User blog:WikiSchm2000/The MarioMario54321 Review Marathon - Part 2

'''Mario Kart 64 Bloopers: Mario’s Revenge on Luigi! (August 12, 2007) [Runtime: 3:40]'''

Prelude:

So after making his first ever Super Mario 64 Bloopers, the recent 14-year old YouTuber MarioMario54321 promised us that we would be seeing far more Super Mario 64 videos in the future. For his next video, however, it seems that he’s decided to completely forgo making one of those in favor of doing a Mario Kart 64 one instead. Which...it’s still technically a blooper, but it’s kind of weird that he’d be switching mediums so soon. So, theoretically, this is already his first non-SM64 video.

Mario Kart 64 isn’t a bad pick for a video series to be fair. It doesn’t have as much freedom as Mario 64 does, but it still fits in with the Mario Universe well enough to where you can believe it takes place in the same continuity. It won’t be as common, especially with the limitations, but there was some nice stuff done with it. The ‘Revenge’ series is one of the most lasting of these types of videos, though its ability to get characters right is...questionable. Very, very questionable.

Now, this video is notable for a very good reason. It begins the era that I will henceforth consider as the ‘Morally Questionable Mario Era’, a point in time where Mario wasn’t exactly the heroic figure (and thus not being in-character). This was an...interesting era to say the least, especially since Mario definitely doesn’t act like himself for quite a bit of it and does anytime else. What exactly do I mean by morally questionable? You’ll find out right now!

Watch the video first using the link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfR6zjtW_Rg&list=PLNPi6H0sXYaCHQG4Br4q5yZJp8uxhid2B&index=2

The Main Video:

Well you know things are off to a great start when the intro states to ‘Beware of the Bad Music!’ Unless this is “Friday” by Rebecca Black or the Crazy Bus theme, I’m not sure if I need to beware of music in general. But considering this was pasted in a bold red Windows Movie Maker explosion cut-out I guess we need to take this warning seriously.

So after that lovely warning, we start off with MM putting both Mario and Luigi out in the middle of Mario Circuit.

Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention Hypercam2 in the last review. That’s the editing software that’s used in these videos, and if you didn’t know that then you’re blind as a bat because the Unregistered HyperCam 2 logo on the top left of the screen is practically unavoidable. Yeah it sticks out like a sore thumb so often, but to be fair this was when I don’t think there was much better in terms of recording on computers, so we’ll just have to let it slide for now.

We start off with Mario having recently built a sign on his circuit, meaning this must have happened before any Mario Kart 64 races. All the while Luigi is just sitting in his kart doing nothing a distance aways, still running his kart. You know, when you sit still on a course track, isn’t that releasing a lot of fuel into the air, basically poisoning the atmosphere? Luigi, what the hell are you doing, you could at least turn your kart off before eavesdropping into Mario’s personal life!

Other than that, we’ve already had character development from the last video! Yes, Mario finally learned how to spell the word beautiful correctly! Congrats Mario, you know basic English now! Although right afterwards he said he would hate it if someone ran the sign over with a Star. Hmm, I wonder if fate’s going to screw over Mario with that line later. After saying basically the worst thing you could possibly say when trying to keep something you value, Mario drives off (and hits a plant in the process because he’s perhaps a bad driver) to see the sign from a distance.

Right after that and obviously hearing Mario describe how to destroy the darn thing, Luigi decides to do the deed because he feels inferior to Mario…? Okay, first off, we’re already out of character for Luigi. I’m almost certain he has some jealousy issues, but mainly I think he’s fine with being in Mario’s shadow for the most part. Although to be fair, it’s a fun thing to speculate about with Luigi, so I can’t blame MM for a bit of curiosity. I can’t blame him too much for only controlling one kart at a time, though, seeing as he’s having to control both with the same computer. That being said, though, it’s still odd to see Mario watching his sign with his kart still running. And I know their fuel isn’t clean because there’s smoke coming out of it, so yeah the Mario Brothers are absolutely terrible at preventing global warming.

For all of Luigi’s problems, though, he at least didn’t misspell a word until his second line with ‘strke’, meaning he’s already surpassed Mario in one way. Not satisfied with that, however, Luigi goes up to the sign and prepares to strike. Given that he’s had the star this entire time, though, I’m not even sure Mario’s outburst gave him new information. I legit think Luigi was planning for this for days and that somehow he knew Mario was undergoing sign construction. So, with everything obviously prepared for, Luigi prepares his terrorist attack and destroys Mario’s sign.

Fun fact, if you didn’t know it was possible in MK64 earlier, you now know that it’s possible to destroy the sign with the star now. Mario, on the other hand, isn’t appreciative that his sign instead of exploding is literally ascending into heaven or whatever planet needs him right now (actually how did that sign ascend? Did it actually have a soul?). And he asks in fury who destroyed the sign, and since there’s no security cameras I don’t think Mario will ever know. Mario was in a convenient place where he couldn’t see anything, meaning that Luigi could just turn around with his kart and flee as quickly as possible. Mario would never know, and Luigi would have gotten his (rather petty) revenge on his brother. A genius plan, one that will never be solved.

Well, Luigi instead of doing the smart thing decides to drive right through the normal course of the track seconds after the sign was destroyed, admits to Mario’s face that he destroyed the sign and LAUGHS about it. Great, I’m sure Mario will appreciate that you’ve spited him right in front of his own face. So in this universe Luigi is not only petty but also incredibly horribly stupid. So because Luigi was a complete idiot, Mario understandably gets upset at Luigi for basically destroying his property. And something happens that lets us know that he’s angry right now.

