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Mario (Richard Alvarez)

Debut Game: Donkey Kong, 1981

Tropes Associated with Mario:

  • Blue Is Heroic: He wears blue overalls and initially wields a blue-colored beam sword until it gets destroyed in the second Season Finale. Though he wields a new blue beam sword in The Plumber Knight Returns and Stupid Mario World.
  • Determinator: Season 5 puts him in this. It's entirely Justified considering what's at stake.
  • Drama-Preserving Handicap: In the Grand Finale of Stupid Mario Brothers, it's revealed that ever since the beginning of Season 3, Mario has been crippled with only "half of a spirit" after being momentarily possessed by the Darkness and losing the other half as it went away. This means that he was unknowingly suffering The Worf Effect regarding his fights against the power-hungry Wario in the third Season Finale (where Waluigi stated that he should've been able to take Wario one-on-one despite the latter's Sanity Slippage at the time), with his full power only temporarily restored after being Back from the Dead with the Fire Flower Power-Up in The Movie. Then, he remained at "half-strength" for the rest of the series until he's strengthened by Merlin, Link, and the Darkness just before his final battle against Ganondorf.
  • Red Is Heroic: His primary Color Motif is red and from the third season to the end of Stupid Mario Brothers, he wields Wario's red-colored beam sword.
  • Running Gag: In each Season Finale, Mario was never able to defeat/kill the Arc Villain and has been in danger of being killed by them, forcing another character to save him.
    • In Season One: Mario is saved by Peach when Wario nearly kills him.
    • In Season Two: Wario eliminates Nox Decious with the Nether Saber before he can kill Mario, although only so he can kill the hero himself.
    • In Season Three: Mario was arguably saved by Waluigi from Wario, as he would've likely died in the battle against Wario without his help.
    • In The Movie: Though Mario weakened Mr. L, Luigi killed Decious to regain control of himself; therefore, Luigi saved Mario because Mario could never kill his brother, possessed or not.
    • In Season Four: Blaire is killed by the Darkness before he can kill Mario.
    • In Season Five: Mario finally manages to kill Ganon at the end of the series, but Link, Merlin, and the Darkness merge their spirits with his so he can do this.

Luigi (Chris Muller)

Debut Game: Mario Bros., 1983

Tropes Associated with Luigi:

  • Back from the Dead: Killed and resurrected by Bowser Jr. in The Plumber Knight Returns.
  • Brain Washed: Luigi's mind fused with Decious to create Mr. L.
  • Break the Cutie: Season 5 got him stuck in leading the good guys in Mario's absence, as a result, he got stuck making bad decisions and lost several fighters.
  • Catchphrase "So what do you want to do NOW Mario?", "Okey Dokey!" and "Yeah, what Mario said!"
  • The Heart: Sorta... he is usually the one keeping everyone together and is the one keeping Mario from killing Ash...
  • The Heavy: Serves as this as the Blue Hood in Season 2 of The Plumber Knight Returns.
  • Identical Grandson: If Nox Decious hadn't had his face destroyed by Merlin (necessitating the use of his mask) he would've looked a lot like Luigi.

Wario (Matt Provencal)

Tropes Associated With Wario:

  • Always Someone Better: While Wario lacks the raw power that Mario has, he's proven to be a better swordsman between them. Before Mario gets half of his spirit sap away by the Darkness moments before the start of Season 3, Wario can corner Mario through a beam sword duel and has him at his mercy in the first Season Finale.
  • Anti-Hero
  • Arc Villain: While he wasn't really "evil", Wario serves as an antagonist for Season 3 before he gains a Jerkass Realization at the end.
  • Being Evil Sucks
  • Characterization Marches On: He doesn't turn good until the very end of Season 3. So seeing him beforehand can be strange.
  • Chosen One
  • The Dragon: Serves as this to Bowser in Season 1.
  • Evil Counterpart (well that's what we THOUGHT)
  • Evil Laugh: Seems to be influenced by Burgess Meredith's version of The Penguin.
  • Faking the Dead: When he took a seemingly fatal stab to the abdomen by the Darkness in their fight in The Movie, Wario was able to survive thanks to the power of the Truth Stone. Allowing him to catch the Darkness off-guard to launch a Sneak Attack from behind.
  • Go-Karting with Bowser: In season 1, he joins Mario's band despite being sent by Bowser to bring him back and secretly planning to kill him.
  • The Heavy: Serves as this for the first half of the series as Mario’s arch-rival. He serves as this to Bowser’s Big Bad in Season 1.
  • Jerkass Realization: Happens at the end of Season 3, with Waluigi explaining to him that he was never "evil", but thought he had to be.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Waluigi
  • Interface Spoiler: As revealed through Merlin about the beam swords in the third Season Finale, Wario had never turned "evil" in Season 3 as seen through the "core" of the Nether Saber. Instead of having a "black" core like Nox Decious, it had a "bluish-grey" core (also with an initial green outline on the yellow) to showcase his inner conflict.
  • Large Ham: When the series is comical, definitely not when the series is serious.

