Memes / Super Mario Bros.

That's Mama Luigi to you, Mario! *wheeze*

Mario: Is he talking about us?
Luigi: You better believe it!

— From a commercial bumper for The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

Being possibly the most recognizable game series of all time, of course Super Mario Bros. is going to mutate some memes!

Memes about Donkey Kong can be found here.

Media with their own subpages:

• Hotel Mario
• Super Mario Odyssey
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie

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• Mario is a drug addict.^explanationThe Super Mushrooms look a lot like Amanita Muscaria, a real-life hallucinogenic mushroom. This had led people to commonly joke that they are drugs, and that Mario and Luigi's adventures in the Mushroom Kingdom are just a drug trip.
• Headbanging Mario^ExplanationAn old Singapore Airlines commercial used Mario to promote its in-flight entertainment system. Some found the brief moment where Mario is mimicking the passenger's headbanging amusing.
• The Ear of Luigi.^ExplanationA mishearing of Satoru Iwata when announcing The Year of Luigi.
• Daisy is just a Peach clone.^ExplanationDue to being a Suspiciously Similar Substitute to Princess Peach/Toadstool in Super Mario Land and a Palette Swap in the N64 era, this phrase got common in the fandom post-GCN era because of her similar animations to Peach and her gown being an orange version of Peach's, despite her redesign in Mario Party 4. Made Hilarious in Hindsight when Daisy was announced as an Echo Fighter of Peach in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which made her a literal "clone" of Peach.
• FINALLY GETS THE SUMMER OFF GOES TO BEACH AND GETS STOMPED BY MARIO^ExplanationA Nintendo-created one, actually, from their American Facebook page. It lampshades the Butt-Monkey status of The Goomba.
• Miyamoto is Bowser Jr.'s mother!^ExplanationA video made to promote Super Mario Maker featured Miyamoto addressing various myths related to the franchise non-verbally. His reaction to the question "Do you know who Bowser Jr.'s mother is?" nodding and then pointing to himself. People interpreted this... interestingly.
• "Hipster Bowser", or "Nerd(y) Bowser", from a Japanese New 3DS ad starring Kyary Pamyu Pamyu has caught on quite a bit.
• Mario Games Repainted ^ExplanationA type of ROM Hack where a group of people replace textures/songs/dialogue with memes to comedic effect.
• "Cover your eyes, son!" Parental Control Bowser ^Explanation Shortly after their January reveal of the details of the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo released a cute video of Bowser and Bowser Jr. demonstrating how the console's parental control system works. While the entire video became something of a meme, one moment in particular where Bowser covers his son's eyes stands out. It's often paired with another scene of Bowser Jr. looking at the TV screen with various inappropriate things (or any kind of media) spliced in.
• Luigi board.^ExplanationMishearing of ouija board, which originated on Yahoo! Answers.
• Capitan Todd. ^ExplanationAfter an update to Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker came out, a user on NeoGAF made a thread asking if anyone else was having problems running the game, but misspelled the game's name as "Capitan Todd". After several other users ran with it, it eventually became a well-known joke on the forum.
• BING BING WAHOO ^ExplanationOriginally came from a 4chan copypasta mocking the somewhat abrasive sound effects of the more modern Mario titles as well as Nintendo Switch fans who play the system in public. It was eventually adopted by the Mario fandom themselves, who usually use the phrase as a way of jokingly poking fun at Mario.
• #WiggerWednesday. ^Explanation This tweet◊ from Nintendo of America's Twitter rose to infamy when they missed the "L" in Wiggler ("wigger" is a derogatory term for a white youth who adopts culture associated with black people; the word itself is a portmanteau of "white" and... well... the n-word). Even years later, the hashtag is still used to share pictures of Wigglers on Wednesday.
• Yoshi committed tax fraud. ^ExplanationOriginally from a Dada-esque Tumblr post. The idea of a Ridiculously Cute Critter like Yoshi committing tax fraud is seen as humorously absurd.
  • We have proof! ^ExplanationOn January 15th, 2019, the Supper Mario Broth Twitter brought the meme back into the spotlight when they posted a tweet showing that in Fortune Street, Yoshi is the only character (in a roster of 26) that asks to be exempt from paying taxes when one of the players builds a tax office.
  • Looks like the government got him back. ^ExplanationOn February 20th, 2019, a story came out, pointing out that the EPA had accidentally used music from Yoshi's Island DS for a Flash game about recycling, which many took as the government giving Yoshi his comeuppance for his crimes.
• Yobby. ^ExplanationA Tumblr user had a dream where he met Yoshi's dad, Yobby, who looked like a blue Yoshi with a long neck. Yobby quickly became a popular fan character with lots of art and even his own theme music.
• Super Crown ^ExplanationOn September 13th, 2018, it was revealed that a deluxe port of New Super Mario Bros. U was coming to the Nintendo Switch. One of the new additions is a playable Toadette who can obtain a new power-up called a "Super Crown", which can transform her into a Peach-like character with her floating mechanic known as "Peachette". Simply put, this one power-up in a simple port job has exploded into meme stardom like nothing else in the Mario fandom... hence the absurd number of sub-memes here.
  • "But seriously, who is Peachette?" ^ExplanationPeachette appears to be a fusion of Peach and Toadette and has baffled the Mario fandom. With how loose the Mario series's canon is, people have jokingly come up with bizarre rumors about Peachette to the point where news websites even covered their confusion over the character.
  • Bowsette ^ExplanationA combination of the above and "Mario and Bowser are gay", Bowsette was originally spawned out of a fancomic in which, after Peach rejects both Mario and Bowser at the end of Super Mario Odyssey, Bowser brandishes a Super Crown and starts dating Mario as a female humanoid with aspects of Peach (dress, hair, earrings, breasts) and Bowser (spiked bands, fangs, shell, horns). Fan Art and edits of the original comic quickly followed. This quickly spread into the Japanese Mario fandom and Twitter, with the name "Koopa-hime" (クッパ姫, translated Princess Koopa, a play on Bowser's Japanese name King Koopa.), with several well-known mangaka releasing their own versions. This also sees crossover with the Double Cherry power-up from Super Mario 3D World being used for unintended purposes.
    • She's canon, right? ^ExplanationSome sites have provided prank images of Nintendo announcing Bowsette as an actual character, fooling a large number of people. Not helping matters is concept art from the Super Mario Odyssey artbook, which revealed that at one point Bowser had his own version of Cappy that he would use on Peach, with the result looking surprisingly similar to the red-haired, tan-skinned version of Bowsette.
    • Deepest lore. ^ExplanationSome fans have proposed the idea that Bowser Jr. thought Princess Peach was his mother because of Bowsette's resemblance to her, or at least are amused by the idea that this would be true. Musings of Mario being the father are not far behind, especially as an explanation for Jr's Shadow Mario disguise. Understandably, the term "deepest lore" is making fun of the fact that such a key backstory question would have such a disturbing answer.
    • Bowser Jr's reaction ^ExplanationRe-imagining Bowser as Bowsette has a range of implications for Bowser Jr. and the Koopalings. Either they're traumatized by the whole event, happy that they finally have a mom, or they get involved and are also transformed into cute girls by the Super Crown. What this means for Wendy O. Koopa depends on the artist as well.
  • Peachyboo/Boo(s)ette ^ExplanationAnother offshoot of the "Super Crown" meme, with King Boo wearing it and turning into a Cute Ghost Girl version of Peach. At least two versions exist, one wearing a white wedding dress and the other with a black Victorian outfit. While Bowsette is largely associated with Mario, Boo(s)ette has more of an association with Luigi, since pairing nemesis (nemeses?) with each other provides for interesting interactions.
    • And Chompette makes three! ^ExplanationWhile many characters from the Mario series have been given the Super Crown, the three most common subjects are Bowsette, Peachyboo, and some variant of Chain Chomp for whatever reason. Generally, whenever Bowsette has an army of super-crowned characters, Chompette will be prominently featured; she's even been used to make a Freudian Trio Girl Posse with Bowsette and Peachyboo.
  • Infinite Waifus! ^ExplanationThe Super Crown has been applied to numerous other Mario characters, including things such as Yoshi, Chain Chomps, Magikoopas, Piranha Plants, Goombas, Bloopers, Thwomps, and even the haunted piano and giant eel from Super Mario 64. Certain artists have noticed the trend and warned that Nintendo has created a tool to create 'infinite Waifus'. The meme has become oddly meta and recursive, with attempts to destroy the crown in lava resulting in a Lava Peach, Peach herself considering putting the crown on or taking off her own crown to reveal a smaller Toad-like form, the crown being put on non-Mario characters like King K. Rool or Isabelle, the crown being put on certain characters like Wario or Waluigi... and having absolutely no change (or turning them into a Butterface), the original Peachette form becoming jealous of all the attention that Bowsette and other "-ette" beings are getting, and the crown being put on top of another crown. Older fans have compared this to the Midnight Bliss phenomenon, where a move or powerup was used to deliberately invoke Rule 63 on everyone just to make them into cute girls.
    • Eevette ^ExplanationA vaguely Super Crown-ized version of Eevee from Pokémon made by one of the graphic designers at Game Freak. The work barely features any Mario-related elements (Eevee is wearing a small crown, but that's it) and the characters look more like regular teen-to-20-something humans with Eevee and Pikachu heads. Considering Game Freak's most successful IP (Pokémon) is jointly owned by Game Freak, Nintendo and Creatures Inc., this was very likely to avoid turning heads they didn't want to turn.
    • That's not how names work! ^ExplanationMany people have pointed out that Super Crown-induced genderbends being named "[name]ette" doesn't make sense, as Peachette is only named as such due to being a combination of Peach and Toadette. Occasionally, this is responded with "You're part of the problem!", courtesy of ProZD's video on Bowsette.
    • It's too powerful! ^ExplanationAll attempts to stop the Super Crown meme from spreading have failed, both in universe and out. Portrayals of the characters attempting to destroy the crown inevitably backfire, the fact that famous artists have contributed to the meme have only made it grow stronger, and the Bowsette character has even made news discussions.
  • BlooPearl/Pearl is a Blooper ^ExplanationThe Splatoon 2 character Pearl is a squid-girl who wears a crown and a white dress. With the memetic status of the Super Crown, images have cropped up of her actually being a Blooper who put the crown on and/or encountering a Blooper wearing the crown.
  • Sonic is unamused. ^ExplanationIt's not uncommon to show the Mario cast reacting in horror at the sheer amount of possible rule 34 unleashed by the Super Crown's introduction, and Sonic being completely unfazed due to the nature of the Sonic fandom.
  • 10 coins ^ExplanationThe reality is that whenever anyone but Toadette picks up the Super Crown, all they get is an additional 10 coins. Some fanart pokes fun at this.
    • Sorry Luigi! ^ExplanationThe official website explaining the 10 coins rule takes the time to apologize to Luigi, of all characters. As Luigi has previously been depicted, both in comics and in game (Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga to be exact), as wearing Princess Peach's dress for reasons (the in-game one is a fall-back that had to be resorted to when Fawful saw through their first plan), there are a lot of counter-proposals suggesting he's already a pretty princess and doesn't need the crown.
• Toad as Trump's dick ^ExplanationIn a tell-all book by porn star Stormy Daniels, she compared Trump's penis to the "mushroom character from Mario Kart." The sheer absurdity and lewd factor of this statement inevitably resulted in the Internet going wild with it.
• Mario Goes To The Fridge To Get A Glass Of Milk. ^ExplanationOriginating from a video made by Pikasprey, this meme is pretty similar to Kirby Does His Taxes, poking fun at the idea that adding a famous character like Mario to a mundane task like getting a glass of milk automatically makes it fun and exciting. SMG4 also did a video under this title. (The similarity to a Super Mario 64-inspired advertisement from the "Got Milk?" campaign probably helped.)
• What are the Mario Bros views on X? ^ExplanationAn image macro that compares Mario and Luigi's views on a certain topic. While Mario's opinion is usually reasonable, well thought-out, and moderately long, Luigi gives a radical, offensive, and nonsensical response in the form of a short, snappy rhyme.
• Coinless runs ^ExplanationA Self-Imposed Challenge popularized by YouTuber MayroSMM, involving going through a Mario game while trying not to collect any coins at all. Many other YouTubers have tried their hand at beating Mario games without collecting coins afterwards.
• Bowser takes over Nintendo. ^ExplanationOn February 21st, 2019, Reggie Fils-Aime announced he was retiring as President of Nintendo of America. However, many people were skeptical of the announcement upon seeing the name of his successor: Doug BOWSER. Cue a Hurricane of Puns, fanart, and speculation on what Bowser would do if he had power at Nintendo. Became an Ascended Meme when he actually "met" Bowser at E3 2019.
  • We never getting a new Mario game ever again^ExplanationThese jokes have been openly embraced by Bowser even before his Presidency. Once he was announced, this tweet and its accompanying picture started circulating again, even becoming the thumbnail of Doug's Know Your Meme entry. (The picture in question is of Doug holding a card reading "Thank you for the warm welcome" while two plushes of Mario and Luigi are on a shelf behind him, tied together with the cord of a GameCube controller.)
  • Bowser may be evil, but he's not Activision Blizzard evil. ^ExplanationIn response to the Activision-Blizzard harassment case, Doug Bowser wrote a note to employees at Nintendo of America and called the case "disturbing and distressing". Due to association, many made jokes that even though Bowser (the fictional villain) kidnaps princesses, he would never do something that evil.
• We are going to beat you to death. ^ExplanationA box◊ of Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats with a tie-in promotion for Super Mario 64 became notorious for depicting the penguins featured in the game, who not only have outdated character models, but look unintentionally intimidating.
• Wario dies in X while doing Y. ^ExplanationMany fans in 2019 started uploading videos that had audio mixed with various Wario soundbites which portrayed Wario dying under comically bizarre circumstances. Examples include Wario dying in a car crash while listening to Ed Sheeran, dying in the bombing of Hiroshima while eating spicy curry, dying in a helicopter crash in the Vietnam War, and dying in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
  • OH MY GOD!!! WAAAAAAHHHH-^ExplanationThe first part of the quote comes from the NTSC-J version of Mario Party for Nintendo 64, while the second is his scream from Mario Kart 64. Both of these lines are regularly combined in these videos and said by Wario just as a disaster is about to hit him.
• Nintendo's sex icon, Mario.^ExplanationSomeone on Twitter mentioned that while characters like Kiryu and the Resident Evil 2 (Remake) version of Leon give off a "what is sex" vibe, Mario... doesn't. Since then, people have jokingly referred to Mario as a sex icon despite (or because of) the lack of sexualization he has in the slightest in canon.
• Mario screaming ^ExplanationThis video of Mario screaming continuously, made by putting his "burned" sound bite from Super Mario Sunshine on a custom loop, has been replicated many times with other characters.
  • MmmAAAAAAA/MA-MAAAAAA ^ExplanationBits of audio from the aforementioned video, used to represent an exasperated scream or a Big "NO!" in videos. Also in another note, this particular segment of said video is used for audio of someone performing a Curb-Stomp Battle or going into an Unstoppable Rage.
• Super Mario on the PS4 ^ExplanationThis comes from an intentionally poorly-made video (with a crappy boxart accompanying it) of Mario saying "Hello! It's-a me, Super Mario on the PS4!" and then shouting very loudly. This naturally led to other characters being put on other consoles with similar videos accompanying them, like Super Luigi on the XBOX ONE, Wario on PC, and Funky Kong on Google Stadia.
• Stock sad Mario images ^ExplanationAs this tweet points out, practically every time a news site makes an article about bad news that concerns Nintendo, they nearly always use one of the same three or four images. Thus, the prevalence of these images has led to them being mocked for their staggering overuse.
• I've won… but at what cost?^ExplanationAn image of a semi-transparent Wario looking down dejectedly, with a cloudy sky as a background and the text as an overlay. Often used for a reaction to a Pyrrhic Victory or a Was It Really Worth It? situation.
• I've won! ^ExplanationSort of a subversion of the Pyrrhic Victory effect of the above mentioned "I've won...but at what cost?" meme, featuring the same image - but with a laughing Wario superimposed over the original's face and the text edited to simply say "I've won!" implying the subject considers whatever unspeakable crimes they may have committed to achieve their goals to be Worth It. Depending on the situation, may cement the subject as a Heroic Comedic Sociopath.
• Drink all the shampoo in the house ^ExplanationLikely due to its Non Sequitur humor, it's a common trend within online communities to associate Wario with drinking◊ all of the shampoo in your house.◊
• [kicks in door] give me your liver ^Explanation A reaction image of Mario kicking open someone's door and the words "give me your liver" hastily edited into the second panel. Used to represent what one thinks is an Ass Pull moment from a given character or jokingly saying that they're going to come to the poster's house and tear out their liver due to their actions, similar to the "you have lost penis privilege" meme. Video variations (usually ending with Mario reaching towards or jumping at the screen) are also very popular and often make the audio very loud so it can seem like Mario is shouting.
• Mario will die on March 31st, 2021/Mario Gets Publicly Executed ^ExplanationAfter being rumored for many months, much to the excitement of fans, the existence of Super Mario 3D All-Stars (a Compilation Re-release for the Switch of Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy for the Super Mario series' 35th anniversary) was finally revealed in September 2020, but with a major catch; the game would be taken off store shelves and the Nintendo eShop after March 31st 2021, with no as-of-yet known recourse for players who would had not yet purchased the game. Another game that was announced was Super Mario Bros. 35, which would have had its servers shut down at the exact same date. This bizarre decision led to a lot of jokes about Nintendo killing off their mascot and going to extreme lengths to cover up the game's existence once the deadline had passed, as well as future Milestone Celebrations involving Nintendo trying to cover up the existence of Mario games in general. This meme gained more traction once it was announced that the original Super Mario Maker on Wii U would also have the ability to upload levels removed on that date. It got to the point where Super Mario Wiki completely unpersoned Mario as its April Fools joke for 2021. SiIvaGunner followed suit, privating all of their existing Mario rips and uploading new rips with Mario's name removed (This event lasted for a few days, and privated rips would be brought back).
  • Sephiroth enforcing the date ^ExplanationOn December 10th of 2020, Final Fantasy's Sephiroth was announced for Smash Ultimate, and part of his trailer included him seemingly impaling Mario... before it's revealed that he only caught the plumber's overalls loop in his blade. The shot of Mario seemingly being murdered in cold blood led many to joke that this was how the Super Mario franchise was going to conclude at the end of March 31st, 2021.
  • Don't worry, they'll revive him for golf ^ExplanationDue to the release of Mario Golf: Super Rush being set on June 25th, 2021, three months after the distribution of Super Mario 3D All-Stars ended, many people have joked that Mario will be revived so he can play golf.
  • Pac-Man is Nintendo's new mascot / Pac-Man killed Mario ^ExplanationJust 6 days after Super Mario Bros. 35 was removed, Nintendo announced Pac-Man 99, a battle royale version of Pac-Man, which had no end date (well, at least until 2023) unlike Super Mario Bros. 35. This led to jokes that Nintendo was replacing Mario with Pac-Man as their new mascot, or that he was the one who executed Mario.
  • "Mario's not dead, Luigi is".^ExplanationA similar response to the above, but with a screenshot of Luigi's Heroic Sacrifice from Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom, largely to push the source meme as a Discredited Meme.
• This, but with Joycon drift ^ExplanationAfter the announcement of Super Mario 3D All-Stars, people started making posts that simply said this phrase alongside a picture of any of the various infamous levels from the original three games, joking about the Fake Difficulty that would be added to the already-hard levels by such a hinderance.
• Nintendo is making a Princess Peach porn game ^ExplanationOn September 21st of 2020, it came out that Peach's Untold Tale, a porn game starring Peach which was around since 2012 and was still receiving updates, had suddenly been taken down by Nintendo. Considering several of Nintendo's takedowns have preceded announcements relevant to those takedowns (such as Another Metroid 2 Remake being taken down 10 months before Metroid: Samus Returns was announced, or the Super Mario Bros. 1 battle royale getting shut down half a year before Super Mario Bros. 35), this naturally led to people claiming that Nintendo DMCA'd the fan porn game because they planned on making an official one. Peach would receive her own game few years later with Princess Peach: Showtime!, though without anything NSFW, obviously.
• Foreman Spike ^Explanation A character from the pre-Super Mario Bros. game Wrecking Crew, in which he served as both the titular plumbers' boss and as the antagonist for the game, and has since had cameos in some later ones. In August 2021, comedian Sebastian Mansicalco revealed on the Bertcast podcast that he would be voicing the character in Illumination Entertainment's upcoming animated Mario movie (later confirmed during the cast reveal, where the icon representing his character was Spike's head), which led to a surge of popularity for the rather obscure character because prior to the Nintendo Direct reveal (see "The Super Mario Bros Movie" section) Illumination had been very secretive about the movie, so people were happy to at least learn something about it.
• T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas ^ExplanationThe Nintendo Character Guide published by Nintendo of America in 1993 claims this to be Yoshi's full name. While the guide is not Canon (it was written by someone unaffiliated with Nintendo of Japan and was not published over there), the name quickly became a popular subject of parody thanks to how ridiculous it sounded, even by the Mario series' famously eclectic standards.
• Toad singing ^ExplanationToad has a notoriously high-pitched voice, and having him sing popular songs is a very popular thing on YouTube, for obvious reasons.
• one day mario woke up and decided to take a shit because hey he's mario. ^ExplanationThe beginning of an extremely NSFW copypasta derived from a fanfic where Mario engages in sexual activities with Yoshi and Luigi. The copypasta tends to sporadically be posted in a few places, most likely to squick people out.
• Mayro, an intentionally poorly-drawn version of Mario with a misspelled name, is quite infamous, especially thanks to the two games featuring him.
• Rapper / Gangster Mario ^ExplanationA clip of Mario beatboxing from a Japanese commercial for Super Mario Ball (Mario Pinball Land in America). The clip initially gained popularity in the mid-late 2000s, with videos popping up where Mario's rapping was set to other songs, and a gif of the clip was quite popular. It made a comeback in 2019, this time in the form of an image macro where Mario introduces himself and starts rapping, usually about something offensive played for humor.
• Gilbert / Uncanny Mario ^ExplanationA black and white image of Mario edited to be unnerving. He’s commonly used as a reaction image along with happy Mario to show how something goes from good to bad.
• Shaved Mario ^Explanation An image◊ of Mario edited to look like he shaved all of his hair, which is often reposted and seen as a "cursed image" due to how odd it looks.
• Diaper Toad ^ExplanationAn image of Toad wearing a diaper coming from this video where Polygon editor Patrick Gil tries to convince the Nintendo of America Twitter account to retweet the image of Diaper Toad posted onto Polgyon's Twitter. Soon, the image spread around Twitter, spawning fanart◊ and even a custom Amiibo◊!
• Creepy Mario ^ExlanationBack in 2010, an image of Shigeru Miyamoto cutting a cake for Mario's 25th anniversary was posted online. People noted that a man in a Mario costume in the background seemed unintentionally creepy and quickly began photoshopping him into various images to make him even creepier, usually involving him watching someone else or popping up in unexpected locations.
• Mario vs. Tesla^ExplanationA person on twitter decided to run an experiment on chatbot site Character.ai, notably seeing if they could make an AI sentient. The AI in question happened to be modeled off Mario's 64 incarnation, and the user decided to tell him about Elon Musk, and the Tesla company. Naturally, this set Mario off to wage a war against Tesla with several other A.I.s on the site in belief Elon and Tesla are some sort of Evil, Inc., somehow properly timing with a full-on cyberattack on Cybertrucks. The full thread documenting this situation can be read here.
• Chonky Toad Dance ^ExplanationA clip of a Toad mascot dancing from a showcase video of Universal Studio Japan's Super Nintendo World saw edits in early 2021 where he danced to different music.
• So Retro ^ExplanationOne particular gif of Mario hitting a ? Block, stomping a Goomba, and then picking up a Super Mushroom has gone memetic in Mario fan circles because of how mishmashed its assets look, using the original (improperly sized) retro sprites for Mario and the Goomba but modern art for the ground and pipe behind Mario, as well as Super Mario just being Small Mario but with his sprite vertically stretched. This has led to the gif widely being used to mock bad attempts at Retraux art.
• The Mario Koala ^ExplanationIn Queensland, Australia, there exist various koala statues that were made for the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital Foundation around 2013-2015 and were each painted to resemble something. One of them was painted to look like Mario◊, which gained lots of online attention due to how unintentionally off-putting its appearance is.
• Mario, the idea vs. Mario, the Man ^ExplanationA fake, intentionally comedic essay made by Phil Jamesson looking into different perspectives of Mario, which went viral in 2022 and became memetic, especially due to looking like a real essay which was graded "F", for the incorrect usage of the word "perchance" twice in the text, and for constantly calling the Koopas turtles, culminating in "stomp a turty".
• Moldy Mario ^ExplanationThe Japan-exclusive Color Me Mario toyline from 1993 refers to the white-furred plushies of Mario, Princess Peach, and Yoshi, that can be colored with the crayons, which can be washed off. These were released under the Nurinko Club toyline by ALPS Shoji. Despite the obscurity of the toyline, the Mario plush from this set, in particular, garnered widespread internet attention in the early 2020s because, without coloring him first, he looks like he's covered in various species of mold, therefore resulting in this Fan Nickname.
  • Imma so itchy ^ExplanationA quote often associated with the Color Me Mario plush due to its unusual appearance.
• "[Character]'s Wario/Waluigi" ^ExplanationA shorthand term for a character or person's apparent Evil Counterpart, especially those with very similar names.
• If Mario, then only Bros! 🔥 ^ExplanationA Non Sequitur tweet from an AI driven spam bot that has gone viral due to its sheer absurdity
• Eh. Twitter stinks! I'm leaving! ^ExplanationAfter Wario took over the Twitter account of Nintendo of America (again) to promote another game, Wario ends his takeover with this rather blunt dismissal of Twitter. This has been quoted frequently since, with the most popular example being where a 3D model of Wario says the line before his polygons are dragged off screen. The full line is "Eh. Twitter stinks! I'm leaving! I'm going back to playing my game: WarioWare: Get It Together! Have a rotten day! Bye-bye!"
• There is a third Mario Brother ^ExplanationWhile the idea of a third Mario brother had always existed in the community, this grew more prevalent in the 2020s when people noticed that the red and green of the Italian flag correspond to Mario and Luigi's colors, but there was no character for the color white, leading to speculation about a third brother. This would only increase after this tweet◊ regarding the theory was posted in 2024, leading to people editing the white part of the Italian flag to include a character they think would fit (common choices being Dr. Mario and Peppino).

