“Wario” – A Dark Mirror
The Ying to the “Mario”s Yang, the “Wario” is the dark side of the Smash brothers community. A small subset, to be sure, but there is usually one in every core group of players. They are the naysayers, the grumblers, the mischief makers of the community.
But where the “Fox” truly loves the game for all that it is, the “Wario” is obsessed with all that it could have been.
You will find them wherever Smash players congregate, sowing confusion and dissent. They are in the comments section of announcement trailers, complaining about aspects of characters they haven’t played as yet. They are online, hassling Sakurai and starting arguments about character designs, or complaining about changes to the way characters were in older iterations.
In-game, they are the first to cry foul once things stop going their way. Whether it be the kind of controller they use, or that the character they are facing is “broken”, they always have an excuse.
Online, they have more ammunition still, its either input lag or ping that is to blame. They are as graceless in victory as they are in defeat, gloating over every win.
Don’t be a “Wario”, you’re better than that.
