Matthew Taranto has a certain knack for these.
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and especially its Alt Text are even funnier after a certain controversial cutscene from Metroid: Other M. Additionally, in Ridley's trailer for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Samus suffers the Worf Effect while in her Varia Suit, but ends the trailer in her Zero Suit while looking ready to kick Ridley's tail. - This comic about the moon includes a fictional playing card about Donkey Kong's Giant Punch. These two things are combined in Donkey Kong Country Returns.
- This comic featured Kirby attempting Wii Fit. One of the fourth Super Smash Bros. game's new characters turned out to be... a trainer from Wii Fit. And her intro trailer shows Kirby still having trouble with yoga poses.
- Speaking of the fourth Smash Bros., this comic accidentally foreshadows a certain Blue Bomber getting in.
- This comic becomes even more hilarious when you realize that Matthew posted it hours before of the E3 trailer of the fourth Smash Bros, announcing the inclusion of the Animal Crossing Villager in the playable roster. Even better, all three of his "last-minute guesses for newcomers" in the blurb (Little Mac, Palutena, and Mega Man) turned out to be true.
- Either hilarious or tear-jerking depending on the reader, but this comic ends up being more true than expected after Mario fighting the villain solo in the first battle of Mario & Luigi: Dream Team turns out to be a dream of Luigi's.
- "Hey look! I remembered to make Sonic's arms not-blue this time!" Sonic's arms are now blue.
- This comic's punchline is more appropriate than ever now that the fourth Super Smash Bros. installment includes Charizard without Pokémon Trainer.
- One comic referenced the Palutena "leaks" for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, stating that she'd only be on the battlefield if Ridley was also in the game. Turns out, both of them appear in the game as combatants, even if only Ridley was still not playable (at least, until the next installment).
- A comic reviewing Super Mario Galaxy 2 made a (light) crack at Yoshi’s bizarre ability to crouch while in midair.note Well, it turns out Heart Is an Awesome Power, and crouching in midair is the key to exploiting the Infinite Flutter Jump glitch.
- "E3 predictions: for Smash, Palutena, Ness, Ice Climbers...Ridley? And NFP usage in some form. From Nintendo, almost certainly Zelda, and maybe Star Fox. I'm guessing Mario Maker is real. In a couple days, I can look back on this post and laugh about how inaccurate it is..." The items in bold are the ones that have actually been confirmed. Six out of eight. The other two didn't end up in the Wii U and 3DS games, but did end up in Ultimate.
- Kirby fought Pac-Man way before he was announced for Smash 4.
- The "Smash Voters" series of comics contain a number of accidental predictions for the series's future roster.
- One comic jokingly featured Roy Koopa as a newcomer due to a miscommunication involving names, to the disdain of the other Koopalings and Bowser Jr. In the 3DS/Wii U iteration of the series, Bowser Jr. was confirmed as a playable character, with the seven Koopalings, Roy included, as alternate costumes. Bonus points for that other Roy remaining cut during the game's (initial) release, leading to a lot of Bait-and-Switch jokes about Roy being included in the new Smash.
- This comic, combined with the previously-mentioned Roy comic, now that Bowser Jr., Wario, and Roy are all in Smash 4... but none of them were officially announced before the game's release on 3DS, as though their invitation letters took longer than usual to reach them due to their ballot votes either being crossed out or mailed to the wrong character.
- Also amusing is the fact that the comic ends with Toad eagerly awaiting a phone call to join Smash. While he's still not a playable fighter in Ultimate, he takes a much more active role as an Assist Character to Peach, helping with her grabs and pummels and willingly enacting her neutral special, as opposed to being held out in front of Peach as in prior games.
- All the Smash Voter comics become a lot funnier thanks to the official Smash Bros. Fighter Ballot.
- In "Smash Voters: Captain Falcon", Samus is shown suspiciously erasing her vote when Captain Falcon asks her if she would vote for Ridley. Of course, her announcement trailer is the duo beating the ever loving crap out of each other.
- In summary, every single character who received a vote (even a crossed-out or erased vote, such as Bowser Jr. or Ridley) in these comics ended up being playable in Ultimate... except for Jody Summers/Samurai Goroh. Apparently, Captain Falcon's ballot got lost somewhere along the way.
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- This comic, now that Robin appears in Smash 4... AND has breakable tomes that are also effective as thrown weapons, to boot!
- In this comic he expresses how much Mario Kart is becoming more and more like F-Zero. We now have two F-Zero tracks as DLC in Mario Kart 8: Mute City in Pack 1, and Big Blue in Pack 2 (of course, that's without mentioning the series has had a Blue Falcon livery available for customization since Mario Kart Wii).
- Now with 200cc mode in Mario Kart 8, Mario Kart's transformation into F-Zero is getting even closer.
- This early comic of Kirby changing from Snake into Ryu and throwing a Hadouken is this, since Snake was cut from Smash 4 and Ryu has been added as a DLC character.
- Even more so thanks to Street Fighter V. Ryu now has a costume which has him sporting a beard.
- Now in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Kirby can change between Snake and Ryu on the fly, just like in this comic.
