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Tari (SMG4)

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“

You can do it!

”
—One of Tari's common quotes.

Tari (known as Turbo Artificial Rapid Intelligence in Meta Runner canon) is a modern main character in the SMG4 series, she also appears in Meta Runner.

She's a cyborg girl and pro-gamer who befriended Mario when he needed to learn how to improve his gaming skills against SMG4, and as such became friends with them both and the rest of 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 Luke and 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.

History

SMG4: Mario The Ultimate Gamer

Tari makes her debut in this episode, where she is seen in a game store playing Super Smash each other in the ass Bros. against Bob Bobowski. Fishy Boopkins claims she is one of the best Super Smash each other in the ass Bros. players in the world. Upon hearing this and seeing her skills, Mario wanted her help to train for an upcoming rematch against SMG4. She initially refuses but decided to give it a go by telling Mario to be more focused when playing Whack-A-Luigi. She then gets distracted by a crane game, calling it a "chronic gambling addiction disguised as a children's game" and comments on how cute the prizes are.

She and Mario then grab Toad with crane claws and destroy the machines, then they proceed to go to the pond and relax. As Mario went to go back for the rematch, Tari stayed behind as she didn't like to meet new people. However, during the match, Tari came to the castle to see how Mario's training went. Her training succeeded, though she showed sorrow for SMG4 for his loss, so she decided to cheer him up by playing a match for fun as Mario celebrated in the background.

SMG4: The Mario Carnival

She later reappears in this episode, fishing for ducks at Bob's carnival. SMG4 asks if she can help him get a lot of tickets to beat Mario for tickets to win an Eggman Football. Tari, being shy as usual, lies to SMG4 and says that she's unavailable but later helps him anyways and eventually meets Meggy for the first time to challenge her at a duck Hunt Mini-game. After many shots, Bob, in fear of losing all of his Bob Tickets, sets the difficulty into POWER DRIVE. Overwhelmed, Tari sets herself into Expert Mode using her mechanical arm and shoots a ton of ducks, winning infinite points. Meggy is amazed at her power and starts asking how Tari was able to shoot all of the targets. This is when Tari reveals that she's a cyborg. In the end, everyone receives and shares their Dr. Eggman Football and Tari receives her duck prize and they leave the carnival celebrating.

SMG4: The Mario Convention!

She is seen exploring the convention with Meggy. She and Meggy visited Fishy Boopkins's anime booth, where Tari bought several action figures, Later, they encountered a large crowd gathered around a booth for Hideo Kojima. Ecstatic to see him at the convention, Tari begged Meggy to go get an autograph from Hideo. While Meggy pushed her way through the crowd, Tari got bored of waiting and decided to explore the convention some more.

Later, after Waluigi took over the convention with his new T-Pose Virus, Tari is seen emerging from a dumpster, where it was revealed that she had been searching for a very rare Wizard duck figure, which she'd found in the dumpster. She then realized that the convention was eerily quiet. After a little investigating, she found Waluigi creating a new army of T-Pose Zombies and announcing his plan to take over the world with them. Staying hidden, she watched in horror as Master Hand arrived to try to stop Waluigi but was quickly subdued by Waluigi's mind control powers.

SMG4: Mario and the Waluigi Apocalypse

She appears as a minor character, where she tried to recover Meggy from her T-pose state but couldn't get through to her. She was then noticed by Master Hand, who proceeded to attack her. In an attempt to ward him off, Tari threw her controller at Master Hand, to no avail; However, the controller was knocked into the Staff of Rejection, which zapped the controller with some of its energy. Tari grabbed the controller and frantically pushed its buttons just as Master Hand was about to catch her when he suddenly stopped short.

To her amazement, Tari then discovered that, because of the magic energy it'd been infused with, her controller could now control people. Tari began to play around with her newfound power, using the controller to make Master Hand do silly dances. After this, she was about to get Master Hand to try to free her friends, but before she could, SMG4’s Deathbus broke into the convention center, catching her off guard. She was not seen for the rest of the episode.

SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2018

She makes a surprise appearance in the last challenge, in which Waluigi forced Mario and SMG4 to fight to the death in a real-life enactment of Super Smash Each Other in the Ass Bros. by using his powers to control Mario's body and forcing him to fight SMG4. Just as Mario was about to (very reluctantly) finish SMG4 off, Tari showed up and used her magic controller on SMG4 to defeat Mario. She then sent him after Waluigi, who retaliated with a storm of lightning bolts.

