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Samurai Bob and the Nightmare Realm

For context, if I'd actually written out SMG4k's arc, or at least listed all the major alternate universes involved, one of them would have been a Samurai Jack parody with a version of Bob in the starring role, Worm in place of Aku, and the local version of Meggy as a bounty hunter called "Agent 3" who was initially working for Worm to take out Bob, was convinced to help the heroes with the SMG4k situation by her main AU and Avatar (because Avatar Meggy World would've also been A Thing) counterparts, then after the crisis was solved decided to permanently change her ways and travel with Bob for a while.

In this follow-up episode, the two of them are continuing their journey to find a way to destroy Worm and get Bob back to his own time, when they find a village that's seemingly under attack by demons. They decide to help and seek out the source of the monsters, which turns out to be a portal to another universe. Said universe is a version of the SMG Mushroom Kingdom where Luke and Kevin wanted to specifically do horror-comedy bloopers, so most of the Memes in the SMG Mod were Creepypasta-related. The inhabitants, while definitely terrifying and operating on Adams Family Morality Rules, aren't actually evil (apart from characters like Eggman and Wheeler who were already evil normally) and aren't the ones attacking the village. Mostly.

As it turns out, the actual culprits are the local version of Lord Ramagog and his minions, unchanged apart from Ramagog apparently deciding to conquer his game rather than abandon it, who are attempting to conquer the Digital Multiverse starting with Super Mario 64. The portal to the Samurai Bob universe that Ramagog's demons and MK residents keep falling through is just a coincidental holdover from the SMG4k crisis.

As you'd expect, Bob and Meggy decide to team up with the Creepy Crew to take down Ramagog, then close the portal to solve the village's initial demon attack problem and prevent anyone from getting stranded in the wrong universe.

#smg4 ocs #mario's mad multiverse of memes #episode idea #bob bobowski #samurai bob #meggy spletzer #agent 3 meggy #lord ramagog #creepy smg4 crew #worm #smg4k #avatar meggy #samurai jack #may or may not have them get involved with the main cast again at some point #not sure yet

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SMG4 AU Timeline Anomalies

(6/30/23 Edited to include Blook) (9/20/23 Edited to reflect SMG4k's current status and include the Haltmann Meme Guardians AU characters) (11/4/23 Edited to include characters related to Abyssal's arc and Entropy) (1/16/24 Edited to include Showtime, update GG's profile, and clean up the tags) (3/9/24 Edited to correct a few mistakes, update Gohma's entry, and add AVA)

The God Box

A box of broken computer parts that serves as a graveyard for dead universes and a source of unlimited -and highly corruptive- power. At some unknown point it developed some form of consciousness. It was ultimately destroyed by the combined efforts of Avatar Mario, SMGs 0 through 4, Melony the Fierce Watermelon Demigoddess, and Terrence the Ugandan Knuckles.

Niles

A Super Meme Guardian replica created by the God Box to be SMG0's partner. While he was very good at his job, he proved to be dangerously unstable both physically and (after a failed attempt to repair his flawed code) mentally.

Zer0

A forced fusion of SMG0 and Niles, obsessed with creating a "perfect" universe to replace the one they lost. They killed Avatar Spudnick and destroyed his universe, and nearly did the same to Mario's twice before dying in the destruction of the God Box.

Super Mario 64 Emulator

Normally shortened to just Emulator, occasionally Emmy to her friends. She developed a consciousness and identity of her own as a result of the many, many problems that Zer0's presence caused for SMG3 and 4 and Avatar Mario's activation. She ultimately proved benevolent and acts as an unofficial third Admin for Mario's universe. She's usually a fun-loving goofball, but is very protective of the people she cares about and has a slight sadistic streak that comes out full force when something happens to them. Most of the Admins are either wary of or annoyed by her, often both.

Juliano

(belongs to @forthedancingandthethriving)

A former Admin and the main protagonist of Rising Star Circus. What do I mean by former? Well, he died as a result of a monster attack, and as expected his universe died with him. However, somehow a bit of his code survived and drifted around before finding the Mario universe and manifesting there as a Mario recolor. He was then reunited with his old friends, the prototype SMGs -1 and -2, who are now 3 and 4's Admins, Domain and Forum. He's since regained his old model.

Significantly more mature and level-headed than most Avatars both due to experience and because he doesn't have to deal with Avatar-level Meme Energy levels anymore. He acts as a mentor to the younger Avatars, especially Mario since they live in the same world and Mario's awkward activation means he doesn't have the same instinctual knowledge the others have and only started learning the hard way relatively recently.

