#Kinoppe

[janmisali]

Super Mario Bracket: KINOPPE vs PIKMIN

Kinoppe

SEED: 28 (22 nominations)

SPECIES: Toad

DEBUT: KC Mario

BIO: Dr. Mario's daughter

[Super Mario Wiki article]

Pikmin

SEED: 101 (7 nominations)

SPECIES: Pikmin

DEBUT: Toadstool Tour

BIO: they're called Pikmin because you are "picking them"

[Super Mario Wiki article]

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[wariofranchisefanblog]

I am in a major Wario’s Woods mood and mentioned I may write down my concepts of how I’d do a sequel fic and yep, doing just that now.

Not sure if I’ll ever pursue it, but I did want to at least muse a bit about how I’d imagine a follow-up. Trying to make it fit with how we know the characters now, while also adding things relevant to my interests.

One of the big concerns for it is how to justify Wario as the villain, since he has long stopped being a pure antagonist and the answer is quite simple:

Rudy.

When Rudy returned in Dr. Mario 64, he was significantly shrunk and generally portrayed as more vulnerable than in Wario Land 3, down to catching a cold. This is where personal interpretation and headcanon come in, as I imagine him to have lost a lot of his power, following his defeat at Wario’s hands and naturally, he wants that back.

Naturally, there needs to be a reason the peaceful woods tie into this, so I imagine the Sprites of the forest guarding a treasure containing the power Rudy needs to restore himself to his old strength. 

How to find it though? Wario. Making sure Wario learns of there being a treasure, he catches him off guard and brainwashes him to use his literal nose for treasure to uncover it. The brainwashing part being to ensure Wario in his greed doesn’t somehow accidentally set that power free in a way that puts it to waste. 

To aid him and ensure that they are uninterrupted, he let’s Wario hire his old minions from both versions of Wario’s Woods:

Who I imagine as a WarioWare type company of misfits, only instead of making games, they’re goons for hire, for shady business, with Katsini as the head of the company. They note Wario seems odd compared to last time they saw him, but business is business.

So they invade the peaceful woods and imprison the sprites which, for some nice callbacks, include the elder and Alice from the Comic BonBon adaptations of Mario & Wario and Wario’s Woods.

One sprite gets away though and it’s the one who aided Toad in Woods. She is never identified as anything but a Sprite in the manual, however both KC Mario and Kun go with her being Wanda:

So I go with that too, she even shares the same species name, so it checks out.

Wanda travels to the Mushroom Kingdom for help, however, Mario, Luigi and Peach are currently out to visit another kingdom, so the only one left for her to ask, that she knows, is Toad.

She isn’t really worried though, given he helped her in the past and while timid about it, he agrees and the two head off. That said, they are followed by someone and anyone who knows me can imagine who that is:

Yep, Kinoppe. 

I just love her a lot and I like interpreting her as someone who was always around, just never seen, since she is more of a civilian that only accidentally gets involved in adventures, but this time joins in on purpose, excited to see her personal hero Toad in action.

She very much takes Birdo’s role, being a look-out for when Wario tries to mess with things, which thanks to Rudy’s involvement, can even be justified as something like magic, with Wario peeking in to see how the intruders are doing.

Much like Birdo with her encouraging words, Kinoppe also serves as emotional support. 

A thing with Mario characters is that how they act can fluctuate depending on their role. Peach has had maaaaany very helpless depictions as a damsel, despite clearly being capable as many other games show as well, down to having her own adventures.

For this I characterize Toad as timid, but brave. Afraid, but ready to step up and do the right thing. That said he deals with insecurities and not knowing how to deal with the pressure of being seen as a hero. It’s nothing new to Mario, but for Toad, being the sole main hero and subject of Wanda’s belief in him and Kinoppe’s admiration of him, is something very foreign to him and he doesn’t know how to handle that yet.

Also gives an excuse for just a biiiit of teasing.

It’s not something that ever comes up on the blog, since Wario to me isn’t the character or series for it, but I do have a lot of interest in romance and a more gentle character like Toad is a nice means to sprinkle a little of that in.

