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Socoder -> Off Topic -> Who is Wario? |
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| Wed, 24 Oct 2012, 00:29 | |
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dna |
I’ve never heard of Wario. What game is it?
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| Wed, 24 Oct 2012, 00:29 | |
steve_ancell
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Wario is an enemy of Mario and Luigi, they made a game centred around that character as far as I know.
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| Wed, 24 Oct 2012, 02:06 | |
rockford
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Wario is the complete opposite of Mario, in personality terms - he is a loud, brash thief anti-hero. He's starred in numerous Mario inspired games, but his biggest claim to fame is the Wario Ware type games - 100s of very simple, brief snapshots of games all in one package and all lasting less than 30 seconds each (some a lot less). Wario has also appeared in numerous Mario Tennis games, as well as his brother, Waluigi who is the opposite of Luigi.  |
| Wed, 24 Oct 2012, 03:37 | |
spinal
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Wa = evil, Wario = evil Mario. Same goes for WaLuigi (possible one of the poorestly conceived characters ever). He's been in a bunch of games as far back as the Gameboy. -=-=- Check out my excellent homepage! 
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| Wed, 24 Oct 2012, 08:04 | |
9572AD
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Isn't it waru? Wario = waru, essentially Waluigi, in Japan is pronounced same as waru-igi. The upside-down-and-backwards "L" which looks like an "r" on his hat is there to clue in the people who don't get it immediately. In Japan. -=-=- All the raw, animal magnetism of a rutabaga.
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| Wed, 24 Oct 2012, 08:24 | |
spinal
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Probably is, I was going from memory there...
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| Wed, 24 Oct 2012, 10:05 | |
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steve_ancell
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I heard somewhere that Japanese doesn't have puns, is that true?. |edit| It must be pretty hard telling a joke in Japanese if that is true. |edit| |
| Wed, 24 Oct 2012, 21:24 | |
Evil Roy Ferguso
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Japanese is if anything even punnier than English - there are a lot more homophones to facilitate this, and similar-looking characters can also be a sort of "visual pun" that doesn't really work in alphabetic writing systems. The thing is that trying to translate a Japanese pun into English is usually difficult if not completely impossible to do... so a lot of the time they're just dropped. It's hard to translate a pun when it depends on "love" (koi) and "carp" (koi) being pronounced the same. "warui" means "bad." Waruiji is also an anagram of ijiwaru - "a mean-spirited person." Also he's a stupid character. I think the main difference between Wario and Mario is that Mario can't actually gather more than 100 coins - they all just disappear and his life is magically extended. So he basically gets to live forever, but must remain a pauper. Meanwhile, Wario is building castles more or less directly out of stolen coins, because he's got so many of them he doesn't need bricks. |
| Thu, 25 Oct 2012, 04:59 | |
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steve_ancell
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 Mario can't actually gather more than 100 coins - they all just disappear and his life is magically extended. So he basically gets to live forever, but must remain a pauper A translation from English to more English... Mario is actually a plumber that carries no tools and gets a lousy pay-cheque.  |edit| And probably the only plumber that eats magic mushrooms and has to deal with pipes that are bigger than himself. |edit| |
| Thu, 25 Oct 2012, 08:02 | |
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9572AD
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Probably also the only plumber who started out as a carpenter nicknamed "Jumpman".
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| Thu, 25 Oct 2012, 08:58 | |
Jayenkai
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Wario was originally named rumpman!
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