Stupid Mario Brothers/Characters

Mario
Tropes Associated with Mario:
 * Adaptational Jerkass: Far from the happy-go-lucky hero of the games, Mario here is a selfish Lazy Bum who does such things as refuse to cut his vacation short to rescue Peach from Bowser again, on top of . All Played for Laughs, of course.
 * Chosen One: One of two, with Wario.
 * Determinator: Season 5 puts him in this. It's entirely Justified considering what's at stake.
 * Humble Hero
 * Large Ham
 * The Hero
 * Identical Grandson: Mario looks exactly like is ancestor.
 * Fitting as they're played by the same actor.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Mario has had total jerkassery moments, but can be heroic when needed

Luigi
Tropes Associated with Luigi:
 * Adorkable
 * Break the Cutie: Season 5 got him stuck in leading the good guys in Mario's absence, as a result he got stuck making bad decisions and lost several fighters.
 * Catch Phrase "So what do you want to do NOW Mario?", "Okey Dokey!" and "Yeah, what Mario said!"
 * The Heart: Sorta... he is usally the one keeping everyone together and is the one keeping Mario from killing Ash...
 * Identical Grandson: If Nox Decious hadn't have his mask. I bet he would look a lot like Luigi..
 * The Lancer
 * Number Two
 * The Smart Guy (again... sorta...)
 * Soul Jar: To
 * Took a Level in Badass
 * Wimp Fight: Uses Slap Combat.
 * Wimp Fight: Uses Slap Combat.

Wario
Tropes Associated With Wario:
 * Anti-Hero
 * Being Evil Sucks: He works for Bowser because he doesn't know what else to do, and gets fired after repeated failures, sending him on a downward spiral.
 * Big Bad: Of Season 3.
 * The Big Guy
 * Characterization Marches On: He doesn't turn good until the very end of Season 3. So seeing him beforehand can be strange.
 * Chosen One: Along with Mario.
 * Evil Counterpart (well that's what we THOUGHT)
 * Evil Laugh: Seems to be influenced by Burgess Meredith's version of The Penguin
 * Faking the Dead: How he.
 * Go-Karting with Bowser: In season 1, he joins Mario's band despite being sent by Bowser to bring him back and.
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: with Waluigi
 * Large Ham: When the series is comical, definitely not when the series is serious.
 * Laughably Evil well...first season
 * The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: To Mario in seasons 2 and 3
 * Took a Level in Badass
 * Took a Level in Badass

Waluigi
Tropes Associated with Waluigi:
 * Badass: He even calls himself a "Super Badass"
 * Convenient Coma: Zig-zagged in Season 5.
 * Evil Counterpart (well that's what we THOUGHT)
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: with Wario
 * The Lancer: To Wario
 * Put on a Bus / Written-In Absence: Happens a lot due Waluigi's actor living far away.

Ash
Tropes Associated with Ash:
 * Adaptation Dye Job: Black-haired in the anime, red-haired here.
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer He is a total idiot, but he makes a hell of a good lawyer.
 * Playing Ace Attorney for 100 hours does wonders.
 * Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Sort of, since Ash's actor (Dane) quit due to creative differences, Ash disappeared from the show with no explanation of where he is. In Season Four, he was finally mentioned, only that the mention wasn't to explain where he was but to show how the other characters won't talk to him anymore.
 * The Subscribe Voice in Episode 74 says he's currently living in Kanto.
 * The Ditz
 * Getting Crap Past the Radar: some of his comments about his "Pokeballs"
 * Keet
 * Large Ham: Possibly the biggest in the series.
 * Otaku
 * Serious Business: Pokemon, of course!
 * Shoo Out the Clowns: Tends to disappear when things get serious
 * The Unfavorite: How Professor Oak treats him compared to how he treats Gary.
 * Unusual Euphemism: Tends to use the names of pokemon as swear words.
 * You Didn't Ask: Ash's guitar skills.