Waluigi (Doug Orofino)

Tropes Associated with Waluigi:

  • Co-Dragons: Serves as this to Bowser with Wario in Season 1.

Ash (Dane Kevin Cook)

Tropes Associated with Ash:

  • The Friend Nobody Likes: In just about every episode featuring Ash, there will be a mention that no one in the group likes him and they more or less just tolerate him.

Donkey Kong (Multiple actors including Matt)

Tropes Associated with Donkey Kong:

  • Adaptation Dye-Job: Brown fur in the videogames, black fur in the series.
  • Adaptational Ugliness: While Donkey Kong isn't really a "looker" due to being a great ape in the videogames, at least he doesn't look like a Cheap Costume in the series.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Saves Mona from Pauline in Episode 67.
  • Close-Range Combatant: He doesn't have a long-range attack and simply engages his opponents' up close. This gets deconstructed and lampshaded by the Plumber Knight in Stupid Mario Brothers: Legacy, resulting in his death by one of Wrathnar's Alternate Self, Alpha.
  • Interspecies Romance: With Pauline.
  • The Big Guy: He serves as the "muscle" on the heroes' side, preferring to use his great strength to engage his opponents.
  • Running Gag: Whenever anybody is annoying Mario or Luigi, he tends to come out of nowhere and chase them away while they scream hysterically.
    • Anytime Pauline's death is mentioned he appears out of nowhere and wails in sadness.
    Mona: Does that happen a lot?
    Wario: More than I'd like to admit.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Bananas
  • The Unintelligible: He doesn't talk in a way that the audience can understand, but some characters like Ness and Pauline could understand what DK is saying.

Yoshi (Kevin Chamberlain)

Tropes associated with Yoshi:

  • Adaptation Amalgamation: In both the main series Mario games and the spinoff series, Yoshi's Island, the two Yoshi's were separate characters. Here, he's treated as a single character who saved the infant Mario Brothers and acts as their current companion in the present time.

Link (Kent Melville)

Tropes Associated with Link:

  • The Cuckoo Lander Was Right: Turns out the talking coconut really WAS talking after all.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Had his spirit transferred into Mario so he could wield the Master Sword.
  • Informed Ability: Both Mario and the Darkness state he's the strongest of the heroes, but he loses every major fight he gets into, is captured offscreen in season 1, and dies twice. For real, the second time.
  • Killed Off for Real: In Season 5.
  • Knight of Cerebus: Non-Villainous version. His warning to Mario at the end of Season 1 pretty much does this to the series.
  • Training from Hell: He makes the Mario Bros. endure rigorous training to be ready to fight Nox Decious.
    • Subverted in that it amounts to them playing Super Smash Bros., but Mario and Luigi react as if the trope were played straight.

Ness (Tim Muller)

Tropes Associated with Ness:

  • Batter Up!: His signature weapon is a baseball bat.
  • Combo Platter Powers: His PSI abilities include a plethora of uses such as:
    • Teleportation: He's capable of teleporting to any place he wants, including traveling between dimensions.
    • Super-Senses: He can sense things from afar.
    • Spider-Sense: He senses incoming danger moments before it'll happen.
    • Shock and Awe: In The Movie, he uses PK Thunder on the Darkness.
  • Just a Kid: This is often lampshaded by Ness himself in regards to avoiding really dangerous battles.
  • Super-Intelligence: While it's unknown if it's a result of his PSI abilities, Ness is incredibly intelligent and is regarded as a genius.

