This belongs to Flash Fox, on Bluesky

Now, where should i put The butt ninja

My vote:highly unpopular opinion but, although I consider GNR to be the best subseries on the channel, the first two videos seem kinda mid to me

Today, May 23.

Are there any SMG4 videos you think are overhated? (Idea by SeamlessShelf35 on Bluesky)

For me There's Something Up With Meggy

Now, where should i put Super Mario Attorney

My vote:Almost perfect,one of my favourites of the year

Now, where should i put Two great friends

My vote:Amazing

An subreddit called DrakeTheType

Mr Puzzles is gonna get roboticized by MR WPNZ.

I know it’s a bit of a stretch, but basically what if MR WPNZ, upon seeing Mr Puzzles is weak(like seriously, without his pawns, he’s NOTHING) and is in a horrible HORRIBLE mental state since WOTFI 2024, takes advantage of it. It’ll start out small…MR WPNZ will teach Mr Puzzles how to use ACTUAL weapons and while he might not get the hang of it at first, he eventually does. Then maybe during a battle with the Glitchy Gang, Mr Puzzles screws up and lets them get away, which causes MR WPNZ to decide to take drastic measures…by knocking Mr Puzzles out, strapping him to an operation table and began “upgrading” him, which is a pretty painful process. Eventually, Mr Puzzles will return, now having been reforged into a living weapon that MR WPNZ will use to take revenge on Karen and their children. Either Mr Puzzles will snap out of it on his own or with Meggy’s help…or the crew will have to mercy kill him.

I've gone on and on and on in several different places in several different ways about why I think Axol being killed off was a bad decision on the part of the writers. Now I know there are going to be people who say that, given the circumstances, there really was no other choice: it was either kill him off or allow Mario to be fully surrendered to Niles and have the universe reset. But that still raises the question: why Axol? Why did HE have to be the one who had this happen to him. This doesn't even just stem from my emotional investment into him: I'm asking what about the show's narrative up until that point justified HIM being the one to get this treatment?

In my opinion, it should've been MELONY who was possessed and had to die, and I've got several reasons for this. First of all: Axol is only a powerhouse whenever he has his Inkweaver with him. When he got possessed by Niles, this became part of his mutated form, but the opportunity to twist its power was never actually seized, which was a MASSIVE miss on the part of the writers. Melony, on the other hand, is a powerhouse by NATURE because of her Fierce Deity form, so taking control of her would've made a LOT more sense from a practicality standpoint. Second: the tragedy aspect of a never-meant-to-be romance isn't realised properly. You have to keep in mind that, for the majority of her appearances, Melony never truly reciprocated the feelings Axol had for her. As a result, making HIM be the one to go doesn't work because there's no defined sense of attachment for her to have to give up for the greater good (y'know: the whole "if you love me, let me go" trope). People say that Melony's existence ruined Axol as a character, and while I'm not going to dispute that, he at least HAD an established character prior to Melony's Mask of Madness. Melony, however, was pretty much a blank slate, only gaining traction BECAUSE of him. Melony's existence was the CAUSE of Axol's flanderisation and not just a symptom.

Besides this, I've read up somewhere that, apparently, Melony was only supposed to be a one-off character but stuck around due to her popularity (probably because she was meant to appear in War of the Simps) It's kind of similar to how Axol was meant to be the villain of the "Anime" arc before that role was suddenly given to Francis halfway through. Now, yes: you could genuinely make the argument that this factoid meant he was ALWAYS poised to die as Francis got killed off when he had that villain role, so it was probably just a matter of waiting for the right opportunity. But considering that Axol was already indirectly responsible for Desti's death as a result of having Inkweaver stolen, why not expand upon that by forcing him into a situation where he has no other option than to do the deed himself? He'd pretty much already redeemed himself in Meggy's eyes by helping her win Splatfest in Meggy's Destiny, so it's not like it'd be new guilt compounded on top of existing guilt. Plus: Melony helping fend off Niles in the tenth anniversary special should've put a target on her back, so Axol getting taken instead doesn't seem right in lieu of that.

So... yeah. Instead of just me whining about wanting Axol back, this'll hopefully be a more digestible alternative.

Now, where should i put Mario and the r*****ed spaghetti factory

My vote:Good

Yep I'm back to the five of you who still remember me. But enough about me, let's get to my review,

Wasn't as traumatic as the first time, though that could be because this time I knew what to expect, and I had a proven antidote on stand by. However I still believe this is SMG4's worst episode. I'll start with the stuff that save this episode from being anything less than a 1.5 out of 10. Bowser mentioning to the girls that he snores loudly as Mario and Axol nab a cabin was mildly funny I guess. Meggy suggesting the boys were strategizing only to cut to Mario asking the other boys "Do you guys consider jacking off to be a sport?" was definitely the best part of the episode. Meggy offering words of encouragement to Tari was pretty nice. Shroomy was okay, even though he did nothing to ease tensions between the six. Mario's anime mod looked pretty cool. Some nice looking scenes sprinkled here and there, mainly at night.

Now for the more notorious factors. There are a lot of cringe jokes which are either mean spirited or just don't land. Mario's prank towards Meggy during the abseiling challenge is one joke that didn't land for me. There's also the part when the girls walk into the mess in their room, and Kermit happened to be part of the mess. Bare in mind he's established near the beginning to be this hard-ass enforcer of order in Camp Shroomy. Yet his only reaction is to jump out the window, while saying one of voice clips from Family Guy of all things; as if he's drunk or high on something that would make Hall Monitor pissed. The pranks in the montage (if you could call them that), are no better. The boys being eaten by a giant Cheep Chomp, Meggy getting run over by a motorboat, Saiko swapping a volley ball with a spike ball, and most notoriously Tari using a false Carl Wheezer to SA Axol. Imagine how much bigger the backlash would have been if the two roles in the latter example were swapped. Most of the sets look bland and ugly. The ground appears to be covered in dried grass, and the trees filled with decaying leaves. I suppose this is typical for a month like November, but still. The ending of course, is most atrocious of all. Not only do the girls shoot the boys with paint balls to make them earn forgiveness, but the moment when Bowser says “I didn't agree to this” implies the girls tricked the boys into doing this. And to think this all would have been avoided if Princess Peach never forced those characters to “play outside”.

Well that took up a lot of time. I would love to talk about what I'd do to fix this episode. But I think this post is long enough, and I'd rather save that part for a future post.