SMG4: Mario And The T-Pose Virus

SMG4: Mario And The T-Pose Virus is an SMG4 blooper published on August 4, 2018.

Sypnosis
SMG4 and his friends have been subject to a T-Pose Plague... can Mario survive in time to save his friends?

Plot
The episode begins with Mario doing his usual annoyance on Toad and Luigi playing with his dolls. SMG4 then looks out the window and Luigi asks what he’s looking at. SMG4 says that Shroomy has been doing a weird pose (T-Pose) outside for the entire day. Luigi thinks that it’s a new type of yoga and so does SMG4, so he goes to investigate. Luigi then says to the other two about Shroomy just standing there. Mario says that SMG4 is ”being a bird” with Shroomy, which is exactly what Luigi needs to know about the fact that SMG4 has been infected. Shroomy and SMG4 then walk to the door and Luigi freaks out and blocks it but the two manage to break a hole on the door. Mario attempts to use Toad as a grenade but it doesn’t work as Toad also gets infected and breaks the entire door, and the three are now accompanied by more T-Pose Zombies. Mario and Luigi run upstairs.

We then see Fishy Boopkins, Meggy and Bob playing a card game. Meggy thinks that they’re playing a Pokémon card game while Bob thinks they’re playing Poker. Boopkins then tells the two that they’re playing Yu-Gi-Oh. Mario and Luigi then burst through the door and tell the three to run. Despite Meggy asking them to play the card game for her. The T-Pose Zombies then come in and confuse everyone except Boopkins, who think they want to know about his Yu-Gi-Oh card collection. Boopkins gets infected and Bob runs away, leaving Meggy to deal with the T-pose zombies. Despite beating them, they get back up and surround her.

Mario, Luigi and Bob are seen panicking. Bob says they should just burn the castle down and kill the zombies. But Luigi disagrees as they are their friends. Mario then peeks through a door to see if the zombies are coming up. Mario thinks that they aren’t coming up until a now infected Meggy pops up and scares him, leaving Bob to think they can burn the castle now. The zombies almost break through the door and Mario and Luigi block it. Bob however runs away to the castle roof. The zombies finally break in and the brothers run up.

The brothers then run up to the castle roof door with the zombies catching by. Luigi attempts to hold them off while Mario tries to open the castle roof door. But it is hard to open it as Bob blocked it with several objects. Bob then looks down thinking that it is safe on the ground but he is wrong as there are tons of T-pose zombies down on the ground. Mario then calls Luigi to help him but as that doesn’t work either, Mario uses his "Fat Powers" to ram the door and break it open, which works, pushing Bob out of the way. Mario then celebrates his clever way of breaking down the door alongside his brother, but Luigi quickly gets taken away and immediately gets infected as Mario breaks down and tries to reach out for Luigi. Angry about Bob's negligence causing his brother to be turned, Mario charges into Bob and kicks him off the castle ledge, seemingly killing him. Mario is left stranded with nowhere to run as the zombies walk across him.

Princess Peach then arrives on a helicopter with a Koopa Troopa, much to Mario’s surprise. Peach and the Koopa then start shooting the zombies with 1-UP Mushrooms and bombing them with 1-UP bombs, turning them back to normal. Mario, still in complete shock, asks Peach how she managed to figure out how to turn everyone back to normal. Peach says she was on vacation for a day when the outbreak occured, and reveals that the apocalypse started because of a poisonous mushroom known as the T-Pose Shroom that Peach was prepared for in the event of an outbreak. Peach then furiously asks who ate the mushroom first, making everyone look at Shroomy. Shroomy then tells how the entire apocalypse started.

In his recollection of events, Shroomy is having a nice stroll in the forest until he comes across Waluigi armed with his Staff of Rejection (that Shroomy mistakes for a wand). Waluigi then summons a T-Pose Shroom and tells Shroomy to eat it. Shroomy inadvertently listens to Waluigi‘s command and Waluigi laughs evilly.

Back in the present, Luigi asks why Waluigi would do this. Bowser says that the team should beat Waluigi up when they see him, to Meggy's agreement. Mario then says how glad he is that everyone is back to normal. Boopkins then asks if anyone wants to see his card collection but everyone else refuses as they all go to the helicopter to do something else (on Mario's suggestion), leaving Boopkins behind and sadly looking down.

Characters

 * Mario
 * Luigi
 * SMG4
 * Bob
 * Fishy Boopkins
 * Shroomy
 * Peach
 * Waluigi
 * Meggy
 * Bowser
 * Toad
 * Po
 * Shrek
 * Wario
 * Toadsworth
 * Ronald McDonald
 * Colonel Sanders
 * Kermit The Frog
 * Master Hand
 * Whomp
 * Thwomp
 * Koopa Troopa
 * Tostarenan
 * Birdo
 * Shy Guy
 * Monty Mole
 * Donkey Kong
 * Funky Kong
 * Master Hand
 * Link
 * Kratos
 * Kamek
 * Mega Man X
 * Rayman
 * Tails
 * Falco Lombardi
 * Sans
 * Heavy Weapons Guy
 * SMG3
 * Dr. Eggman
 * Toad (species)
 * Luigi Doll (as toy)

Deaths

 * Shroomy, SMG4, Toad, Po, Shrek, Fishy Boopkins, Meggy, Donkey Kong, Wario, Bowser, Toadsworth, Ronald McDonald, Luigi, Kermit The Frog, Master Hand, Whomp, a Koopa Troopa, Heavy Weapons Guy, SMG3, Rayman, Funky Kong, other Toads and other characters - Infected by the T-Pose Virus, but were revived.
 * Bob - Kicked off of Peach's Castle by Mario and was either turned by the T-pose zombies or killed by the fall.

Trivia

 * This is the third SMG4 video that places greater emphasis on horror than comedy, the first being SM64 Bloopers: Can the Villager come out to play? and the second being SMG4: Doki Doki Mario Club.
 * This is the first time Waluigi is shown taking an actively villainous role.
 * The episode is probably set after the blooper SMG4: Waluigi’s Time since at the end of the episode Waluigi gets angry for being rejected again, and due to this we can probably suppose that Waluigi decided to take revenge to everyone with the T-Pose Virus.
 * The T-Pose Virus is possibly a reference to the T-Virus from the game Resident Evil, although the way infectees of the T-Pose Virus function is more similar to the Solanum-infected zombies from the Max Brooks novel World War Z.
 * This is the fourth time that Luigi Dolls were placed in a sexually explicit position.
 * This is the first major appearance of Shroomy since SMG4: The Super Dudes.
 * Mario cares for Luigi in this episode, which is a rare instance.
 * The Yu-Gi-Oh game is possibly a Yu-Gi-Oh Top Trumps as at one point Fishy Boopkins says “Trump Card” about the card game.
 * The Master Hand is technically responsible for the events that happened in this episode due to rejecting Waluigi.
 * Toad mentions about what Waluigi did to everyone in this episode in SMG4: The Mario Café.