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[[File:Wario Ware 716.jpg|frame|Wario and his staff. (IMAGE!)]]
{{quote|''Best Game To Play In-Between Breaths''|'''[[Penny Arcade]]''' ([[Self-Demonstrating Article|QUOTE!]])}}
The '''Wario Ware''' series is essentially a collection of hundreds of mini-games. (PLAY!) And the gold-hoarding, gas-cloud-belching [[Wario Land]] is in charge of it all, aided by a cast of wacky friends and neighbors. (SIDEKICK!)
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* ''WarioWare: D.I.Y.'' (DS; this entry allows you to create your own microgames.)
* ''WarioWare: D.I.Y.'' Showcase (WiiWare, a companion game for the above)
*''Game & Wario'' (Wii U, a spinoff foucusing on a few larger minigames)
*''WarioWare Gold'' (Nintendo 3DS, a compilation of nearly all the previous games)
*''WarioWare: Get it Together!'' (Nintendo Switch, the player controls the series cast creating different ways of playing)
*''WarioWare: Move It!'' (Nintendo Switch, a sequel to ''Smooth Moves'' using the Joy-Cons)
Wario also appears in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'' with his default appearance having him wear his clothes from ''WarioWare'' (his ''[[Wario Land]]'' appearance is available as well (RETRO!)), along with a ''WarioWare''-inspired stage and Kat & Ana as Assist Trophy. (SMASH!)
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The series was made by the same team that made [[Rhythm Heaven]], [[Widget Series|and it shows]].
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* [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]]: The football player in ''Smooth Moves'' has a crush on Mona, who ([[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?|in this game anyway]]) is one of his school's cheerleaders.
* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]
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* [[Art Shift]]
** Taken to eleven in ''DIY'', where players' art styles are all over the place.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: {{Spoiler|Pyoro}} in ''Get it Together!''.
* [[Barehanded Blade Block]]: "Wario Kendo" in the original.
*[[Batman Can Breathe in Space]]: Dribble, Spitz and Dr. Crygor. Averted with Lulu.
* [[Bishonen]]: Young Cricket, anyone?
* [[Brick Joke]]: Most games have two Remix stages that contain one of these in some capacity.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Dr. Crygor. From recurring trouble with toilets, to being criticized by his own creations on a regular basis (one tried to kill him in retaliation for being abandoned in a haunted forest), to being used as a lab rat by his granddaughter resulting in "agonizing stomach pains". And his dance moves drove off an ''entire club!''
* [[Button Mashing]]
* [[Chekhov's Volcano]]: ''Move It!'' has one. Naturally, {{Spoiler|it's Wario's Anything Goes form for this game.}}
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Subverted with {{Spoiler|Penny}} in ''Get it Together!''. She's absent for most of the story, but when she finally shows up it's ''drilled into you.''
* [[Completely Different Title]]: The original Japanese title of the series was ''Made in Wario'' but outside Japan it's ''WarioWare''.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: A lot of the later games feature microgames that replicate previous games in the series.
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* [[Defictionalization]]: Arguably Pyoro, which was the inspiration in story for Wario starting up his own company, was a mini game in every single game in the Wario Ware series, and then ended up published standalone by Nintendo for [[DSiWare]] under the name ''Bird & Beans''. Paper Plane (retitled ''Paper Airplane Chase'') is possibly the same way.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Mike, despite getting his own [[Image Song]], seems to do nothing now besides show up in scenes with the Crygors. Penny is kind of on the fence between this and [[Ascended Extra|Ascended]] <s> [[Ascended Extra|Extra]]</s> [[Ascended Extra|Supporting Character]], considering she has a considerable presence in DIY and actually interacts with Wario on a significant level. In the tutorial.
* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: the European version of D.I.Y. translated ''everything'', including elements of the microgames themselves, as you can find out with the Microgame editor once you access it and use it to open the microgames. Elements such as "Mario" from 9-Volt's games keep their name as always, but elements such as clouds, cars or whatever get their names (and animations as well!) translated in every language the game is
* [[Difficulty by Acceleration]]: The microgames themselves are ludicrously simple, so the bulk of the challenge is keeping up with them when they start going super-fast.
