| Not to be confused with her Meta Runner counterpart. |
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What is your deal?! Is it nerves? Are you sick? Why did you choose today of all days to be such a mess, Tari? What should I do...? |
” | —Tari questioning herself in the mirror, SMG4: The Day My Arm Went Psycho | ||
Tari is one of the three tetartagonists (alongside Saiko Bichitaru and Melony) of the SMG4 series. She is also the main protagonist of Meta Runner via an alternate version, where her full name is Turbo Artificial Rapid Intelligence.
She's a major character in Season 8, the tritagonist of The Waluigi Arc, a major character in The Rapper Bob Arc, Season 9 and The Anime Arc, one of the two tritagonists (alongside Meggy Spletzer) of Season 10, a supporting character in The YouTube Arc, a major character in Season 11, The SMG4 Movie: 10 Year Anniversary Special, the Genesis Arc and a main character in SMG4 Movie: WESTERN SPAGHETTI.
She befriended SMG4's Gang, namely Meggy Spletzer and Saiko Bichitaru. She was introduced during the Waluigi Arc, and since then has become a major character in the series. She is the only member of SMG4's Gang to not live in the Mushroom Kingdom, but instead in Onett, Eagleland (though Kevin Lerdwichagul have stated that maybe her place of origin is Silica City, just like her Meta Runner counterpart but Kevin wasn't sure if Silica City exists in the SMG4 universe).
During the YouTube Arc, Tari was sent to the Internet Graveyard in SMG4: Deleted due to Belle Fontiere (on behalf of SMG3) altering the events of her debut in SMG4: Mario The Ultimate Gamer, having Mario prevented from meeting Tari. However, she and the rest of her friends were rescued by Mario in SMG4: A Totally Normal S̷͍͖͉̙͚͎̑̃̿͑̆̇̚͠M̸͇͇̦̮̌̿Ğ̴̫̗̖͎͔̳4̶̞͇̰̎̀́̚ Episode.
Like many other members of the gang in Season 11, she winds up being demoted to a minor character to the presence of new characters such as SMG1 and SMG2, and returning characters such as SMG3 and Axol, most likely to keep her and Belle Fontiere from becoming stale characters following Meta Runner's Season 2 release and Meta Runner Season 3, which premiered on July 22, 2022. This minor role was set to continue with her absence in the first three episodes of Season 12 and throughout the season as a whole. In Season 13 she finally starts to appear more and even gets some development alongside Luigi. She would also get her long awaited redesign in SMG4: Grand Theft Mario to make up for her absence in The Lawsuit Arc.
Into the early episodes of Season 14, she has begun making a resurrgence into the spotlight with her new voice actor, despite all the controversies in Glitch Productions, and the result of her Meta Runner arm mysteriously achieving sentience and becoming known as Clench, helping her to become an "animal whisperer" at the zoo as she seeks to find a career besides playing video games every day.
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Appearance
Tari is a young slender woman of average height. She wears a dodger blue and white hoodie styled to represent a blue jay, with brown khaki pants, and black fingerless gloves, while also having a metallic left arm. She wears plain white socks with dark blue heel and toe patches, and brown flip-flop sandals on top.
She has fair white skin, silky neck-length neon blue hair in a flat, disheveled cut prominently styled with a collection of hair in a large bang covering her right eye, similar to Lilyncookies and Rosalina, with black eyebrows, tropical indigo eyes, and pink cheeks.
Unlike her Meta Runner counterpart, it is not explained why her left arm is bionic. It is shown in SMG4: Untitled Mario Video that the arm can be removed.
In SMG4: Grand Theft Mario Tari was completely redesigned. Her blue hair now has more detail to it along with a heart strand (a reference to her FNF sprite) on top, and her cheeks are a darker shade of pink. Tari's dodger hoodie has also been enhanced, as it now has the zipper popping out, the pockets are more visible, and the sholders are identical to blue jay wings. Her black fingerless gloves have cyan tips and her Meta Runner arm is glossier than it was in her original model, she also has a wristband and her iconic symbol indented on her left hand. She now wears brown cargo pants, though she still keeps her white and blue socks. However her flip-flop sandals are brown on top while they're blue with the Meta Runner symbol at the bottom.
Unlike her original model, her hoodie can be removed. She wears a white tank top with the Meta Runner logo at the bottom left.
Personality
Tari is an innocent, insecure girl frequently prone to hyperactivity who is a fan of video games, rubber ducks, and cats. She is shown to be a pacifist and often tries resolving problems with words rather than actions. Tari is very skilled with weapons such as guns, but is not very athletic and seems to have low stamina. She appears to be very accident-prone, as she often finds herself getting hurt or in danger. She is also really polite and non-confrontational, as she constantly apologizes for every mistake she has made. She is very peaceful, as seen in "Mario and The Diss Track" when she disagrees with the idea of hitting Bob Bobowski with a baseball bat, alternatively suggesting to the gang that they challenge Bob with a video game instead. However, if she is somehow fooled into thinking that a weapon is harmless or that she's playing a video game, she can do serious damage before she realizes what's going on.
