SMG4: World War Mario

Synopsis
Mario and friends storm Anime island in an attempt to rescue Meggy & Desti.

Plot
"War... War never changes."

The video starts off in the early morning of June 6th, 2019, near the coast of Anime Island, with troop transporters, carrying most of the former A.S.S. personnel, as well as Mario and the SMG4 gang, on their way to the shores. While Mario is singing and having a fun time, some others are worried (with Fishy Boopkins carrying medical supplies and Tari bringing a telephone, nervously). Meanwhile, Swagmaster is seen boasting on how he's ready to beat up some anime while Bob reads a headline from the Daily Globe.

Tari starts to sob in fear, refusing to believe that their mission to save their friends has grown into a full-scale war. Saiko reassures her and the others that they are finally arriving to save Meggy. Suddenly, they hear Luigi panicking, stating that he can't take it and wants to be let off from the battle. Mario then reassures him that everything would be okay and asks one of the soldiers about it; The soldier answers that they are doomed, and Luigi's attitude worsens. Chris, the commander of his squadron, announces that only 30 seconds are left before their boat finally reaches Anime Island, and tells his mates to clear the bunkers and try their best to get off the beach if they can. He then wishes good luck to all his mates and hopes that God will be with them.

As the boat's door opens (with Swagmaster telling Chris that he's scared and Chris replying that he's scared too), the Anime Cartel forces begin to open fire at the boat, killing most of the A.S.S. personnel, leaving Mario, Luigi and SMG4 to scream in terror as they get off the boat. As enemy forces fire their machine guns at them, Saiko deflects the bullets away with her hammer and tells Tari and Fishy Boopkins to start moving right now. Meanwhile, Mario (holding a corpse) and SMG4 (who is swimming on the waters) make their way towards the shore, while many A.S.S. members are being killed in gunfire and explosions. As they run to the nearest barrier, Mario asks SMG4 about how his Thursday was, with him screaming in reply.

In the middle of the carnage, a shocked Fishy Boopkins stands as he quotes the "War... war never changes!" line from the Fallout series. Meanwhile, Bob tells the anime forces to go back to their mangas and anime while shooting behind a metal barrier, when suddenly an anime character pokes out and launches a bullet bill, severely injuring him. Luigi comes to aid Bob with medical supplies and tells SMG4 and Mario to go on ahead, and both head on.

The scene then cuts to Yoko Littner preparing to take out SMG4 (who is knocked over by Mario spinning inadvertently) with her sniper rifle but then getting blown up by a grenade thrown by Saiko. After a brief moment, SMG4 runs into Mario again and notices him sitting on a beach chair, watching the battle with popcorn and calling it a "good firework show", much to SMG4's irritation. He then kicks Mario off the chair and drags him along just before the two bump into Tari who calls them to come over for assistance. SMG4 asks what's wrong and Fishy Boopkins explains that none of the soldiers can get past the point they're at because it's heavily armed and several lines of barbed wire.

Mario gets an idea and runs towards the blockage. SMG4 starts to panic, but Mario tells him that there's nothing to worry about since "Marios got 4 IQ". He then sees a landmine and falls on it, triggering it to explode shortly after. The force of the explosion throws Mario toward the rows of barbed wire, blasting through it, and surviving.

Meanwhile, on the main warfront, Swagmaster, who is accompanied by Chris, pulls out a rocket launcher and lauches a bullet bill towards a bunker, annihillating it in the process, however Chris is quickly shot in the chest by two snipers in a fort on top of a hill. A devastated Swagmaster heads over to Chris and asks who's mom he's going to make fun of now. Chris tells him he's fine and that Swag must just kick their arses for him.

Swagmaster, filled with new determination, runs up to the snipers, dodging bullets, jumping over barbed wire, and climbing a hill as he does so before finally reaching the fort and taking out the two snipers. He then enters the fort and kills other Anime characters, however is almost shot by one of the snipers who had survived, but she is stabbed in the butt by Bob before she could kill Swag. Both then continue fighting.

