SMG4

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SMG4, is an Australian Super Mario 64/Garry's Mod/SFM YouTuber who makes animations. He has over 5 million subscribers, making him one of the most popular animators on YouTube. He's the founder and the CEO of Glitch Productions.

Plot
I make animated videos of Mario and random losers going on dumb adventures 🍝

Why He's Amazing

 * 1) The animation can be so weird and awkward, it's funny, but also good.
 * 2) Instead of Mario being his normal happy-go-lucky self, SMG4 instead makes him a comic relief character.
 * 3) He mocks off on today's trends:
 * 4) *In a 2018 video, "Mario Battle Royale", Master Hand says it was just made to "follow trends" like Fortnite.
 * 5) * In the video "The Day SMG4 Posted Cringe", he made fun of the infamous Hit or Miss memes from TikTok.
 * 6) *In a 2020 video, "Mario is Cancelled", he satirizes cancel culture and Twitter in a very unpredictable manner. Mario is cancelled and everyone views him the wrong way.
 * 7) *In addition to mocking current trends in his videos, some videos even have Mario travelling into different video games and content; the #If Mario was in..." series are very entertaining and funny. However, that depends on your view.
 * 8) Likable characters, old and new. Such as:
 * 9) *Mario
 * 10) *Bob Bobowski (except in 2018)
 * 11) * Fishy Boopkins (even if he was flanderized)
 * 12) *Chris and Swagmaster696969696969 (even though they're series got pushed aside and had their appearances lessened by 2017, they would eventually get their titles as main characters back in 2019)
 * 13) *Steve
 * 14) *Toast Shy Guy
 * 15) *Old Man Hobo
 * 16) *The Teletubbies
 * 17) * SMG3 (same thing as The Guards)
 * 18) *FightingMario54321
 * 19) *Nintendofan997 (aka X)
 * 20) *Sonic the Hedgehog
 * 21) *Dr. Robotnik
 * 22) *Luigi (even if his scaredy cat status got worse in 2018-present)
 * 23) *Yoshi
 * 24) *Toad (until he lost his main character role in 2019)
 * 25) *Bowser (despite rarely acting like a villain anymore in 2018-present and rarely appearing)
 * 26) *Princess Peach (depending on your view, even if she acted like a jerk towards people like Mario and got worse in late 2019 & late 2020-present, she could still be liked)
 * 27) *Ben
 * 28) *Wario
 * 29) *Waluigi
 * 30) *Crazy Raisin Lady
 * 31) *The "WHAT THE FUCK IS A SONIC?!" Chain Chomp
 * 32) *Lakitu (Until he stopped making main role appearances after Mario Vs Wild)
 * 33) *Weegee
 * 34) *Frankie
 * 35) *Squidward
 * 36) * Despite their repetitive overuses of appearances and shoehorning (especially in 2022 so far), the OC characters such as Meggy (depending on your view), Shroomy, Saiko, Jeeves (despite now appearing as a background character), Tari, Axol (despite being killed off in WOTFI 2021), Mr. Monitor (despite making some controversy in "Officer Meggy") and Melony (depending on your view) can also be considered likable and positive, too.
 * 37) *SMG4 also inserts himself as one of the main characters in the series, who is an accurate and faithful fictional representation of Luke Lerdwichagul himself.
 * 38) In addition to being a comedic YouTuber that makes funny SM64 Machinima videos, his videos have also proven to have a good sense of writing and plot creativity. Especially in his later videos.
 * 39) *SMG4 cites a YouTuber named MarioMario54321 as his inspiration, who is known for making storybased series with his SM64 videos (e.g. OiramOiram54321 and the Dark Star X). It shows in SMG4's videos.
 * 40) While he's mainly a comedic YouTuber, he can still have a good sense of drama scenes, especially in the Anime Arc despite the arc being terrible
 * 41) One of his videos, “Mario Simulator Interactive”, was very ambitious and creative as viewers could interact with the video ala “Choose your own adventure” style.
