Nightmare Fuel / Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers

WITNESS…

Even in a bizarre world like SMG4's, sometimes the odd and bizarre can easily mask, if not add to, the uncanny…

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General

• Many times, loud Screamers are used to indicate when characters get scared or in pain. Watch out!
• The many times when characters contort their Gmod models to exaggerated amounts can count as this.
  • Thanks to Mario and Luigi receiving new HD models courtesy of Weegeepie, some of their expressions are even more jarring, a notable example being that Luigi sometimes sports Mario's triangle mouth.
• Many characters have been subject to Sanity Slippage. Seeing a usually nice (or otherwise silly) character become enraged or resort to extreme methods to get their way is jarring.
• A good contender for the Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant of the series is definitely Mr. Hal Monitor. He can be friendly with people, but the minute he senses any sort of illegal activity, he switches into Rabid Cop mode and punishes the offender with extreme prejudice. In his first appearance, he cements himself as The Dreaded by making a demon that Mario summoned run off in fear of Hal catching them. His gung-ho attitude towards arrest and punishment methods can be rather scary too, as he doesn't seem to believe in the concept of Police Brutality, as exemplified by this quote from "Officer Meggy".
  Hal: Nothing's illegal when you're on the side of justice.
• A good majority of Nightmare Fuel often overlaps with Black Comedy, often enough so it's especially jarring whenever it's not Played for Laughs.
• Anytime a sweet character, like Tari or Melony, gets angry. Standout examples include Melony going berserk with her Fierce Deity powers before learning how to control them in the Revelations Arc, and Tari forcing Mario to apologize to the gorilla he hurt by threatening him at gunpoint in "The Day My Arm Went Psycho".

Villains

• Many of the villains, despite or even because of their comical nature, can be potentially seen as unnerving if analyzed at a different angle, and they're even more dangerous if nearly won.

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• SMG3, the main antagonist of the series after Bowser's Heel–Face Turn, is usually portrayed as comical and bumbling. However it doesn't keep him from being the most dangerous threat to the main cast and would've beaten the heroes several times if not for sheer luck. His schemes most likely could have dangerous effects if applied to real world terms as well…
  • And by the time the YouTube Arc came around, it shows that SMG3, when he puts his mind to things, is scarily competent and dangerous. He's managed to assemble his own version of the SMG4 gang, baited Mario into aiding them by manipulating his grief over Greg's death, led one hell of a raid on YouTube's headquarters, all to get control of the YouTube Remote and become a Reality Warper capable of doing what he's always wanted… completely erase SMG4 and his gang through time paradox, replacing them with his team and himself by making it so they never met Mario, or even worse in Saiko's case were never able to become real in the first place. Had Mario and his gang never stolen SMG3's phone to escape the Deleted Dimension, SMG3 would have truly won.
  • Post YouTube Arc, as revealed by the time of "Perfectly Balanced", even though he's gone under a Heel–Face Turn and is still occasionally eaten by Ugandan Knuckles, SMG3 has effectively taken over the Internet Graveyard via dead trends. He and SMG4 are pretty much stuck working with each other to maintain the Meme Life Cycle to protect both sides of the internet, despite the fact they HATE each other. Fridge Horror comes in when you realize when the Glitchy Gang and Snitchy Crew inevitably DIE, they're going to be in SMG3's thrall when it happens, and who knows if he'll have completely dropped his grudge against them all by then. The existential horror from this mixes this trope with Tear Jerker as this will be how the inevitable series finale of this show would probably turn out, though this might also result in a "Ray of Hope" Ending should SMG3 decide to fully and truly forgive SMG4 by that point (though as of the 10 Year Anniversary special, the latter is likely to be true and would mix this trope with Heartwarming Moments).
• Enzo and The Villager were both Ax-Crazy Serial Killers who, while they didn't have the most relatable of motives, still had a very respectable list of offenses.
• Ztar, the series's first true Knight of Cerebus, caused destruction to nearly the entire world in only his 2nd appearance.
• While The Monster is more comedic, he's still one of the most powerful and evil creatures in the entire SMG4verse.
• Despite some of their comedic value, SMG4's depiction of the Teletubbies can get unsettling, especially during their actions in the Mario Purge. Hell, the only reason why most members of the species were able to pull off a Heel–Race Turn and become closer to their original depictions of being more docile and less Ax-Crazy at all is because the Mushroom Kingdom made an annual holiday for them where they can satisfy their universal fetish for violence without facing any form of karmic retribution ala The Purge.
• Weegee can be terrifying when angered, but can be pretty friendly and knows how to have fun. Said way of having fun also includes destroying a city through a piggyback ride.
• King Pipe nearly infested the Mushroom Kingdom with several pipes, and likely would've killed Mario, Luigi, and SMG4, had Mario not taught him how to be a plumber, convincing him to let them go.
• Grand Dad was a borderline Reality Warper, turning nearly the entire Mushroom Kingdom into a mess of bootlegs and glitches.
• Saiko Bitchitaru, prior to her Heel–Face Turn, was certainly capable of causing mayhem, but it was taken up to its height in "Final Fantasy Mario", where she not only commands an army, but has access to a surplus of deadly technology.
• Waluigi, after discovering the Power of Rejection and being denied entry into Super Smash Bros. as a fighter once again, went completely mad. His first villainous action? Infect the entire Mushroom Kingdom with a zombie plague that nearly succeeded in zombifying everyone. Even then, it got everyone to reject him, fueling his powers even further. He shows a downright scary level of competence and determination in seizing power, and will not stop until he's accomplished his goal of making everyone feel as he has. It takes Wario being kind to him to finally stop his plans. And while he underwent a Heel–Face Turn, he still has access to these powers.
• Though Bob isn't a full-on villain, his monotone voice, willingness to betray his "friends" and some throwaway lines that portray him as a murderer can come off as creepy. It gets worse whenever he randomly lapses into Soft-Spoken Sadist speech.
  Bob: I'm a good boy who has never done anything wrong. Except for the murders…
• Francis. Being the leader of the Anime Cartel, he is possibly SMG4's first twist villain. He's also the villain who's taken most seriously, and is seen by many as the most depraved of all of them. He seems okay at first, since while the Anime Cartel were shady enough for even Tari to not trust them, he doesn't do anything particularly villainous, he listens to Saiko without question, he seemed to care about the rest of the Anime Cartel, and he willingly helps Mario and Co. get anime unbanned. But then, out of anger that Axol didn't draw him any waifus with his magic ink weaver, Francis decides to take it for himself, imprisoning Axol and kidnapping almost all of Inkopolis in order to use the former's pen to make all the waifus he wants — something that would kill the Inklings. What really cements him as a villain is having one of his drawings (Sephiroth) impale Desti, thus making him responsible for SMG4's first major Character Death, giving out a manic laugh while it happens, garnering much hate from the fans. Looks like Tari was more right about the Anime Cartel than she thought.
• The Weegee Dolls, however, may be the worst of the lot. How, you ask? One reason: they WIN! That's right! Unlike every other enemy Mario and friends have faced, the Weegee Dolls (in "The Weegee Uprising") have taken over Earth and kept it that way for 500 years. Fortunately, through time-travel, this Bad Future is promptly undone.
• Ernie, the villain of "If Mario Was In Fall Guys", may have had only one appearance (so far), but he quickly establishes himself as almost terrifyingly morally bankrupt. After taking the throne from his brother Bert, in such a way that Bert is now permanently wheelchair-bound, Ernie organizes the Fall Guys tournaments so he can harvest the bodies of the non Fall Guy losers and make costumes out of them for microtransactions.
• Brown, the villain of "If Mario was Among Us…". The main thing that makes him rather freaky is the fact that he's a very intelligent killer and impostor, with the only clue from the get-go that he's not a good person is that he's voiced by the same person who voiced SMG3. Throughout the video he comes off as a rather nice guy, keeping a rather low profile as he systematically offs people and goes without suspicion in the resulting arguments, taking full advantage of the aggressive natures of both Red and Mario in the arguments to turn them against their crewmates, sticks up for Red when Mario has an overly paranoid reaction to him eating breakfast to prevent himself from looking suspicious by asserting Red is the impostor, later dispatches him after murdering Yellow by smearing ketchup on his suit and making Mario and Green believe Red murdered Yellow, and forming a well-thought out, logical argument as to why Green is the impostor that Mario almost falls for until he catches Brown saying something he logically shouldn't have known. In short, he nearly succeeded in killing everyone in Peach's castle, including Mario. Oh, and did we mention his true form is a god-damn XENOMORPH?!
  • He returns in Fan Written Episode, where he was disguised as Swagmaster, working at the Spaghetti Factory… AND USING PEOPLE AS THE MAIN INGREDIENT.
• Satan, aka Papa John, the antagonist of Mario runs out of Toilet Paper, wants to destroy the world just because and is way more diabolical than SMG3 and Waluigi.
• The meme that captures the SMGs not once but twice. It is a round face with googly eyes and mouth with photorealistic hands and it is clearly corrupted, yet it might not have came with the other memes nor was ever fought or returned to the graveyard.
• Oofio, a kid in ROBLOX who would help a player acquire admin powers and can scare off Piggy… Unless you kill off his girlfriend like Mario did, in which case this is a ploy to take said admin powers for himself to personally destroy you. Granted, this takes place in a video game where all of the Robloxians are just player characters, except Mario's physical self is actually in the game, meaning he's in actual danger.
• Zero may just take the cake when it comes to the villains. According to SMG1 and SMG2, Zero is a sentient computer virus that's gone from universe to universe corrupting and eventually destroying everything in his path. What little we've seen of him includes a bright red light that may or may not be his eye and a massive, spindly arm that can stretch the entire length of his lair, his powers include the ability to corrupt people into his minions and the ability to remotely sabotage things like a portal back to the Internet Graveyard, he almost turns Mario into a copy of himself and pulls SMG4 and SMG3 apart at the molecular level, and the only line he has in a nearly 40 minute episode is a single word, "WITNESS", written in a font reserved for horror movie posters. But there's one little detail that really elevates him above the rest: he's been here the whole time. The anniversary special retroactively reveals that he's the one who knocked SMG3's pod off-course in "SMG4's Origins", meaning for the past ten years, the entire Glitchy-verse has just been living under the watch of a sentient virus of incredible, far-reaching power, lying in wait in the Dark Web. And he hasn't just been sitting there doing nothing — remember how the series phased out all the Mario recolors? Well, that's because Zero was systematically hunting them down in his pursuit of Mario. Thus, he provides the current page image.
  • Not to mention that the "Zero" that the SMG4 Gang fought was actually his severed arm. The rest of his body is locked in his own USB in the old kingdom, and it won't be long until it comes to Mario's universe…
  • Once he manages to take full control of Axol, he gives his host a very nasty Nightmare Face. This can be very unnerving to many viewers.
  • Then there’s the fact that after it's been long enough, the possession is irreversible, meaning the only way to save the host is to Mercy Kill him/her. Because of that, Axol becomes the first main protagonist to die in the series.
  • Not only that, but unlike other characters, James Bailey gave a hint suggesting the possibility that Zero can come Back from the Dead.
    • And he did… kinda. See below.
• NILES. He was initially very friendly, and helped create the Internet Graveyard and the meme life cycle. But when he started glitching, he became obsessed with perfectionism and creating a new universe. He was then given powers by the God Box. He then kills Fred, merges with SMG0, and goes on to become an omnicidal Serial Killer. Thankfully, SMG0 manages to redeem him, but at the cost of both of their lives.
  Melony: Niles… I'll never forgive you.
• Lawyer Kong, despite basically being Funky Kong in lawyer's garb, has shown himself to be one of the most threatening and ruthless villains yet, holding the power of legal contracts that kill non-Nintendo characters if signed.
• From the SMG4 movie "It's Gotta Be Perfect" onwards, there has been a recurring theme of old televisions in episodes that result in major plot points, usually for the worse. Clearly, whatever's associated with these TVs is pulling the strings, but their motive and identity remains vague.
  • In "It's Gotta Be Perfect", SMG4 purchases a demonic keyboard advertised by a TV mascot that appears on his computer. The keyboard would result in the allegedly permanent destruction of Peach's Castle.
  • "Our New Home" has Boopkins helping SMG4 decide on purchasing a location as the base for the new castle. The last location they look at is called "The Showgrounds", with a distinct TV icon displayed next to the name.
  • In "We Interrupt This Broadcast", Meggy rushes into the house where One-shot Wren used to live in hopes that he's okay. She ends up finding a TV that advertises One-shot Wren as a sheriff in the Wild West. Tari notes that it's odd that the TV played that video when they arrived and turned off right after, but Meggy's too excited to care.
  • "Ready To Ride?…" has a TV at the very end telling the viewers to check the bottom of the description, which contains a link to a peculiar GMod map. The same episode has things get gradually more western crazy for seemingly no reason until everything suddenly loops back to the start of the episode, leaving Meggy and Tari feeling there's something very, very wrong.
  • Turns out “Wotfi 2023” and the events leading up to it all started because the same tv entity sent a fax to Marty claiming SMG3’s notebook had some secret pizza recipe he could steal for the pizzeria. At the very end of the special we see everything was viewed on a tv set and we finally see the mysterious new arc villain in person. He enjoyed the show and can’t wait to play again…