* [[Endless Game]]: upon replaying games, you just keep playing the games faster and faster until you fail four times.
* [[Everything's Worse with Bees]]: Kat and Ana can attest to this in ''Twisted!''
* [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks]]: Subverted in Jimmy T's ''Move It!'' stage. The shark doesn't attack him at all, and he even seems to befriend it.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Leo from the Switch games, to Kat and Ana.
* [[Eye Beams]]: "Alien Laser Hero" in the original.
** The original also had "Dry Eye" where you administer eye drops to someone, and a later game called [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|"Laser Vision"]], where Wario shatters the eye drop bottle with [[Eye Beams]]. ''[[Crazy Awesome|This is the victory condition.]]''
{{quote|''Don't even think about putting that in my eye! I hate eye drops!''}}
* [[Cute Kitten]]: Disco dancing kittens in ''Smooth Moves''! Later on, Jimmy P.'s stage has dancing ''puppies'', and the similarity is lampshaded at the end.
* [[Everythings Funkier With Disco]]: Why yes the Thang family, seemingly stuck in the 70's.▼
* [[False Reassurance]]: This little gem from Penny: "Experiments are garanteed to be 100% not-''entirely''-lethal.".
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Wario. Not surprisingly
* [[Final Exam Boss]]: The
** ''
** ''Move It!'' is missing four forms in single-player and three in two-player.
* [[Funny Afro]]: Jimmy T. and his family.
* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: The '''D'''iamond '''S'''oftware collection of microgames is exclusive to the DS version of ''D.I.Y.'' The Wii counterpart game meanwhile has '''W'''ario-Man Software.
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Penny
* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: On level three of the needle-threading game in the original, a design oversight sometimes puts the eye of the needle out of the thread's reach, making it impossible to win. A real buzzkill when you're racking up a high score on the [[One-Hit-Point Wonder|Thrilling tower]] and this glitch takes you out.
** In ''Gold'', one interruption in Wario Interrupts replaces all the sound effects with the baby face sound. One microgame in this title requires the player to memorize sound effects. While rare, if these two come together, the result is quite unpleasant.
**A literal instance serves as the antagonist group in ''Get it Together!''
* [[Game Maker]]: ''Wario Ware D.I.Y.'' While its microgame engine allows for all different genres of games to be made, they're all still strictly microgames.
* [[Gameplay Roulette]]: intentional!
* [[Gasshole]]: Wario, as a character.
* [[Genre Busting]]: The series can be loosely considered mini-game collections, but it does it in such an unusual way (games are typically about 4 seconds long, must be done in quick succession, are presented in random order, and the goal is to survive a predetermined number of them before failing four times), and has an emphasis on single-player rather than multiplayer, that gamers and critics alike have largely given up trying to classify it at all.
*[[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: A rare in-universe example in ''Get it Together!'': Orbulon's stage depicts him being disgusted with Wario's house. (In context Wario, the game's in-universe CEO, is the radar.)
* [[Goofy Print Underwear]]: The quick-draw game in ''Smooth Moves'' features [[Super Mario Bros.|Super Mushroom, Fire Flower, and Starman]]-print boxers.
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* [[Handcar Pursuit]]: One of the micro games in ''Touched''. Complete with being chased by another handcar, Wario in his car and a train respectively for the different difficulty levels.
* [[Homage]] / [[Nostalgia Level]]: 9-Volt's and 18-Volt's microgames and worlds are shout-outs to various classic NES and SNES games such as ''[[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros]]'', ''[[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' and ''[[F-Zero]]''
* [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue]]: Most of Wario's microgames involve him in some form.
* [[Honest Axe]]: Spoofed in "Touched!" Wario's response? "Gimme all of them!" *tackle*
* [[Idol Singer]]: minor character Sal Out, who sings the "Mona Pizza" song. Penny dreams of becoming one as well.
* [[Image Song]]: A number of them. When they started to dub them after the first game, [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|there was much outcry.]]
* [[I See London]]: The object of the quick-draw game in ''Smooth Moves''.
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** [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Wario is described as such by himself and Mona.
* [[Kaizo Trap]]: Even after defeating the...planet from Ashley's boss game in Touched, you can still be hit by a stray bullet.