 * 42) His videos have subtitles and if you turn them on, there are funny jokes mocking subtitles.
 * 43) Lots of funny sound effects are used in his videos.
 * 44) Over the years, he has made hundreds of videos that are mostly good, such as:
 * 45) "The Cake is a lie!"
 * 46) "Quest for a Console"
 * 47) "Enter X"
 * 48) "The Crazy Fighters"
 * 49) "SMG4 vs SMG3"
 * 50) "Account Loss"
 * 51) "The Forgotten Door"
 * 52) "Crystal Funhouse"
 * 53) "Bowser and the Nightmare Stone"
 * 54) "The Visitor" (2011, not to be confused with the 2014 episode of the same name)
 * 55) "War of the Fat Italians 2014"
 * 56) "The Mystery of Missing White and Blue"
 * 57) "The Lost Gems (Part 1-3)"
 * 58) "The Monster"
 * 59) "The Blooper Competition"
 * 60) "Sup' Bro?"
 * 61) "WEEGEE Disease"
 * 62) "Hotel Mario"
 * 63) "Two Evil Friends"
 * 64) "Two Great Friends"
 * 65) "%99% beroken"
 * 66) "How Mario Was Born"
 * 67) "Meggy Learns Japanese" (depending on your view)
 * 68) "The Pink Problem"
 * 69) "World of Craftmine"
 * 70) "Orbical Adventures"
 * 71) "SMG3's plan to destroy SMG4 cause he feels like it"
 * 72) "Party Rock Prisoners"
 * 73) "Desert Head"
 * 74) "Mario Goes Shopping"
 * 75) "Idiot Karts 101"
 * 76) "Birthday Freakout"
 * 77) "Scatman's Revenge"
 * 78) "Bad Star's Back!"
 * 79) "Smexy Soccer"
 * 80) "Boil the Big Bully"
 * 81) "Super Hello Kitty RollerCoaster Tea Party 2!!!"
 * 82) "Long Jump"
 * 83) "Hunt for Hero's Clothes"
 * 84) "Mushroom Wars: That space series?"
 * 85) "Super Happy Magical Fun Fun Island"
 * 86) "My best friend Slenderman"
 * 87) "S.M.G. Club"
 * 88) "Bad Stars"
 * 89) "Mario for hire"
 * 90) "Christmas 2015 - Christmas Crazies"
 * 91) "Can the Villager come out to play?"
 * 92) "If Mario was in... GTA V"
 * 93) "0% of Spaghetti"
 * 94) "Spaghetti Law"
 * 95) "99,5% Crazy"
 * 96) "101 Ways for Mario to Die (In the Right Way!)"
 * 97) "DerpTV: Super Happy Fun Fun Game Show!"
 * 98) "Freddy's Spaghettiria"
 * 99) "Sob Story: Tale of a Bob-Omb"
 * 100) "Who let the chomp out? (And it's sequel episode)"
 * 101) "Snowtrapped"
 * 102) "Mario Simulator"
 * 103) "Join the Evil Side"
 * 104) "Plumber Academy for Idiots"
 * 105) "Spaghetti.EXE (2016 Halloween Special)"
 * 106) "Halloween 2015 - The 2Spooky Story"
 * 107) "Swagquest"
 * 108) "Mario and the retarded Spaghetti factory"
 * 109) "Meet the Mario"
 * 110) "Spells n' Wiztards"
 * 111) "2014 HalloWeegee Special"
 * 112) "Legend of Steve"
 * 113) "If Mario was in... The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time"
 * 114) "Meet the Luigi"
 * 115) "Luigi Labyrinth"
 * 116) "Casino, Cards, and Chaos"
 * 117) "The Battletoads Justice Crew"
 * 118) "Boo Busters"
 * 119) "The Pirate Plumbers"
 * 120) "SMG4 N' Pals: Seaside Stupidity (Part 1 and 2)"
 * 121) "Meet the Bowser"
 * 122) "Shy Guy Showdown"
 * 123) "DerpTV: Mushroom Kingdom's Got Talent"