Merlin (Richard Alvarez)

Tropes Associated with Merlin:

  • Cain and Abel: Despite being the older brother, he's the Abel to his younger brother Nox's Cain.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: He wears black clothing but is firmly a good guy.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Had his spirit transferred into Mario so he could wield the Master Sword.
  • Killed Off for Real: By Ganon before Season Five even started. His spirit however lives on and it's now in Mario.
  • Sdrawkcab Alias: Nilrem
  • Not Quite Dead: Subverted. Although he was last seen confronting a resurrected Nox Decious, Wario confirms through the Nether Saber (which is connected to Merlin) that he is still alive. However, he is dead and the Nether Saber continues working because his immortal spirit lives on.

Solid Snake (Julian Petruzzelli)

Tropes Associated with Solid Snake:

  • Armor-Piercing Attack: According to Waluigi in the Grand Finale of Stupid Mario Brothers, Snake has been loading his gun with armor-piercing rounds out of paranoia regarding Liquid Snake's survival in their first duel in The Movie.
  • Back from the Dead: At the end of the first episode of Season 5, he died from a fatal heart attack due to his Rapid Aging. Though Noami was able to save him by reversing his aging process before the start of the next episode.
  • Badass Normal: He lacks superpowers (unless one counts the Nanomachines in his bloodstream), but is still a trained, skilled, and experienced FOXHOUND agent.
  • Double Tap: After his failed killing of Liquid Snake in The Movie, Snake would thoroughly shoot any enemy in fatal areas to make sure they're dead.
  • The Gunslinger: He's got very, very good aim. He was able to shoot Liquid Snake dead (though he was wearing a bulletproof vest) in their duel in The Movie.
  • Hand Cannon: He usually wields a gun and shows mastery of his aim.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: His armor-piercing rounds end up backfiring on him when Blaire Vherestorm shot him with his own gun, as Snake had the I.D. Lock removed due to FOXDIE constantly changing his DNA.
  • The Immune: Justified. Since he doesn't have any superpowers, Snake is the only one who isn't affected by the "beacon" in Operation Blind Storm. This means that Mario, Luigi, Wario, and Ness were the only ones to lose their powers to the Darkness.
  • Rapid Aging: He suffers from advanced aging after Season 4, Episode 46 due to Mario stealing his "medical chocolates" to keep the FOXDIE virus at bay. By Episode 51, he looks like an old man. It's then Played for Drama by the end of the first episode of Season 5; dying from a fatal heart attack.
  • Stealth Expert: He masters the art of stealth and can infiltrate enemy bases without being spotted...most of the time.
  • Spotting the Thread: He was the only one to express doubts about the "beacon" being an anchor for everyone else to use their powers, as he tells Mario that something that powerful would require more than a single bullet to be destroyed. In the fourth Season Finale, his doubts were confirmed as the "beacon" turns out to be a "power transfer compulsion system" that, upon being destroyed, anyone within the confines of the cave it was in would lose their powers and it'll be transferred over to the Darkness' spirit.
  • Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Naomi for most of Season Five. They hook up in the end.
  • Weak, but Skilled: For a given matter of "weak", Snake is one of the few characters to lack superpowers. However, he makes up for it with his lifelong military training and field experience, stealth expert skills, great aim with his gun, and proficiency in CQC.
  • When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Whenever Snake uses CQC, it always consists of two front hooks and a front kick. While this initially works against Blaire Vherestorm in Episode 69, it leaves him vulnerable when Blaire does a low sweep kick just as Snake aims his gun at him.

Ryu (Christian Arista)

After a fallout with Ken (over their friend Tamari leaving), Ryu met Mario and the others to help them stop the Trifecta and the ninjas. He and Ken make up after Mario and the Darkness's Armies join up.

Tropes associated with Ryu

    Secondary Characters 

Brock (Austin Stevenson)

Tropes Associated with Brock:

Gary (Julian Petruzzelli)

Tropes Associated with Gary:

  • Small Name, Big Ego: He gets bonus points here. Not only does he think that he's awesome, he also has a pretty high opinion of his house.
    Gary: My house is the most awesome place in the universe!
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Ash and is better/more vitriolic friends with Brock. Although Ash has pointed out he probably doesn't have any other friends because of his arrogance.

Professor Oak (Daen Olson)

Tropes Associated with Professor Oak:

  • Cool Old Guy: Well, Gary sees him as one.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He is forgetful and acts like a child. He still formulated a legitimate, sensible and efficient plan to take down Ganondorf that no one else thought of, implying he knows a lot about the world and is one of the most intelligent and wisest characters in the series.
  • Jerkass: Especially when he turns down UPS and the flash drive DESPITE being told his grandson would be in danger.
  • Manipulative Bastard: In Season Four, he willingly tricks Gary and Brock into doing several mundane tasks for him just so they could find out from him which one of them sucks more. Oak eventually claims they equally suck for not turning down the tasks. As a result, the two fight over which one of them hates the other the most which Oak uses to his advantage once more.

Peach (Jennifer Cole)

Tropes Associated with Peach:

Daisy (Jackie Thompson)

Tropes Associated with Daisy:

Walgina (Torye Benton)

Walugi's girlfriend. Unlike most of the characters, she is a natural resident of the real world. The two met and became a couple during the course of five minutes, while Wario was reporting back to Bowser. Wario doesn't like her and her presence eventually drives his and Waluigi's alliance to the breaking point. She is absent for most of season 3, looking for Walugi. Afterward, she and Waluigi somehow break up. Waluigi claims creative differences a.k.a. she wanted him to stop wearing purple. He was however lying and the two are still together but she was hiding to avoid the war. Waluigi left at the end to find her and live a normal life with her.

Tropes Associated with Walgina:

  • Ascended Extra: When she first appears most people think she isn't that important but by Season 3 she has a larger role searching for Waluigi.
  • Hypocrite: Wanted Waluigi to stop wearing purple when she herself wore it, which led to their break up. Subverted as it's a lie concocted by Waluigi to protect her.

Otacon (Brandon Dire)

Tropes Associated with Otacon:

  • The Load: In-Universe. Both Ash and Snake feel this way about him, although Ash is only a little better than him.

Coconut/Mage (Richard Alvarez as his voice and Dustin Kumar as his human form)

A random coconut, Link found in a forest in his dream, the coconut followed him back into real life and kept him company. He turns out to be a Gerudo King whose soul was trapped in a coconut. He assists Link and Wario in three acts of heroism to free his soul and make him human again.

Tropes associated with Coconut/Mage

  • Become a Real Boy: He was formerly human and needs to be one again.
  • The Good King: Unlike Ganondolf, he was a benevolent king to the Gerudos. It also helps that, retroactively, he wasn't an incarnation of Demise's hatred for the Goddess and her chosen hero.
  • Rule of Threes: He needs to do THREE acts of heroism to become human again.

Mona (Erin Henderson)

Wario's friend (and now girlfriend) whom he met up with during Season Four. She's now part of Mario's army against the Darkness and Ganondorf.

Tropes associated with Mona:

Naomi Hunter

Introduced in Season 5, Naomi is a friend and colleague of Snake's who saved from his aging problem just as he died.

Tropes Associated with Naomi Hunter:

Ken (Eric Porter)

After a fallout with Ryu (when his girlfriend Temari left), Ken became his enemy and joined the Trifecta. He is the only member of the Trifecta to survive and joins The Darkness's Army in Season Five. After Mario and Darkness's Armies join up he and Ryu make up.

Tropes associated with Ken:

    Villains 

Nox Decious (Chris Muller)

The evil brother of the legendary Merlin. Nox Decious' primary goal was to take control of Earth and destroy all good. After being killed by Wario and possessing Luigi as Mr. L, he has been resurrected by Ganondorf as part of his army with Bowser.