Donkey Kong
Tropes Associated with Donkey Kong:
 * Big Damn Heroes: Saves Mona from Pauline in Episode 67
 * Interspecies Romance: with Pauline.
 * Killed Off for Real: In
 * The Big Guy
 * The Other Darrin: Hardly noticeable of course
 * But by Season 4 he looks a bit different since they didn't own the original costume.
 * Running Gag: Whenever anybody is annoying Mario or Luigi, he tends to come out of nowhere and chase them away while they scream hysterically.
 * Anytime Pauline's death is mentioned he appears out of no where and wails in sadness.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: Bananas
 * The Unintelligible

Link
Tropes Associated with Link:
 * Back from the Dead: At
 * Cloudcuckoolander He's Gotta Coocoo!
 * The Cuckoolander Was Right: Turns out
 * Informed Ability: Mario and the Darkness describe him as the strongest fighter amongst the heroes, but this is a little hard to believe when he loses every major fight he gets into.
 * Killed Off for Real: In
 * Knight of Cerebus: Non-Villainous version. His warning to Mario at the end of Season 1 pretty much does this to the series.
 * Training from Hell: Makes the Mario Bros. endure rigorous training in order to be ready to fight
 * Subverted in that it amounts to, but Mario and Luigi react as if the trope were played straight.
 * See You in Hell
 * Social Darwinist

Ness
Tropes Associated with Ness:
 * Just a Kid
 * Lampshaded by Ness himself
 * Mr. Exposition
 * Psychic Powers
 * Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He bails out of the fight with Nox Decious in Season 2.
 * The Stoic
 * He is All Grown Up: Once you see him in the Movie,OP: Blind Storm and Season Four, you know he's not a kid anymore.
 * Other fans joke Ness hit puberty.

Merlin
Tropes Associated with Merlin:
 * Sdrawkcab Name: Nilrem
 * The Watcher
 * Mr. Exposition
 * Mysterious Past
 * In the Hood
 * Not Quite Dead: Although
 * Older Than They Look
 * Public Domain Character

Solid Snake
Tropes Associated with Solid Snake:
 * Badass
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Genre Savvy:
 * Good Is Not Nice
 * Jerkass
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Never My Fault: In Season 4, he's furious with Mario for and threatens to kill him if he doesn't pay up. While Mario doing so was undoubtedly selfish and unheroic, Snake is far from blameless in this scenario considering he.
 * Trigger Happy

Ryu
After a fall out with Ken (over their friend Tamari leaving), Ryu met Mario and the others to help them stop the Trifecta and the ninjas. After Mario and the Darkness's Armies join up he and Ken make up.

Tropes associated with Ryu
 * Badass
 * Calling Your Attacks: "Hadoken!"
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: with Ken
 * No Pronunciation Guide: His name is prounounced Rai-Yu instead of Rie-Yu. Which is because creator Richard pronounced the name as such. It eventually changed to the actual pronounciation with Ryu lampshading it by claiming it was pronounced as such the entire time.
 * Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: Happens before Season Four though. But they make up in Season 5.

Brock
Tropes Associated with Brock: "Ash: Wow, I thought I had problems."
 * Back from the Dead: Parodied. Turns out he wasn't dead in the first place.
 * Berserk Button: The word "catch".


 * Catch Phrase "Oh Crap!"
 * Eyes Always Shut: As in the games and anime. Here, his doing so is interpreted as being blind.
 * Gaming Otaku
 * Lampshade Hanging:
 * Brock's perpetually-closed eyes from the games and anime are reinterpreted as him being blind.
 * No Indoor Voice
 * Put on a Bus: Temporarily though.
 * Real Life Writes the Plot: Brock's actor did move to San Francisco
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: With Gary by the end of Season Four.

Gary
Tropes Associated with Gary: "Gary: My house is the most awesome place in the universe!"
 * Jerkass
 * Large Ham
 * No Indoor Voice
 * The Rival (To Ash)
 * Small Name, Big Ego
 * He gets bonus points here. Not only does he think that he's awesome, he also has a pretty high opinion of his house


 * Cool Old Guy: Gary considers his Grandpa (Professor Oak) to be this.
 * Vitriolic Best Buds: With Ash and is better/more vitrolic friends with Brock. Although Ash has pointed out he probably doesn't have any other friends because of his arrogance.

Professor Oak
Tropes Associated with Professor Oak:
 * Cool Old Guy: Well Gary sees him as one.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He is forgetful and acts like a child.
 * Jerkass: Especially when he turns down UPS and the flash drive DESPITE being told his grandson would be in danger.
 * Manipulative Bastard: In Season Four, he willingly tricks Gary and Brock into doing several mundane tasks for him just so they could find out from him which one of them sucks more.

Peach
Tropes Associated with Peach:
 * Adaptational Jerkass: Unlike the Nice Girl of the games, this Princess Peach is a whiny, nagging Spoiled Brat.
 * Badass Princess: Took down Wario with her umbrella and briefly faced Nox Decious.
 * Big Damn Heroes: Saved Mario from Wario at the end of Season 1.
 * Damsel in Distress
 * Kiss Kiss Slap: Simple driving lesson turns into a shouting match and break up.
 * Well, Excuse Me, Princess!

