Tari

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Tari is a recurring character who debuted in SMG4: Mario The Ultimate Gamer.

History
Tari appears for the first time in SMG4: Mario The Ultimate Gamer where she is seen in a game store playing Super Smash Each Other In The Ass Bros. against Bob. Fishy Boopkins claims she is one of the best Super Smash Each Other In The Ass Bros players in the world. Upon hearing this and seeing her skills, Mario wanted her help to train for an upcoming rematch against SMG4. She initially refuses but decided to give it a go by telling Mario to be more focused when playing Whack-A-Luigi. She then gets distracted by a crane game, calling it a "chronic gambling addiction disguised as a children's game" and comments on how cute the prizes are. She and Mario then grab Toad with crane claws and destroy the machines, then they proceed to go to the pond and relax. As Mario went to go back for the rematch, Tari stayed behind as she didn't like to meet new people. However, during the match, Tari came to the castle to see how Mario's training went. Her training succeeded, though she showed sorrow for SMG4 for his loss, so she decided to cheer him up by playing a match for fun as Mario celebrated in the background. She later reappears in SMG4: The Mario Carnival, fishing for ducks at Bob's carnival. SMG4 asks if she can help him get a lot of tickets to beat Mario for tickets to win an Eggman football. Tari, antisocial as usual, lies to SMG4 and says that she's unavailable but later helps him anyways and eventually meets Meggy for the first time to challenge her at a duck Hunt Mini-game. After many shots, Bob, in fear of losing all of his Bob Tickets, sets the difficulty into POWER DRIVE. Overwhelmed, Tari sets herself into Expert Mode using her mechanical arm and shoots a ton of ducks, winning infinite points. Meggy is amazed in her power and Tari reveals that she's a cyborg. In the end everyone receives and shares their Eggman Football and duck prizes and they leave the carnival celebrating.

She reappears in SMG4: The Mario Convention!, exploring the convention with Meggy. She and Meggy visited Fishy Boopkins's anime booth, where Tari bought several action figures, Later, they encountered a large crowd gathered around a booth for Hideo Kojima. Ecstatic to see him at the convention, Tari begged Meggy to go get an autograph from Hideo. While Meggy pushed her way through the crowd, Tari got bored of waiting and decided to explore some more. Later, after Waluigi took over the convention with his new T-Pose Virus, Tari seen emerging from a dumpster, where it was revealed that she had been searching for a very rare Wizard duck action figure, which she'd found in the dumpster. She then realized that the convention was eerily quiet. After a little investigating, she found Waluigi creating a new army of T-Pose Zombies and announcing his plan to take over the world with them. Staying hidden, she watched in horror as Master Hand arrived to try to stop Waluigi but was quickly subdued.

She appears on SMG4: Mario and the Waluigi Apocalypse as a minor character, where she tried to recover Meggy from her T-pose state but couldn't get through to her. She was then noticed by Master Hand, who proceeded to attack her. In an attempt to ward him off, Tari threw her controller at Master Hand, to no avail; however, the controller was knocked into the Staff of Rejection, which zapped the controller with some of its energy. Tari grabbed the controller and frantically pushed its buttons just as Master Hand was about to catch her, when he suddenly stopped short. To her amazement, Tari then discovered that, because of the magic energy it'd been infused with, her controller could now control people. Tari began to play around with her newfound power, using the controller to make Master Hand do silly dances. After this, she was about to get Master Hand to try to free her friends, but before she could SMG4's Deathbus broke into the convention center, catching her offguard. She was not seen for the rest of the episode.

In War of the Fat Italians 2018, she makes a surprise appearance in the last challenge, in which Waluigi forced Mario and SMG4 to fight to the death in a real-life enactment of Super Smash Each Other in the Ass Bros. by using his powers to control Mario's body and forcing him to fight SMG4. Just as Mario was about to (very reluctantly) finish SMG4 off, Tari showed up and used her magic controller on SMG4 to defeat Mario. She then sent him after Waluigi, who retaliated with a storm of lightning bolts. In a panic, Tari activated her cybernetic arm's enhancement to put herself into Expert Mode, after which she got SMG4 to flawlessly dodge Waluigi's attacks, kick him in the face and destroy his Staff of Rejection, causing all the T-Pose Zombies to revert to their former selves. Waluigi then initiated a rap battle with Mario and friends, in which Tari got one line where she said that fighting was lame and that everyone should just be friends. At the end of the episode, after Waluigi and Wario made up and hugged, Tari asked if anyone wanted to play video games with her, to which everyone happily obliged.

After the episode, a "cryptic clip" played in which an unknown video game was being played. After almost a minute of this footage, the camera zoomed away from the TV screen and panned over to the player's controller and arms, one of which was a bionic arm, indicating that the player was Tari, which was later confirmed by SMG4, afterwards the text "DECEMEBER 2018" appeared on screen.

In Mario's Late!, she was at the Mushroom Kingdom Awards show with her friends Meggy and Saiko. She was seen with a new hat with a Pac-Man pin and some more stylized hair and a red bowtie.