Tropes Associated with Nox Decious

  • Big Bad: serves as this for Season 2
  • Cain and Abel: Despite being the younger brother, he's the Cain to his older brother Merlin's Abel.
  • Dark Is Evil: His name means "night to fall down", he wears all black, and he's capable of using dark magic.
    • The Dragon: serves as this to Ganondorf for Season 5
  • Facial Horror: His face was badly burned by Merlin's Nether Saber. That's why he wears the mask.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: He serves as this in Season 1 to Bowser and The Darkness in Season 3.
  • Meaningful Name: "Nox" is Latin for "night" and Decious for "to fall down" or "fall," so his name loosely translates to "Nightfall" or "Night to fall down."

The Darkness/The Voice/ The Koopa (Richard Alvarez)

A substance created out of pure evil by Nox Decious with an ancient magic spell El Nox de la Chateu, translates as The Darkness of the Shadow, Nox created the Darkness to bind his soul to the Stone of Righteousness until they were separated by the Nether Saber in Episode 30. After briefly possessing Mario, the Darkness took Mario's energy and combined it with Decious's power that it absorbed to take on the physical shape of it's most powerful host, Mario. From then on he became very evil and no longer affiliates himself with Decious. Having his own plans to take over the world.

After some planning and Humanity becoming a part of him, he and Nox killed each other. He later returned in the afterlife to let Mario have his soul back so he could kill Ganon. He resurfaced thirty years later as a crime lord named the Koopa in Super Mario: The Plumber Knight Returns.

Tropes Associated with The Darkness

  • Berserk Button:
    "DO NOT COMPARE ME TO HIM!"
  • Big Bad: Serves as this in The Movie, specifically in Act II and the unseen Big Bad in the first special.
    • Serves as this in the sequel series, ‘The Plumber Knight Returns’ as The Koopa in Season 1 and The Man Behind the Man in Season 2.
  • The Dragon: Serves as this to Nox Decious in Season 3 before he turns against him.
  • Enemy Mine: Lampshaded in Season 5, with Wario thinking it would be expected. And they go through with it.
  • Evil Redhead: During the Season 4 Finale, for the first and only time in the series.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: Serves as this for Act I of The Movie and Season 4 as the true leader of the Trifecta.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Had his spirit transferred into Mario so he could wield the Master Sword only because he wanted Ganon dead. later subverted.
  • Humanity Ensues: With Mario's spirit a part of him, he began to rethink his life. Now with the intention of killing his creator.
  • The Voice: When we were first introduced to him

Bowser (Josh Kling in the Movie and Austin Stevenson in Season 5)

Angered by the Mario Bros. vacation in the real world he hires Wario and Waluigi to get them back

Tropes Associated with Bowser:

  • Big Bad: Serves as the unseen Big Bad in Season 1 but subverted in the movie. He finally appears on-screen, but is defeated by Ash, Brock, and Pikachu before he can have a final showdown with Mario and Luigi. He does manage to confront them eventually in Act II Part I.

Kamek (Tim Chang)

Bowser's advisor who helps to turn him human.

Tropes asscoated with Kamek

Liquid (Julian Petruzzelli)

Mr. L (Chris Muller)

Nox Decious possessing Luigi's body.

Tropes Associated with Mr. L

Blaire Vherestorm (Matt Howlett)

The mysterious leader of The Trifecta. Originally named John, he was an insecure, bullied, and ambitious teenager. The Darkness met with him and offered him the power that he always wanted so he could reach his aspirations. He mentions Vherestorm, a wizard that John wrote a story about for English Class which no one liked and made everyone think he was crazy. Darkness only asked that John help him with his situation and he'd give him the power that he wants to become "Vherestorm". John accepted and took on the name Blaire. Darkness gave Blaire some of his power and built a "power transfer compulsion system", or the beacon. He however screwed up and was killed by The Darkness for trying to kill Mario which in turn would make him more powerful than the Darkness.

In Season 5, he was resurrected by Ganon with the intention of getting revenge on the Darkness but Waluigi would end up killing him.