Daisy
Tropes Associated with Daisy:
 * Well, Excuse Me, Princess!

Walgina
Walugi's girlfriend. Unlike most of the characters, she is a natural resident of the real world. The two met and became a couple during the course of five minutes, while Wario was reporting back to Bowser. Wario doesn't like her and. She is absent for most of season 3, looking. Afterwards she and Waluigi somehow break up. Waluigi claims creative differences a.k.a. she wanted him to stop wearing purple.

Tropes Associated with Walgina:
 * Ascended Extra: When she first appears most people think she isn't that important but by Season 3 she had a larger role.
 * The Chick: In Wario's band, at least.
 * Hollywood Tone Deaf: Her rendition of "Rubber Duckie" can make one's ears bleed/
 * Irony: Wanted Waluigi to stop wearing purple when she herself wore it which lead to their break up.
 * Love At First Sight: Lampshaded by a dumb-founded Wario
 * Magical Girlfriend: Inverted.
 * Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Inadvertantly causes the riff between Wario and Waluigi

Otacon
Tropes Associated with Otacon:
 * Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
 * Keet: Probably the series best example.
 * Otaku: of the Anime variety.
 * Sidekick: to Solid Snake
 * What an Idiot!: In-Universe. Both Ash and Snake feel this way about him, although Ash is only a little better than him.
 * What an Idiot!: In-Universe. Both Ash and Snake feel this way about him, although Ash is only a little better than him.

Coconut
A random coconut, Link found in a forest in his dream, the coconut followed him back into real life and kept him company.

Tropes associated with Coconut
 * The Cuckoolander Was Right: Turns out
 * Pinocchio Syndrome: He
 * Rule of Threes: He

Mona
Wario's friend (and now girlfriend) whom he met up with during Season Four. She's now part of Mario's army against the Darkness and Ganondorf.

Tropes associated with Mona:
 * Action Girl: In Season 5
 * Designated Girl Fight: Against Pauline twice.
 * Mythology Gag: Wario and Mona ending up in a relationship. Since in the Wario Ware games, Mona actually has something for Wario. (It should also be noted Wario's actor Matt and Mona's actor Erin are boyfriend and girlfriend).

Naomi Hunter
Introduced in Season 5, Naomi is a friend and colleague of Snake's who saved from his aging problem just as he died.

Tropes Associated with Naomi Hunter:
 * Hot Scientist

Ken
After a fall out with Ryu (when their friend Tamari left), Ken became his enemy and joined the Trifecta.

Tropes associated with Ken:
 * Badass
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: with Ryu
 * Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: Happens before Season Four starts though. They eventually make up in Season 5.

Nox Decious
The evil brother of the legendary Merlin. Nox Decious' primary goal was to take control of Earth and destroy all good.

Tropes Associated with Nox Decious
 * Big Bad
 * Evil Sorcerer
 * Facial Horror: His face was badly burned by Merlin's Nether Saber. That's why he wears the mask.
 * Mr. Exposition
 * Not Quite Dead
 * Mysterious Past

Tropes Associated with ""DO NOT COMPARE ME TO HIM!""
 * Berserk Button: Being compared to


 * Big Bad
 * The Chessmaster
 * Enemy Mine}}: Lampshaded in Season 5, with
 * Evil Counterpart:
 * Evil Is Hammy: Oh so very much.
 * Evil Plan
 * The Voice: When we were first introduced to him
 * Large Ham
 * Oh Crap
 * Perpetual Smiler
 * Psychic Powers
 * Shadow Archetype:
 * Slasher Smile
 * Smug Snake
 * Turned Against Their Masters: Against Decious.
 * Turned Against Their Masters: Against Decious.

Bowser
Angered by the Mario Bros. vacation in the real world he hires Wario and Waluigi to get them back

Tropes Associated with Bowser: "Luigi: Bowser, you're nothing but a stooge with some very serious emotional and anger problems. And some height issues."
 * A Wizard Did It: Literally as assistant and wizard Kamek made him human.
 * Big Bad: Subverted in the movie. He finally appears on-screen, but is defeated by before he can have a final showdown with Mario and Luigi.
 * Dark Lord
 * Evil Is Hammy
 * Harmless Villain
 * He Who Must Not Be Seen: Until The Movie
 * Large Ham
 * Laughably Evil
 * Punch The Pikachu
 * Psychopathic Manchild: Bowser is an incredibly immature guy, treating his feud with the Mario Bros. like a game; most of Season 1 consists of him sending letters and constantly pestering them to return and fight because he's bored. Also, he sleeps with a teddy bear. Luigi even sums him up as one:
 * Real Life Writes the Plot: He's played by Austin Stevenson in Season 5 due to his original actor, Josh Kling, being unavailable. In-Universe, this is explained by Kamek making his human form taller at his request.
 * The Other Darrin: Is being played by Austin (Brock) for Season 5.
 * The Unintelligible
 * You Meddling Kids: Toward.

