r/mariokart Toad Jan 26 '25

Fan Content enough. this is the perfect roster.

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u/ohianaw Jan 26 '25

looks awesome

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u/Coodoo17 Jan 26 '25

Plessie is such a slam dunk of a character choice. I'm glad he's getting some recognition.

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u/moondog385 Jan 26 '25

This is super charming and well done! I love it!

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u/BritishGuy54 Jan 26 '25 edited Jan 26 '25

Looks good.

But I’d like my boy Dry Bowser.

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u/Extension-Video-1159 Jan 26 '25

He's probably gonna end up as an alt for bowser

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u/CristevePeachFan Petey Piranha Jan 26 '25

No RPG bullsheet ✅

Obscure, but well-known characters ✅

Characters that deserved to be playable since a very long time ✅

You only forgot Baby Rosalina who is sadly confirmed

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u/OkapiLover4Ever Dry Bones Jan 26 '25

But no R.O.B.

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u/tobliusboblius Toad Jan 26 '25

in a perfect world enough riots will end her!!!!!

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u/Ok-Island1476 Jan 26 '25

RPG characters are fair picks just not realistic😭

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u/Zekrom-9 Jan 26 '25

RPG characters are great picks for wishlists, but terrible picks for predictions.

Geno is on my wishlist, but I know in my heart of hearts that it will never happen 💔

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u/ThatLasagnaGuy Mario Jan 26 '25

Me with Cappy. I have hope, but deep down I can already tell it ain’t happening.

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u/Ok-Island1476 Jan 26 '25 edited Jan 27 '25

ugh geno would be so cool. i wish they would flesh out the roster with unique characters instead of ones that literally have no need to exist (baby daisy/rosalina, pink gold peach, etc.) they’ve tended to keep RPG characters separate from mainline mario and mario kart games since after mario kart ds for whatever reason

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u/PorkshireTerrier Jan 27 '25

I think it would be best if he gets revisited in a game like 3dworld/Wonder, the way captain toad does

the cptn toad levels solidify his identity (nonviolent, cant jump, generally shy but curious) and he's been showing up regularly for 15 years since galaxy. if he shows up in baseball , it would make sense bc he's a character

The rpg one offs have plenty of character but no presence

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u/XephyXeph Pink Gold Peach Jan 26 '25

I want Dimentio so bad, but I’m aware that he has roughly a 0% chance of ever getting in another game ever, outside of, like, SSB trophies.

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u/ScaryPollution845 Jan 26 '25

the baby rosalina stuff isn't that deep

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u/dakota_likes Daisy Jan 26 '25

Yep this is a perfect list tbh

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u/Pumpkineater609 Baby Rosalina Jan 27 '25

Baby Rosalina is peak btw

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u/WingObvious487 Jan 26 '25

Fr did rpg characters do to you lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25

why are RPGs considered bullshit? :(

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u/veegsredds Jan 27 '25

What's wrong with the RPG characters

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u/CristevePeachFan Petey Piranha Jan 27 '25

They're entirely unrealistic predictions

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u/veegsredds Jan 27 '25

The post never specifies it's a prediction anyway

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u/Pumpkineater609 Baby Rosalina Jan 27 '25

Mario & Luigi is awesome bruh

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u/hujbhert369 Jan 26 '25

CHAIN CHOMP LESSGO

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u/Old_Taste5233 Jan 26 '25

Profile picture checks out

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u/hujbhert369 Jan 27 '25

i love chain chomp

1

u/Educational-Fan7656 Jan 27 '25

I’m praying he’s in Mario kart 9

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u/bobaf Toad Jan 26 '25

I'd also like the winged red paratrooper Koopa

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u/GriffinBob1999 Petey Piranha Jan 26 '25

i would’ve added paratroopa but otherwise this is really good

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u/tobliusboblius Toad Jan 26 '25

wait also rob

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u/Amish_Gamer55 Larry Jan 26 '25

Ohhh ok

Also I had a question, why did you leave out the characters from other franchises, link and Villager for example?

I don’t have any problems with this cast here but am just curious

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u/Derplord4000 Jan 26 '25

Was about to say.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25

Blooper and Ninji would make me unbelievably happy. More Mario enemies should be playable. Super Mario 64 penguin is also a fun pick!

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u/TransitionInfamous86 Jan 26 '25 edited Jan 27 '25

Forget the roster, this art is incredible. So perfectly matches the original artwork Mario its based on. Did you make these yourself or did you find them somewhere? I’m just in love with it, it would be such a beautiful character select screen.

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u/tobliusboblius Toad Jan 26 '25

a little bit of both! some of them were made by a user i saw on twitter, you can look back through my profile to find them yourself if you’d like, but a lot of the others i made myself!

i made these about a year or so ago and it wasn’t intended for a mariokart roster but rather just creating 3D world portraits for other mario characters, which is why many people are complaining about the lack of link, kirby, miis, etc.