Episodic

• "Luigi's Retarded Mansion". While it is very funny, the castle (that Luigi is trapped in) has a sinister feeling and a very dark atmosphere. You just don't know when something is going to pop up.
• Most of "The Forgotten Door".
• the virus in Da Glitch
• "The Visitor" (2014):
  • The Scare Chord and the Groin Attack-like sound effect when the shady Serial Killer kills Toad. Same as with Luigi.
  • The entire scene where the killer is shoving characters in toilets is enough to make your heart pound faster. The moments where he throws them into the toilets aren't shown either, which makes it more terrifying.
    • Heck, the whole scene is a blatant reference to the 2011 blooper of the same name and with a similar plot.
  • When Enzo approaches Mario and SMG4 before SMG3 attempts to kamikaze into him; complete with Freddy Fazbear's theme from Five Nights at Freddy's.
• "SM64: Halloweegee special 2014":
  • The Reveal of Weegee through voice.
  • Also the moment where Weegee gets annoyed and sucks Mario into his home dimension.
  • And finally, Weegee destroying a city, but it turns out to be just a piggyback ride with his new friend Luigi.
• "Freddy's spaghettiria":
  • Golden Freddy's Jump Scare. The giant Toad face says it all.
  • The ending of Mario's dream about the SMG4 version of the Bite of '87, in which Toad runs up to Mario, who has the body of Foxy, screaming nonsense and angering Mario so badly that Mario climbs down from the stage and slashes off a piece of Toad's head. The entire building suddenly erupts into chaos. Mario doesn't care.
  • The entirety of 5AM. Mario starts losing it after spending the entire night dealing with the animatronics. Meanwhile, in the bathroom, Chica is alone until Foxy barges in and tells her "the pizza's ready!" Chica goes into the dining area, only to find a plate of spaghetti instead. Chica eats it anyway, but spits it out saying "That tastes like shit!", which makes Mario finally snap. What follows is a Roaring Rampage of Revenge that ended in Mario giving Freddy the same Jump Scare he gives many players, with a huge mouth to go along with it (although there's Nightmare Retardant if you listen closely and hear "pingas" repeating in the background).
    • Hope you don't find that face disturbing, because Mario now has that expression nearly all the time in recent videos. It even returns in "Return to Freddy's spaghettiria" when Mario jumpscares Purple Guy and Marionette!
    • The remastered version changes the jumpscare to a chroma-keyed IShowSpeed with Mario's cap and stache leaping at the screen with the Five Nights at Freddy's 2 screech playing. While not as scary, for those who are desensitized to (and were expecting) Mario's Nightmare Face, they can be caught off-guard by this.
• "Princess Capturing Simulator": Bowser's Mushroom Samba face◊ could give Mario's Nightmare Face a run for its money. Though, just like with Mario's Nightmare Face, it quickly became narmy after it was reintroduced in High School Mario as his default face.
• Toad's situation as revealed in Meet the Toad. He's essentially the only sentient member of his race and can't leave the castle and its wacky antics. As a result, he resorts to candy to ease his pain.
• "How to catch Pokémon" is a generally lighthearted episode, but how does Mario finally succeed? He gets a Mimikyu. Doesn't help that the video ends with him removing its hood.
• Stupid Mario Party brings back the Koopa Bank from Mario Party 2 onwards. That's a nightmare in itself. However, SMG4 thought it was a brilliant idea to portray the owner of said bank with an Off-Model Slasher Smile uttering "Money…" in a sinister voice and lunging at Mario, eating his head (and costing him 5 coins, of course).
• At the end of "Welcome to the Kushroom Mingdom", when Toad puts on the gnome hat that fell out of the portal, he turns into a gnome and turns around to face the viewer with a gnome face, complete with Scare Chord (although the blow is softened by the random shout of "AH'M GAY!").
• "Stupid Mario Kart" has Link as a "boss battle". The weird faces mixed with his signature screaming are as unsettling as it is hilarious.
• The end of "Marioception" where Mario has a series of Dream Within Dreams in increasingly Bizarre Nightmare Sequences while Mario in real life shakes around terrified and miserable because Toad and E. Gadd are using the dream invention on him as vengeance for Mario stealing it and E. Gadd's chocolate. Even if it's supposed to be karmic it's a bit excessive, and it's possible Mario was dreaming the events of the whole video and didn't actually do anything.
• In SMG4 Christmas 2017: The XMAS Discovery, we get to see Meggy truly pissed off for the first time ever. And my God is it terrifying, not only does she uppercut Waluigi through the roof, but then proceeds to try to murder Wario by using Christmas tree stars as shurikens, and then one hits the emergency button, causing barriers to block Wario from escaping.
• In Doki Doki Mario Club, seeing Fishy Boopkins doing a pagan ritual to make Saiko come to life is a bit… disconcerting. Of course, it's still better than the behavior of Saiko herself, who makes Monika look tame by comparison.
  • One could still feel sorry for Saiko since prior to her release she was just a game character trapped in a laptop.
• Remember a certain Signature Scene at the end of Avengers: Infinity War? Well, "The Super Dudes" contains a horrible Shout-Out — when Wario uses the Power Glove to nearly inflict Cessation of Existence on Mario, Bowser, Fishy, and Steve.
• If Mario Was In… Starfox is mostly a lighthearted comedy adventure as per the standard SMG4 style, but it also introduces the idea that memes are a Cosmic Keystone in the SMG4verse, and a planet without memes will completely cease to exist. We are thankfully not shown the end result of overexploitation of memes, but it still leaves a chilling potential that a future villain could use this to cause mass pandemonium.
• The Mario Purge in almost its entirety, especially since this episode is an Affectionate Parody of the titular horror movie.
  • For 12 hours, all crimes committed by Teletubbies are legal. The implications are disturbing, to say the least, even by SMG4 standards.
  • The Teletubbies embody pretty much every horror movie trope when going after Mario and Co.; going so far as to kidnap and attempt to murder them. Including a child (Boopkins). And they'd have gotten away with it, due to the laws of The Purge. Jeez, leave it to SMG4 to make something as adorable and Saccharine as Teletubbies absolutely horrifying!
• Mad Mario takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, brought about by a shortage of internet. It's horrifying to see several of the nicer characters such as Meggy and Tari take a level in jerkass in the video.
• "Mario's Prison Escape"; the Guards are reintroduced to the main bloopers. Despite the comedic back-and-forth banter and stupid remarks, Swagmaster of all people proves to be the biggest threat throughout the video; attacking Mario and co. with an ax several times, coming after them in a military jeep, taking out the group's getaway vehicle, and showing no hesitation in shooting everyone with a rocket launcher.
• Peach turning into this… thing at the end of "Mario Does the Chores". Though the horror factor is somewhat diminished by the out-of-nowhere masculine roar followed by "I'm gonna kick your ass, mkay?!" and Mario's reaction.
• In "Stupid Mario Maker 2", Mario accidentally turns an ordinary Toad into a unsettling mishmash of items and creatures. Not helping is the Toad himself screaming "WHAT AM I" and running off in horror.
• Meggy's Roaring Rampage of Revenge after Mario accidentally destroys her treehouse in "There's Something Up With Meggy". And that's one of the least crazy things she does in the episode.
  • And to say nothing of the title card… it looks like she’s possessed by a demon!
• The Minecraft Plague's titular plague is essentially a goofier version of the Medusa Bug. Any living thing afflicted by it that isn't native to the Minecraft setting is effectively petrified, and while they're still able to talk, they're completely unable to move and still conscious.
• In "The Weegee Uprising", The Weegee Dolls, revealed to be still sentient, manage to take over the Mushroom Kingdom and hold onto it for 500 years, killing or turning EVERYONE in their path. It takes Luigi, Fishy Boopkins, and Shroomy traveling back in time to the start of the episode to stop Patient Zero.
  • Luigi, Boopkins, and Shroomy have to escape The Horde by hiding in an Ice Cream Shop Freezer. However, when they finally escape, it's been 500 years, much to their horror. Fridge Horror comes in when you realize that all of their friends were either turned into Weegee Dolls (like Toad and SMG4) or probably died of old age, barely surviving the Weegee Uprising. And with New Super Duper Mario Plus Ultra's Heroic Sacrifice, at least one timeline, humanity has been destroyed.
• "Mario Alone", if a home invasion scares you. Mario was not only abandoned by his friends on their Christmas trip to Miami because he overslept, but Wario and Waluigi planned for the Castle to be abandoned so they could steal anything the main cast had left behind, and stick to the plan even after finding Mario in the Castle, anyway. Lucky for Mario, they were too cocky to believe he could be a threat.
  • Mario himself is actually a bit of a source of this all episode. Previous episodes have shown that Mario enjoys whooping ass as a hobby, and he's given a few hours to set up traps. Most of them prove to be designed to either do maximum damage or outright kill the Wario Brothers, and Mario is enjoying every second of watching the chaos. At the end of the episode, when the rest of the cast is beating the Wario Bros. up, Mario pulls a rocket launcher to join in on the carnage.
  • Wario and Waluigi, themselves, can be a source of this. They start the heist with a crowbar and a shotgun, even calling the latter the "emergency device" should Mario give them enough trouble. As the episode goes on and Mario thwarts their attempts to break in, Wario becomes more and more unhinged in his rage. After he and Waluigi barely survive the gauntlet of Mario's improvised friends, Wario decides he's done tolerating Mario's shenanigans and decides to outright kill him. When Mario unfortunately finds Wario and Waluigi are Not Quite Dead, they pin him against a wall, and prepare to shoot him dead on the spot, only for the rest of Mario's friends to have come back for him and walked in on this scene. Their arrival was the Last Straw for Wario, who screams that nothing is going to stop him from robbing the castle and brandishes his crowbar with the intent to kill EVERYONE. Luckily for the cast and unluckily for Wario, Mario's friends are a Badass Crew.
• In "The Festival Of The Year", Saiko gets possessed by Majora's Mask. Thankfully, a blinded Bowser brought her back to normal.
  • While we're on the subject, let's not forget about Saiko's Painful Transformation. Oh GOD, is it disturbing! It starts out innocently enough, with Saiko messing around with the mask. Next thing you know, she's grabs her masked face in pain, making growling noise and Laughing Mad. Meggy had all the reason to look so worried.
• "Lord of the Memes", being an Affectionate Parody of The Lord of the Rings, has a sleep-deprived SMG4 filling the role as Sauron, having created The Ultimate Meme, a meme that threatens to control the very internet, with a bunch of Kermits being "Memewraiths", the big "Mario Teaches Typing" Head as his Eye of Sauron, and all of them hellbent on retaking The One Meme.
  • The sheer power of the Ultimate Meme in question. Not only does it No-Sell Mario shooting the USB its saved on to Kingdom Come, but one watch of it is able to make Fishy Boopkins act like Gollum. He even tries to kill Mario and Luigi over the USB multiple times for the rest of the video! If this meme is capable of turning SMG4 and Boopkins into Ax-Craxy pyschopaths, imagine what the meme could do in the hands of the cast's enemies! This meme, said to be capable of allowing whoever has it to control the entire Internet, could have probably single-handedly started yet another Arc just by EXISTING! No wonder why Bob, having gone on a power trip with severe consequences before, immediately deems the USB Too Powerful to Live and made Mario, Luigi, and Boopkins join him to destroy it!
  • The moment when Boopkins gets corrupted also counts too. As Boopkins watches the meme, the camera zooms in on him (complete with an Ominous Visual Glitch) with bloodshot eyes and a very unsettling Slasher Smile as he says "Hey, that's pretty good!" in a twisted voice. All while highly disturbing music plays in the background.
    • Said background music? Only the cheerful theme that plays in the Danganronpa series when the main characters stumble upon the Body of the Week!
• Meggy's Destiny: During the first round, Team Killer Ink's Leader tried to kill Meggy.
• "Mario Runs Out Of Toilet Paper" shows the people of the Mushroom Kingdom panic-buying toilet rolls until all the shops are empty. But not because of coronavirus. No. It's because of the THE END OF THE GODDAMNED WORLD! Geez, we all knew that 2020 would go to shit, but we didn't think it would be this bad!
• "Mario is Cancelled" introduces us to the "Cancelled Dimension", which is effectively Internet Hell. Because Mario was trying to say the N word ^note Nintendo, he was sent here, where he witnessed the physical manifestation of Twitter torturing people for commenting on the Internet, even NICE comments was very frequently harassed by evil clowns, and experienced mockery by the entire SMG4 cast, even his own friends! And that's before he was nearly crushed to death by the DISLIKE BAR!
  • As demonstrated by the fate of Bubsy, the only way to escape this hell is to make an Apology Video. The only way to be able to make said video, however, involves collecting magical receipts in a dark forest. However, remember those evil clowns? Here, they behave like Slender Man, and stalk the forest, killing anyone who tries to collect the receipts! Poor Bubsy is Dragged Off to Hell and very possibly Killed Offscreen, and Mario, had he not gotten the last receipt, would have been next!
• "Mario the Supreme Ruler" shows us how easily power can go to Mario's head. As an example, Bob is thrown in front of him for stealing from the royal treasury. Mario's response? Have the Charging Chuck that brought Bob there break his spine. And this is after Bob points out how good friends they are!
• In "War on Beeg SMG4", the jokes don't cover up the fact that the world is in danger of ending again, this time by a Beeg SMG4 falling from the sky like the Moon from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. You thought Papa John from Mario runs out of Toilet Paper was bad? This is worse.
  • What's even worse is the reason why there's a Beeg SMG4 in the first place: E. Gadd became so obsessed with Beeg SMG4 memes that he straight-up kidnaps SMG4 and forcibly fuses him with a Beeg Yoshi in a demonic ritual. E. Gadd may be a little crazy, as seen from past episodes, but goddamn is it fucked up.
• Little, but in Officer Meggy Mr. Monitor said that he heard everything while was offline.
• The beginning of Mario Vs. Siren Head, where Siren Head stole Luigi and tried to do same thing with Mario.
• “The Demon Among Us” Full stop! It’s revealed in the previous episode that kind and compassionate Shroomy used to be a demon hunter and has a split personality who is a brutal, violent monster obsessed with hunting down and killing demons or anything and anyone it mistakes for a demon. This ranges from things like a sign hanging over an ice cream shop to Bowser whom he kidnaps and burns at the stake! And it gets worse! It seems this other personality is so powerful not even Saiko can take it down.
  • It’s implied Shroomy has been repressing this secret side of himself for some time now and at the end of the episode, its face shows up in a window. Meaning we will no doubt see this crazed hunter again. And considering this all began with Bob simply scaring the mushroom boy scout with a skull and in the next episode, it makes a brief cameo, we just might be looking at the beginning of the next story arc!
• Mario goes to subway and purchases 1 tuna sub with extra mayo: The scene where we see how the tuna from Subway is made. Two of the fish employees have a third fish tied to a cross in the kitchen and they carve the tuna out of him (as completely canned tuna, but still…)
  • We also learn that Mr. Boopkins is a pretty terrifying creature. If it wasn't because the gang found Fishy Boopkins, they may have not left the Subway offices alive.
• Stupid Bowser's Fury:
  • Unlike the canon side game, which thankfully took place in the unpopulated (by sentient life save for Bowser's cat-ified minions, some Toads, and Plessie) Lake Lapcat, Bowser's rampage happens in the middle of the Mushroom Kingdom, with surprisingly realistic results. People ran for their lives as soon as they saw him, Bowser burned his own minions alive, and wrecked the entire city. Chris doesn't sugarcoat to Swagmaster that people were DYING as a result of this rampage.
  • One scene of Bowser's rampage featured Godzilla, of all people, seemingly on his way to the Mushroom Kingdom. However, upon seeing Fury Bowser, he wanted nothing to do with the Mushroom Kingdom, and decided to turn around and LEAVE.
• While Meggy is sulking over the fact that she hasn't found something she's passionate about. A shadowy figure with yellow eyes appears by her door. What prevents "Mario VS YouTubers" from ending on an ominous note is Bob barging in for an after party. Next episode, we find out this figure is Shadow Meggy, a dark version of Meggy that embodies her insecurities and flaws. Whenever Meggy is doubtful of herself, this… thing appears, taunting her and telling her to give up.
  • Her first and last appearance is outright chilling, with Shadow Meggy taunting Meggy and avoiding all of her punches like its nothing. She repeatedly shouts at Meggy to give up, which has implications, and then… Meggy wakes up. With Shadow Meggy's laughter echoing eerily…
• "If Mario Was In Friday Night Funkin'" gives us a more comedic take on the Monster from the eponymous game. Unfortunately, Whitty doesn't get the same treatment, as shown when we get a look at him glaring down at Mario menacingly, cracking his knuckles and displaying what can only be described as a look of pure rage.
  • In the follow-up, Tricky the Clown fills a similar role, actually giving Melony enough of a struggle that she's legitimately scared. Her method of killing him is pretty freaky as well, Impaled with Extreme Prejudice through the mouth.
• In "Mario Plays Five Nights At Freddy's", Mario's methods of personally killing the animatronics is even more brutal than the first few times he did so. One method included snapping Foxy's jaw apart.
• In "If Mario Moves, He Dies", Mario is bound to a medical bed and not able to move. Then Toad decides to send Mario flying out of the castle by himself. Just how terrified would Luigi be when he finds out that Mario disappeared?
• If Melony were "To Become a God". That is, if she accesses just a bit more of the Fierce Deity Mask’s power, she wouldn't hesitate to strike down the friends she swore to protect. It's too bad she learned to access ALL of its powers, striking down any friendly use of the word zero and the military like they are nothing.
  • The appearance that she takes on at her full power is… unsettling.
  • What really sells it is the moment Melony fully awakens to her powers: She encounters the Fierce Deity inside her mind, and it reaches out and touches her forehead, taking over. It may not seem much, but to the people who watched the Genesis arc, the real horror sets in when they remember that this is THE EXACT SAME WAY ZERO POSSESSED AXOL.
• If Serial Designation N's job is to kill organic beings, not just robots, then what kind of company does he come from in this universe?
  • The fact that N appeared in a beginning segment can easily be seen as advertisement for Murder Drones. Then he appeared in the middle of a Mario Reacts video, as a prop in the background, only getting closer whenever the camera is offscreen; it's only because of SMG4 reviving Mario that this react video (and N) is considered non-canon… or maybe the non-canon disclaimer is only for that revival and not the rest of the episode.
• In "Mario Goes To College," the Box Club leader claims that the "god box" will cause The End of the World as We Know It and take its worshippers to paradise. At the time, we didn't know if this was just a one off joke or a hint towards a future arc, but it’s still a tense and out-of-left-field moment.
• "Mario Waits For The Bus":
  • Mario's Synchro-Vox-ed expression when he tells Luigi that the bus hasn't arrvied yet. Holy crap.
  • On the subject of gods, there are the Watchers, Guardians of Space and Time. They punish future-Luigi for messing with time, which involves pouring out through present-Luigi's body to punish Meggy for giving him the idea (actually, Mario was the one who made Luigi do it, but shifted the blame to Meggy). And while Meggy can kick their asses, a Watcher one-shots her and points out that they can't be defeated because they are immortal.
  • Just where were these guys the other times someone tried to abuse space and time?
• "Freddy's Spaghettiria Security Breach":
  • The implication that Glamrock Freddy already experienced something in the past for him to know that Vannessa is a threat.
  • SAFETY PROTOCOLS DEACTIVATED.
• “Uncanny Mr. Mario”: The first part of the episode is scary enough when Mario finds out he's a clone and that everyone he knew was made up, causing him to jump off a building. Although that part isn't reality, the reality is that Mr. Incredible kidnapped Mario so that he can force Mario to become the new uncanny meme.
  • Possibly the most uncanny part is that the simulation may have been accidentally accurate.
  • Practically any uncanny moment in this episode, from Hell Luigi to Glitching Luigi.
  • Naturally, some of the Uncanny faces and Canny faces for that matter fall right into the Uncanny Valley.
• Mario almost turns everyone in the world into NFTs. It's much more horrific than it sounds. Not only that, but this episode shows the possibility of Mario having the potential to be one of the gang's worst villains ever at any time.
  • NO HUMANS DETECTED. What exactly this message means is vague.
• Everything about the Cursed Tapes.
  • This also includes Meggy popping out of a painting to give Phillip a brutal smackdown.
  • While the monster Phillip turns out not to be bad, it's his cursed CD-i that turns Luigi into a monster, something that brings to mind his fused form from Super Paper Mario and the amalgamation from Security Breach.
  • Even the "Good Ending", where everyone's having a good time before they turn to the camera. It then cuts to Toadsworth, who threatens the viewer to keep his secret before a door opens. The way the audio is positioned makes it sound like the knocking is coming from the viewer's left, even if they aren't wearing headphones.
• Goofy in the Disney episode, who shows up murder-happy in the Clubhouse segment. Then he appears in the Mermaid segment and the Beauty and the Beast Segment, eventually fixating on Mario.
  • Then he appears as Heartless Goofy. Mario questions if Goofy can even become that dark; Pooh pops up and says he took his eyes.
• Saiko was pulled from a parody of Doki Doki Literature Club. And it seems that the game's aware she's not in the game as the male protagonist glitches out.

