Mario’s Castle Calamity
is a series of Flash animations starring Mario and his attempts to destroy the castle from Super Mario World.
In addition to Jeremy Simms’ original and its sequel, there are many successors to it, some better than others. A few stick out, though.
- Luigi’s Castle Calamity, which stars Luigi.
- The two Castle Collabs, which are longer than the original and feature other animators.
- The GMOD Castle Calamity, which consists of different attempts by multiple different Garry's Mod users. Bonus points for having Doug Walker as the voice of the narrator during the beginning.
- Mario's Castle Calamity 2018, which is actually just an April Fools day video with Mario having a Rage Quit moment and storming off set, leading to an interview with him about what it's like to be on the show.
- Mario's Castle Calamity: All 4 One, in which Luigi, Peach, and Toad join in on the fun.
- Castle Calamity: Art Chaos, Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Yoshi and Toad decide to banish the indestructible castle by launching it into the sky via slingshot. Unfortunately, it destroys a statue that a wizard named Technicolor made of himself. As such, he inflicts The Acrylic Curse on the gang, cursing their reality to constantly change looks unless they destroy the castle.
This Web animation contains examples of:
- Accidental Murder: The usual victims are Toad, Luigi, or Peach.
- After the End: Part 2.6 opens with Mario re-entering the game, having Rage Quit mere moments before a Nuclear Nelson makes impact and destroys the Mushroom Kingdom. What's worse is that the castle is still very much intact.
- Anti-Climax: If anything actually destroys the castle in any given video, it's usually something ridiculously minor.
- Art Shift: The entirety of "Castle Calamity: Art Chaos" due to The Acrylic Curse Technicolor inflicts on Mario's reality.
- Batter Up!: The Baseball Boy at the end of the original.
- Brick Joke: Comes up frequently during the attempts to destroy the castle. For example, Mario once launched a Banzai Bill at it, which promptly turned around and continued to chase him throughout the rest of the episode.
- Bull Seeing Red: Used by Peach in All-4-One...but the bull just headbutts Mario into the sky.
- Butt-Monkey: EVERYONE, especially the one who's trying to destroy the castle.
- Iron Butt Monkey: EVERYONE x2, especially the one who's trying to destroy the castle.
- The Cameo: Sonic, Kirby, Metroids, Pikachu, Mega Man, the Portal Gun and Tetris Blocks have all shown up.
- Plus, audio cameos. Castle Collab has two from SpongeBob SquarePants. One was the “I dunno, what do you wanna do today?” Gag, the other was Plankton screaming under SpongeBob’s shoe in The Spongebob Squarepants Movie. One more near the end is Courage the Cowardly Dog's dazed laugh.
- The GMOD videos really amp this up as about half the videos consist of other characters trying to help Mario (or Luigi, Peach or Toad) destroy the castle or screw them over somehow (e.g. Haruhi blowing away Mario with a missile launcher or a Joltik draining the electricity from Mario's missile launcher then leaping on him to electrocute him in 1).
- Tari, Meggy, Melony (in her human form), Axol and Rage Waluigi all appear in All-4-One.
- Cooldown Hug: Luigi gives one to Mario at one point in Calamity 2.6.
- Combination Attack: Mario, Luigi, Peach and Toad do an All Out Attack to the castle in All-4-One...which just results in THEM suffering the effects.
- Cluster F-Bomb: Mario delivers this at the end of Castle Collab 2.
- Extreme Omnivore: Luigi in the Castle Collab.
- Fourth Wall Psych: The beginning and ending of All-4-One has Leilani talking to the viewers...and then the ending reveals she's talking to a 3-Goomba tower with the top one holding a camera and asks "Can I go now?"
- Fastball Special: Among the many things Mario has hurled at the castle are Luigi, Toad and even Peach.
- Funny Background Event: A lot in the GMOD collabs. For instance, in All-4-One after Axol and Melony's attempt goes haywire, Melony can be seen strangling Axol in the background.
