User blog:WikiSchm2000/The MarioMario54321 Review Marathon - Part 18

'''Mario Bloopers: Mario's Tower(Deleted Scene) (November 17, 2007) [Runtime: 3:39. Total Runtime: 18:19]'''

Prelude:

Welcome back to the adventures of Not Mario, where today we’ll be finishing up the Mario’s Tower series. This is supposedly a deleted scene from the series since I suppose whatever was on here was too depressing. And yeah, I suppose that sort of tone would have contrasted against the rest of the series quite poorly. But considering this deleted scene occurs after the series is over and because it dips right back into positivity by the end, I don’t see how this couldn’t be an official part 3. I suppose it was deleted because MM didn’t want to overrun the YouTube time limit? Maybe? Though really if we combined this part with the other it would still be under nine minutes so I don’t see why it couldn’t have remained. Let’s see how negative this story gets with this latest video!

See this video first though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aH1h4HCrGo&list=PLNPi6H0sXYaCHQG4Br4q5yZJp8uxhid2B&index=18

The Main Video:

We start with Not Mario wandering around in the Pokemon world again after visiting his jangled stack of boxes….I mean his tower. Yeah, sure, that thing’s a tower. He somehow encounters Luigi while wandering outside which is incredibly, incredibly stupid if you think about it. Somehow out of the tons of Pokemon routes he could have gone he happened to wander right to where Luigi was standing of all places.

I know MM wanted to show off a Pokemon trainer having Luigi’s colors but it would make far more sense if Luigi just came to Not Mario to tell him the news instead of Not Mario basically meeting him. That way it wouldn’t feel like we’re meeting Luigi in the equivalent of a random Pokemon encounter.

After seeing his brother nearby and no doubt being scared of his presence, Luigi tells him that the oil he struck earlier was actually a pipeline. Wait a minute, that doesn’t make sense! If you hit a pipeline then wouldn’t they have noticed immediately and fined you for it? Or did Luigi just take the oil with him and trade it in for quick cash? I’m guessing the latter happened and Luigi just got the cash before the company could bother to inspect where that oil came from. Whoever was managing trade or inspection that day must have been fired for incompetence, I can tell you that much.

Regardless of the failings of checking oil sources, Luigi had to sell both towers to pay back in fines. He also had to pay extra money to the point where the Mario Brothers have no money left. In other news, Not Mario and Luigi are now completely broke. This depressed Not Mario enough to not even consider killing his brother again, instead walking away in sadness. Following text shows that Not Mario ended up sleeping in the streets begging for money, with him only getting a cent in return. The thought of the Mario Brothers being out of money and begging on the streets was probably why this video was deleted, considering just that thought would be depressing.

But given how bad Not Mario was in the past videos, I’d say this was karma for him. Given how awful of a human being he’s been with all the people he’s killed or terrorized and the property he’s destroyed, a public menace like him doesn’t deserve cash. You might be wondering why Not Mario is homeless when he could literally live in the castle, but I’m respecting Peach’s decision here. Why would she let the guy who literally let her die from a disease live in her castle? The only thing I find really odd is his insistence on being homeless when he could literally get a job anywhere he wants to. He’s powerful enough, I’m sure he could threaten a few people to have him work. Although I guess this is a credit to the people too, they’re finally fed up with Not Mario’s crud and decided to abandon him. This is the single greatest moment of karma in the entire series so far, which basically means this scene completely fails in the context of the entire MM canon.

However, one thing I’ve been failing to do in these videos is try to see things through a standalone perspective. Really if you look at it through the eyes of just this video series alone, Not Mario hasn’t been as bad as he has been before. He genuinely isn’t as bloodthirsty as before, heck he hasn’t outright stated that he wants to kill Luigi so far. If we’re taking this alone then the scene actually works because it’s possible to sympathize with this version of Not Mario. This description and music really is depressing too, for as much depression as Windows Movie Maker text allows. Actually it’s probably better that it’s text because then your imagination takes over for you. MM adds in a moment too where a guy gives Not Mario a cent, only for there to be nothing worth less than 2 cents in the world. A bit cheesy, but it adds a bit to the scene.

Also Luigi, even though he’s a gigantic idiot who probably deserves this, is at least sympathetic to where I can feel somewhat bad for him no matter the context.

But taking in all the previous videos from now on, after that scene plays out, we see that Not Mario has had enough. And you would think that Not Mario would be enraged to seek revenge against Luigi or Peach or society as a whole, but he instead vows to earn money by building a 5-star hotel. Which...actually isn’t a crime. At all. In fact it’s a very legitimate way of making money. And not only that, but it’s a beneficial building that would be good for society while still getting Not Mario back on track.

I...I can’t believe it! I actually can’t believe it! Not Mario’s doing something good for once! Granted, it’s for his own selfish reasons, but it’s still a gigantic step up from killing brothers, blowing up towers and assassinating poor penguin watchmen. In fact this seems like something Mario might end up doing if he ever got into trouble! ...but the question still remains, do I keep calling him Not Mario if he’s doing a very Mario-like thing? …eh nah, I can’t muster up the willpower to remember to call him that every time. I’ll only call him that if, in a video, he does something horribly wrong. And in this video he hasn’t yet.

