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Voiced by: Charles Martinet (voice clips), David Phillips (WOTFI raps, singing voice in "Don't Hug Me I'm Mario"), Uberduck.ai Mario voice, Paul Stylianou

First appearance: "The cake is a lie!" (2011)

"Mama f**ker!"

Part of the series’s Big Good Ensemble. Mario is a moronic jackass with an obsession for spaghetti, a Hair-Trigger Temper, sociopathic tendencies and an idiot to the highest degree.

Tropes applying to him:

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• Abusive Dad: Considering his father's first actions at his birth were voicing how ugly and horrifying he was, immediately attempting to kill him on the spot to "prevent him from laying eggs", and finally callously throwing him out the window, leaving him to grow up without any semblance of parental love, it's easy to explain why Mario is the way he is. Averted in later episodes where it's heavily implied Shigeru Miyamoto himself is Mario's dad. Miyamoto clearly cares about Mario but is too much of a Cloud Cuckoolander to be of any real help.
• Acrofatic: Zigzagged. Mario usually has a hard time physically exerting himself, but he has a surprisingly high level of agility when he has a clear goal in mind.
• Adaptational Comic Relief: While Canon Mario can have his amusing moments, this Mario is a clown through and through. Except for the parts where he has to get serious.
• Adaptational Dumbass: This point cannot be emphasized enough. With the way he is, one has to wonder how he even made it to adulthood. "SMG4's Origins" reveals he wasn't always dumb.
• Adaptational Jerkass: In this series, Mario is portrayed as a selfish, amoral Jerkass obsessed with spaghetti, a stark contrast to his more traditionally heroic depiction in Nintendo's games. SMG4 admitted in a 2015 QnA that the reason behind this is because he thought the generic hero character would be boring. Increasingly Subverted since 2016, while he's still largely amoral and selfish, he has largely taken a level in kindness and does genuinely care about his friends. Subverted further in "SMG4’s Origins", where it’s revealed he was like his game counterpart before the arrival of SMG4.
• Aesop Amnesia: He gets this a lot in the series, and it gets really bad at a few points. One moment he could be mourning the presumed loss of his friends and a few episodes later he might be willing to kill them all.
• Affectionate Nickname: "Red", courtesy of Meggy.
• Ambiguously Bi: He was in a relationship with Peach during the earlier episodes, but there were some male characters he admitted he would "Smash" in "Smash or Pass". Of course, his one true love points him in a direction other than gender.
• Animation Bump: Since TheInvertedShadow joined Glitch Productions, Mario's animation has become more smooth and flowing in comparison to his ragdoll movements in other videos, a good example of this being in the SMG4 Crew sub-series.
• Anti-Hero: Has shades of Classical Anti-Hero with his idiocy and generally being a loser at life, but also has bits of the modern variety with him being a total prick and actually being the cause of the situations the main cast get involved with. However, he slowly begins shedding this with a more Good Is Not Nice disposition.
• Art Shift: Frequently shifts between his Super Mario 64 model (rendered in either SM64 itself when using movement or in Garry's Mod when in ragdoll mode) and a Wii-era or Super Mario Odyssey Mario model depending on what's funnier for the moment. Other times he can become a sprite drawn in one of several styles.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: In addition to the various times where he grew himself via power-up or magic spell, he can become this if the SMGs use their powers to transmute memes into him.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: He has a rare moment of this in "Stupid Mario World", when, after he and Yoshi get knocked off of Rainbow Road and sent flying towards Earth, Mario somehow manages to calculate the exact area of Bowser's bouncy castle and lands both himself and Yoshi into it perfectly.
• Ax-Crazy: At times. He once threatened SMG4 with a knife for asking if he can have some of his spaghetti.
• Barbie Doll Anatomy: Whenever Mario is naked, this trope applies.
• Barrier Maiden: As the Avatar of the SMG4-verse, the entire universe will be destroyed if he dies.
• Berserk Button:
  • Insulting, disrespecting or even saying that spaghetti is anything but delicious is a good way to make him come after you. Denying him of it is even worse.
  • Don't say Dora the Explorer is stupid and boring. Otherwise, he'll open up a premium can of ass whooping on you.
  • Don't hurt his brother or his friends, especially Meggy. "Mario and the T-Pose Virus", for example, gives us a massive one in the form of Bob leaving his brother Luigi to die. Mario goes straight into Tranquil Fury mode before throwing Bob off Peach's Castle without a second thought when this one was pressed, and he punches Wario and is ready to further fight him for electrocuting and then threatening Luigi.
  • SMG4 Crew establishes that Among Us is one for him. In the fifth video, he threatens to eat Frankie’s limbs because he posted an Among Us meme.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He's a lazy, unintelligent, spaghetti-obsessed idiot… but when spaghetti is insulted or his friends are harmed, steer clear.