The scene then cuts to Mario, SMG4, Tari, Boopkins, Saiko, Luigi and Chris in a trench where the former is patching up Chris who survived being shot, since the bullet missed his vitals, while insisting that Chris needs to stay behind. The latter apologises for his failure but Tari assures him that it's not his fault, and that at least he fought bravely. SMG4 then shows everyone to the entrance to Francis' base while Mario exclaims that he is gonna "Kill some bitches".

In the base, Meggy is being tortured in the The Ink Zuccer 2000, screaming in agony as her ink is getting extracted by the machine. Francis gloats about how it's working, but is then suddenly interrupted by his WeaBoo minion who informs him that Mario and his gang have infiltrated the base, much to Francis' anger. Francis commands his minion to slow them down and goes to the Ink Zuccer's controls. He shifts the Zuccer into maximum overdrive by speeding the machine's process up to 100%, putting Meggy through more pain. Axol and Desti plead Francis to stop as he might kill Meggy if he keeps going, but Francis, wanting his plans to come to fruition, doesn't listen, claiming that Meggy will be fine. Suddenly, he hears the enemy taking out his goons and tells Mewtwo to watch the prisoners while he deals with Mario and the gang his own way.

As it turns out, the SMG4 gang are finally on their way to Francis' base, running through the hallway and taking out each of the green weeb lizard's henchmen, though SMG4 gets distracted by Hideo Kojima in a pink wig. Steve makes a cameo, seen cuddling with an anime girl cosplaying Creeper from Minecraft who, however, gets blown up by Saiko's rocket launcher (The screen then turns black-and-white, Steve looks at the viewer and "Mad World" sung by Fishy Boopkins is heard). The gang then come across Francis at the end of the hall, who reveals that he is the mastermind behind the kidnapping of all the inklings. Tari and the others realize that they made a horrible mistake of accusing Axol, and Francis boasts about how the latter isn't even half the otaku he is. Saiko, having had enough, angrily asks where Meggy is, but Francis mocks her by pretending to be afraid, only to be interrupted by Mario who threatens to beat him up if he doesn't tell where Meggy is. However, Francis, not wanting the heroes to ruin his plans, takes out a picture of Sephiroth, and jams the Ink Weaver into it, bringing to swordsman to life.

Meanwhile, near the Ink Zuccer, Axol, ashamed of having created the InkWeaver, lost all confidence and will to continue helping the others, and begins to blame himself for the situation unfolding around while Meggy continues to scream in agony. But after Desti motivates the axolotl to prove himself as the greatest manga artist, he comes up with an ingenious plan to free himself. He starts to taunt Mewtwo by telling it that he would rather choose Magikarp, making the Pokemon angry. Mewtwo then grabs Axol and throws him at the machine's control panel, occasionally breaking his chains and giving him the opportunity to take off his straitjacket as well. After receiving another insult from Axol, Mewtwo gets even more angry and charges at Axol, who dodges, and inadvertly destroys the control panel, which fails and explodes, killing Mewtwo as well. The ink extraction process is terminated, and Meggy's life is saved. Axol then proceeds to free Desti after getting a key from Mewtwo itself. Meggy thanks Axol for saving her, but then orders him and Desti to help Mario and the others after hearing of their struggle to fight Sephiroth.

In the hallway near the now-disabled Ink Zuccer 2000, it's shown that Sephiroth has already killed many of the soldiers who accompanied the SMG4 cast to Anime Island. Mario tries to get an upper hand over the warrior, who effortlessly picks him up, however Mario frees himself by quickly stretching his nose (like a penis), and launching Shepiroth away. At the same time, Saiko prepares to hit him with her hammer, but Sephiroth ends up blocking her attack by launching Mario towards her. SMG4 then proceeds to bring out his computer to insult Sephiroth with a tweet that SMG4 made throwing shade at him, but starts crying after the roasting insult results in his computer getting destroyed by the swordsman, and the latter holds SMG4 against the wall. Fishy Boopkins attempts to intervene, only to get effortlessly thrown away. Having dealt with the others already, Sephiroth tries to attack Tari but ends up dealing minimal damage because of her cyborg arm. He immediately stops his attack upon hearing Francis and Axol fighting over the Ink Weaver. Taking advantage the distraction, Desti then proceeds to kick Francis, not only obtaining the pen (for now) but also causing the chameleon's glasses to come off. Still, due to his loyalty towards Francis, Sephiroth charges towards the Octoling and attacks her as the two end up in the room of the Ink Zuccer, followed by Francis once he realizes that he's being chased.