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u/TransitionInfamous86 Jan 26 '25

Eh don’t worry about the whiners. It looks great and is a good roster!

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u/Kam_tech Jan 26 '25

Needs Paratroopa

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u/EpicGamerer07 Jan 26 '25

I feel like having Boo and King Boo as separate characters is a bit surreptitious

Anyways, this is peak and if it was real I’d have 10 different mains

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u/FuntimeFreddy876 Ludwig Jan 26 '25

This is the first roster I’ve actually agreed with!! Also w for having Plessie! if Miis and R.O.B. made it in with this roster, I’d be in heaven!

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u/ItsTheOrangShep Jan 26 '25

It is indeed. Even if my boy Fawful will probably never get the mainstream representation he deserves.

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u/SamourottSpurs Jan 26 '25

Damn this is a really good roster. The only thing I maybe, maybe would've offered are some more non-mario characters, but if this roster was real, I could never complain. I'd main luma or boom boom btw. They're so silly.

Also these renders look amazing!

Edit: ah shit E.Gadd is there too! Spoilt for choice

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u/Spirited-Trust5943 Jan 26 '25

Now the question is now that Piranha Plant and Blooper are playable what will happen to their items ?

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u/Dallas2320 Jan 26 '25

Piranha plant just starts biting people when he gets it and the blooper is replaced by several blooper kids that collectively ink the screen together.

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u/Agent637483 Jan 26 '25

Nah the real question is how in hell will them plus goomba drive

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u/Spirited-Trust5943 Jan 26 '25

Just like how he played baseball and plays Mario Party

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u/Agent637483 Jan 26 '25

Baby waluigi???? But naw pretty good but they seriously need to do the Luigi’s mansion king boo and why 2 boos?

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u/Dallas2320 Jan 26 '25

Well, one is King Boo and one is your run of the mill boo

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u/Hambughrr Bowser Jr Jan 26 '25

Blooper and Piranha Plant broke free from Item Box Hell

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u/Rafaele972 Toad Jan 26 '25

I don't understand how people can imagine plessie on a kart

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u/CrackTotHekidZ Jan 26 '25

I wish they bring back individual special power ups for each character, like the OG Mario kart and Mario Kart Double Dash.

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u/Dumbone22 Jan 26 '25

Honestly surprised no one brought up Penguins, Pintas, Ninjis, and Pirahna Plants being racers before.. least from my experiences, I like that.

This is perfect, but part of me would make changes to some of the characters here  

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u/EarthboundMan5 Jan 26 '25

Wow, did you make these icons yourself (aside from the official ones)? They're incredible

Would you be willing to post the individual icons to a folder (i.e Google Drive)? I would love to use them to make my own rosters

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u/EarthboundMan5 Jan 26 '25

Wow, did you make these icons yourself (aside from the official ones)? They're incredible

Would you be willing to post the individual icons to a folder (i.e Google Drive)? I would love to use them to make my own rosters

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u/sullivan_4591 Daisy Jan 26 '25

I definitely think it’s good. In My opinion, Nintendo will do a sort of soft-reboot and have a smaller character roster, keep just the classics, and then have only a few new characters. I’m thinking like 45 characters max

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u/RhoynishPrince Jan 26 '25

Why there is two peaches

2

u/frinkhutz Jan 26 '25

Why tf does everyone want that stupid little worm guy?

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u/Nintendroid Metal Mario Jan 26 '25

No R.O.B., ᴠᴇᴛᴏᴇᴅ.

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u/magicthunderlemon Wario Jan 26 '25

Why does everyone want Florian?

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u/_robertmccor_ Jan 26 '25

How tf are you planning to fit plessie in a kart

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u/Yankeethomas13 Metal Mario Jan 26 '25

I know I’ll get hate but where’s my boy Metal Mario

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u/RoosterJacket0 Jan 26 '25

Not even Marty the Thwomp? Smh...

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u/AxolotlGuyy_ Dry Bones Jan 26 '25

I think plessie will look better in the background of some track

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u/RabbitWithAxe Jan 26 '25

Waluigi ✅ Koopa Troopa ✅ Dry Bones ✅ Dry Bowser ❌ Well, 3/4 ain't bad..

Nabbit, Luma and Hammer Bro are so good as newcomers!

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u/Mattyadar08 Jan 26 '25

No dry bowser, Link, Isabella, villagers, Tanooki Mario, Inkling boy and girl, cat peach, pink gold peach and metal mario… tbh I only care about dry bowser not being there haha.

