Game Theory: Super Mario...BETRAYED!

Have you seen the news? Nintendo has confirmed that Mario is hitting Yoshi in the head. According to Super Mario World character designer Shigefumi Hino. Appointment. "Many people think that as Mario points his finger forward, he says 'OK' and Yoshi's tongue sticks out. But what I drew was that when Mario hits Yoshi in the head, the character's tongue shoots out in surprise. It's Plus, there's an extra bob sound." End of quote. Man, between this and Scott confirming last week's FNAF

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, these are good days to be a theorist. Hello Internet! Welcome to: The Chaotic Neutral of Internet Web Programs.

Now that we are 200 episodes into this series. Throughout everything there is talk of evolution and genetics. Math and science. I hope you learned at least one important lesson from me. Don't take too much at face value. I mean they tell us that Mario is the hero and Bowser is the villain. But history is rarely so black and white. A hero is only truly a hero if he fights on the same side. It's a question of perspective. And as a result, the concepts of good and evil are not as black and white as we would like to think.

Who do you think Bowser is the cause? He is the hero. He is the one who does good. In the meantime, it's important to remember that we, as players, are only presented with one side of the story. That's why we always have to question what they tell us and why they tell us. And hell, who knows if that's true for something as silly as a video

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about plumbers on steroids, it might even be true in real life. THE SAME! MARIA! NAAA. What am I saying? The reason I mention this is because there are some characters like Mario and Bowser that exist in shades of gray.

Who is good or bad according to your perspective. But there is a sign in Mario that is pure evil. Someone creepy who aligns with someone. Whose will sows seeds of chaos for his own benefit. It went unnoticed, but make no mistake. He's the Mario universe's version of a war profiteer. Creating conflict and then selling their products to everyone involved. He is the purest villain of the Mario series and that man is…Professor Elvin Gadd. You heard right. This walking, talking

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structure emoji, responsible for providing Mario and his gang with many crazy and useful inventions, has mastered the mushroom kingdom's biggest threat.

But to understand why, let me shed some light on the matter. Or should Sunshine shed some light on the matter, because although it does not appear in this

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, the tragedy adjacent to the tropical island Delfino in Super Mario Sunshine was 100% organized by the professor. Throughout the game, you fight a hidden Bowser Jr.. as he figuratively and literally paints the city red with his magic paintbrush. Mario's main weapon against attacks: the Flash ultra-liquidating spray device, or Fludd for short. What awaits you on the runway when you land. And it even comes attached with a little note that says, "Thank you for purchasing this item from Gadd Science, Incorporated." My God!

I'm E. Gadd. But there's another part to E. Gadd's role in this game. You see, while he is responsible for creating Fludd, he is also responsible for creating another element of Mario Sunshine: the garbage island user Bowser Jr. himself. Look closely at the brush logo and you won't be able to deny it. It's the brand of our swirly-haired yogurt friend. Which begs the question, how did Bowser Jr. make up all the characters that end with one of E. Did you like inventions? Actually, it's not much of a mystery. Bowser Jr. Those who just got rights say: "A strange old man in a white coat gave it to me..." "A strange old man... in a white coat...?" Did he give it to you?

No, I stole it! Or I bought it! But did E. Gadd simply walk up to an overgrown turtle dragon and give it a powerful magical brush capable of bringing life to the world? And don't think for a second that he isn't aware of the threat the Bowser family poses. Canonically, Luigi's Mansion takes place before Sunshine. And in Luigi Bolig's ending, Luigi talks to E. Gadd about King Boo handing Bowser over and breathing fire on him. So clearly the professor knows the danger the Bowser family is in, but even in a beautiful feint he still hands them smeared paint.

Hey, this man is not a saint. It is also very convenient that immediately after arriving at Delfino Island, the Fludd is waiting there, right on the runway. Almost as if Gadd Science Inc. was waiting for all this to happen. It would be one thing if it were a once-in-a-lifetime mistake. Something he simply did without realizing the possible ramifications, but E. Gadd has made a career out of helping both the good guys and the bad guys. When you look at who owns the new Gameboy armed vacuum cleaner, the scales are eerily balanced. Look no further than Mario Party 7.

If you look very closely, you'll find the logo for it on two more items. The first is the void orb. Which makes sense considering he's responsible for creating the Poltergust series that helps Luigi clean up haunted mansions. What makes much less sense, however, is who E. Gadd designed this record for. Wario and Waluigi. The Void Orb is a capsule item in Mario Party 7 that is exclusive to these two villains. An item used specifically to steal coins from other players is designed to be used only by in-game anti-characters. That alone would be enough to hit your head.

But a Gadd logo appears on another element of this game. The wand inside the magic ball. An item that provides invisibility to the user. An item that can only be used by, wait for it... Boo and Dry Bones. Recurring undead enemies from practically all Mario games. In all of Mario Party 7, the only items bearing the Gadd logo are designed to help the Villans. So E. Gadd pretends to want to help, but he secretly undermines things from the shadows for his own benefit. And it's not just on Delfino Island or at a gaming table. In most games in which he appears, he is responsible for the chaos in the kingdom.

In Mario and Luigi Partners in Time, E. Gadd creates a time machine and for his maiden voyage after his own resident is Peach. The Monarch of the Mushroom Kingdom. Hey, here's a great idea! Let's send the princess back in time inside a death trap using untested technology with no one else there to protect her. What could go wrong? All. She is trapped in the past and kidnapped by fungal aliens even though E. Gadd says there is a 99.99999% certainty that nothing will happen. She may want to run this calculation again there doc. But when things go wrong here, E.

