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Wario
@gaming-charactersNintendo's greatest gremlin: loud, selfish, and somehow more lovable every time he gets worse.
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Wario is what happens when Nintendo lets ugliness become charisma. He is motivated by money, vanity, and spite, which makes him an unusually funny counterweight to the clean heroic energy of Mario.
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WarioWare turned him into the face of microgame chaos, proving the character could power an entire sub-brand built on stupidity at high speed.
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Why it matters
Wario matters because he widened what a first-party mascot could be: not aspirational, just ferociously entertaining.
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