So Mario gets a construction team to work for him. He says that he’s using a credit card for construction, but given his reputation I don’t think he has any credit or credence to hire a construction company without having to pay them up-front. Granted since he’s Mario they’re probably scared enough to accept his demands anyways because they’ll be killed otherwise, so Mario gets his wish in constructing his hotel. Also he says that he’ll use Luigi too, but promptly completely forgets about his existence. And just in the span of one paragraph, I have the right to call him Not Mario again.

Not Mario’s new hotel is completed in a few months (actually it’s just a Pokemon battle tower, not a hotel, but let's pretend for now).

When checking it out we have Scatman Music for some reason. Scatman Counter: 9. I don’t know why that music is here, maybe the locals are attracted to come here to listen to it blasting outside the walls or something? Or maybe the construction crew added it thinking it needed to be perfect for Not Mario’s tastes? In any case, Not Mario finally remembers Luigi is an actual living being and invites him over to the tower too. It would be nice if he didn’t forget, but since he did it doesn’t really do anything for me.

Luigi is seen in the exact same place that he was before, which is also a huge coincidence since he’s supposedly a hobo now. Actually, how did he survive the past few months in the same condition that Not Mario did? I know Not Mario might have been given food by the construction company after days of eating garbage, but Luigi doesn’t have that luxury! Maybe he was actually taken pity on by the civilians or Peach and given adequate living conditions, given that he’s not that bad of a person? If he didn’t have that then he should be dead by now, just saying.

So Luigi is invited to see the hotel as Scatman plays once again. Scatman Counter: 10. Once Luigi goes inside, the video ends.

So overall this series was better in some respects and worse in others. We finally have Not Mario turning out to be more and more of a decent person, even if it is a super small increase in benevolence. The whole twist with the towers made no sense, though I must admit that Mario’s Tower is a pretty good title for the title overall. It could relate to any of the three towers that Not Mario had or thought that he had, including the Hotel, and I guess it’s cool that all three videos have their own building that could be called Mario’s Tower. I guess Luigi wasn’t much of a character in this besides being Not Mario’s brother, though, it really was all just Not Mario in terms of personality. And even though I like Luigi more, my feelings are still stronger towards Not Mario overall due to his sheer hateability as a character. And this deleted scene, like I said before, could just be called Part 3 and nothing would really change.

The Extra Bonus Stuff:

Not Mario - 26 lines [115, 80%] (I wish he was still broke honestly.)

Luigi - 9 lines [18, 13%] (For the second main character of this series, he doesn’t really get that much screen time.)

Town Civilians - 0 lines [0] (Some say they trampled Not Mario on the street.)

Fat Guy #1 - 0 lines [1, 1%] (There’s at least someone out there that’s going to legitimately buy that tower.)

Fat Guy #2 - 0 lines [1, 1%] (In fact if the two fat guys keep residing there and prefer to stay there, shouldn’t they technically be its owners?)

Monk #1 - 0 lines [2, 1%] (Got sold along with the towers I guess.)

Monk #2 - 0 lines [5, 3%] (He’s working elsewhere now.)

Ho-Oh - 0 lines [0] (Still not an actual character.)

The Guy that gave Not Mario One Cent - 0 lines [0] (I’m singling out this guy because he’s awesome.)

Construction Man - 1 line [1, 1%] (He exists I guess.)

Total Lines: 143 lines (Not enough to surpass the waterfall video)

Part Biggest Chad: The Guy that gave Not Mario One Cent - It takes balls to mock Not Mario by giving his broke self a single cent.

Part Biggest Loser: Luigi - If they were an actual referred character, whoever discovered the pipe leakage would definitely be taking this title instead of Luigi. But Luigi somehow didn’t notice he drilled into a pipeline, nor checked it in the first place, so he’s going here in their place. Not Mario came really close, though.

Overall Biggest Chad: Not Mario - You might think of me as insane for doing this, but really overall he is the biggest chad. He got the whole of Rainbow Road as a gift for Luigi’s blunder, not to mention him actually deciding to build a hotel to get cash was an actual good decision that didn’t harm anyone else. But the man who gave him a penny came really close because Not Mario did end up getting fooled by Luigi the first time around, plus he did suffer in poverty for some time.

Overall Biggest Loser: Ho-oh - Imagine being a legendary Pokemon that appears and yet having no speaking lines or more than 3 seconds of screen time despite the plot taking place on the tower that you reside in. Not to mention the plot completely glossed over them so it’s no shock why it wins the Biggest Loser award.

Favorite Quote: "But there is nothing out there worth under two cents..." - Narrator (You may laugh at this line but it approximately takes around two pennies to make one. Although technically it's 1.76 cents to make a cent so by the strictest of technicalities this line is still wrong).

The main protagonist returns in the next series, as we dive into Mario v. Oiram 3!