  Where is she? Where is she? Where is she? Where is she? Where is she?

• Clown Fever. Anyone who makes a fool out of themselves over even the smallest mistake becomes a clown, and most of the population ends up like this. Worse, the issue remains unresolved as a mistake in SMG4's writing and causes the unwitting source of the fever to become a villain.
  • But surely Clown Fever can't be that bad. Well, you know something's wrong before your mind is void of rational thoughts and you are very likely to do the first funny thing that comes to your mind, including bodily harm to you and people around you.
• The "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared" crew are creepy enough with instant teleportation and their lesson on emotions. Then when they spaz out…
  • Red Guy doesn't say much, but when he does, it conveys a lot.
    Duck Guy: So, Red Guy, what makes you sad?
    Red Guy: The living.
• Wheeler, the old guy in a wheelchair that's been robbing stores, had spent that money to get a liver. More specifically, he got Mario's liver, which is an avatar's liver, and he knows that an avatar's part will make him invincible. Thankfully, the liver's too powerful for him so he gets distracted by memes, but how many people know that Mario's an avatar or how to exploit that fact?
• Near the end of "Video Ends When Everyone Stops Watching", SMG3 thought he was free of the endless livestream. However, he soon finds out that everyone around him were actually camera drones, the castle is a big painted room, and that there is an entity that wants to punish him for attempting to escape the livestream. Though it actually turns out to be a prank with SMG4 and Mario filming his reaction.
• The aliens that use doors as a weapon? They worship a big door… the kind that comes from Kingdom Hearts, with big shadowy hands opening it up before darkness swarms out. And unfortunately for Mario, he happens to have nuked and crashed on that planet. Thankfully, he's able to make a call to Luigi to pick him up.
• Ohio, a place so weird it makes the Mushroom Kingdom look logical. Though when someone breaks a rule like no touching, the denizens will turn into demons and hunt the offenders down.
  • The offenders become heads of cabbages that are processed into cabbage milk, and the Ohioans drink them to clone themselves.
• In "SMG4 vs Content Farms", the seemingly simple content seems infectious by turning weapons into toys. It also has Mario glitching into silly forms for these kinds of videos and SMG4 also got changed when he tried to slap some sense into him.
  • Content farmer Johnny and friends (and Mario) invoke the Five Finger form, with the five character perched on a giant withered hand while singing in a heavy distorted voice as they hunt SMG4 through a content factory.
• SMG4's Disney Death in "You Used To Be Cool", depicting what appears to be ACTUAL BLOOD. Thankfully, as it turns out, SMG3 actually shot SMG4's new meme and not SMG4 himself. And the "blood"? Actually just tomato juice.