Anyways, the trio adventure through the woods with many shenanigans happening, using the locations from SNES Wario’s Woods like the mountain area as a base. Along the way they face off against the bosses, with the SNES opponents being moreso mooks, while the NES ones are the big bosses.

Eventually they make it to Wario, who has found the treasure and is acting highly strange, being a mix of his Land onward power-set and looking and acting more deranged, like in his Super Mario Land 2 debut.

After a hard battle, Wario is freed from his possession, but unfortunately, Rudy has gotten a hold of the treasure and restored his power, using it to turn all the Sprites, even Wanda, into monsters like in Land 3.

When all seems lost Toad and Wario team up to take down Rudy, with the latter being more than happy to get some payback and the two take him out, breaking the curse he tried to unleash again and sending him packing.

With that, the day is saved. Toad is a hero, Rudy is chased off by the Woods bosses and Wario sneaks off with the now depowered treasure and nobody minds, since he did nothing intentionally wrong this time and the reason for them to guard it is now gone.

That’s the basic gist of it. Not sure if I ever will make it a fic, but I do want to expand on it.

I considered several other characters for inclusion, particularly Waluigi, Birdo, Toadette and the Ware crew as other possible mind control victims, but figured I’d be better off avoiding cluttering the cast too much.

[ninebaalart]

Kinoppe

Just real mash of forgotten Mario stuff from the era of the SNES

[jr-verse]

Does anyone remember this character still?

[toad-n-spin]

Kinoppe and Toad (Date Outfits)

[magicalgirlsirin]

i hope i see an uptick of kinoppe fanart

[wfagamerants]

Anyone that follows me for a while has likely seen me bring up this character at some point. Heck, she is my profile picture for this particular account.

Her name’s Kinoppe and she is from the Comic BomBom Mario manga series. Why do I bring her up a lot on my blog a lot, despite her not being a Wario character?

Because I like her. Yeah, that’s really it.

A thing to answer is then what it is about her that draws me to her to this degree, that I consider her somewhat of a signature of mine now, given her obscurity.

There are a lot of obvious appeals, like of course she’s adorable and I have also been very vocal that I am a Toad fan, so a character tied to him and his species is gonna get my attention a lot, but even that is only part of it.

As someone that digs deep for stuff, I am a big fan of obscure content, so Kinoppe as a particularly out there, yet quite prominent character in her own series (20 volumes where she pops up) ticks off that box very well as well. 

Even taking all that aside though, Kinoppe to me is a great showcase of how different things were at the time, when it comes to Mario tie-ins.

Early media, regardless of whether it was the west or Japan, had very different views on how to portray the citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom. Whether we are talking about individual characters or regular members of the species, you saw many different interpretations.

And even among all of them, Kinoppe still sticks out.

Aside from the mushroom hat she looks fully human, it’s completely unlike anything you’d see nowadays especially…and it’s precisely that which I love.

Companies nowadays are far more protective of how their IPs are handled by other parties and that makes total sense, but the 80s, 90s and to some degree even early 2000s, were a different time.

It was a wild west where there was much less of a vision of how something like say, Mario, would be portrayed in anything outside the games. The games didn’t have much of a plot, the pixel art left things up to interpretation and on the whole, there weren’t many standards for how adaptations would go about things.

Because of it, everyone who got handed the Mario license was essentially left to their own devices and from that, we got many different takes on Mario.

Of course we in the west have our own examples, from the short-lived comics, to the three cartoon series, to:

I am thankful for all of these, even the movie, for being such a wild ride of different takes on Mario. The Super Show and SMB3 cartoon even cemented my love for things like the Mario, Luigi, Peach and Toad team or the Koopalings, which still holds true today. Having gotten to experience all these in some form during my childhood, I think all of these have a merit to be seen by fans, just to have a fun time capsule to a very different era of licensed Maro media.

While the west had all of these, Japan had its own share of media. A notable one being the anime movie Super Mario Bros: The Great Rescue of Princess Peach. I’m a particular fan of this one for both taking a lot from the games, while doing a lot of its own thing that I love from early media, like its early, greedy interpretation of Luigi.

While that’s all good stuff, there is one medium where Mario has a very extensive history in, manga:

Not that easy to come by and not extensively documented, I have grown deeply fascinated with the many, many flavors of Mario manga that exist.

A number even date as early as right after SMB1 released. With such a limited pool of source material, the people behind these really had to scramble to come up with ideas of how to translate this game into manga form.

Even as more titles came out, the lack of a defined world and minimal stories meant there was still a lot of open room for interpretation and the need to fill in blanks.

Cue BomBom Comics’ very own KC Mario:

The origin of Kinoppe and the longest running Mario manga besides Super Mario kun, KC Mario stuck around for a whole decade and is one of my favorite pieces of Mario media out there.

In a lot of ways, KC Mario sticks remarkably close to the source. The stories tend to follow the world to world structure of the games, with the heroes dealing with the exact same kind of challenges the games provide the players. It goes so far that even things like Super Mario Land’s Bonus Game, make an appearance:

Of course, these stories still need more to them, which leads to many things. Characters like Luigi, Daisy, Peach, Toad, Bowser, Yoshi or Wario get inserted into stories of games they had no part in, to help flesh out the narrative for instance. This can lead to entirely new sub-plots, such as Wario kidnapping Daisy during the SML2 story and turning her into a Walu-Daisy.

Seeing the simplistic stories of these games fleshed out like that is an exciting prospect, but the series has even more to it than that. It’s remarkable how deeply this manga delves into Mario in all its forms, it’s to the point we got a piece of western Mario media recognition in a Japan-only series.

On top of all of that, the series has a very distinct flavor to it, much of it we would never, ever see these days. It’s a unique mix of a lot of things, be it the occasional pop culture reference:

Art that goes raw:

Some surprisingly raunchy moments:

And complimentary stories, often used as basically epilogues to the game adaptations, which tend to be wild. Gangster Bowser here, trying to get money Peach owes him, speaks for himself:

It is absolutely wild and really underlines what I said before about old Mario media. It was a wild west that took whatever source material there was and ran wild with it and I will never not be glad we got so much of it, when the chance for it was there.

Manga was the only really ongoing media outside of games Mario was consistently present in and aside from Super Mario kun, even that well has dried up significantly. As a result, we haven’t seen many takes of this sort of Mario ever since.

Until now at least.

The Super Mario Bros Movie is a big event. After staying away from lending out the IP for adaptations besides Super Mario kun for so long, we are seeing a large-scale new attempt at a Mario movie again at last.

Of course a lot of time has passed since and all those adaptations I talked about before, yet at the same time, I think a lot of the core appeal of old adaptations stay intact here.

The movie stays close to the games and that is a big part of the appeal. It’s a huge hollywood production that is proud of its source material, instead of feeling the need to alter things for mass appeal. It’s incredible to see and that room for interpretation still remains.

It’s the little things like seeing the way the Mushroom Kingdom society is interpreted in this movie. It sticks so close to the abstract world of platformers, but also shows it as a proper world with people living in it, as the Game Awards movie clip has greatly demonstrated. It’s a natural expansion, while doing its own thing.

How the characters are presented matters too.

The Brooklyn backstory, contrary to popular belief, was never just something made up in localization, but Japan did phase it out much quicker. Seeing it brought back in a major production under Nintendo’s watchful eye, is incredibly surreal, but as someone familiar with all the old media, also a delight.

The way the cast are presented is also wonderful. Bowser is awesome, Luigi as you’d expect him to be, Mario getting a origin story like this is great and while I gushed about Toad before, him and Peach getting to be part of the adventure absolutely feels like the work of people who are as attached to the SMB2 team as I am.

At every corner there is so much to see. Mario Kart here. Snifits there. Donkey Kong, oh MAN the DK representation. Seeing someone as Swanky really brings me back to manga, where Mario meeting the Wario or even Diddy Kong Racing cast, was not out of the question:

I love it, all of it and knowing Foreman Spike is gonna be in it still feels unreal, but as a Wrecking Crew fanboy, I can’t wait to finally see him.

The Super Mario Bros Movie manages to be a kind of faithful movie adaptation that seemed unthinkable, given industry standards, yet also manages to capture the imaginative and unique feel of old adaptations and personally, I am beyond excited.

[warelander]

Toad x Kinoppe

The Mario romance of days of manga past.

[alpaca1]

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[janmisali]

Super Mario Bracket: KINOPPE vs STROLLIN' STU

Kinoppe

SEED: 28 (22 nominations)

PREVIOUS OPPONENT: Pikmin

SPECIES: Toad

DEBUT: KC Mario

BIO: a supporting character from the inconsistently-titled Super Mario manga by Kazuki Motoyama. she later got her own spinoff manga called "Kinoppe-chan Forever".

[Super Mario Wiki article]

Strollin' Stu

SEED: 37 (18 nominations)

PREVIOUS OPPONENT: Gooigi

SPECIES: Strollin' Stu

DEBUT: Super Mario Sunshine

BIO: a Goomba-like enemy from Super Mario Sunshine. notably, they stroll.

[Super Mario Wiki article]

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[wariofranchisefanblog]

In the Comic BomBom Wario Land story, the heroes find a bunch of girls frozen up in Sherbet Land, including Kinoppe, Wendy and Birdo and Peach falls victim to it too. They are freed when the Penguin boss Hinyari is defeated.

[wariofranchisefanblog]

An art page for the Comic BomBom KC Mario manga, by it's mangaka. 

On top of many, many Kinoppes, it also has a doodle of Alice, a member of Wanda's fairy species, who appeared in the Mario & Wario story.

[janmisali]

Super Mario Bracket: PRINCESS DAISY vs STROLLIN' STU

"Next Level Games!"

Princess Daisy

SEED: 5 (81 nominations)

PREVIOUS OPPONENT: King Bob-omb

SPECIES: Human

DEBUT: Super Mario Land

NOMINATION EXAMPLE: I think her tomboyish nature is a nice break from the traditionally feminine, and often helpless, damsel trope. Daisy, in her current characterization, seems adept at participating in extreme sports, surviving hostile environments, or engaging in hand-to-hand combat. It is for this reason that her inclusion as a playable character in Wonder seems natural.

[Super Mario Wiki article]

"I tricked you, Mario! It was all a lie from the start!"

Strollin' Stu

SEED: 37 (18 nominations)

PREVIOUS OPPONENT: Kinoppe

SPECIES: Strollin' Stu

DEBUT: Super Mario Sunshine

NOMINATION EXAMPLE: I’m completely and utterly speaking unironically when I say that Strollin' Stu is one of the mario enemies that have left the most impact on me. Mario sunshine is not the best mario game, not nearly, but it’s theming is on point and incredible, and Stu is the very best example of that. They were so careful and refined and just… man I’m bad with words, point is, I think them choosing to use a unique enemy and character over Goombas in Mario Sunshine to add to its unique theming and tone really adds to the game overall. And the personality the little guy shows just walking around!

[Super Mario Wiki article]

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[janmisali]

Super Mario Bracket: basic seeding information

okay to prevent any more "oh no [character that's in the bracket] isn't in the bracket" comments (it's already happened twice) here's a basic plaintext list of the 128 characters that are in the Super Mario Bracket, in their seed order.

Vivian (215 nominations)

Luigi (104 nominations)

Rosalina (101 nominations)

Waluigi (90 nominations)

Daisy (81 nominations)

Yoshi (71 nominations)

Catherine (66 nominations)

Shy Guy (60 nominations)

Fawful (59 nominations)

Mario (56 nominations)

Dimentio (51 nominations)

Sonic (49 nominations)

Wario (45 nominations)

Bowser (45 nominations)

Goombella (45 nominations)

Abe Lincoln (39 nominations)

Count Bleck (34 nominations)

Toadette (31 nominations)

Dry Bones (31 nominations)

George Washingtoad (30 nominations)

Peach (27 nominations)

Gorbachev (26 nominations)

Captain Toad (24 nominations)

Mimi (24 nominations)

Kirby (23 nominations)

King Boo (22 nominations)

Funky Kong (22 nominations)

Kinoppe (22 nominations)

Tippi (21 nominations)

Toad (21 nominations)

Mr. L (21 nominations)

Peasley (20 nominations)

Kamek (20 nominations)

Twink (18 nominations)

MC Ballyhoo (18 nominations)

Boo (18 nominations)

Strollin' Stu (18 nominations)

The Old Psychic Lady with the Evil Eye Who Reads Fortunes and Knows Everything Before It Happens (17 nominations)

Geno (16 nominations)

Bowser Jr. (15 nominations)

Penny (15 nominations)

Nabbit (15 nominations)

Orbulon (15 nominations)

Ashley (14 nominations)

Roy (14 nominations)

????? (14 nominations)

Slammer (14 nominations)

Link (14 nominations)

Iggy (14 nominations)

Starlow (14 nominations)

Bow (13 nominations)

Bowser's brother (13 nominations)

Yellow & Blue Toad (13 nominations)

Nastasia (13 nominations)

Ludwig (12 nominations)

Bobbery (12 nominations)

Boshi (12 nominations)

Shadow (12 nominations)

Dry Bowser (11 nominations)

E. Gadd (10 nominations)

Samus (10 nominations)

O'Chunks (10 nominations)

Koops (10 nominations)

Goomba (10 nominations)

Donkey Kong (10 nominations)

MIPS (9 nominations)

Cyndi Lauper (9 nominations)

Blooper (9 nominations)

King Bob-omb (9 nominations)

Whacka (9 nominations)

Popple (9 nominations)

Lemmy (9 nominations)

Petey Piranha (9 nominations)

Monty Mole (9 nominations)

K. Rool (9 nominations)

Captain Lou (9 nominations)

Pink Gold Peach (9 nominations)

5-Volt (8 nominations)

Toadsworth (8 nominations)

Bobby (8 nominations)

Dreambert (8 nominations)

Peachette (8 nominations)

Mallow (8 nominations)

Cappy (8 nominations)

Wiggler (8 nominations)

Albert Einstein (8 nominations)

Broque Monsieur (8 nominations)

Dorrie (8 nominations)

the letter "p" (7 nominations)

Pauline (7 nominations)

Ms. Mowz (7 nominations)

Gooigi (7 nominations)

Inkling (7 nominations)

FLUDD (7 nominations)

Goomba Tower (7 nominations)

White Mage (7 nominations)

Rawk Hawk (7 nominations)

Spike (7 nominations)

Morton (7 nominations)

Francis (7 nominations)

Pikmin (7 nominations)

GLOM (7 nominations)

George Washington (7 nominations)

I am a teacher: Super Mario Sweater (7 nominations)

Huey (6 nominations)

Plato (6 nominations)

Mii (6 nominations)

Lanky Kong (6 nominations)

Captain Syrup (6 nominations)

Koopa Kid (6 nominations)

Chuckster (6 nominations)

Bill Gates (6 nominations)

Chunky Kong (6 nominations)

Fracktail (6 nominations)

Gandhi (6 nominations)

Blaze (6 nominations)

Undodog (6 nominations)

Elvira (6 nominations)

Poochy (6 nominations)

Big Bertha (5 nominations)

Bill Board et al. (5 nominations)

Ninji (5 nominations)

Elvis (5 nominations)

the Yoshi kid (5 nominations)

Midbus (5 nominations)

Punio (5 nominations)

Mary O. (5 nominations)

Dribble & Spitz (5 nominations)

[janmisali]

Super Mario Bracket: TOAD vs THE FLASH LIQUIDIZER ULTRA DOUSING DEVICE

Toad

SEED: 30 (21 nominations)

PREVIOUS OPPONENT: Morton

SPECIES: Toad

DEBUT: Super Mario Bros. / Super Mario USA

BIO: the red-spotted Toad who shares a name with his species. while a lot of Toads are in the bracket, Toad, Toadsworth, and Kinoppe are the only three to make it into round two.

[Super Mario Wiki article]

the Flash Liquidizer Ultra Dousing Device

SEED: 94 (7 nominations)

PREVIOUS OPPONENT: MC Ballyhoo

SPECIES: Power washer

DEBUT: Super Mario Sunshine

BIO: the personification of Super Mario Sunshine's main mechanics and central themes. the hardest parts of the game are the parts where you don't have it.

[Super Mario Wiki article]

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[janmisali]

how does it feel to have singlehandedly made kinoppe a character people Care About by mentioning her in your video

and people still didn't nominate her for the tournament until I unsubtly pointed out that she's eligible!