Tropes associated with Blaire Vherestorm

  • Big Bad Ensemble: Along with Liquid Snake and Ken Masters in Season Four
  • Back from the Dead: He was somehow resurrected in Season 5 and has joined Ganondorf's army to get back at the Darkness.
  • The Dragon: To The Darkness, before he betrayed him of course.
  • Logical Weakness:
    • This is something Blaire learns the hard way just before getting a beam sword stab in the gut. Despite Blaire's power allowing him to "learn power", he can't do so on the Darkness as, in the Darkness' own words, he "creates power".
    • While it isn't explicit, his power seems to have been "reset" after being brought back from the dead in Season 5. As shown where he wasn't able to mentally block his presence from Ness' PSI abilities like in Season 4, nor could he block any of Waluigi's fireballs. Also, his hand-to-hand combat skills are greatly lacking compared to Season 4.
  • Power Copy: According to the Darkness, he "learns power". This could mean that he either observes or battles to obtain the power used or mimics the form of the abilities used by others.

Tommy Vercetti and the Mafia (Austin Stevenson and a variety of actors)

The Mafia as led by Grand Theft Auto: Vice City character Tommy Vercetti. The Mario Bros. temporarily join them, but hire Max Payne to kill them when the job gets a bit dangerous, which he does successfully.

Tommy came back from the dead temporarily thanks to Ganon in Season 5, but Snake quickly killed him for real.

Tropes associated with Tommy Vercetti and the Mafia:

Ganondorf (Matt Provencal)

Link's greatest enemy who ends up coming to the real world and becomes the final Big Bad of the show making The League of Bad Guys, ressurrecting Blaire, Nox Decious and Pauline to assist him and removing Link teleporting him to the dark realm "returning the favor" as he claims. He now controls hoardes of ninjas and wants to take over the real world.

Got killed by Mario who had the Master Sword in his possession stopping him once and for all.

Tropes associated with Ganondorf:

  • The Man Behind the Man: Both Decious and Bowser answer to him really.
  • The Unseen: Mentioned since Season 2 (Voice heard in Season 4) but finally seen in Season 5.

General (Kevin Chamberlain)

The Darkness' second in command who set up his pirate army for him and is very loyal. He is honourably discharged by the Darkness before he confronts Nox Decious.

Tropes Associated with General:

Zubashi, Master Gangles and the Ninjas (Richard Alvarez, Austin Stevenson and a variety of actors)

Ninjas led by Zubashi were hired by Ganondorf as part of his army to take over the world.

Tropes Associated with Zubashi and the Ninjas:

  • Villains Out Shopping: Throughout the fifth season, they go to the movies, go out to eat, or even try to get dates.

Captain Morgan and the Pirates (Matt Provencal and a variety of actors)

The army brought together by The Darkness to combat the ninjas since pirates don't hold back when fighting. While Captain Morgan is the super pirate that can take on any ninja (and be ridiculously drunk too).

Tropes Associated with Captain Morgan and the Pirates:

  • Bland-Name Product: They enjoy Pirate Crunch cereal.
  • Chekhov's Gunmen: We had already been informed that pirates existed in Interactive Adventure. Then they came back with a vengeance.
  • Lack of Empathy: He fights for the heroes, but doesn't really care about anything. Though he is drunk.
  • Running Gag: Throughout Season 5, Luigi or Wario would mention Captain Morgan, and then it would show him being hungover. He finally wakes up in the finale.
    • In the finale, Pirate Crunch keeps coming up with new versions of Pirate Crunch cereal.

    Minor Chracters 

Scott Masterson (Scott Otter)

Johnny Mushroom and the Kingdom's temporary boss for Season 2 (and 3 for a deleted scene). He is widely disliked by the group and the band got taken from him by DK whom he now holds a grudge against now joining The League of Bad Guys under Ganondorf's rule.

His real backstory was that his father left him when he was five to become a circus performer, and his mother sold him into slavery for $100 shortly after. Scott later ran away from slavery with a new ambition: to either run the global market, or manage a Sam's Club. He then went on to get a job at Channel 6 where he had to work with Teletubbies and mentally impaired people.

Tropes Associated with Scott Masterson:

  • Big Bad Ensemble: Serves as this with Wrathnar and Pauline in Season 1 of Stupid Mario World.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: His entire motivation for joining Ganondorf's army was to get revenge on Donkey Kong for stealing the rights to Johnny Mushroom and the Kingdoms from him:
    Scott Masterson: Donkey Kong! You stole my band. (laughs) Now you're gonna learn what it's like to lose something you love: your life!
  • Face–Heel Turn: Now wanting revenge on DK for stealing his band. He also wants to control the world's economy via Occupy Wall Street.
  • Heel–Face Door-Slam: After DK talked him down, he considered going good... only for DK to knock him out and leave him to the mercy of some cannibals.
  • Lack of Empathy: He doesn't care that Mario got sick, the band will still play.

