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Main Characters[]
Mario[]
Tropes Associated with Mario:
- Almost-Dead Guy
- Chosen One
- Determinator: Season 5 puts him in this. It's entirely Justified considering what's at stake.
- Humble Hero
- Large Ham
- The Hero
- Identical Grandson: Mario looks exactly like is ancestor Merlin.
- Fitting as they're played by the same actor.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Mario has had total jerkassery moments, but can be heroic when needed
- Not Quite Dead
Luigi[]
Tropes Associated with Luigi:
- Adorkable
- Brainwashed: Luigi's mind fused with Decious to create Mr. L
- Break the Cutie: Season 5 got him stuck in leading the good guys in Mario's absence, as a result he got stuck making bad decisions and lost several fighters.
- Catch Phrase "So what do you want to do NOW Mario?", "Okey Dokey!" and "Yeah, what Mario said!"
- The Heart: Sorta... he is usally the one keeping everyone together and is the one keeping Mario from killing Ash...
- Identical Grandson: If Nox Decious hadn't have his mask. I bet he would look a lot like Luigi. An accurate statement.
- The Lancer
- Number Two
- The Smart Guy (again... sorta...)
- Soul Jar: To Nox Decious
- Took a Level In Badass
- Wimp Fight: Uses Slap Combat.
Wario[]
Tropes Associated With Wario:
- Anti-Hero
- Being Evil Sucks
- Big Bad
- The Big Guy
- Characterization Marches On: He doesn't turn good until the very end of Season 3. So seeing him beforehand can be strange.
- Chosen One
- Evil Counterpart (well that's what we THOUGHT)
- Evil Laugh: Seems to be influenced by Burgess Meredith's version of The Penguin
- Faking the Dead
- Go-Karting with Bowser: In season 1, he joins Mario's band despite being sent by Bowser to bring him back and secretly planning to kill him.
- Heel Face Turn
- Heterosexual Life Partners: with Waluigi
- Large Ham: When the series is comical, definitely not when the series is serious.
- Laughably Evil well...first season
- The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: To Mario in seasons 2 and 3
- Took a Level In Badass
Waluigi[]
Tropes Associated with Waluigi:
- Badass: He even calls himself a "Super Badass"
- Convenient Coma: Zig-zagged in Season 5.
- Evil Counterpart (well that's what we THOUGHT)
- Heterosexual Life Partners: with Wario
- The Lancer: To Wario
- Put on a Bus / Written in Absence: Happens a lot due Waluigi's actor living far away.
Ash[]
Tropes Associated with Ash:
- Adaptation Dye Job: Don't bother lampshading it, he'll just deny it.
- This troper can no longer think of Ash without seeing red hair.
- Bunny Ears Lawyer He is a total idiot, but he makes a hell of a good lawyer.
- Playing Ace Attorney for 100 hours does wonders.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Sort of, since Ash's actor (Dane) quit due to creative differences, Ash disappeared from the show with no explanation of where he is. In Season Four, he was finally mentioned, only that the mention wasn't to explain where he was but to show how the other characters won't talk to him anymore.
- The Subscribe Voice in Episode 74 says he's currently living in Kanto.
- The Ditz
- Getting Crap Past the Radar: some of his comments about his "Pokeballs"
- Keet
- Large Ham: Possibly the biggest in the series.
- Otaku
- Serious Business: Pokemon, of course!
- Shoo Out the Clowns: Tends to disappear when things get serious
- The Unfavorite: How Professor Oak treats him compared to how he treats Gary.
- Unusual Euphemism: Tends to use the names of pokemon as swear words.
- You Didn't Ask: Ash's guitar skills.
Donkey Kong[]
Tropes Associated with Donkey Kong:
- Big Damn Heroes: Saves Mona from Pauline in Episode 67
- Interspecies Romance: with Pauline.
- The Big Guy
- The Other Darrin: Hardly noticable of course
- But by Season 4 he looks a bit different since they didn't own the original costume.
- Running Gag: Whenever anybody is annoying Mario or Luigi, he tends to come out of nowhere and chase them away while they scream hysterically.
