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'''Wario''' ({{ja|ワリオ|Wario}}, ''Wario'') is a villainous character from the ''{{uv|Mario}}'' series, who eventually became popular enough to spawn his [[Wario (universe)|own side-franchise]]. He made a cameo in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'' as a trophy and became a full playable character in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''. He is known to be [[Mario]]'s rival. | '''Wario''' ({{ja|ワリオ|Wario}}, ''Wario'') is a villainous character from the ''{{uv|Mario}}'' series, who eventually became popular enough to spawn his [[Wario (universe)|own side-franchise]]. He made a cameo in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'' as a trophy and became a full playable character in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]'', and ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''. He is known to be [[Mario]]'s rival. | ||
==Origin== | ==Origin== | ||
When Nintendo launched the Game Boy handheld system in 1989, Gunpei Yokoi's ''{{S|mariowiki|Super Mario Land}}'' launched with it. [[Mario]]'s 8-bit adventure was so successful that three years later, a sequel arrived. ''{{S|mariowiki|Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins}}'' takes place directly after the first game, when Mario comes home after defeating the evil alien {{S|mariowiki|Tatanga}}. When he arrives, he discovers that his castle has been taken over by his antagonistic, greedy counterpart, Wario, and he must retrieve the 6 Golden Coins hidden around the land to get his home back, while Tatanga's appearance as a boss in one of the levels provided possible hints that Wario could have been behind the events of the original ''{{S|mariowiki|Super Mario Land}}''. In the final showdown, Wario was revealed to look very much like Mario himself, except fatter, more muscular, slightly shorter, and with a big, bulbous nose that had a jagged, pointy mustache jutting out of it. In a three-part battle, Wario uses the same power-ups that Mario had access to throughout the game, and adds his own abilities to the mix. Wario charges at his opponent with his shoulder, and crashes to the floor butt first, which became staple moves for the character in future games. When | When Nintendo launched the Game Boy handheld system in 1989, Gunpei Yokoi's ''{{S|mariowiki|Super Mario Land}}'' launched with it. [[Mario]]'s 8-bit adventure was so successful that three years later, a sequel arrived. ''{{S|mariowiki|Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins}}'' takes place directly after the first game, when Mario comes home after defeating the evil alien {{S|mariowiki|Tatanga}}. When he arrives, he discovers that his castle has been taken over by his antagonistic, greedy counterpart, Wario, and he must retrieve the 6 Golden Coins hidden around the land to get his home back, while Tatanga's appearance as a boss in one of the levels provided possible hints that Wario could have been behind the events of the original ''{{S|mariowiki|Super Mario Land}}''. In the final showdown, Wario was revealed to look very much like Mario himself, except fatter, more muscular, slightly shorter, and with a big, bulbous nose that had a jagged, pointy mustache jutting out of it. In a three-part battle, Wario uses the same power-ups that Mario had access to throughout the game, and adds his own abilities to the mix. Wario charges at his opponent with his shoulder, and crashes to the floor butt first, which became staple moves for the character in future games. When bested by Mario, he reverted to a "[[mariowiki:Tiny Wario|tiny]]" form, and escaped out the window to search for better treasures. | ||
And search for them he did, as he landed a starring role in the third game in the series, ''{{S|mariowiki|Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3}}''. It takes place directly after ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins'', in which Wario sets out to earn as much gold as humanly possible, so he can buy his own castle and rub it in Mario's face. This game played differently than the first two games, because Wario brought his own style with him. Instead of deploying acrobatics like Mario, Wario relied on his brute strength and the ability to sport various hats that gave him different powers, such as a dragon hat that spewed fire. He also gained his own villain in this adventure, the equally greedy {{s|mariowiki|Captain Syrup}}, who captured a Genie to use for her own selfish purposes. By the end of the quest, Wario gives both Syrup and the Genie a sound thrashing, and pays the Genie to grant him his castle. | And search for them he did, as he landed a starring role in the third game in the series, ''{{S|mariowiki|Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3}}''. It takes place directly after ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins'', in which Wario sets out to earn as much gold as humanly possible, so he can buy his own castle and rub it in Mario's face. This game played differently than the first two games, because Wario brought his own style with him. Instead of deploying acrobatics like Mario, Wario relied on his brute strength and the ability to sport various hats that gave him different powers, such as a dragon hat that spewed fire. He also gained his own villain in this adventure, the equally greedy {{s|mariowiki|Captain Syrup}}, who captured a Genie to use for her own selfish purposes. By the end of the quest, Wario gives both Syrup and the Genie a sound thrashing, and pays the Genie to grant him his castle. | ||