• Big Brother Instinct:
  • He has his moments toward Luigi. Most notably in "Mario and the T-Pose Virus". When Bob obstructs the pathway to the roof, leading to Luigi becoming a T-Pose Zombie, Mario is furious and throws Bob off of the roof without hesitation.
  • He also has this towards Meggy to an almost heartwarming degree. This is best shown in the Anime Arc on two occasions. First in "Meggy's Bootcamp" when he comforts a crying Meggy by offering her his spaghetti and assuring her that his friends will be with her when she's down; and then in "Final Hours" when he digs through the rubble and remains of the destroyed Ink-Zuccer 3000 trying to rescue her – he's completely oblivious to all the chaos erupting around him and clearly would have kept digging had he not been physically dragged away before the island exploded.
• Big Good: Ultimately shares the role with SMG4, being one of the main protagonists of pretty much every season up until Season 9, when different characters like Meggy started taking up the role for some seasons.
• Blow You Away: Gains these powers in "Final Fantasy Mario".
• Breath Weapon: After swallowing the Old Man's Kamehame Hadoken in "Mario the Olympian", he shoots it back out as a flamethrower, killing both the Old Man and Frankie simultaneously.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: In WOTFI 2022, Lawyer Kong brainwashes him and all other Nintendo characters into fighting the SMG4-original characters in a series of challenges. He thankfully gets returned to normal just in time for the rap battle.
• Butt-Monkey: Especially after 2021, Mario has been seen as the subject of misfortune whether or not it was his fault. Prior to this, he wasn't this as often as the likes of Luigi, Toad, or Fishy Boopkins, but he still found himself in many undesirable situations that didn't always end with him escaping unscathed (and even then, it requires a lot of effort to do so).
• The Caligula: If Mario gets a position of power, expect him to be fair and just at first, then ultimately become a tyrannical dictator. In "The Spaghettipocalypse" Luigi even states that Mario ruling the world is worse than him getting hurt.
• Character Catchphrase: "Mama-f***er!".
• Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: A running gag in the SMG4 Crew sub-series is Mario watching a meme or game clip of a character doing something he dislikes and then taking out his rage on their real counterpart. A good example is when he saw gameplay of Rosalina drawing an Among Us crewmate and in his rage flew into space to eliminate her, all while Rosalina's eating ice cream unaware. There are, however, a few incidents where the memes are directly connected to reality.
• Character Development: Starting from the Waluigi Arc, Mario has become less of a jerk to those around him, most notably Luigi and Meggy. Though his Jerkass tendencies still surface every now and then.
• Characterization Marches On: His romantic interest in Princess Peach diminished over the years, likely having become utterly fed up from having to rescue her countless times without getting much in return, in addition to her demanding and patronizing treatment of him. Mario refuses to help her make money for the Mushroom Kingdom in "Mario's Spageti Delivary" and even gets the cops to attack her in "The Visitor". By 2018, he is more or less indifferent to her.
  • He still chose to "Smash" her in "Smash or Pass"… but only after putting a paper bag over her head.
• Character Tic: He has a tendency to go cock-eyed when confused, which is basically always.
• The Chew Toy: Especially in later episodes, where he gets smacked and pushed around a lot more than before, often getting into trouble even when he isn't the conflict's instigator.
• Childish Older Sibling: Like in canon, he's Luigi's older brother, yet he's a Manchild of the highest order.
• Chubby Chaser: If "Mario Plays: Smash Or Pass" is any indication, he has a preference for people as fat as he is.
• Cloudcuckoolander: His default state of mind.
• Comedic Sociopath: Mario's worst actions are played for laughs.
• Comical Overreacting: Has a tendency to go apeshit crazy at the most minor offenses.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: With his Lethally Stupid actions and extreme idiocy, you'd think he couldn't handle himself in a fight… and you'd be wrong, as Mario proves that when he actually uses his wits (and his own stupidity when that fails), he can overcome pretty much anything thrown at him. "A Totally Normal SMG4 Episode" and "Mario's Mask of Madness" are excellent examples of this.
• Cutting the Knot: While playing Dungeons & Dragons, Mario defeats the Final Boss by punching SMG4 (The Dungeon Keeper) in real life.
• Death Is Cheap: As expected with a classic video game character, he always respawns. It takes an out-of-universe Eldritch Abomination to genuinely kill him.
• Decomposite Character: In some episodes, he and his doctor counterpart are separate characters.
• Depending on the Writer: Became this as more staff came onboard and Luke's/SMG4's focus shifted. While Mario is generally depicted as The Ditz, he can sometimes be a somewhat levelheaded leader who can make good decisions or a cowardly Manchild.