- Anytime Pauline's death is mentioned he appears out of no where and wails in sadness.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Bananas
- The Unintelligible
Link[]
Tropes Associated with Link:
- Back From the Dead: At the end of the Movie.
- Cloudcuckoolander He's Gotta Coocoo!
- The Cuckoolander Was Right: Turns out the talking coconut really WAS talking after all
- Killed Off for Real: In the Movie
- Knight of Cerebus: Non-Villainous version. His warning to Mario at the end of Season 1 pretty much does this to the series.
- Training From Hell: Makes the Mario Bros. endure rigorous training in order to be ready to fight Nox Decious
- Subverted in that it amounts to them playing Super Smash Bros, but Mario and Luigi react as if the trope were played straight.
- See You in Hell
- Social Darwinist
Ness[]
Tropes Associated with Ness:
- Just a Kid
- Lampshaded by Ness himself
- Mr. Exposition
- Psychic Powers
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: it's because he's too young
- The Stoic
- He is All Grown Up: Once you see him in the Movie,OP: Blind Storm and Season Four, you know he's not a kid anymore.
- Other fans joke Ness hit puberty.
Merlin[]
Tropes Associated with Merlin:
- Sdrawkcab Name: Nilrem
- The Watcher
- Mr. Exposition
- Mysterious Past
- In the Hood
- Not Quite Dead: Although he was last seen confronting a resurrected Nox Decious, Wario confirms through the Nether Saber (which is connected to Merlin) that he is still alive.
- Older Than They Look
- Public Domain Character
Solid Snake[]
Tropes Associated with Solid Snake:
- Badass
- Deadpan Snarker
- Genre Savvy: In his second encounter with Liquid.
- Good Is Not Nice
- Jerkass
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold
- Trigger Happy
Ryu[]
After a fall out with Ken (over their friend Tamari leaving), Ryu met Mario and the others to help them stop the Trifecta and the ninjas. After Mario and the Darkness's Armies join up he and Ken make up.
Tropes associated with Ryu
- Badass
- Calling Your Attacks: "Hadoken!"
- Heterosexual Life Partners: with Ken
- No Pronunciation Guide: His name is prounounced Rai-Yu instead of Rie-Yu. Which is because creator Richard pronounced the name as such. It eventually changed to the actual pronounciation with Ryu lampshading it by claiming it was pronounced as such the entire time.
- Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: Happens before Season Four though. But they make up in Season 5.
Secondary Characters[]
Brock[]
Tropes Associated with Brock:
- Back From the Dead: Parodied. Turns out he wasn't dead in the first place.
- Berserk Button: The word "catch".
Ash: Wow, I thought I had problems. |
- Catch Phrase "Oh Crap!"
- Gaming Otaku
- Lampshade Hanging:
- Brock's perpetually-closed eyes from the games and anime are reinterpreted as him being blind.
- No Indoor Voice
- Put on a Bus: Temporarily though.
- Real Life Writes the Plot: Brock's actor did move to San Francisco
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Gary by the end of Season Four.
Gary[]
Tropes Associated with Gary:
- Jerkass
- Large Ham
- No Indoor Voice
- The Rival (To Ash)
- Ted Baxter
- He gets bonus points here. Not only does he think that he's awesome, he also has a pretty high opinion of his house
Gary: My house is the most awesome place in the universe! |
- Cool Old Guy: Gary considers his Grandpa (Professor Oak) to be this.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Ash and is better/more vitrolic friends with Brock. Although Ash has pointed out he probably doesn't have any other friends because of his arrogance.
Professor Oak[]
Tropes Associated with Professor Oak:
- Cool Old Guy: Well Gary sees him as one.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He is forgetful and acts like a child. He formulated a legitimate, sensible and efficient plan to take down Ganondorf that no one else thought of, implying he knows a lot about the world and is one of the most intelligent and wisest characters in the series.
- Jerkass: Especially when he turns down UPS and the flash drive DESPITE being told his grandson would be in danger.
