his own character as of "Mario's Illegal Operation".
  • The text-to-speech voices for Bob and the Guards have evolved from the stilted same-tone voices to varying in pitch and emphasis, making their voices sound more natural.
  • Meggy starts having completely new voices lines (thanks to a stray blast from the YouTube Remote) from "War of the Fat Italians 2020" onward, courtesy of Lizzie Freeman.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: The Imposter in the episode of the same name, as well as being able to teleport.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Bowser does this a total of three times in "Son of Bowser".
• Visual Pun: A fridge is seen running away in "Mini Italians".
• The Voiceless: Though he will make short verbal phrases and other sound effects, Steve never gets any on-screen dialogue, with the exception of "Super Mario Attorney".
• Wacky Racing: "Retard Karts 101", which takes this trope up to eleven. "Stupid Mario Kart" has this from beginning to end.
• Weaksauce Weakness:
  • The giant Mario from "Scatman's Revenge" dies from "nerdy numbers".
  • Meggy retains the Inkling species' weakness to water. Subverted once she became human.
  • Waluigi's Rejection staff holds most of his Power of Rejection and control over his T-Pose Zombie army. When its broken in "War of the Fat Italians 2018", he is depowered and those affected by the T-Pose Virus are freed. Also, his Power of Rejection derived from one's feeling of being abused and rejected for too long, meaning that a single small act of acceptance can deprived Waluigi of this power.
• Wham Episode: Has its own page.
• Wham Line:
  • In "SMG4 Christmas 2018: The Most Important Thing", Fishy Boopkins and the others see Bob rapping, leading them to believe that Bob didn't see the error of his ways. However, after finishing his rap, Bob utters a few fateful words:
    Bob: That...was my last rap. I'm retiring, folks.
    (audience gasps)
  • "Mario VS Youtube": After SMG3's Gang (and Mario) succeeds in getting the YouTube Remote:
    SMG3: AND NOW! TO FINALLY USE THIS REMOTE TO DESTROY SMG4 ONCE AND FOR ALL!!
  • The ending of "War of the Fat Italians 2020", after Susan gets her YouTube Remote back and banishes SMG3 to the Internet Graveyard:
    Meggy: Ah...ahh...hello? This is Meggy, and this is my voice!
  • At the end of "Mario Babies", when it's SMG4's turn to talk about his past;
    SMG4: I... don't remember...
  • During the final battle of "SMG4 Movie: 10 Year Anniversary Special", before Hobo 1 and Hobo 2 take out Zero, SMG4 notes how they still don’t know the former two’s names, to which the two drop one of the biggest bomb shells in the entire series:
    Hobo 1: What, really? I thought it was obvious by now. My name is SMG1!
    Hobo 2: And I’m SMG2!
    • At the end of the same episode, when everything seems mostly great with it ending on a good ending, the final scene reveals that the story the anniversary entailed is FAR from over.
      SMG3’s Guardian Pod: Your antivirus subscription is about to expire.
  • During the climax Absolute Betrayal, when Melony tries to point out Niles’ presence to her friends, Tari drops this:
    Tari: Melony... no one’s there.
• Wham Shot:
  • "Mario SAW": Waluigi revealing himself to Mario once he rejects his offer of friendship.
  • At the beginning of "The Inkling Disappearances", there is a shot of Axol, seemingly confirming that he is the Big Bad of "The Anime Arc". At the end of the episode, this moment is repeated, showing that he is actually chained up against the wall of his own cell.
  • "Mario And The Experiment": Francis revealing himself to Meggy at the beginning of the episode, holding Inkweaver, cementing him as the true Big Bad of the Anime arc.
  • Desti's death via a katana from behind by Francis' Sephiroth replica in "World War Mario".
  • "Final Hours": Once Meggy is barely rescued by Ultra Instinct Shaggy in the Anime Island's explosion, the camera panning up to show her very different appearance.