Oh no, the Bad Music has appeared! (Note: The bad music is just a remix of Bowser’s final battle theme from SM64 if you want to know).

And with that bad music, Mario automatically declares that he’s going to kill his brother for what he’s done!

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Um…

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WHAT?

Okay I thought Luigi was being out of character but this I think takes the cake. Mario, he just destroyed a sign, you can like arrest him or force him to pay for a new sign or something. You know, anything other than cold-blooded murder? This is kind of what I mean by this being the Morally Questionable Era, because Mario is completely out of character in instances like this. He’s a lot more murder-happy towards things he hates. Though then again he kills the Koopa Troop all the time so you could argue that’s in-character. But never would I see him killing his own brother for something as petty as this, so yeah Mario’s gone clearly insane. What Luigi needs to do now is drive for the hills and warn Peach so that he isn’t murdered in cold blood. That way he at least has a chance of surviving.

But, being the dumb stupid idiot that he is, he decides to stop and let Mario basically catch up with him. Okay yeah you’re basically asking to be murdered Luigi, I can’t even feel bad for you even though you’re clearly the less evil person here. Mario decides not to taint his own course with Luigi’s blood, captures him and forces him onto the top of a skyscraper, mainly to dispose of any evidence of his murder. And he’s making it a balloon fight most likely to disguise the fact that this is murder instead of a game.

Okay, I’ll buy it. Mario’s clearly showing he’s far smarter than Luigi by committing to a secretive murder plan, although his yelling probably tipped everyone off that he’s going to murder his brother. But, let’s just say that no one else heard him for some miraculous reason. So I assume that his plan is going to be pushing Luigi off the skyscraper, mainly because if he dies from falling from that height the death will be chalked up to a suicide. And if it isn’t, since Mario was fighting a balloon battle, he could just chalk it up to an accident and get off easy on the charges. A decent plan, if not the best, but he’s clearly thought more about this than Luigi. And it took him moments to think of it, so yeah I guess Luigi really is a super idiot.

So, how does this battle commence? Well, with Luigi being taken there against his will he...stays there and lets Mario ram him with both a red shell and a star.

Hum...Luigi, you want to um defend yourself at all? I know Mario’s kidnapped you and you have nowhere to run, but perhaps maybe you could fight back a bit? Maybe? Or does our “Bad Music” somehow have the power to paralyze you in fear? At this point I’m thinking it was Luigi that had to beware the Bad Music, because that’s Mario’s main weapon towards killing him.

Realizing soon that he’s about to die if he doesn’t get off his butt, Luigi finally starts driving away and preparing to attack Mario back. And Mario...stops in place while Luigi is driving, when he’s about to attack him? Mario, um, what are you doing? Shouldn’t you continue attacking, or at the very least not leave yourself vulnerable to being attacked? Or is the Bad Music affecting you now for some reason?

In any case, Mario has to consider himself lucky because Luigi is the biggest idiot in the kingdom. Instead of carefully trying to hit Mario, Luigi basically misses harder than a Stormtrooper and keeps driving. And in case you didn’t think Luigi would be any stupider, he drives HIMSELF off the skyscraper and basically kills himself for Mario. This has to be like the most fortunate thing that’s ever happened to Mario, he got Luigi dead without actually having to commit the act!

So with Luigi hitting the cold hard pavement and splatting on the ground, Lakitu decides not to honor his corpse and drags it up for Mario to see. Lakitu must be so used to saving people that he didn’t even realize Luigi was already dead. So, Mario got away with murder scot-free because of Luigi’s stupidity and it’s not said that Luigi was ever revived. But the sign was repaired, so hey, a happy ending! Given that Luigi’s come back to life later, though, I’m assuming they eventually used the 1-up mushroom, so we’re establishing quite well that death is cheap. Great!

So, this was a rather telling introduction to the ‘Morally Questionable Era’. We’ve seen Luigi be a complete idiot, which I don’t think carries over to other videos but if it does I wouldn’t be surprised. And we get the start of Mario’s unfortunate innocent kill streak. Of the positives, though, we’ll definitely be hearing the “Bad Music” again! ...we’ll be hearing it a lot.

The Extra Bonus Stuff:

Mario - 27 lines [60%] (Yeah it’s his revenge so it makes sense)

Luigi - 18 lines [40%] (The other main character, and the guy who quite frankly was too stupid to live in my opinion)

Lakitu - Nothing (And he deserves nothing because he just watched all this happen. He's almost about as guilty of this as Mario and Luigi are, not completely since he tried to save Luigi at the literal last second.)

Total Lines: 45 lines

Biggest Chad: Lakitu - Only by default since he's the only one who didn't have their character massacred. Also he at least tried to save Luigi maybe so he only gets this by doing the bare minimum. Mario was technically the bigger accomplisher but he doesn’t deserve this at all because he’s nothing but a filthy murderer in this video. I’m shaking my head at him, how could he be so petty as to murder his own brother for destroying a bloody sign?

Biggest Loser: Luigi - Yeah this is obvious. The guy was so stupid that he outright confessed to the crime, ended up literally waiting to get murdered and when he somehow didn’t, he killed himself. I would speculate that he was literally wanting to get himself killed if he didn’t cry out in fear for half of his lines.

Favorite Quote: "Beware of the Bad Music!" - The opening narration. (Okay it's not actual dialogue but it's so cheesily good that I just had to put it as my favorite. A clear warning of bad music, what more could you ask for me to describe this wonderful line?)

Next time, we’ll finally be starting with the first of the Doppelganger videos. What are the Doppelgangers? You’ll just find out next time!