  • 2022 was the most extreme case of this yet, with him flip-flopping between being a complete idiot who can barely function and the most relatively well-adjusted character almost every episode.
• Deuteragonist: In the small amount of seasons where he isn’t The Hero, he often gets back seated to this role by the main protagonist, like with Meggy in Season 9, or SMG4 during the Cosmology Saga.
• Dirty Coward: Will often shift the blame to his friends to get out of trouble, leaving them to suffer the consequences. Although he's not as bad with this as Bob.
• Disney Death: In the 10th anniversary special, Zero tortures him via Mind Rape, and after Zero's defeat, he seems to have died from it, but then his left arm turns back to normal and he wakes up asking for spaghetti.
• Does Not Like Spam: Mario will not touch vegetables, even if he's teetering on the brink of death from starvation (remember, tomato is a fruit). Once when he's forced on a diet, he eats broccoli… and his body rejects it.
• Doom Magnet: Pretty much everywhere Mario goes, destruction and chaos soon follow.
• Dope Slap: He's often on the receiving end of this, courtesy of his more-sane friends like SMG4 or Meggy. Even Luigi is not above this.
• Driven to Suicide: He is not immune to this, especially in the SMG4 Crew series.
  • While his constant deaths in SMG4 Crew are Played for Laughs, his mental breakdown during the Lawsuit Arc where he repeatedly jumps off the Smash field and drives his kart into a wall are not.
• Drunk with Power: When someone as impulsive and unrestrained as Mario gets any measure of power, no matter how small, expect tyranny and apocalyptic disasters to follow.
• The Ditz: Long story short, he's a pain to everyone in the castle because of his extreme levels of stupidity.
• The Dragon: He's the strongest and closest enforcer for his "king" Marty in "War of the Fat Italians 2023".
• Dumbass Has a Point: This version of Mario is an absolute idiot, no denying that, but he does make some good arguments every now and then.
  • After he and Toad destroy all the milk Luigi was carrying in "Mario Goes To The Fridge to Get A Glass of Milk", he simply suggests for Luigi to go back to the factory and get some more. Luigi protests but Toad actually agrees it's a not a bad idea – as an employee, nobody would be suspicious of Luigi walking in there and taking up crates to deliver since that's his actual job.
  • He objects when SMG4 refuses to let him help their team in "Mario's Hell Kitchen", and notes that it's unfair that he's being left out. While Mario is indeed an awful cook, he is right that it's a little unfair to single him out for it when the rest of the team consists of people who are equally bad (Bob, Boopkins), if not even worse than him at cooking (Meggy).
  • When a recently human-turned Meggy thinks she can mop the floors easier as an Inkling in "Mario Does the Chores", Mario correctly imagines that she would be wrong. Inklings are creatures made from ink, and the water would dissolve her if she didn't have a Respawn Point on standby. Plus, no longer being weak to water is an interesting perk to being human.
  • In "The Day SMG4 Posted Cringe", SMG3 blackmails various Youtubers into helping him by threatening to post cringe videos on their accounts, which SMG4 decrees as the most vile thing ever done. Mario retorts by asking about Francis's genocidal plans for Inkopolis. Sure, SMG4 brushes him off and it's treated as a joke, but Mario asking him if what SMG3 did was worse than what Francis did is basically implying that he should get his priorities straight when it comes to recognizing true evil.
  • In "If Mario Was In… Anime," when Axol loses his title as the world's best anime artist, Mario quickly realizes, and points out, that it's because ever since his Inkweaver broke, Axol hasn't really drawn any manga or anime and just spends most of his time fawning over Melony. Axol acknowledges this, and it gives him the incentive to repair Inkweaver.
• Dumbass No More: In "Mario Can't Play With You Anymore", Mario is forcibly reverted back to his canon personality (jolly, heroic, etc.), removing his stupidity. This isn't a good thing as it also causes him to forget SMG4 and all his non-Nintendo friends. He's successfully re-corrupted after being shown several memes.
• Epic Fail: When cooking. Or most simple tasks for that matter. But when it comes to true problems…
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Even Mario can't stand Frankie's stupidity.
  • His reaction to SMG4 stupidly bankrupting himself by buying 1 million rocks in "The Mario Hustle"?
    Mario: "Mario think you a dumbass motherf*cker."
  • He is horrified when he finds out what happened to Spudnick.
  • Several life-hacks shown in "Mario tries Life Hacks" have Mario racking his brain at how stupid they are.
  • Mario makes some weird decisions in "Mario Plays: Smash or Pass", including wanting to smash himself, but he passes with prejudice on the Kongs, the Koopalings and Bowser Jr, and is downright horrified to see Baby Mario on the list.
  • "Mario Googles Himself" has Mario detesting anything depicting incest between him and Luigi.
