General Wario references thread (Now with Index on page 13).

[warelander]

Since my Sister somehow caught wind that I haven't gotten Smash for Wii U yet, I was able to experience the Gamer stage, hailing from Game & Wario.
The stage itself is obviously based of the minigame from G&W and 5-Volt behaves exactly like she does there, fake-outs and everything, thought there are quite a few more details to be found (note that the stage has several different layouts, so you wont find all of these at once) :

An obviouse reference to Mona's "Shutter" minigame, it even has those weird yellow people.

The gamepad thingy, it even plays the Ballon Fight intermission until 5-Volt hijacks it.

The TV fake out will sometimes show a part of the opening.

The numerous character cameos peppered trought the stage, couriously Ana shows up twice, 9-Volt, is there something you are trying to tell us buddy .

 

[warelander]

Iv'e been feeling rather nostalgic for the Game & Watch Gallery series recently, to the point of even dedicating a thread to it:
http://warioforums.com/index.php?threads/the-game-watch-gallery-series.658/
So I went back to G&W Gallery 2's Helmet minigame which has Mario & Wario as playable characters.
Upon entering the door to the right both characters will have a little animation: Mario does the V sign like he used to do a lot back in the day, Wario on the other hand does the shoulder charge!

 

[CM30]

Oh wow, nice references! The amount of WarioWare references in the Gamer stage is surprisingly awesome!

 

[warelander]

It's hard to believe but even techdemos and Vaporware have Wario references in them:

Wario was in the DS tech demo Face to Mario:

The 3th player Mii in New Super Mario Bros Mii had Warios overalls, similar to New Mario U :

Wario was meant to appear in the canceled VB Mario Land:

Now for something from an actually released game:

Mario Kart Double Dash's "Thank you for playing" screen shows Toad and Birdo interacting, I always liked to think of that as a Wario's Woods reference since the two were working together in that game.

 

[Bubba]

In Super Smash Bros 3DS/Wii U there is a Mii Wario Cap (just got it right now).

 

[warelander]

Take a good look at Wario on 08:00 minutes:

Am I the only one who thinks that that looked A LOT like the earthquake punch from Shake it?

 

[twisted-scarlet]

The Tamagotchi!Wario.

Apparently, there was a Tamagotchi game on Nintendo 64 (styled like a Mario Party genre) and you could unlock a Tamagotchi version of Wario (and other Nintendo characters).

 

[CM30]

Okay, that's kind of weird. Especially given how it looks like Wario's head crossed with one of the animate moustaches from WarioWare.

 

[warelander]

The Bombs in the Petey Piranha boss minigame, from the upcoming Mario Party 10, bear a strange resemplance to the bombs from Wario's Woods:

 

[warelander]

One of the things that Wario has to juggle in his version of "Ball" from Game & Watch Gallery 2 is a Wanderin' Goom, from the very first Wario Land :

 

[CM30]

Hey, that's pretty neat! Add that to the 'Wario Land references in Mario spinoffs' pile!

 

[warelander]

Hey, that's pretty neat! Add that to the 'Wario Land references in Mario spinoffs' pile!

You know what's really sureal?

Looking at the time frames of this, G&W Gallery 4 and Dr.Mario 64:
-Game & Watch Gallery 2 (Wanderin' Goom) 1998
-Dr.Mario 64 (Land 3 cast) 2001
-G&W Gallery 4 (Hen and sea gull from Land 2) 2002
as well as this:
http://warioforums.com/index.php?threads/a-few-glimpses-of-wario-characters-in-mario-mangas.707/
It seems like Wario characters in Mario media used to be a somewhat regular sight at one point.
Kind of hard to believe aint' it?

 

[warelander]

Wario has a cameo in Kirby Superstar Ultra:

http://www.spriters-resource.com/ds/kssu/sheet/16252/

Another thing I found a few weeks ago on Mario Wiki was the fact that the concept of a coin with the worth of
100 coins debuted in the first two Wario Land games, until beeing brought back for the Mario series many years later:
http://www.mariowiki.com/100_Gold_Coin

 

[warelander]

This came from a Gameboy Colour promotional cartrige that was meant to show the GBC's capabilitys, Wario's sprites here are obviously based of his Land 2 sprites and there even is a potential Flat Wario reference.

The cartridge also had a pic of Wario based on one of his Land 2 artworks, that was meant to show of the colours that where possible on the GBC :

The Starfy game that had Wario in it also had unlockable Wario costume parts and even a cameo of the original Wario Ware in it's japanese version:

 

[warelander]

A bit more about the Game Boy Colour promotional cardridge:
http://www.themushroomkingdom.net/techdemos.shtml
https://tcrf.net/Game_Boy_Color_Promotional_Demo

So appearently the cardridge has all of the music and sound effects from Land 2 on it, which is odd.

Remember how you could find a sea gull from Land 2 in Game & Watch Gallery 4's version of Donkey Kong Jr. ?
It already was in the G&W Gallery 3 version of the same game:

This means that every game in that series that had Wario in it also had some sort of Land character appearence, which is pretty amazing.

 

[warelander]

Wario's name on the rotating sign in Mario Kart 64's Wario stadium:

Is similar how it is on the covers of Wario Blast:

Wario's Woods:

And the original Wario Land:

 

[twisted-scarlet]

Mostly a Wario Land reference, which is Captain Syrup's Present Room in Mario Party 4

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[CM30]

Looks like a well done hack, given how little information I can find about it. Interesting video though.

 

[warelander]

The wild swing ding is in the VS mode of Super Mario 64 DS:

(Excuse the terrible picture quality, but you can't pause while in multiplayer)

Only Wario ( or Yoshi with a Wario cap to be exact) can pick up opponents and do this (it works excactly like it did in World) , so it had to be intentional.

You can't do it in the main game thought, which is a bummer...
Still cool that it's in the game at all!

 

[warelander]

Wario appeared in an very early demo of the canceled Diddy Kong Pilot:

The design of his plane might also be partly inspired by the Bulldog's design in Land 3 :

Speaking of which, the design of the planes in the Kamek boss minigame from Mario Party 10 :

Bears an uncanny resemplance to the Bulldog's original design from Mario & Wario and Wario's Woods: