Look at it! Look at it! LOOK AT IT!

[Ray Trace]

I thought the sex differences between a cock and a hen are enough not to resort to relying human features to highlight their differences.

 

[Doc von Schmeltwick]

I wonder if the food cut is called something along the lines of "chicken breast" in Japanese as well as English?

If so, that gives some slight justification for stupid visual pun's sake, but moreso gives disturbing implications about said food cut.

....I'll admit the first time I played I kept bringing the nearest rooster to the nest and wondering why the level wouldn't end....

 

[Mcmadness]

To be fair, it is from a Wario game and that is the sort of whack shit I'd expect from one of those.

 

[Moldomré]

This is the same series that made drunk Wario a power-up form.

 

[Doc von Schmeltwick]

And the same franchise that brought us Red-Brief J, Head Honcho Carpaccio, and Rudy.

 

[Doc von Schmeltwick]

Also worth noting is that without the artwork, one might think the sprite just has a tuft of feathers on the chest.

 

[J-Yoshi64]

Red-Brief J

Pardon?

 

[Doc von Schmeltwick]

Red-Brief J

Pardon?

Yup, a muscular bull (with a bizarre vaguely drugged-looking face) in a speedo from Wario World.

While Master of Disguise was the furthest into toilet humor, Wario World was the furthest into somewhat-Freudian surreal weirdery.

 

[Doc von Schmeltwick]

Speaking of Wario World bosses, of all 13 of them, there was exactly one that wasn't really weird, and it was a spider soldier.

Just for fun, here's all of them, not counting mid-stage minibosses:

(art, not model, sorry)​

....and they're even weirder in action. Wouldn't be surprised if many here did not know such horrors existed within the franchise!

 

[Doc von Schmeltwick]

(slightly larger)

 

[Teedgee]

The only Koopaling who looks normal in that last picture is Larry. Like Oh god, look at how fat and ugly the other ones look.

 

[Doc von Schmeltwick]

You can tell that to make the headshots, they just traced over the actual artwork. Still doesn't excuse the TMNT joke plagiarism or the Princess hiding things down her neckline...and by the way, saying that she has a "dynamite bod" is something of a running gag here. For a given definition of "gag."

 

[LeftyGreenMario]

(slightly larger)

They managed to get Wendy right one time, but this time, they really stopped trying, did they?

I guess for the rest of the Koopalings, maybe that's what the developers for Smash 4 were on to when they hideously deformed Koopalings there too.

 

[zel]

who even is the one right to ludwig????? im so confused

 

[Ray Trace]

Pretty sure that's Iggy because the way the hair is shaped

 

[ThatGuy62]

You can tell that to make the headshots, they just traced over the actual artwork. Still doesn't excuse the TMNT joke plagiarism or the Princess hiding things down her neckline...and by the way, saying that she has a "dynamite bod" is something of a running gag here. For a given definition of "gag."

I guess that's why she had such an explosive vocabulary when she lost her voice.

 

[Doc von Schmeltwick]

Two pages in, and not only has it insulted the intelligence of plumbers and turtles in general, but it's blatantly reused a picture of the Princess. And what's up with Bowser's gums in this, anyway? They're normally not even visible, let alone this weird nested muzzle thing.

 

[LeftyGreenMario]

Kinda weird to see Peach towering over Bowser. Bowser looks so pathetic.

 

[Doc von Schmeltwick]

And his arms make no sense at all.

I also want to point out the irony of the Koopalings being called "darling children," when their first characterization in English was them saying "We just love being mean!"

 

[J-Yoshi64]

But why are they wearing sunglasses?

 

[Doc von Schmeltwick]

But why are they wearing sunglasses?

Because the artists had a very hard time drawing eyes on faces believably, as shown above repeatedly.

 

[LeftyGreenMario]

To their credit, Mario looks dope in sunglasses.

 

[Doc von Schmeltwick]

To their credit, Mario looks like a dope in sunglasses.

or

To their credit, Mario looks like he's on dope in sunglasses.

FTFY

 

[Czario]

I dunno, these koopalings come off as adorable in an ugly, off-model sort of way to me.

 

[LeftyGreenMario]

It's the adorable in the same way a bunch of baby mutant gremlins are gathered around a lovely young woman during story time.

To their credit, Mario looks like a dope in sunglasses.

or

To their credit, Mario looks like he's on dope in sunglasses.

FTFY

I am not a or on dope and Mario is neither!!! Luigi's the one, not him!