    (Mario sees himself and Luigi kissing) "...Well, if that's the case, gun!" (A hand reaches on screen and gives him one) "Well, thank you very much-" *bang*
• Expressive Hair: His moustache either grows or shrinks to reflect whatever's on his mind.
• Failure Is the Only Option: Whenever he cooks.
• Fartillery: Often. In "War of the Fat Italians 2013", one fart was enough to fill up the entire scene with gas.
• Flanderization: Mario's Manchild traits were ramped up to the nth degree in the second half of 2022, making him an even bigger manchild than he ever was before. Some prime examples are "How To Train Your Mario" and "All I Want For Christmas Is Mario To FREAKIN BEHAVE". This has thnakfully been undone (for the most part) in 2023.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Mario is the Foolish Sibling to Luigi's Responsible Sibling.
• Feed It a Bomb: Mario inhales and swallows a Splat Bomb in "If Mario Was In... Splatoon", causing his head to self-destruct.
• Fish Eyes: Sometimes it gets to the point where he spends entire episodes like this.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip:
  • With SMG4 in "The Switcherooveralls" and "The Swap".
  • With Steve in "Mineswap", causing him to become a Minecraft skin and Steve to become a Super Mario 64 Palette Swap.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Throughout most of the series, Mario was a senseless nuisance who caused everyone around him grief, even getting kicked out in "Mario Joins the Circus" because everyone was so fed up with him. A combination of Mario mellowing out and hanging around a newer cast of characters starting in 2016 have since thoroughly lessened this status for him, but he can still be a handful at times. "If Mario Was The Last Man On Earth" in particular has them leave Mario out of the making of a record-breaking pizza after he ruined their previous attempt - leading him to accidentally wreck it again after going insane.
• Funny Background Event: Often when the focus is on another character, you can count on Mario to be doing something weird in the background.
• Gag Nose: Extending his nose became one of his powers by 2021.
• Genius Ditz: Started to lean into this beginning in 2017, especially during story arcs.
• Give Me Back My Wallet: With Yoshi in "Wallets and Dinosaurs".
• Go Mad from the Isolation: Mario cannot handle being alone, and it's driven him coo-coo-crazy at least twice.
  • In the 2019 Christmas Special, he misses the bus to Florida because he's asleep in SMG4's room and locked the door so no one can wake him. Once he realizes his friends left without him, he spends the rest of the day building lookalikes of the main cast from items in the castle… in the process also creating future major character Melony.
  • In "If Mario Was the Last Man On Earth", his friends dump him after he ruins their first attempt at breaking a world record. Within not very long, he's completely lost it; he has a conversation with three mannequins he dresses as SMG4, Luigi, and Meggy (even he realizes this is silly); and eventually hallucinates Hobo-Mario who he mistakes for god.
• Godzilla Threshold:
  • In "The Grand Mario Hotel", the other Marios end up seeing him as so Lethally Stupid that they decide to team up to kill him. To put things in perspective – one of them is Bootleg Mario from "THE BOOTLEG DIMENSION", someone who once caused a Reality Bleed Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum that Mario had to stop.
  • In "Smart Mario", Mario's latest bout of idiocy is such that everyone in the castle, even Luigi and Meggy, decide to force him to become smart through one of E. Gadd's inventions. This despite how they (save E. Gadd) see it as a last resort. It doesn't last.
• Grandfather Clause: The series started out as Machinimas of Super Mario 64 starring Mario and other characters from the Super Mario series, but then as the series progressed, more non-Mario and Original Characters were added to the cast, Garry's Mod is used more prominently than SM64, and the majority of Mario characters have either been Demoted to Extra, Put on a Bus, disappeared or even been Killed Off for Real. By The New '20s, this took another step by redesigning multiple OCs (one of them being the titular SMG4) so that they no longer resemble Mario characters, and Peach's Castle, the show's main setting, was swallowed by a black hole and disappeared from the show altogether, all to avoid being Screwed by the Lawyers. But despite all these changes, Mario has remained as the only consistently relevant Mario/Nintendo element in the series since he is The Protagonist, and a possible removal or redesign could cause huge backlash among fans, even though his mere existence clashes with the entire series and he's been omitted or hidden from merchandise and related SMG4 media such as Sunset Paradise.
• Greed: Over spaghetti and (sometimes) coins.
• Guile Hero: Yes, really. He often shows this when battling, using his environment or blissful stupidity to his advantage.
• The Heavy: To Marty in "War of the Fat Italians 2023". While Marty has a motive for wanting to steal SMG3's notebook, he's still a piece of cardboard, and Mario's the one doing all the heavy lifting.
• The Hero: He and SMG4 share the role, with Mario being one of, if not the main protagonist of every season except 9, 11 and 12.