Arcs and other storylines

The Waluigi Arc

• In Waluigi's Time, the entire concept behind The Power Of Rejection - the power to inflict the pain of all the rejection you felt throughout your whole life, turning those affected into crying messes unable to defend themselves. Imagine the potential… What if someone truly evil like SMG3 had it? Or Saiko?
  • Worse, Waluigi was rejected for Smash Bros and relegated to being an Assist Trophy AGAIN at the end of the episode, and it seems to have pushed him over the edge.
• The victims of the T-Pose Virus in Mario and the T-Pose Virus act very much like one would expect from zombies straight from World War Z: unthinking monsters driven only by the urge to reproduce (as in infect other lifeforms with The Virus) that take a hell of a lot to put down. And then The Mario Convention turned them into even more Nightmare Fuel, because they can no longer be cured.
  • Particularly creepily is how Meggy gets turned: after knocking over four T-pose zombies, they just slowly get right back up with no change in expression and without even moving their limbs and then proceed to tear Meggy a new one and turn her into another zombie offscreen.
  • After Luigi gets turned, Mario goes into a (relatively) quiet rage and kicks Bob (the reason why Luigi got turned in the first place) off the roof they're on and kills him (not for real) in a scene lacking in the humor that SMG4's content is typically rife with. It's a startling out-of-character moment from Mario that makes something perfectly clear: he may not be the best brother to Luigi, but if you cause fatal harm to his little bro you will not be getting away scot-free.
  • The ending of this video, in a rare moment of continuity, also follows up on a creepy moment from Waluigi's Time. Waluigi, armed with his Staff of Rejection, was the one who gave Shroomy the T-Pose Shroom for him to eat in the first place, showing that the entire preceding video was his Start of Darkness. Waluigi has gone from a sympathetic "loser" to a maniac hell-bent on causing as much chaos and destruction as he can to the ones who he feels wronged him and is now an Arc Villain for the SMG4 universe. All because Master Hand wouldn't let him be a fighter in Smash Bros. and relegated him to Assist Trophy status.
    • Mario SAW further expands on this with all new implications. Not only was Waluigi expecting the outbreak to be stopped and his role in it exposed, but he was also counting on it. The Power of Rejection grows stronger with each person who hates and rejects him, so with a single plot, he turned almost the entire kingdom against him… except for Mario. And with Mario now rejecting him as of the end of Mario SAW, Waluigi has now ascended to what he calls his "final form" (which is really just his buffed up Rambo body with a comically tiny cape, but still).
• While "The Mario Carnival" is otherwise a purely comedic episode, early on Bob makes an offhand comment about how Wario hasn't been seen or heard from since the events of "Waluigi's Time", suggesting that Waluigi has done… something to him. This is mitigated in Mario The Scam Artist, where it turns out that Wario went missing because he's searching for Waluigi.
• After Mario SAW came out, fans found to their horror that Waluigi was now on the channel banner. Each subsequent video leading up to "War of the Fat Italians 2018" had Waluigi getting closer while everything else on the banner slowly became distorted and vanished. The last one before "War of the Fat Italians 2018" was just Waluigi in his final form with a purple, spiraling background. Nothing else.
• The Mario Convention started off like any other SMG4 episode, with the cast going into different shenanigans around a convention center. Then Mario and Meggy decide to get an autograph from Hideo Kojima for their friends. Mario wins and gets something handed to him… a T-Pose Mushroom. Meggy pushes him out of the way and gets herself infected and Kojima turns out to be… Waluigi.
  • Waluigi became powerful enough to take control of anyone he chooses. He demonstrates this to almost everyone at the convention center with an evolved T-Pose virus. Oh, and there's no cure AT ALL. (Until his staff gets broken in War of the Fat Italians 2018.)
  • Waluigi easily subduing Master Hand, one of the most powerful characters in the series, while using Mind Control on him to make him a part of his army is both as impressive as it is scary. What's even more horrifying is the accompanying cracking sounds while it's happening, leading you to believe it's something else entirely at first.
  • Tari's position isn't one to scoff off either. While she is out of sight and behind a hiding spot, she is still Alone with the Psycho, with no possible escape route in sight. Said psycho has also pretty much killed her best friend, and incapacitated Master Hand, who's also the closest thing this universe has to a God.
• Mario and the Waluigi Apocalypse gives us the current state of the world after the apocalypse. It's… not pretty to say the least.
  • Meggy can only shed a tear as Tari tries to get her back to normal. So the victims are left entirely aware.
  • The ending of the episode is way different from the normal one. We have Waluigi's symbol replacing the SMG4 logo and dark music in the background…
• Fishy Boopkins Plays VR Chat starts off like a normal Filler episode, chronicling what exactly Boopkins is doing during the Apocalypse. Things take a darker turn though, when towards the end, Boopkins answers the door to his house and finds Waluigi, who proceeds to infect poor Boopkins. Worst part is that we don't see it happen, we just hear Boopkins's cries of terror and the VR system fizzle out, with bleak music in the background to all of this too… And there isn't even a usual ending to this.
• Despite the arc having a happy ending and Waluigi pulling a Heel–Face Turn, future episodes remind us that he still has access to his powers. They tend to start manifesting when he gets mad and Wario needs to help him calm down before things can get bad. Waluigi could still be one bad day away from causing another apocalypse.

The Rapper Bob Arc

• The end of the Bob's Mansion blooper. Just who is the mysterious character holding the controller? Why do they have a cybernetic arm like Tari? What are they doing? The end of "The Mario Concert" seemingly reveals another character with a cyborg arm, apparently screwing it on. "War on Smash Bros Ultimate" reveals a third new Cyborg.
  • Turns out it was a teaser for a new series that was being worked on. Doesn't make it any less creepy out of context, though.
• The ending of "The Mario Concert" is a mixture of this and Tear Jerker. After Fishy Boopkins accidentally ruins Bob's rap concert, he tries to go and apologize to him, only for Bob to refuse his apology and then continue to berate him for trying to help him (not at all helping is the fact that he also has visibly angry eyes for the first time ever). And where one might think he was just angry over his chances of success being ruined, he then, out of nowhere, reveals the truth about the past few episodes and goes into detail about how all of the events were engineered and his compassion faked so he could manipulate himself into a successful rap career. It's been Hidden in Plain Sight the whole time in the form of good old SMG4 antics, but it is here that the truth about him is finally shown to be worse than anyone could ever imagine.
  Boopkins: I wanted to say I'm sorry for what happened. I know I shouldn't have gone on stage, but… it really did sound like you needed help.
  Bob: You think I needed help?
  Boopkins: Well, yeah, I just wanted to-
  Bob: I was doing amazing! No, I was doing better than amazing! I clearly told you to not interfere and now my rap career is ruined! I tried so hard to get to where I am now, and now it's all destroyed because of you. To think… the lies I told… The scams I had to pull to get here, and now it's all gone. I even pushed you down a well for god's sake!
  Boopkins: What? You pushed me?
  Bob: You didn't fall down there by accident. I pushed you down there, just so I could be the hero and save you. It was the perfect chance to push my rap music!
  Boopkins: You mean… you didn't save me because we're friends?
  Bob: Hell no!
  Boopkins: [breaks down crying]
  Bob: I even hatched a brilliant scheme of Bobsgiving where I: replaced all of the fire extinguishers in my house with flamethrowers; asked you idiots to go and get some gasoline I labeled as "Bob juice", and told Meggy to go help cook knowing very well that klutz would burn down the house. Just so the house could blow up and I could use the sob story to skyrocket myself to fame.
  Boopkins: [in tears] Bob, that's not nice!
  Bob: Nice? You think this world is nice? You're either an asshole or a pushover: a Bob or a Boopkins, and I sure as hell don't want to be a Boopkins. I'm done with you. I don't need anyone. I'm gonna build my rap career… bigger this time.
  • "Mario and The Diss Track" follows on from the above, and expands upon it with the reveal that Bob merch is everywhere AND the entire Mushroom Kingdom has become devoted to him! Even the rest of the main cast aren't immune, not even paying attention to Luigi trying to warn them about Bob's betrayal OR any attention to Boopkins and his Heroic BSoD until Bob disses them.
• In The Most Important Thing, Waluigi, to help Bob learn what is important to him, lures him on top of a huge pile of garbage and throws him off of it, with Bob barely surviving since Waluigi used his power to stop his fall at the last minute. While he reveals that he just wanted to help Bob reconcile with the crew, that doesn't help much and shows that despite his redemption, he can still be pretty scary.
  • For that matter, Waluigi pulls off two scary Nightmare Faces when helping Bob out.

The Anime Arc

• "Mario's Illegal Operation" reveals that Peach has illegalized anime following the events of "Mario and the Anime Challenge" when Mario, Boopkins, Bob, and Tari's anime challenges caused major damage. The state of the Mushroom Kingdom is bad, with the Anime Secret Service (A.S.S) setting up anime checkpoints and "yeeting" anyone caught with anime, crime cartels being set up everywhere and anime being publicly burned.
  • The ban on anime doesn't seem so bad at first, until Saiko reveals that this applies to anime characters, too. Real, living people, not just body pillows and DVDs. That fact causes SMG4, who had been part of the A.S.S and promised Peach he'd go along with the ban, to quit out of disgust. The implications are horrifying, to say the least, and turns the context of the anime ban from a simple overreaction into something much worse; Peach enforcing institutionalized racism against an entire race. The mass burning of anime ''really'' doesn't help her case. Just imagine how bad it would've been if she made the ban WORLDWIDE!
• Meggy getting kidnapped in "The Splatfest Incident" is decidedly not Played for Laughs. Everyone gets panicked when they can't find her at first, which only worsens once they visit her apartment and find it trashed, with claw marks and squid ink everywhere.
  • It only gets worse when Desti (who actually wants to help find Meggy) accuses the group's new friend, Axol, of the kidnapping. Everyone starts arguing and fabricating theories, escalating into a full-on civil war inside the apartment.
  • Worse, there's sufficient evidence to suggest he did kidnap Meggy - the claw marks, ink, Naruto anime and the fact he holds a grudge against Inklings due to their bullying of him when he was younger. Look at the situation from the characters' point of view - the possibility that the generally nice, friendly manga artist who helped save your close friend from permanent deportation could well be responsible for the abduction of another friend is gut-wrenching, especially for Fishy Boopkins.
  • The final scene is Meggy chained up, reacting to her unseen kidnapper… and the door closes on her. Nothing Is Scarier indeed. It doesn't help that dramatic sound effects play in the outro instead of the usual Super Mario Land remix.
    • Even worse still is the fact that similarly to the Waluigi Arc, the banner on the channel has changed to something creepy: Meggy’s face is torn out like paper, leaving an empty white void◊. Somebody must hold a grudge against her…
• Oh, it gets so much worse in "The Inkling Disappearances."
  • The opening scene is just Axol hanging his head and then… staring directly at the camera. It's quite creepy.
  • It's revealed that since Meggy disappeared, almost every other Inkling in Inkopolis has been kidnapped. Inkopolis is now a ghost town and everything is boarded up.
    • It doesn’t help that Mario and his friends come across a replica of Ryuk. Which just hammers in how dead the city has become due to the kidnappings. Of course then Ryuk starts to attack and it quickly goes from Nightmare Fuel to Nightmare Retardant.
  • The Inklings that have been kidnapped are held in these weird orange tubes, unmoving, with pained faces. Meggy's expression says it all.
  • The final reveal is of Axol, who has been kidnapped as well! Just… who the hell is doing this? And more importantly, why?!
  • The fact that the enhanced anime replicas are involved in whatever's going on suggests that whoever's behind Axol and the Inklings' kidnapping has taken control of the Ink Weaver for themselves… or that the replicas have become sentient and this is all part of their rebellion against their former master.
    • Or worse it could imply that despite being a victim, Axol's hands aren't exactly clean, it's possible he's was being forced to draw these mooks (being skilled with the Ink Weaver) by the true mastermind.
  • The thumbnail also deserves special mention. Those freaking eyes, man…
• But Wait, There's More! "Mario and the Experiment" reveals that the Big Bad behind all the kidnappings is Francis, and his intentions aren't any better. Using Axol's pen, Francis plans to use the ink of every Inkling (and possibly Octolings because of Desti) to keep it constantly powerful enough to draw as many waifus as he wants. Such an act would actually kill Inklings! Anyone having Octo Expansion flashbacks yet?
  Meggy: You're seriously messed up…
  • Francis's method of making Meggy comply: drawing Mewtwo and force-choking Axol. Definitely not played for laughs.
  • The ending. We see Axol and Desti watching Meggy helplessly fall into the Ink Zuccer 2000. And then the cheery music plays as the episode ends.
• The Ink Zuccer 2000 is finally activated in "World War Mario", and it's horrifying. Meggy essentially undergoes Cold-Blooded Torture as the ink is sucked out of her, and she's screaming in pain the entire time. And Desti and Axol are Forced to Watch.
  • The end of "World War Mario", where Desti is stabbed through the chest by Sephiroth in a sneak attack. Everyone goes silent and stares in horror, before Meggy screams a Big "NO!" and Francis lets out a borderline psychotic laugh. Sephiroth pulls his sword out of her, and Desti weakly lets out her last words before collapsing with a straight cut to completely silent credits.
• Upon being defeated in "Final Hours," Saiko places Francis in one of the zuccer machines and causes him to scream in agonizing pain by activating it. While he deserved it for his actions in the remainder of the episodes' arc, it is still horrifying. Saiko herself even closes her eyes while walking away as though telling herself, "I never wanted this."
  Saiko: Jackass.
  • Francis also had one in the beginning: "Oh, don't be so dramatic. Did anyone really care about her anyway?" And he says it pretty cheerfully. There are Disney villains less scary than Francis when he says that.

