Anyone else wish the WarioWare characters appeared more often?

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Nintendo's been quite liberal about merchandising the Donkey Kong Country characters and having them appear in Mario medias (to the point even the awesomely horrible Bluster Kong has shown up in atleast one manga), but for whatever reason, the same can't be said for the WarioWare cast. The series is barely referenced in the spinoffs, there's very little merchandise of it and its characters and nobody besides Wario is featured in promo material.

Personally, I think it's a bit of a waste. Ko Takeuchi's creations are some of the most fun and lively design to come out of Nintendo in the past 10 years. There's more that could be done with them beside bookending minigame compilations.

Do you agree with the sentiment expressed in the title? Would you like to see WW characters show up in the sports/karting spinoff Mario games (and if so, which characters)? Do you think Ashley getting a good, usable 3D model for Extreme Pugilist Fraternity 4 could pave the way for more WW content to appear in Mario spinoff titles? Why do I ask so many useless questions?
 
I definitely think they deserve time in Mario games. They are technically Wario characters after all. But you know the deal with Wario characters: they'll just stay in their respective series just like Captain Syrup
 
Glowsquid said:
Extreme Pugilist Fraternity 4
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yes

The entire cast of WarioWare can be summed up with two words, wasted potential. Each character is unique and brimming with personality, and would fit right in alongside the main series cast. It's just a shame that Nintendo would rather include 7 generic Koopas in their next Kart game instead of Mona and her moped or Dribble and Spitz in their taxi.

I'm excited that Ashley has a 3D model in Smash Bros. (though the G&W style is a bit...meh), and I'm hoping that there are trophies for each of the others. Hopefully their appearances in the next Smash Bros. prompt Nintendo to incoroporate them other into spin-offs.
 
havent really played enough of warioware to form an opinion on the characters to be frank with you

although some are pretty interesting design wise, and i feel the series could use some better representation, but oh well.
 
I kinda like Wario Land's boss and enemy design, but I don't really see any character beside Captain Syrup fitting in elegantly tbh.


... Well ok, Jock Bunny for mario hoops 2.
 
I wouldn't mind seeing some of the WarioWare characters show up in Sports and Kart and such. It likely won't happen anytime soon, unfortunately.
 
Rudy the Clown made the jump from WL to Dr. Mario iirc.

Anyway, I agree that the WarioWare cast deserves to be seen more often. It'd be awesome to have an RPG where they're Wario's partners (Paper Wario? With paper money being a major theme, lol), or as was mentioned before, have them as a sports team for the guy (it's more fitting than random Koopa Troop members getting reassigned to him). If they could get all 7 Koopalings in Mario Kart, surely they could fir the WarioWare crew into the spinoff rosters too.
 
Even though some kongs like Diddy and Dixie do have some spinoff favors, honesly the DK characters are also in danger. Their total appearances in Wii era are obviously fewer than before, and in the upcoming Tropical Freeze only Dixie and Funky are confirmed to return so far.

Another issue is that, though Mario games try to add some "newcomers" recently, they all result in weird choices rather than giving subseries stars a chance. It's pretty conrtadictory for Nintendo themselves.

GalacticPetey said:
I could easily see some of them showing up in a Baseball game.
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This. I still doubt why Wario bros have to team up with a bunch of species. Koopalings have shown in Kart so maybe they'll be in Bowser's team this time.

Baby Luigi said:
I definitely think they deserve time in Mario games. They are technically Wario characters after all. But you know the deal with Wario characters: they'll just stay in their respective series just like Captain Syrup
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Not sure if Syrup is in this topic since she's only returned once so far and isn't an official Mario regular (despite she's an amazing villainess). It is a question mark for Warioware crew, same for Waluigi who never accompanies with Wario in any Wario-titled games.

Since Tropical Freeze would follow SM3DW to have multiple playable characters, we might see the same thing in future possible Wario Land sequel, which allows Waluigi, Mona and Jimmy to play with Wario. Unless once again Nintendo force Toad to assist Wario (or even worse, some generic toads).