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

You remember the Shoulder Charge from Mario Golf World Tour right?
After charging on to the tee Wario will do this animation:
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Which looks just like the animation when you change your direction while sprinting in Shake it:
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The Charge itself looks a lot like the one in Shake it too, meaning this was likely intentional.

This jumping animation from the Smash Bros games:
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Looks a lot like this artwork from Wario Ware Twisted:
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Wario having this colour sheme in Smash:
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Is very remenicent of the player one Wario colour sheme from Mega Party Game$:
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Yeah different outfits, but you get the idea.

If the 3th player in one of the Mii modes in New Super Mario Bros U chooses to play as a Mii, than they will get Wario coloured overalls:
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A similar thing happens in the Super Mario advance series and Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga remake of the original Mario Bros:
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Wario having this colour sheme in Smash:
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Is very remenicent of the player one Wario colour sheme from Mega Party Game$:
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Yeah different outfits, but you get the idea.


A similar thing happens in the Super Mario advance series and Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga remake of the original Mario Bros:
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Nah... I think the smash bros outfit is just supposed to be a Mario imitation, and I think Mario Bros. one is just a simple recolour of Mario/Luigi, having nothing to do with Wario. I mean, who's the blue guy?
 
Nah... I think the smash bros outfit is just supposed to be a Mario imitation, and I think Mario Bros. one is just a simple recolour of Mario/Luigi, having nothing to do with Wario. I mean, who's the blue guy?

Wasn't there an old Luigi outfit that was blue? In a Mario anime?

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Nah... I think the smash bros outfit is just supposed to be a Mario imitation, and I think Mario Bros. one is just a simple recolour of Mario/Luigi, having nothing to do with Wario. I mean, who's the blue guy?
I just thought it was interesting to point out that this particular pallete swap does have a little relevance to Wario.
As for the Mario Bros argumant: they are all recolours and one just happens to be Wario based.
As for the blue recolour: it might be based of Stanley from Donkey Kong 3, but I'm not too sure on that:
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Nintendo Land's Luigi's Ghost Mansion minigame gives the third and fourtht player Miis costumes of Waluigi and Wario respectivly:
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Mario Party 4's present diorama for Wario is very interesting:
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See the Bike, it's not exactly the same as the Ware one, but it comes close and this game predates the Ware series by only a year, so yeah, epic bit of forshadowing right there!

It's also interesting to note that the diorama is depicting Wario living in a Castle, which harkens back to the days of
Wario Land 2 and the W symbols on the wall kind of look like the one from Land 2 :
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Can't have a references thread without Smash, here is a list of all the Wario content in Brawl:

Characters and colour skins

-Wario with both Biker suit and overalls, 16 colour skins overall, which includes the Game Boy colour skin.
-Mario still has his Wario skin, like in every Smash game.

Stages

-Wario Ware Inc. which includes the following microgames:
Crazy Cars - WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$
Sole Man - WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$
Arrow Space - WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$
Kitty Cover - WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$
Crack Down - WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$
The Maze That Pays - WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$
Butterfly Stroke - WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$
Blowin' Up - WarioWare: Touched!
Lose Your Marble - WarioWare: Touched!

There is also a microgame that forbits the players any movements, which might be based of the Twisted microgame "Fragile".
"Taunt" is an completely original game, that blesses us with a Jimmy appearence:
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Songs
-Wario Ware Inc.
-Wario Ware Inc. Medley
-Mona Pizza
-Ashley's Theme
-Mike's Theme
The Vocal tracks have both japanese and english versions.
The victory theme can be found on page 3.

Assist Trophys
-Kat & Ana

Trophys
-Wario
-Wario Man
-Wario Bike
-Kat & Ana

Stickers
-Wario - 64 DS
-Wario - Super Mario Strikers
-Wario - Smooth Moves
-Wario & Bike - Mega Party Game$/MPS
-Wario Man - Touched
-Wario World Symbol - Wario World
-Tiny/Mini Wario - Virtual Boy Wario Land
-Wario Car - Mario Kart Double Dash!!
-Mona - MPS
-Mona - Touched
-9-Volt - MPS
-9-Volt - Touched
-Dribble - MPS
-Spitz - MPS
-Jimmy - MPS
-Orbulon - MPS
-18-Volt - Touched
-Kat - Touched
-Ana - Touched
-Dr Crygor - Touched
-Ashley - Touched
-Penny - Smooth Moves
-Young Cricket - Smooth Moves
 
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Can't have a references thread without Smash, here is a list of all the Wario content in Brawl:

Characters and colour skins

-Wario with both Biker suit and overalls, 16 colour skins overall, which includes the Game Boy colour skin.
-Mario still has his Wario skin, like in every Smash game.

Stages

-Wario Ware Inc. which includes the following microgames:
Crazy Cars - WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$
Sole Man - WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$
Arrow Space - WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$
Kitty Cover - WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$
Crack Down - WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$
The Maze That Pays - WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$
Butterfly Stroke - WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$
Blowin' Up - WarioWare: Touched!
Lose Your Marble - WarioWare: Touched!

There is also a microgame that forbits the players any movements, which might be based of the Twisted microgame "Fragile".
"Taunt" is an completely original game, that blesses us with a Jimmy appearence:
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Songs
-Wario Ware Inc.
-Wario Ware Inc. Medley
-Mona Pizza
-Ashley's Theme
-Mike's Theme
The Vocal tracks have both japanese and english versions.
The victory theme can be found on page 3.

Assist Trophys
-Kat & Ana

Trophys
-Wario
-Wario Man
-Wario Bike
-Kat & Ana

Stickers
-Wario - 64 DS
-Wario - Super Mario Strikers
-Wario - Smooth Moves
-Wario & Bike - Mega Party Game$/MPS
-Wario Man - Touched
-Wario World Symbol - Wario World
-Tiny/Mini Wario - Virtual Boy Wario Land
-Wario Car - Mario Kart Double Dash!!
-Mona - MPS
-Mona - Touched
-9-Volt - MPS
-9-Volt - Touched
-Dribble - MPS
-Spitz - MPS
-Jimmy - MPS
-Orbulon - MPS
-18-Volt - Touched
-Kat - Touched
-Ana - Touched
-Dr Crygor - Touched
-Ashley - Touched
-Penny - Smooth Moves
-Young Cricket - Smooth Moves
Oh wow, a WarioWare stage, that's great! Can't say I expected that!
I mean, it only goes back to Touched!, but still cool!
 
Depressed about the lack of Shoulder Charge in Smash For?
Fear not, Mario Sports Mix is here:
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Walking towards a player who has the basketball and is facing the hoop for a few seconds will cause Wario to ram into them with his trusty charge!
This one is also a lot closer to the traditional charge than the ice hockey one, that I have mentioned before, since it's on the ground and covers a much bigger distance!
 
Wario's Deke move in Mario Strikers Charged is the Ground Pound.

His Super ability from the same game "Gasmask" has him engulf his opponents in a cloud of farts:
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Which might be inspired by the Smooth Moves microgame "He who smelt it..." :
http://www.mariowiki.com/He_Who_Smelt_It...

Theres als his Mega Strike:


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Which looks awfully similar to this attack of the Winter Windster from Wario World:


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Wario doesn't explode when the attack succeds, he just gets dragged in to the spikes, but the rest of the attack looks very similar.
 
I'm currently trying to get one specific quote in Fortune Street, but since Wario has to be AI controlled I might not get it today, or anytime soon for that matter...
I did find one new gem thougth:
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