Kamek
Bowser's advisor who helps to turn him human.

Tropes asscoated with Kamek
 * A Wizard Did It: Literally since he is assistant and wizard to him he made Bowser human.
 * The Dragon: To Bowser sort of.
 * Wimp Fight: Uses Slap Combat as fighting


 * Badass
 * : Well he is
 * Adaptation Dye Job: Well at least he looks more like  in this show.

Tropes Associated with
 * Brainwashed and Crazy
 * Big Bad
 * Super-Powered Evil Side
 * Super-Powered Evil Side

Blaire Vherestorm
The mysterious leader of The Trifecta.

Tropes associated with Blaire Vherestorm
 * Big Bad: Along with The Trifecta in Season Four
 * Back from the Dead: He was somehow resurrected in Season 5 and has joined Ganondorf's army to get back at the Darkness.
 * Smug Snake
 * The Dragon: to The Darkness before he betrayed him of course.

Ganondorf
Link's greatest enemy who ends up coming to the real world and becomes the final Big Bad of the show making The League of Bad Guys, ressurrecting Blaire, Nox Decious and Pauline to assist him and  He now controls hoardes of ninjas and wants to take over the real world.

Tropes associated with Ganondorf:
 * Arch Enemy: To Link
 * Big Bad and Bigger Bad of the entire series.
 * Dangerously Genre Savvy: He predicted that Pauline would get rid of Wario and Mona.
 * Dark-Skinned Redhead
 * Evil Gloating
 * Evil Is Hammy: He's played by Matt. It's a given.
 * Evil Redhead
 * Evil Sorceror
 * Nigh Invulnerability
 * The Man Behind the Man: Both Decious and Bowser answer to him really.
 * The Unseen: Mentioned since Season 2 (Voice heard in Season 4) but finally seen in Season 5.
 * The Unseen: Mentioned since Season 2 (Voice heard in Season 4) but finally seen in Season 5.

General
The Darkness' second in command who set up his pirate army for him and is very loyal.

Tropes Associated with General:
 * Badass: Very much.
 * The Dragon: To the Darkness
 * Hidden Depths: Apparently has a family.
 * Improbable Aiming Skills: He has used a rifle and handgun against ninjas and hasn't missed once.

Zubashi and the Ninjas
Ninjas led by Zubashi were hired by Ganondorf as part of his army to take over the world.

Tropes Associated with Zubashi and the Ninjas:
 * Ascended Meme / Cool Versus Awesome: Them fighting pirates.
 * Badass Army: When they're not being funny.
 * The Dragon: Master Gangles to Zubashi.
 * Funny Background Event: The ninjas are very guilty of this.
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja
 * Large Ham: As with Richard's other roles, Zubashi is definitely this.
 * Laughably Evil
 * PunchClockVillains: Some of them.
 * Villains Out Shopping: Throughout the fifth season, they go to the movies, go out to eat, or even try to get dates.

Captain Morgan and the Pirates
The army brought together by The Darkness to combat the ninjas since pirates don't hold back when fighting. While Captain Morgan is the super pirate that can take on any ninja (and be ridiculously drunk too).

Tropes Associated with Captain Morgan and the Pirates:
 * The Alcoholic / The Drunken Sailor: Captain Morgan, there's a reason why he's named after a rum company.
 * Ascended Meme / Cool Versus Awesome: Them fighting ninjas. It seems The Darkness intentionally invoked this.
 * Badass Army: They are a perfect match to the ninjas.
 * Bland-Name Product: They enjoy Pirate Crunch cereal.
 * Chekhov's Gunmen: We had already been informed that pirates existed in Interactive Adventure. Then they came back with a vengeance.
 * Eyepatch of Power
 * Hook Hand
 * Lack of Empathy: He fights for the heroes, but doesn't really care about anything. Though he is drunk.
 * Lazy Bum
 * Running Gag: Throughout Season 5, Luigi or Wario would mention Captain Morgan, and then it would show him being hungover drunk. He finally wakes up in the finale.
 * In the finale, one of his pirates keeps coming up with new versions of Pirate Crunch cereal.

