Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-49.149.138.218-20150228125313/@comment-25653892-20150302005844

90.3.214.92 wrote: Personaly, I either like and dislike Mario: I like him because he's funny but I also dislike him because he's dumb. However, I don't dislike him outside of SMG4 (and OnyxKing67)'s videos because he isn't retarded in that case. The complete retardedness is played for comedy, and I myself find SMG4!Mario's personality hilarious. As long as he isn't a Karma Houdini, and as long as he gets mad for a reason (even a small, stupid one), his unlikability is amusing. Way over the top, so it's funny. Like slapstick.

In the earliest bloopers, the characters were actual, unexaggerated jerks to everyone for no reason. Overstatement and understatement will prove to be your friends if you ever try your hand at something comedic. Otherwise, your characters run the risk of being assholes and nothing but, and nobody likes rooting for a guy with no charm and no redeemable qualities.

And people shouldn't get so offended at how dumb Mario is anyway. As stated elsewhere in the forums, everyone's bloopers are AU fanfiction, and SMG4 can do whatever he wants with the characters. This isn't Nintendo's Mario, for sure, not even an exaggeration. But if it gets him subscribers, some of which has some semblance of taste, then it works somehow.