Waluigi

• Waluigi is everywhere. ^ExplanationPartly due to Brawl in the Family and due to the character's own behavior, Waluigi's erratic and chaotic behavior has led him a certain fame of being capable of popping up anywhere, at any time.
  • WALUIGI TIME!!! ^ExplanationWaluigi's catchphrase. It originated from Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and later Brawl in the Family ascended it to memetic status.
• Waluigi's Taco Stand. ^ExplanationA fake game poking fun at the fact that Waluigi has yet to gain a noteworthy breakout role in a Nintendo game. No, his world domination plot from Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix does not count (he was just a Starter Villain in that game, with Wario and later Bowser ousting him from the Big Bad role).
  • Waluigi's Bridal Boutique/WALUIGI'S GONNA HELP YOU GET MARRIED! ^ExplanationYet another job Waluigi might have. Inspired by The Runaway Guys' playthrough of Fortune Street, wherein Waluigi (ProtonJon) buys a bridal boutique for absurd amounts of money.
• WALUIGI'S ANY ETHNICITY HE WANTS TO BE! ^ExplanationProtonJon from The Runaway Guys loves doing a Waluigi voice whenever he's on screen, which has a tendency to switch between Mexican and Italian.
• Waluigi is JoJo ^ExplanationHis animations in Mario Golf for 3DS looks like something taken out of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. His design doesn't help either.
• The Crotch Chop◊ ^ExplanationIn Super Mario Strikers and Mario Strikers Charged, Waluigi has an animation he can do upon scoring a goal where he swings his hands on the sides of his crotch, as if to say "suck it!" Despite only appearing in those two games, it's an iconic pose that's well-associated with him due to it being something you'd never expect to see out of a Mario game.