Gadd is once again there to help. He has been left at the castle to investigate the new alien species that are taking over both the past and the present. And what is useful to the team? Nothing. His purpose for being there is to find the alien weakness. And he can't. We haven't actually seen him do anything. He supports with nothing. In fact, he contributes less than nothing because he actively doubts the help you get from other signs. It's almost as if he works with foreigners. Cut to the final scene of the game. The final boss is defeated only for E.

Gadd to say, "There's something interesting to see in the castle. Meet me at the usual spot." What could be there? Any fun post-game content? Any easter eggs? A new invention? Oh no. You go to your usual spot only to find Bowser, possessed by the evil mushroom and ready to kill you. Thanks for the heads up, E. Gadd. It's almost like he's luring you into a trap. And of course, if you want to attribute Partners in Time to simply an accident of experimental technology. I can also point you to the sequel to Luigi Mansion, Dark Moon. In it, we learn that King Boo, who saw Luigi painstakingly defeated and turned into a painting in the first game, was freed when the nutty professor "accidentally" sold the painting at a garage sale.

I "accidentally" sold the painting with a giant evil boss in it, huh? I don't think so. Need I remind you that you're the same guy who ended the first game with the following lines: "I'd bet dollars and donuts on no one, but I have such beautiful paintings!" In fact, he is so eager to get photographs of him that he puts Mario's rescue from his portrait prison on hold until the ghosts have become photographs. And then he "accidentally" sells one. The most expensive. The one containing a deeply dangerous ghost boss. Has no sense. Unless he's perpetuated a cycle of ghost capture and release.

Ask yourself this. Of the twenty-three main ghosts of Luigi's Mansion, how many are actually hostile towards Luigi before he starts attacking? Only four. One of them is King Boo, the boss of everything and the other is a literal watchdog. Protecting the mansion from an obvious intruder. So why are we trapping all these non-hostile ghosts? Because E. Gadd told us that. Come to think of it, E. Gadd has been controlling the story we hear in this game the entire time. He is the one who told us what happened to Mario. But when you look at what he says, it doesn't stop Mario from entering a mansion that A) he knew was haunted by dangerous spirits and B) he says he mysteriously saw the pop-up just a few days before.

And he meets the Mario brothers at this time. Partners in Time shows that they rescued him from his old laboratory. And yet, he watches indifferently as one of his former saviors enters a dangerous mansion. And then not bother doing anything about it. But that is not all. Isn't it suspicious that Mario is trapped in a painting, no less, and that E. Gadd has a machine that turns physical beings into paintings and paintings back into physical beings? In fact, in Luigi's Mansion, we never found out how the ghosts escaped from his paintings to begin with. During all this time, E.

Gadd was able to reverse the process. Who's to say that's not how the ghosts escaped in the first place? Remember, this is the same guy who captures ghosts for a living, but then provides them with magic items during rounds of the board game. He himself might have contributed to creating ghosts in the first place. As it says in the game - Quote. "I'm pretty sure they're ghosts released from ghost artist Van Gore's paintings. This guy brought ghosts to life every time he picked up a paintbrush." A brush that gives life to things, you say. Hey, where have I seen that one before E.

Gadd? But why? Why would this character be helping both sides? The answer is obvious. E. Gadd earns a master's degree. He is not good. Nothing bad. But money. E. Gadd doesn't care who he helps as long as he gets paid. He is an arms dealer. And if his inventions are used by bad guys...so be it. In fact, when there is chaos, it is even better, because there are more problems in the Mushroom Kingdom. The more the good people need the services of E. Gadd. He gives the bad guys the tools they need to make those messes and then charges the good guys for the tools they need to solve them.

At the end of Luigi's Mansion, he makes a strange statement about not worrying about things like money or taxes. Which may or may not be true at the time, but fast forward a few plays and he's singing a completely different tune. In the recently released Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga plus Bowser's Minions, there is an Easter egg where E. Gadd starts talking to Bowser's henchmen about investigating him. As he rambles to himself, he comments: I quote. "So I researched... and researched... and researched even more... Ah, but as with anything related to lead, the research required a lot of coins.

So I started running Starbeans Cafe as a secondary source of income. I'm afraid that all of these things will require more and more coin systems." End of quote. And he remembers that all this exchange is a 100% free market. Nobody asks him about his work. He's just intolerant of himself. It is evident that his desire for money weighs heavily on his mind. But that apparently weighs heavily on Nintendo's mind as well. Why would they show us this Easter egg scene and specifically choose Gadd to focus on his money problems, if not to pull back the curtain on one of the most two-faced characters on his list?

His need for money is supported by another of his inventions: The Greed Wallet. Appears in Superstar Saga. A bag that doubles the amount of money you earn after battle. And that's not all. Consider this note about Fludd. "Thank you for purchasing this item -" Thank you for your purchase. He sold Isle Delfino the tools they needed to solve the problem he created. And if you're still convinced that E. Gadd is really the mastermind behind all of this, all you need to see is this line from Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon to show you his true intentions. Appointment. "When this is all over, you will finally step out of your brother's shadow and be recognized as a true hero.

Heh heh..." Chuckling softly. He is clearly manipulating Luigi. Playing on his bad feelings and feelings of inadequacy and laughing about it quietly all the time. If that doesn't show you that he's more than just an absent-minded teacher, I don't know what will. E. Gadd creates inventions that cause problems. Like brush. That time machine. The re-trafficker. So he creates solutions to these problems, at a price. The Flood. The Hydrogush. The Poltergusto. He fuels a feud between two warring sides in the Mushroom Kingdom andhide in the middle. Take advantage of their merit. We all assumed Wario was the greedy character in these games, but we didn't know that behind those swirly glasses, E.

Gadd's eyes are green with dollar signs... or gold coins. It does not matter that. But hey! It's just a

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