The UPS Guy and the FedEx Guy (Ricahrd Alvarez and Chris Muller)

Two delivery men (played repectively by Richard Michael Alvarez and Chistopher Anthony Muller) who make deliveries and do various oddjobs throughout the series. For the most part, they only have marginal involvement with the main plot, although the ending of Season 1 showed that there are exceptions. They are arch-enemies and spend most of their screen time competing against each other or trying to outwit each other. They once teamed up to capture a package USPS stole off them that was from Snake for Otacon.

They return for Season 5 with UPS's backstory actually being revealed. He was a football player. He played in high school and in college before he was drafted by the NFL as a starter for the Raiders. However, he got hit by a FedEx truck before his first game at Qualcomm Stadium, rendering him incapable of playing football ever again. Since that day, UPS dedicated his life to opposing FedEx in every way possible, resulting in him joining UPS.

Tropes Associated with The UPS Guy and the FedEx Guy:

  • Enemy Mine: To each other and DHL and USPS
  • Hidden Depths: UPS sheds light on his past and some of his true colors in mid-late Season 5.
  • Wimp Fight: They fight using Slap Combat all the time.

Max Payne (Julian Petruzzelli)

After getting into the mob (long story) Mario and Luigi are told they have to kill their buddy Solid Snake. Instead, they call up this guy to take down the mafia.

Tropes Associated With Max Payne:

  • Private Eye Monologue: He says his out loud, parodied in that Max has one in the games.
  • Trigger-Happy: He was holding two guns while sitting in his desk. In his office. He and Snake are going to get along fine.

Mr. Puzzler (Julian Petruzzelli)

Rather than beginning where Season 2 left off, Richard Michael Alvarez opened Season 3's first episode with a clip from a fictional show called "Mr. Puzzler". Mr. Puzzler is portrayed as a carefree man, unconcerned whether he offends or annoys anyone. He sports a fantastic vest and is fond of at least one groan-inducing joke. Apparently, he lacks human integrity, if Mr. Intelligence is to be believed.

Sadly, his fate was left unknown, as Mr. Redhead came up and told him that his show was cancelled because people would rather see Stupid Mario Brothers instead.

Tropes Associated With Mr. Puzzler:

Mr. Redhead (Dane Kevin Cook)

Mr. Intelligence (Richard Michael Alvarez)

  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: To Mr. Puzzler due to his perceived lack of human integrity (although it may have more to do with him hating Mr. Puzzler's pun).
  • Smart People Wear Glasses: If he does, in fact, live up to his name; seems to be the case as he seems to have a good vocabulary.

The Dance Instructor (Christine Alvarez)

Tropes Associated with The Dance Instructor

Pauline (Claudia Stelmach)

Tropes associated with Pauline

  • Back from the Dead: She was resurrected by Ganondorf in Season 5.
  • Big Bad Ensemble: Serves as this alongside Scott Masterson and Wrathnar in Season 1 of Stupid Mario World.
  • Death as Comedy: Died of Snake's FOXDIE chocolates (which he needs to stay young and are poisonous to normal people Although as it turns out Blaire had poisoned the chocolates to kill Snake which of course backfired.)
  • Designated Girl Fight: Against Mona twice.
  • Face–Heel Turn: It seems she has joined Ganondorf's army to get revenge on Mario for accidentally killing her. She goes back to the good side in the end but decides she and DK can no longer be together despite the fact he was going to propose to her and leaves promising they'll never hear from her again.
    • However she returns in the ending montage getting married to DK.
  • Interspecies Romance: with Donkey Kong. They eventually marry.
  • Woman Scorned: Essentially once she's on the bad guy's side. But she doesn't really target Mario or try to kill him but she still blames him for it all.


Alternative Title(s): The Plumber Knight Returns

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