Cold-Blooded Torture: Mario.exe makes Luigi kill all the Toads, scarring the plumber, and still won't let him go afterwards, even mocking Luigi for thinking otherwise.Characterization Marches On: The heroes and especially Mario.exe are notably fleshed out as characters throughtout the game, more than the characters in many other.Camera Lock-On: When Wario presses Z, he gains the ability to kill Mario ghosts on impact, but the camera will not follow him until he unpresses the button.Came Back Wrong: Everybody that Mario.exe and ? kills comes back evil, horribly mutilated, or both.One ending is literally called "To Be Continued." For example, the Yoshi Solo Ending and the Yoshi and Wario Duo Ending end with the survivors setting refuge in a desolated area to come up with a new plan. Cliffhanger: Most of the endings end with a "to be continued" note.The final boss battle in the Best Ending is a more traditional version of this trope. Bullet Hell: Most of the game's boss battles take a weird combination between Bullet Hell and a Space Invaders type shooter.Explicit gore is actually pretty rare the game relies much more on supernatural/psychological horror, but it does have its gory moments. Bloodier and Gorier: Compared to the official Mario games.Boss Rush: In the Best Ending, you face, in order, Bowser.exe in a harder rematch, Corrupted Waluigi, and finally, Mario.exe himself, and it's a two-part battle.Body Horror: Luigi.exe's body looks grotesque and hideously deformed and his body parts look like they're about to fall off.Almost every ending has some cost for the survivors even the best ending ends on a rather somber note while Mario has defeated Mario.exe and all the playable characters are alive, Mario is still separated from his friends, none of them have any idea what is going on, and the kingdom isn't any closer to being saved. Bittersweet Ending/ Pyrrhic Victory: These are what the best endings are like.Big "NO!": Wario lets one out after finding Waluigi's corpse.and then you reach the end, where instead of spikes, you find the Warp to the final battle with Mario.EXE and Bowser.EXE. This is even reinforced by a line of dialogue from the green plumber. Luigi's final march in the " Luigi Solo Ending" looks like it's gonna be a retread of Mario's suicide in the normal Bad Ending, right down to The music played.Then on the next screen, Mario meets Mario.exe and things stop being normal. Bait-and-Switch: The first level is a traditional grassland Mario level, with plenty of Goombas to stomp on.However, the worst endings play this straight, including one where all of reality is wiped out.
exe games to use this trope, The Mushroom Kingdom's Doom normally subverts this with most endings having at least one of the targets alive by the end. Kill 'Em All: While it's become a tradition for.Granted, if you wait too long, then it will cut straight to the Game Over screen. This is the only time in the entire game you're allowed to freely continue. Anti-Frustration Feature: During the final battle against Mario.exe and Bowser.exe and later Yoshi.exe and Wario.exe in the Luigi Solo Ending, you are allowed to Continue with no catch.The overwhelming majority of the gameplay instead cycles between Luigi, Yoshi and Wario. And Now for Someone Completely Different: While his actions are important to the plot, Mario is only playable during the intro level, a brief mini-level if any of the 3 main playables die, during the bad ending, and in the final boss battle in the Best Ending.Namely the "Bad Ending" and "Stuck Forever" endings, both of which render the player character (Mario and Luigi, respectively) stuck wandering in Mario.exe's black dimension without their friends for presumably all eternity. And I Must Scream: Multiple endings can be considered in this category.Generally, they're less "offers" and more "do this thing or you die / ? will kill you." An Offer You Can't Refuse: Mario.exe makes offers with the playable characters many times.
In Wario's case, though, it's an Advancing Boss of Doom.