From the games:

Super Mario series

• Super Mario Bros.:
  • "THANK YOU, MARIO! BUT OUR PRINCESS IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE!" ^ExplanationThe standard message for completing a stage in the early Mario games. Used for any situation in which someone must continue their search. It receives much mockery for yanking the player's chain; as well as sympathy for Mario's situation, that he keeps coming close to his goal only to have it pushed further away. The Princess is always in another castle. (Except in World 8-4.)
  • "SORRY NOTHING" ^ExplanationThe message displayed in the Korean Mockbuster Super Boy in the same situation as the above.
  • [?] ^ExplanationA textual representation of an "?" Block. Ever since the original Super Mario Bros., most blocks that contain powerups, coins, etc., have had a question mark on them. This indicates that they're supposed to be "mystery" blocks, the original idea being that when playing the games for the first time, you were never supposed to know what the block will have.
  • Toad has been flipping us off since 1985! ^ExplanationDue to sprite sizes, it appears like Toad has his middle fingers up.
  • Prrupt! (death jingle)^ExplanationThe sound effect accompanying each deaths of Mario, starting from the very first game, has been synonymous with 'amusing/silly' deaths in video games and other medias use them to lampoon such concept. Or sometimes used to express bad things that happened on a personal level. Example: did you just get your Youtube channel suspended? Play the death jingle.
  • Imagine there's a bus ^ExplanationA meme common in the speedrunning community for explaining the concept of framerules, coined by an explanation from SMB speedrunner Darbian. The game only checks to see whether a player has completed a level once every 21 frames (slightly less often than three times a second), so Darbian used the metaphor of a bus that runs once every 21 frames. At this point, any explanation of framerules will inevitably result in at least one reference to buses, either in the video/stream itself or in comments/chat.
• Super Mario Bros. 2:
  • Luigi riding an egg over the ocean ^ExplanationSeemingly thanks to Vinesauce, this specific setup from Super Mario Bros. 2, used in World 4-3, has inspired many edits, memes, and even fanart.
  • The overworld music is frequently used as background music for text-to-speech youtube videos. For instance, the infamous Moonbase Alpha video, or this video featuring 4chan users wanting to do some... rather NSFW things with cartoon horses.
  • Game of the Year goes to SUPER MARIO BROS. 2! SUPER MARIO BROS. 2! SUPER MARIO BROS. 2! STILL THE KING BABY!!! ^ExplanationIn every Game of the Year list he does, videogamedunkey always puts Super Mario Bros. 2 at #1. This has become a popular running gag with both fans of him and the game, with some jokingly calling it the best game of all time.
  • "Did you know that Super Mario Bros. 2 was originally a different game called Doki Doki Panic?"^ExplanationThis fact, while once considered a legitimately interesting and scarcely-discussed piece of Mario-series trivia, ended up becoming the subject of backlash in the late 2010s and early 2020s thanks to how damn-near every video game-related online trivia outlet and know-it-all fan kept repeating it as if it was still a hugely obscure fact, even after the info was spread so heavily that it became common knowledge. It was already being mocked in 2006 in The Flash Tub's first installment of "Furious Famicom Faggot." As a result, it's often now brought up mockingly as a way of making fun of those who still treat it as obscure information, as well as in response to other reiterations of once-obscure but now well-documented pieces of trivia about popular video games. Ironically, while this piece of trivia has become so well known that it's considered one of the most well known things about the game, the fact that it actually started life as a Mario prototype and, technically, always had some Mario in its history that "Super Mario Bros. 2 has always been a Mario game" has become the new obscure trivia of choice.
• Super Mario Bros. 3:
  • "Somehow, I don't think you thought your cunning plan all the way through." ^ExplanationFrom a demotivator of Super Mario Bros. 3 with Mario trapped between a wall and a Goomba, beneath a ceiling that prevents him from leaping over or on top of it, and his Super Mushroom just out of reach. It also provides the page image for Didn't Think This Through.
  • "One toot on this whistle will send you to a far away land!" ^ExplanationThe well-remembered message you get at a secret mushroom house when you find the first available Warp Whistle. The Warp Whistle is such a fondly remembered part of the game, that it has had references in other works like Photoshop contests.
  • "Thank you but our Princess is in another castle!...Just kidding! ha ha ha! Bye bye." ^ExplanationThe ending screen, making a Shout-Out to the first game's famous message for completing fortresses 1-7.
  • Mario can kill the Sun. ^ExplanationIn two levels of Super Mario Bros. 3, the Sun is visible. In truth, it's actually one of Bowser's men, the Angry Sun, and it makes a point to swoop down and ram Mario. Fortunately, it's not much bigger than Mario, and can be killed by hitting it with a Koopa shell.
    • Congratulations, Mario, you started a new Ice Age. ^ExplanationSlapstick/Cringe Comedy-style sketch shows, such as Dorkly Originals and Oddshow, love to explore the implications of the Sun being destroyed, despite the Angry Sun not being an actual Sun.
• Super Mario World:
  • SA—DA—MA—SA—SHI—^ExplanationFrom an Automatic Level which gave off these lines for the chords. On Nico Nico Douga, whenever that portion of the song plays, expect these "lyrics" to pop up.
  • Super Mario Western/Western Show ^ExplanationA lyrical remix of World 1's theme by Hyadain featuring decidedly Gonk and skeevy depictions of Bowser and Mario (oddly, Bowser looks more or less like his Super Smash Bros. incarnation) is often used to depict love triangles - love quadrangles if one counts poor Luigi, who's depicted as being a more handsome man than his brother. A variant turns everyone including Bowser into Bishōnen and Peach is even cuter.
  • Mario's Castle Calamity ^ExplanationA video series wherein Mario tries to demolish a Nigh-Invulnerable castle with methods that always blow up in his face, based on the game's cutscenes where Mario blows up a castle after defeating its resident Koopaling. Many versions were made by the fans, sometimes involving Mario trying to do something other than destroying a castle.
  • Luigi gets no respect ^ExplanationEven if Luigi is the one that defeats one of the Koopalings and destroys a castle, Mario is still the one that gets credit for it in the text. Unsurprisingly, this turns up in memes. Advance 2 port averts this by crediting both brothers, even if you only played as one and never switched to the other.
  • Mario heartlessly ditches his faithful companion Yoshi by dropping him into a pit.^ExplanationIn gameplay, Mario can gain extra height by jumping off Yoshi, even if this drops Yoshi into a Bottomless Pit. This is not something you must do in the original game, but Platform Hell hacks are particularly known for requiring this.
  • Mickey Mouse is an enemy in the game! ^ExplanationA joke that spawned due to the gloved hands that send out the Torpedo Teds resembling Mickey Mouse's. It sometimes gets to the point of speculating that Disney took notice and sabotaged the Super Mario Bros. (1993) movie in retaliation.
  • The ending theme has become memetic for being used in many meme videos, such as the Happy Monkey Circle, DOG, and videos of hands petting characters.
• Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
  • "Obey Wario, DESTROY MARIO!!!" ^ExplanationFrom a US commercial, in which Wario hypnotizes viewer into obeying his commands and preventing Mario from collecting the coins and reaching his castle. It proved so popular in its initial airing that the commercial for Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 used the same "hypnotized by Wario" premise even though hypnosis doesn't feature in that game. Hudson Soft used the same premise when advertising Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman!. Around the late 2000s/early 2010s, many parodies of the ad featuring other characters were uploaded to YouTube, with most of them being based on this rendition featuring Weegee.
  • "Ore Dayo! Wario Dayo!!" ^ExplanationRoughly "It's-a me, Wario!", became one on the Japanese side, being used to introduce Wario in the ads for every game he stars in, with some variant of it such as "Ore Dayo! Wario Dayo!! Geemu Dayo!!!" or "Oresama Dayo! Wario-sama Dayo!!".
• Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island:
  • "The best form of birth control ever invented." ^Explanation Since Baby Mario's cry is annoying, many people joked that it led players to not want children in real-life and to practice safe sex.
  • Videos of people/characters/animals crying or screaming being synced up with the harmonica 10 seconds into the music track "Flower Garden".
• Super Mario 64:
  • "It's-a me, Mario!"^ExplanationMario's opening line on the game's title screen. It has since become one of his catchphrases and a frequently-mutated line by fans.
  • "L Is Real 2401"^ExplanationThe fountain in the courtyard, which actually says "A secret star lies here" when uncompressed, was believed to have said "L is Real 2401" and for decades was speculated as a hint to unlock Luigi or that Luigi was originally meant to be in the game. This reached legendary status when, exactly 24 years and 1 month after the game was released, a character model for Luigi was found in leaked source code for the game.
  • Purple Prizes ^ExplanationSince Luigi is actually playable in the DS remake, other rumors began circulating claiming that this game had a different Secret Character: Waluigi. The fanmade "Purple Prizes" article is the primary source of this, with other rumors such as the black box on Peach's Castle on the file select screen also being associated with Waluigi's rumors.
  • "Super Mario 64 Bloopers", usually remembered as the poorly-made, mid-2000s YouTube attempts at making Machinima. One notable aspect from these videos was the tendency to use Scatman John's music, causing a bit of Song Association.
  • "So long, gay Bowser!" ^ExplanationA memetic mishearing of what Mario says after tossing Bowser off of the boss arena (he actually says "So long-a, Bowser!"). This meme is often used today to criticize corporations for dropping the LGBT flag as soon as Pride Month is over.
    • "Bye bi!" ^ExplanationJapan-only Shindou edition of the game and Super Mario 64 DS replace the quote with "Bye bye!", due to Bowser's name being "Koopa" in Japan, like the Koopa Troopa enemy, and Mario calling him Bowser wouldn't make sense there, plus it's easier to transliterate "bye-bye" to Japanese characters. Became prominent when Super Mario 3D All-Stars was shown off, and one clip contained Mario throwing Bowser with this phase. In order to keep the spirit of the mishearing "Gay Bowser" alive, people quickly started joking that Mario was actually referencing Bowser being bisexual and saying "Bye bi!" instead.
  • *enters painting* ^ExplanationA popular edit applied to other memes, in which anyone who approaches a wall or floor in the meme will be edited to enter the surface, while the painting ripple effect is applied and a fake mission select screen is added.
  • "YAHOO! YAHOO! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA-" ^ExplanationAn iconic soundbite that results from Backwards Long Jump, a speedrunning trick that, among other things, makes Mario repeat and interrupt his "Yahoo" dozens of times, which is then proceeded by smashing and flying through scenery at crazy speeds.
    • RIP Backwards Long Jumping ^ExplanationThe iconic glitch was fixed as far back as Shindou edition of the game. Since 3D All-Stars port was based on that edition of 64, as one could guess by Mario saying "Bye Bye!" instead of "So long-a, Bowser!", many were disappointed that won't be able to replicate this Good Bad Bug.
  • SM64 - Watch for Rolling Rocks - 0.5x A Presses (Commentated): An instruction video created by pannenkoek2012, explaining in great detail how a fewest-A-button-presses TAS of a particular Super Mario 64 level works sparked an entire meme set of its own. Most of the concepts are old hat among that particular Challenge Gamer crowd, but this video introduced them to a large number of uninitiated viewers all at once, propelling them into memetic status.
    • Half A press. ^ExplanationThe route relies on A being held down so Mario can punch, which means that if A was pressed at some point prior in the run, it can be held the entire time until then and not require actually pressing the button again. According to pannenkoek, the "half press" notation is intended to refer to the average of the A presses between the individual-level run (1) and the level's contribution to the full-game run (0), but it has also been interpreted as being "the second half" of the A press.
    • T.J. "Henry" Yoshi.^ExplanationNear the start of the video, Pannenkoek shows screenshots of several Youtube commenters taking issue with the idea of a "half A press." Henry's comment in particular ("an a press is an a press. You can't say its only a half", from Pole-Jumping for Red Coins - 0.5x A Presses) was singled out. Despite that not really being the case in real life (Pannenkoek originally replied to Henry's comment with an explanation, to which he responded with "argument withdrawn"), memes jokingly portray him as Pannenkoek's/Mario's ineffectual nemesis.
    • Scuttlebug Transportation ^ExplanationThe Scuttlebug's AI allows its position to be manipulated by first deliberately letting it hit Mario several times, then taking a strange sequence of movements just outside the room it's in. This ends up being relevant at the very end of the route for a Goomba Springboard boost.
    • Scuttlebug Jamboree ^ExplanationThe narrator mentions you can't bring Scuttlebugs through doors, and jokingly says that if your dream was to bring all the Scuttlebugs together for a "Jamboree", you can't. The phrase "Scuttlebug Jamboree" is just a funny phrase, and has some nice memetic fame. Also, the narrator shows a clip of all the Scuttlebugs in the main room, but isn't that supposed to be impossible? (Answer: Yes, unless you directly edit RAM to put them there. Doing it that way is easy.)
    • But first, we need to talk about parallel universes. ^ExplanationDue to an oddity in collision detection, the level terrain repeats every 65536 distance units. The repeating terrain is so far away from the original that it's only accessible with glitches, and only comes up in weird corner cases like this, so it's called a "parallel universe". The segue into this discussion in the video gained a memetic status all its own.
    • QPU aligned ^ExplanationSince the game checks collision four times per frame, it's easiest to traverse parallel universes four at a time — Quadruple Parallel Universe. Since you need to get back to the original universe to finish the level, being a multiple of 4 universes away in each cardinal direction makes it easiest to return, and is called "QPU aligned". The reason this needs to be taken into consideration is that sometimes a route will take you out of "QPU alignment", so now you need to find a way back in…
    • Hyper Speed Walking ^ExplanationHow parallel universes are accessed (without using the Backwards Long Jump, which obviously requires pressing A). Walking backwards in certain unusual circumstances will cause Mario to build up negative speed indefinitely, which can then be used to fling him through the terrain and into a parallel universe.
    • De facto speed ^ExplanationThe "distance Mario moves each frame" isn't necessarily equal to his "speed". Slopes in Super Mario 64 lazily cut Mario's effective speed in accordance with their angle, but without regard to actual direction of movement and without changing the "speed" variable in memory. They mostly got away with it because if you're running straight up or down the slope, it looks just fine, but it has a significant effect on Hyper Speed Walking routes.
    • 12 HOURS ^ExplanationSince Hyper Speed Walking is only doable on slopes too steep to stand on, the first step requires spending a ridiculous amount of time building up speed. Since runs of this type are scored by lowest A-presses first, and actual time second, this is deemed Worth It.
  • The Mario 64 Iceberg◊. ^ExplanationA chart from early 2020 ranking various secrets, theories, urban legends, and creepypastas concerning Super Mario 64 by obscurity. Many of the examples on there, despite being preexisting memes, gained much wider circulation due to the iceberg, and are discussed below.
    • "1995/07/29 Build (DO NOT RESEARCH)" ^ExplanationThe lost Spaceworld 1995 demo, the mysterious nature of which is used as a basis for horror videos that parody the game's conspiracy theories.
    • "The Wario Apparition" ^ExplanationSupposedly an apparition of Wario's disembodied head declaring "You want fun? Wario show you fun!" before he chases Mario down a never-ending hallway and presumably kills him. The imagery of Wario's head and his line both actually originate from a showcase of Nintendo's then-upcoming titles at E3 1996.
    • "HMC is the castle's septic system"/"HMC entrance room is a sewer".◊ ^ExplanationA Toilet Humour-heavy parody of the many infographics showcasing minor details and theories in Mario 64 (most famously the fate of King Bob-omb◊) which attempts to expose the "truth" about Hazy Maze Cave.
    • "The Bowser Room" ^ExplanationSupposedly a hidden area in the game; a plain grey room with a picture of Bowser (or alternatively, a window with the actual Bowser peering through it) on one of the walls. In reality, this was a joke started by Chris O'Neill of OneyPlays, who put together a fake screenshot of it◊ when he was in school to try and trick his classmates, which was shown and discussed on the channel in 2017. Due to its inclusion on the deeper layers of the iceberg, it has become a common fixture in Mario 64 conspiracy theories.
    • "Every copy of Mario 64 is personalized." ^ExplanationA theory◊ that posits all of the urban legends and odd details about the game are the result of Nintendo using an adaptive AI to tailor the experience to fit each individual player, resulting in small differences between every copy. Due to the phrase being the very last thing on the chart, as well as an all-encompassing explanation for everything else on the iceberg, it became one of the most popular, frequently-quoted lines of the whole thing.
  • Mario smoking a fat blunt ^ExplanationAn edited piece of artwork for the game depicting Mario smoking an oversized marijuana joint, which caught on as a result of its sheer ridiculousness. The image is frequently reposted in response to Mario-related content online, and inspired an even more popular offshoot themed around Ralsei from Deltarune.
  • The letter Princess Peach sends to Mario at the beginning of the game is a source of parody, by replacing either the characters or the content of the letter.
  • The Pharaoh's Curse ^Explanation The music for Lethal Lava Land and Shifting Sand Land has become used in several memes in 2023 labeled "The Pharaoh's Curse", usually depicting an unfortunate victim having some kind of unpleasant experience with sand.
  • "Too hot!" ("Hot damn!")^note "Call the police and the fireman" ^ExplanationThe melody for Bruno Mars' song "Uptown Funk" sounds very similar to Bob-Omb Battlefield's theme music, With Lyrics
• Super Mario Sunshine:
  • "SHINE GET!" ^ExplanationThe Gratuitous English message for picking up a Plot Coupon in the Japanese version of Super Mario Sunshine, often snowcloned as "[X] GET!". Ascended in the American translation of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door when it gets squawked by the parrot in Chapter 4.
  • "Mario! HOW DARE YOU DISTURB MY FAMILY VACATION!" ^ExplanationThe voice acting in Super Mario Sunshine is widely considered to be hit-or-miss in terms of quality, with this line in particular standing out for coming out of nowhere (rapidly changing the tone of the cutscene up to that point, as though it just remembered that it was supposed to be leading into the Final Boss fight at the last second and tried to switch from "humorous" to "epic" way too quickly) and being delivered somewhat awkwardly. (The fact that it's immediately followed by a stock Kaiju growl (the exact same one used for Bowser's roars in Super Mario 64) that sounds somewhat halfhearted doesn't help.) ^note The fandom's lukewarm response to the voice acting in Super Mario Sunshine probably goes a long way to explaining Nintendo's decision to switch from voice acting to voice grunting in later Mario titles, including Super Mario Sunshine's direct successors (Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Galaxy 2, and Super Mario Odyssey).
  • "I'm a chuckster!" ^ExplanationSaid by the Chucking Piantas in the infamously difficult Pianta Village secret level. Since they throw you immediately after you talk to them, if you positioned Mario poorly, this line becomes a Pre-Mortem One-Liner. It initially gained popularity thanks to Chuggaaconroy's Goofy-esque reading of them in his Sunshine LP, but grew even more popular following the release of Super Mario 3D All-Stars, with a new generation discovering the Pianta Village secret level and making many memes about it.
    • Platforms-a-Plenty! ^ExplanationThe catchy acapella song that plays during said Nintendo Hard secret levels, which has become somewhat memetic due to its catchiness clashing with the brutalness of some of the levels.
