Funny / Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope

A new Mario + Rabbids game means new gags and shenanigans!

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• At the very start of the game, you have several Rabbids tending to Peach's garden within the castle grounds, but there is one Rabbid that is trimming one of the hedge statues and as he is trimming it, he will accidentally poke a hidden Rabbid in the rump with his hedge shears. Said Rabbid will scream in pain.
• There's this exchange when you help Rabbid Mario find his overalls:
  Rabbid Mario: TA-DAAAA! Back in business!
  Rabbid Luigi: Oh you found your overalls, Rabbid Mario! I knew I should've hid them somewhere else!
  Rabbid Mario: Ah, yes! You want to be just like Rabbid Mario! But only ONE of us can look THIS good in casual alternatives to pants!
• Once they arrive at Beacon Beach, Rabbid Luigi jumps in one of the puddles which the water splashes Rabbid Peach, angering her.
• Beep-0 has this mindset where any being merged with a Rabbid or any Rabbid with a given name is always named Rabbid first, much like the playable Rabbids, such as calling the Luma-Rabbid hybrids Rabbid Lumas and tries to insist on this when everyone else already agreed to call them Sparks. He does the same thing to Edge after she introduces herself and calls her "Rabbid Edge", before she makes it clear that she just wants to be called "Edge".
• When you start the first battle of the game, everyone is flying through a wormhole leading them to the battle arena inside the Darkmess Tentacle. Rabbid Luigi ends up spinning around and hitting Rabbid Mario by accident, causing him to give out an annoyed "Mamma mia!" in response. As for Rabbid Peach, she's just leaning on her side and looking at her phone without a care in the world.
• After the sunlight on Beacon Beach is restored, a Rabbid in yellow pants will close his umbrella and throw it in the air and a Rabbid in blue pants walks out of his house; said thrown umbrella lands on his head and he falls flat on his face in classic slapstick fashion.
• When Beep-0 gets Decibel's power, he initially screams everything that he's saying before he manages to correct his volume.
• After Midnite is defeated, Rabbid Mario and Rabbid Luigi do their victory pose with each other and with Rabbid Luigi's hand out, Rabbid Mario spits on his hand and tries to high five Rabbid Luigi, only for the latter to pull back in disgust at the last moment, resulting in Rabbid Mario falling on the ground, with cartoonish sound effects for good measure.
• The fight between Bowser and Bedrock also has some laughs, while Bowser notices Mario and the gang, he immediately resumes his focus, then Bedrock noticed Edge, who just smirks at her and she's distracted long enough for Bowser to take advantage of and headbutts her. Even better is that Bowser gloats too early before being grabbed by Bedrock and spins him around and throws him into the Darkmess Puddle.
  • The only reason that Jeanie was able to send Bowser a weapon was because it was originally created for Rabbid Mario, but it was far too heavy for him to wield (to which Rabbid Mario denies and claims that it chaffed his 'stache).
• At the beginning of the Missing Axe sidequest, Sweetlopek is missing his axe and tries various tools to chop wood which has him acting out in frustration and getting hurt. One of them is a toilet plunger which he accidentally gets it temporarily stuck in his face, which happens to be a Running Gag in the Raving Rabbids home series.
• The gang (including Bowser and Edge and excluding Rabbid Rosalina) having a Mass "Oh, Crap!" when they realize the Darkmess-possessed angry Wiggler is right behind them while they're riding the Wiggler Train.
  • It's even better when Bowser gets so angry that he yaps at it and shakes his fist, to which Rabbid Luigi has to restrain him.
• After Mt. Spout finally erupts to restore Terra Flora's ecosystem, most of the characters (sans Rabbid Luigi and Rabbid Rosalina), are inside of bubbles; Rabbid Peach gets very close to the screen and her face was distorted by the bubble she was in, and Rabbid Luigi was making Luigi spin rapidly by running on top of it and Edge and Bowser both share the same bubble together with both of their arms crossed (with Edge glaring at him while Bowser doesn't pay any attention to her), while Rabbid Rosalina lies on their bubble reading a book, not even caring what is happening.
• Rabbid Mario trying to win Edge's affections is not only cute, but it counts as this:
  • During Edge's full introduction to the team, where she attacks the Stooges that were threatening Twinkle, everyone who is watching were in awe, Rabbid Peach was obviously shocked and jealous, Rabbid Luigi is enthusiastic, and then there's Rabbid Mario who has hearts on his eyes.
  • During DJ Cheep Tuna's dance party after Beacon Beach's crisis is resolved, Rabbid Mario is dancing and then he casts a glance at Edge, who is watching the party while not dancing herself, but she does give him a blank, unamused stare before the Darkmess Puddle crashes the party with the Rabbids doing their trademark scream and running around.