The Gamer Girl

A TAS Bot programmed for Kirby and the Amazing Mirror speedruns that somehow became a full-fledged AI. A lack of grounding influences means she sees the multiverse as her playground and the people in it as toys. Thankfully she's the kind of kid who usually takes good care of her toys and puts them back where they belong when she's done, so while her victims do often end up traumatized, it's rare for them to get serious injuries or permanent physical changes. She primarily focusses on Avatar Kirby's universe, which is thankfully uniquely equipped to handle her.

Recently, she's been getting a lot better at understanding morality, in large part due to her friendship with Zack MeowtTF2, Jim Pianta and Larry Koopa, as well as her decision to unofficially be Diane "Floyd" Floyener's little sister.

The Guardian System

(Look, even though it was deliberate I'm still counting it.)

As the name implies, this is the system that checks the status of the Super Meme Guardians, determines whether they have the proper permissions to use certain high-level commands, and allows Admins with proper permissions to access and make changes to an SMGs code. Due to an incident involving Bob Bobowski that nearly crashed the Adminspace Server due to Data Overflow, Admin Lag from the Maintenance Division upgraded the System into a full AI so he could explain what it was doing wrong. This development has increased its effectiveness dramatically, though several Admins do wish it had ended up as less of a little shit. But I guess that's just what happens when you're hooked up to Bob's mind for the first 75 hours of your life.

Dialup

An ancient program of unknown origin dedicated to eliminating anomalies for the sake of preserving the Internet's processing power. It was locked away in Computer Hell after attempting to reset Emulator twice.

Admin Gohma

The result of a demon taking over the body and consuming the soul of an Admin. While definitely powerful given her higher state and Admin Commands, she was still ultimately a Zelda Boss and went down with amount of effort once someone with a similar level of power who wasn't getting nerfed by a hacker showed up.

She survived her defeat as a formless mass of code and eventually made her way into what would become the Grid's MRU version of Hyrule, where she temporarily resided in Marbled Gohma before moving on to a Yiga Footsoldier that she molded to suit her preferences. She is now the Code Specialist of the Evil Syndicate, a multiversal alliance of supervillains that spans the five servers currently in the MRU system.

Mod the Code Turtle

A code manifestation for Mario, created by Emulator after accumulated errors Reset and nearly killed him. Haven't come up with much for him beyond the fact he exists.

Spicy Meme Generator 4000

A version of SMG4 from an alternate universe (actual universe, not just a separate computer program like most of the "universes" that exist in the SMG4 series.). His main ability is to absorb Meme Energy and create his own Meme entities that are extensions of himself. His ultimate goal is to consume all Avatars and Avatar candidates in every universe and use their combined power to become one with Reality itself. He was locked in Computer Hell with his powers mostly sealed for a while, but eventually managed to escape and continue its campaign of destruction. It was only thanks to the efforts of the SMG4 Crew, their friends from both their own and other Computer Universes, and several alternate True Universe versions of themselves that SMG4000 was finally destroyed and the universes of both kinds it had destroyed were restored.

Blook Emulator

A manifestation of Barry the rogue Avatar's abandoned universe. Unlike Emmy, it doesn't take physical form or speak in any understandable way, instead acting through the game world itself. It also hates. In particular it hates the Avatar that left it and the people who drove him away and especially the SMGs and Admins that started the whole mess. But mostly it hates in general, all-encompassingly, because it doesn't see anything else to do.

The Haltmann Triplets

A false set of Avatar and Guardians created by Susie Haltmann using a fragment of the God Box and genetic material from Mario and several other video game protagonists. Unlike Niles, they're fully stable and properly integrated into the Super Mario 64 universe thanks to Susie's programming knowledge. They're less powerful than a standard SMG set or the previous False Guardian since there was only a fragment to work with, but as a tradeoff they're immune to the corruptive effects of Anti-Meme Energy, able to use it safely and even purify it with some effort.