 * 124) "Stupid Mario Maker"
 * 125) "Shoot to the Observatory in the sky"
 * 126) "Easter 2016: The Explosive Easter Hunt"
 * 127) "The Bootleg Dimension"
 * 128) "Welcome to the Kushroom Mingdom"
 * 129) "Stupid Mario Kart"
 * 130) "Stupid Mario Golf"
 * 131) "Marioception" (depending on your view)
 * 132) "Mario's Road Trip"
 * 133) "Mario's Boat Trip"
 * 134) "Mario's Train Trip"
 * 135) "Mario Goes to DIDNEY WORL"
 * 136) "Mighty Morphin' Mario Rangers"
 * 137) "The Grand Mario Hotel"
 * 138) "If Mario was in... Splatoon"
 * 139) "Mariotube (& Mariotube 2)"
 * 140) "Mario VS Sonic: PRANK BATTLE"
 * 141) "The Mario Channel: MarioBusters"
 * 142) "The Mario Channel: Mario's Challenge"
 * 143) "Cooking with Mario and Bowser!"
 * 144) "High School Mario"
 * 145) "Mario the Ultimate Gamer"
 * 146) "Mario Preschool"
 * 147) "The Mario Mafia"
 * 148) "Final Fantasy Mario"
 * 149) "Mario waits for pizza"
 * 150) "Mario University"
 * 151) "Mario School Club"
 * 152) "The WEEGEE Uprising"
 * 153) "If Mario was in... Baldi's Basics"
 * 154) "The Japan Trip"
 * 155) "Mario and the Anime Challenge"
 * 156) "Mario's Lemonade Stand"
 * 157) "The E G G" (depending on your view)
 * 158) "Waluigi's Time"
 * 159) "Mario in Real Life!? (200 vid special)"
 * 160) "Princess Capturing Simulator"
 * 161) "The Super Dudes"
 * 162) "Cooking with Mario and Bowser World Tour"
 * 163) "War of the Fat Italians 2018"
 * 164) "World War Mario" (depending on your view)
 * 165) "War Of the Fat Italians 2021"
 * 166) "Little Penguin Lost"
 * 167) "There's Something Wrong With Meggy" (depending on your view)
 * 168) "Mario VS YouTubers"
 * 169) ”Little Penguin Lost”
 * 170) "Christmas 2017: The XMAS Discovery"
 * 171) "New Year, New Mario" (depending on your view)
 * 172) "Mario Waits For The Bus"
 * 173) "Christmas Special 2021"
 * 174) "THE 5,000,000 SUB SPECIAL"
 * 175) "What If..."
 * 176) "She's Back" (depending on your view)
 * 177) "The Pursuit of Happiness" (depending on your view)
 * 178) "The Final Piece"
 * 179) "The Wacky Wario Bros: Waluigi Origins"
 * 180) "Mario's Mask of Madness" (depending on your view)
 * 181) "Meggy's Part-Time Job" (depending on your view)
 * 182) "If Mario Was AMONG US..."
 * 183) "Perfectly Balanced"
 * 184) "Mario's Spicy Day"
 * 185) "Into the Dark Web"
 * 186) "Food Wars"
 * 187) "Mario's Internet Safety"
 * 188) "If Mario Was in... SQUID GAME"
 * 189) "Officer Meggy" (despite ageing horribly for its time)
 * 190) "The Totally Legit Learning Show With SMG4"
 * 191) "Mario Battle Royale"
 * 192) "Wild, Wild Mario"
 * 193) "Mario's Bus Trip" (depending on your view)
 * 194) "Uncanny Mr. Mario"
 * 195) "Absolute Betrayal" (depending on your view)
 * 196) "If Mario Was In... Nickelodeon"
 * 197) The Retarded64 series was hilariously funny as it was meant to be stupid for all the correct reasons.