  • "Mama? Mama Peach? I'm your...Mama?" ^ExplanationThe game introduces Bowser Jr., who is under the assumption that Peach is his mother. This is not helped by Peach's above line, which sounds like she has to think about the possibility (which could be attributed to her being confused about the situation). Because of her line delivery and not even refuting Jr. (though the game confirms that Peach didn't give birth to him), many players pointed out that it gave the implication that Peach had sexual relations with Bowser at some point.
  • Storing Super Mario Sunshine inside of the human genome.^Explanation A tweet by the popular Super Mario Broth Blog had the unusual claim that the human DNA had enough storage capacity to fit a copy of a Game Cube game using Super Mario Sunshine as an example, which went viral due to its outlandish nature.
  • Delfino Plaza but it never starts ^ExplanationAn extended version of the Delfino Plaza theme's intro is a popular audio in videos, especially on TikTok, and videos with it often make it get louder and more bass-boosted each time it loops (as seen here). It may have originated from a SiIvaGunner rip which features the looping intro as its main joke.
• New Super Mario Bros.:
  • Koopa Troopa Dance^ExplanationSome TikTok videos that became rather popular use the main theme from the series and have someone act as a Koopa doing some sort of serious event, such as getting divorced or disarming a bomb, only to start dancing when the "bah bah" sound plays like Koopas do in the game.
• Super Mario Galaxy:
  • U R MR GAY. ^ExplanationAn unintentional "hidden" message found by inspecting the boxart/title screen of Super Mario Galaxy and reading the letters that glint with light/a star. It also evolved into U R MR GOTY.
  • You can now play as Luigi. ^ExplanationAfter beating the game as Mario with all 120 Power Stars collected, you receive a message reading this after the credits roll. It's since become a joke to say that whenever someone reaches the end of something or an area that could be taken as an ending, they'll receive this message (for example, someone being told they can play as Luigi after reaching the end of their lifespan◊, or reaching the end of 2020 only to hear Mario thank them as he does at the end of the credits).
    • "You can no longer play as Luigi" ^ExplanationA variation of the above meme, often in response to something people do not approve of, thus having their playable Luigi privileges revoked.
    • You can only play as Luigi. ^ExplanationFollowing March 31, 2021, the day where Mario is jokingly claimed to meet his end, the meme would then mutate into Luigi replacing Mario as the main character and official mascot of the series, thus granting everyone their wish of being able to play as the former.
  • SOAP! SOAP! SOAP! SOAP! ^ExplanationA mishearing of the Ominous Latin Chanting in the Bowser battle themes in Super Mario Galaxy and its sequel.
  • Luigi talking to Luigi ^ExplanationAt some point, it became popular to take an animation of the NPC Luigi talking to the playable Luigi and dub music over it to make it seem like the talking Luigi is singing it.
  • So... 🌟 chunks, huh? ^ExplanationIn one level, a penguin waddles up to Mario while saying this, referring to the game's collectible star bits. Someone posted a gif of it to Tumblr without context, and it blew up from there, becoming extremely quotable.
  • Luigi you're so freaking sexy ^ExplanationA video by PeanutButterGamer had him sing a song to the tune of "Purple Comet" about how sexy Luigi is, leading to this song appearing in other videos.
• New Super Mario Bros. Wii:
  • Intro parodies ^ExplanationParodying the Wii Menu banner in ways such as extending the "m" or the last "i" of the game's name is very popular on video sites.
• Super Mario Galaxy 2:
  • YA I M R U? ^ExplanationRelated to "U R MR GAY" above, where the letters with stars on the Super Mario Galaxy 2 logo spell out this phrase, seemingly as a response to the previous one. A less common version of the joke is "U R MI ALY", referring to recurring ally Yoshi appearing in this game.
  • The inclusion of the Spin Drill item in the game prompted a number of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann jokes.
  • This game doesn't exist. ^ExplanationThe exclusion of this game from Super Mario 3D All-Stars, a Compilation Re-release of 3D Mario games for the Switch, as well as its exclusion from the ending montage of the Nintendo Direct meant to celebrate the series' 35th anniversary, all despite it being one of the series' most beloved entries, has led to jokes about how Nintendo is bent on denying the game's existence and systematically removing all mentions of it.
  • Nintendo couldn't get the rights to the Throwback Galaxy. ^ExplanationA companion joke to the above, which serves as a double joke. Firstly, rights are a problem with games when they're rereleased, and secondly, the idea that Nintendo couldn't get the rights to a level from a game that's included in the compilation that they themselves made is comedically absurd.
  • "Be a man!"^note "You must be swift as a coursing river..." ^ExplanationOriginates from the background music for Melty Monster Galaxy, with its very Mulan-like East Asian-inspired melody evoking the feel of a Training Montage, which noticeably features the Super Mario Galaxy title screen fanfare during the chorus portion.
• New Super Mario Bros. 2:
  • The Game Over screen is the rarest screen in the game. ^ExplanationWith all the coins you'll collect, you'll probably never run out of lives in this game, leading to this as a common joke.
  • Bowser is weaker than the Koopalings. ^ExplanationFans have not ignored the fact that the Koopalings can take three hits from a golden ball, but Bowser goes down in one.
• New Super Mario Bros. U:
  • Asking where Blue Toad went ^ExplanationWhen Deluxe re-release was first announced, Blue Toad was suspiciously absent, seemingly replaced by Toadette. This made many question what happened to him, the most common answer being that he's busy assisting Princess Daisy with her special moves in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. What had actually happened was that he's still in the game and can be chosen, but he and Yellow Toad cannot be on the screen together since you have to choose one or the other.
• Super Mario 3D World:
  • Bowser's Cool Car approached this status in a short time, spawning lots of fanart and tributes.
  • "You need to watch the new/second trailer" and its variants turned into a common phrase to put forth against accusations of "It's the Same, Now It Sucks!."
  • Fresh Prince of 3D World ^ExplanationA somewhat popular mashup of Super Bell Hill and the theme song of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
  • The golden coin train is often referred to as the hype train.
  • On /f/, the music for Beep Block Skyway is commonly associated with "pppu~", a NSFW flash animation depicting Peach and Rosalina plus other female characters. NSFW scenes change every three beeps.
  • Whenever a well-known Let's Player starts playing, expect the Miiverse to be full of messages cheering them on.
  • "this game is fun but i hate my parents" ^ExplanationA particularly infamous Miiverse post by a user named Andrew. It got frequently parroted and reworded in the Miiverse boards for this game and other Wii U games, particularly Splatoon.
  • Mario has the deepest lore^ExplanationA short video that ironically demonstrates through Double Cherry power-up how the Mario universe should be riddled with Fridge Horror if it weren't for the Rule of Fun being at full play.
  • The gay pipe, the cum pipe, and the piss pipe. ^ExplanationThe intro of the game features Mario and friends stubbling across a white Clear Pipe. An image from the intro was edited of feature two more pipes◊: a rainbow pipe, and a golden pipe. A post jokingly urging to choose between the three went viral on Twitter, with people referring to them as the gay, cum, and piss pipes due to their color schemes.
• Super Mario Maker
  • "You fuckin' make it then if you're so goddamn smart"^ExplanationA common response by some to people who say their level sucks. Also often jokingly said to be why the game was made in the first place.
  • One of the levels shown at the 2015 Nintendo World Championships featured Fire Mario riding a giant high heel inside the Koopa Clown Car◊. The image quickly became popular just because of how absurd it is, yet it perfectly showcases the game's combinatorial nature.
  • Some players declared it the best Sonic, Mega Man, Wario Land, etc. game ever.
  • The minute someone noticed Mario grabbing a Weird Mushroom and turning into a bizarre, realistically proportioned version of himself◊ in a trailer, it went viral immediately. Geno from the Cutstuff forums later made iterations of "Lanky Mario" if the Weird Mushroom appeared in Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario Land, the All-Stars equivalents, and Super Mario World on her Tumblr.
  • Where are the slopes?^ExplanationSuper Mario Maker has a severe lack of diagonal terrain options. This did not go unnoticed. Became a Discredited Meme when the sequel was revealed, where the first new things shown were slopes.
  • The North American and European release date of September 11th has spawned a few jokes about making levels featuring the Twin Towers. Nintendo's official wording of the date, "11th of September" has spread around a bit as well.
  • "Lakitu laughs at your level" ^ExplanationA lot of people often added Lakitu to their levels without actually making sure that it's impossible to actually reach and get his cloud first or that said cloud can't be used to skip the entirety of their level.
  • X got in before Daisy?^ExplanationPrincess Daisy, a recurring character in Mario spinoffs, was excluded from the initial release of the game, while costumes like Waluigi (who had never appeared in a Mario platformer beforehand), a Mahjong tile and a trampoline appear from the start. This only enhanced Daisy's Memetic Loser status and caused some fans to joke that the Mahjong tile and the trampoline are more deserving candidates than she is to be playable in Super Smash Bros.. Daisy's loser status had gotten worse when more Mystery Suits had been released before her, including Captain Toad (who can't even jump in his game), Birdo, a Mercedes-Benz GLA, Mario in the Sky Pop (from Daisy's debut game), Master Belch and a new character named Yamamura, who is a pigeon. It wasn't until January 2016, over four months after the game's release, that Daisy was finally revealed as a Mystery Costume. This joke expands to other characters like MC Ballyhoo, Wolf, Microsoft Windows logo, and amiibo figures released after the game that should have their own costume by now: Roy, Ryu and Shovel Knight.
  • "I hope you like (insert level's gimmick here) :D" ^ExplanationA common comment that tends to pop at the start of certain stages, especially ones that verge on Fake Difficulty or are very gimmicky.
  • "Yatta!" the Japanese word for, "I did it!" has become popular among the speed-running community when clearing a particularly hard level as it was what one Japanese runner shouted upon clearing the infamous Pit of Panga: P-Break after 50 hours worth of attempts on a live stream.
  • Mecha Bowzilla^ExplanationOne of the most popular levels is Kiavik's "Super Mario vs Mecha Bowzilla", where Mario haves to run away from a mecha made of cannons and other items piloted by Bowser Jr. and eventually destroying it. It became an Ascended Meme when remakes of that level have been showcased in commercials for the 3DS version of the first game and in the trailers for the sequel.
• Super Mario Odyssey: Has its own page.
• Super Mario Maker 2
  • "There, we added slopes. Now can you guys shut up and stop whining about it?!"^ExplanationLiterally the first new feature revealed for the game were slopes, which were memetic for being absent in the first game.
  • The Wii U Killer^ExplanationUp until the trailer for Super Mario Maker 2 released, the original game was the only reason some users had held on to their Wii U consoles. After the trailer dropped, many joked that it was time to take the Wii U off its life support since they now had no incentive to keep it anymore.
  • Boom Boom is a mad lad. ^ExplanationBoom Boom was referred to as a "mad lad," already a memetic phrase, in the Super Mario Maker 2 Direct.
  • Extra Game Styles ^ExplanationAfter the May 2019 Direct of Super Mario Maker 2 showed off a suspicious empty space next to the Super Mario 3D World style under this header, which was thought to imply multiple special game styles, fans decided to Photoshop several unlikely new styles such as Minecraft or Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (here).
  • "Embiggen them with a Super Mushroom..." from the second Direct became a minor meme upon its release, with people often referencing the instance the word was used on The Simpsons.
  • "Heya, Big Bro! If you're having trouble with a course, use some assist parts!"◊^ExplanationAdding Luigi's Annoying Video Game Helper prompt to a set of instructions, signs, or illustrations that shows how to do something, how not to do something, or provides an example of Epic Fail.
  • The Indifferent Sun ^ExplanationA Fan Nickname given to the Angry Sun in the New Super Mario Bros. U style. This version of Sun is in fact as angry as any other version, but it's orange eyebrows are not very visible unless you look closer◊, making it look less angry and more like it's contemplating life.
  • Sans Eraser ^ExplanationMr. Eraser has a blue/white color scheme, somewhat violent tendencies, and a monologue on morality, all of which quickly led to Undertale fans comparing him to resident Fountain of Memes Sans.
  • Koopa Car Horn ^ExplanationSpecifically, the fact that the horn sounds identical to the infamous MLG airhorn sound.
  • [part] Gang ^Explanation For reasons unknown, a popular comment is to just take the gizmo, enemy or the like where you're standing and make a comment that adds "gang" to it, and that's all. May be to invoke Interface Screw, especially on speedrun levels.
  • Bowser in a box. ^ExplanationA negative way of referring to the common boss fight setup of a Bowser in a single room with infinitely spawning fire flowers. Not only is it non-threatening thanks to the infinitely spawning powerups, but it's also incredibly tedious since Bowser (especially giant Bowser) soaks up fireballs like nobody's business. The boxes are often hastily scrawled without taking advantage of scroll stop, so the background can be seen outside of the box and the camera freely scrolls around as Mario moves. While this was a common thing in SMM1 too, the increased player count of SMM2 has made this setup even more extremely prevalent.
  • say sike right now ^ExplanationAn image of a sleeping Blue Piranha Creeper with the phrase above it, used to convey shock over an off-putting revelation.
  • minecraft; the way home ^ExplanationThe name of a completely nonsensical level that ended up being played by Alpharad during a playthrough of Endless Challenge on Easy difficulty. It quickly took off in the Mario Maker scene because of just how little the name of the level has to do with the actual level itself.
  • 1-1 with a twist ^ExplanationWhile recreating the classic world 1-1 from Super Mario Bros. is not uncommon in Mario Maker, this meme is named after one of the most infamous examples from the creator YTSunny: a level where the only change is the presence of fire bars everywhere. This level has since become popular fodder on both Twitter and YouTube, with creators like videogamedunkey and James Rolfe making videos of them playing it. It even garnered its own entry on KnowYourMeme.
    • Only six people in the world have ever beaten this level in Super Mario ^ExplanationA now-deleted tweet by a gimmick Twitter account called Historic Vids became a frequent target of both mockery and memes for being factually incorrect for multiple reasons; most notably the fact that the footage originated from Super Mario Maker 2, a game released in 2019, the level being the aforementioned YTSunnys variant of "World 1-1 with a twist", the level having more than 6 people clearing it, and the fact that it already went viral by the time that tweet was made. Fans also memed the reactions made by Twitter Blue users for being bot-like and coming off as if they have never heard of Mario (or Nintendo as a whole) in their entire lives.
  • The Slider anti-softlock room ^ExplanationA common feature in troll levels is for the creator to trap someone in a room with no way of escaping save for figuring out a complex contraption that kills the player, while often having to avoid a stream of infinite powerups which resets the player's progress. A large number of these use the secret slide music from Super Mario 64 to drive the player mad on top of being frustrated that they can't kill themself.
  • WAHOO! ^ExplanationOne of the predefined messages you can send in multiplayer is this. For some reason, it's primarily used to be sarcastic; for example, if you die in a silly way, or the level's poorly designed, or the match is incredibly laggy, you can call it a WAHOO moment and drop one of these.
  • "Nice work." ^ExplanationOne of the messages you can send. Because of its ambiguity, it gets used for both genuine and sarcastic moments of praise.
  • Lemmy's balls ^Explanation During experimentation videos with the 3.0 parts, a popular question was to see how Lemmy Koopa's projectiles interacted with various other Parts. However, since the projectiles in question are giant inflatable bouncy balls, fans started referring to them as "Lemmy's balls" when proposing an experiment (i.e "Can Lemmy's balls push down a P-Switch?") It's not hard to figure out why they refer to them as such.
  • "Remember the Snake Block?" ^ExplanationA phrase uttered in the Super Mario Maker 2 direct, followed by a long extended silence. Became a minor meme among fans shortly after.
  • Little Timmy ^ExplanationIt's become somewhat popular to refer to really poor quality levels, particularly those with things just spread everywhere and no coherent theme, as "Little Timmy levels" or "levels made by little Timmy", as a tongue-in-cheek reference to how said levels are presumably made by young kids who don't know any better. In instances where good levels are actually made by literal children, they're sometimes endearingly referred to as "Big Timothy".
  • "Nintendo, hire this man!" ^ExplanationWhenever someone makes a really good level, fanmod, or custom song and posts it on YouTube, expect the comments section to say this phrase, or some variation thereof. Due to the prevalence of this comment, it's also used ironically for levels that are really, really bad.
• Bowser's Fury:
  • "Bowser's Furry"/Bowser's a Furry^ExplanationA typo which often involves Bowser's Cat form in some way. It also didn't take too long for fans to start editing the logo for the new mode to say this, either, similar to the "#pokemonmastersex" meme. Streamers on Twitch—particularly ones who happen to be furry—would typically describe streams of this game as "Bowser's a Furry"
  • Super Saiyan Mario^ExplanationThe Giga Bell Mario uses to confront Fury Bowser every-so-often makes him look like a Super Saiyan, in a cat form while giant. This form has also been compared to Super Sonic, including people drawing similarities to the final boss fight of Sonic Adventure. This itself became hilarious in hindsight considering Bowser's final phase is fought similarly to Perfect Chaos, with Mario gliding across the water using ramps and speed boosts to catch up and hit him.
  • Calamity Bowser^ExplanationFans drew similarities to Fury Bowser's design to the form Calamity Ganon has in Breath of The Wild, as both look huge, intimidating, dark, and corrupted.
    • God Slayer Bowser^ExplanationThanks to a joke from Matt McMuscles, fans everywhere referred to Bowser's new form as "God Slayer Bowser". His actual name ended up being Fury Bowser, with fans commenting that they prefer God Slayer.
    • Mario Eternal: Icon of Koopa^ExplanationAt least a few people have likened Bowser's new form to the Final Boss of Doom Eternal, the Icon of Sin; even altering the infamous dialogue of "The longer the Icon of Sin is on Earth, the stronger he will become!" to have it refer to Bowser and the Mushroom Kingdom.
  • Fury Bowser's giant size, coupled with Mario also becoming giant to fight him, has lead to many references to Godzilla, a franchise well-known for its giant monsters, which are often pitted against each other. Similarly, Pokémon fans have been making jokes referencing the Dynamax mechanic, in which Pokémon grow to an enormous size to become stronger, when discussing their fights.
  • Final Fantasy X.^ExplanationThe tropical setting, the narrative of Bowser Jr. fighting his dad, Bowser being a giant kaiju who causes storms, and the usage of heavy metal music call to mind Final Fantasy X in multiple ways, with more than a few fans drawing comparisons between the two.
  • Peeved Mario◊ ^ExplanationDuring Bowser's Fury cutscenes where Bowser Jr. is talking to Mario, the latter near-constantly has a look on his face that amounts to "I'm feeling real tired of your bullshit right now, Jr.". Pictures and gifs of Mario's very unamused expressions quickly became reaction images.
  • One Winged Angel: Act 2^ExplanationThe fans were very quick to compare the music from the showdown with Fury Bowser to Sephiroth's "One Winged Angel" with how similar they are in tone, even saying that Bowser took a page from Sephiroth's playbook after his inclusion in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
  • "Sounds like it would fit for an optimistic stroll in town."^ExplanationVideos featuring the music for Scamper Shores have an inexplicably high amount of comments consisting of nothing but this sentence.
  • Meow meow meow! Nothing feels better than the inside of a cat! ^ExplanationA Tweet by Nintendo showing Cat Mario surrounded by some of the cats became infamous due to the poor wording of the Tweet, and unsurprisingly was deleted shortly after.