Near the disabled Ink Zuccer, Desti blocks Sephiroth's sword with Axol's pen and jumps in an attempt to strike the warrior from above, but gets blasted away as the pen lands back in the grasp of Francis. Saiko charges at Francis trying to get the Ink Weaver from him, but gets hit by Sephiroth as well. Desti claims that she needs a distraction to defeat Sephiroth, which causes Saiko to think of distracting the warrior with Tari's "secret weapon." The "weapon," which happened to be Archibald (Tari's rubber duck), confuses Francis and Sephiroth, but allows Desti to grip the latter and throw him towards Axol. The manga artist then kicks him at Mario and SMG4 as they exchange their own series of blows, before Sephiroth is finished off by a rock launched from the mouth of Fishy Boopkins with Luigi assisting via aiming (which triggers the Final Zoom effect from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate).

Upon witnessing their first win against Sephiroth, the SMG4 gang cheer and congratulate themselves on their victory, not realizing that Francis still has Axol's pen. Their celebration gets cut short when Desti gets impaled by the sword of the new Sephiroth, mortally wounding her. Everyone watches in horror at what just happened with Meggy calling out to Desti, while Francis reveals that he used the Inkweaver to summon another Sephiroth and laughs maniacally in the background as Sephiroth unhinged his sword out of Desti's chest and she falls to her knees, though she manages to stammer: "You better win the Splatfest for me, Ok?!", before collapsing. The screen cuts to black, and later the credits are then shown with dead silence.

Main Characters

 * Mario
 * Luigi
 * SMG4
 * Tari
 * Fishy Boopkins
 * Saiko Bichitaru
 * Bob
 * Chris
 * Swagmaster
 * Meggy
 * Desti
 * Axol

Supporting Characters

 * Francis
 * Sephiroth
 * False Mewtwo
 * A.S.S.

Minor Characters

 * False Dawn
 * WeaBOO

Cameos
italics denotes that the person presumably dies in this episode.
 * Bullet Bill
 * Steve
 * Hideo Kojima

Subtitle Problem
This episode is one of the many SMG4 episodes with bad subtitles, as some SMG4 fans put their thoughts into the subtitles, instead of the comments, literally ruining them, frustrating a huge amonut of fans, and most importantly because deaf people will have a hard time trying to descipher the actual talk from the spam. Other notable examples are Mario and the Experiment, Mario's Road Trip and the British subtitles for The Grand Mario Hotel.

Trivia

 * This is the second episode in 2019 where the traditional end credit theme doesn't play. The first being SMG4: The Splatfest Incident.
 * This is one of the darkest and most traumatic SMG4 videos ever...For starters, Francis puts Meggy through constant pain in the Ink Zuccer 2000 as he extracts her "special ink" to power Axol's Ink Weaver to 100%, with Meggy screaming in agony. If that wasn't enough, near the climax, Desti is mortally wounded by Sephiroth's Masamune and the video ends as Desti collapses to the ground. When the credits play at the end, no music is heard.
 * During the Glitch Productions logo, a sound of thunder crashing can also be heard.
 * In the description of the video, SMG4 said the next episode will be the finale of The Anime Arc.
 * Mario asking SMG4 how his Thursday went counts as a reference to Tari's Live Stream - Animated Short - META RUNNER being released on Thursday.
 * This episode is made to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Normandy Landings during World War II (D-Day).
 * The scene where the Anime Cartel instantly opens fire on the gang and the A.S.S. and kills many of them, save for a few key characters is similar to the war scenario from the video game Conker's Bad Fur Day.

Music

 * 12:02 - Menu Theme, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate