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SuperMemeGuardian4 (formerly known as SuperMarioGlitchy4 and shortened as Glitchy until WOTFI 2021) abbreviated as SMG4 or colloquially as Four, is one of the two main protagonists (alongside Mario), being the titular one, of the series of the same name.
He is Mario's guardian and closest ally (rival in the War of the Fat Italians series), the de facto leader of his gang, and SMG3's former nemesis. Very passionate and protective of his work, he seems to play the sane man who is often annoyed or shocked by Mario's idiocy, as well as the insanity of the world around him. Despite this, they are the two that began their group of friends that have grown over the years to include many different characters who have joined the duo in going on many zany adventures, and fighting great enemies in story arcs.
During the SMG4 Cosmology Lore, SMG4 began to wonder about his origins and following the invasion of the virus called "Zero" that sought after Mario, he began to unravel the truth behind his past and his purpose as a Super Meme Guardian. Unfortunately, following this, he was stuck fighting for his channel's existence against Nintendo in The Lawsuit Arc that temporarily resulted in the end of his gang, until Mario managed to undo the damage, with SMG4 being allowed to keep his channel on the condition that he use a original design moving forward.
Following the events of The Lawsuit Arc, SMG4 began to realize that SMG3 was surprisingly getting more popularity than him online due to his streams and collaborations. This caused SMG4 to become envious of his partner and ultimately caused him to seek the "perfect video" to make his channel the best it could be; resulting consequences in him slowly becoming unstable due to repeated failure and lashing that anguish out on his own friends in a fit of rage as locked himself in his room. This eventually turned to true madness as a consequence on SMG4: MAR10 Day, where he attacked the guests and unintentionally ruined the party, before returning in his room. Shortly after returning, he orders a mysterious keyboard from an unknown entity that corrupted him by a strange, eldritch entity. After getting possessed, SMG4 began a livestream countdown to when the unknown entity would finally reveal the next "big show" for the next 100 hours straight.
After the clock reaches zero during the "........Announcement??????" video, Meggy and SMG3 entered the room to find that SMG4's condition has considerably worsened due to the entity's influence that causes him to repeat chanting that "IT'S GOTTA BE PERFECT" and over in an unnatural voice, where his psychotic aura begins manifesting eldritch symbols.
The ultimate culmination of SMG4's insanity and efforts to create his ultimate video was him made Peach's Castle being overtaken by a strange, eldritch substance that destroyed the castle but did manage to help SMG4 realize that everyone would still enjoy his content regardless of whether it was "perfect" or not, including from SMG3 who officially became part of the gang due to his involvement.
Now with his resolve clear once more, SMG4 sought to amend for his mistakes by building a new castle where he would be responsible for his own life from now on instead of having to piggyback off other's ideas/help. From there, he used his life savings to purchase an abandoned carnival called "The Showgrounds" and, over the course of several months, finally succeeding in creating The SMG4 Castle where he could begin a new era of videos and stories with the gang.
In the Remastered64 series, despite being redesigned, his old Mario Recolor model is still used for the purpose of remaking an old video in the past to match the events of said chosen video being remastered. Along providing voice lines from Luke Lerdwichagul as well like in the modern videos. These videos are just remakes of old videos, and fit into the canon when the original one took place.
In MEME HUNTERS and SMG4 and the Meme Factory, he starts to build his own factory by which, using Leggies, he creates more memes.
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Roles
SMG4 is a major protagonist in Season 1, one of the two main protagonists (alongside Mario) of Seasons 2–8, the deuteragonist of The Waluigi Arc, a supporting character in The Rapper Bob Arc, one of the two tritagonists of Season 9, (alongside Luigi) a major character in The Anime Arc and supporting character in SMG4 Movie: Meggy's Destiny.
He is one of the two main protagonists (alongside Melony) of The SMG4 Cosmology Lore, serving as the deuteragonist of Season 10 and The YouTube Arc, the main protagonist of Season 11, SMG4 Movie: 10 Year Anniversary Special and the Genesis Arc, one of the three main protagonists (alongside Melony and Saiko Bichitaru) of Season 12, one of the four tritagonists (alongside SMG3, SMG1, and SMG2) of the Revelations Arc, the main protagonist of SMG4 Movie: REVELATIONS and one of the two main protagonists (alongside Mario) of The Lawsuit Arc.
After Cosmology Lore, he serves as one of the three main protagonists of Season 13 (alongside with Mario and SMG3), specifically being the overarching protagonist of SMG4 Movie: IT'S GOTTA BE PERFECT, a supporting character in SMG4 Movie: WESTERN SPAGHETTI, the deuteragonist of SMG4: War of the Fat Italians 2023, the main protagonist of Season 14, Season 15and the PUZZLEVISION saga, and the overarching protagonist of SMG4 Movie: Silence Of The Cats.
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Appearance
Up until the Lawsuit Arc SMG4 was like any SM64 machinimist, pretty much looking identical to Mario, including attire. However he wore a blue shirt and cap, and white overalls, but kept the signature white gloves and brown boots. The emblem on SMG4's cap was inconsistent, sometimes even changing in mid scene. It can either be a standard red "M" logo, a blue "M" to match the color of his cap, a blue "S" (for SMG4), a full blue "SMG4", a yellow dollar sign (during merch plugs), or simply the white SMG4 letters with no background (as seen on the SMG4 channel icon). With his N64 model, the emblem was missing altogether. He, however, has been noted to have different hair, which either differs between silver anime girl hair in pigtails or slick spiky black hair (in reference to Luke Lerdwichagul's hair).
In merchandising material, his head is often replaced by a representation of Luke due to avoid copyright strikes (which sometimes resembles Beeg SMG4's face, but he canonically has the same shape as Mario).
In his current form first shown in SMG4: If Mario Was In... Splatoon 3, which he later keeps after being changed by the permanent IP change contract in SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2022, SMG4 is given an near-entirely new redesign which is almost similar in appearance to SMG4's official art design, which is heavily based on a cross between Luke Lerdwichagul and Stanley the Bugman from Donkey Kong 3 and the icon on his cap is now a blue "S" on a white background.
After losing his sanity from working on his "perfect video", his appearance changes. His hair is matted, and he isn't wearing his cap. His eyes are now bloodshot and strained. A beard starts forming from his chin. His clothes are stained with mud.
Starting with It's Gotta Be Perfect..., the model would be updated to SMG4 Redesign+ (the chosen fan name due to a poll held in March). The new model has a bigger nose, blue pie eyes akin to his Mario recolor ones, a more bold and squarer S on his cap (with static glitch effects, referencing Glitch Productions and the current SMG4 logo introduced later), slightly bigger fingers, a more diamond shape on his overall buttons and emblem, and a more clean look overall with hair and cloth textures.
Personality
SMG4 is usually portrayed as either the only sane man at Peach's Castle or (in later seasons) as a stereotypical meme-loving addict. In earlier appearances, SMG4 was constantly annoyed with most of his friends' flaws and stupid behaviors; SMG4 dislikes Mario’s stupidity, Luigi's childishness, Toad's grumpiness, Steve's randomness, Peach Toadstool’s bossiness, Fishy Boopkins’ naiveté, and Bob Bobowski’s selfishness (which he is ironically responsible for). SMG4 was showcased as one of the few sane members in the castle, usually being shown as one of the more intelligent people in the room. In his earlier straight-man appearances, SMG4 was constantly being subjected to the antics of the people in the castle (mainly Mario, especially when he wanted spaghetti, as well as Steve's random, derpy antics whenever he came around to the castle), as well as the insanity and instability of the world around him. It seemed he was constantly being pursued by rapists, serial killers, and psychopaths (usually the psychotic teletubbies that he and Mario would often find themselves dealing with), as well as the law (usually while attempting to help Mario get spaghetti). He and Mario would also often find themselves saving the world (or just their lives) from supervillains like SMG3 and occasionally Bowser (though that was usually more of Mario's thing), as well as destructive gods of power like Ztar and The Monster. When SMG4 wasn't dealing with all this chaos, however, he could usually be found in his room, making videos or looking at memes on his computer.
Despite being normally intelligent and sensible, however, SMG4 still has his many quirks. For instance, he was shown being terrible at dating, and would often get picked on by Mario for not having a girlfriend. There was also a running gag in the series which shows SMG4 having a similar relationship with his computer as Mario does with his spaghetti; treating it as his "wife" or "girlfriend" and going crazy whenever anything bad happened to it. He also takes part in and has a lot of girly hobbies (most of which he appears to be embarassed by and tries to hide from others). This is mostly seen in the video that Mario secretly recorded of him, A Day In The Life of SMG4, in which he can be seen hopping around like a "pretty ballerina", playing with dolls, and being sad that Twilight was cancelled. Also, in SM64 Bloopers: SMG3's Gauntlet of Gloom, SMG4 was shown secretly wearing panties and, according to Mario, also apparently tried on Peach's dress. SMG4 was also shown to have a strange affinity towards old men, as he can be seen giving one a bath in his free time when nobody else was around in SMG4: Mario's Train Trip. In SM64: Bad Star's Back! 300k special, he was implied to be holding children hostage within his residence, as he was shown to mumble "Stay in the basement, kiddies" while sleeping. The reason for this is unknown, and it's unknown if he still takes part in those activities. In SM64 Guides: How To Get Dem Coins, he was shown to have an alter ego called the "Wallet Inspector." As this character, SMG4 would put on 19th century English gentleman attire before going around and stealing people's wallets. Also, despite usually being one of the smarter members of the cast, SMG4 still has his moments of stupidity. Going back to Mario's video, SMG4 was shown doing random stupid activities, such as screaming "pingas" on a flagpole and not being able to recognize his own reflection. The most iconic example of these moments happened in Super Mario 64 Bloopers: Who Let the Chomp Out, in which SMG4 throws a super star at the Chain Chomp, briefly making him invincible (which even Mario baffled by, calling him stupid for it). SMG4's less intelligent moments are most prominent in Season 1, in which he is consistently shown to (almost) be as stupid and immature as Mario, with Nintendofan997 instead taking the role of the castle's straight man. This would lead to many conflicts between the two, which would eventually help in sparking the now iconic War Of The Fat Italians series. Despite these moments, however, SMG4 was still shown as the straight-man in the castle, being one of the most sane and intelligent cast members in the classic era (along with Toad, Peach, and eventually Meggy, who would arguably surpass him).
After Meggy was introduced, SMG4 became prone to a lot more goofier moments and stupid jokes. He would end up developing a meme addiction, which would become a defining part of his character. The biggest, earliest example of this obsession was in SMG4: Marioception, in which SMG4 can be seen dreaming about him being a "meme machine," singing about him eating, breathing, drinking, catching, spreading, and shooting up memes. While originally starting as just a hobby of him looking at memes in his free time and adding memes into his videos, he would eventually start taking part in activities such as meme dealing, as revealed in SMG4: MarioTube 2. In SMG4: The Melancholy of Fishy Boopkins, SMG4 was shown to own a meme box, which stored all of his spiciest memes, and would come back in various later episodes. In SMG4: The Splatfest Incident, when Mario and SMG4 are fighting, SMG4 gets distracted by and laughs at a meme, which allows Mario to get a fair shot on him. Arguably the biggest and most destructive example of this meme addiction was in 2 MILLION FAN COLLABERATION SPECIAL! (SSENMODNAR), SMG4 is shown capable of creating a meme bomb (which is arguably the first form of meme energy manipulation seen on the series), which he had apparently been forming for 5 whole weeks before that, and it threatened to destroy the Mushroom Kingdom. According to Peach, this wasn't even the first time he had done something like that. Another contender for this is in SMG4: Lord Of The Memes, in which SMG4 creates The Ultimate Meme: a meme so funny that whoever owns it controls the entire Internet. SMG4 is shown to go completely insane over this meme in the episode, attempting to rule the world with it, and even sending the Mario Head after his friends to get it back. SMG4 is also prone to a lot more moments of stupidity than before as well. For example, in SMG4: The Mario Hustle, SMG4 hilariously somehow idiotically fell for one of Wario and Waluigi's scams by buying one million rocks just because they told him that his videos would be funnier due to the rocks (to which Mario mocked SMG4 for), and is also seen kissing a rock while he's a hobo, before crying with the rock when he loses all the money again at the end of the episode. In SMG4: Mario Waits For Pizza, SMG4 even asked for pineapple on a pizza, to which Bowser claimed he has a mental disability to the pizzeria, much to SMG4's sadness. While there were still moments and episodes where SMG4 is seen as the straight man, such as SMG4: Lost In The Woods and SMG4: Mario Battle Royale, SMG4 was also depicted as a raving, meme addicted lunatic much more often than before, making his friends go through various strange situations for his gain. SMG4's meme addiction did seem to slow down in Seasons 10-12, as he was forced to go through serious situations and be the straight man in the YouTube Arc, and was the straight man once again in the Genesis Arc, as well as the SMG4 Movie: REVELATIONS. In fact, SMG4's "slacking" in regards to his meme guardian status actually kicked off the events of the first episode of the arc. However, SMG4 appears to have fallen right back into this addiction, even deeper this time, as of SMG4 Doesn't Meme For 1 Second. Instead of bloopers, memes are now a major part of his videos on YouTube, and he now spends most of his time in his room, on his computer, as of Season 14. In MEME HUNTERS, the memes appear to have taken a severe toll on his intelligence, as he once again appears to almost be as stupid as Mario, even going cross-eyed once. He is also shown once again making his friends go through strange situations, making Meggy help him find memes. Now that his memes are being used for his videos, it can be said that he's doing these things for both the memes and his channel, and in the entrie storyline surrounding his Meme Factory, SMG4 can be seen forcing his friends to go through even stranger situations than ever before. However, starting around Season 15, SMG4 has appeared to have once again slowed down on his meme addiction just a bit, going back to being the straight man of the castle, albeit more open than he was before.
SMG4 (especially in older episodes) sometimes had a questionable moral compass. As mentioned previously, he would also often get into trouble with the law, committing various crimes and illegal activities, usually in attempts to get Mario his spaghetti. This is most notable in Super Mario 64 Bloopers: 0% of Spaghetti, in which Mario and SMG4 break into a guy's house and rob him of his spaghetti, before murdering him, blowing up the residence. He also did much more in Season 2. In Super Mario 64 Bloopers: Spaghetti Law., SMG4 lied to the judge about what caused a man to eat poisoned spaghetti (he put the poison into the spaghetti to prank Mario) out of fear of being arrested, then hijacked a truck full of the dish before smuggling it back into the kingdom with Mario, as well as becoming a meme dealer and doing other morally questionable things in other episodes.
SMG4 also has many other flaws. He could easily become overprotective of his work, sometimes refusing to hang out with his friends in favor of making bloopers. Despite usually having a brotherly relationship with his peer, Mario, the two were also prone to incessant fighting and conlicts. This was especially the case in the first two seasons, and especially in Season 1, in which he is shown to (almost) be as stupid and immature as Mario. He had a massive dislike of Mario, and was somewhat racist, as in Super Mario 64 Bloopers: Account Loss, SMG4 claimed he dislikes Italians (though this is debatable due to the fact that SMG4 himself was, presumably, Italian, as is implied by a certain series name). Mario and SMG4's conflicts would sometimes become very severe, such as in the original War Of The Fat Itlaians, in which they kicked off the series by literally trying to kill each other. Another example is in Super Mario 64 Bloopers: ੮Һ૯ ૯Ն૯౮ค੮૦Ր, where, after Mario and Luigi were accidentally killed trying to escape an elevator, he didn't mourn them and instead made fun of the Mario Bros. on their funerals (though, to be fair, Mario died all the time and always came back). Still, this shows early SMG4 greatly despised Mario, which ironically went against his role as Mario's guardian (though he didn't know about that at the time). SMG4, in general, could also be a bit harsh to his friends, even once striking them touching his stuff.
After Season 2, he became more mature but also quite vain and boastful. Mario and SMG4 would develop a love-hate relationship, in which they'd help each other in dire situations and be friends, but would also often find themselves in many conflicts and rivalries. The two would often try to see who was better at the other in different random, trivial subjects. Again, this is most commonly seen in (earlier) episodes in the War Of The Fat Italians series. The two would also compete in other things, such as gaming (which would carry over to later seasons, as SMG4 would later mock Mario for losing for the 20th time in a row in Super Smash each other in the ass Brothers, claiming he is horrible at gaming), showing him to be a sore winner. SMG4 can also be very easily annoyed. For instance, the stupidity and antics of people like Mario and Steve sometimes drove him crazy. He was also annoyed by obsessed fans, or generally annoying people (like Frankie, Boopkins, SMG69 (who he got so fed up with that he ended up permanently killing him, once gain showing his criminal tendencies), and initially Bob, back when he was constantly asking to be in his videos). SMG4's ignorance and naiveté can also cause him to be careless about other people's situations, making him unintentionally be a bad friend. The best example of this is in SMG4: SMG4's Origins, where it is revealed that SMG4 was virtually careless and ignorant about the mental state of the citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom, even tolerating Mario's stupidity. When he made his first video, SMG4 immediately became hooked to his newfound hobby and recorded everyone he came across, partially taming their stupidity in the process. When SMG4 realized that everyone was still stupid even though he got rid of the problem, SMG4 shrugged it off, thinking that there's nothing wrong with "a bit" of humor in everyone's lives. This is can be seen to a lesser extent in SMG4: If Mario Was In... Splatoon 3, in which he and Meggy are so tunnel-visioned on getting the stupid Mario back that they don't consider trying to befriend the normal Mario (though, to be fair, their actions did lead to the Nintnendo characters no longer being segregated by Lawyer Kong in that arc). SMG4 also somehow completely forgot about Princess Peach in the ruins of her old castle and left down there for several months, not even remembering until the events of SMG4: Let's Go Visit Peach!.
SMG4 is also prone to being jealous and selfish (usually in regards to his YouTube channel). One of his biggest flaws (besides his meme addiction and carelessness) is his how worked up he can get over his videos. SMG4, in general, has always shown to take his YouTube channel way too seriously, which has caused problems numerous times in the series, and sometimes leads him to commit various morally questionable acts in the process of making them, usually due to jealousy. The first instance of something like this happens in Super Mario 64 Bloopers: The Blooper Competition, in which SMG4 becomes jealous of his fellow blooper maker due to his higher level of video making skills. This jealousy is seen on a greater scale in SMG4: Mario's Spicy Day🔥. After seeing SMG3's newly founded original production studio (Snitch Productions) he created for his channel, which was starting to become more popular, relevant, and well-received than SMG4's channel, SMG4 destroys the studio, along with SMG3's meme creations, justifying these actions to himself by stating that it was just one of SMG3's "evil" tricks. These actions forced the reformed villain back into evil, and directly led to the events of the YouTube Arc.
SMG4 also often stresses out and drives himself crazy over his videos. In Super Mario 64 Bloopers: The Blooper Competition, SMG4 would become very stressed out over the upcoming blooper competition against MarioMario54321, as he was very good at making videos and had won every competition up to that point. This led to SMG4 developing major self doubt over his video making skills, causing him stress. In SM64 Bloopers: The Idea Block, SMG4 is once again seen stressing out over not having an idea, not taking the suggestions from his peers as he believed the video had to be perfect (an ideology that would cause problems for him and the cast much later), and believing that his fans would turn on him and attack if he didn't get the video out in time (though, to his defense, he was proven right in this episode). Arguably the worst thing to happen to his channel happened in SMG4: The Day SMG4 Posted Cringe, in which SMG4 posts cringe and starts losing subscribers rapidly; and when he tries to delete the video, he gets logged out and can't log back in because SMG3 changed his password. This causes SMG4 to end up losing all of the subscribers he spent all of those years gaining. Because of this, SMG4 becomes very concerned about his sub-count, becoming desperate and crazy in attempts to keep it up. This causes SMG4 to develop the more selfish and apathetic side that was mentioned previously, even being willing to abuse his friends to make videos in some episodes. This is shown in episodes like SMG4: Mario Does Literally Anything For Views, in which SMG4 makes Mario do various trendy, clickbaity things to reach 6 million subscribers faster, only to lose them anyways because he had stopped putting the passion and effort that his viewers watched him for into the videos. He also does a similar thing in I Put Mario In Danger For Views, forgetting the lesson he learned, this time putting all of his friends in various dangerous, trendy, clickbaity situations for views in order to make the "perfect" video.
SMG4's anti-social behavior.
However, the most notable example of this side of SMG4 is, without a doubt, the "It's Gotta Be Perfect" part of the Puzzlevision Saga. Starting in SMG4: SMG4... Are You Ok?, SMG4 once again becomes jealous of SMG3, this time over getting a collab with Mr. Yeast, and once again suffers from major self doubt when realizing the YouTube superstar didn't want to collab with him as well. To overcome this, SMG4 tries to make his channel "more efficient" by enslaving a bunch of toads and forcing them to make videos for him, making him vulnerable to becoming incredibly anti-social and apathetic if pushed too hard. While SMG3 does help him get back to being himself at the end of the episode, what happens next is far worse. SMG4, now dead-set on creating the "perfect" video, shuts himself away from his friends and delves into practicing various severely unhealthy physical and social habits, all while being very harsh and critical of himself and his ability, which slowly begins to take a toll on his mental health. In SMG4: Mario Goes To Ohio, SMG4 cancels his trip to Texas with Mario and Tari to work on his video. He grows increasingly frustrated and bothered by his friends' inquiries, despite them just being concerned about his declining mental state and looking out for his best interest. This all reaches a climax on Mar10 Day, when SMG4 had already driven himself completely insane, and while celebrating, one of the castle guests accidentally knocks out the Wi-Fi. This causes SMG4 to finally come out of his room, only to act uncharacteristically cruel and harsh to his friends, as well as all the guests at the castle; lashing out at them before going into his room and slamming the door, telling them to leave him alone. At this point, SMG4 was at a fragile enough mental state to be easily manipulated by Mr. Puzzles, and his careless, apathetic actions and attitude which he directed not only at himself, but to his friends as well, indirectly leads to the destruction of Peach's Castle, the near death of him and all his friends, and Princess Peach being left to rot in the castle ruins, eventually transforming into a monstrous, mindless beast doomed to wander the caverns of the capital of the (now leaderless) Mushroom Kingdom for eternity.
SMG4's imperialist rhetoric
It was shown in the SMG4 Movie: IT'S GOTTA BE PERFECT that the reason he needs his video to be perfect was because he had doubts within himself, knowing that one mistake could make him lose everything he had, this would make him desperate to the point he would order a "Magical Keyboard" that would corrupt him from the inside out. It took some empathy from the person anyone would least expect (SMG3) to turn him back to normal. SMG4 blamed himself of what happened so he was willing to pay the price of his desire, but a stubborn SMG3 begged to differ and helped him finish the video, which he dropped in the USB that contained it to save his and SMG3's life.
However, despite all of his flaws, SMG4 is shown capable of being brave, compassionate, loyal, and thoughtful when the time calls, and is generally a good person overall who truly does care about his friends, especially Mario. In SMG4: The Melancholy of Fishy Boopkins, SMG4 is the first one who notices that Boopkins is uncharacteristically sad when he states that he doesn't want to watch anime, and does his best to try and cheer him up. He is also seen playing games with Tari on multiple occasions, and attempted to warn her of Bob's lies in SMG4: Mario and the Bob Mansion. In SM64: Meet the Luigi, SMG4 feels bad about the way Luigi is always getting tormented and bullied, advocating against it and showing compassion towards the plumber. Also, in Super Mario 64: Meet the Toad, SMG4 conducts an intervention on Toad's candy addiction in attempts to better him. In the Anime Arc, SMG4 and crew drop everything, and even go to war to find and rescue Meggy, kicking Francis' ass when they do. SMG4, in general, is also prone to several heroic moments, such as in Super Mario 64 Bloopers: Bad Stars and SM64: Bad Star's Back! 300k special, in which he feels the need to try and save the world himself from the Ztar. He also tries to save his home, the castle, for him and his friends from Toad in Super Mario 64 Bloopers: President Toad Washington. After the events of the Genesis Arc, SMG4 tries to cheer everyone and lift his friends' spirits by hosting a BBQ. In SMG4 Movie: REVELATIONS, SMG4 is absolutely torn and livid when he thinks that Melony died to Niles, willing to "destroy it all" over the event of her death. However, the person SMG4 cares the most about is Mario. Throughout the series, the two have been shown to have a brotherly bond; and, despite their common rivalries and conflicts, and despite trying to kill each other every once in a while, have been shown to deeply care about one another, and would go to the end of the Earth for each other. In earlier seasons of the show, SMG4 was often shown doing drastic things for and with Mario, even going as far as committing crimes for the plumber. In Super Mario 64 Bloopers: 0% of Spaghetti, SMG4 was willing to rob a store and break into a guy's house to get his friend spaghetti. Again in Super Mario 64 Bloopers: Spaghetti Law, SMG4 hijacks a truck and smuggles spaghetti back into the Mushroom Kingdom (after it had been outlawed, with both of them getting 20 years of community service afterwards) just to get his friend spaghetti, showing his loyalty to the plumber. In SM64: Meet the Mario, after seeing a video of Mario stating how lonely he secretly is, SMG4 feels bad for Mario and tries to cook spaghetti for him to make him feel better. SMG4's care for Mario is especially the case in the Cosmology Saga, in which he most consistently shows care for the plumber. Even before discovering he was the avatar, he immediately tries to save him from Morshu and sticks by him in SMG4: Perfectly Balanced, and is absolutely distraught when he gets captured by the beast and presumably dies in SMG4 Movie: 10 Year Anniversary Special. After discovering Mario was the avatar, SMG4 does his best to do his job as a meme guardian and protects Mario to the best of his ability. This is especially true near the end of the Genesis Arc. In SMG4: The Final Piece, he shows visible and audible concern about Mario's well being, and is the only SMG to do so. In said episode, as well as SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2021, he even risks his life trying to hide and save Mario, and literally goes to the end of the universe to fight an ancient eldritch deity, again showing his bravery and heroism, as well as his undying loyalty to his friends, as he risks his life to save Mario, the universe, and the lives and happiness of his friends. Going back to REVELATIONS, near the end, when Mario and SMG4 think they're going to die, SMG4's "last words" to Mario were "Despite everything, you've been a good friend." Despite all of the, the rivalries, the competitions, the fighting; through the chaos, adventures, deaths, growths; despite everything, SMG4 still saw Mario as his best friend.
After the events of SMG4 Movie: IT'S GOTTA BE PERFECT, SMG4 feels terrible about all the loss that was caused, especially the loss of the castle. To make it up to his friends, he promises to build a new castle for them, The SMG4 Castle, in which a new generation of adventures would be held. SMG4, in general, always had a tendecy to feel really bad whenever he felt something was his fault. Another example of this is in SMG4: Deleted, in which, after failing to stop SMG3 and the Anti-Cast from replacing them in their older videos, SMG4 is just disappointed in himself for not being able to stop them, apologizing to Mario for not being able to do so before disappearing.
SMG4's Psychotic behavior under the influence of the Demonic Goop.
Criminal Record
- Meme Dealing and Illegal Meme Production: In SMG4: MarioTube 2, it was revealed that SMG4 was an illegal meme dealer, discovered by Luigi. He, however, was not arrested until SMG4: Mario Preschool. He then told Mario and Luigi to replicate the meme Luigi ate, causing most of the events in SMG4: Breaking Luigi.
- Using Confiscated Things and Hijacking: In Super Mario 64 Bloopers: Spaghetti Law., when spaghetti, Mario's favorite food, was banned from the Mushroom Kingdom, both him and SMG4 tried to bring it back by hijacking a truck filled with the dish.
- Stealing and Murder: In Super Mario 64 Bloopers: 0% of Spaghetti, he and Mario stole spaghetti from a guy and blew his house up, taking the man with it. As revealed in SMG4: SMG4's Origins, SMG4 stole his first laptop after discovering the power to create content, in which the Medic was unable to stop him because he became insane due to SMG4's Guardian Pod, but its possible that due to SMG4 helping Medic from being so stupid that he thanked him by letting SMG4 have the laptop.
- Arson: again in 0% of Spaghetti he exploded a guy's house.
- Home invasion: In Super Mario 64 Bloopers: 0% of Spaghetti, he, along with Mario, broke into a guy's house.
- Assault: In SMG4: Mario's Late!, SMG4 attacked SMG3 for getting awarded and also for taunting him.
- Following the events of SMG4: MAR10 DAY, after being fed up with all the background racket, SMG4 gets corrupted by the Demonic Goop and (under the Goop’s influence and control) starts to attack most of his friends for disrupting his work on his perfect video.
- Illegal Operations: During The Anime Arc, he defected from the Anime Secret Service and became part of the Anime Cartel, a criminal organization that illegally smuggled anime into the Mushroom Kingdom following its banning. After Princess Peach lifted the ban, SMG4 was cleared of all charges.
- Stealing Money: He was willing to help Mario steal money to fix Peach's Castle in SM64 Guides: How to Get dem Coins., under the guise the Wallet Inspector.
- Attempted World Domination, Internet Takeover & Murder: This is, by far, SMG4's most severe crime to date. In SMG4: Lord Of The Memes, he created the Ultimate Meme, and whoever has it can control the Internet. When Bob Bobowski, Mario, Luigi, and Fishy Boopkins went to go destroy the USB drive containing the Ultimate Meme, SMG4 summoned his "Meme Wraiths" in an attempt to kill them and reclaim it.
- Demonic Rituals: Although not canon, during the epilogue of Mario Reacts to Spooky Memes but Dies halfway through after Mario died, SMG4 tried to resurrect his body using a satanic ritual.
- Extortion: On SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2018, he extorts Yoshi to do all of his taxes or else he would kill his child.
- Enslavement: In SMG4: SMG4... Are You Ok? he used countless Toads starting with Frankie to make him gameplay videos for his channel after it got to 5 subscribers. He later got exposed by SMG3, resulting in him getting cancelled. However, he did get uncancelled after making a funny video with SMG3.
- Manipulation: T.B.A
Powers and Abilities
Normal
- Superhuman Strength: SMG4 is almost as strong as Mario, being able to punch and throw people very far away, as well as being able to keep up with the plumber in combat on multiple occasions. An example of his strength can be seen at the end of the rap battle in SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2020, where he kicked SMG3 into the street below so hard, it resulted in a crater. However, SMG4 cannot physically lift as many things as Mario can.
- Superhuman Speed: SMG4 has been showcased to have superhuman speed various times throughout the series. One notable example of this was in SM64: ṩṩἔᾗмὄḋᾗᾄʀ 8 (150k special), in which he flies SMG69 all the way to the sun in about 4 seconds, similarly to Mario in R64: Mario Simulator.
- Superhuman Reflexes: In addition to his speed, SMG4 also has superhuman reflexes. This is best shown in SM64: Bad Star's Back! 300k special, in which SMG4 successfully dodges every single bullet being fired (in incredibly close range) from a machine gun by a teletubby. He also does this in Super Mario 64 Bloopers: 0% of Spaghetti, in which he and Mario dodge missiles being fired from the guy they robbed.
- Superhuman Durability: Like his friends, he has survived almost all of the abuse his enemies inflict him with. An example of this being in SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2020, which had one the challenges being to pronounce Susan Wojcicki's last name. With each failure, SMG4 was horribly tortured, including being set on fire, crushed, beaten up, and blown to smithereens. He is also shown being able to survive a black hole in SMG4: SMG4 NEWS.
- Flight: On rare occurences, SMG4 has been shown capable of flying. One of the most notable examples of this is, once again, when the threw SM69 into the sun.
- Hand-to-hand Combat: While not as good at fighting as Mario is, he has been shown on multiple occasions to be capable of holding his own in combat, such as being able to fight Mario for extended periods of time (though Mario usually wins), as well as taking out an entire army of psychotic teletubbies in the aforementioned Bad Star's Back episode.
- Meme Bomb: In 2 MILLION FAN COLLABORATION SPECIAL! (SSENMODNAR), SMG4 created a gigantic ball of energy by gathering energy from internet memes (similar in concept to the Spirit Bomb technique from Dragon Ball). It had enough power to destroy the entire surrounding area of Peach's Castle, turning it into a charred wreck.
- Sub-Zero Temperature Tolerance: At the end of SMG4: 3 MILLION SUB FAN COLLABORATION! and SMG4: War On Beeg SMG4, he appeared in space (which has a fatal temperature) without any protective garments.
- Vacuum and Gravitational Adaption: As shown above, SMG4 shows no signs of pressure when in outer space.
- Black Hole Survival: SMG4 has also been shown capable of surviving a black hole in SMG4: SMG4 NEWS.
- Memory Sharing: In SMG4: TRASH FRIENDS, he shows SMG3 how he lost the USB by shooting beams from his eyes into his partner's, causing SMG3 to “remember” what happened, even though he wasn’t there at the time.
- Super Saiyan Transformation: SMG4 went super Saiyan trying to lift Terence in the MEME HUNTERS
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- Eldritch Manipulation: While possessed and controlled by the Demonic Goop, SMG4 was able to generate and manipulate this eldritch substance in order to attack and entirely overtake the entirety of Peach's castle, to the point of the castle needing permanent destruction to avoid the kingdom being overtaken.
Meme Guardian
- Meme Manipulation: Like all meme guardians, when SMG4 is linked with his partner, SMG3, by holding hands, he can convert memes into a concentration of energy. The energy can be used to work wonders such as creating magic bridges, firing projectiles that can hurt Eldritch Zero, even at full power, and making Mario grow. SMG4 is actually implied to be the most powerful meme guardian, as in SMG4 Doesn’t Meme For 1 Second, he is shown manipulating memes without his partner by simply touching his head, creating a very powerful blast out of an originally tiny meme that was powerful enough to completely evaporate the skin and organs of normal human civilians, leaving only the skeleton behind. This is a power that even SMG1 and SMG2 don't seem to have. He is also shown being capable of creating a meme bomb in 2 MILLION FAN COLLABORATION SPECIAL! (SSENMODNAR), which seems to have been done through meme manipulation, completely by himself without any training. This bomb was powerful enough to destroy the Mushroom Kingdom, and it took all of SMG1 and SMG2's combined power to create the same thing (though they did do it quicker than SMG4 did).
- Anti-Meme Manipulation: Combined with SMG3, he can manipulate anti-memes for even greater power but this has the side effect of corrupting them with their negative power.
- Meme Taming: Turns out that making videos of memes will cause them to get calmer, but not completely. This also works on any character who has been corrupted by SMG4's Guardian Pod but their personality change will persist.
- Meme Machine: Near the end of SMG4 Movie: 10 Year Anniversary Special, him, Nintendofan997 and FightingMario54321 go on top of each other. With SMG4 holding a camera and FM (on the bottom) holding a microphone, they fight down the corrupted Internet Graveyard memes until they turn back to normal again. For some reason, it can also target anyone who isn't a meme and ends up transforming them into a nightmarish version of themselves.
Weaknesses
- Mario's Life: As Mario is his Avatar, SMG4's form would be severely damaged if he dies, which almost happened if SMG1 and SMG2 had not interfered to save Mario's life from SMG0.
- Ultimate Meme: In SMG4: Lord Of The Memes, he created the Ultimate Meme, and whoever has it can control the Internet.
- Anti-Meme Corruption: When manipulating the power of Anti-Memes, his personality becomes overtaken by power corruption, causing him to do reckless things and sing the praises of the very God Box they were trying to stop. He'll return to normal when he stops.
- Stress of Content Creation: As the owner and operator of the SMG4 YouTube channel, SMG4 gets very stressed when matters relating to the channel are on the line, leading him to irrational behavior when he's in a creative funk.
- Sensory Overload: In SMG4: THE NEW CASTLE!!, SMG4 gets overstimulated from loud music which made him trigger his sensory overload and he kicked goths out of his room for being too loud.
Trivia
- SMG4 hates spaghetti, which is referenced in SMG4: Mario University. Ironically, Luke Lerdwichagul likes spaghetti.
- The song that best described him the most is Justin Bieber's "Baby".
- SMG4 didn't like school, and dropped out of freshmen year. He admits this might reflect badly on him to some.
- His color code shares that of Stanley the Bugman from his Super Smash Bros. Melee trophy, a plumber alongside a Wario lookalike in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode, Plumber's Academy and the Player 4 skin in the minigame Mario Bros. Battle in the Super Mario Advance series. However, Luke recently stated in Hobo Bros that it's actually just random colors he chose.
- It was implied in several bloopers that SMG4 might actually be gay, or at least bisexual. This is most strongly evidenced by a major scene in Mushroom Wars: That Space Part 2, where he (playing Obi-Wan Kenobi) not only takes Mario (playing Luke Skywalker), Luigi (playing C3PO), and R2-D2 to a gay bar, but SMG4 is approached by a naked man saying that his "butt had gotten bigger since the last time he was there". However, in SM64: ṩṩἔᾗмὄḋᾗᾄʀ 6.64(100k special Qna Edition), he flat out denied that he was. As well as this, when SMG3 is preparing to kill him by dumping him into lava in Super Mario 64 Bloopers: War of the Fat Italians 2012, he complains that he never had true love with a girl, suggesting he's more interested in a straight relationship. While building his new room in the new castle, SMG3 asks him, “What will happen when you bring home a girl and/or boy?” which proves more that SMG4 isn't straight. Also, in SnowTrapped, at around 6:50, SMG4 and SMG3 had sex.
SMG4 angrily hitting a vending machine showing his angry behavior.
- According to SMG4: Mario goes to DIDNEY WORL, SMG4's worst nightmare is his first-ever blooper, Super Mario 64 Bloopers Short: The Cake Is a Lie! But he has a picture of the video on his wall in his castle.
- In Super Mario 64 Bloopers: Operation G.A.Y it was revealed that SMG4 was Chinese.
- SMG4 appears in the fan-made game Super Smash Bros. Lawl (not to be confused with the web series of the same name) as a playable character.
- MarioMario54321 made him a protagonist in his movie Back to the Fourth Dimension (The Rainbow Colonies).
- SMG4's favorite Mario game other than Super Mario 64 is Super Fat Mario as stated in his SM64: The SMG4 QNA (400k subs :D).
- He has been featured multiple times in the VS show Cartoon Fight Club. Some of SMG4 opponents have been SML Mario, Jeffy, ExplodingTNT, and TheOdd1sOut, and he has won against all of them effortlessly.
- Judging by the War Of The Fat Italians series' titles, he might be of Australian-Italian nationality. However, the title could also be referencing how SMG4 is a Mario Recolor, and that Mario is Italian.
- He has 2 Yoshi forms in super mario 64 bloopers: race for golden overalls (green and pink).
- SMG4 holds a degree in memes, starting from SMG4: Mario University.
- As revealed in SM64 Christmas 2014: The Bowser That Stole Christmas., he still believes in the Easter bunny.
- SMG4 is shown to listen to One Direction in times he's upset, namely their most popular song 'You Don't Know You're Beautiful', as shown in Super Mario 64 Bloopers: Smart(ass) Mario. Despite this, he'd mock Toad for the same thing when Toad accused him of being gay for missing Mario's moronic personality.
- SMG4 is shown to drink beer, as shown in Super Mario 64 Bloopers: ÐД gℓђ when he's working on his computer and carelessly accesses the virus malware from its undebugged system, he mentions going to grab one, but wasn't able to due to Mario dumping several into his spaghetti. Some fans (namely OnyxKing63)[1] like to portray SMG4 as a lightweight because of this.
- SMG4 is overly obsessed with his work and may lash out at anyone who disrupts him. This attraction appears to be natural, as only mere minutes after being born, he grew an urge to create content after discovering the power of YouTube. This obsession has apparently come to the point where SMG4 made "baby videos" of his computer, much to his own dismay when he attempted to discover his past.
- Ironically, even though SMG4 cannot stand Mario's stupidity and constantly insults the plumber's intelligence, SMG4 is technically the one responsible for making Mario stupid, as SMG4's Guardian Pod corrupted him beyond relief and made him the opposite of his mainstream self. Possibly meaning that everyone (including him) somehow forgot everything that happened when SMG4 showed up. Additionally, SMG4's arrival technically made Princess Peach a naggy housewife-like figure (though compared to Mario, it was due to the stress rather than SMG4's USB), Luigi apparently bisexual, and Toad a hateful person. Thus, SMG4's arrival had a mostly negative effect on the Mushroom Kingdom.
- Despite this, SMG4's arrival also had a positive effect on the kingdom as Bowser eventually mellowed out and became friends with Mario (thus ending their rivalry and hatred of one another) and (possibly) created the Mario Recolors, which would later become his friends. Also, had Mario not become stupid, he would have not accidentally stumbled into other people who would later become friends with him.
- He is one of the few members of the gang to be confirmed to have canonical magical powers, alongside Melony. However, this is debatable due to SMG1 claiming that avatars have extraordinary abilities.
- Although he is considered a straight man to the group, he can have moments where he acts idiotic, as displayed in SMG4: The Mario Convention! and SMG4: The Day SMG4 Posted Cringe.
- Despite having been depicted as the same guy prior to the Genesis Arc, SMG4 as a character is NOT Luke Lerdwichagul, but rather a being with his voice born from a USB. This is further evidenced when the opening advertisement where Luke turns into SMG4 is deleted from SMG4: If Mario Was Smart. SMG4 only sometimes represents Luke.
- However, some events that have happened to Luke, such as getting hacked, are said to have happened to SMG4 as well.
- Luke uses SMG4 as his persona on some non-canon videos such as Announcing My Biggest Project Yet, My whole life has been leading up to this, and mostly, his storytime videos (this may show that SMG4 is canonically speaking on behalf of Luke even when he has no idea who Luke is and simply calls him "strangely familiar" and "the unfathomable being of the great beyond" by SMG2).
- SMG4 is also shown to have roughly worse video making and/or editing skills than Luke as shown in SMG4 Simulator and other videos (where he also seems to have his own channel despite shown to have Luke's channel due to a low level of views and likes).
- In numerous videos, he is shown to like pineapple pizza, which is known as being the worst pizza. In SMG4: Mario waits for pizza, Even the people who he orders the pizza from thinks he has a mental disability. In Mario Joins Discord, him mentioning pineapple pizza causes a full on flame war.
- SMG4 is the third character to get a redesign, with the previous ones being Meggy and Saiko. Additionally, he breaks the record for keeping his original appearance for the longest time, with a total of 11 years; with SMG3 being second (10 years, 11 months 1/2), Fishy Boopkins being third (6 years, 3 months), Bob being fourth (6 years, 1 month), Saiko being fifth (4 years) and Meggy being last place (1 year, 9–10 months).
- SMG4 (alongside SMG3, Fishy Boopkins and Meggy) is one of the few characters who has been redesigned more than once.
- tho technically if you count non-redesigned characters then that would mean Mario has the record of keeping his original appearance for the longest time while also appearing in videos up to the recent SMG4 videos.
- Updated SMG4 Redesign, the S on his cap has static glitch effects which reference to Glitch Productions and represents that he was originally “Glitchy” because his original YouTube name is "SuperMarioGlitchy4"
- In the Nintendo canon, Mario is 5'1" (155 cm), and since SMG4 is the same height as Mario, that means he is also 5'1". However, Meggy is 5'2" (157.5 cm), and it has been proven many times that Mario and SMG4 are taller than Meggy (along with most of the other characters). This leaves SMG4's height currently unknown.
- The same can be said for SMG3, since all three are the same height.
- This also applies for his weight. Supposedly Mario, SMG4 and SMG3 should have the same weight, however SMG3 stated in We Don't Talk About What Happened In The Elevator that he thinks Mario is lighter than him though that could just be an insult.
- His Tarot Arcana is XII - The Hanged Man.
- Although his full name is technically "SuperMemeGuardian4", the shortened and mainly used form of his name "SMG4" is used on his identity card in SMG4: Mario Does His Laundry.
- On November 19, 2023 Broken Finger Paradise uploaded a short named "Nabbit's Bad Habbit" which featured SMG4, it was made to thank him for featuring one of their animations in Mario Reacts To Nintendo Memes 15 ft. SMG3.
- It's confirmed by MediExcalibur2012 that SMG4 is currently the most hated character in the series due to Peach's Castle being destroyed by his fault and not saving Peach as well as other issues (like abusing Mario for petty reasons).
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