 * 198) He's always called one of the best SM64 animators on YouTube, his bloopers were funny and his animation skills were also top-notch.
 * 199) His former side channel, TheAwesomeMario was also good, despite no longer making any more videos by New Year's Eve due to unknown reasons.
 * 200) His gaming and memes-reviewing channel, Hobo Bros, was also entertaining, even though it's no longer active as of the present.
 * 201) Great voice acting in his crossover with merging live-action and SM64 together.
 * 202) War of the Fat Italians in particular is a staple series of SMG4's channel. The earlier WOTFI episodes served as the Food Battle of SMG4. After a while, they put a different twist to the formula and let the audience decide what challenges the pair are up against.
 * 203) *In WOTFI 2018 and WOTFI 2020 and WOTFI 2021, SMG4 also put a brand new twist to the series to where the battle is up against an arc villain giving the challenge, instead of Mario vs. SMG4.
 * 204) The Waluigi Arc was fantastic for a number of reasons:
 * 205) It's the first time that SMG4 portraits Waluigi as an actual villain, and not as a comic relief character. Mainly because of the fact Waluigi is going to remain an Assist Trophy character instead of an actual playable character like his brother Wario.
 * 206) During this arc, Mario cared about Luigi. The same can be applied for Wario caring about Waluigi, as he was his own partner for his own scams.
 * 207) The introduction of Tari, a female cyborg, and an original character who portrayed as the likable coward everyone can relate to.
 * 208) The T-Pose Zombies concept, a mix between a zombie and the T-Pose combined to a really funny joke that is a very well handled plot device.
 * 209) "The War of the Fat Italians 2018" is the end of the arc. It's also the first time that Mario and SMG4 didn't actually want to fight each other.
 * 210) Because of how much everyone praised the Waluigi arc, there were more arcs that were also as good:
 * 211) The Rapper Bob Arc (depending on your view)
 * 212) The YouTube Arc
 * 213) The Genesis Arc (depending on your view)
 * 214) The Revelations Arc
 * 215) Made many awesome spin-offs like Sonic the DERPhog, Guards 'n Retards, Ssenmodnar, and a whole lot more.
 * 216) His original song Darkest Hour was top notch.
 * 217) Luke and Kevin (both brother and writer) also balanced out a lot of comedy and drama in their recent videos. Even to this day, they always captured the effort they put into their work.
 * 218) The later seasons of his videos have very good continuity, making them feel more connected to each other as its own series.
 * 219) His first original movie, “Meggy's Destiny”, was one of his most ambitious projects yet, as it wrapped up Meggy’s character arc as a whole; it was a fantastic conclusion to Meggy’s ongoing dream to win Splatfest however it's legacy has been tarnished due to people pointing out the flaws it had
 * 220) Depending on your views, SMG4 also has made good spinoff series for certain original characters, such as Meta Runner (Tari), Sunset Paradise (Meggy), and non spin-off series that were made by Liam Vickers, who created Cliffside and Murder Drones. Most of these are now located on his Glitch Productions channel.
 * 221) The recent 10 Year Anniversary video (his second movie) is really good for its amount of humor, heart, action, and continuity that paid full respects to the day his first video on YouTube was uploaded back on May 8th, 2011.
 * 222) Unlike SuperMarioLogan, he's shown to genuinely care for his fans, as shown in videos like the 2020 fan-written episode and the aforementioned 10 Year Anniversary special.
 * 223) He's shown to be able to take criticism. In a 2015 video that criticized his videos, SMG4 took the criticism well in the comments, even going as far as telling his fans that it's just the creators' opinions and that they should all just respect one another's opinions.
 * 224) "Mama F***er!"

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Not all of his videos are good, the examples of his bad videos include:
 * 2) "The SMG4 weight losers"
 * 3) "Brother Battles"
 * 4) "The Warrior and the Hobo"
 * 5) "SMG4 Joins the YTR"
 * 6) "Starman3 Gets 5,000 Subs!"