• Hidden Depths: Mario can do some things well…
  • "Freddy's Spaghettiria Security Breach" shows that Mario's a natural at making pizza despite normally being a Lethal Chef. He also shows this in "Mario Destroys the Environment" despite not being able to make an edible pizza the week before; his pizza is so good a group of sentient trees willingly sacrifices itself to create a pizza stand for him.
  • He's also good at building things when he feels like it. For example, assembling beds for Melony twice when Axol couldn't. He can also build humongous mechas to terrorize his friends in challenges.
• Hypocritical Humor: In "If Mario was AMONG US" he said that red is a stupid color despite the fact that he wears red.
• I Call It "Vera":
  • In "The Plumber Problem", he put a sombrero on a banana peel and named it "Eduardo".
  • He calls his spaghetti "Sarah".
  • He names a rock "Jason" in "Mario Gets Stuck On An Island".
• Idiot Hero: He's one of the two overall Big Goods of the series, but is clearly very immature, dimwitted, and often reckless. SMG4's Origins reveals that he used to be like his video game counterpart before SMG4's Guardian Pod landed in the kingdom and turned him into the spaghetti-obsessed dumbass he is today.
• The Immune: Mario frequently finds himself immune to the episode's big problem, leaving him as the only one able to save the day.
  • Mario takes up the role of Frodo in Lord of the Memes as he's immune to the corrupting effects of the ultimate meme, being too dumb to figure out why it's so funny.
  • The Mario Mask has no effect on him in "Mario's Mask of Madness" because, well, he's already Mario.
  • He's immune to the titular Clown Fever because he always makes a fool of himself.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Heavily inverted. He has blue eyes like in canon but is a Jerkass and Insufferable Imbecile.
• Jerkass: Before he Took a Level in Kindness, Mario was a profoundly careless, destructive, self-centered glutton who lacked a moral compass; and despite clearly caring for his friends, he let his love of food constantly overshadow his relationships. He still shows signs of being a Dirty Coward from time to time.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Nowadays, while he may occasionally be a selfish, greedy Jerkass, he's shown multiple times to care for his friends in his own way.
• Kick the Dog: To Luigi throughout all of "Mario for Hire", but it bites him in the end.
• Lack of Empathy: There are times where Mario only cares about what he wants, though it is mostly due to his idiocy. There are also times where he suggests Violence is the Only Option, even when people suggest a different way.
• Laser-Guided Karma: He will rarely if ever escape karma's grasp.
• Lawful Stupid, Chaotic Stupid: Make no mistake. He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you… he really is an idiot. However, his idiocy can be for different causes Depending on the Writer
• Lethal Chef: It has been shown that Mario cannot cook, and any attempt at cooking solo will always fail. Unless, we are also shown, it's pizza…
• Lethally Stupid: When he isn't being a Jerkass, he is causing destruction through his own stupidity.
• Like Brother and Sister: To Meggy, said almost word-for-word by Meggy during one of her livestreams.
• Major Injury Underreaction: Mario got more and more used to constantly being abused as the series went on, and now tends to react to normally-lethal injures with mere annoyance. "Mario Does Literally Anything For Views" demonstrates this pretty well with the "Mystery Buttons" segment, where he's more hurt by insults than he is by Cold-Blooded Torture.
• Manchild: Despite being an adult, Mario is perfectly willing to play in toy stores, lay traps for Santa Claus, and do all sorts of insane antics without a second thought.
• Master of Disguise: Or rather the master of fail disguise, as shown in "Master of Fail Disguises". The actual physical disguises he uses are accurate, but he's bad at imitating other characters' mannerisms.
• Meat-O-Vision: In "Spaghettipocalypse", a delirious Mario starts seeing everyone as spaghetti. He proceeds to try to eat (and make love with, as he would with the dish) everybody.
• Mind Rape: Poor Mario had this happen to him by Zero in the 10th anniversary special, Zero made Mario see memories of Zero's birth and how he was defeated before.
  • On a less serious note, watching several cringe Nintendo memes in a row does this to him.
• Mood Killer: Tends to be this in genuinely emotional situations.
• Morality Chain:invoked He has one in Meggy Spletzer. After meeting her in 2017, he began showing more compassion to the cast in general and Luigi in particular. It's thanks to her that his actions rarely doing atrocious at her. She's basically the only person he listens to, so sometimes it's her job to tell him why what he does upsets people (e.g. the Christmas 2022 Special when he indirectly hurt Melony's pet axolotl). This shines especially in the Anime Arc, where he offers Meggy the spaghetti she had bribed him with to participate in the Splatfest training to comfort her and assure her he has her back.
• Morality Pet: Meggy and Tari. Ever since Mario met them, he became a little bit nicer and started to finally care about something other than himself and spaghetti.