In a panic, Tari activated her cybernetic arm's enhancement to put herself into Expert Mode, after which she got SMG4 to flawlessly dodge Waluigi's attacks, kick him in the face and destroy his Staff of Rejection, causing the T-Pose Zombies to revert to their former selves. Waluigi then initiated a rap battle with Mario and friends, in which Tari got one line where she said that fighting was lame and that everyone should just be friends and play games.

At the end of the episode, after Waluigi and Wario made up and hugged, Tari asked if anyone wanted to play video games with her, to which everyone happily obliged. After the episode, a "cryptic clip" played in which an unknown video game was being played. After almost a minute of this footage, the camera zoomed away from the TV screen and panned over to the player's controller and arms, one of which was a bionic arm, indicating that the player was Tari, which was later confirmed by SMG4, afterward the text "DECEMBER 2018" appeared on the screen. The text would be the date when the trailer for Meta Runner was released.

SMG4: Mario's Late!

In this episode, she is seen at the end where she was at the Mushroom Kingdom Awards show with her friends Meggy and Saiko. She was seen with a new hat with a Pac-Man pin and some more stylized hair and a red bow tie.

SMG4: The Mario Purge (Halloween 2018)

In this episode, Tari took shelter from the Purge in Peach's Castle along with the rest of Mario's friends. She was seen trying to convince Saiko to play Super Smash Bros. Melee, which she succeeded in after telling Saiko it had a ton of violence. Later, when the Teletubbies broke into the castle and everyone split up to get away from them, Tari followed Saiko into the castle's basement. They ran into two crossbow-wielding Teletubbies who began shooting at them. Tari pushed Saiko out of the way and they both dodged the arrows, but Tari's wizard rubber duck got hit.

Tari started crying over the "death" of her duck, who she'd named Quackington, but Saiko snapped her out of it by shoving her out of the way as the Teletubbies fired at them again. Tari then got angry and wanted to fight back, and she got an idea after noticing a torch on the wall. She asked Saiko if she still had her wine bottle; she did. The duo came up with a plan and then charged forward. First Saiko jumped out and poured wine all over the Teletubbies, then Tari came out and threw the torch at the Teletubbies, but unfortunately, it turned out that Tari isn't good at throwing. This ended with her and Saiko getting captured, but luckily the purge ended before the Teletubbies could do anything to them.

SMG4: Mad Mario

Tari was a member of The Wild Childs during the apocalypse, which appeared to be comprised of her, Meggy, and Saiko. However, Bob was also a member of the group, though he didn’t appear to do anything other than executing hostages.

SMG4: Mario and the Bob Mansion...

Tari and her friends are all invited to Bob's mansion for "Bobsgiving". While Bowser and Meggy go off to cook the turkey, and Saiko, Mario, and Fishy Boopkins go off to find some "secret Bob juice" in Bob's "secret room", Tari and SMG4 stay behind with Bob. Bob offers to tell the history of Bobsgiving, to Tari's delight and SMG4's chagrin. After the explanation, Tari asks that if everyone worshiped the Bob tribe, then why hasn't anyone from said tribe been a leader of the Mushroom Kingdom?

Bob asks if he should also explain the history of "Bobmas". Tari is delighted again, while SMG4 becomes angry. This history lesson moves Tari to tears, and after a little sobbing, she asks if Bob Claus could get her a new duck for Christmas after Quackington's death. Bob responds that he will if she's been nice. An enraged SMG4 tells Tari that both histories have been made up, and storms off to go check on the cooking. After an awkward pause, Tari asks Bob that if she's super nice if she could get some games as well. Shortly afterward, a fire breaks out, and after said fire caused the mansion to collapse, Tari can be seen happily chatting with Meggy while eating turkey.

Appearance

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Tari wears a blue and white hoodie, brown khaki pants, black fingerless gloves, white and blue socks and brown flip flop sandals. She has a metal left arm, blue hair (with a fringe covering her right eye, similar to Lilyncookies and Rosalina), purple eyes and pink cheeks. Unlike her Meta Runner counterpart, it is not explained why her left arm is made of metal. It is shown in SMG4: Untitled Mario Video that the arm can be removed.

In her FNF mod she takes on an appearance more similar to her appearance in Meta Runner, including changes proportions to match that, along with being in the FNF style. She also wears gray pants.

Personality

Tari is a kind, insecure and shy girl, who likes video games (e.g. Super Smash each other in the ass Bros.) and Rubber ducks. 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 danger 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.

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.