Tari can be seen as gullible and somewhat naive, as shown in "Mario and the Bob Mansion..." where she was gullible enough to believe Bob's lies about Thanksgiving, or as he claimed it, "Bobsgiving". Tari liked them and believed them to be educational. Though she may be gullible, she can at least know a consistency in something depending on the extents used to make the lie, as she questioned why none of the members of the Bob tribe became president if the pilgrims worshiped them. Her realization was so relative to the crux of his first story that Bob had to change the subject to a fake Christmas story instead, and she believed it too. Her gullibility and somewhat naivete was also shown in "SMG4 Christmas Special 2020" where she believed Bob (dressed in a Santa costume) was Santa Claus. In "Mario goes to the dentist", she believes Swagmaster6969696969 when he tells her that the gun he gave her shot gum, causing her to shoot her friends' car, leading them into a car crash, which enraged Tari as she realized that Swagmaster had lied to her, also showing that she hates being manipulated only after the consequences come to be. Apparently, she also trusts Mario to the point where she believes that Mario is a real dentist and trusts that he can treat her teeth properly. As a result of trusting Mario, her teeth literally explode. Despite her shortcomings, Tari is very friendly and kindhearted, and was able to quickly become friends with the majority of the cast, even with Saiko Bichitaru, her foil. She is also extremely sensitive as it is easy to make her upset or cry. This is shown in "The Splatfest Incident", where she bursts into tears right after Fishy Boopkins calls her "a very bad friend". This sensitivity is further explored in "The Big Bad Bully", and as indicated by her involvement in the episode, Tari can become weak-willed and unable to stand for herself against people who antagonize her by stealing her favorite possessions, resulting in her having bouts of crying and going into a deep depression. However, her sadness can be somewhat dangerous if someone were to see her like that, as shown in "War Of The Fat Italians 2019" when SMG4 stole her duck. She is able to make him feel guilty about his actions so much that he died from a heart attack. Due to her naivete, Tari ends up causing destruction and harm to others without realising it, which her innocence and social obliviousness is also responsible for, as her desire for cute things causes her to appear creepy to those without context, and if she is not perceived as creepy for it, then she is taken instead with contempt, sometimes to the extent that others sometimes have to bring attention to the consequences of the attitude she directs towards said cute things.
Though Tari primarily takes non-violent approaches towards any conflict she is a part of, she is shown to still be a fan of fantasy violence, whether it is gory or not, as she is also shown playing game franchises such as Dark Souls and Grand Theft Auto where the violence itself is controlled or created entirely by the player. She also convinces Saiko to play Super Smash Bros. Melee with her by taking note of the fact that it has violence in "The Mario Purge (Halloween 2018)", showing that she is aware of this trait of herself. Nevertheless, the true reason for Tari possessing this self-contradictory trait as well as being aware of having it is currently unknown. It can be presumed that it is an indication that there is more to her moral spectrum besides being a pacifist, and that under the rarest circumstance, she can be willing to fight against someone physically and succeed. What with her having a relative interest for fantasy violence, she is also blissfully ignorant to the result of general destruction whether she is causing it or not, and is willing to ignore the responsibility of the restoration of something under an official service whether or not she intends to for the sake of her own interests, which is half-in-half gaming-related during the time of ignorance. This means that in spite of her being a pacifist by intention, Tari cheerfully and obliviously causes and ignores destruction more than she prevents it, gets involved in violent events or topics following the same procedure, or has her priorities directed more by her personal interests than her pacifistic ideals.
She has shown to be even more cowardly than Luigi on several occasions. "Mario goes to the dentist" reveals that she has never been to the dentist in her life and she tried escaping her inevitable checkup multiple times, even getting on the edge just by watching other people peacefully waiting for their turn. After her experience with Mario, who was pretending to be the dentist after he accidentally killed the real one, she ran off with Swagmaster to escape to Mexico, where there would apparently be no dentists. In the end, she is still forced to go to the dentist, and all she could do was cry. In later videos, she seems to be less shy and less hesitant to engage in dangerous activities, as shown in "Food Wars", where she participates in the war against fried food and candy with her being on Team Candy, but she seemed to appear a little guilty when they temporarily chased Team Pizza away. She is also more a lot more sociable as she's more willing to make friends compared to her earlier appearances, where she doesn't like being in places with a lot of people and tries to avoid meeting new people.
Tari has an obsessive side, as demonstrated in her first Christmas special, being extremely eager to get a rubber duck. Saiko, of all people, is freaked out by her behavior. This side of her is once again shown in "Stupid Mario 3D All-Stars", when SMG4 summoned her by squeezing a rubber duck, ultimately bringing her out for a purpose. This is also shown in "Mario goes to the dentist" where Saiko coerces Tari to return to the dentist after escaping, with the intention of never coming back.