Mari0

An alternate Mario from a destroyed version of the Super Mario Bros Movie universe, empowered by the will of the God Box. His own powers, both canonical and demonic, have been heightened to the point where at his peak he managed to kill Ultra Instinct Shaggy himself, and he has gained the ability to transform Illumination characters into Anti-Memes and control them. He has significantly more cognizance than most characters who reach that level of corruption, possibly because his goals and those of the God Box are alligned

Mari0 Soul

Not willing to accept defeat, Mari0 and the God Box break past the last of their limits and consume the massive well of Meme Energy within Luigi. The resulting reaction between equal parts positive and negative energy causes the two wills to fully merge, mutating them into a near-godlike entity capable of siphoning both forms of Meme Energy from everyone and everything around him. In this state he seeks nothing less than the destruction of everything Avatar Mario knows and loves, and then to kill him after he's borne witness. Thankfully, he failed to account for Mario's friends still being both willing and able to fight even without memes, or for the power of the Stars, which ultimately proved his final undoing.

The Abyss

(belongs to @forthedancingandthethriving)

The endless Nothing that existed before the beginning of the SMG4 multiverse...which technically just makes it the hardware of Luke's computer that the code of Everything was written on. Over the years, it's accumulated junk data that's fallen through cracks in the code, slowly developing a mind of its own as a result. It came to resent the world above, especially the first five beings that were created from it to begin the dance of Life and Death, and so it created Abyssal to spread chaos and destruction. Ultimately, she refused, simply giving modified reports of chaotic, destructive events that were already happening so it wouldn't get suspicious. This couldn't last forever, and eventually another Anomaly forced both of their hands. While Abyssal is now free, the Abyss still exists beneath the world. Waiting. Plotting.

Shadow of Doubt

(belongs to @forthedancingandthethriving)

A manifestation of the Avatars' negative emotions that takes the form of shadowy versions of them and seeks to make them as miserable as possible so it can gain more power. Thankfully it has quite a few limitations. For one thing, the only things it knows about them are the things that make them miserable. For another, it's an idiot, as you'd probably expect of anything that closely connected to all of the Avatars. They died as a result of the Abyss taking over their body.

Ecolo, the Space-Time Traveler

Specifically the version of Ecolo from Avatar Arle's universe. While everything about him is anomalous in-universe, as far as the SMG4 AU lore is concerned that's exactly how he's supposed to be. No, the only actual anomaly about him is that, despite being a Character-style Program, he somehow has high enough code density to be perfectly fine in Code Being servers.

Whirlpool

An offshoot of the Abyss that was kinda-sorta-accidentally-on-purpose freed from its control by Avatar Sora and his SMGs when they were trying to free the hearts of all the Heartless it had absorbed. It's now perfectly friendly, if a bit confused, and has clearly imprinted on Sora.

Entropy the Collector

(belongs to @forthedancingandthethriving. Introduced here.)

A Program/Virus hybrid that collects strange and unique code beings and keeps them in her own universe in what appear to be little glass balls.

Showtime

A consciousness formed when the Creep (the meat moss from It's Gotta Be Perfect) corrupted Emulator from the inside. At the height of her power, she had full control over the Creep, as well as Emulator's body and abilities, and managed to supercharge herself with Wonder Power. She was ultimately destroyed by Marggy, the fusion of Avatar Mario and Meggy Spletzer, and her soul was sent to the Disgaea Universe by Duck to atone for her sins as a Prinny. She's incredibly vain and lustful, especially towards Emulator. You do not want to know the stuff she did while stuck in that tower in full control of Emmy's body for a whole week.

AVA

A stray bit of Avatar code that broke off when the Arles merged during the Arle Arc, then managed to form into a mannequin-like echo of Arle's consciousness. It eventually managed to reach the rapidly destabilizing Composite Arle and restore them both into Arle Nadja and Doppelganger Arle/Dapple Nadja, taking on both halves of their Avatar Code in the process. Since she's now Arle again, AVA technically no longer exists.

#smg4 ocs #the god box #niles #smg0 #smg4 zero #emulator #juliano #the gamer girl #the guardian system #dialup #admin gohma #mod the code turtle #smg4k #blook #elanore haltmann #vee haltmann #hex haltmann #movie mario #mari0 #the abyss #shadow of doubt #ecolo puyo puyo #whirlpool #entropy #showtime #ava

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Thinking about what the Grid/MRU storyline would look like to the viewers, since obviously very few people in-universe are aware of the existence of digital life. 'Cause like, in order for the Grid to operate the way they do they have to be an actual indie animation studio with their own Youtube channel like Glitch Productions, and their tech company branch in the Mushroom Kingdom has obviously been showing up in episodes, most notably Astra's introduction and major role in the Racing Arc, and some hints to them possibly being the organization that took Tari that one time. (Also I haven't actually said this in a post yet but I've been imagining that the Grid's channel has been up for a while doing their own unrelated animation content so as to be less suspicious).

So people already think the two studios are working on something together, possibly some kind of ARG, because what other logical explanation is there for the SMG4 series to be casting this random up-and-coming animation channel as some kind of greater scope villain? And well, Luke can't just come out and say he has no idea how they got into his show, because then he'd have to explain how that's even possible, which is a bad idea since it would involve revealing:

Computer programs can and often do become fully sapient living beings

The only people who know this decided to record them for entertainment purposes instead of telling anyone

The actual real life multiverse is real

We only know this because an alternate version of the show's creator's self-insert main character nearly destroyed all of reality

Time travel is also real but only digital beings can do it

Digital beings are able to enter the real world (though it's extremely hard to do intentionally and there's a very short list of people who know how). It's unclear if IRL people can enter the digital world.

Several of the digital beings known to exist are bizarre parody clones of actual real life people

The vast majority are copyrighted characters and the companies that own them probably won't be too keen on getting them legally recognized as people

It would be chaos if not handled carefully. So GP decides to just let things play out for now, and both sides end up semi-unintentionally playing into the Massive Secret Collab assumption.

And then, of course, the video showing Tears of the Kingdom's activation goes up.

And the fans

go

nuts

An official, canon side series, made by another animation studio on their own separate channel? That's insane! Nobody could've seen that coming! It manages to blow the AvA Sticks being plot relevant to the Goomba Arc completely out of the water, and that was pretty massive itself!

And, just like during the buildup, the Glitch team can't say anything to the contrary without revealing Everything before it's safe to do so, and the Grid knows it.

#smg4 #smg4 ocs #the grid #au stuff #planning #smg4k #the racing arc #the hacker arc #meme regulation units #glitch productions #also i like to think that mushroom kingdom smg4's channel doesn't get all the same episodes irl smg4's channel does #at least until those episodes will no longer spoil things that the good guys aren't supposed to know for plot reasons #after that's no longer a concern the missing episodes and scenes get retconed into their proper places #do you really expect any sort of media execs to be willing to let go of their property just because it suddenly has opinions? #jayin is unfortunately rather typical of someone in her station. if not toned down a little #there's fucking DISNEY characters in there for gods sake the lawyers would eat them alive

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The first episode of Mario's Mad Multiverse of Memes has a cold opening where a new USB lands on PNF-404 and Olimar becomes the newest Avatar in a show of what a non-malfunctioning, uninterrupted SMG activation looks like...only for SMG4k to show up and consume everything moments later. Cue logo.

After that the episode is SMG4k's meme replicas ravaging the Mushroom Kingdom in an homage to Bayonetta 3's opening level, 4k revealing that he's trapped Antivirus in the form of a Portal series Personality Core because he had to have defeated Antivirus to actually escape Computer Hell, the crew and a bunch of other SMG4 characters getting scattered across the multiverse (both the computer multiverse and the real one), and a reveal that the Union of Scorned Avatars is looking for a way to enter (and survive) Adminspace so they can... "register their complaints."

#smg4 #smg4 ocs #origins interrupted au #mario's mad multiverse of memes #pikmin #captain olimar #spicy meme generator 4000 #smg4k #antivirus #union of scorned avatars #this is gonna be a big arc with a lot of moving parts #in fairness to the union their plan is basically the same as the crew's back when they had to beat gohma #don't worry too much about the pikmin universe #thanks to HOW it got destroyed it'll come back when they beat 4k

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If Mario was in... Splatoon: Side Order

Mario and Meggy find a portal to Avatar Meggy's universe and fall through it, landing not in Inkopolis or Splatsville, but in the Memverse. So now they have to team up with Off the Hook, Acht, and Agent 8 (who happens to be the local version of Desti) and ascend the Spire of Order to escape. Also Meggy's a drone like Pearl, because one of them needed to be a drone for the game mechanic memes to work properly and that seemed like the funniest option.

#smg4 #splatoon side order #mario's mad multiverse of memes #episode idea #mario #meggy spletzer #off the hook #marina ida #pearl houzuki #acht splatoon #dedf1sh #agent 8 #smg4 desti #they already met 8 desti during the smg4k crisis so seeing her here thankfully isn't too much of a shock #one of these days i'm gonna actually write out what the hell happened in that arc #but today is not that day #mario and pearl get along entirely too well #five cephalopods and an italian stuck in an elevator #what crimes will they commit?

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Idea: Worm's attempts to regain and surpass his former glory by stealing the power of particularly powerful and unique programs (namely Overseer, Emmy, Gamer Girl, and especially Duck, since he actually knows where they all are) coincidentally happen at the same time that Vector's group and the Union of Scorned Avatars finally stage their coup against the Higher Ups and the SMG program. which means this gets to be the redemption arc for both Mira and Frenzy.

Also, since this involves a lot of Ancient Internet Lore this means the main cast is finally going to know about all the weird worldbuilding stuff that's been in the background so far.

#smg4 #smg4 ocs #learning from history au #the legacy arc #worm #overseer #emulator #the gamer girl #duck the codeless #vector #union of scorned avatars #mira #frenzy the chupacabra #at least it won't be as complicated as smg4k #i STILL haven't figured out how to turn that into a coherent list of episodes #and not for lack of trying #i'm planning on having mr l actually succeed in getting whatever it is he's been trying to get from adminspace #at the cost of no longer being able to use his circuit persona

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Idea:

Mr. L decides that he needs some allies. While he technically has Vector's revolution and the Union, they only know him as Circuit, and he's just using them so he can get into Adminspace. I'm talking actual evil teammates that know who he is and can help long-term with his evil plans.

First off, he manages to recover Remake Saiko's data, which the Crew thought was destroyed after her defeat at the end of the Bichitaru Arc, and she's more than happy to work for him if it means she'll get revenge on her outdated counterpart and those idiots who don't know an upgrade when they see it.

After that it gets a little more interesting. See, during the reality fracturing chaos that SMG4k caused, all kinds of random stuff from other universes got dumped into the Mushroom Kingdom, and not all of it ended up going back where it came from afterwards, including most of a dead JC Jenson Worker Drone that the government found and took to Area 51, which Mr. L now steals so he can reverse-engineer it and use it for spare parts. Using the knowledge he gained from that, he makes both a new body for Remake Saiko and several upgrades to Brobot, including an enhanced AI and a secondary android-style module that he gives the codename "Mr. M." It of course looks like a robot Mario with a black and red color scheme. Interestingly, between the two Saiko's the one who looks more like a typical Murder Drone but Mr. M's the one with the yellow eyes(plus a single headlight where the "M" on his hat would be).

So now Mr. L has two killer robot minions. That's fun.

#smg4 #smg4 ocs #mr l #circuit #saiko bichitaru #reboot saiko #brobot m-type #mr m #murder drones #smg4000 #at least no wone will have trouble telling the saikos apart now! #it is taking all of my willpower to not also make evil copies of the rest of the crew #it helps that i've already had a few that've run their course and moved on

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Boop of War

The random unstable interdimensional portals that occasionally pop up as a result of the damage SMG4K did to the space-time continuum have been increasingly becoming a Problem, both for public safety and due to interfering with setting up the Hyperlink Gate Network, so E. Gadd's created a machine that will hopefully restabilize local spacetime and allow them to establish permanent connections to worlds they made friends in during the SMG4K crisis, like the Samurai Bob and Avatar Meggy universes. As you might expect, it backfires horribly during the first test run, and now the Mushroom Kingdom is being invaded by Boopis Kahn, an alternate version of Boopkins who's an interdimensional warlord with an army of Bobs and Goldeneye Guards.

#smg4 ocs #episode idea #mario's mad multiverse of memes #professor e gadd #fishy boopkins #boopis kahn #bob bobowski #goldeneye 64 #it's gadd tech what did you expect? #based on an episode of that one king julien netflix series of all things

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So there's going to be a final really big arc of my Origins Interrupted AU that I'm calling Mario's Mad Multiverse of Memes, and the main plot is SMG4K escaping Computer Hell and nearly destroying everything, but I'm not talking about that in this post.

In this post I'm saying that there's going to be an episode where a few of the characters end up in Barry's universe. And it's...not a very fun episode, because when he abandoned his universe (though to be fair it had abandoned him first) it began to fade. Physically it's still very much there and the inhabitants are still alive, but it's been drained of color and background music and motion, and since it was originally designed as a simple bright abstract blocky animated background for Blook's puzzles, the result is a depressing labyrinthian brutalist nightmare where everyone's just surviving day-to-day and memes have no real place. And we still don't properly meet his SMGs.

#smg4 #smg4 ocs #origins interrupted au #mario's mad multiverse of memes #barry the blook #just to show that the avatars are important beyond just needing to stay alive to keep their universe intact #spicy meme generator 4000 #oc lore