- "The Captive Princess" shows Peach doing very well at escaping Bowser's castle by her own, at one point using a Fire Flower, before Mario arrives and she meets him to give him the satisfaction of "rescuing" her. In Super Mario 3D World, Peach is playable and can use the Fire Flower, and her dress becomes the same one she wears in her first appearance. Looks like the comic was more accurate than it could have thought.
- One early strip involves Kirby drinking poisoned wine and turning into a bottle of poison. Come Kirby: Planet Robobot and Poison is an official Kirby ability.
- Peach's winter dress is strikingly similar to Elsa's coronation dress.
- The Hyper Beam gag, after Pokémon Sun and Moon introduced Z-Moves, which are about as over the top as the comic portrayed the regular move Hyper Beam as being.
- This comic made a bunch of Art Shift jokes of Nintendo games mixed with a bunch of other cartoon shows, including a joke at the end of Link drawing the Master Sword out and then sleeping until the year 3000. Years after BitF ended, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild comes out, which opens with roughly the same idea.
- This comic reviewing the Super Smash Bros. series features several characters not in the then-upcoming Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, but would become playable in Ultimate:
- Nana is teary-eyed as she celebrates having "a second chance". Given that the Ice Climbers were cut from 3DS/Wii U, their return in Ultimate really is a second chance that was celebrated by fans who missed their absence.
- Snake is shown sneaking towards a sign reading "Private Tournament NO TRESPASSING". One might imagine that this sign was placed here to keep him out of 3DS/Wii U, but he ignored it and sneaked into Ultimate anyway.
- Skull Kid, Geno, and Ridley are waiting in line, in that specific order. First, Skull Kid was confirmed as an Assist Trophy in 3DS/Wii U. Then, Geno became a DLC Mii Fighter costume. Then, Ridley was announced as a playable character for Ultimate. That last one is especially funny, given the small, passionate blurb presumably written in the perspective of Matthew about Ridley having his chance one day.
- Pichu is derisively referred to as one of the series's missteps. However, Pichu's inclusion in Ultimate hammers home the much-celebrated Tag Line of "Everyone is Here!"; additionally, Pichu's design in Ultimate has been overhauled to make him generally regarded as a far more useful and fun character to play as, self-damage and all.
- The part in this comic where Pit tells Mega Man that now they just need to get Simon Belmont, referring to Captain N: The Game Master, has been answered by Ultimate with the addition of Simon Belmont.
- Part 10 of the Cocoon Academy arc has Professor Oak comparing Pinky's transformation into Meta Knight to the life cycle of a butterfly ("You've emerged from a cocoon and metamorphosed into a true knight!"). While this is clearly a nod to the school's name, Nintendo would reveal a concept design for Meta Knight during Kirby's 20th anniversary a year later, which is themed after butterflies. This design would then resurface five years after that as a secret boss in Kirby Star Allies, approprately named Morpho Knight.
- With the Grinch Leak (now turned out to be fake), the "Your aggravating antics even sicken Sakurai" in "You're a mean King, Dedede" takes a whole new meaning. Even better, Dedede ends up meeting the "seasick crocodile" from the painting he stole in person. It doesn't go well for him.
- Taranto's choice to make Kirby and pals the de facto protagonists of a Smash comic, considering that Ultimate's "World of Light" story mode starts with Kirby on a quest to find the other fighters after their swift and collective defeat by Galeem.
- 486 - Snake Man features Mega Man gaining Solid Snake as a powerup upon defeating Snake Man. In Ultimate, Snake is the puppet fighter used in Snake Man's Spirit Battle.
- "270 - Hoodwinks" has Popo and Kirby prank Nana by having Kirby sit in Popo's hood. In Ultimate, the Ice Climbers' Classic Mode congratulations image◊ has Kirby impersonating Nana the same way.
- The constant transformations in "Meet Me At Final Destination" are eerily reminiscent of the "Reanimated" trend on YouTube.
- One comic involves Mario getting salty over a "fake" 1-up, with the punchline being it's for Paper Mario. This basically predicted Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam.
- The Alt Text for "403 - Peach's Warning" references Cloud in a crossover with Mario and Pit, several years before Cloud Strife was introduced to the Smash series.
- "Luigi's Holiday Vacation", in which Luigi defeats every villain in Hyrule effortlessly, could well be the origin story of One Jump Man.
- The description for this comic about Hyrule Warriors has Matthew hoping for Marin from The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening to be playable. She was eventually added to the game as DLC (but with a different moveset than what Matthew envisioned).
- "Nasty" features a cameo from Teddie. A little odd for a Persona character of all things to show up in a Nintendo comic, right? Fast forward to Ultimate's first Fighter's Pass, where the first character is Joker from Persona 5, giving the Persona series representation in Nintendo's ultimate brawler. Teddie himself even cameos as a Mii costume hat!
- "172 - Turnabout Kirby" features Kirby inhaling Edgeworth and gaining his hair. After Sephiroth was revealed, Kirby's design after inhaling him was frequently compared to Edgeworth for this reason.
- The 2013 Halloween special, "The Legion", stars Kirby as The Assimilator, and concludes in a dilapidated After the End urban setting similar to that of Kirby and the Forgotten Land. The final boss of that game turns out to be an assimilator itself, and after consuming the Beast Pack it becomes an amorphous abomination covered in the faces and bodies of those it consumed, just like Kirby in this comic.