Tari seems to be a quick thinker, as shown in "The Mario Purge", where she and Saiko Bichitaru attempt to fend off the Teletubbies with a makeshift Molotov, or in "War Of The Fat Italians 2018" when she attempts to save Mario and SMG4 on her own using only the Rejection Controller and her Expert Mode, and succeeds, not only saving the aforementioned, but the victims of the T-Pose Virus too. Among the main cast members besides SMG4, Tari is the second most competent and level-headed, the first being Meggy Spletzer, as while she may not be good at physical fights, she can use her head for far more valuable reasons than SMG4. This is most prominent in "🌽🌽🌽🌽𝓒𝓸𝓻𝓷🌽🌽🌽🌽" where she instructs everyone not to tamper with the belongings of the person who owns the farm, and she also demands everyone to clean their own mess up to make it the way it was before, unlike the other two characters she was with at the time who only caused more chaos rather than less. Though she can be shown to be one of the most competent cast members, evidence of this is actually rarely shown, as most of her time on-screen uses her less competent side, such as her primarily gullible and accident-prone foibles. In fact, this less competent side of her shows up more often than the more competent side. Sometimes the reasons for her demonstrating herself this way is because of a reason that would typically make someone seem competent compared to the average person, like the time she demonstrated to Mario that gaming requires serenity through feeding ducks in a pond, ending up in the conflict of one trying to bite her instead due the nature of the SMG4 universe, as well as the countless moments when she insists for people to focus on something. By all means, she is actually correct in both of those regards. Additionally, among the cast, Tari is more often than not playing the role of the voice of reason and indifference, usually not being a direct participant of most chaotic events in the series, instead only witnessing them or otherwise accidentally being a participant, and occasionally tries to call out to her friends' conscience in order to prevent further chaos, though no one ever really listens or the chaos has reached the point of no return.
Powers and Abilties
Power Level: B
While Tari is shown to be physically weaker than many of the characters in her earlier appearances up to Season 10, her amazing knowledge and skill on video games as well as her expert mode and powerful arm make her very versatile in the various situations she is in:
- Gaming Skills: In most of the episodes she’s in, Tari is very skilled and focused in playing every type of game she plays, resulting in her winning when it comes to fighting games such as Super Smash each other in the ass Bros. or going on par with Meggy in a shooting competition. This ability is also benefited by Tari’s cybernetic arm, which increases the speed and accuracy of what she’s playing. In "10 Year Anniversary Special", she weaponized this ability by using a remote control rubber duck to attack the corrupted dead memes, but ultimately failed because corrupted memes can't be killed. Her skill extends to non-digital game formats as well such as board games and trading card games.
- Cybernetic Arm Enhancements: One of Tari’s most defining features is her cybernetic arm, which increases her gaming ability and allows her to adapt in difficult situations or in games she may have trouble with. Her arm is shown to have an “Expert Mode”, which drastically increases her speed and accuracy to extreme levels, which is enough to amaze her friends and those competing against her, although she requires to type in a code or press a logo on a holographic screen to activate it.
- Game Warping: Tari also has the ability to transport herself (actually, her conscience) and people near her into a video game she’s currently playing with if someone or herself activates this power. During this sequence, Tari’s eyes fully turn blue (like her Meta Runner counterpart). In "The Tari Abnoramlity", Tari cannot leave the video game on her own free will as she must beat it if she wants to. "If Mario was in meta runner" (As well as the meta runner series, in which Tari uses seemingly the exact same program as SMG4 Tari) also gives us the possibility that Tari can take anything out of a video game (like how Meta Runner Tari ended up pulling Theo out of his game cartridge), however this power has likely not been utilised to it's full potential due to balancing reasons.
- Meta Runner Vision: By extension, Tari has the ability to see different paths of success in video games when she is in certain situations.
- Transformation: Her arm can turn into a rocket which she can use to fly around. First discovered in SMG4: The Final Piece when Melony reprograms Tari's arm to turn into it.
- Game Warping: Tari also has the ability to transport herself (actually, her conscience) and people near her into a video game she’s currently playing with if someone or herself activates this power. During this sequence, Tari’s eyes fully turn blue (like her Meta Runner counterpart). In "The Tari Abnoramlity", Tari cannot leave the video game on her own free will as she must beat it if she wants to. "If Mario was in meta runner" (As well as the meta runner series, in which Tari uses seemingly the exact same program as SMG4 Tari) also gives us the possibility that Tari can take anything out of a video game (like how Meta Runner Tari ended up pulling Theo out of his game cartridge), however this power has likely not been utilised to it's full potential due to balancing reasons.
- Superhuman Strength: While she was shown to be much weaker in earlier bloopers, after The YouTube Arc, she's been shown to be more competent (likely due to the introduction of Whimpu, who's much weaker), as in "Mario goes to subway and purchases 1 tuna sub with extra mayo" she was able to throw Whimpu across a spike field with ease and subsequently leap over it from a standstill, something she couldn't do when she first debuted. Tari's arm is also shown to be extremely resistant/unbreakable, as shown in "World War Mario".
- Immortal: In SMG4: The Resurrection, in order to bring Greg The Alien back to life, his species turned Tari and her teammates into Immortals.
- Cooking Skills: Tari has been shown to be an experienced cook on two occasions, in "War Of The Fat Italians 2020" and "Mario has a BBQ but he's not invited", where she has demonstrated that she can make foodstuffs like pancakes and steaks with a decided method on how she wants them to turn out. In both cases, the errors she has made as a result of her skills are not of her own choice and are more a part of her misfortune streak, and in contrast to Meggy Spletzer who can't cook at all, she is more than capable of cooking a meal correctly and even has her own planned methods of doing so depending on the category. Though she may be experienced with cooking, her skills have been used for the pivotal point of a joke the majority of the time they have been displayed.
Immortal
Only In "The Resurrection", Greg's species turned Tari and her teammates into Immortals in order for them to resurrect Greg The Alien.
- Healing: According to one of the aliens, Tari is a lightbinder. Her primary ability is to heal the severely wounded. Unfortunately, it does not work on those who are already dead.
- Light Barrier: Tari can create a defensive barrier that blocks off dangerous attacks.
- Ducks???: When put under an overwhelming situation (in this case being piled on by monsters) she might end up activating a unique spell that turns anyone within the radius into rubber ducks.
Weaknesses
Tari's weaknesses in general have more of an extensive effect than her general powers:
- Impulsiveness: Tari has demonstrated with nearly every single action that she has made, bar the rare occasion that she manages to focus without a problem, that she is unable to have second thoughts about something before committing to something. She finds no issue in doing certain things, regardless of how destructive or misguided they may be, though she is also dragged along by other people who do the same behaviour in a worse fashion than she could have the willpower to think of even doing. She has demonstrated herself to be unwittingly inconsiderate of her surroundings to the extent that she can be just as much of a deviant of basic moral cleanliness as Mario, though only accidentally, but she receives no punishment for it besides being threatened and her lack of confidence leading her to be terrified of said threat.
- Misfortune: Tari, while having good intentions in her actions, usually has the main result of her actions more directed by chance than what she intends to have happened, and she is very accident-prone as a result. This bad luck is not limited to simple accidents, and can reach destructive measures, leading to her occasionally destroying things that she would typically be too weak to destroy herself, or causing various manners of conflict and death among living people. An example is in the second demonstration of this destructive measure in "Meggy's Bootcamp", where the ink she shot at the target ends up knocking down an entire tower, causing a huge explosion when it hit the ground, and in "Mario goes to subway and purchases 1 tuna sub with extra mayo", where she intended to calm down the Cacodemon, instead unintentionally murdering it by causing it to have a heart attack and combust into flames. Tari's misfortune has been downplayed since the Genesis Arc, however, as she is less prone to receiving unwarranted undesired outcomes due to her own actions, being more likely to cause those around her to suffer from her hyperactive and childish foibles.
- Physical weakness: Tari has demonstrated herself to be physically unable to fight people by hand, requiring something or someone stronger to do the work for her. This means that she is unable to contribute to a situation that would require her to do so, which also means that she is always vulnerable to people who are actually physically stronger than her who also consider her a strong enemy, such as Belle Fontiere prior when she was a full-time villain, and is always open to those who intentionally target her. In later episodes, however, she's shown to be slightly less incompetent, but is still lacking in strength compared to most of the other main characters. In "Grand Theft Mario", Tari declares that she will attempt to remedy this weakness of hers, along with her cowardice, requesting Meggy becomes her trainer.
Criminal Record
Although Tari appears innocuously innocent, she still has a criminal record.
- Damage to public/private property (unwillingly):
- In "Super Challenge 64", Tari unintentionally led a racecar to trip up and explode into a nearby village from a football she kicked.
- In "Meggy's Bootcamp", Tari unintentionally knocked down Inkopolis Tower with an ink projectile she shot.
- Sedition: In "Mario The Supreme Leader", Tari (along with everyone else) opposed Mario's rule and attempted to take him down before she was interrupted. As Peach was given back the crown, her charges were dropped.
- Illegal espionage: Tari took part in an infiltration mission to Peach's Castle to allow Axol and his friends to meet Princess Peach. Her charges were probably dropped when Peach lifted the anime ban.
- Rioting: This technically happened in "Mario The Supreme Leader", fighting back the authorities with her friends against Mario's rule.
- Assisting jailbreaks: Alongside Meggy and Saiko in "Mario's Prison Escape", she assisted Mario, Luigi, Boopkins and Bob to escape from the Desert Prison and was pursuited by the authorities.
- Resisting arrest: As she took part in breaking Mario and his friends from prison, she was pursuited by the authorities and managed to hold them off.
- Petty Theft: In "Mario's Valentine Advice", she stole a rubber duck behind Duke Nukem's back.
- Trespassing: In "Mario School Club", Tari trespassed the school most of the episode is set in along with Mario, Luigi, SMG4, Meggy Spletzer, Fishy Boopkins, Bob Bobowski, Axol and Shroomy, and is eventually caught by Hal Monitor at the end of the episode.
- Larceny: Though nowhere near to the same extent as Mario and Luigi, in "Meggy Moves In", Tari stole a bookshelf from the local library, attempting to excuse it with a membership card that was actually a Pokémon trading card.
- Accessory to carjacking: In "Mario goes to the dentist", though she never steals nor drives a stolen vehicle herself, Tari willingly joins in with Swagmaster as the passenger when he steals a taxi from Toadsworth.
Trivia
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- Tari's name is a reference to the famous video game company called Atari, as well as the company's gaming system which was also called Atari. However, her name is revealed to be an acronym for "Turbo Assisted Rapid Intelligence" in the Meta Runner episode "Fatal Error"
- Her creation and history are detailed in the video The Making Of Tari. She was made by SMG4's sister when she was around 12 years old, according to SMG4 himself.
- Her good behaviour is based on the charity, as she estabilishes a connection with Mercury.
- In said video, Luke and Kevin denied that Tari's a robot while she is in fact (according to Meta Runner, anyway), an A.I. made by TAS-Corp. This could've been done to create the plot twist in META RUNNER Season 2 - EP 10: Fatal Error.
- However, her identity as an A.I. has currently remained unaddressed in the SMG4 series. It was likely lampshaded throughout the series anyways, as she has shown an obsession with robots at least twice. Also, she has never been to the dentist.
- It's possible that it's only her Meta Runner counterpart who is a robot, while the SMG4 version is a cyborg.
- In said video, Luke and Kevin denied that Tari's a robot while she is in fact (according to Meta Runner, anyway), an A.I. made by TAS-Corp. This could've been done to create the plot twist in META RUNNER Season 2 - EP 10: Fatal Error.
- It is currently unknown how Tari became a cyborg in the SMG4 universe.
- It is also unknown exactly how Tari involved herself in the tournament between Bob in the games store from when the audience first sees her.
- Tari and Saiko can be considered foils to each other. While Tari doesn’t enjoy fighting in real life and is very friendly, Saiko is known to have psychotic tendencies and is more prone to violence than most other members of the cast. However, despite this, they do manage to be really good friends.
- Tari's concept art is more anime-like than her final counterpart.
- Her final counterpart itself, coincidentally, was largely criticized for assuming an anime-like appearance.
- It is also unknown exactly how Tari involved herself in the tournament between Bob in the games store from when the audience first sees her.
- Though Tari's cybernetic arm has remained physically intact throughout all of her appearances, the hand of her cybernetic arm is finally chopped off in a fit of rage by Melony in SMG4: Mario has a BBQ but he's not invited.
- At the end of the episode, as a temporary solution, she is seen having tied her hand back on to the rest of her arm with rope.
- She mains Yoshi in Super Smash each other in the ass Bros. and Super Smash each other in the ass bros Ultimate.
- SMG4: The Mario Carnival reveals that she's a cyborg.
- Tari is the first modern major character and SMG4's gang member whose very second appearance is only two main SMG4 episodes apart from their debut appearance, the second being Axol, Tari appearing in "The Mario Carnival" and Axol appearing in "The Mario Showdown", which is also the episode where Tari first meets Axol.
- To clarify, though Fishy Boopkins appears consecutively in both Part 1 and Part 2 of "Seaside Stupidity", the two parts count as one episode, and Fishy Boopkins' second appearance after "Seaside Stupidity" is "Mushroom Kingdom's Got Talent", eight main SMG4 episodes later; Meggy Spletzer debuts in "If Mario Was In... Splatoon" and makes her second appearance in "MARIO'S CHALLENGE", seven main SMG4 episodes later; Saiko Bichitaru debuts in "Doki Doki Mario Club" and makes her second appearance in "Mario Battle Royale", three main SMG4 episodes later.
- It was initially believed that she was voiced by Ellyn Barclay with a British accent. However, in a Blog Video, it was confirmed that it is actually a voice actress named Celeste Notley-Smith.
- She appears to have an affinity for rubber ducks, as seen in SMG4: The Mario Carnival and SMG4: The Mario Convention!. Tari also had a "Do It For Him" poster of Duckie in "SMG4: Mario goes to subway and purchases 1 tuna sub with extra mayo".
- Compared to the voice of her Meta Runner counterpart, Tari's Australian accent is more Australian-American, and her voice is far more shrill, though this is likely due to her spinoff counterpart being biologically older.
- 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.
- She is notably more realistic and like a human being in the Meta Runner universe than in the SMG4 universe.
- One notable difference between the two is that while the Meta Runner universe version of Tari is less gullible and more willing to get into dangerous decisions despite being afraid, the SMG4 version is easily exploited and will try to run from any situation that she deems to be too terrifying unless the safety of her friends are at stake.
- As evidenced in SMG4: Deleted, compared to all the other frequent members of SMG4's Gang prior to Melony, the circumstances of Tari's meeting with Mario meant that his meeting was the least likely to ever happen in the first place, as Mario ended up meeting with her only under the assumption that he needed some person to train him to play video games better, only having first found her in a random games store after lazing around and refusing to train by SMG4's order, and when Tari had beaten Bob, she left the store in complete ignorance of Mario himself, obligating him to have to pester her constantly to get her attention instead of the opposite situation where she came to him of her own will and intuition, and even so, he had to try desperately in order for her to comply with training him, even if it was a reluctant agreement. SMG4: Deleted shows that Tari would have simply left Mario behind forever had he not come to her. Additionally, Mario only came to her and made her an ally of his because she demonstrated her natural experience as a gamer, as evidenced in SMG4: Deleted as well, meaning that he would have never made her an ally to any capacity if she didn't demonstrate herself to be an experienced gamer. Though Axol's meeting could also count as the least likely, he was actually famous in terms of an entire country and had fans due to his public commercial production and was far easier to be aware of the existence of compared to Tari due to this.
- Fishy Boopkins and Shroomy both met Mario by coming to Mario of their own will, the former doing it to aid and the latter doing it due to the entertainment of winning a competition Mario made himself, and Saiko Bichitaru came to be because Fishy successfully brought her to life from a video game due to willingly wanting her in the real world. As for Bob Bobowski, Mario and Luigi encountered him because they were forced to go under and into the sewers as an alternative route to get into Bowser's castle, and had to help Bob get out due to him being trapped and lost. And as for Meggy, though Mario had to willingly come to her and randomly found her secretly hidden in a paint can, the paint can itself was located within the castle, and, additionally, the reason why he had to find a paint can was for home decor, which is a really common task to do for house residents in actuality.
- She is shown to love anime just as much as Fishy Boopkins does, though she is not an otaku like him, possessing no merchandise and dakimakuras.
- She is one of the few main characters to never become a T-Pose Zombie.
- Though Tari is a main character in the series, she is more often than not overshadowed by the presence of the more traditionally apathetic, antagonistic and thickheaded characters of the series, specifically the main and secondary classic characters, leading to SMG4 wasting opportunities to use her in bloopers where her role as a naively compassionate ill-fated gamer girl who only has a talent in gaming and is otherwise relatively unfledged in basic necessities can add extra comical value to the plot.
- She also ends up generally overshadowed by all other frequent modern major characters besides herself. The only other modern major characters to appear in the series with an active and pivotal episodic role more often than Tari are Meggy, Bob, Fishy, Shroomy, and Saiko.
- Though Tari does indeed have her own spinoff series, said spinoff series being her true origin point, just the same way Meggy has her own, unlike Meggy, the version of Tari in Meta Runner is a counterpart and an entirely different person, compared to Meggy's spinoff series where Meggy is the same person she is in the main series, since the spinoff is all about Meggy trying to find her true path in life for her main variant.
- Tari's glaring lack of prominence and notability in-universe compared to all other members of the main cast is highlighted by the series itself, as in SMG4: Mario and The Diss Track when Bob degrades his former friends to maximise his fame, Bob specifically states that he has forgotten her name while remembering everyone else's or not noting that he has forgotten their name in the case of Meggy, though this can be partially justified by Bob's self-absorbed personality.
- Despite the series pointing this element out for itself, Tari still plays her major roles with the same level of attention as she did in the episodes before in episodes proceeding.
- Though Tari does indeed have her own spinoff series, said spinoff series being her true origin point, just the same way Meggy has her own, unlike Meggy, the version of Tari in Meta Runner is a counterpart and an entirely different person, compared to Meggy's spinoff series where Meggy is the same person she is in the main series, since the spinoff is all about Meggy trying to find her true path in life for her main variant.
- In a similar issue of featuring scarcely despite her role as a main character, due to Tari's general flexibility as a character, she additionally could have been introduced into the SMG4 series at least two to three years earlier than she ended up being, which was on August 25, 2018, as well as having been generally conceptualized as a character far earlier, as the SMG4 brand is centered entirely around the concept of the popular video game franchise, Super Mario, what with Tari's central character trait being that she is a gamer.
- Tari is the first major character to debut during a story arc (The Waluigi Arc), the second being Axol in The Anime Arc.
- Tari is also the first major character in general to debut during a story arc, as The Waluigi Arc is the first story arc in the SMG4 chronology.
- Tari is the first major character to debut during a story arc (The Waluigi Arc), the second being Axol in The Anime Arc.
- She also ends up generally overshadowed by all other frequent modern major characters besides herself. The only other modern major characters to appear in the series with an active and pivotal episodic role more often than Tari are Meggy, Bob, Fishy, Shroomy, and Saiko.
- Her code-name during the 'Infiltrate the Castle' scene in SMG4: Mario Saves Anime is a reference to the fact that her personality was based on a blue jay.
- She and Mario were the only major characters that never got infected by the T-Pose Virus during The Waluigi Arc.
- In SMG4: There's Something Up With Meggy... it's shown that she finds Dark Souls 3 relaxing, a game that's part of a series that's known to be quite the opposite, partly due to its difficulty.
- In SMG4: The Mario Convention!, Tari claims that she loves Hideo Kojima because of his work when he appears at the celebrity meet-up.
- Tari's counterpart in Meta Runner is confirmed to be 22 years old as shown in the fifth episode. However, it is unknown whether this incarnation of Tari is the same age. In 2020 SMG4 confirmed in a Meta Runner Ask Questions on Reddit that SMG4 Tari is younger than her Meta Runner counterpart but her age is still unknown. In "Reading the Wiki on Tari", Luke said he doesn't know Tari's age.[2]
- In SMG4: Mario goes to the Dentist..., Swagmaster refers Tari as a lady, implying she's above 18.
- Tari is also the designated driver of certain episodes, as well as the When you drive with your parents short on the SMG4 Shorts channel, confirming that she has also has a driver's license and that she's a responsible driver compared to the other female characters.
- Tari being a responsible driver is also evidenced in that, though Meggy Spletzer also has a driver's license, she isn't seen transporting other characters along with her, while Tari is.
- In SMG4: Mario goes to the Dentist..., Swagmaster refers Tari as a lady, implying she's above 18.
- Among the vague summarising nicknames given to the main cast between acquaintances, Tari is typically described as a "nerd", which is officially defined as "a foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious" or "a single-minded expert in a particular technical field". Given that Tari is only entirely fitting with the first definition in that she lacks social skills as well as that she can actually think clearly when necessary, it is liable that she is referred to under the second definition.
- As of mid 2021, out of all of the major characters, barring Toad, who stay as residents of Peach's Castle, as well as Waluigi and Wario, Tari is not yet the root of her own themed arc, and she also isn't the direct cause of the events of an arc, neither ending one nor starting one, though her role as judge in SMG4: Mario and the Anime Challenge can count by necessity of her unintentionally urging the events of the Anime Arc, as well as playing the role of surveillance in SMG4: Mario Saves Anime so Axol can gain access to Peach. The only obvious, significant exception to this rule is her beginning the end of Waluigi's reign by stopping Waluigi's T-Pose Army and freeing her friends in SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2018 by taking control of SMG4 with the Rejection Controller acquired in SMG4: Mario and the Waluigi Apocalypse and attacking Waluigi with him, getting rid of his Staff of Rejection, though this role was mostly the case because it was her debut in War of the Fat Italians.
- Though Tari is the one who saved the victims of Waluigi's T-Pose Army in the first place, she never actually gets a deserved amount of recognition nor a form of conflicting overwhelming praise in any proceeding episodes, let alone arcs, as the series instead prioritises Meggy, one of the victims, and winning Splatfest, which she eventually does with Tari's assistance and motivational ability as well.
- Not only this, but in SMG4: Mario's Late!, the next official episode that is set directly after Waluigi's defeat, the entire premise of the episode concludes with SMG3 being formally congratulated for his efforts only, despite that without Tari freeing her friends and allowing the rap battle to occur, Waluigi's morale wouldn't have been decreased by the main cast so that SMG3 had to step in as a therapist, indicating that she isn't recognised by anyone at all for setting his defeat in motion, let alone recognised by her own friends.
- Additionally, after the Genesis Arc, the series afterwards prioritises Melony and her relationship with Axol after she was forced to kill him after he confessed to her, despite Tari's encounter with SMG0 being the perfect opportunity to develop her own character as well.
- It is likely that Tari is not the pivotal point of her own arc because she avoids chaos and trouble as much as possible, and the only way she could get involved in an arc as a pivotal factor is if chaos and trouble was targeting her instead.
- Though Tari may not get involved in conflict by her own decision and is completely unable to desire for other people to actually suffer from something due to her compassionate personality, with her having elaborate cybernetic enhancements, it's still possible for a third party to corrupt her and force her into a rampage using her full power, similarly to what happened with Axol in the Genesis Arc.
- Unlike Axol, however, Tari would be less likely to be sacrificed if her cybernetic elements are corrupted, as her corruptions would be electronic rather than organic, and instead she would need to be redeemed of her uncontrolled actions.
- Though Tari is the one who saved the victims of Waluigi's T-Pose Army in the first place, she never actually gets a deserved amount of recognition nor a form of conflicting overwhelming praise in any proceeding episodes, let alone arcs, as the series instead prioritises Meggy, one of the victims, and winning Splatfest, which she eventually does with Tari's assistance and motivational ability as well.
- During every WOTFI rap battle from 2018 to 2021, Tari has only ever sung two sentences per one line, and didn't sing at all in 2019. This is likely due to being unwilling to verbally battle unlike everyone else in the cast.
- In 2018, her one line was "You know, fighting's kinda lame. Why don't we all just play some games?" directed to everyone else participating.
- In 2020, her one line was "You're so mean and as cold as ice. Aw, sorry, that wasn't very nice." directed to Belle Fontiere.
- In 2021, her one line was "We're coming don't you wait. We'll put an end to your fate." directed to SMG0/Ax0l.
- Even if Tari only has one two-phrase line per rap battle, it is clear that she grows more confident and willing to use more assertive and directive words by each instance, her first ever one involving her normal pacifistic self.
- In her only other singing role, the SMG4 10th Anniversary Song, Tari only sung two lines independently the same way she does in her featured rap battles, except she sung two sentence fragments, "This decade dreams came true" and "And there'll always be more", rather than whole sentences. However, she also sings all the additional 6 group lines, adding up to 8 lines in total, which technically also makes the SMG4 10th Anniversary Song the song where Tari sings the most lines.
- As revealed in SMG4: The Big Bad Bully, Tari lives in Onett, which is not part of the Mushroom Kingdom, but part of Eagleland in EarthBound, however many major characters often visit the place, hinting that there is a land border between Eagleland and the Mushroom Kingdom.
- In a later Hobo Bros episode on October 2, 2020, Kevin later explained that she actually lives in Silica City, and rented an apartment in Onett temporarily, but remains a resident there. But he wasn't sure if the city exist in the SMG4 Verse.
- This also confirms that maybe Silica City exists in the SMG4 Canon.
- In a later Hobo Bros episode on October 2, 2020, Kevin later explained that she actually lives in Silica City, and rented an apartment in Onett temporarily, but remains a resident there. But he wasn't sure if the city exist in the SMG4 Verse.
- She and Bob Bobowski are the most frequent members of SMG4's Gang aside from Mario, Luigi, and SMG4 to appear in Season 10.
- She seems to have replaced Meggy Spletzer as the most prominent female character of that season. as she has more appearances than her as of SMG4: Mario's Inside Story as well as more speaking roles starting with SMG4: The E G G. After The YouTube Arc, however, her appearances began to decrease due to the second season of Meta Runner premiering, and to prevent both herself and Belle from becoming stale.
- As of SMG4: The Melony Felony, Bob Bobowski has appeared more than her, appearing in every video of Season 11 thus far in some capacity.
- By Season 12, Tari had been reduced to minor roles before eventually disappearing from the series by May 2022, likely due to the release of Meta Runner's Season 3 trailer on May 6, as a way to prevent Tari from going stale.
- When she was previously voiced by Celeste Notley-Smith she used recycled voice clips similar to Mario and Luigi rather than constantly recording new ones. This trait is currently shared with Belle Fontiere and formerly Meggy Spletzer in 2020-2022 when she was previously voiced by Lizzie Freeman.
- By extension, she never had any voice clips for saying Belle's name.
- In addition, Tari's previous voice actor, Celeste Notley-Smith, is a mother and teacher causing her to have limited time to record voicelines. this is not the case in 2024 when she was replaced by Lottie Bourne.
- Videos from SMG4: Grand Theft Mario up until SMG4 Movie: Western Spaghetti is where Tari is fully voiced by Celeste Notley-Smith. she wouldn’t be fully voiced permanently like Meggy until SMG4: The Day My Arm Went Psycho
- She's one of the few characters in the SMG4 series that rarely swears, only doing so thrice.
- Tari's arm can withstand a strike from Sephiroth's Masamune which could slice Mako Cannons, as shown in SMG4: World War Mario.
- However, it can't withstand a strike from the Melony's Fierce Deity Sword, as shown in SMG4: Mario has a BBQ but he's not invited.
- Tari is the sixth member to be added to the modern version of SMG4's Gang, after Boopkins, Bob Bobowski, Meggy Spletzer, Shroomy, Saiko Bichitaru, and before Axol and Melony.
- Tari is also the third female member to be added to the gang, following Meggy & Saiko.
- Tari is also the sixth and penultimate living member to be added to the modern version of SMG4's Gang, the seventh and final modern living member being Melony. Prior to the epilogue of War Of The Fat Italians 2021, the seventh and penultimate living member was Axol, and Melony would have been the eighth member had Axol not been possessed by Niles and chained down into his dimension.
- Tari is the sixth member to be added to the modern version of SMG4's Gang, after Boopkins, Bob Bobowski, Meggy Spletzer, Shroomy, Saiko Bichitaru, and before Axol and Melony.
- In the FNF mod that adds Tari, she doesn't have a proper death animation due to an oversight, this will be fixed in a later update according to FM.
- Her up animation causes her right glove to disappear.
- She appears on a poster parodying the production Hairspray in the background of one of the magicians' dressing rooms in the Sunset Paradise episode "Cat-sino Royale". She is also indirectly mentioned by Meggy to Whisk later on.
- She is currently taking Spanish classes from Swagmaster6969696969 (presumably so that she can escape to Mexico the next time she is forced to go to the dentist).
- Tari is only main character to have no direct connection to existing videogame franchises.
- Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Peach, Toad, and Steve are all warped versions of existing videogame characters.
- SMG4 is a Mario Recolor.
- Fishy Boopkins is a Spike, a common Super Mario Bros enemy.
- Bob uses the model of the Garo enemy from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and Melony is empowered by the Fierce Deity Mask from the same game.
- Meggy was previously an Inkling and Axol was born and raised in Inkopolis.
- Shroomy is visually based off a Super Mushroom and is the nephew of Doom Guy and Lady Dimitrescu.
- Saiko's hammer is a retextured version of King Dedede's hammer and she is based of the girls of Doki Doki Literature Club.
- Tari was ranked by Luke & James as 6th powerful "B-Tier" character in the "SMG4 Character Powerlevels" tier list (Following Luigi, Mario, Baldi, Axol, & Swagmaster696969696969) during the 5,100,000 Subscribers Livestream.
- According to SMG4, Tari's crying sounds like a dying cat.
- Tari's name is Japanese. Her name in Hiragana is たり, her name in Katakana is タリand her name in Kanji is 多理 or 多璃.
- Tari (タリ) translates to List in Japanese.
- Tari's name is Japanese. Her name in Hiragana is たり, her name in Katakana is タリand her name in Kanji is 多理 or 多璃.
- On Oct 26th at 12:33pm, C_Art released a fanmade model based on Luke & Kevin's new model art style.
- She recently became vegetarian as of SMG4: Mario Goes To Ohio.
- She is the eighth character to be redesigned, the previous are Meggy,Axol, Saiko, SMG4, SMG3, Boopkins and Bob.
- Tari's redesign allows for her Meta Runner arm to be properly detached. Removing it reveals that part of her arm is fully modeled inside.
- Tari is the only major protagonist/supporting character (not counting Mario, Mario Recolors, characters who were formerly Mario Recolors, and characters that were killed) to not have a last name. It is unknown if she doesn’t have one or if it was just never specified.
GMOD Model
- 2023 Model
- 2018 Model
References
See also
- Tari in the FNF Mods Wiki.