 * 7) "A Lost Luigi"
 * 8) "The Toad, The Fat, and the Ugly"
 * 9) "Son of a Bowser"
 * 10) "Tubbie TV"
 * 11) ”Problematic Pipe Problems" (depending on your view)
 * 12) "The Idea Block" (which started 2015 on a sour note)
 * 13) "Mario Joins the Circus"
 * 14) "Doki Doki Mario Club" (Which started the series' minor decline)
 * 15) "Meggy's Bootcamp" (depending on your view)
 * 16) "Boys vs Girls"
 * 17) ”Mario Runs Out of Toilet Paper”
 * 18) ”Mario the Supreme Leader”
 * 19) ”Mario is Cancelled” (for having too many vibes to the infamous “Mario Joins the Circus”)
 * 20) "War of the Simps" (depending on your view)
 * 21) ”Christmas Special 2020” (depending on your view)
 * 22) ”The Resurrection” (depending on your view, seen by many fans at its time to be a gigantic ratings trap)
 * 23) "The Melony Felony"
 * 24) ”Mario Suffers Infinite Detention” (depending on your view)
 * 25) ”Mario Gets into NFTs”
 * 26) "Final Hours" (depending on your view, not a good way to end the Anime Arc)
 * 27) "DO NOT ENTER"
 * 28) While this is not a bad thing, but often times the new characters have been in the spotlight more than the older ones (aside from Mario, Luigi, Wario, etc.); some of the new characters themselves have no relationship to Mario, which can cause some plot holes to occur.
 * 29) Speaking of the characters, some of the characters can have unlikeable moments here in there. Some may also have moments of flanderization if not inconsistency here and there, especially in the 2014, 2015 and 2018-present eras:
 * 30) Some of his story arcs may span on for longer than they needed to. The Anime Arc for example, spanned a total of 12 episodes in 2019. And because of how long they are, not only do they take up space, but also prevented SMG4 from having opportunities to make videos such as holiday videos, If Mario Was In..., Stupid Mario, etc.
 * 31) There have been some mean-spirited moments in his videos sometimes, such as in some of his bad episodes (see BQ #1). This even happens in some of his decent videos such as "Mario is Cancelled", where Mario wears a cone hat by the Cancelled Dimension that says "simp", and everyone (including his friends) laugh at him and mock him afterwards.
 * 32) While his sense of continuity in his later videos is clever and well-handled, it might be difficult for some to follow through the later episodes if they haven't watched the earlier episodes preceding them, such as in The Anime Arc, where Meggy turns into a human, and becomes extremely insecure and less confident after witnessing Desti's death; a fan who is new to his videos may not understand these changes unless they've seen earlier episodes leading up to it.
 * 33) Some of his videos are pretty cringy and really stupid (even though that's the point of his channel). Some of the cringy stuff usually serve as bad attempts at humor.
 * 34) While indeed awesome (see WHA #15), most of his spin-off series never get that much new videos recently. Guards 'n Retards is an example of this due to the low amount of popularity. Some series, such as Sonic the DERPhog don't get as many videos as the other ones, and in general, all of his other series, don't really have new episodes in
 * 35) The Anime Arc was not well received due to it's lackluster writing while there were some excellent episodes (see above) this has been considered the only bad arc Smg4 has made. Desti development and Meggy turning into a human were also panned however thankfully Smg4 has learned from his mistakes.
 * 36) The new characters can get shoehorned into episodes that would've looked better if they weren't in it at all, depending on your view. It eventually gets even more worse in 2022 where they appear in big roles in almost every single video as of this year so far.

Videos
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Trivia

 * SMG4 himself is very popular in Japan, mainly because of the channel’s most popular video: “Who let the chomp out?” with many videos subtitled into Japanese, as well as a lot of fan art on Pixiv.
 * It also has a notorious fanbase in Latin America, with many videos getting subtitled into Spanish.