The YouTube Arc

• Take a look at SMG4's channel banner as of July 25, 2020. It looks mostly the same as it was, with the crew hanging out in front of a white background… except, the characters sans Mario—and the logo—are slightly covered with blurry pixels, with some flashes of red light. We all know SMG4 likes to change the channel banner in time for the events of an arc/movie, and the banner was slowly changed overtime during the events of the Waluigi Arc. Naturally, this leaves many to speculate what's going to happen with this theoretical arc/movie. Are they slowly disappearing before our very eyes? Is Mario going to be the last man on Earth? Only time will tell…
  • As of August 1st, the characters (once again, excluding Mario, who now looks more unnerved) are glitching out even more, and with Mario VS Youtube explaining why, it's shown the Glitchy Gang is slowly shifting into the Snitchy Squad, with subtle features of the villains appearing on their own analogues. It could imply SMG3 doesn't just intend to erase SMG4, but everyone else, and have his team take their place and position as popular YouTubers.
    • That implication? As "Deleted" shows, that's EXACTLY what he had in mind for the Glitchy Gang.
    • Oh and what about the War of the Fat Italians 2020 Trailer! While it starts off normal, shortly after Armonzii/X waves the checkered flag, SMG4 begins to glitch. Tari begins to glitch soon after, and shortly DISAPPEARS. The same goes for all of the others spectating the match. The stadium then goes dark, with Armonzii glitching and vanishing shortly after, and SMG4 is replaced by SMG3. The Snitch Productions cast also takes the places of the Glitch Productions gang in the audience. SMG3 then declares to be the captain as he sits on a throne. He then pushes a button on the YouTube remote, causing Mario and THE ENTIRE VIDEO to glitch, which then goes to the WOTFI 2020 logo.
• The start of "A Totally Normal S̷͍͖͉̙͚͎̑̃̿͑̆̇̚͠M̸͇͇̦̮̌̿Ğ̴̫̗̖͎͔̳4̶̞͇̰̎̀́̚ Episode" is genuinely UNSETTLING. It starts off as normal with the Glitchy Gang, but then everything starts glitching out, slowly turning it into the Snitchy Squad, which leads to glitched dialogue and glitched bodies at one point. Then when Mario discovers SMG3's behind all this, he attempts to attack… only for SMG3 to pause Mario and walk away. He then stops in the middle of the next camera shot and turns to the camera and evilly announces the SMG3 channel and restarts the video with the Snitch Productions logo and everything.
• War of the Fat Italians 2020:
  • Jub Jub gets possessed by the spirit of the YouTube Remote before it begins the next WOTFI.
  • SMG3, having had enough of the challenges, grabs Fishy Boopkins and threatens to drop him off the edge of a building in an attempt to reclaim the remote. When his gang rebels against him, he states that he did not need them anyway before ingesting the remote himself and trying to kill them all.
    • Speaking of his attempts to kill the cast with the remote's power, two moments he damn near succeeds. Had Mario not forced him to accidentally press the audio button, he would have killed Meggy outright. But towards the climax of the fight, he has SMG4 by the throat ready to deliver a point-blank attack! Mario had to work FAST both times to give the cast a win!
  • While he's an Asshole Victim completely deserving of his fate here, SMG3 suffers one of the most humiliating yet painful last scenes since Francis: being Eaten Alive by Ugandan Knuckles in the Internet Graveyard. While it is later revealed that he wasn't Killed Off for Real, it's still pretty chilling.

The Genesis Arc

• At the end of "Mario Babies" it's revealed that SMG4 can't remember anything from before the events of "Account Loss".^note The first video he appeared in, back in 2011 SMG4 then begins to have an identity crisis, not knowing who he truly is or where he came from. While Mario tries to lighten the mood by jokingly telling SMG4 that he's adopted, it's still pretty chilling to find out that the main character of the series appears to have basically materialized out of nowhere, not having any memories of his childhood, parents, or much of anything prior to entering Peach's Castle for the first time.
  • The next episode "SMG4's Origins" show a normal Mushroom Kingdom which takes place after Super Mario 64, as in Mario and Peach could be a power couple normal. But then the spaceship (shaped like a USB stick) crashes down, not only releasing SMG4 but also spewing out memes and lasers that make people crazy. It's only through recording videos that SMG4's laptop tamed their craziness, but their IQ hasn't returned to normal. This could apply to every fanfiction and fan comics out there.
• 10th Anniversary Movie
  • It's easy to miss in the chaos on first viewing, but the corrupted memes aren't just attacking randomly, they specifically single out and split off Mario and the recolors. They're serving a higher power…
  • One word: ZERO.
    • His backstory is pretty horrific. As SMG1 and SMG2 say, he's a virus from another universe, everyone's reaction to them saying is pretty fitting. He has the capability to destroy any universe he targets, THIS UNIVERSE INCLUDED. As seen in the flashbacks of him, he completely destroyed SMG1 and SMG2's universe before they took him down.
    • What he did to the Mario Recolors is pretty unsettling; they, including FM and X, all ended up as faceless zombies whom Zero can control at will.
    • Zero mind raping Mario is definitely going to stay with you for a while. Mario's arm also turns into one that looks like Zero's!
    • SMG4 and SMG3's features being almost destroyed. Seriously, it looks like they're being wiped from existence.
    • Plot twist: That was only his arm.
  • The ending cuts back to SMG3's USB and the screen on it turns into a warning saying "YOUR ANTI-VIRUS PROTECTION IS ABOUT TO EXPIRE." Then the movie ends.
• "SMG4 Goes Insane":
  • The Thumbnail, it has a close-up of SMG4 with red eyes and a cracked background complete with a Slasher Smile. Talk about a Nightmare Face!
  • When Mario goes to check on SMG4 He finds him creating a Room Full of Crazy in the basement, having reduced himself to a gibbering lunatic trying to understand the events of the 10th Anniversary Video. After finding Mario, he tapes him to a wall labeled as "Avatar" before constantly shouting "WHAT DO THEY MEAN" over and over until Mario knocks him unconscious.
  • The thing that causes or represents SMG4 going insane is a giant eyeball (which is also heavily implied by the noise it makes and the general theming of the episode to represent or actually be Zero). What makes this thing scarier is that when it appears, it is accompanied by a dial tone…
  • It seems Meggy isn't the only one with serious self-doubt issues. Inside SMG4's mind, Mario finds himself dragged into the deepest parts of his psyche, in which SMG4 finds himself thinking he's not funny. Like Meggy, this produces a shadow, but unlike her shadow, which takes the form of herself, SMG4's shadows take the form of his friends, telling him that he isn't funny and that they never liked him. This drives SMG4 into a Heroic BSoD where he seems willing to just give himself up to Zero until Mario snaps him out of it.
• The ending of "Into The Dark Web". Bob ventures into the area where they last fought and stopped Zero by trapping him in SMG3's guardian pod, he finds said USB and thinks it to be SMG4's but then he sees that the Anti-Virus license has expired, thinking that it's his license, he doesn't do a thing about it and he gets a message saying that his favourite woman, Butter Birdo is streaming again, he turns it on and walks away. But that doesn't stop there, the eyeball from "SMG4 Goes Insane" (or Zero) comes out of SMG3's USB and follows Bob. It then turns around and looks straight at the audience (pictured above), then the screen fades to black, and all we hear is Zero saying "WITNESS…" in a deep, distorted voice right before the video ends leaving us speechless.
• "If Mario Was in Newgrounds" has a pretty creepy ending. SMG4 and Mario finally found what they were looking for… SMG1, SMG2 and Zero's USB! Once they enter it they find out it's interior is almost destroyed and there's also some blood spilled as well. SMG4 and Mario are shocked to see this and the USB door closes, presumably locking them in. Cue end credits.
• "The Other Universe" retells the story of SMG1 and SMG2. It had been just like any adventure in Newgrounds, but then Zero literally drops in and drains their Avatar, Spudnick, until he is as white as a skeleton and cracked all over. As a result, the two SMG's and their game get corrupted, and Mario and SMG4 can't do anything in this memory to save them. Worse, they managed to seal away most of Zero except for his 'arm', which manages to jump into their Guardian Pod. Everything related to the 10th Anniversary was literally by his hand…
• Just look at Spudnick's face when Zero kills him. Jeez…
  • What's worse is that the Eye not only followed Mario but activated the console once they left, initiating Interdimensional Travel for the pod holding his 'body'. And thus it was witnessed…
• "The Day HE Arrived." has Axol left braindead due to something Zero did to his head while he was trapped in their Guardian Pod. He shows up seemingly alive later, but it's shown to horrifying effect that something isn't completely right about this Axol…
• In "Doomsday But Mario Is Okay" it's clear that Mario is NOT okay when he gets dragged into a portal in a toilet created by Zero…
  • This episode also shows that Axol is not fine. When he appears in the video for the first time, he looks completely scared. Later, when Boopkins opens the door, he's seeing Axol, who's asking if he wants to see something, while making a huge Slasher Smile, which makes Boopkins immediately close the door. Even later, when Melony is checking him, she seeing that Axol… is gone.
• "Mario And The Backrooms". Well, knowing on what this video based, it may not be a surprise if it could have some creepy moments:
  • The cover, on which Mario runs from… something.
  • At the beginning, Mario falls under the world and appears on 1 level of Backrooms.
  • After a failed attept to escape, Mario sees another shadowy figure that starts hunting on him. Thankfully, it was SMG4.
  • "DON'T GO ANY FURTHER"
  • The birthday room starts funny… Until everything starts glitching and writings of "GO BACK" appear on the walls.
  • SMG3's story implies that Zero controls not one toilet, but an entire sewerage.
  • The chase with SCP-682.
  • Everything starts glitching in the elevator.
  • The ending. Holy shit, the ending. After The Reveal that Axol was the one who sent Mario and co. messages to leave, the skin on half of his face disappears and two horns appear on his head, which means that Zero now has complete control over Axol's body. After writings of "Guardian Detected" and "Virus Quarantine Disabled" appear on his USB^note actually SMG3's, he clicks a few buttons on the panel of his USB, which makes it suck Mario, SMG4 and SMG3. Then, Zero turns back and stares at the camera, before the video turns dark and you only see his eye.
  • The outro has no music.
• Much like in the arcs beforehand, the Genesis Arc has a unique series of banners, and it's just as horrifying: the first one was of a frightened Axol looking into a tentacled abyss, with Mario and SMG4, later joined by SMGs 3, 2 and 1, going after him. Then when "Mario And The Backrooms" came out, it changed to show the possessed Axol slowly turning away from the void to expose his newly scarred eye. Then after the trailer for WOTFI 2021 came out, Ax0l, now more creepy-looking than ever, is staring right at the viewer. And the void is just… slowly consuming the banner, too…
  • The last banner, changed after "The Final Piece", now not only features the final form of Ax0l facing down our heroes, but the void has completely consumed the background… and it’s full of ominous-looking eyes.
    • This banner didn't change after "WOTFI 2021". It happened later, but still.
• "MARIOS OKAY x7"
  • The title is a Madness Mantra.
  • The thumbnail is absolutely horrifying: Mario staring right at you with bloodshot eyes, both hands suspiciously pointing at himself like guns and the top of his head is missing.
  • What's the first thing SMG4 sees when he wakes up in unidentified territory? Some thing that looks like the head of Miku Hatsume. It's both creepy and funny.
  • While the Miku head was a relatively minor scare, the trio is then attacked by Zero's eye. What makes it even worse is that every time the eye takes a hit, it multiplies, surrounding them in seconds and multiplying enough to seemingly smother them until all you see are Zero's eyes and the screen cuts to black.
  • When the screen opens up again, Mario and the two SMG's are seemingly alright, that is until they see that they are standing on a giant eyeball.
    • Upon being seen by the camera zooming out, said eyeball's pupil expands and dilutes with very disturbing sound effects. The trio's screaming is certainly something anyone would do if he or she was in their situation.
  • Zero's eye then straps the trio to chairs and zooms through space and time ''very fast'' in an effort to break their minds. Like Miku's head above, it both funny and creepy.
  • After Zero's eye crashes into a suspicious diamond block, what Mario and the SMGs fall into isn't much better. They find themselves in a Blank White Void disturbingly similar to the void a certain sarcastic squid found himself in during a time travel mishap.
    SMG3: If SMG0 is trying to drive me mad, it's working!
  • While adventuring in SMG3's USB, SMG4 finds an empty white room, where he sees characters from Wallace & Gromit, wearing the clothes of the main characters of Family Guy, who glare at him and sing a disturbing song (that song being an extremely slow and distorted version of the Family Guy theme song). It's no wonder that SMG4 refuses to go inside!
  • Due to inexperience in using their powers, SMG4 and SMG3 pass out while trying to channel meme energy into Mario, causing the channeling to become unbalanced. Mario's left hand ends up overinflating and causes him to explode.
  • The ending:
    • Towards the end of the video, we're given a little hope. SMG1 and SMG2 are alive and they help the three of them escape Zero's mind torture and usb. Everything's ok now, right? Nope! Right after they escape, we see Peach's castle somehow already rebuilt, all four Guardian Pods gathered around said castle, and an unconscious Mario floating like he's part of a demonic ritual. All while Zero in Axol's body watches with a crazed smile on his face…
    • The implication that Zero knew Mario and the SMGs would escape the usb somehow…
    • Why did Zero gather all the Guardian Pods in one place? Possibly to ensure that, this time, no one escapes alive.
    • Once again, there is no outro music.
• The Trailer for WOTFI 2021 starts with a cute scene of Axol drawing the manga that we saw in "The Day HE Arrived"… until he turns in his demonic, Zero-possessed form for a second. After panicking for a few seconds as he hears creepy whispers all around him, he falls through the floor into a black void, transforming into his demonic form as he falls before Zero's eye flashes on screen. It then cuts to a SFM remake of the ending of "MARIOS OKAY", with SMG4, SMG3, SMG2 and SMG1 getting ready for a fight with Zero. Zero jumps down to the ground and begins contorting Axol's body in disturbing ways, complete with sickening bone-cracking noises. The result? Axol transforming into an even more horrifying form.
  • To elaborate on Axol's new appearance: The entire left side of his face has wasted away, replaced with Zero's signature wire-frame pattern, and the surrounding area has turned purple (whether this is the result of internal bleeding or if this is just Zero's skin color is unknown). Instead of Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises, his eyes are now a solid blue and red, with his exposed red eye having Zero's 0-shaped pupil. Brand new disturbing additions include Zero's exposed ribcage, his clothing merging with his flesh at the neck, Inkweaver merging with his right arm, and teeth sticking out of his shoulders and collarbone like a massive jaw. Suffice it to say, things aren't looking too good for Axol.
• "The Final Piece." HO. LY. CRAP. To think this series started with lighthearted bloopers of Mario messing around with Palette Swaps of himself…
  • The thumbnail for one! It just shows a terrified Mario as Ax0l's hands grasp his shoulders while black tentacles slither in the background.
  • Remember Axol's transformation from Trailer of WOTFI 2021? While it isn't Body Horror in this episode, it's still gruesome.
  • The scene where Mario is being absorbed by Zero. His face begins to crack just like Spudnick's did in "The Other Universe". It's interrupted by Swagmaster's helicopter before Mario can be killed, but still.
  • When Zero tries to find SMG4 and Mario. The scene of him bashing down every door in the castle one by one, all while SMG4 is frantically trying to hide Mario while hearing the banging get closer and closer… the entire thing feels like something out of a horror movie.
  • Zero absorbing all the memes in the Mushroom Kingdom. The scene is played for all the horror it needs. The Majora's Mask Final Day music and red sky only add to the horrifying Apocalypse Wow that Zero brings upon the Mushroom Kingdom.
  • The episode just ends as Zero begins destroying the universe, and all our chained up heroes can do is watch in horror. That’s right, Zero won. The only hint of any resolution is a caption saying that the finale will be “decided” in WOTFI 2021. This is definitely going to be a long week.
    • Adding to the uncertainty is the fact that the WOTFI trailer made it seem like it was going to be about the SMGs fighting Ax0l for the fate of Mario. That scene does happen in the episode, but Ax0l quickly wipes the floor with them. And now he’s won. There’s basically no idea on where this WOTFI is heading.
  • For the third time in a row, there is no outro music. Same thing with the intro!
    • To add more to this, there is NO goofy sponsorship of any kind, it just kicks the episode right off.
  • Mario doesn't wake up at any point in the episode.
• TOMORROW
• Axol's death in "War of the Fat Italians 2021" is equal parts terrifying and heartwrenching, between Melony tearfully begging him not to make her do this and Axol being chained up by Zero. And much like Desti before him, Axol's death is permanent.
  • We also see Zero's full body… And OH GOD, it's horrible. All of Ax0l's Body Horror (the exposed ribcage, 0-shaped horns, teeth sticking out of the collarbone) is here and accounted for, but that's not all—he also has creepily long insectoid arms, visible pink flesh underneath certain parts of his carapace, and a much more detailed and realistic model than everyone else. His face isn't exactly pleasant to look at either, with a massive red eye and a huge mouth full of sharp teeth on a somewhat human-shaped head. SMG4’s reaction basically says what everyone is thinking.
    SMG4: Oh… Oh God…
  • "YOU WILL ANSWER FOR YOUR ACTIONS… AND GOD WILL NOT BE SO… MERCIFUL."
  • The video starts from Zero, who almost destroys SMG4's universe. And one of the first things he does is try to crush SMG1 and SMG2 to death while giving a demented laugh.
• The whole arc, it's easily the most darkest and bleakest arc in the series, making every other Story Arc on the channel look lighthearted, far outdoing the most intense episodes of the Waluigi and Anime arcs combined, by a WIDE MARGIN. This arc shifts into a eerie Ancient Conspiracy story involving the mysterious origins of SMG4 himself, a lot more characters dying, an Eldritch Abomination hellbent on destroying Mario and the entire SMG4verse along with him and one of the main characters getting possessed by said Eldritch Abomination and dying later on. Not to mention a darker In-Universe story-driven explaination of the series' gradual shift in tone and style, involving the unaddressed shunting away of the iconic YouTuber guest-stars-as-Mario-recolors in favor of original characters, SMG4's (and SMG3's) untold origins finally being coming to light, which holds rather sinister connotations, or a generally omninous, almost apocalyptic tone consistent throughout, present even in the breather episodes, and the implications that, despite it's beloved status, the SMG4verse's very satirical and heavily comedic nature came at a previously undivulged dark price (the continuity being a relatively normal iteration of the Mario universe that was, for lack of better term, unwittingly corrupted and transformed, irreversibly at that, by SMG4 himself's mere presence into the wacky zany and at times disturbing version we know and love).

