Anti-Climax Boss: Elisa and Sarah, the champions of Tennis, are no more difficult than most of the higher-ranking Pros of the sport. It is easy to shut them out by luring them to one side of the court and having them miss the court. This is in stark contrast to how challenging Matt and Sakura are.
The title theme and the menu theme are simply nostalgic.
The music that plays after earning a medal in training mode is satisfying.
Base-Breaking Character: Sakura, the champion of Baseball, is one of the most divisive of the CPU Miis. Fans of her think she's a fair challenge and has a good design, while detesters find her to be That One Boss and dislike her for looking smug.
Ensemble Dark Horse: Matt, the boxing champion, is easily the most popular CPU Mii and is perceived as a Memetic Badass. Even after Nintendo Switch Sports switched to Sportsmate avatars as the main characters, online players posing as Matt with Mii avatars replicating his appearance can be found, and he was among the classic Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort Miis patched in as secret opponents (in the case of Matt, he's the opponent for Chambara).
In Tennis, anytime a Mii ends up diving clear across the court to hit a ball.
There's a Tennis minigame to hit a target on a wall to test your swing control. Hitting the surrounding wall starts to break it down, resulting in the ridiculous scenario of busting a hole in a brick wall with a tennis ball.
In Bowling, if you ever end up accidentally (or purposefully) throwing the bowling ball backwards, the entire crowd will freak out, scream, and do a spinning jump. It's even funnier if you roll the ball slowly since they'll still have the same panicked reaction.
Game-Breaker: In Boxing, doing slow-motion swerves and then striking the opponent makes the harder opponents and Matt far easier to beat, since it will usually leave them open and do a good chunk of damage.
Hype Backlash: At the height of its popularity, Wii Sports (along with Wii Fit and Just Dance) caught some flak from the gaming community due to fears that it would start an entire Audience Shift for gaming towards general, casual audiences (with "soccer moms" and "senior citizens" being common buzzwords). However, this died down as this proved to not be the case.
Memetic Badass: Matt. Explanation One of the games' various CPU Miis, as well as the champion of Boxing, is Matt, a bald Black Mii with a beard, who has a habit of defeating his opponents very quickly. Reddit users later turned him into◊ a Memetic Badass claiming that he is one of the 15 people who could defeat Thanos even with the Gauntlet in seconds. When the version 3.0.0 update for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate added the ability to share created content online, Mii Fighter recreations of Matt became extremely common.
"NICE ON!" from Golf and the Strike graphic/sound effect from Bowling have seen some mild mutation in meme videos and YouTube Poop; the former often in a sarcastic sense (usually over Epic Fails) and the latter over clips of things (or people!) being knocked down.
The CPU Mii Matt was made into a meme due to being the Boxing champion (as well as the Swordplay champion in Resort).
The main theme of the first game has seen much use in memes starting from the late 2010s.
Boxing Results lyrics Explanation People sometimes make their own lyrics to the Boxing Results music, synced to the rhythm of the song. The comments section of this video is a good example.
Periphery Demographic: Wii Sports (particularly bowling) became popular in senior citizen recreation centers and nursing homes, as the Wii was small, portable, and much less able to hurt your foot if you dropped the "ball." In fact, the record-holder for the highest score in Bowling is in his 90s (specifically being born in 1926, roughly eighty years before Wii Sports came out).
That One Boss: Sakura, the champion of Baseball, is often considered to be an annoyance. She often pitches slow-moving balls that are impossible to get a good swing out of, if they don't end up counting as Balls. She and her team are also able to get Home Runs easily. Beating her often requires waiting for her to sweat while pitching (resulting in her throwing shots for a home run) or using Splitter Ball shots (which her team will often bat at, resulting in Foul Balls).
of the first game has seen much use in memes starting from the late 2010s.