- Groin Attack:
No more budding! - Here We Go Again!:
- Mario finally manages to destroy the castle at the end of Calamity 2.6. During the celebration, Bowser kidnaps Peach, and...takes her to Castle #2. And outside of Castle #2 is a sign pointing the way to Castle #3...
- Driven to Suicide: Poor Mario finally snaps, shooting himself in the head.
- Defied at the end of All-4-One. After Bowser flings the castle into the sky, Mario, Peach, Toad and Bowser head off. Luigi, however, sees the castle come down in one piece and he decides to never mention it to Mario again as it would kill Mario's good mood.
- Mario finally manages to destroy the castle at the end of Calamity 2.6. During the celebration, Bowser kidnaps Peach, and...takes her to Castle #2. And outside of Castle #2 is a sign pointing the way to Castle #3...
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Quite a lot.
- Whenever Mario tries to order something to tear down the castle, it invariably turns on him.
- When he tried shooting it with a missile launcher, it bounced back. He tries it three times.
- He tried launching a Poison Mushroom at it. It turned around when it hit the castle.
- Anything projectile tends to bounce back at him, really. Except in the Collab 2 finale.
- Kaizo Trap: This is the very final indignity Mario suffers in "Goal Calamity".
- Losing Your Head: Mario's head just falls off when Luigi starts streaking.
- Megaton Punch: Luigi once gets punched into the castle this way.
- Major Injury Underreaction: In the GMOD videos, Mario or the others tend to react casually when hurt in some fashion.
- Naked People Are Funny: A running gag in the official two.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: The titular castle. Everything that's thrown at it either bounces back to the thrower, misses, gets sidetracked or doesn't do anything once it connects. It WAS destroyed in the second Castle Collab.... but then it gets revived by a 1-up mushroom. Mario understandably bluescreens. Interestingly, the castle does get... removed at the end of the second Castle Calamity permanently, but Mario still bluescreens from how Luigi solves the problem.
- Nightmare Face: The castle suddenly gets one in Castle Collab 2. Mario freaks.
- Mario himself gets one as he becomes more and more unhinged in his attempts to destroy the castle.
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "Kaboom."
- Rage Quit: Mario performs one in Castle Calamity 2018, storming off the set after he suffered one too many jokes at his expense.
- Railroad Tracks of Doom: In one of the GMOD collabs, Mario and Luigi set up some railroad tracks. Yukari then appears and opens a rift which sends a train onto the Mario Bros.
- Reset Button: At the end of Part 2.6, Mario steals Link's ocarina and uses it to travel back to before the Mushroom Kingdom was destroyed.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Many times when an attempt goes wrong, such as in 2, when White has her Conkeldurr fling the castle into the sky only for it to hit N on his Reshiram and the castle drops on Mario leading White and Conkeldurr to pull this.
- Show Within a Show: As Castle Calamity 2018 reveals, having Mario storm off the set and the rest of the short being a interview about the show.
- Stuff Blowing Up: Whenever Bob-ombs or Bullet Bills are involved. The collabs tend to turn this into stuff blowing up for little-to-no reason.
- The Scream: A few of the "attempts" are just Mario screaming at the top of his lungs over his failures.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The finale of the second Castle Collab.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Everybody’s died at least twice. Even the castle gets destroyed, though it gets restored at the end of both of the Castle Collabs.
- This Is Gonna Suck: At one point in GMOD Castle Calamity, Luigi accidentally sneezes and blows out the fuse that was about to destroy the castle. Mario, naturally, is about to blow his top and all Luigi can do is to turn the camera looking like he knows exactly what's about to happen and mutters a worried "Bye-bye."
- A Twinkle in the Sky: In All-4-One, this happens to Mario when Pyrrha's semblance accidentally hits the hapless plumber with a Banzai Bill.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: The result of Luigi picking up a poison mushroom in the first installment.
- Wrap Around: If something goes flying off the side of the screen, it will almost always come flying back, mostly to whoever flung it.