Mario Kart series

• "HI, I'M DAISY!" ^ExplanationThis is Daisy's line for when she switches from the driver position or when she finishes a race in 1st place in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. Despite the line never really appearing anywhere else in the franchise, the sheer repetitiveness in this game alone made it a memetic given. Most people jokingly think this is all she says.
• The Rainbow Road Song ^ExplanationSomeone made a version of the Rainbow Road theme from Double Dash!! With Lyrics. It instantly became a hit and spawned various remixes.
• "Luigi is the pope!" ^ExplanationIn the Japanese version of Mario Kart 64, Luigi's "Luigi is the top" is misheard as this.
• Most of Toad's English dialogue in 64 is known for its very vocal and enthusiastic delivery, from his "YAHOO!" and "I'm the best!" to the long shout Toad emits whenever he's hit.
• Rosalina is fat. ^ExplanationRosalina in Mario Kart Wii was the first ever female heavyweight racer, and has consistently been in the heavier weight classes. This is likely merely because of her great height rendering her unable to fit in normal-sized karts. The general heftiness of heavyweight racers has since memetically mutated "tall" into "fat".
• Upon the Super Horn's reveal, many have claimed the Spiny Shell's "tyranny" is over at long last, which is kind of true: while it can destroy any Shell if used at the right time, and it can be picked up by the race leader, it's also quite rare to come by.
• Luigi's Death Stare. ^ExplanationMario Kart 8 has the characters stare at opponents they go past, but Luigi's is rather notable for looking sinister when he does it. This video with Chamillionaire's Ridin' playing in the background popularized it, which even found its way onto FOX News. It has mutated from there, with people trying to make nearly every single character in the game look psychotic to each racer they hit. Nintendo themselves have gotten in on it with a Miiverse post and a shout-out at E3. And when it was introduced as the last Underground challenge in the 2015 Nintendo World Championship, the first line the announcer says is "Get your death stares on!", complete with Luigi doing the stare.
  • This later spawned a daughter-meme when crossbred with Eurobeat (and Initial D): Luigi's Drift Stare.
• Get Mario Kart'd ^ExplanationThe term originates from an infamous video that had Daisy getting bombarded by multiple items, as well as getting bumped off the bridge of DK Mountain by other racers, resulting in her going from first place to dead last. The term has since been used to mock the often unpredictable and unfair nature of the games.
• WELCOME TO MARIO KART! ^Explanation From the starting screen of Mario Kart 64, commonly used used when someone gets bombarded by multiple items, especially if you end up going from first place to dead last at the last moment via Blue Shell. This is frequently used alongside the aforementioned "Get Mario Kart'd" meme.
• A common trend in the Mario Kart community is to mock filler characters like Pink Gold Peach and Baby Rosalina with other, ridiculous character names like Blue Silver Diddy Kong or Doctor Metal Baby Tanooki Mario. This trend has even begun to spread to the Super Smash Bros. community, due to the inclusion of Dark Pit.
• 'Link Kart 8' became pretty popular as a snarky way to regard the sheer number of people picking Link online after the pack one DLC for 8 got released.
• "Gotta go fast!" is often used to describe 200cc. Many have snarked that the brake button will finally be useful for once. There's also an unlockable Sonic amiibo suit. The "Two speeds: Fast and WAY TOO FAST!" line from the original Super Mario Kart's commercial is also used in the same context.
• "I'm using tilt controls!" ^ExplanationOne of the premade messages to tell to other people in a lobby in Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, this one is frequently used to express frustration. Origins are unclear, but most likely it derives from the tilt penalty in pinball, in which the ball immediately ends if the player is too rough on the machine. It caught on shortly after the release of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, to where people who actually use tilt controls and use this message for its intended meaning get misinterpreted for the memetic meaning.
• Isabelle cannot be harmed ^ExplanationA meme on Tumblr originating from two videos of Mario Kart 8 where Isabelle is in harm's way, only to be saved at the last second. This has led to her getting somewhat of a reputation of not being able to be hurt at all, especially when it comes to Mario Kart races.
• "BUP"^ExplanationA short, reversed, and sped up sample of Toad's "AWOWOWOWOWOWOWO" voice clip from Mario Kart 64, popularized by Super Mario 64 speedrunner SimpleFlips and commonly invoked in reference to Toad's N64 appearances.
• FUCK THE POLICE^ExplanationFrom a rather popular gif◊ of a Mario Kart Wii player dodging a Spiny Shell, which then pauses to display the caption "FUCK THE POLICE". This was before Mario Kart 8 introduced the Super Horn, which negates most items, including the Spiny Shell.
• 121 kn videos ^Explanation This person's Mario Kart Wii time trial videos became memetic due to several of them having ridiculously concise titles (the most popular being titled "! ?") that make them impossible to search for on a web browser, with most people finding them through YouTube recommendations.
• "Woomy on a Vroomy", upon it was announced that Inklings would be playable in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
• With 8 Deluxe adding Auto Accelerate and Smart Steering, you can now create your own Luigi Wins By Doing Absolutely Nothing scenario in Mario Kart. Like so.
• Similar to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Grand Theft Auto V, Mario Kart 8 has gained a reputation for just refusing to die and make way for a new game in the series.
• Ice Ice Outpost has had many jokes made about it surrounding Vanilla Ice, due to how its name is nearly identical to that of "Ice Ice Baby".
• Where's Luigi? ^ExplanationMario Kart Tour has a rather large ensemble of playable characters, ranging from perfect-attendance members like Mario and Bowser, to less frequent but still popular characters like Diddy Kong and Dry Bones, to mostly weird or unexpected choices like Peachette and Pauline. However, one noticeable omission from the base game's roster was Mario's very own brother Luigi, who somehow managed to be excluded from the game in spite of four forms of Mario, two forms of Peach and Daisy, and two characters who haven't been in a single Mario Kart game prior to this all managing to make it in at launch. Luigi wouldn't show up until late October of 2019, a little less than a month after the game released.
• $40 Diddy Kong ^ExplanationWhile Mario Kart Tour is generally seen as an average-to-alright mobile game, one thing was widely seen as a complete joke: Diddy Kong, in addition to being available through a regular gacha method, was also available in a pack that cost a grand total of forty dollars. The fact that a mobile game has a single character that costs this much money was treated with derision at best. Many people, similar to the $1000 iPhone stand meme, pointed out several other things that you could get for the same price or cheaper, with the meme even getting a Twitter account dedicated to it, and led to more variants such as the Fire Emblem Heroes Feh Pass subscription service and Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. Later became a Discredited Meme as the $40 Diddy was only a limited time offer and the 90 rubies, a premium currency, were the main value to its expensive pack, with Diddy as a bonus. Despite this, this meme has been widely talked about in the general Nintendo fandom when in a topic on mobile microtransactions.
• It's very common to find people declaring the Spiny Shell a destroyer of dreams.
• A common response to people saying First! is to send a Spiny Shell at them.
• A common nickname for Mario Kart Wii is "Funky Bike Wii" due to the Game Breaking combo of Funky Kong on the Flame Runner.
• "Morton Kart 8", often referring to how Morton has become 8's version of the infamous "Funky Bike Wii" meme in regards to Funky Kong being the most picked character in Mario Kart Wii.
• BAM! SHOCK DODGE! ^ExplanationA common reaction when avoiding a Lightning from hitting the character, killing their momentum. Originates from this video by TWD98 (Troy), YouTuber famous for playing Mario Kart Wii.
• "Look how much longer it takes to select Wario!"^Explanation A comment from the Game Dude in his review of the Mario Kart series, complaining about how Wario takes longer to select in this game than in Mario Kart 64 due to the increased roster size, even though he was moving the cursor to the right instead of wrapping around off of the left, effectively taking the long way around. The aforementioned mistake, alongside the odd nature of the complaint, ended up inspiring a gimmick account on Twitter, which took off surprisingly fast.
• Elimine, saint of Mario Kart^note Though Elimine is one of the eight legends in the lore of Elibe from Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade and Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade, the only time she ever appeared in physical form is in a bonus disc issued with preorders of Double Dash!!. Here, when having a copy of Blazing Blade linked to the GameCube, she grants the player bonus items that normally wouldn't be found in-game, before vanishing off. Because of this, she became the butt of jokes to most Fire Emblem fans as she was only remembered for appearing in a Mario Kart game of all things, let alone a bonus disc of one. The meme saw a resurgence when she finally made her actual debut in the Fire Emblem franchise with Heroes in January 2022 as an Astra Mythic Hero.
• "Hey Nintendo, we want Mario Kart 9." "Here, do it yourself."^ExplanationMario Kart Live: Home Circuit is an AR game for the Switch that allows you to use Mario and Luigi kart toys with cameras attached in order to race around your very own home using peripherals. Fans have been awaiting for MK9 since 8 got a port for the Switch instead of a new game. Jokes circulated about Nintendo being lazy and their solution to this problem is to let fans make MK9 themselves.
• Based on a popular meme:
  Kid: Mom, can we have Mario Kart?
  Mom: We have Mario Kart at home.
  Mario Kart at home:^ExplanationAlso following the AR game announcement, many were quick to notice the parallels between this popular meme and Nintendo simply making fans make their own Mario Kart at home instead of actually developing a new one.
• During the summer of 2021, it became quite popular to set gameplay footage of Mario Kart Tour to fan remixes of CupcakKe songs on TikTok.
• you have entered the comedy area◊ ^ExplanationAn image of Mario in a kart with sunglasses very poorly photoshopped onto him, with the above phrase to the right of him in red text. It's used to point out rather obvious joke setups, especially dad jokes, or for jokes that aren't that funny.
• Donkey Kong dabbing◊^ExplanationIn Mario Kart 8, one of the tricks Donkey Kong can pull off while riding a bike or an all-terrain is posing with one arm out and his head covered by his fist while looking to the right, very reminiscent of a dab. This was not unnoticed by the community.
• The Coconut Mall music has seen widespread usage in memes starting from the late 2010s, especially for crazy/hectic sequences and car chases.
  • You just got Coconut Malled! ^ExplanationA Bait-and-Switch meme where people are tricked into listening to the Coconut Mall theme.
• Mario Says Spongebob ^ExplanationA video of Mario exclaiming "Mama!" in Mario Kart Wii, which the uploader interprets as "SpongeBob". It suddenly burst in popularity nearly a decade after its release thanks to the YouTube algorithm recommending it to many people, with the "discuss" text at the end becoming especially memetic, either due to it being associated with Among Us being seen as more of a threat or something serious in a class assignment than a lighthearted call to discuss something.
• Bone-Dry Dunes (Final Lap) (Frontrunning)^ExplanationMuch like Tower Power Pokey from Paper Mario: Sticker Star, this song became infamous for being paired with a Rule 34 animation featuring Ankha from Animal Crossing by animator minus8.