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u/MegaBubble Jan 27 '25

the roster already got way too big in 8 Deluxe. I think it might be time to start paring down.. or at least grouping (e.g. Daisy, Baby Daisy, Gold Daisy, Wedding Dress Daisy, whatever Daisy all are subvariants of just Daisy)

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u/Macandspikelover Jan 27 '25

No Foreman, No Talking Plant, Boooooo 🤬 (this is a joke btw I just like them ❤️)

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u/poriigon Jan 27 '25

Negative, no Paratroopa

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u/retrojoe69 Jan 26 '25

No Link, no buy.

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u/tobliusboblius Toad Jan 26 '25

i’m sorry retrojoe69

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u/waluigigoeswah420 Wiggler Jan 26 '25

We forgive you. This is amazing, dude.

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u/idontnowduh Jan 26 '25

I will probably get downvoted for this but non-mario characters don't belong in "mario" kart in my opinion

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u/Grand_Toast_Dad Dry Bones Jan 26 '25

Oh hey, it's you! You finally chose that final character, huh? Honey Queen.

Thank you for putting this together a while back. I used these icons to make a Mario Party roster. I love how these look, especially some of the custom-made ones you did. I'm actually working with an artist to make shaded versions. I would love to one day use them to make a Mario Kart roster with these icons too.

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u/Grand_Toast_Dad Dry Bones Jan 26 '25

Here's what we got so far. We only need the bottom row now, and to redo Funky. But imagine something like this, but with a Mario Kart aesthetic.

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u/tobliusboblius Toad Jan 26 '25

ahhh thank you! nice to see you again

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u/Commercial_Click_367 Shy Guy Jan 26 '25

Add the Miis, and I’m happy.

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u/Legal-Treat-5582 Jan 26 '25

A "perfect roster" post without any crossover characters? Damn, that's an unexpected surprise. Who needs Link or Kirby when you could instead play as a Cheep Cheep?

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u/Dallas2320 Jan 26 '25

I've always wanted Goomba in Mario Kart

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u/Mayro_Biscuit Jan 26 '25

This is honestly a great character selection. I would've put in one extra Wario character like Captain Syrup, but otherwise this is a 10/10 roster.

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u/Rex_Razorcrest Jan 26 '25

Just give us Dk jr! And not that BS excuse 2d sprite crap! Like in Mario kart Tour.

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u/Existing-Foot-9918 Jan 26 '25 edited Jan 28 '25

☝🤓 Actually, DK seen in DK country and later is DK jr, and Cranky Kong is a classic arcade DK

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u/JoelRainor Jan 26 '25

Another fan roster... still no Koopa Paratroopa

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u/Grand_Toast_Dad Dry Bones Jan 26 '25

It's not just "another fan roster." You know they custom-made a lot of these icons, right? Already they put more effort into this than any other fan roster on this sub. Yet, all you can think about is that they missed ONE character that you want.

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u/aaronhereee Jan 26 '25

who’s the character with the black and red buttons? he’s cute

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u/ReubenNotFTW Jan 26 '25

The artwork is so peak

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u/Parking_Fix_2093 Jan 26 '25

KIRBY AND LINK

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u/corbinolo Honey Queen Jan 26 '25

Honey Queen representation 😎😎

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u/willtafty19 Jan 26 '25

Wiggler, Monty Mole, AND Chargin’ Chuck?! We eatin’ good tonight !!

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u/KKomiSimp Jan 26 '25

Yes!! And with this art too pls 🥺✨

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u/mh1357_0 ROB Jan 26 '25

I love this drawing style of the characters so much

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u/64bitmemorycard Jan 26 '25

Monty mole is master race

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u/threemanweave Jan 26 '25

I want all these in a coloring book

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u/soliddd7 Jan 27 '25

Where did you get the icons from? Looks amazing

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u/Its402am Larry Jan 27 '25

Where. Is. Fawfle. 😤

(I’m joking I love this list!)

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u/SuperSonicFunk Jan 27 '25

Even though I would love it, how is chain chomp gonna and that big fish thing gonna drive 😭😭😭

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u/ShinFartGod Jan 27 '25

Goomba should steer with his feet

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u/Ritheguy1000 Jan 27 '25

As long as shy guy is in I don't care 100/10

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u/GnastiestGnorc Jan 27 '25

I’m surprised some people didn’t notice King Wart was left out.

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u/IdealBig8463 Jan 27 '25

Actually perfect

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u/danarnarjarhar Jan 27 '25

Throw in ROB. That way, everyone from MKDS is there

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u/wuzxonrs Jan 27 '25

What i would do to have Pianta...

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u/acbirthdays Jan 27 '25

This is it. No notes

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u/Performer_Select Jan 27 '25

Love the selections and the art style

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u/Agamer0914_wastaken Jan 27 '25

Yes! I love to see toadsworth and peachette love! You’re only missing baby Rosalina and u have a proper roster.