  • After the blizzard at Pristine Peaks has been resolved, while Mario, Luigi, Peach, and the Rabbids were making snowmen, Rabbid Mario makes a giant muscular Snow Rabbid with himself as the head, and Edge just rolls her eyes with Rabbid Peach shaking her head, much to Rabbid Mario's shock.
  • During their train ride to Mt. Spout in Terra Flora, when the Heroes first see an angry Wiggler, Rabbid Mario becomes so terrified that cries out "Mama!" and then he jumps into Edge's arms. Her reaction is absolutely priceless!◊
  • In one of the character specific Darkmess-Puddle missions at Terra Flora from Madame Bwahstrella, Edge volunteers to handle it, but not before she straight up says that they don't need a swindler to tell them how to fight, and then she facepalms in annoyance when Rabbid Mario offers to join her and says that "they make quite a pair". Edge then glares at him with her arms crossed as Beep-0 tells him that his efforts are doomed to fail, no matter how hard he tries. You can tell what Edge is thinking.
  • At Cursa's stronghold, after Edge confessed to have been the commander of the Spark Hunters, as the Rabbids were assuring her that she did enough heroic deeds to have their trust, what Rabbid Mario tells her isn't related to what she did, but obviously making his crush known to her. Not just Edge who just facepalms again, but everyone else is just flabbergasted, which Rabbid Mario changes his reason to a more relevant one.
  Rabbid Mario: Every time you nearly fainted at the sight of my enormous biceps while I fought impressively at your side.
  [Beat]
  Rabbid Mario: Er… Every time you showed you still care about the Spark Hunters.
• The first arrival at Barrendale Mesa is hilarious, when JEANIE warns that they are too high up from the ground and could not land the ship due to a storm, Beep-0 dismisses her warnings and tells everyone to jump off anyway.
  • A Freeze-Frame Bonus as the heroes were jumping off the ship, both Mario and Edge make surprised looks when Bowser shoves them with Princess Peach off the ship.
  • Rabbid Mario, Rabbid Luigi, Rabbid Peach, Rabbid Rosalina land on the giant balloon, Luigi clings for dear life on the balloon's ears as if hoping it doesn't get any worse, but the icing on the cake is when Bowser, who is obviously spikier and heavier than they are, falls on it and completely obliterates it making them all land on the ground.
• The Rayman DLC teaser trailer has Rayman interacting with Rabbid Peach and Rabbid Mario. Rayman is understandably wary of them, considering the utter misery the Rabbids have put him through, though Rabbid Peach pulls her gun on him immediately. Rabbid Mario, however, just shakes Rayman's hand. When Rabbid Peach pulls him away from Rayman, Rayman's hand comes off, causing Rabbid Mario to immediately faint. Rabbid Peach then immediately tries to figure out what's the deal with Rayman's Floating Limbs... rather physically.
• When Rayman encounters a Stooge for the first time, he says that he just KNEW the invitation was fishy and that somehow a Rabbid was behind it.
• When Rayman enters the main lobby, he presses himself against the door with a hilarious expression as Rabbid Peach, Rabbid Mario and Beep-O pass by.
• Rayman's sheer confusion over Rabbids talking and being heroes.
• When Rayman is about to introduce himself to Beep-0's squad, he is interrupted by the arrival of a couple of Goombas and Stooges, causing him to explain "egads!". Beep-0 mistakenly believes that's short for "eggplant" and, even after Rayman says his real name, thinks that his full name is "Mr. Rayman Eggplant" for the rest of the game.
• When Rayman properly introduces himself and asks if they've heard of him, Beep-0 claims that they've heard of him, then he turns around and says that he has no idea who he is, which is surprising considering how well versed he is in Rabbid history.
• When the Phantom arrives, Rabbid Peach and Rabbid Mario equip their weapons and charge...and then we see Rayman holding them back and rolling his eyes and sighing.
• Just like in Kingdom Battle, the Phantom once again has a "Hero Sucks" Song prepared for his confrontation in Rayman in the Phantom Show. This time, it's a diss track towards Rayman in the style of Big Band and it consists almost entirely of Biting-the-Hand Humor about how Rayman was rendered Out of Focus because of the Rabbids. Phantom's song for the final act has him return to his opera roots as he roasts Beep-0, and basically the rest of the team. Same ego, same hilarity. The Phantom truly has not changed.
  • During the first phase of the song, the Rabbid chorus sing with the Phantom, even Rabbid Peach.
• When the Phantom finally reveals that he was looking for an opportunity to get revenge on the Rabbid heroes since his humiliating defeat the whole time, Beep-0 is royally pissed, to the point that he swears (something he had only done towards Toadette in the prior game). At the same time, Beep-0 angrily insists that he knew from the beginning that the Phantom was plotting for revenge.

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