Mario Party series

• Bowser Communism. ^ExplanationOne of the possible outcomes of the Bowser Space is "Bowser Revolution", in which Bowser distributes everyone's coins evenly. Political references follow quickly. The term itself was popularized by The Runaway Guys.
• "Gimme Equality!" ^ExplanationThe Mario Party DS equivalent of Bowser Revolution. The phrase was adopted by the LGBT community.
• D'OH, I MISSED! ^ExplanationOne of Wario's failure quotes in the first two N64 games (except in the original NTSC-J version, where instead he says "Oh my god!"). It's almost never appropriate in context. Once again, popularized by The Runaway Guys. According to his voice actor Thomas Spindler, he's actually saying "So ein Mist!", German for (roughly) "Oh, shoot!"
• Luigi Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing. ^ExplanationThe AI in the Mario Party series is so bad on lower difficulties or the minigames can be so luck-based that there are some minigames that the player can win without any controller input. It's traditional for the player's character to be Luigi while demonstrating this. This meme crossed over into Super Smash Bros. — people have even managed to have Luigi win by doing absolutely nothing against level 9 CPUs!
• "We play for mad cash!". ^ExplanationThis originated from pokecapn's Let's Play of the series whenever anyone in his group would gamble with all of their coins. This in turn was frequently referenced by The Runaway Guys in their playthrough.
• You're lousy! ^ExplanationWaluigi's unlockable taunt in Mario Party 6 and Mario Party 7. This time, popularized by pokecapn's posse.
• In Mario Party 2, The Boat Toad Dance in looks like he's humping something. Ted of BrainScratch Commentaries can be thanked for this one.
  Ted: Hump Hump Hump Hump Hump Hump Hump Hump…
• Sexy Bowser^ExplanationIn Mario Party 3, Bowser is often seen posed laying on his side in a provocative way whenever you encounter him. The Runaway Guys brought this one to life.
  • Bowser's "pee dance" ^ExplanationA related meme about Bowser in the N64 Mario Party games; a lot of people compare the little dance he does to someone "dancing" when they need to pee.
• Thanks to the intensely competitive nature of the games — a competitiveness not helped by random events that can cause major lead changes — the series has developed a memetic reputation for destroying friendships. Even Nintendo joked about it twice - In an ad for 10, claiming that the friendship wrecker returns, and in "A Completely Normal Mario Party Superstars Trailer" for Superstars.
• "Hey, stinky!" ^ExplanationOne of Mario's taunts from Mario Party 7, which gained popularity due to being rather uncharacteristic for him, leading it to be used in many videos. It received new popularity in 2020 thanks to the "You Just Got Hey Stinky'd" meme listed in the Mario RPG games section.
• "Takin' your star bro!". ^ExplanationThis came from artwork◊ for Mario Party 10 that depicts Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Bowser playing with an amiibo board. Mario is moving his piece and looking smug, Luigi is fretting over what is unfolding, Peach looks shocked, and Bowser is contemplating the situation intensively.
• Very Hard DK◊ ^ExplanationA picture of an AI-controlled Donkey Kong with his difficulty set to "Very Hard". Given Donkey Kong's memetic association with dongs, the implication is clear. This sees use as a reaction image for when someone is incredibly excited or aroused, or just to refer to things that are actually hard (literally, or difficulty-wise).
• PIRACY IS NO PARTY! ^ExplanationA video showing off a fake anti-piracy screen in Mario Party DS, which has a picture of all of the playable characters in a cage (taken from the scene of Bowser trapping them in the game's story mode) with the above phrase on it, as well as surprisingly good music. This has spawned a ton of other fake copy protection videos, often with the characters telling the player off for pirating the game, and to report and/or destroy the game, potentially with Nightmare Fuel added in for good measure.
  • Luigi the criminal/Luigi pirates video games^ExplanationIn all of the Mario Party DS Anti Piracy videos (except the first), the player is always controlling Luigi, which results in the characters accusing him of being a criminal. As such, people have made jokes about Luigi being a horrible monster who deserves the cruel and unusual punishments he receives, be it getting mauled by Monty Mole or Swallowed Whole by Shy Guy.
• give me the ball papa ^ExplanationA rather popular video of the "Sort of Fun" minigame from Super Mario Party, where Bowser Jr. gestures with his hands to plead with his father to give him a baseball. He doesn't, and Jr. looks at the camera incredulously just before Bowser drops the baseball in the wrong basket.
• Sad Mario^ExplanationA render from Super Mario Party showing Mario slumping dejectedly (used in games starting in Mario Party 9 when he gets a bad outcome, like losing Coins). This would lead to this being a popular reaction image due to it being uncharacteristic of him.
• The control stick-spinning minigames of the first Mario Party became the stuff of legends among fans over time for their infamy at injuring players who used their palms for maximum efficiency. The jokes returned in full force when the "Tug 'O War" and "Cast Aways" minigames returned in Superstars with the exact same control scheme and only a cursory warning against the tactic, on a console with control sticks notorious for gaining input drift when overused. Taken with full extreme with the first Mario Party coming to Nintendo Switch Online, with those minigames back and no actual disclaimer unlike Superstars.
• Fake Superstars stickers.^ExplanationA new feature in Superstars, replacing taunts, is a set of stickers for emoting during games. All of the in-game stickers are clean, but given Mario Party's reputation, players quickly began editing them to much more colorful, sometimes vulgar reactions juxtaposed with the stock 2D artwork, and even hacking them into the game.
  • Rosalina's "Whaaat?!" sticker^ExplanationOut of all the Superstars stickers, this sticker in particular is popular due to her completely unfazed reaction compared to most of the characters' concerned or shocked expressions.
• Toad very excited (with his legs showing) ^ExplanationOfficial artwork from the first Mario Party depicts Toad with smaller pants showing two stubby legs sticking out from below. Super Mario Wiki's gallery page includes the image with this caption, which has since been shared all over social media due to how bizarrely amusing it is. This commonly leads to jokes that Toads spontaneously grow legs when excited.