The Revelations Arc

• In "Mario Goes To College," in the middle of their song, the Box Club leader claims that the "god box" will cause The End of the World as We Know It and take its worshipers to paradise. At the time, we didn't know if this was just a one off joke or a hint towards a future arc (let alone know that we were even already in an arc), but it’s still a tense and out-of-left-field moment.
• Aside from that moment above, the arc had so far been a pleasant and light-hearted change of pace from the horrors of the Genesis Arc. And then "Mario and the God Box" happens.
  • As it turns out, not only is the Box Club not just a bunch of weirdos obsessed with boxes, but their object of worship, the titular God Box, is a very real Artifact of Doom. It seems that even SMG1 and SMG2 don't know exactly what it contains, but they know that it's nothing but bad news.
  • With the episode ending with the Box Club being defeated, you would think the worst would be over, right? Nope. After the episode premiered the God Box took over SMG4's channel banner. Considering the buildup we've had so far to this thing and SMG4's tradition of changing his banner in time for big events, something is truly going down.
  • On March 12, despite the episode of the day not being related to the apparent arc, the God Box on the banner is beginning to open…
  • After the trailer for the Revelations movie dropped, the God Box has been opened, and darkness is seeping out of it…
• And then comes "Absolute Betrayal", which is a Wham Episode like no other:
  • The thumbnail has what looks like empty heads screaming.
  • "Melony… no one's there…" We are then treated to a series of flashbacks with all moments that Niles and Melony were together… only for it to be revealed that Niles was never real. It's like something out of Fight Club!
  • And that's before he reveals a familiar red eye… Yep. ZERO has returned!
    • The animation where his eye shift towards the center of his face is disturbingly fluid.
  • After revealing himself to Melony and pressing her Berserk Button to turn her into Fierce Melony, Zero effortlessly possesses her. And we all remember what happened to her late boyfriend Axol when Zero possessed him…
    • Zero was already tough enough when he possessed Axol, who didn't have any powers to begin with. Now he's in control in Melony, who has the power of the Fierce Deity, and, well, you do the math.
  • Zero as Melony opens a portal to the Great Beyond, the location of the God Box, and it’s the real world. Zero is coming to our world.
  • Yet again, the episode ends with a completely silent, dark gray end card.
• The Cinematic Trailer for the Revelations movie has an opening scene identical to the opening scene of the trailer for WOTFI 2021: It starts with a cinematic recreation of Axol's manga of him confessing to Melony that he wants her to be his girlfriend. Except here, when Melony says yes, she's suddenly treated to a shot where Axol is glitching in his Ax0l form before she suddenly finds herself in a throne room with the Fierce Deity. The Fierce Deity takes off their mask to reveal that they're actually Niles, implying that he's been in control of her ever since "To Become A God".
  • Towards the end of the trailer, the Zero-possessed Melony opens fire on the Guardian Pod ship, giving a surprisingly creepy giggle beforehand.
• From the Revelations movie itself:
  • While he definitely had it coming, the Box Club Leader's demise as he's incinerated by the God Box's power isn't exactly pretty.
  • Anti-Memes, memes that have spent so long inside the God Box that they've become twisted, Body Horror heavy monstrosities. And while an SMG absorbing them as meme energy gives a big power boost, it also makes them highly aggressive and unstable, as SMG4 and SMG3 learn the hard way.
    • When SMG3 and SMG4 decide they had enough of what they think is the Box Club Leader knocking them down, they channel the power of four anti-memes at once. Just four, and Niles is terrified by the time they channeled the second anti-meme, and for a VERY good reason. If SMG4 and SMG3 had gone through 3's idea to use the Anti-memes to destroy Zero, it may have worked at a devastating price.
  • As surprisingly sympathetic as Niles' motives turn out to be, it becomes all too clear that his obsession with creating a "perfect" universe for him and SMG0 has destroyed his sanity. The way he madly rants to SMG0 when the latter tries to talk him down the first time shows just how desperate and unhinged he's become.
  • Within her mindscape, Melony finds herself tortured by visions sent by Niles to break her, including distorted and twisted versions of her friends, Ax0l mocking her for her perceived weakness and failure to save Axol, and a mirror’s reflection of her morphing into a twisted, Zero-possessed version of herself, which somehow manages to be even more horrific that Ax0l was!
    • Special mention goes to the Bob with realistic eyes emitting horrible snapping noises.
  • SMG0 tries to stop Niles from dragging Melony, Mario and the SMGs down with him. Then Niles completely freaks out as he undergoes a Villainous Breakdown. This is the first (and last) time we see Niles get so pissed off, and it's intense. And also quite sad.
    SMG0: NILES! PLEASE JUST LET THEM GO! Our time is over! Don't drag them down with our failures!
    Niles: I AM NOT A FAILURE!!! WE ARE THE REAL MEME GUARDIANS! WE ARE SO CLOSE TO CREATING THE PERFECT UNIVERSE! The power of the God Box… IS SUPPOSED TO BE OURS!!!!!
    SMG0: You're my friend, Niles… But I can't let you do this…
    Niles: Don't worry! I'll fix this. Just watch. JUST WATCH! YOU AND I WILL FIX IT ALL!!! (His eye turns red and gains a 0 pupil)

The Lawsuit Arc

• SMG4 fears Nintendo as the only entity he can't beat and rightfully so. Between an army of ninjas and contracts that can literally be enforced in reality, all that Lawyer Kong has to do is pull out a DMCA to win (aka he would have to take down his channel).
• Lawyer Kong creates a firewall which isolates all non-Nintendo characters from the Mushroom Kingdom. Any character that belongs inside of the firewall are then forcefully reverted to the canon version of themselves. However, it appears that there's brainwashing involved, as "reverted" characters are evidently unaware of the depression that is caused by the whole ordeal.
  • Everything outside the firewall is a wasteland. A lot of characters are out there without a home including SMG3, who should be living in the Internet Graveyard but currently isn't. It's no wonder there's a line of characters wanting to go back in.
• Any non-Nintendo character that was on Nintendo but are no longer wanted are shot into Galeem. Considering his success rate at removing characters and the fact that Swag's model only appeared in Goldeneye, it's a good thing Mario came up with a plan.
• The ending of "If Mario was in Splatoon 3" starts on an ominous note, with both Mario and Meggy spotting a silent but furious Lawyer Kong watching them escape Inkopolis. They, and us, know they haven't fully escaped yet, and Lawyer Kong's chilling demeanor makes it clear that he's not done yet…
• It's not only local police that hunt down illegal memes, but Nintendo Ninjas as well, and they're quick to swat down meme users. That the vans they ride in says "Thot Patrol Elite" calls back to a previous Arc in Nintendo land.
• Continuing the tradition of the channel banner changing during the events of an arc, almost all of the SMG4 cast is starting to fade from existence after "Breaking Luigi" was released. Only the Mario Bros., Bob, and Fishy Boopkins are allowed to remain, being Nintendo characters.^note Strangely, Wizard Rock, who's not a Nintendo character, doesn't appear to be fading like everyone else. It gives an almost nazi vibe…
  • As of September 24th, the banner was updated◊ to all those non-Nintendo characters fading out even more, with Mario, Luigi, Bob, and Fishy Boopkins looking appropriately concerned. In addition, the creators seemed to have rectified the oversight of Wizard Rock not fading away along with the others, just in case the fans thought he might pull off a divine miracle and save everyone…
  • The banner was updated yet again October 1st. The non-Nintendo characters are completely gone, the remaining Nintendo characters look even more terrified, there's a hellish red filter, and the shadow of Lawyer Kong looms over them.
• "NINTENDO HAS CLAIMED THIS VIDEO" ends in a shocker that could rival "Deleted" in terms of a brutal Downer Ending; Miyamoto decides to sign the Super DMCA Lawyer Kong offered to end the war and bring Mario back into the hands for good. Meggy and SMG4 return with the parody law contract, but Lawyer Kong slaps the contract out of their hands before they can reach Judge Kirby. Right after the DMCA is turned in, the characters' eyes roll up and go blank as they all fall to the ground. In short, Lawyer Kong effectively launched a genocide just get their biggest icon back on their side. Doubling as a Tearjerker, Mario only has time to cradle Meggy as she bids him goodbye with a solemn smile before passing out herself, as the usual grim, silent and colorless credits for serious episodes rolls in.
  • The Wikipedia Castle SMG4 and Meggy venture into earlier is rather unnerving: it looks very dark and rundown, housing several disturbing articles including serial killers and the like. SMG4 was scared stiff for most of their time there.
• The trailer for WOTFI 2022 shows Mario watching in horror as his non-Nintendo friends die, all while Lawyer Kong gives a dark grin while triumphantly holding up the signed Super DMCA. Thankfully, the mood quickly turns hopeful when Meggy comes to Mario's aid and the scene shifts to the courtroom.

