Season 10 is the tenth season of the SMG4 series, and the first season of the 2020s. This season premiered on January 18, 2020 and concluded on December 26th, 2020 in the Americas, and the following day in Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania.
In the springtime, new characters like JubJub Boopkins, the younger brother of Fishy Boopkins, and Rob the Scarecrow, Steve's corn-obsessed scarecrow were introduced in SMG4: The E G G and SMG4: 🌽🌽🌽🌽𝓒𝓸𝓻𝓷🌽🌽🌽🌽, respectively. On April Fool's Day, a video called SMG4: Goodbye Meggy was uploaded as a prank to SMG4's Discord server and was quickly taken down. Meggy moved out of Inkopolis and into the Mushroom Kingdom in SMG4: Meggy Moves In and became a police officer in SMG4: Officer Meggy. That episode was met with criticism following the recent acts of police brutality in the United States, and Mr. Monitor was used much less after SMG4: Mario VS Siren Head outside of videos with fan-submitted plots. SMG4: War On Beeg SMG4 introduced Shroomy's anti-counterpart, Anti-Shroomy, which played a bigger role in SMG4: The Demon Among Us. Like Saiko, Axol's appearances have shown a massive decrease. On the other hand, Bowser started to appear more often again with SMG4's Gang until SMG4: The Demon Among Us. Toad also slightly appeared more often but he mostly appeared in cameo appearances with only a few bigger roles.
Following the YouTube Arc, the videos have become more experimental, characters such as Tari, Saiko, Shroomy, Axol, Chris, Swagmaster6969696969, and SMG4 himself began to appear less frequently, Peach Toadstool replaced Mr. Monitor as the proper authority figure until SMG4: Cooking with Mario & Bowser: World Tour, Steve started to appear more after his playable appearance in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and there have been more videos where Mario is the only major character to appear. In October, the channel gained more than 4 million subscribers with, SMG4: The Fan Written Episode (4 Mill Sub Special) being released on October 24 as a commemoration.
Luigi was promoted to being the main character, alongside Mario and SMG4. However, he still remains as a deuteragonist overall. This marks the first time an addition of such a character since SMG4's addition in Season 3.
GLITCH, a sister channel to the SMG4 channel for animated series such as Meta Runner and Sunset Paradise, was launched on August 28, and the SMG4 channel was reverted back to how it was.
Meta Runner: New Game+, a movie consisting of all ten episodes of Season 1 of Meta Runner, was also released on the channel on August 28.
WOTFI 2020 is finally here, bringing the entire YouTube Arc to a close. This has by far been one of the biggest WOTFIs I've ever worked on. I really hope you guys enjoy :)
A great, wholesome way to end what has been a very crappy year. Happy Holidays everyone ❤, Thank you to everyone who submitted their collab entry! Unfortunately we couldn't include everyone, but we really do appreciate everyone who submitted something ❤ This is the final video of 2020! SMG4 starts up again on 23rd January 2021!
The episode, SMG4: Officer Meggy was panned by viewers, due to its police-related plot. The episode itself was released not long after the death of George Floyd by police brutality, sparking the George Floyd Protests.
The episode, SMG4: SSENMODNAR - 3,826,412 SUB SPECIAL got demonetized by YouTube nearly two days later after being aired. This is due to one scene where Teletubbies were made extra thick based on a Reddit suggestion, thus marking the video as "sexual behavior, language or expressions".
Toad gained much less screen time than Shroomy, because he rarely appeared with SMG4's Gang in favor of Shroomy. However, he appeared a little more than the previous season so far but like Wario most of his appearances are non-speaking roles and cameos. Only a few of his appearances are speaking- and major roles.
Waluigi and Toadsworth appear the least after their respective debuts, with around 5-8 appearances and only having two speaking roles.
Belle Fontiere from the animated web series Meta Runner makes her first appearance in the SMG4 series, thus making her the first character to appear from Meta Runner other than Tari.
This season introduces the most major original characters, with eight.
This season is the first season since Season 8 (with SMG4: Waluigi's Time) to use at least one episode with maps in Super Mario 64 rather than Garry's Mod, with SMG4: Deleted using maps used in previous SMG4 bloopers.
