Board Thread:SMG4 Discussion/@comment-36426936-20190207022458/@comment-39946432-20190626221155

The Missing Spaghetti Arc: After a large Splatfest tournament (as depicted in a pre-arc episode titled 'SMG4: The Splatfest Showdown), Mario, Meggy, Luigi and Tari return to discover that all the spaghetti in the Mushroom Kingdom has disappeared! After trying to make their own spaghetti (and miserably failing) in an episode based of the 'Cooking with Mario and Bowser' series, Mario, Meggy and Bowser set out to solve this confounding mystery. Meanwhile, SMG4, Luigi, Bob and Fishy Boopkins infiltrate the Council of Macaroni, a pastafarian cult that worships the Flying Spaghetti Monster and has strong connections to the sudden spaghetti disappearance. They say that the only thing that can solve the mystery is the fabled Golden Spaghetti.

While this is mostly a light-hearted mystery at the start, it also features a bit of character development for Tari. In another pre-arc episode 'SMG4: If Mario was in...Banjo-Kazooie', Gruntilda kidnaps both Meggy and Tooty in an attempt to steal their beauty, prompting Mario and friends to team up with Banjo and Kazooie to stop her. In one scene, Tari challenges Gruntilda too a game of Super Smash each other in the ass Bros. to distract from Mario and Banjo rescuing the girls, much like in 'SMG4: Final Hours'. However, Gruntilda actually beats Tari, much to everyone's surprise. While Gruntilda eventually meets her doom at the end of the episode, Tari is left with a broken self-esteem, left questioning if she is actually good at videogames anymore. In the arc, Saiko and Meggy try to recover a now-depressed Tari's self-confidence and convince her that, while she is excellent at gaming, nobody's perfect.

However, much like the Anime Arc, the plot starts to take a dark turn. Throughout the arc, Mario is suffering from a serious spaghetti deficiency disease that even leaves him hospitalised in the episode 'SMG4: An Overdose of Dr. Mario World'. In the last few episode all evidence seems to point against the Cult of Macaroni. However, the true villain is revealed to be X (from Super Mario 64 Bloopers: Enter X, not to be confused with Nintendofan997) who wants revenge after years of being forgotten and had stolen all the spaghetti in the Mushroom Kingdom to power his destructive Spaghetti Ray, which he plans to use to destroy the world. With the true culprit revealed, Mario, Bowser and friends team up with the Cult of Macaroni, Wario, Waluigi, Jeeves, Shroomy, Toad, Donkey Kong, Axol, Chris, Swag and other SMG4 characters to take down X and save the world in the grand finale 'SMG4: Spaghetti Wars: Return of the Mario', which is heavily based off of Star Wars.