• My God, What Have I Done?: "All I Want For Christmas Is Mario To FREAKIN BEHAVE" shows a rare example of him genuinely feeling guilty about how his carelessness and stupidity hurt people; when Meggy points out how much Axol Junior (who got injured as a result of Mario trying to sneak some food) means to Melony, he becomes genuinely apologetic, and spends the rest of the video trying to make up for his actions.

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• Naked People Are Funny: Has gone naked frequently. Exaggerated in some videos, such as "Hunt for the Hero's Clothes" and "Mario Swag".
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He's frequently the reason things go wrong in most videos. For example, he shows Cap'n Lardbutt his "pirate booty" in "The Pirate Plumbers", only to unexpectedly unleash the squid monster.
• Nice Mean And In Between: Is the "Mean" part of a trio with Luigi and SMG4, being an immature, selfish, and destructive Idiot Hero who is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold at best.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Mario has survived nearly everything that has been thrown at him whilst being barely fazed, with only an Eldritch Abomination being able to even get close to killing him. It's likely a side effect of being the universe's Barrier Maiden.
• Nobody Poops: Very averted in "100 Ways for Mario to Die (The Right Way)", which lists his 20th death (#81) as "crapping on the rug". Needless to say, Princess Peach was not amused.
• "No" Means "Yes": If this trope occurs involving him, it can usually lead from a small question to the main plot elements, such as from telling SMG4 if he wants to show his swag to the public to actually showing his swag in "Mario Swag", from asking Toad if he got his camera ready right to him and SMG4 doing "the awesome war" in "War of the Fat Italians 2013", and from telling Luigi if he can have a spaghetti machine to go to a casino with Luigi in "Casino, Cards and Chaos".
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Meggy said in a Q&A session that she believes Mario is a lot smarter than he pretends to be. We see this during story arcs when things get serious, and even during some regular episodes where, for example, he proves to be surprisingly good at building stuff ("The Bed" and "Mario Alone").
• Off with His Head!: Happens occasionally in the main series and a lot in SMG4 Crew.
• Older Than He Looks: Zig-zagged. Early episode "the (TOTALLY ACCURATE) documentary of mario" claimed Mario was born in 1928, but he looks his canon age of 24-26. Modern episodes take no real position on his age.
• Only Sane Man: Yes, he can be this, thanks to some occasional strokes of intelligence. It's rare, but if he's not causing or indulging in chaos, he'll usually be critical of it.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • When Mario is angered by someone else's stupidity, you know they're really dumb.
  • When Mario is legitimately scared, things get serious... sometimes, because he's just as likely to be scared of serial killers, eldritch abominations, and Zero as he is to be scared of a lack of spaghetti.
  • Mario's Tranquil Fury is a surefire sign that someone's fucked up.
  • Normally violently protective of his spaghetti, in "Meggy's Bootcamp, Mario willingly gives it to Meggy because he's so concerned about her well-being after she has a breakdown about how horribly she treated him and the others during Splatfest training.
  • Even the world's dumbest man can't handle learning that his world is a simulation.
  • During the Revelations movie, when Niles possessing Melony tries to re-merge with SMG0, Mario kicks him and has this to say:
    Mario: "Mario's not the smartest guy in the room. But Mario knows enough to say that you need to shuttup and let Melony go."
  • Played for Laughs in "Mario Goes To The Zoo", where he picks up the Sanity Ball and becomes the Only Sane Man, emphasizing how bonkers everybody else went.
  • Mario usually doesn't care how much his antics hurt others, but when he accidentally gets Axol Junior hurt in "All I Want For Christmas Is Mario To FREAKIN BEHAVE" and upsets Melony in the process (especially given what happened to AJ's namesake), even he realizes he's gone too far, though Meggy has to spell it out to him first.
• Parental Abandonment: His parents threw him on the side of the road when he was born, on account of him being such a hideous baby, his father tried to kill him "before he laid eggs". For all we know, it's pretty much why Mario is the way he is. This may be retconned though as "MAR10 Day" shows he's the product of Miyamoto-san eating some bad spaghetti and puking him out.
• Pals with Jesus: He's pals with Slenderman, Siren Head, and Huggy Wuggy among others. Averted with Jesus himself, who appears from time to time in this series but doesn't like Mario much.
• Pet the Dog:
  • He warned Luigi of the Chain Chomp that was chasing him and SMG4 in "Who Let the Chomps Out?", compared to earlier videos where he would likely just throw Luigi in to distract the Chomp.
  • In "Mario and the retarded spaghetti factory", after escaping from his prison cell, Mario proceeds to rescue a woman in the cell next to him, even though he had no reason to... (at least until he shot the woman for reminding him of Peach).
  • Mario says it best in "Meet the Mario". As long as his needs are met, Mario would try to act nicer. The thing is he's very dumb even then. And most often, his needs are far from being met.
  • In "Meggy's Bootcamp", he genuinely comforts Meggy as she's having an emotional breakdown over what a Jerkass she had been, even giving her the spaghetti she had bribed him with earlier.
  • In "If Mario Was In… Nickelodeon", During the chaos he causes with Cosmo's wand, he apparently wished for Melony to have a pet axolotl. This may be he wanted to make Melony feel better after Axol's death (the episode aired shortly after the end of the Genesis Arc). Unfortunately, this was semi-retconned in "All I Want For Christmas Is Mario To FREAKIN BEHAVE".
  • Perhaps the biggest example so far was from the 2021 Christmas Special. As Santa's replacement, even though he was forced to, he does his best to make everyone happy, and most of his gifts are actually well received. All of his efforts were repaid in the end when everyone comes to celebrate Christmas with him.
• Plot Armor: Justified. He's the Avatar of Nintendo World (SMG4 is its guardian), so if he dies, the rest of the universe dies with him. That gives the universe itself a motivation to sweep The Many Deaths Of Mario under the rug, though an Eldritch Abomination like Zero could kill him off for real. It's for this reason that he's classified as a B-tier.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Is just as crazy as he is immature.
• Rage Breaking Point: Has a massive one in "SMG4 Christmas 2018", where he goes apeshit on Bob. Though Bob deserved it after all he did, it's out of character for Mario.
• Reality Warper: He's able to rip open portals to/from the void with his bare hands, dimension-hop through backwards-long-jumping, break physics in general, handle black holes, summon Satan (sometimes by accident), phase through walls and doors, and create a new recurring character (Melony). No one else ever notices.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He gets these often. Usually it is well deserved but they rarely, if ever, affect him.
  SMG4: "MARIO, YOU'RE RETARD WITH A MENTAL DISORDER, OK?!"
  Peach: "First, you almost destroy the world, and then you don't take out the trash properly! Why do you have to be so useless and difficult?!"
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to SMG4 and Meggy's blue.
• Red Is Heroic: He wears red overalls and his iconic red cap just like his main counterpart, but thanks to the Adaptational Jerkass and Adaptational Dumbass treatment he's been given here, he's an Anti-Hero and a Jerk with a Heart of Gold at best, or a Villain Protagonist at his worst.
• Red Is Violent: Again, he wears red overalls and a red cap, and can sometimes be quite destructive and reckless at times if unprovoked.
• The Rival: Mario is one to basically every character in the series at some point, except maybe Luigi. How serious and/or friendly the rivalry is depends on the other character and the situation. In particular, he's SMG4's main rival in the first seven War of the Fat Italians episodes.
• Sanity Ball: Holds one whenever he deals with Frankie, who is EVEN DUMBER than he is.
• Skewed Priorities: The Mushroom Kingdom is going to be taken over by Shy Guys? He doesn't care. The Shy Guys are also going to destroy all the spaghetti in the Kingdom? Holy shit! This is serious. He's since begun doing it for more selfless reasons, such as his friends, although it still takes prodding to get him to fully cooperate.
• Smart Ball: When the situation calls for it, he will drop all forms of stupidity and get to work to solve it quickly, such as...
  • Whenever he deals with the animatronics, such as tricking the withered animatronics into attacking their toy counterparts and jumpscaring Purple Guy and the Puppet.
  • Tricking Jevil into flooding the arena with incredibly lethal weapons.
  • Using the couple-hour window before Wario & Waluigi robbed Peach's castle (where Mario was left alone on Christmas) to set up traps.
  • When Minions infested the world thanks to the release of their latest movie, he quickly tries to find ways to destroy them all and doesn't stop until he completes his task.
• Sociopathic Hero: At his absolute worst, he can be completely intolerant to the feelings of others or even the cause of the horrid situations the main cast get involved in. This happens either because of his own stupidity or outright malicious intent. He's mostly dropped this since 2016.
• Spanner in the Works: Mario is such a chaotic and erratic individual that he's completely derailed several villainous schemes by just being him. In the PUZZLEVISION saga Mario manages to slip out of Mr. Puzzles' Reality Warper levels of control and wonder the backrooms all because he's too hard to control and predict. In the movie finale, Mario is so chaotic he's able to cause chaos while under complete mind control through clumsiness.
• Spontaneous Mustache: Inverted. Mario obviously has a moustache 99% of the time (often stretched to a comically large size), but sometimes it suddenly disappears when he's particularly shocked or disturbed.
• Suddenly Voiced: Downplayed. He’d used voice clips from his real-life voice actor Charles Martinet for years, but starting in 2021 he began using the Uberduck.ai Mario voice for some of his lines.
  • Played straight during the "War Of The Fat Italians" raps, where he gets full voiced lines.
• Synthetic Voice Actor: As of 2021, Mario started using the Uberduck.ai Mario voice for some of his lines in addition to his standard Charles Martinet voice clips.
• They Killed Kenny Again: He dies a lot, usually thanks to his own stupidity, but he always comes back afterwards. His nature as his universe's Avatar means that permanent death will destroy the universe, though.
• Third-Person Person: Just like in canon, he slips into this.
• Too Dumb to Live: Mario dies on a frequent basis due to his stupidity. For example, he eats things that would make a nuclear waste disposal retch, he once proceeds to stand on a Chain Chomp's pedestal just to mock SMG4, his reaction to a wall of death is to stick his face in it, and when he got his hands on a Death Note, he angrily killed himself by accident. Without his friends to guide him around, he would die even more often. But, as noted above, his many deaths don't stick for several reasons.
  SMG4: "DON'T GO FULL RETARD ON ME NOW!"
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In "Mario for Hire", where his Lack of Empathy is exaggerated and he is completely remorseless when he sics the Heavy on Luigi. Luigi gets back at him at the end though.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Evident since 2018. While his stupidity can still land him (and others) into trouble, he still acts way more amicable with the people he cares about and is more willing to help those in need. It shines most especially in Meggy's Destiny, where he participates in the last Splatfest with Meggy alongside Luigi and Tari and is defensive of her against the jerkish opposing team Killer Ink.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Spaghetti, to an absolutely ludicrous degree.
• Tranquil Fury: It's rare, but even he's not below slipping into this. When he does, get outta there!
• True Companions: With Meggy. He may not show it often, but he does respect and care for her in his own way. This extends to his brother and his other friends, too. Particularly Tari, who (as the designated female Butt-Monkey of the series) is by far the most likely to join him in his crazier antics.
• Unstoppable Rage: Chica and the other animatronics had to learn this the hard way. If Chica hadn't found the spaghetti on the floor and proclaimed it tasted like shit...
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Was this before, and still has his moments even today, but has been improving since 2017.
• Villain Protagonist: Of a lot of episodes, some examples being "Mario for Hire" and "Mario Gets Into NFTs". He's more of a Nominal Hero whenever he isn't.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Frequently. Also parodied/subverted with him turning away from the scene. This occurred in "The Visitor" while Bowser Robot is singing, "Mushroom Wars" when the gang reacts to Dr. Robotnik's "just let your head flop back" lesson, and in "Clone o' Mario" by a recently-created Mario clone.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Mario is actually great friends with Bowser whenever they aren't fighting over Peach or something else. He also genuinely cares about the rest of the gang despite their antics. This was best shown in the "Lawsuit Arc", where he can't bear living in a world where his friends from Nintendo have been reset to their canon personalities and his non-Nintendo friends have been exiled and stops at nothing to try and save them.
• Weirdness Magnet: For every adventure started by Mario's stupidity, there's another that he'll just stumble into. A frustrated Saiko lampshades Mario's status as one in "War on Beeg SMG4":
  Saiko: "WHY DOES CRAP LIKE THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN WHEN I'M WITH YOU?!"
  Mario: "I don't know."
• We Want Our Idiot Back!: "Smart Mario" has the others turning Mario smart after putting up with his stupidity for so long. Things go well at first, but Mario proves that even though he's smarter now, he's still just as immature as when he was an idiot. In fact, he plans to get revenge on everyone for treating him as such. This makes the others realize even though Mario was stupid, he wasn't as threatening, prompting them to change him back.
• What the Hell, Hero?: No matter how much SMG4 gives these to him often, Mario will never learn from his mistakes. Lay it on him a little thicker however, just like Meggy did in "All I Want for Christmas is for Mario to FREAKIN' BEHAVE", and he might finally see the error of ways and try to right his wrongs, if reluctantly.
  Meggy: "Dude…! Axol Junior means the world to her! She's been caring for him ever since… well… you know. And you really injured him, Mario!"
  Mario: "WAHHHHH!! MARIO'S SORRYYYYYY!! Mario will go say sorry right now!"
• Would Hurt a Child: Three words: "KICK THE BABY!" His habit of kicking JubJub has been a Running Gag for a time.
• Your Head A-Splode:
  • This is death #36 in "101 ways for mario to die (the right way!)". Mario, upon seeing Toad no longer has his Justin Bieber magazine, becomes so happy he becomes light-headed.
  • Gets this after eating a live Splat Bomb in "If Mario Was In... Splatoon", thinking it was a Dorito.
  • His head blows up often when watching Nintendo memes or other internet videos too stupid even for him.

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