Scott Masterson
Johnny Mushroom and the Kingdom's temporary boss for Season 2 (and 3 for a deleted scene). He is widely disliked by the group and the band got taken from him by DK whom he now holds a grudge against now joining The League of Bad Guys under Ganondorf's rule.

His real backstory was that his father left him when he was five to become a circus performer, and his mother sold him into slavery for $100 shortly after. Scott later ran away from slavery with a new ambition: to either run the global market, or manage a Sam's Club. He then went on to get a job at Channel 6 where he had to work with Teletubbies and mentally impaired people.

Tropes Associated with Scott Masterson:
 * Face Heel Turn: Now wanting revenge on DK for stealing his band.
 * : Implied that he will soon be the victim of this trope.
 * Jerkass
 * Lack of Empathy: He doesn't care that Mario got sick, the band will still play.
 * Mood Swinger
 * Parental Abandonment: His father left to be A CIRCUS PERFORMER! and his mother sold him into slavery for $100!
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He's had a hard life, now he plans to assist Ganondorf.
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He's had a hard life, now he plans to assist Ganondorf.

The UPS Guy and the FedEx Guy
Two delivery men (played repectively by Richard Michael Alvarez and Chistopher Anthony Muller) who make deliveries and do various oddjobs throughout the series. For the most part, they only have marginal involvement with the main plot, although the ending of Season 1 showed that there are exceptions. They are arch-enemies and spend most of their screen time competing against each other or trying to outwit each other. They once teamed up to capture a package USPS stole off them that was from Snake for Otacon.

They return for Season 5 with UPS's backstory actually being revealed.

Tropes Associated with The UPS Guy and the FedEx Guy:
 * Berserk Button: Do not insult Ace of Base (the band that sings The Sign which UPS sings) in front of UPS, or ELSE.
 * Big Damn Heroes
 * Enemy Mine: To each other and DHL and USPS
 * Hidden Depths: UPS sheds light on his past and some of his true colors in mid-late Season 5.
 * Only Known by Their Nickname
 * Punch Clock Hero
 * The Rival: To each other and DHL and USPS
 * Those Two Guys
 * Wimp Fight: They fight using Slap Combat all the time.

Max Payne
After getting into the mob (long story) Mario and Luigi are told they have to kill their buddy Solid Snake. Instead, they called up this guy.

Tropes Associated With Max Payne:
 * Badass
 * Large Ham
 * Private Eye Monologue: He says his out loud, parodied in that Max has one in the games.
 * Trigger Happy: He was holding two guns while sitting in his desk. In his office. He and Snake are going to get along fine.

Mr. Puzzler
Rather than beginning where Season 2 left off, Richard Michael Alvarez opened Season 3's first episode with a clip from a fictional show called "Mr. Puzzler". Mr. Puzzler is portrayed as a carefree man who doesn't care if he offends or annoys anyone. He sports a fantastic vest and is fond of at least one groan-inducing joke. Apparently, he lacks human integrity, if Mr. Intelligence is to be believed.

Sadly, his fate was left unknown, as Mr. Redhead came up and told him that his show was cancelled because people would rather see Stupid Mario Brothers instead.

Tropes Associated With Mr. Puzzler:
 * And Now for Something Completely Different
 * Character Title
 * Jerkass
 * Incredibly Lame Pun
 * No Fourth Wall
 * Oh Crap
 * Silly Walk: How Mr. Redhead appears

The Dance Instructor
Tropes Associated with The Dance Instructor
 * Berserk Button: Any time any of the other characters try to dance.
 * Catch Phrase: That Was...SUCK!
 * Large Ham: Played by Rich's sister, so it apparently runs in the family.
 * Just a Stupid Accent
 * Serious Business

Pauline
Tropes associated with Pauline
 * Back from the Dead: She was resurrected by Ganondorf in Season 5
 * Dark Action Girl: While working for Ganondorf
 * Death as Comedy: Died of Snake's FOXDIE chocolates (which he needs to stay young and are poisonous to normal people )
 * Designated Girl Fight: Against Mona twice.
 * Face Heel Turn: It seems she has joined Ganondorf's army to get revenge on Mario for accidentally killing her.
 * Interspecies Romance: with Donkey Kong
 * Lady in Red
 * Woman Scorned: Essentially once she's on the bad guy's side. But she doesn't really target Mario or try to kill him but she still blames him for it all.