- Manipulative Bastard: In Season Four, he willingly tricks Gary and Brock into doing several mundane tasks for him just so they could find out from him which one of them sucks more. Oak eventually claims they equally suck for not turning down the tasks. As a result the two fight over which one of them hates each other the most which Oak uses to his advantage once more.
Peach[]
Tropes Associated with Peach:
- Badass Princess: Took down Wario with her umbrella and briefly faced Nox Decious.
- Big Damn Heroes: Saved Mario from Wario at the end of Season 1.
- Distressed Damsel
- Kiss Kiss Slap: Simple driving lesson turns into a shouting match and break up.
- Well, Excuse Me, Princess!
Daisy[]
Tropes Associated with Daisy:
Walgina[]
Walugi's girlfriend. Unlike most of the characters, she is a natural resident of the real world. The two met and became a couple during the course of five minutes, while Wario was reporting back to Bowser. Wario doesn't like her and her presence eventually drives his and Waluigi's alliance to the breaking point. She is absent for most of season 3, looking for Walugi. Afterwards she and Waluigi somehow break up. Waluigi claims creative differences a.k.a. she wanted him to stop wearing purple.
Tropes Associated with Walgina:
- Ascended Extra: When she first appears most people think she isn't that important but by Season 3 she had a larger role searching for Waluigi.
- The Chick: In Wario's band, at least.
- Hollywood Tone Deaf
- Irony: Wanted Waluigi to stop wearing purple when she herself wore it which lead to their break up.
- Love At First Sight: Lampshaded by a dumb-founded Wario
- Magical Girlfriend: Inverted.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Inadvertantly causes the riff between Wario and Waluigi
Otacon[]
Tropes Associated with Otacon:
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
- Keet: Probably the series best example.
- Otaku: of the Anime variety.
- Shaggy Dog Story: Most of the missions that he sends Snake on turn out to be these.
- Sidekick: to Solid Snake
- What an Idiot!: In-Universe. Both Ash and Snake feel this way about him, although Ash is only a little better than him.
Coconut/Mage[]
A random coconut, Link found in a forest in his dream, the coconut followed him back into real life and kept him company. He turns out to be a Gerudo King who's soul was trapped in a coconut. He assists Link and Wario in three acts of heroism in order to free his soul and make him human again.
Tropes associated with Coconut/Mage
- The Cuckoolander Was Right: Turns out Link was right after all about Coconut
- Pinocchio Syndrome: He was formerly human and needs to be one again.
- Rule of Threes: He needs to do THREE acts of heroism to become human again.
Mona[]
Wario's friend (and now girlfriend) whom he met up with during Season Four. She's now part of Mario's army against the Darkness and Ganondorf.
Tropes associated with Mona:
- Action Girl: In Season 5
- Designated Girl Fight: Against Pauline twice.
- Mythology Gag: Wario and Mona ending up in a relationship. Since in the Wario Ware games, Mona actually has something for Wario. (It should also be noted Wario's actor Matt and Mona's actor Erin are boyfriend and girlfriend).
Naomi Hunter[]
Introduced in Season 5, Naomi is a friend and colleague of Snake's who saved from his aging problem just as he died.
Tropes Associated with Naomi Hunter:
Ken[]
After a fall out with Ryu (when their friend Tamari left), Ken became his enemy and joined the Trifecta. He is the only member of the Trifecta to survive and joins The Darkness's Army in Season Five. After Mario and Darkness's Armies join up he and Ryu make up.
Tropes associated with Ken:
- Badass
- Heterosexual Life Partners: with Ryu
- Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: Happens before Season Four starts though. They eventually make up in Season 5.
Villains[]
Nox Decious[]
The evil brother of the legendary Merlin. Nox Decious' primary goal was to take control of Earth and destroy all good. After being killed by Wario and possessing Luigi as Mr. L, he has been resurrected by Ganondorf as part of his army with Bowser.
Tropes Associated with Nox Decious
- Big Bad
- Evil Sorcerer
- Facial Horror: His face was badly burned by Merlin's Nether Saber. That's why he wears the mask.