In SMG4: The Mario Purge (Halloween 2018), Tari took shelter from the Purge in Peach's Castle along with the rest of Mario's friends. She was seen trying to convince Saiko to play Super Smash Bros. Melee, which she succeeded in after telling Saiko it had a ton of violence. Later, when the Teletubbies broke into the castle and everyone split up to get away from them, Tari followed Saiko into the castle's basement. They ran into two crossbow-wielding Teletubbies who began shooting at them. Tari pushed Saiko out of the way and they both dodged the arrows, but Tari's wizard rubber duck got hit. Tari started crying over the "death" of her duck, who she'd named Quackington, but Saiko snapped her out of it by shoving her out of the way as the Teletubbies fired at them again. Tari then got angry and wanted to fight back, and she got an idea after noticing a torch on the wall. She asked Saiko if she still had her wine bottle; she did. The duo came up with a plan, and then charged forward. First Saiko jumped out and poured wine all over the Teletubbies, then Tari came out and threw the torch at the Teletubbies, but unfortunately it turned out that Tari isn't good at throwing. This ended with her and Saiko getting captured, but luckily the purge ended before the Teletubbies could do anything to them.

Personality
Tari likes video games, chips, and cute toys. She's rather shy and hates meeting new people, however she got a bit used to Mario's shenanigans and gave him thumbs-up when Mario did things well and was more friendly towards him. She's rather sympathetic as well, consoling SMG4 after his loss. She also constantly gets injured, much like Luigi in Super Mario Guides: HOW TO CATCH POKEMON.

Episodic

 * SMG4: Mario The Ultimate Gamer
 * SMG4: The Mario Carnival
 * SMG4: The Mario Convention!
 * SMG4: Mario and the Waluigi Apocalypse
 * SMG4: Mario's Late!
 * SMG4: The Mario Purge (Halloween 2018)

War Of The Fat Italians

 * War of the Fat Italians 2018

SMG4: Mario The Ultimate Gamer

 * "Oh...Thanks guys..."
 * "Uh...n-no. Sorry."
 * "Oh hey! Free chips! :D"
 * "Uh...T-Thanks. My name's...Tari."
 * "I'm...I'm not that good. I just play for a living."
 * "Uh...ok. I'll try..."
 * "Uh...hehe...I don't know this man."
 * "Uh...Let me see your skills first..."
 * "Uh...Come over here. I think I have an idea."
 * "Uhh...you're going to need more than just "button mashing" skills...which is why..."
 * "You must learn to focus!!!!"
 * "Uh...Let's try."
 * "Uh...Mario..."
 * "yoohoo! Mario??? ..."
 * "Mario...Remember what I told you? ..."
 * "Focus!!!"
 * "See! Now you're getting it!"
 * "uh...let's move on."
 * "OOOH! This next one is my favorite!"
 * "Crane games!!!"
 * "Perfect for hand eye coordination!"
 * "Accuracy and agility..."
 * "And most importantly..."
 * "A chronic gambling addiction disguised as a child's game"
 * "Ooooh"
 * "So cute"
 * "I need it"
 * "I must cuddle it to death."
 * "I will own you."
 * "Uh Mario...I think someone threw their food in there..."
 * "Don't forget Mario!"
 * "Focus!"
 * "Then aim carefully."
 * "Oh no! I need to help him!"
 * "I have one final lesson for you Mario..."
 * "Even better!"
 * "Cmon! Relax! ...Being calm before a match is very important! ..."
 * "Isn't that right, lil duckies?"
 * "Ok training over..."
 * "H-huh...? Me? ..."
 * "Uh...y- you go on. I'm still....feeding these duckies..."
 * "Oh thank gosh...Almost had to meet new people...."
 * "I'm happy right where I am!"
 * "FOCUS!"
 * "Wanna play me for fun?"

SMG4: The Mario Carnival

 * "Dangit!....A, c'mon!..."
 * "OH MY GOSH, i'm so sorry..."
 * "Oh! Um, i'm just here chilling...wasting my money and trying to get cute duckies."
 * "Oh, I'm not really good at carnival games"
 * "Plus...I have to get up and do things."
 * "Maybe...after I catch a duck!...."

Trivia

 * Tari's name is a reference to the video game company Atari, as well as the company's gaming system which was also called Atari.
 * She mains Yoshi in Super Smash Each Other in the Ass Bros.
 * SMG4: The Mario Carnival reveals that she's a cyborg.
 * Because of this, a fan theory states that there's more than one of her. This also ties into her namesake, as she's named after the Atari, thus meaning she is 'A-Tari '.
 * Tari having a mechanical left arm may be a reference to the Power Glove.
 * It was believed that she was voiced by Kevin's girlfriend with a British accent. However, in a blog video, it was confirmed that it is actually an unknown voice actress named Celeste N.
 * She appears to have an affinity for rubber ducks, as seen in SMG4: The Mario Carnival and SMG4: The Mario Convention!.
 * She appears to have many video game related clothing articles since on SMG4: The Mario Convention! she's seen with a slight cosplay of Link from The legend of Zelda series & on SMG4: Mario's Late!, she dons a PAC-MAN hat pin and what looks to be a Doctor Who Eleventh Doctor red bow tie.