Trivia / Fantendo

• Accidentally-Correct Writing:
  • The wiki has predicted various names for real Video Games. Examples other than Numbered Sequels include Mario Kart Tour, Mario Party Superstars, Super Mario 3D World, and Super Mario Odyssey. However, the content tends to bear little resemblance beyond the name, and attract a flood of comments from confused internet-goers mistaking the article for official information, criticizing the differences to the real product, or just drawing far more attention to the surface-level coincidence than the work on display. Particularly interesting examples include:
    • The several fangames named New Super Mario Bros. 2. By the time of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which was assumed to be the sequel to the DS game, it looked like Nintendo would never release a game by that title. This was held against the fangames as a blatant error until Nintendo actually did use that name (and, arguably, embellished the more unique aspects of the fangames by comparison).
    • One early sequel idea for Super Mario Maker is, itself, also named Super Mario Maker. When the real game was announced, it was tentatively named "Mario Maker". The article was created before the final name that it accidentally predicted.
    • Similarly, one of the articles titled Super Mario Odyssey was predicted to be a sequel to the real, then-unnamed Super Mario Odyssey.
    • This happened once again with New Super Mario Bros. Wonder Switch.
  • Once New Super Mario Bros. Wii expanded the playable cast by adding a Yellow and Blue Toad who play identically, many New Super Mario Bros. fangames built up a litany of characters with unique abilities, tradeoffs, and story-based unlock conditions. These Author Appeal rosters, though inspired by the quartets of Super Mario Bros. 2 and 64 DS, dwarfed anything seen in the main series, contrasting the official games' purely multiplayer-requisite, safe choices. Then came Super Mario Run, which combines the New Super Mario Bros. style with ten unlockable characters and gives Princess Daisy a subplot in this exact vein.
  • Fantendo Smash Bros. Victory's Finisher Meter predicted the Final Smash Meter option in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
• Adored by the Network: The Fantendoverse got a lot of attention in the latter half of the 2010s.
• Anonymous Author: Two layers of it: wiki usernames, and company names. These fictional development studios most often serve as aliases for a single user. But it helps organize and unify projects, and a user can change their company branding without having to change their username across Fandom and Gamepedia. Most importantly to Fantendo's premise, it upholds the Kayfabe^note until you wonder how every company seems to share Nintendo's intellectual property rights and budget by providing a still-personalized but believable name for the "developer" field on infoboxes.
• Defictionalization: Despite visitors often requesting that their favorite articles be turned into playable games, this is very nearly always averted. Many authors don't have this in mind or even want it. It would require a significantly different skillset and audience. Developing fangames for real game series could even risk being seen as competing with the official products, provoking the more litigious development studios. With that said, a rare few articles have been created with the purpose of providing a prospective playable project.
• Exiled from Continuity: Sometimes happens when creators decide to leave the wiki and take down their work. The New Fantendoverse added a clause that prevented this from being done retroactively, to avoid having to rewrite completed and in-progress works.
• Milestone Celebration: Several showcases and projects, like the Fantendo 10th Anniversary Showcase, have been dedicated to the wiki's surprising longevity.
• Non-Singing Voice: Some pages call for different voice talent when the character is crying. This seems to be a practice carried over from GoAnimate's software voices, by the users who came from that community.