- Mr. Exposition
- Not Quite Dead
- Mysterious Past
The Darkness[]
A substance created out of pure evil by Nox Decious with an ancient magic spell El Nox de la Chateu, translates as The Darkness of the Shadow, Nox created the Darkness to bind his soul to the Stone of Righteousness until they were seperated by the Nether Saber in Episode 30. After briefly possessing Mario, the Darkness took Mario's energy and combined it with Decious's power that it absorbed to take on the physical shape of it's most powerful host, Mario. From then on he became very evil and no longer affiliates himself with Decious. Having his own plans to take over the world.
Tropes Associated with The Darkness
"DO NOT COMPARE ME TO HIM!" |
- Big Bad
- The Chessmaster
- Enemy Mine: Lampshaded in Season 5, with Wario thinking it would be expected. And they go through with it.
- Evil Counterpart: to Mario
- Evil Is Hammy: Oh so very much.
- Evil Plan
- The Voice: When we were first introduced to him
- Killed Off for Real
- Large Ham
- Oh Crap
- Perpetual Smiler
- Psychic Powers
- Shadow Archetype: And now Mario, I am no longer your shadow
- Slasher Smile
- Smug Snake
- Turned Against Their Masters: Against Decious.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
- Xanatos Roulette: Used by him in Season Four.
Bowser[]
Angered by the Mario Bros. vacation in the real world he hires Wario and Waluigi to get them back
Tropes Associated with Bowser:
- A Wizard Did It: Literally as assistant and wizard Kamek made him human.
- Big Bad: Subverted in the movie. He finally appears on-screen, but is defeated by Ash, Brock, and Pikachu before he can have a final showdown with Mario and Luigi. He does manage to confront them eventually in Act II Part I.
- Dark Lord
- Evil Is Hammy
- Harmless Villain
- He Who Must Not Be Seen: Until The Movie
- Large Ham
- Laughably Evil
- Punch The Pikachu
- The Other Darrin: Is being played by Austin (Brock) for Season 5.
- The Unintelligible
- You Meddling Kids: Toward Ash and Brock.
Kamek[]
Bowser's advisor who helps to turn him human.
Tropes asscoated with Kamek
- A Wizard Did It: Literally since he is assistant and wizard to him he made Bowser human.
- The Dragon: To Bowser sort of.
- Wimp Fight: Uses Slap Combat as fighting
Liquid[]
- Badass
- Evil Counterpart / Evil Twin: Well he is Snake's evil clone/brother
- Adaptation Dye Job: Well at least he looks more like Snake in this show.
- As of Season four, he now looks more like himself in the games along with British accent.
- Killed Off for Real: As of Season Four
- Not Quite Dead: Well before Season Four anyway.
Mr. L[]
Nox Decious possessing Luigi's body.
Tropes Associated with Mr. L
- Brainwashed and Crazy
- Big Bad
- Enemy Within: He's Luigi plus Decious...
- Super-Powered Evil Side
Blaire Vherestorm[]
The mysterious leader of The Trifecta. Originally named John, he was an insecure, bullied, and ambitious teenager. Thr Darkness met with him and offered him the power that he always wanted so he can reach his aspirations. He mentions Vherestorm, a wizard that John wrote a story about for English Class which no one liked and made everyone think he was crazy. Darkness only asked that John help him with his situation and he'd give him the power that he wants to become "Vherestorm". John accepted and took on the name Blaire. Darkness gave Blaire some of his power and built a "power transfer compulsion system", or the beacon. He however screwed up and was killed by The Darkness for trying to kill Mario which in turn would make him more powerful than the Darkness.
In Season 5, he was ressurected by Ganon with the intention of getting revenge on the Darkness but Waluigi would end up killing him.
Tropes associated with Blaire Vherestorm
- Big Bad: Along with The Trifecta in Season Four
- Back From the Dead: He was somehow resurrected in Season 5 and has joined Ganondorf's army to get back at the Darkness.
- Smug Snake
- The Dragon: to The Darkness before he betrayed him of course.
Ganondorf[]
Link's greatest enemy who ends up coming to the real world and becomes the final Big Bad of the show making The League of Bad Guys, ressurrecting Blaire, Nox Decious and Pauline to assist him and removing Link teleporting him to the dark realm "returning the favour" as he claims. He now controls hoardes of ninjas and wants to take over the real world.
Tropes associated with Ganondorf:
- Arch Enemy: To Link
- Big Bad and Bigger Bad of the entire series.
- Dangerously Genre Savvy: He predicted that Pauline would get rid of Wario and Mona.
- Dark-Skinned Redhead
- Evil Gloating
- Evil Is Hammy: He's played by Matt. It's a given.
- Evil Redhead
- Evil Sorceror
- Merged Reality: Plans to merge the Dark Relam and the Real World.
- Nigh Invulnerability
- The Man Behind the Man: Both Decious and Bowser answer to him really.
- The Unseen: Mentioned since Season 2 (Voice heard in Season 4) but finally seen in Season 5.
General[]
The Darkness' second in command who set up his pirate army for him and is very loyal. He is honourably discharged by the Darkness before he confronts Nox Decious.
Tropes Associated with General:
- Badass: Very much.
- The Dragon: To the Darkness
- Hidden Depths: Apparently has a family.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: He has used a rifle and handgun against ninjas and hasn't missed once.
Zubashi and the Ninjas[]
Ninjas led by Zubashi were hired by Ganondorf as part of his army to take over the world.
Tropes Associated with Zubashi and the Ninjas:
- Ascended Meme / Cool Versus Awesome: Them fighting pirates.
- Badass Army: When they're not being funny.
- The Dragon: Master Gangles to Zubashi.
- Funny Background Event: The ninjas are very guilty of this.
- Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja
- Large Ham: As with Richard's other roles, Zubashi is definitely this.
- Laughably Evil
- PunchClockVillains: Some of them.
- Villains Out Shopping: Throughout the fifth season, they go to the movies, go out to eat, or even try to get dates.
Captain Morgan and the Pirates[]
The army brought together by The Darkness to combat the ninjas since pirates don't hold back when fighting. While Captain Morgan is the super pirate that can take on any ninja (and be ridiculously drunk too).
Tropes Associated with Captain Morgan and the Pirates:
- The Alcoholic / The Drunken Sailor: Captain Morgan, there's a reason why he's named after a rum company.
- Ascended Meme / Cool Versus Awesome: Them fighting ninjas. It seems The Darkness intentionally invoked this.
- Badass Army: They are a perfect match to the ninjas.
- Bland-Name Product: They enjoy Pirate Crunch cereal.
- Chekhov's Gunmen: We had already been informed that pirates existed in Interactive Adventure. Then they came back with a vengeance.
- Eyepatch of Power
- Hook Hand
- Lack of Empathy: He fights for the heroes, but doesn't really care about anything. Though he is drunk.
- Lazy Bum
- Running Gag: Throughout Season 5, Luigi or Wario would mention Captain Morgan, and then it would show him being hungover drunk. He finally wakes up in the finale.
- In the finale, one of his pirates keeps coming up with new versions of Pirate Crunch cereal.
Minor Chracters[]
Scott Masterson[]
Johnny Mushroom and the Kingdom's temporary boss for Season 2 (and 3 for a deleted scene). He is widely disliked by the group and the band got taken from him by DK whom he now holds a grudge against now joining The League of Bad Guys under Ganondorf's rule.
His real backstory was that his father left him when he was five to become a circus performer, and his mother sold him into slavery for $100 shortly after. Scott later ran away from slavery with a new ambition: to either run the global market, or manage a Sam's Club. He then went on to get a job at Channel 6 where he had to work with Teletubbies and mentally impaired people.
Tropes Associated with Scott Masterson:
- Face Heel Turn: Now wanting revenge on DK for stealing his band. He also wants to control the world's economy via Occupy Wall Street.
- Heel Face Door Slam: After DK talked him down, he considered going good... only for DK to knock him out and leave him to the mercy of some cannibals.
- I Am a Humanitarian: Implied that he will soon be the victim of this trope.