** In [Sneaky] Gamer, it is possible for 5-Volt to catch you right after you beat the boss microgame.
* [[Know Your Vines]]: Red notices some blue berries in a forest and immediately eats them - said berries act like a Mini Mushroom.
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Orbulon in his ''Move It!'' stage. {{Spoiler|Twice.}}
* [[Leitmotif]]: Everyone has a particular tone, even when not considering [[Image Song|vocal songs.]]
* [[Letting the Air Out of the Band]]: Used a few times in ''Twisted!'': When Pizza Dinosaur's alleged customer hangs up, and when 18-Volt's new teacher scolds him for his "racket".
* [[Looming Silhouette of Rage]]: Ashley in ''Touched!'', when she collides with Orbulon
* [[Lost Forever]]: A few of the medals in ''D.I.Y.'' require entering microgame design contests that were periodically held by Nintendo. Nintendo no longer holds these contests, so if you hadn't already gotten the medals for them you can now no longer obtain them. Thankfully, it's still possible to get all the records even without these medals.
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* [[Market-Based Title]]: The first game had the subtitle ''Mega Microgame$!'' in North America and ''Minigame Mania'' in Europe.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Put Kat and Ana's names together and you'll get one.
** 9-Volt is (nick?)named after the NES's processing power.
* [[Meat-O-Vision]]: In Ashley's ''Get it Together!'' stage, she hallucinates Red's head as a burger.
* [[Minigame Game]]: The point.
* [[Mona Lisa Smile|Mona Pizza Smile]]: In the American version of Twisted only.
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* [[Predatory Business]]: Pizza Dinosaur
* [[Press X to Die]]: Each game usually comes with at least one microgame that tells you to do nothing. You only lose if you push a button.
** One particularly irritating example is in ''Touched!'', which involves a group of
** Background noise can cause failures in this game, and Twisted has a game with an egg that breaks if you turn the GBA, or if the car or bus you're sitting in takes a turn.
*** Both of these microgames return in ''Gold''; this game's version of the former takes it three steps further - in addition to the previous criteria, you cannot press any buttons, turn the 3DS, or touch the screen. Thankfully it's rare and can only appear under certain circumstances.
** ''Move It!'' has a microgame where you must hold your hands real still to avoid dropping a stack of game cartridges or discs.
* [[Press X to Not Die]]: A lot of microgames closely resemble Quick Time Events.
* [[Punny Name]]: More than half of the microgames.
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** The Kat and Ana stage in ''Smooth Moves'' has [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|a quartet of turtles]] representing the player's lives.
* [[The Song Remains the Same]]: Sometimes averted (Mona Pizza's Song, for example), sometimes not (Kat and Ana's Song, for example).
* [[Time Travel]]: The Crygors do it in ''Move It!'' to identify the subject of a cave painting.
* [[Super-Deformed]]: The final story level of ''Smooth Moves'' [[Nightmare Fuel|chibifies Wario]].
** [[Did Not Do the Research|Except]] it's actually a [[Shout-Out]] to [http://www.mariowiki.com/Tiny_Wario Tiny Wario,] Wario's weakest form in [[Wario Land]]. It was a tongue-in-cheek [[Self-Parody]] by Nintendo, as it mirrored [http://www.mariowiki.com/Small_Mario Small Mario.]
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* [[What Does She See in Him?]]: Believe it or not, Mona has a thing for Wario.
* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: Mona has been a gelato worker, a soda jerk, a pizza deliverer, a rock star, a cheer leader, a meat bun vendor and a temple explorer.
** [[Freudian Excuse]]: It's because her boss keeps changing businesses as revealed on the Japanese ''Smooth Moves'' blog.
* [[Widget Series]]
* [[
{{quote|...And yes, it's true,
I don't have as many friends as you,
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* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Kat's is Pink, Ana's is bright red, and Jimmy's whole family has multi-colored hair/wigs. Jimmy actually has blue hair, Papa T has Yellow, Mama T also has pink, Jamie has Pink/Indigo/Red(Depending on where you look), and James has orange. Jimmy P from ''Smooth Moves'' has Yellow hair as well.
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