PUZZLEVISION

• The fight between Mario, Meggy, Wario & Waluigi in "MAR10 Day" breaks the router, and that brings SMG4 out… and he's angry and insane from the three weeks he's been working on the video as he mercilessly mauls the Wario Bros and drives everyone out of the castle so he can work on his Perfect Video.
  • The voice acting deserves a special mention, as Luke showcases all of SMG4's stress, insanity, and anger during his self-induced lock-in for three weeks. Hearing such a usually Nice Guy screaming in crazed fury is such a departure from what he's normally like that it scares his friends, devastates poor Mario, and even drives SMG3 to express bewilderment and disgust at his actions.
    SMG3: (furious) OI! IDIOT!! (SMG4 turns to face him) We're all here to celebrate your best friend's day, and you're acting like THIS?!
    SMG4: NONE OF YOU UNDERSTAND THE WORK I DO!!!
    (SMG4 fixes the router and storms back to his room)
    Mario: But SMG4, the main event-
    SMG4: JUST LEAVE ME THE F**K ALONE!!!
    (angrily slams the door)
  • Also of note that SMG4 sends a livestream at the end of the video. In-universe, it's only question marks. On our side, it's a 99-hour stream (which lasted until March 15, 2023) of SMG4 working on that video. If it was only him just clicking away on the keyboard, it'd be scary enough… but there are times when the crew try to check on him, and the only other reactions we get from him are when he forces himself awake or gets frustrated at his work. And the channel banner has changed to SMG4 being all alone in his workplace in the dark to reflect his mental state going to Hell. And knowing previous trends with banners, it's gonna get worse.
    SMG4: It's gotta be perfect. It's gotta be perfect, it's gotta be perfect. It's gotta be perfect…
  • Speaking of the livestream, there's a particular Easter Egg about it worth noting: very rarely, you will see a BEEG SMG4 peeking out of the corner of the room… a sentient BEEG SMG4. That's freaky enough, since BEEG SMG4s are basically plush toy equivalents in this universe, but what is this one even doing here? Is it just some cute comic relief? Was it being held captive by SMG4, or otherwise cowering in fear of him? Or was it the true mastermind in all of this, forcing SMG4 to press forward with his "perfect video" at the cost of his sanity? Well, your guess is as good as ours.
  • Notice how, throughout the stream, the room gets progressively darker after every 24 hours… as if the setting didn't look creepy enough.
  • Another small change compared to when the stream started. All you hear at first were the sounds of keyboard keys clicking and typing accompanied with occasional grunts of anger, frustration and confusion. Later on all of the aforementioned is heard mixed in with creepy droning music…
    • Finally, at the end, the camera pans in slowly with an ominous tune as the colors shift as SMG4 finally gets up from the computer, and turns to look at the camera…
      SMG4: WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE!? GET OUT!!!
• The trailer for "It's Gotta Be Perfect", SMG4's fourth movie, or at least the last third of it. The rest of it is nothing short of amazing, with the crew once again proving that they listen to their fans by updating the recently-redesigned characters that received some controversy (and that does include Meggy, whose redesign wasn't so recent)… but then it ends with Meggy and SMG3 entering SMG4's room to find SMG4 still insane, still not finished with his "perfect" video, and repeating his Madness Mantra. Only now, his voice is in a demonic tone, and there's a creepy filter surrounding him when he looks away from the computer, and just before the screen cuts to black, he reaches his hand out to the camera while his eyes go blank and symbols swirl around him. His behavior is getting more and more reminiscent a certain infamous perfectionist.
  • But how can this be, you may ask, if Niles is dead? Well, look carefully at the symbols that swirl around SMG4 as he reaches for the camera. They’re the exact same symbols that were surrounding Zero on the channel banner during the leadup to WOTFI 2021. Combine this with the implication in an SMG4 sponsor that the God Box survived the explosion, and you have to wonder if it's behind all of this; wonder if a surviving fragment of it (or even something related to it) can fuel that overwhelming desire for perfection that drove Niles irreversibly crazy. After all, you can't kill a god…
    • The actual movie would disprove SMG0 having any presence; while he is brought up as possibly being behind everything once again, SMG3 quickly confirms that the demonic mass bares no signs of Meme Energy.
• In "Every Luigi is Personalized", Mario stumbles upon Luigi but he's smiling blanky, attacking anyone that gets close to him and not getting phased by any attacks on him. When the SMGs and the Mario Bros return from the liminal space, this Luigi practically destroyed the rest of the crew.
  • Inside the Liminal space (which turns out to be a portal to "Super Mario.exe 64", there are dark halls and objectives that mock Mario, but more scary is Mario.exe, a tall pale Mario that easily wrecks the crew, and he manages to follow them outside… (Thankfully, the two horrors are happy to reunite and go back into their world.)
• While only for a brief moment, in "Mario Is Fine", after stuck inside a containment full of water for the entire day as meditation from Fishy Boopkins, Mario then finally begins to meditate, he first then sees a retro Mario normally standing, until the Retro Mario looks at Mario, and then begins to turn into an Eldtrich Abomination-like bootleg muppet before it turns into a dancing 8-bit Mario, to make matters worse, the audio that plays when the demonic-looking Mario appears is taken from the already infamous "You're Not Perfect" scene in the Courage the Cowardly Dog episode, "Perfect".
• “Ready to Ride?…” ends on a seriously chilling cliffhanger. Early on in the episode, Luigi starts acting strange. First he just sits there reading a book… even after Mario knocks it out of his hands. Just sitting there like a statue. Then when Mario sits down with his ill-gotten potatoes, Luigi suddenly goes full cowboy complete with southern drawl and hat. At first this may be just a gag or something but then Tari gets a feeling that something is seriously off but she doesn’t know what. Meggy leaves to find some medicine and what does she walk in on? Everyone in the entire car acting like crazy cowboys. And as sudden as it happens everyone just freezes like somebody hit pause as Meggy looks on in worry. And when Tari walks in, Meggy turns around and suddenly everything is back to normal. Meggy thinks maybe she’s just going nuts from the long train ride but Tari’s little frown says different. The episode ends on a TV set with static saying “look at the bottom of the description.” There is a link to a mysterious Garry's Mod map entitled "help.bsp" there. And the video credits lack the usual cheerful music, instead having the droning sound of TV static. There is definitely something wrong alright…
  • The "help" map linked there is rather unnerving in its own right. It appears as the train map used in the episode, complete with characters performing certain actions repeatedly, but loops if you try to go too far. If you loop a certain number of times, however, you come across a grey stone room featuring Tari crying. Approach her, and your game crashes with text reading "READY FOR THE NEXT SHOW?" and an emblem for the TV… Nothing Is Scarier indeed.
  • The thumbnail. Mario’s in his cowboy gear grinning an unsettling grin. Then you notice Tari in the back looking worried while… a second Mario is outside banging on the window? Altogether it looks like someone stole Mario’s body and his spirit is trying to get back in. Foreshadowing?
• After "We Interrupt This Broadcast" there have been some pictures posted on SMG4's social media accounts teasing the gang's adventures in the Wild West. They start out innocently enough featuring shenanigans that you'd expect in a modern episode, but after the release of "Ready To Ride?…", there are subtle details in the images that are… troubling. Notably,
  • The image posted on July 3 has a second Tari in the background facing away from the camera.
  • The image posted on July 4 has Tari missing her Meta Runner arm, there's a pair of glowing eyes hiding under the table, Meggy's beanie is nailed to the wall and has a hole in it, the window displays TV static, and the reward for Meggy's WANTED poster now displays "YOUR FREEDOM". Oh, and the cards held by the person holding the camera shows what seems to be hinting at the release date of the next episode, which is later revealed to be a movie.
• The trailer for "Western Spaghetti", the next SMG4 movie. It starts with Meggy approaching Western Spaghetti on horseback, with bits of footage featuring teasers for what's in the movie. However, once Tari shows up in the trailer, the teasers gradually become darker, and as Meggy approaches her, she starts twitching as if she's under some sort of control, and everything distorts when Meggy puts her hand on Tari's shoulder. Some things about to note about the trailer are:
  • In nearly all of the clips he appears in, One Shot Wren looks unhinged, as if he's gone insane.
  • Tari looks either scared or crazy in all of the clips she appears in after the trailer starts taking a darker turn.
  • One clip shows nearly all of the main cast about to be hanged.
  • The channel banner and profile picture for the channel turned static (much like a television screen) after the trailer's release. Only Tari is unaffected, and she looks even more distressed than before.
    • While still covered in static, Meggy's the only one in the banner who notices something's wrong with Tari.
  • The trailer's title was later changed to a Zalgo-afflicted "help me".
  • After this, a live stream was put up, resembling camcorder footage titled GET OFF THE TRAIN where everyone is frozen in place, but the train is still going and it progressively switches from one feed to another.
• And then there's Western Spaghetti itself. We learn that One Shot Wren is behind everything that happens in the movie. While his "falling off" is noted over the two episodes leading up to the movie, here we see just how far he's “fallen off.” He traps the whole gang in a simulation of the wild west, and when Meggy realizes he's behind it all, he repeatedly shoots and kills her in the simulation, effectively psychologically torturing her to keep her under control. For a month. By the time Tari manages to come up with a way to take Wren down, Meggy's so traumatized that she's gone insane, pointing her gun at her own friends out of paranoia.
  • The last time we see Wren shoot Meggy is in her darkened bedroom right as she wakes up, rising up from in front of her bed with his gun already loaded.
    Wren: Draw. [shoots]
  • Wren's genuine sadism throughout the movie is very unsettling. He spends much of the film tormenting Meggy and the rest of the gang, and basically has them locked up in a series of cells hooked up to his main chamber. His Villainous Breakdown when Meggy and Tari finally manage to defeat him is also quite harrowing, helped by Sean Chiplock giving a chilling performance.
  • Before this part, Meggy gets some milk from Desti who complains that she should be sheriff because of her gun-slinging skills, only to be reprimanded by Axol. It takes Tari shouting at her to realize that Desti and Axol should not be alive, and that's when the Wild West starts to glitch around her.
    • Every time Meggy is not looking at Axol and Desti, they just stare at her dead-eyed.
  • The poster for this movie gets special mention too: it depicts the main cast on a wanted poster, but at the top, a hand is holding on the top, with Tari noticing it.
• When we last left Peach during the whole saga, she was left desperately calling for help from inside the abomination. "Let's Go Visit Peach!" finally reveals what happened to her, and it's not pretty; she suffered a hideous transformation that turned her into a cross between herself but possessed and a hideous bug-like monster, incapable of uttering nothing more but screeches. A Fate Worse than Death, indeed.
• "Trust No One" is mostly a mix of hilarity and suspense as SMG3 races to find out who took his notebook, but the ending takes a shocking turn where it's revealed that Mario of all people was the culprit, and he easily subdues SMGs 3 and 4 before heading off. When we next see him, he has dropped all traces of humor and simple-mindness and delivered the notebook to an ominous entity he refers to as "king". Whoever was the one that ordered the shot and why Mario whole-heartedly went rogue are unknown, but one thing's for sure; something is up.
  • SMG3's reaction is nothing to scoff at either; known for having a Hair-Trigger Temper and overreacting to any action no matter how big of a deal it is, the angry meme guardian stands outside in the rain with a demeanor and look defining a terrifying Tranquil Fury; the notebook was that important to him, and from the look on his face, he's just declared war on Mario.
  • The "War of the Fat Italians 2023" trailer reveals that the shadow silhouette Mario called his "king" is actually his OC Marty who now owns a casino called Paisano Casino. While there were small hints throughout season 13 that there was something sinister going on with Marty, this proves there was something more going on behind the scenes with him.
• Mario's typical crazy behavior in the series feels… wrong throughout "War of the Fat Italians 2023". In the past, the harm he dealt to his friends is typically restrained to one off jokes or the result of him just being dumb. Through this video, however, Mario is actively and intentionally tormenting SMG3 and SMG4. It comes to a head during the ending song, where Mario's lyrics are sung with more malice than the plumber ever demonstrated before.
• The ending of “No TV Makes Mario No Okie Dokie". After finally getting to the generator in the basement, the blackout is over, Mario’s not coo-coo-crazy anymore, and all’s well that ends well… until everyone hears the sound of their TV set and sees that it’s somehow moved down there with them. It's on the standby screen… with a familiar “Puzzlevision” logo. It's all but clear that our mysterious host is ready to take the stage…
  • Just before the power goes back on, SMG4 sees what looks like the TV entity himself without his head lurking in the shadows, foreshadowing the ominous ending and what's to come.
• Right away, fans following the arc know something is wrong during “Mario’s Mysteries.” And sure enough we get such a moment when the TV entity, now named Mr. Puzzles, sits SMG4 and Mario down for TV Time. The TV set flips to Meggy, Tari, and SMG3 silently screaming in terror while our two main leads start to process it. A few more seconds and the illusion would’ve been broken.
  • If you listen to the TV Time song closely, when Mr. Puzzles sings "Take a break from your troubles" it's done in a more aggressive tone.
  • After "TV Time" ends, SMG4 happily says he'll "see [Mr. Puzzles] later", to which Mr. Puzzles ominously says he certainly will while flashing a Slasher Smile to the camera.
• In "Once Upon an SMG4", near the very end, as SMG3 prepares to tell his wish, his face goes stoic along with the others in the room as he monotonically begs to be released before Mr. Puzzles show up to fix the problem. It's a brief but jarring moment that confirms that our heroes are, in fact Trapped in TV Land and forced to act out Mr. Puzzles' crazy skits against their will.
  SMG3: (monotonically as he stares at the screen) I wish we could all escape from here…
• As the storyline goes on, Mr. Puzzles is clearly becoming increasingly frustrated by Puzzlevision's floundering ratings. Given what we know he's capable of, lord only knows what he'll do to try and increase the audience's "engagement".
• In "Scooby-Mario Where'd You Go?", Mr Puzzles becomes scarily more intrusive on "fixing program errors"; when Mario and Luigi run into a room to escape the animatronic, the room itself containing TVs playing footage from the previous two episodes and countless others besides this one. Before they can do anything, Mr. Puzzles appears behind them, grabs them and rewinds time to before they enter the room and barricades the door so they don't even try to enter, continuing as normal.
• The ending of "Mr Puzzles Incredible Game Show Spectacular", from Mr. Puzzles' Villainous Breakdown to the final moments' unsettling atmosphere.
  • Even before he hits full-on Sanity Slippage, the beginning has him cow Mario, who had been pestering him to start the games already, by yelling at him to wait with a hyper-realistic, terrifying Nightmare Face with mismatched eyes. Granted, no one else would handle an annoying person bugging you for too long, but even Mario's own friends, many of whom have reacted violently to his antics, are understandably taken aback.
  • Mario's antics from here begin wearing down Mr. Puzzles, who is visibly struggling trying not lose his composure and is uncomfortably tense throughout most of the episode.
  • Eventually, one Failure Montage later, Mr. Puzzles finally snaps, dons his Nightmare Face from earlier and imprisons Mario in a "no-no zone" as a time-out. He then goes crazy with the control he has and rains every and any game show elements on the audience and Glitchy Gang alike. It's a scary example about how one's obsession can lead to a total breakdown at the very expense of the people around you, in a vein all too similar to SMG4's startling rage from "Mar10 Day".
    Mr. Puzzles: Here's how to win… DON'T DIE!!!
  • Mr. Puzzles' manic behavior allows Mario to escape confinement, and he wanders into another static TV out of curiousity. The static soon engulfs everyone within Mr. Puzzles' universe- including the man himself- and by the time Mario senses that something is wrong, he is covered in static too. And what's left are an unnerving "…?" message that precedes the Puzzlevision review screen and the gray and silent credits for serious episodes. Whatever Mario discovered and wherever everyone is taken next doesn't seem to bode well for Mr. Puzzles' final episode…
  • On the puzzlevision.tv page when this episode released, Mario has managed to punch a hole through the TV on the website, and if you go to Mr. Puzzles's render filename, which shows his manic face, it reads HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.png. Whatever this means for the fifth episode, it's not a good sign.
  • Credit has to be given to Mr. Puzzles VA, Brendan Blaber, who portrays every single ounce of the madness, rage, and eccentricity of the character.
• YOU WILL SEE:
  Mr. Puzzles: And let me tell you, once I hit five stars… nothing will ever be the same again. Good night, everyone. (Lets out an absolutely demented cackle as his screen shows SMG4 in the darkness)
  SMG4: (sounding on the verge of a panic attack) NO! SOMEONE, PLEASE! LET ME OUT OF HERE!!!
  • Its heavily implied that Mr. Puzzles' obsession with getting a 5 star rating may not entirely be solely about him being The Perfectionist. During his pitch for the movie, he claims that he's preparing to make Puzzlevision a "global streaming service", and given the above line, it seems that getting even one 5 star rating for just one of his programs will somehow give him the power to "change everything". While the exact meaning is currently unclear, the implication is that Mr. Puzzle's end goal is to drag the entire world into Puzzlevision, and he needs just one 5 star rating to do it.
  • The stream leading up to the Puzzlevision movie's premiere features Mr. Puzzle's head as a TV, showcasing all the Puzzlevision originals released so far. As the stream goes on, the programmes become more corrupted with the screen becoming more staticky.
    • The Mario Mysteries segment starts with SMG4 and Mario (as Blue) happily walking through the neighborhood as they pass by their friends: Meat Mallet Luigi and Mr Puzzles are bouncing up and down, Meggy the Landmine is rocking side to side, and Boopkins is waving from his toilet, all with happy smiles on their faces. After the first day, Mario's head has disappeared leaving a headless puppy, Luigi has stopped moving and is staring off into space, Mr Puzzle's bouncing has gotten faster, Meggy is now completely emotionless, and Boopkin is now sporting a full on Slasher Smile, all while SMG4 is blissfully walking along with the same expression as before. After the second day, SMG4 is now visibly nervous while Mario has completely vanished. He passes by multiple bouncing Luigi meat mallets, Mr Puzzles, who not only moves more slowly and with a more manic expression, begins to slide after SMG4 for a few seconds before going off screen. Meggy doesn't even properly appear, flickering in and out of existence. Boopkins gets the most minor change, only having his toilet disappear and leave him waving in midair.
    • Mr Puzzles Incredible Gameshow Spectacular has Mr Puzzles posing on a pedestal. Behind him is a spinning Wheel of Fortune wheel with some of the characters glued to it, and every so often the foreground has a character getting chased by a trap: First Bob panicking as he's swinging from a rope, then Saiko getting pursued by an Obama boulder, then a flaming Boopkins emerging from a spout of fire, and finally Melony running from spikes emerging from the floor. After the first transition, the studio has darkened, and Mr Puzzles' face has turned off, his expressive demeanor from before replaced with him forcefully tapping his foot. The wheel is spinning more slowly, and occasionally glitches out and stops spinning for a second. Likewise, most of the foreground characters have lost all emotion, fleeing from their traps with blank faces, with the exception of Melony who now merely has her eyes closed. After the second transition, the room has gone completely almost completely dark and the wheel is now spinning at breakneck speed, Mr Puzzles manically glaring at the screen. Bob's eyes are closed as he swings across the room, Saiko's pupils have disappeared, and Boopkins is smiling as he's burning alive. Melony, thankfully, returns to normal.
    • Scooby-Mario, Where'd You Go! has SMG4, Meggy, Mario, Luigi, and Tari get chased by various monsters in a classic Scooby-Dooby Doors scene. After the first transition, the gag becomes more unstable with characters moving in unnatural ways and popping in and out of existence, and at once point a GMod error model replaces one of the characters. After the final transition, the show has been edited with increased contrast, and everyone except SMG4 and Luigi have disappeared from the scene. However, there is a new addition: A dark, lanky monster slowly prowling through the doors, searching for them, in stark contrast to the more comedic monsters in the earlier segments. In addition, there's a quick flash of an unknown figure lying at the end of the hall, who disappears as quickly as he appears. Like before, there is no sign of Mario after the first transition.
    • Once Upon an SMG4 has Luigi and SMG3 dancing together, the latter annoyed at what's going on. During the dance, the camera rotates around them, showing SMG4 peeking out from behind a box, Bowser, Groose, and a gnome performing music for them, Bob and a group of hooded figures dancing as the former DJs. Shroomy, Mr Puzzles, Tari, Saiko, Mario, and Boopkins are in the back, cheering for the duo. On the second day, Luigi and SMG3 are noticeably nervous as they dance, glitches making their movements jerky and disjointed. SMG4 has moved to the back of the room, standing on the side of a pillar. Bowser and a couple of Bob's dancers are now completely motionless as the camera passes by them. Mario has yet again disappeared, leaving a headless deer and a motionless Tari and Boopkins. Mr Puzzle's pose has changed, his expression tired as he floats in a more restless position. On the third day, Luigi and SMG3 have disappeared, save for quick flashes where they disappear just as suddenly and a return appearance of the Luigi meat mallet, and the ballroom is almost completely shrouded in darkness. SMG4 hasn't moved from before, but his face is now blank and his witch hat has vanished as his apple floats in mid-air. The band is now completely motionless, and Bob and his dancers are now scattered in midair. Near the end of the clip, Mr Puzzle's insane face is the only light in the shadowy room.
    • Western Spaghetti faces the worst of the glitches, showing a western shootout becoming less stable with each transition. Textures and animations steadily break and disappear as the town gets steadily darker with the music becoming more corrupted and the sun being replaced by the moon.
    • Finally, the announcement for Mr Puzzle's special event, at first professional with Mr Puzzles politely asking for a 5 star rating, then Mr Puzzles getting closer to the screen with a psychotic grin, demanding his 5 star rating. Finally, Mr Puzzles gives up all pretense of restraint, flooding the screen with "GIVE ME 5 STARS GIVE ME 5 STARS GIVE ME 5 STARS GIVE ME 5 STARS" as his face randomly pops up in the background.
  • The puzzlevision.tv website got updated once again. This time, the programs are obscured by malfunctioning TV filters except for the fifth one, where Mr. Puzzles is sitting at his desk and looks backwards towards the visitor. Mr. Puzzles is considerably larger and has an even crazier face than last time, with his image filename "enjoy-the-show.png" like he's forcing the audience to enjoy what he will put up next and desperate for a 5-star rating. The ratings have been changed, and now it says "Horrible!" for each of the ones below the 5-star rating. The newspaper now says, "YOU SHOULD HAVE LISTENED", compared to the standard headline for all the other Puzzlevision originals as if he's blaming the audience for all his actions.
    • A later update to the website has the rating system rigged to always give five stars. No matter what rating you give, it will always display 5 stars, showing that Mr. Puzzles will do whatever means necessary to get what he wants.
    • The thumbnails for the stream have changed as well. When the stream first started, it showed SMG4 all happy go lucky from “Mario’s Mysteries” on the TV displayed within a dark room. However, as the stream went on and the programs within the TV became more glitched and corrupted, the thumbnail has been altered. It showed SMG4 now looking concerned and afraid, and the darkness in the background has been lit up by… a red something. Nobody knows WHAT it is so far, and that only adds up to the horror factor.
    • The stream then later changed again, and GOOD GOD, it’s even worse than before. SMG4 is now glitching out and warped with half of his face looking distorted with a forced smile. And the red in the background has gotten worse: now looking to be a spiraling mass of… SOMETHING like out of a cosmic horror movie! All this highlighting that Mr. Puzzles is plunging deeper and deeper into his insanity.
• During his Villain Song, its revealed that Mr. Puzzles used to be a human and when he decided to get into the entertainment business, he reveals that he literally cut his head off and replaced it with a TV.

