Memes / Super Mario Odyssey

With the massive amount of hype surrounding Super Mario Odyssey, it should be no surprise that the game spawned enough memes to rival the game’s Power Moon count.

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• The game has invited many comparisons to Sonic Adventure, especially with how Mario runs around in a huge city with realistic-looking humans. It also draws comparisons to Sonic Unleashed (which also had a level based on New York, as well as Odyssey taking a small amount of the former game's "'round the world" style) and Sonic '06. The second trailer which revealed the game has a vocal theme song. To further compound the comparisons to the Sonic series, the singer of said vocal theme song used to voice Tails, which hasn't gone unnoticed either. Fans were quick to nickname Super Mario Odyssey as Mario Adventure, Mario '06 (or Mario '17), and Mario Unleashed.
• "Mario finally made it back to Brooklyn!" due to New Donk City's resemblance to New York.
• On that note, the name "New Donk City" itself.
• Bowser's stylish new suit by itself has reached this, leading to a number of pimp and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure jokes.
• Quite a few jokes have been made comparing the city levels to Grand Theft Auto.
• Mario's hat now has eyes, reminding fans of Rare (and by extension, Playtonic Games)'s tendency to put eyes on inanimate objects. Playtonic even commented on this in a tweet.
• The sight of Mario and Bowser tossing their hats like boomerangs have also provoked comparisons to Oddjob and Robert E. O. Speedwagon, with a few going as far as to nickname the game "Super Mario Oddjob".
• T. Rex Mario became this almost immediately after the game's E3 trailer, thanks to the sheer insane factor in his appearance in the trailer (complete with Mario hat and mustache) and being an awesome addition to the game.
• Related to the T. Rex, jokes that it is Yoshi are prominent, which is both a Mythology Gag and Hilarious in Hindsight because Yoshi was a realistic baby Tyrannosaurus in the live-action Mario movie. It's made even more Hilarious in Hindsight by Yoshi also being in the game, and Capturable to boot!
• "I have a big head and little arms!" has picked up steam with Mario's demonstration of the Capture ability (which lets him control creatures, people, and objects with his hat) on a Tyrannosaurus Rex, with other comparisons following suit◊.
• With the announcement of the new amiibo for this game, there's been plenty of jokes about Mario, Peach, and Bowser all getting married together, or buying just Mario and Bowser to have a gay marriage.
• Mario looking unnatural compared to the regular humans of New Donk City and his newfound ability to possess people has led to jokes about him not being human.
• There's also jokes about how Mario is actually the hat, and has been possessing the corpse of an Italian man for 30 years.
• "u throw ur hat on a frog & ur the frog". This gained even more traction when frogs turned out to be the very first thing Captured in the game.
• Mario's new Capture ability has inspired people to create edits and fanart of practically anything and putting Mario's hat, mustache, and/or blue eyes to show that he's possessing them. These types of edits and fanart have been used for both humor and... other things.
• After the 9/13 Direct showed off a costume of Mario in swim trunks, many have been focusing on Mario's nipples, and, to a lesser extent, the fact that he's hairless, aside from his head and facial hair.
• It's been joked that the lyric, "It's time to raise our sails" is actually Nintendo declaring, "It's time to raise our sales."
• A review that gave the game a 6/5 garnered some buzz.
• The fact that Cappy (when possessing Mario's hat, at least) is a sentient piece of clothing with eyes with a red and black motif, combined with Bowser's tux having a white and blue color scheme, have led to people making joking comparisons between Odyssey and Kill la Kill (combined with some bizarre fanart).
• "I've turned myself into Mario, Morty!". Mario's Mad Scientist outfit with wildly messy white hair and an open doctor's coat has resulted in a number of comparison jokes to Rick.
• Thanks to his castle having a heavy Wutai aesthetic, jokes about Bowser becoming a weeaboo have become pretty popular.
• The RoboBrood boss has been jokingly compared to the Metal Gear mechs in the Metal Gear series.
• The game lets you mix and match hats and outfits. This resulted in people mixing◊ the Cowboy Hat with the Caveman costume and making "the caveman is the sheriff" jokes.
  • Similarly, thanks to the presence of the Moon Kingdom, you can be a football-playing king in space… with a mustache.
• If you watch someone livestream the game, you can expect the chat to light up with "BECOME AS GODS" whenever Mario captures anything.
  • This goes double for playing through the Wooded Kingdom in particular, which gets a lot of jokes about its resemblance to Nier Automata (in particular the flowers and the factory areas), as well as the final battleground of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.
• After hearing the awesome theme to "Honeylune Ridge: Escape", many have declared that Mario's anime theme is awesome, due to it sounding like it belongs in one, especially its Japanese version.
• "Hey you we ma tard!"^ExplanationRango's dialogue in the Lake Kingdom is almost always misheard by major YouTubers as this line. You can expect most YouTubers to say this almost immediately after hearing this line.
• Other mishearings include the New Donker Crazy Cap employee "saying" "I just want to die", and Topper yelling "Go to hell!" before the Robobrood boss fight.
• Due to the large variety of costumes, hats and scenarios in the game, some fans started recreating covers from movies, mangas and comics, or just iconic scenes using the screenshot feature. Examples include: It◊, The Wolf of Wall Street◊, The Room◊, E. T.◊, Gravity◊, Jaws◊, and Akira.
• "(Comment about Mario's costume). Not that it matters, since you WEREN'T INVITED! So now it's time for you to make like a bouquet and get thrown out!"^ExplanationBefore the final battle with Bowser, he will make a comment about the costume you're wearing, and then say the following line.
• Mario jumps off a building ^ExplanationShots of Mario diving off buildings in New Donk City are used as shorthand for the poster (jokingly) being driven to suicide by a piece of content. Some variations include a two-panel format with Mario giving an Aside Glance next to a computer, then diving off a building, or a four-panel format in which Mario is positioned so that it appears he's looking something up on the internet, the subsequent panel being something off-kilter or disturbing, and the last two panels being the Aside Glance and plummet off the building.
• you dropped this ^ExplanationA frequent reaction meme showing Mario in the Cap Kingdom and "holding" something that was supposedly dropped by the user being replied to. The two most common variants are Mario holding a "clown license◊" if the original user said something disagreeable or Mario holding a crown with the caption "you dropped this KING◊" for the opposite.
• Grand Dad! FLINTSTONES?!^ExplanationLet's just say, that Mario's Caveman outfit reminded fans of a well known bootleg of The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy called 7 Grand Dad, in which Mario seemingly replaces Fred Flintstone.

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