After antagonizing Mario and his friends yet again in games such as ''{{s|mariowiki|Wario's Woods}}'' and ''{{S|mariowiki|Mario & Wario}}'', Wario continued to have three more adventures on various Game Boy platforms. In ''{{s|mariowiki|Wario Land II}}'', Wario experiences a case of bad karma when Captain Syrup kicks him out of his own castle and steals it. ''{{S|mariowiki|Wario Land 3}}'' involves Wario doing his first unselfish deed, saving the inhabitants of a music box from the devious {{S|mariowiki|Rudy the Clown}} - on the condition that he gets to keep all the treasure that he earned along the way. In ''{{S|mariowiki|Wario Land 4}}'', he does what Mario had been doing for the last decade and rescues a princess of his own (Princess Shokora), albeit unknowingly. This trend would continue years later in ''{{s|mariowiki|Wario Land: Shake It!}}'' where Wario would | After antagonizing Mario and his friends yet again in games such as ''{{s|mariowiki|Wario's Woods}}'' and ''{{S|mariowiki|Mario & Wario}}'', Wario continued to have three more adventures on various Game Boy platforms. In ''{{s|mariowiki|Wario Land II}}'', Wario experiences a case of bad karma when Captain Syrup kicks him out of his own castle and steals it. ''{{S|mariowiki|Wario Land 3}}'' involves Wario doing his first unselfish deed, saving the inhabitants of a music box from the devious {{S|mariowiki|Rudy the Clown}} - on the condition that he gets to keep all the treasure that he earned along the way. In ''{{S|mariowiki|Wario Land 4}}'', he does what Mario had been doing for the last decade and rescues a princess of his own (Princess Shokora), albeit unknowingly. This trend would continue years later in ''{{s|mariowiki|Wario Land: Shake It!}}'' where Wario would, unwillingly rescue a princess again while in pursuit of the Shake Dimension's legendary treasure, The Bottomless Coin Sack. Through these games, Wario eventually evolved from the classification of "villain" to the title of "anti-hero", one he still holds to this day. | ||
After all these platforming | After all these platforming adventures, Wario, now sporting biker gear as opposed to a yellow and purple version of Mario's duds, notices the boom of the video game industry, and decides to take advantage of this craze by forming his own game company. Due to his short attention span, instead of creating a single game of reasonable length, he opts to make over two hundred games, each of them a mere five seconds long. Too short to even be called "minigames", they were dubbed "microgames". Finally, since he was too lazy to make all these games himself, he hires a handful of his fellow residents of Diamond City to do his work for him, among them the feisty multi-talented {{S|mariowiki|Mona}}, and the Nintendo superfan {{S|mariowiki|9-Volt}}. Thus, the ''{{S|mariowiki|WarioWare}}'' franchise was born. | ||
Wario has also made appearances in a great number of ''Mario'' spin-offs, including the ''Mario Kart'' and ''Mario Party'' games, as well as a large number of ''Mario'' sports | Wario has also made appearances in a great number of ''Mario'' spin-offs, including the ''Mario Kart'' and ''Mario Party'' games, as well as a large number of ''Mario'' sports games. In these games, Wario is no longer evil, but acts as more of a bumbling comic relief character. His partner-in-crime bent on bothering Mario's brother, [[Luigi]], is soon revealed, being named [[Waluigi]]. Like [[Donkey Kong]], Wario also appeared as a [[mariowiki:Baby Wario|baby]] in ''{{S|mariowiki|Yoshi's Island DS}}'', where it is revealed that Wario did not have a true home to be returned to by the stork, which may explain his greedy personality and his jealousy towards Mario. However, Wario did team up with Mario and Luigi in ''{{s|mariowiki|Super Mario 64 DS}}'', the DS remake of the iconic N64 launch game, where he made his only playable appearance in the ''Super Mario'' series. | ||
Due to Wario's popularity, he was one of the newcomers in ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''. Instead of being added as yet another ''Mario'' character, though, Wario was made a represenative of his own ''Wario'' franchise; however, most of his moveset was derived from his appearance in the ''WarioWare'' games, with only a few moves being taken from the ''Wario Land'' series. | Due to Wario's popularity, he was one of the newcomers in ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''. Instead of being added as yet another ''Mario'' character, though, Wario was made a represenative of his own ''Wario'' franchise; however, most of his moveset was derived from his appearance in the ''WarioWare'' games, with only a few moves being taken from the ''Wario Land'' series. | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*Wario is the only character that was introduced before ''Super Smash Bros. 4'' that has never had fewer than eight alternate costumes. | *Wario is the only character that was introduced before ''Super Smash Bros. 4'' that has never had fewer than eight alternate costumes. | ||
**Wario is also one of two characters who had their number of alternate costumes reduced from one game to another, as he had 12 colors in ''Brawl'' and 8 in ''Smash 4''. The other is [[Little Mac]], who was reduced from 16 to 8 from ''Smash 4'' to ''Ultimate''. | **Wario is also one of the two characters who had their number of alternate costumes reduced from one game to another, as he had 12 colors in ''Brawl'' and 8 in ''Smash 4''. The other is [[Little Mac]], who was reduced from 16 to 8 from ''Smash 4'' to ''Ultimate''. | ||
*Wario is the [[Peach|second]] non-{{uv|Pokémon}} fighter to have [[Alternate costume (SSBB)#Wario|alterations to his costume]] aside from recolors. | *Wario is the [[Peach|second]] non-{{uv|Pokémon}} fighter to have [[Alternate costume (SSBB)#Wario|alterations to his costume]] aside from recolors. | ||
*Prior to ''Ultimate'', Wario was the only character who debuted as a starter and later became an unlockable character. | *Prior to ''Ultimate'', Wario was the only character who debuted as a starter and later became an unlockable character. | ||