  Mr. Puzzles: I was obsessed, I couldn't stop, I wouldn't stop until I'd seen every moving picture that exists!
  Backup Singers: So he made a decision to get into television!
  Mr. Puzzles: I CUT OFF MY FACE AND PUT A TV IN ITS PLACE!

  • It's also through this song he reveals his end game: If he gets five stars, he'll have complete control of the crew's world. And he almost succeeds. Near the end, he's able to command the crew outside of the TV world, and has many of the other characters glued to their TVs. If it weren't for Mario being such a rogue element, his show probably would've gone on forever.
  • He also reveals the reason he picked the SMG4 Crew specifically: He thought their show was garbage, and thought that if he could get 5 stars with them, he could do anything. Think about it, all the suffering, all the destruction, all the grief Mr. Puzzles caused the crew: ALL of it because their show was "the stupidest (he's) ever seen". Evil Is Petty doesn't even begin to describe it.

Miscellaneous Works

• As awesome as "Saikosis" is, its music video contains some disturbing imagery. You have Saiko surrounded by red eyes in complete darkness; Saiko reacting with Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises when Kaizo emerges from her secret room, making it look like he plans on doing… something to her; the Madness Mantra "we don't wanna run from the melody of anarchy" and images of Saiko silently Laughing Mad being superimposed over her panicking—again, in complete darkness—among other things.

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