  • "Deleted.": Tari turning to dust after she fails to stop Belle from changing the past, showing exactly what fate will befall the main cast members should they fail to stop their Anti from changing the past.
• What Is This, X?: When Mario's Brown Note clothes send Bowser bouncing about:
  "what is bowser a ball"
• What Measure Is a Mook?: "Secret Life of Goombas" is all about this, with Mario being kidnapped and put on trial for his serial murder of Goombas (who had all left Bowser and founded a secret village for this exact reason - and also because he only paid them 1 coin per year).
• Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The exact location of the Mushroom Kingdom is never revealed, though it does seemingly exist in a somewhat realistic version of the world, as the planet looks identical to Earth whenever Mario and co. visit space. The currency is inconsistent, and flips between coins and American dollars. Saiko, SMG4, Bob, and Boopkins also fly to Japan in "The Japan Trip", confirming it exists and also that it's far away, and in "Mario Goes To Ohio", Mario and Tari go to Ohio by car, indicating that it too exists and is also relatively close to the Mushroom Kingdom. In the same episode, Texas is prominently mentioned, and it's where Tari and Mario believe their cab is heading to, even though Ohio and Texas are well over a thousand miles apart from each other. "My Roommate Mario", meanwhile, shows that it's located somewhere in Europe.
• Whole Episode Flashback: "How Mario Was Born" and "The TOTALLY ACCURATE Documentary of Mario".
• Who Writes This Crap?!: Mario of all people in "The Fan Written Episode", which is utterly nonsensical and makes little to no sense whatsoever, even by SMG4 standards, thanks to being (mostly) written by fans of "Classic SMG4" episodes.
• Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: "Stupid Mario Party" does this twice:
  • In one mini-game where Kermit the Frog tries to murder Mario, Luigi, Peach and Yoshi, Yoshi wins by standing completely still, despite actually wanting to die.
  • Near the end of the game, the group's car lands on a chance space. The resulting Chance Time ends with Mario, Peach and Yoshi being forced to give Luigi all of their coins and winning him the star as a result, meaning that Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing.
  • Luigi is a master of doing this. He has several official trophies in the basement.
• Wizard Duel: There is one crammed into the end of Spells n' Wiztards.
• World Gone Mad: Watch any episode and you'll see a combination of stupid, violent, and physics defying comedy that never gets addressed by a straight man. This is revealed in "SMG4's Origins" to be a direct consequence of SMG4's Guardian Pod driving the entire planet insane.
• You Are Number 6: Super Meme Guardians typically go by SMG[#] (for example, SMG4). The sole exception is Niles, who was artificially created by the God Box.
• You Just Had to Say It: Inverted when Ben tells Cap'n Lardbutt about his pet Mr. Squidge in "The Pirate Plumbers".
  Mario: Ben! You little sh**! You doomed us all!
  Ben: I'LL RAPE YOU!
• Zombie Apocalypse:
  • When Mario ended up travelling 10,000 years into the future in an attempt to jump through the Castle in "Castle Jumping = Time Travelling = Zombies", his future self used his time machine to get the present Mario back to his own time, but an accident started by Mario and his horn causes Future Mario to accidentally set the setting on the machine to "random". They hope to be home, but instead end up in the year 2075, the year of the zombie apocalypse. With the help of X (who was a new character at the time of the video's release), the zombies were countered.
  • The Halloween episodes of 2011 and 2013 have two of these.
  • Those affected by the T-Pose Virus act like fast-moving zombies, down to spreading the plague by beating victims up.
  • The Luigi Doll invasion of "The Weegee Uprising" turns everyone except Luigi, Shroomy, and Fishy Boopkins into Luigi Dolls.
  • "[TEXTURE NOT FOUND]" has the texture-less clones of SMG4's Gang and Anti-Cast created (and abandoned) by Prof. E. Gadd at SMG3's request who hunts down the originals to order to steal their textures.

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Bob: Wow, an SMG4 page. Great story, SMG4.
SMG4: Yeeeeeaaaahhhh.

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