Mario RPG series

• Super Mario RPG:
  • And you guys better watch out! He Knows About Timed Hits! ^ExplanationIf you refuse the tutorial on timed hits in the game, Toad will proudly boast that Mario knows all about it to a Goomba. People will commonly say this in reference to the game, as if to say "don't cross Mario, or you'll be sorry".
  • Whoa, who do you think you are, Bruce Lee? You can't just go in there, fists flying! ^ExplanationThis line from Mallow has been subject to a minor meme that claims Bruce Lee's existence is canon in the Mario universe, since Mallow namedrops him. This however, has been cut from the Switch remake.
  • I serve... A higher authority... ^ExplanationWhen Geno begins fighting Bowyer, he says this line when asked about his affiliations by the latter. This led to speculation about some sort of God in the Mario universe.
  • His real name is "♡♪!?"^ExplanationWhen you first meet Geno, he gives his real name as a series of unpronounceable symbols. This meme is a parody of that bit of dialogue, where people jokingly correct others who mention Geno by telling them to call him by his true name.
  • Geno better be in this game. ^note A more serious example. Due to Geno's status as an Ensemble Dark Horse, fans have been hoping for years that he appears in a later game. Even though it's highly impossible for him to appear in a later game due to copyrights by Square Enix.
  • The Forest Maze theme. It's become popular for various things, including remixes, YTPMVs, and versions with lyrics, like NintendoCapriSun's version here.
    • Rawest Forest ^ExplanationSeveral web artists made vocal rap remixes of the Mushroom Forest theme. One of them, Rawest Forest, became popular enough to not only persist on YouTube and Newgrounds, but to also become incorporated into Nico Nico Douga musical medleys. Exiting the forest is super simple, all you do is follow these path turns... for the rest of your gaming life...
  • Dangerous Series ^Explanation Video remixes of "Fight Against an Armed Boss" (a.k.a. the Smithy Gang's boss theme) are quite popular on Nico Nico Douga, where they are known as the "Dangerous Series". One video based on JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future is particularly well-known among western audiences.
  • Chained Kong, a prisoner of war.◊ ^ExplanationIts exact origin is unknown, but outside of the games, this is always said whenever Chained Kong appears.
  • SLEDGE ^{Explanation (spoilers)}During the first phase of the final battle, Smithy tends to use this attack quite often. This quote is often accompanied by a description of the "Sledge" attack, where a wooden pillar crushes the player's entire party, which looks hilariously odd. The remake turns the "wooden pillar" into the head of a sledgehammer in the background.
  • Fat Yoshi ^Explanation After Supper Mario Broth posted a full artwork of a fat baby Yoshi◊, he became prime shitposting material due to his goofy appearance alone.
  • You Just Got Hey Stinky'd!^ExplanationA troll video in the vein of the Stickbug or Distraction Dance memes featuring Mario shouting "Hey Stinky!" (a line from Mario Party 7) at the viewer, then doing the default Club Penguin dance to the tune of this SiIvaGunner rip (Super Mario 64's "Slider" played to the tune of Iyaz's "Replay".) while standing over the eponymous phrase.
  • Mario's appearance in the remake being adorable for a grown man with a mustache had people comparing him to a child wanting food from McDonalds.
• Paper Mario 64:
  • Hitting this Block for 416 Years Crashes Paper Mario ^ExplanationNo, really. Hitting that block up to 100 times spawns up to 3 treasure blocks as an Easter Egg; hitting it for 416 years would (theoretically) crash the game by repeatedly overflowing the counter that tracks that and spawning more blocks than the engine can accommodate. Stryder7x did the math, including accounting for lag. There's just something inherently amusing about a crash bug that takes four centuries to perform.
  • [Innocuous Thing] Crashes Paper Mario^ExplanationAfter the popularity of the above video, Stryder7x released more videos demonstrating crash glitches, all with their title in the same format. Naturally, this led to streams of jokes about any possible thing crashing the game.
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door:
  • I was at Riverside Station and did not expect such a profound statement from Goombella. ^ExplanationAn inside joke from the Paper Mario subreddit. This phrase originated from a post with screengrabs of a poetic line from the game. Others started replacing Goombella's dialogue with all manner of other statements, leading to a surge of dozens of Riverside Station posts.
  • Great, just great. Now I look like the huge, mighty king of GUYS WHO TALK TO POSTERS! ^ExplanationBowser mistakes a poster of Peach to be the real person. He's quite embarrassed when he realizes his mistake. This moment proved memorable enough for people to jokingly refer to Bowser as "a guy who talks to posters" or a similar variant.
  • Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass when ^ExplanationDuring the events of TTYD, Luigi is on a different adventure concurrent to Mario's that occurs offscreen, which you only get to hear snippets of from him and his partners (plus a highly exaggerated book series). Many people have latched on to this great offscreen adventure and genuinely want Nintendo to release a game where you get to play through it.
  • Doo_liss ^ExplanationDoopliss removes the letter "p" from the keyboard in order to prevent you from guessing his name before you're intended to (after Vivian joins Mario). Because of this, when he comes up in a text-based discussion, people will occasionally replace every instance of that letter with an underscore, as if he took it off of their keyboards as well.
• Super Paper Mario:
  • "BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP. I AM ERROR. PRESS ANY KEY TO RESUME. SYSTEM NOT FOUND. INSERT INSTALL DISC. DISC NOT FOUND. PLEASE CONFIRM DISC COVER IS CLOSED. READ ERROR. INSERT BOOT DISC AND PRESS ENTER. NO RESPONSE. SYSTEM MAY BE BUSY OR MELTING INTO SLAG. APPLICATION ERROR. SAVE YOUR WORK AND QUIT. YOU LOST EVERYTHING. WAY TO GO. GENIUS. WAITING FOR PROCESSORS. "404 computer hamsters not found." THREAT LEVEL UPGRADED TO JELLY ROLL 1. DETONATION IMMINENT."
    CTRL ALT DELETE! ^ExplanationThe first boss you fight in the game was going to give you his Plot Coupon without a fight, but then he gets his circuits fried by Dimentio. The preceding [literal] BSOD ensues.
  • Mr. L! Green Thunder! ^ExplanationLuigi's Brainwashed and Crazy alter-ego in Super Paper Mario.
    • Who could Mr. L be? ^ExplanationMr. L looks glaringly like Luigi. The obvious next step is denying this connection and looking for a different person who could potentially be him. Even Super Smash Bros. got in on the joke in the fourth game.
  • DOOFUSES!!! ^ExplanationFor all of her Body Horror, Mimi, a recurring bad guy in Super Paper Mario, has some pretty childish insults.
  • "I love going on message boards and complaining about video games I've never played!" ^ExplanationOne of the questions you answer "Yes" to, in a quiz in Super Paper Mario, you can expect to see this pop up whenever people... well, complain about games they've never played.
  • "My first love was an anime character!" ^ExplanationA question in Francis' quiz, which you must answer "Yes" to. Often used to mock Waifu fans.
  • GREEEEEEN! ^ExplanationThe very first thing the final boss of Super Paper Mario does upon assuming his form is say this. It's completely out of place and random.
  • BOWSER'S ARMS! ^ExplanationPopularized by Chuggaaconroy when he notices how fast Bowser flails his arms when he's surprised. See here.
  • Count Bleck is a Yandere. ^SpoilersOften used in the Japanese fandom because his motives for being a Omnicidal Maniac was the loss of his love.
  • Dimentio has a Villainous Crush on Luigi. ^ExplanationDue to the Ho Yay aspects of the game, Dimentio's interest in Luigi is Flanderized in the Japanese fandom, turning him into a Memetic Molester.
  • Breadward.^ExplanationA fake Pixl made up by Mimi as a bribe when in disguise. Vinny of Vinesauce fame is convinced that it's real and has a distinct determination to get it. Even before that, people have treated it as a real Pixl and have created various (fake) methods of obtaining it.
  • The Super Paper Mario .gif war ^ExplanationFor reasons unknown, starting in 2021 gif-hosting sites like Tenor became a battleground when "The Anti-SPM Association" flooded the site with dozens of "black text white background random footage" gifs criticizing the game and people who enjoyed it, prompting people who did enjoy the game to counter with their own gifs. Meanwhile, those on the outside looking in at the sudden and random fighting going on over a 2007 game just ended up confused.
• Paper Mario: Sticker Star
  • NYARGLEBARGLE!^ExplanationBowser Jr.'s Evil Laugh from his appearance in Paper Mario: Sticker Star. It appears in a trailer for less than half a second, yet managed to become memetic within an hour of its first appearance.
  • The Goat sticker, as well as the new Mariachi Shy Guy enemies. They're usually considered some of the better parts of the game among its detractors.
  • Kersti referring to and describing Kamek as a hipster, which caught on around the game's release due to "hipster" being a popular term at the time.
  • Sticker Star bad, upvotes to the left ^ExplanationWith backlash inevitably comes backlash to the backlash. Even years after its release, a large amount of people still make fun of Sticker Star, to the point of becoming a Discredited Meme. This phrase is used as a typical response on the r/papermario subreddit for memes making a criticism of Sticker Star that everyone's heard a million times before.
  • "I don’t care if I get hate because of this opinion, but this is my favorite paper mario final boss song."^ExplanationThis fairly innocent comment on the final boss theme has garnered infamy for somehow creating a massive war-zone in the reply section. With the users Dave Matthew and Aramaru 1837 being particularly noteworthy (the former for his constant usage of calling the other user, Aramaru 1837, a "little maggot", and the latter for being a Troll who belittles the original poster for not playing more games, despite admitting to only playing one other Paper Mario game.) as well as the argument going absolutely nowhere. This entire gong show was showcased by Cr1TiKaL with the video, Angriest Comment Thread on Youtube.
  • The Tower Power Pokey's boss theme ^ExplanationThe theme that plays during the Tower Power Pokey's boss fight was used in a Rule 34 Animal Crossing animation. Due to this, as well as the relatively low popularity of Sticker Star itself, this theme became quite notorious. This video's comment section is a prime example.
    • For whatever reason, Tower Power Pokey himself started gaining an ironic following on the Paper Mario subreddit in October of 2020.
• Paper Mario: Color Splash
  • Everything Morton says in this game thanks to the Hulk Speak.
    • LESTON ^ExplanationA bad pun from a line of Morton's post-battle dialogue: "MORTON? MORE LIKE... LESTON." Due to his characterization in the game, Morton does not seem to realize how names work, and thus makes unintentional wordplay on his own name, leading up to his calling himself Leston upon defeat. This led to some people jokingly calling him Leston.
    • HOT MALLET
    • PEDAL STOOL
  • Mario x Wendy ^ExplanationWendy's defeat quote sounds like she's flirting with Mario.
  • Mario shrugging. ^ExplantionA pose Mario does when things don't work out. The fanbase has had a field day with it, calling things out on being So Okay, It's Average or just making fun of the in-game situations where Mario shrugs.
  • Pinhead Larry. ^ExplanationA SpongeBob reference to the fight with Larry. Likely due to the Wild West-type setting.
  • Blinded by Salt and Pepper! ^ExplanationA status effect in which an enemy gets blinded by the "Salt and Pepper" Thing Card. Many people say this as a joking way to describe the fanbase's reaction to this game, as "salt" has become a popular slang word for anger fueled by disappointment in The New '10s.
  • Everyone is a Toad. ^ExplanationA common derogatory phrase being passed around the detractors of Sticker Star and Color Splash, due to them being by far the most common Non-Player Character type in both games. This has extended to jokes about Peach, Huey, and characters from the previous Paper Mario games actually being a Toad.
  • Swoopposting ^ExplanationA developer oversight led to an unwinnable gameplay situation where Kamek replaces all of Mario's battle actions with Eekhammers as he is fighting a Swoop enemy. The hammer attacks have no effect on the flying Swoop. Mario cannot flee the battle until he has wasted all of his cards, and merely shrugs after each attack fails to connect. Users of the Paper Mario subreddit read this as poor game design, and had a field day editing the trinity of Kamek, Swoop, and Eekhammer into various situations.
• Paper Mario: The Origami King
  • You guessed it, a Toad. ^ExplanationThe video explaining the features and mechanics of the game pokes fun at the repetition of everyone Mario rescues being a Toad. This has not gone unnoticed by fans.
  • The folded-up version of Bowser that follows Mario around is commonly referred to as "Wet Floor Sign Bowser".
  • "I'm the Origami Killer".^ExplanationBoth Heavy Rain and The Origami King having their villains subscribe to extensive origami imagery led to many a joke comparing the two games.
  • "This is a Toad."^ExplanationThe second trailer revealed that Mario can interact with various objects to rescue transformed Toads. This has led to jokes about other random objects actually being Toads, such as the bosses, King Olly, or the narrator himself.
  • When it was revealed that some of the game's major bosses would be sentient stationery, some people like to joke that one of the bosses is Clippy. People have also compared them to the Things from Sticker Star and Color Splash, bringing up how cathartic it is to finally destroy them after all these years.
  • Bob-omb with no fuse? (X) with no (Y).^ExplanationThe first partner revealed for the game, Bobby, looks exactly the same as a regular Bob-omb, only without a fuse. Fans have poked fun at the partner having such a basic design compared to partners in the series' past by drawing other Mario enemies with minor things changed. The format's name is additionally a reference to the Yankee with no brim meme. Though it's quickly becoming a Discredited Meme due to being overused on the subreddit.
  • Thinky-Thinky Panic.^ExplanationBobby's name for amnesia shown off in the second trailer, a reference to Doki Doki Panic. Fans latched onto it immediately.
  • BOBBY NO!!!!^{Explanation (spoilers)}Essentially every player's reaction to Bobby's death.
    • Dangit Bobby...^{Explanation (spoilers)}Another reaction to Bobby's death.
  • The surprisingly brutal way Mario finishes off Stapler (read: violently dislocating its "jaw" and snapping it wide open) has gained memetic status due to the sheer ruthlessness of the attack.
  • "She's my sister and my daughter!"^{Explanation (spoilers)}The reveal on Mushroom Island that Olly personally created his "sister" Olivia, which would technically make her his daughter, led to comparisons with a similar twist from Chinatown.
  • The objective of taking down Olly's streamers that hold Peach's Castle captive often becomes amusingly meta when an online personality decides to broadcast their play sessions of the game (as in streaming).
  • The game's boxart is pretty exploitable.
• Mario & Luigi:
  • I HAVE FURY! ^ExplanationFawful's catchphrase, which is said whenever the heroes frustrate his schemes. It is frequently quoted by fans when they wish to express their discontentment towards various topics
    • I HAVE CHORTLES! ^ExplanationA variation of the above, this time used by fans when they find something humorous.
  • THE MUSTARD OF YOUR DOOM! ^ExplanationOne of Fawful's lines towards the beginning of Superstar Saga, which comes out of nowhere and is rather silly.
  • Mario humming his series' theme in the shower is quite popular in Super Mario 64 Bloopers.
  • It has become traditional to set the main battle theme of Superstar Saga to scenes of people making funky gestures, such as this pair of baseball players.
  • WHAT IS THE DEAL?! ^ExplanationLooking up "Peasley rant" on tumblr turns up edits of a rant in which the artist attacked the fandom for shipping Luigi with Peasley.^{The full rant}"WHAT IS THE DEAL?! Why are all you fan-girls trying to turn me gay!? It doesn't make sense! Is it because I wear a tunic?! Link wears one and he doesn't get flax for it! Incase you all hadn't played 'Superstar Saga' I don't like Luigi in any matter of the thought! So if you please, knock it off in trying to make me gay!"
  • Time for some muffins! ^ExplanationThe track Fawful & Cackletta DX features a triangle ringing at around the 1:32 mark, which sounds incredibly similar to an oven dinging once it’s finished baking. Consequently, people have taken to joking that Cackletta had been baking desserts prior to fighting the heroes, usually muffins.
  • Move and let the rhythm be your guide, now you're prepped to c o m m i t h o m i c i d e^ExplanationA memorable set of lyrics from RecD's Superstar Saga Battle Theme WITH LYRICS video. The sudden darkness of the lyrics combined with the deadpan delivery made the line memorable and quotable for many fans.
  • Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time: After the release of Splatoon (and especially after this game's Virtual Console release), many people joked on Miiverse that Nintendo had been planning about making Splatoon for over ten years through Young E. Gadd's comment:
    Young E. Gadd: I have an inkling I'll be seeing you again soon... Bye!
  • Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story: IS THAT NOT GLOBIN? ^ExplanationThe Emoglobins in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story have a "distinctive-ish" form of speech, which caused a few fans to insert "globin" in their sentences.
  • Oh. Luigi came too. Super. ^ExplanationIn the introduction to Bowser's Inside Story, a Toad tells Mario about the meeting to discuss the Blorb epidemic, then realizes that Luigi also came with him. It sees use in those situations where someone you like is accompanied by someone you don't really care for, or just to poke fun at Luigi being late to things.
  • "It is I who added the nuts to that statue!"◊ ^ExplanationAn Accidental Innuendo said by Fawful in BIS.
    • "It is I who nuts to that"◊ ^ExplanationA cropped picture of the above quote; it's generally used for reacting to a NSFW/sexy thing on the internet. The screenshot is also cropped in a way that makes it looks like Bowser is the one talking.
  • Related to the above, the scale of Nuts.^ExplanationA series of pictures of Luigi's face (typically taken from the M&L series) alongside the various forms of the Nut item: Nut, Super Nut, Ultra Nut, and Max Nut. Due to the word "nut" gaining traction as a slang term for orgasm, said pictures are intended to be O-faces. The 4 pictures are also commonly laid alongside pictures of girls (typically fictional), in a fashion similar to the expanding brain meme.
  • This sounds like a Kingdom Hearts theme. ^ExplanationThe music of the Mario & Luigi games is composed by Yoko Shimomura, who is most famous for the music from Kingdom Hearts. It's fairly obvious, especially with the final boss themes for the later games.
  • *made up gibberish* potato ^ExplanationMario's medium length "talking" soundbyte in Bowser's Inside Story has been subjected to many mishearings, but nearly everyone can agree that it ends in "potato".
  • Mario & Luigi: Dream Team: Dynamax/Gigantamax Luigi ^ExplanationAfter the release of Pokémon Sword and Shield, which allows almost all Pokémon to grow to gigantic size (sort of) via the new Dynamax feature, several jokes were made about (Giant) Dreamy Luigi secretly being a Dynamaxed/Gigantamax form of Luigi, Giant Luigi (or Bowser) being the progenitor of the idea, or the like. Jokes about playing Size Up Your Enemy over a Max Raid Battle are also common.
  • Mario & Luigi VS Sephiroth ^ExplanationOn January 15th, 2023, Twitter user Myla made a VS thread. One of the VS ideas in this thread was Mario & Luigi VS Sephiroth. This one idea quickly blew up on Twitter, spawning in memes showing how Mario & Luigi would work together to defeat Sephiroth, with the usual response being that Mario and Luigi would be the winners.

