Post interesting Wario Land trivia here

Honestly, tiling errors aren't that rare in this series. Wario Land 4 has quite a few of them, often because the tileset doesn't have the right tile for that situation and they just used a random stand in.

And yeah, it's pretty unnoticeable here unless you look super carefully.
 
it is entirely possible that earlier on in Wario Land 4's development, Wario was meant to look more like his WL3 self
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Zombie Wario's turning sprite is the main piece-- perhaps the only surviving piece remaining in full view-- to support this claim.
take a look at how the mustache and general head shape are rendered, note how the three cyan lines on the hat and W are rendered completely different from even the other Zombario sprites.
View attachment 10011 showing it in greyscale kind of allows your brain to fill the blanks in with Wario's regular tones.
He bears a lot more resemblance to his appearance on the map screen, which in itself was a 32-bit version of WL3's map sprite.

View attachment 10041 it would seem as if at one point Wario's proportions were less stocky and more human-like
One thing to note is that flat wario also retains aspects from WL3 Wario
 

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One thing to note is that flat wario also retains aspects from WL3 Wario

That's really interesting! Seems like the transformation graphics weren't updated as much as the main player graphics, likely because the differences from the normal Wario design were mostly unnoticeable.
 
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