Tari can be seen as gullible and somewhat naive, as shown in SMG4: Mario and the Bob Mansion... where she was gullible enough to be Bob's lies about Thanksgiving. Tari liked them and believed it was educational. Although, she questioned that if the pilgrims worshiped the Bob tribe, then why did none of them become a Mushroom Kingdom president. Bob changed that subject and says a fake Christmas story instead, and she believed it. Her gullibility and somewhat naivety was also shown in SMG4 Christmas Special 2020 where she believed Bob (dressed in a Santa costume) was Santa Claus. In SMG4: Mario goes to the Dentist..., she believes Swag when he tells her that the gun he gave her shot gum, causing her to shoot her friends' car, causing them to get into a car crash (thankfully they got unrealistically knocked out of the car from the recoil before it exploded thanks to plot armor). Apparently, she trusts Mario to the point where she believes that Mario is a real dentist and trusts that he can treat her teeth properly. The aftermath? Her teeth explode. Despite her shortcomings, Tari is very friendly and kindhearted, and was able to become fast friends with the majority of the cast, even with Saiko, her foil.

She is very peaceful, as we can see in SMG4: Mario and The Diss Track where she disagrees with hitting Bob with a baseball bat, suggesting to challenge Bob in a video game instead. However, if you somehow fool her into thinking that a weapon is harmless or that she's playing a video game, she can do serious damage before she realizes what going on.

Tari shows an obsessive side in her first appearance in a 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 SMG4: 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 SMG4: Mario goes to the Dentist... where Saiko pulls out a rubber duck to get Tari to go to the dentist, she gets really surprised and when Saiko throws it to the chair, she gets really excited and got it.

She is also extremely sensitive as it is easy to make her upset/cry. This is shown in SMG4: The Splatfest Incident, where she bursts into tears right after Fishy Boopkins calls her "a very bad friend". This sensitivity is further explored in SMG4: 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 SMG4: 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.

She has shown to be even more cowardly than Luigi on several occasions. SMG4: Mario goes to the Dentist... reveals that she has never been to the dentist in her life (it makes more sense in context) and she tried escaping her inevitable checkup multiple times (heck, she freaked out 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 Swagmaster6969696969 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 SMG4: 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.

Powers and abilities

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 make her very versatile in the various situations she’s in, and also comes off with a few strengths too:

  • 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 The SMG4 Movie: 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 you can't kill corrupted memes.
  • 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 (instead of white like her Meta Runner Counterpart), Tari has slight control over the environment and can analyse everything to find a certain objective or goal for her and her friends to go after. In SMG4: The Tari Abnormality, Tari cannot leave the video game on her own free will as she must beat it if she wants to.
    • 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.
  • 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 SMG4: 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.

Immortal

Only In SMG4: 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.

Trivia

  • 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 Artificial 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.
    • In said video, Luke and Kevin denied that Tari's a robot while she is in fact (according to Meta Runner, anyway), artificial. 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 is currently unknown how Tari became a cyborg.
  • 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.
  • She mains Yoshi in Super Smash Each Other in the Ass Bros.
  • SMG4: The Mario Carnival reveals that she's a cyborg.
  • 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".
  • 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.
  • Tari appears as the main protagonist of a CGI web series Meta Runner, in a separate continuity non-canon to the SMG4 series. She is notably more realistic and like a human being in the Meta Runners 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.
  • 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 Waifu pillows.
  • She is one of the few main characters to never become a T-Pose Zombie.
  • Tari was the first major character to debut during a story arc (The Waluigi Arc), the second being Axol in the Anime Arc.
  • 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 the Mario goes to the dentist episode, Swagmaster referred Tari as a lady implying she's above 18.
  • 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.
  • 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 uses recycled voice clips similar to Mario and Luigi rather than constantly recording new ones. This is due to the fact that their voice actors are usually busy voicing their characters for the animated series, so it's more convenient for them to leave behind prerecorded voice lines for the SMG4 series to use. This trait is currently shared with Belle Fontiere and Meggy Spletzer.
    • By extension, she currently doesn't have any voice clips for saying Belle's name.
  • 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.
  • Tari is the sixth member to be added to the modern version of SMG4's Gang; after Boopkins, Bob, Meggy, Shroomy, & Saiko.
  • 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).

References

  1. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/MetaRunner/comments/hlw6fm/hey_guys_its_kevin_and_luke_ask_us_anything/fx1m0c8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
  2. ↑ https://youtu.be/93rp51CU3FA?t=110

See Also

  • Tari in the FNF Mods Wiki.


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