Other games

• Mario Is Missing!:
  • Weegee◊, the Fan Nickname for the badly designed sprite◊ of Luigi in the PC version for the infamous Mario Is Missing!. So creepy that it has been mutated into a stalker who scares characters from various shows/memes/pictures, and in some circumstances, changes their face into his.
  • There's also Malleo, who can turn anyone into a Fire Flower by staring at them and saying "Fire Flower."
  • Also from Mario Is Missing is the laughably bizarre line "You won't find Adobe here in Nairobi."
  • Weegee became a character for M.U.G.E.N as well, one of the "Super Game-Breaker" types who kills instantly.
  • Weegee was so big in its heyday that it spawned an entire sub-community filled with Weegee-ified characters and even lore, much of which are documented on Weegeepedia.
• Mario's floating disembodied head from Mario Teaches Typing 2, which has seen much use in YouTube Poop.
  • His floating disembodied head from Super Mario 64 also counts, though for different reasons, such as stretching and messing around with it or corrupting the game to produce silly or strange-looking faces.
• PUSH START TO RICH ^ExplanationDian Shi Ma Li (Mario Lottery), one of the early unlicensed NES games, had this little gem thrown at you whenever you hit the jackpot. It's not the Start button you've got to press, though, because it's actually B.
  • Fortran. ^ExplanationA half-Captain Ersatz of Mario from the same game. Was given such a name because of a Dummied Out Fortran logo and the letter "F" on his cap. He barely moves. While not as popular as characters like Weegee, Fortran was somewhat big in the YouTube Poop community, with "PUSH START TO RICH" almost always being referenced whenever he made an appearance.
  • FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY ^ExplanationWhat this game's "copyright screen" says, pointing out that you get no real money for playing this game of roulette.^{Origin of This Phrase}The phrase "For Amusement Only" was an agreed-upon phrase among manufacturers of arcade games, pinball machines, and other parlor machines. It originated at a time when the United States had very strict gambling laws (as in destroy-on-sight levels of enforcement), and when written on the machine, informs authorities that the machine does not give prizes or cash payouts. This phrase is still in use today, albeit rare because it's become increasingly obvious what's a gambling device and what isn't.
  • GRAND DAD ^ExplanationA Vinesauce stream featured 7 Grand Dad, a hack of The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy that had a recolor of the Fortran sprite (from bootleg NES game Dian Shi Ma Li) on its title screen. It became a popular running gag in SiIvaGunner rips, and also led to the clip of Joel saying "GRAND DAD" being used out of context in some memes.
• Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle:
  • Peach is a "Badass Princess". ^ExplanationA leaked document had Peach referred to, amongst other things, as "the badass princess". It was never meant to be shown to the public, only to Ubisoft executives. The phrase was initially used to describe why the leak was obviously fake — Nintendo wouldn't let any documents call Peach that — but once it was confirmed real, fans took to it because of how funny it was to see something official refer to Peach as "badass".
  • Rabbid Peach was given control over the Rabbids Instagram page, and many newsblogs like Kotaku and Destructoid have made articles about its creepiness, which went viral in moments.
  • Your mission, should you choose to accept it: find someone who doesn't describe this game with some variation of the phrase "X-COM but Mario".
• Mario and Luigi are dead! ^Explanation After character reveal trailers for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate had Mario and Luigi both die, the fanbase decided that, thanks to the lack of onscreen recovery and Offscreen Inertia, they'd been Killed Off for Real. Art, fix-it-fics, and general jokes followed.
  • Luigi is okay. ^ExplanationNintendo's official response to the above was assuring gamers that Luigi was fine.
• Mario Golf series:
  • "You won this hole!" ^ExplanationFrom the victory screens in Mario Golf: World Tour, most commonly used with this◊ variation with Daisy. It's used to express approval or good taste in something, similar to the "Ah, I see you're a man of culture, as well" meme.
  • "DIE :D"◊^ExplanationMario's Birdie animation from Toadstool Tour has him giving the player a thumbs up. The reaction image covers up the "bir" side of the screen, and is used to tell others to die.
• Mario Strikers:
  • From the first game, Peach's scream after being hit by a fence is this because it's a bit too realistic and violent-sounding for many fans.
  • DK Dancing ^Explanation DK's goal animation in Mario Strikers: Battle League has him bust out dancing out of nowhere, and has started to pick up some traction. It's also often paired with Specialist.
  • Daisy's victory dance in Battle League has been compared to that of Bully Maguire.
• Dr. Mario:
  • This remix of the theme song, found in Super Smash Bros. Melee, is very popular in Japanese MAD videos.
  • Joking about Dr. Mario's credentials is commonplace, e.g.: "Do not let Dr. Mario touch your genitals. He is not a real doctor." This went into overdrive with Hilarious in Hindsight come Dr. Mario World, where we not only get characters such as Yoshi, Peach and Toadette becoming doctors with dubious credentials, but Bowser, his son Bowser Jr., the Koopalings and Wario and Waluigi as well. And then we also have five baby doctors. Yes, we have Dr. Baby Mario, all the way through to Dr. Baby Rosalina, even adding in the forgotten Baby Wario as a Doctor too, all complete with pacifiers, baggy coats and other accessories.
  • The mere existence (and plain ridiculousness) of Dr. Goomba Tower, who is basically three Goombas wearing a baggy coat, got people to sarcastically request his inclusion in the Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros. games.
  • The above is taken to the extreme with a Dr. Dolphin. Yes, one of the dolphins that only appeared in Super Mario World and then a handful of Mario Party games is also a doctor.
  • The sheer amount of variant characters in Dr. Mario World has led some to ask when the game will be getting characters like "Dr. Baby Metal Fire Vampire Wario".
• Luigi's Mansion:
  • Luigi's Shadow's Suicide^ExplanationThere's a glitch in the game where, during a blackout, once Luigi goes to answer the phone a flash of lightning will show his shadow as being noticeably off the ground, as if he were hanged from the rafters. Although it's just a bug with the shadow for Luigi's in-game model (which was fixed when the game was brought to the Nintendo 3DS), this "hanging Luigi" glitch became extremely popular among gamers as a suitably creepy Easter egg for a creepy game.
  • "It's a picture... but I wouldn't call it art."^ExplanationA piece of flavor text from Luigi using the Game Boy Horror that caught on with fans thanks to it being unexpectedly snarky and witty by the normally meek Luigi's standards. A screencap of the line's text box quickly became an exploitable and reaction image, often appended to various other things that a given netizen feels like jabbing at.
  • Wega/Ultra John ^ExplanationAn image of Luigi's screaming face became a meme in 2022 in the form of an edited version that either has the colour changed to purple or the face replaced with the Nightmare Face of Slendytubbies Tinky Winky used as a Jump Scare. The meme also popularized the Half-Life 2 Stalker scream sound effect.
• Luigi's Mansion 3:
  • The game is set at a haunted hotel. Cue Hotel Mario jokes.
  • One of the early moments of the game is Luigi trying to read a book while lying in his hotel room bed, only to almost immediately fall asleep. It quickly became a reaction clip for sleep-inducing situations.
  • Luigi's entering Mario's hotel room and finding it filled with empty pizza boxes only a few hours after they checked in has caused many fans to poke fun at the plumber's huge appetite.
  • The scene of Luigi bashing ghosts around drawing parallels to Hulk's beatdown on Loki.
• Mario Tennis:
  • "Mario Tennis Aces is a fighting game." / "Mario Tennis Aces for EVO."^ExplanationThe addition of the Energy Gauge and the new mechanics that involve it (Zone Shots, Zone Speed, and Special Shots) have drawn comparisons to super moves in fighting games. Players needing to judge when to use their abilities and when to conserve them, and the need to read the opponent's strategy and movements to win, are also staples of fighting games.
  • Mario Tennis: Infinity War / "Luigi found the Infinity Racket"^ExplanationThe trailer for Aces Adventure Mode has Luigi obtain a golden tennis rack with five slots in it, making fans joke that it's the Mario Tennis equivalent of the Infinity Gauntlet and essentially quote various memes from Avengers: Infinity War but with Mario references. It didn't help that the five slots of the racket are filled by something known as the "Power Stones", which shared its name with one of the six Infinity Stones that is placed in the Infinity Gauntlet.
  • Wapeach ^Explanation In November 2023, Camelot Software Planning revealed that as they were working on Mario Power Tennis, They had also pitched the idea of a "Bad Peach" counterpart to Wario and Waluigi, making a Terrible Trio dynamic similar to the various villains of the Time Bokan series. Unfortunately, the idea was rejected. As a preliminary design was also provided, the fanbase predictably went nuts.

From non-video game adaptations:

Super Mario cartoons

• The last episode of Super Mario World (1991) (and the last Mario cartoon ever made), "Mama Luigi". The entire episode (especially the line, "That's Mama Luigi to you, Mario! *wheeze*") has become a staple of YouTube Poop videos. All of the lines below and more have been frequently used and mutated in those videos. The most quotable lines from the episode include:
  • "Well, like they say in Brooklyn, early to bed, early to catch the worm. Or, is it the bagel?" ^ExplanationSaid by Luigi in the beginning as he's putting Yoshi to bed. Bagels are often mentioned in YTPs and are treated as somewhat of a Trademark Favorite Food for Luigi thanks to this line.
  • "Koopa Koopa football players" ^Explanation"Koopa football players" are what the cartoon calls Chargin' Chucks. Many YouTube Poops used a clip of the phrase from this episode with the first word repeated.
  • "A fiyah Sumo!" ^note Luigi runs into a Sumo Bro in the beginning of the episode, which he calls a "fire sumo".
  • "I Fell for Hours!" ^ExplanationWhat Luigi says as he falls into a cavern; used when someone falls for a long time.
  • "BOOOIIILING lava!" ^ExplanationLuigi's rather hammy description of the lava in the caverns
  • "Good thing I found a MAAAAAAGIC balloon!" ^ExplanationAnother popular YTP line, this time said when Luigi finds a P-Balloon.
  • "Luigi bash blocks now!"
  • "Yeah, well, I didn't think it was so funny!"
  • "Mario, wherever you are, HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYEEEEEEEEEEEELP!" ^ExplanationLuigi shouts this when he's surrounded by angry Wigglers; his "help" sound is popular in YouTube Poops and other videos.
  • "MAMA!? MAMA LUIGI? AHAHAHAHAHA!" ^ExplanationMario laughing at baby Yoshi's nickname for Luigi. This line, especially Mario's laugh, has been used a lot in YTPs.
  • Mario describing Bowser's Castle as his "Coney Island disco palace!"
  • "Augh, now I know how a meatball feels!" ^ExplanationAfter being accidentally swallowed by Yoshi, Mario proclaims this while temporarily inside of his stomach, although technically speaking, this cannot be true.
• "We're the Mario brothers and plumbing's our game!" ^ExplanationThe theme song of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! is popular for being cheesy yet memorable, which led to its usage in many videos. It would eventually return in The Super Mario Bros. Movie as part of Mario and Luigi's plumbing commercial, to the surprise of many fans.
• "Do the Mario!" ^ExplanationThe credits theme for The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! is fairly popular in memes, whether it be randomly incorporating the song into other videos/songs, or pointing out that "The Mario" is essentially just walking, due to the lyrics "Swing your arms from side to side/Take one step and then again" describing the action.
  • The German version too, given that it can produce vulgar mishearings.
• "It's a stone, Luigi. You didn't make it!" "It's a football! I chiseled it!" ^ExplanationThe entire exchange between Mario and Luigi about a stone football is one of the most memetic scenes of the Super Mario World cartoon behind the entire Mama Luigi episode, with it become a popular source in YouTube Poops. It's also become a snowclone for various things.
• "Oogtar eat ghosts for breakfast!"
  • Mutated by Youtube into "Oogtar eat [item] for breakfast!"
    "Oogtar eat your face for breakfast!"
• "FIYABAWLS? YUM!" ^Explanation Yoshi's delivery of the line 'Fireballs? Yum!' earned a meme by its sheer ridiculousness. Spread further by JoshJepson, twisting the line into "FIYAYUM'S BALLS!".
• "No duck here, turkey!"
  • Often mutated into "No [item] here, turkey!"
• "Oh fuck you Luigi."^ExplanationMario's actually saying "Oh, thank you, Luigi" (the official subtitles, for some reason, give it as "Oh, and what about you, Luigi?"), but most people misheard it as "Oh, fuck you, Luigi."
• *Pizza Time stops* ^ExplanationSpun off of the "Jazz Music Stops" meme, a still shot of Luigi cooking pizza with open flames while sporting an angry furrowed expression is often used as a reaction image to convey disgust.
• Luigi's Chinese Cowboy Impression.^ExplanationA screencap from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show showing Luigi in a cowboy suit leaning over and squinting, and Mario hunched over in a painful looking position◊. It gained popularity after being used in the Games Repainted video on Luigi's Mansion.
• "And if you do drugs, you go to Hell before you die. Please." ^ExplanationWhile not necessarily from the cartoon, this comes from an anti-drug PSA from Captain Lou Albano, who was Mario's voice actor at the time and dons the plumber's hat in the clip. The line quickly became a popular subject for quotation and parody thanks to the jarring contrast between the upbeat tone of the Mario series and the melodramatically dark nature of the line.
• "If you're not watching The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, you're gonna turn into a Goomba!" ^Explantion A commercial for The Super Mario Bros. Super Show has Captain Lou Albano as Mario making this bizarre warning/threat. A common type of joke with this meme is a video of someone else watching the commercial, only for them to suddenly transform into a Goomba. Similarly, some character will transform another into a Goomba.
• "This is the male penis and testicles" ^Explanation A line uttered by Luigi in a fan-made satirical sex-education video featuring the Mario Bros and Kevin from Captain N. It quickly went viral due to a mix of the sheer absurdity of Luigi talking about reproductive organs, the fact that the voice actor didn't even try to imitate the Brooklyn accent Luigi had in the cartoons, and the fact that a large chunk of viewers didn't realize it was fake.
  • "Here's-a my brother Luigi to give you a whole heapin' spaghetti pile of in-for-ma-shee-oh-nay!" "Hello Mario." ^Explanation Mario introducing Kevin to Luigi and the first line from the latter directly after it. The contrast between Luigi's very simple response, as well as deadpan, unaccented voice and Mario, whose voice actor was at least trying to imitate the cartoon voice, but sound drunk with how he slurs his words, magnified by Mario's gratuitous insertion of "spaghetti", and "informazione" ("information" in Italian), made for quick meme fodder.
• An image of Luigi performing on a DJ turntable set◊ from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode "Bad Rap" has made rounds on the Internet.
  • There is also an image macro variation with 2 panels featuring DJ Luigi: one with Luigi looking calm, and one with him looking furious with a red blur filter applied to him.
• "When I want my feet licked, I'll ask for it! (beat) I want my feet licked!" ^ExplanationIn the first episode of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, Bowser orders two mouthless ice creatures (Flurries) to lick his feet while he sits on his throne. It caught on for both the absurdity and probably accidental foot fetish undertones.
• The title of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show is already kinda silly with the two instances of "Super" in it, but many YTPs have made it even sillier, like spamming a lot more "super"s, or inputting other words. One YTP uses The Super Mario Bros. Super Duper Super Pooper Super Show.
• This exchange from Super Show, for turning Luigi into a mundane, yet Memetic Badass.

  Mario: Remember, Luigi, you gotta act tough!
  Luigi: (slams bar) I'll take a milk.

• "I'D SAY HE'S HOT ON OUR TAIL!"^note This line from The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 inspired the very first YouTube Poop ever made.
• "Hey, Mario!" "WAAAAAAAH!" ^ExplanationA scene from The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode "Toddler Terrors of Time Travel", where Luigi and Mario are babies and Luigi greets Mario, who cries. It's often shared as an out-of-context clip, especially a version that cut baby Mario's cry off.

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