Toad and Toadette also headline Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. Toad is a headlining playable character in multiple Super Mario games, including the original Super Mario Kart, New Super Mario Bros.Thus a poisonous Watoad (Woad? Warioad?!) must and should exist somewhere in the dank underground of the Mushroom Kingdom. 2 - you may know it as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels - introduced the Poison Mushroom, a debuffing (bad) version of the (good) Power Mushroom power-up. Mushrooms, in Super Mario games, are good. Toads are mushroom people and they are good.My personal want - and, I contend, our best option for a fourth Wa character among the Super Mario series’ playable, most recognizable heroes - is a “bad” version of Toad. While these two are not official “Wa” characters, there’s still some hope - and a good candidate - for Nintendo to expand the Wa canon. Syrup and Wario are rivals, which might further cement her standing as Wapeach - if Mario and Peach have a good relationship, ought not Wario and his “Wapeach” have a bad relationship? Syrup rules both an island of criminals and maybe even the surrounding seas, making her royalty of sorts. Both love treasure, and the Mario Party games hint at a private relationship between Wario and Toadette: In Mario Party 6, the pair’s team name is “Secret Friends,” and in Mario Party 8, their team name is “Double Agents.” Much to think about.Īnother theory argues that Captain Syrup, the pirate and ruler of Kitchen Island from the Wario Land games, already performs the role of Wapeach. However, one theory purports that Toadette - herself an extension of Toad - is secretly already Wario’s Princess Peach equivalent. Artists’ thoughts on Wapeach and Wadaisy are often delightfully diverse, extending upon the caricaturish designs of Wario and Waluigi in female form in various ways: colder, crueler, sexier, portlier, lankier, more grotesque. Twitter, Tumblr, and DeviantArt are replete with fan art of Wapeach and Wadaisy - the dark, devious pair of princesses are well-worn artistic territory. I am, of course, nowhere near the first person to propose the Wafication of the greater Super Mario Bros. Boshi’s original Japanese name is Wasshi, borrowing the same Wa naming scheme introduced with Wario.īut why did Nintendo stop there? Why not “Wa” the entirety of the Mushroom Kingdom to create a gigantic weird playground? Why not a Wapeach, Wadaisy, and, in keeping with character trait twists, a kind-hearted and generous Wabowser (aka Wowser) who won’t kidnap and kill anyone? Shouldn’t Nintendo create a full Bizarro World funhouse mirror dimension of the Super Mario canon? This proposed alternate universe is sometimes known as the MarioCube theory: If a (good) Mario thing exists, does a (bad) Wario version of that thing exist? In the years between, Nintendo also authorized the creation of Boshi, a bad-boy version of Yoshi who doesn’t wear shoes but does wear a spiked collar. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Waluigi, birthed in 2000 by Mario Tennis, felt like a natural extension of Wario, though the “bad Luigi” hasn’t quite carved out the personality (nor the game catalog) of his evildoing predecessor. Since his introduction in 1992’s Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, the Wario character has given Nintendo and other developers permission to get weird, using the chaotic neutral version of Mario as a vector for experiments like the WarioWare and Wario Land games. Nintendo struck gold with Wario, the greedy, gluttonous, gassy antithesis to Mario. Waluigi, a character destined to never appear in Super Smash Bros. It’s been more than 20 years since Nintendo introduced a new “Wa” character to the wider Nintendo canon.
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