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• Broken Base: The forums have been divided on whether or not the more serious, story-driven Cocoon Academy arc is a good thing, or if the comic should stick to quick, cute gags.
• Cargo Ship: As of Comic 300, Ganondorf/Triforce.
• Crack Pairing: Lakitu's Cloud and Mother Brain? And she got pregnant!?
  • And their baby? Kracko.
• Crossover Ship: Kirby/Jigglypuff.
  • And now Samus/Captain Falcon too.
  • If you look closely at #190, you can see Midna apparently flirting with Mr. Game & Watch.
  • And now Mother Brain/Lakitu's Cloud.
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: When he's introduced, it's clear Eario desperately wants to be related to his hero, Mario, somehow. There's the obvious moment at the end of the Janitor of the Mushroom Kingdom arc when his son, Waluigi, invites him to his own family reunion, but there's also the fact that they are indeed related, though it takes some Fridge Brilliance to figure it out: according to Nintendo, Waluigi and Wario are brothers, and Mario and Wario are cousins, making Eario Mario's uncle. This can very quickly become a Tear Jerker if one realizes Eario will probably never know that, however.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: Comic #200. You'll never stomp a Goomba again.
  • All of the holiday song parodies.
    • Hark, how the WAA, all seem to WAA, joining in rhyme, WALUIGI TIME!
    • Ganondorf doesn't want much for Christmas... except for the Triforce.
    • It's beginning to look just like an ice world.
    • I think all the other songs have been topped, at least in nerdiness.
• Ear Worm: WALUWALUWALU-WA-LU-I-GI
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Kingsonnn Dededoo is considered the most popular character on the forums and having been in only three comics, that's something.
  • WALUIGI IS BACK. NOW THE COMIC IS FUNNY AGAIN.
  • Eario also seems fast on his way to becoming this.
• Fan Nickname: "Dededad" for Dedede's unusually realistic-looking penguin father seen in the Cocoon Academy arc.
• Fridge Brilliance: Anyone who may not have made the connection, the "I'm not Jigglypuff!" may have been a Shout Out to the memetic nightmare scene from Rugrats. "I'm not Tommy!"
• Fridge Logic: P-blocks. "What exactly is their range?"
• Hilarious in Hindsight: This comic and especially it's Alt Text are even funnier after a certain controversial cutscene from Metroid: Other M.
  • This comic about the moon includes a fictional playing card about Donkey Kong's Giant Punch. These two are combined in Donkey Kong Country Returns.
  • Many parts of the Mushroom Kingdom Carol arc, particularly the eighth panel of this strip, become hilarious after the Mario cast's appearance in Fortune Street.
  • The joke in this comic is funny to begin with, but it becomes even more hilarious when you realize it's exactly what ended up happening.
• Internet Backdraft: In the forums, the fourth part of the Sleepover arc (comic 422) has been accused of having Kirby act out of character.
• Memetic Molester: Although Waluigi does slide toward Memetic Badass in "Phillips Box".
• Memetic Mutation: A few minor examples.
  • Expecting an example? TOO BAD. WALUIGI TIME.
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    • Which later comes full circle here.
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Kirby may have shades of this, if the end of this comic is any indication.
• Paranoia Fuel: Waluigi is EVERYWHERE.
  • Peppy is even more everywhere. So next time you suddenly hear Peppy quotes from nowhere, it's not only in your head anymore!
  • "'Hoy, small fry!"
  • "No one saw that." Puts a horrifying spin on the Mushroom Kingdom....
  • Dittos. They could be any one of us.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Waluigi was originally created so that Wario could have a partner in Mario Tennis, and was disliked by critics and players alike. Years later, in comes this comic, turning Waluigi into a psychopathic Cloud Cuckoo Lander, and he quickly became one of the best characters in the strip.
• That One Level: Not a level in itself, but this comic sings about the tendency for Slippy Slidey Ice Worlds to be such.
• Toy Ship: Kirby/Jigglypuff. This is what cements it as such.
  • May also count as a Gift of the Magi Plot.
• The Woobie: The final comic of the Waluigi Triloigi series of strips actually manages to turn Waluigi into this.
  • A few strips manage to make a Goomba look cute.
  • And Eario, the janitor of the Mushroom Kingdom. He cleans and polishes (and refuels the bullet shooters) all for his idol Mario, and the day he got a coin from a block Mario hit was the happiest day of his life. Until he was reunited with his son(?), Waluigi.
  • Young Dedede in the Cocoon Academy Story Arc. First he gets into a food fight by accident, is sucked up by "Pinky," and gets detention for aforementioned food fight. When he gets home he has a terrible dinner (so says the mouseover text) and the next day he's sent to Headmaster Hand's office. And then later on, he thinks that he's lost "Pinky" as a result of fighting Dark Matter...
  • Luigi can't fantasize HIMSELF being the hero. Also, Matthew saying he has low self confidence doesn't help...
  • Matthew himself. He suddenly came down with a disease before the 400th strip began, and it seemed like he would recover quickly, but it got a whole lot worse when said disease turned out to be an incredibly severe case of Crohn's Disease, a form of Inflammatory Bowel Disease whose symptoms are terrifying to imagine. Worse, it's chronic, so he has to live with these symptoms for the rest of his life. All of this happened totally out of nowhere.
  • Lickitung has it rough...
    • Phantoon has it rougher.