- Jerkass
- Lack of Empathy: He doesn't care that Mario got sick, the band will still play.
- Mood Swinger
- Parental Abandonment: His father left to be A CIRCUS PERFORMER! and his mother sold him into slavery for $100!
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He's had a hard life, now he plans to assist Ganondorf.
The UPS Guy and the FedEx Guy[]
Two delivery men (played repectively by Richard Michael Alvarez and Chistopher Anthony Muller) who make deliveries and do various oddjobs throughout the series. For the most part, they only have marginal involvement with the main plot, although the ending of Season 1 showed that there are exceptions. They are arch-enemies and spend most of their screen time competing against each other or trying to outwit each other. They once teamed up to capture a package USPS stole off them that was from Snake for Otacon.
They return for Season 5 with UPS's backstory actually being revealed. He was a football player. He played in high school and in college before he was drafted by the NFL as a starter for the Raiders. However, he got hit by a FedEx truck before his first game at Qualcomm Stadium, rendering him incapable of playing football ever again. Since that day, UPS dedicated his life to opposing FedEx in every way possible, resulting in him joining UPS.
Tropes Associated with The UPS Guy and the FedEx Guy:
- Berserk Button: Do not insult Ace of Base (the band that sings The Sign which UPS sings) in front of UPS, or ELSE.
- Big Damn Heroes
- Enemy Mine: To each other and DHL and USPS
- Hidden Depths: UPS sheds light on his past and some of his true colors in mid-late Season 5.
- Only Known by Their Nickname
- Punch Clock Hero
- The Rival: To each other and DHL and USPS
- Those Two Guys
- Wimp Fight: They fight using Slap Combat all the time.
Max Payne[]
After getting into the mob (long story) Mario and Luigi are told they have to kill their buddy Solid Snake. Instead, they called up this guy.
Tropes Associated With Max Payne:
- Badass
- Large Ham
- Private Eye Monologue: He says his out loud, parodied in that Max has one in the games.
- Trigger Happy: He was holding two guns while sitting in his desk. In his office. He and Snake are going to get along fine.
Mr. Puzzler[]
Rather than beginning where Season 2 left off, Richard Michael Alvarez opened Season 3's first episode with a clip from a fictional show called "Mr. Puzzler". Mr. Puzzler is portrayed as a carefree man who doesn't care if he offends or annoys anyone. He sports a fantastic vest and is fond of at least one groan-inducing joke. Apparently, he lacks human integrity, if Mr. Intelligence is to be believed.
Sadly, his fate was left unknown, as Mr. Redhead came up and told him that his show was cancelled because people would rather see Stupid Mario Brothers instead.
Tropes Associated With Mr. Puzzler:
- And Now for Something Completely Different
- Character Title
- Jerkass
- Incredibly Lame Pun
- No Fourth Wall
- Oh Crap
- Silly Walk: How Mr. Redhead appears
The Dance Instructor[]
Tropes Associated with The Dance Instructor
- Berserk Button: Any time any of the other characters try to dance.
- Catch Phrase: That Was...SUCK!
- Large Ham: Played by Rich's sister, so it apparently runs in the family.
- Just a Stupid Accent
- Serious Business
Pauline[]
Tropes associated with Pauline
- Back From the Dead: She was resurrected by Ganondorf in Season 5
- Dark Action Girl: While working for Ganondorf
- Death as Comedy: Died of Snake's FOXDIE chocolates (which he needs to stay young and are poisonous to normal people Although as it turns out Blaire had poisoned the chocolates to kill Snake which of course backfired.)
- Designated Girl Fight: Against Mona twice.
- Face Heel Turn: It seems she has joined Ganondorf's army to get revenge on Mario for accidentally killing her. She goes back to the good side in the end but decides she and DK can no longer be together despite the fact he was going to propose to her and leaves promising they'll never hear from her again.
- Interspecies Romance: with Donkey Kong
- Lady in Red
- Woman Scorned: Essentially once she's on the bad guy's side. But she doesn't really target Mario or try to kill him but she still blames him for it all.