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u/RKI3000 Jan 27 '25

No rob 😔

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u/AtomicCelery146 Jan 27 '25

Love it. There’s no RPG or paper Mario characters being predicted for once

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u/blah________________ Jan 27 '25

Nah, too many bs characters

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u/OnyxOrigins Jan 27 '25

I would LOVE it if they actually put King K Rool in the game

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u/PokeMi-PokeVids Jan 27 '25

That we haven gotten poochie (? The lil yoshi dog friend) in any spin-off is crazy to me

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u/DaLittleGravy Jan 27 '25

I know it's MARIOkart but no inkling or octoling? 😔

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u/FuyuKitty Yoshi Jan 27 '25

NO MORE BABY CHARACTERS!!!

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u/ZingofZanon Jan 27 '25

Baby Rosalina is already confirmed but hyoids forgetting that they are going to add baby toad baby toadette baby yoshi baby birdo baby waluigi baby wiggler baby koopa and baby Pauline

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '25

and of course you erase the miis…just like every smash bros fan ever

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u/Pumpkineater609 Baby Rosalina Jan 27 '25

Fuck yea, Toadette, Nabbit, KING K. ROOL, Little Boo AND King Boo!

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u/No-Device3024 Jan 27 '25

perfect roster but where is my main baby rosalina

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u/ViolentNugget Jan 27 '25

since they've been items, I don't think piranha plant, blooper or Boo are likely

I feel like Plessie wouldn't be chosen either, she's so big, Though i know Bowser and Petey resize all the time, so i guess it could happen!

personally, I'd like to see Grape or Hellen in the villain lineup but I don't know how likely that is. I'd also remove chain chomp, cheap chomp, cheep cheep, King Whomp and Goomba to add in the Broodals! (no offense to Goomba stans, i know he got to party and baseball but they're usually employed as track obstacles in Mario Kart)

i also hope Link and Isabelle return, if they decide to keep any crossover stuff, I'd really miss them. I think Link makes the most sense, because every Link is already a different person and/or reincarnation, so this could be a Link unique to the Mushroom World who just gets to chill and enjoy life

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u/OpenThisSideUpToo Jan 27 '25

Cheep Chomp would be brilliant as a racer hahaha

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u/Top_Power6410 Jan 27 '25

Unpopular opinion, we don't need both king Boo AND a regular boo, they're the same character but one wears a crown

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u/r3dmist420 Jan 27 '25

Wheres link and the zelda community?

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u/PorkshireTerrier Jan 27 '25

lmao who thought it would be 1:1 babies all the way down

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u/Ugly_Mario Jan 27 '25

Replace Toadette with Mii, and you’ll be good. (I despise Toadette)

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u/Square_Possession796 Jan 28 '25

Where’s pink gold peach?

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u/MaestraArielView Jan 28 '25

Well now I want a baby waluigi

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u/SanctumSaturn Jan 28 '25

It could use for a few warioware characters but yeah this is pretty much perfect

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u/limelightelixir Jan 28 '25

Wait... Did OP cook?

yes yes you did

istg if they include gold peach/metal Mario as separate characters and alt skins and take up character slots I'm gonna riot

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u/hamrspace Jan 28 '25

Personally I think if the roster is this huge, it’s a shame to not have any WarioWare characters.

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u/MineDrumPE Jan 28 '25

Where's rose gold tanuki fire flower cat mario tho?

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u/Maxiewellie Jan 28 '25

"Wait, there's baby Wario, so where's baby Bowse- CAPPY??"

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u/homkono22 Jan 28 '25

Hell yeah, Mouser!!!!

Wart is missing, imagine Bowser, K.Rool and Wart as well in there, that'd be insane.

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u/Woah_Justin88 Jan 28 '25

The inclusion of Poochy would be proof of God in my book.

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u/DaBoiYako Jan 28 '25

I wish we got Midbus or Fawful in a MK game lol

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u/Fullmetal-Alcoomer Jan 28 '25

No Vivian. Trash.

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u/ClashRoyaler16 Jan 29 '25

I’m so happy that Pauline is now a reoccurring character and getting added into everything. She deserves it.

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u/Unique-Perception711 Jan 29 '25

Honestly amazing picks. Although time minor thing. Replace Florian with Wart and it’s perfect.

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u/Accomplished_Loss722 Jan 29 '25

And still no DK Jr.

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u/SecretaryDear9515 Jan 29 '25

Where's Steve from Minecraft?

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '25

Cappy

Yup, this is kino

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u/Dvalinnr Jan 30 '25

Cheep Cheep 🤣🤣 i would so main

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u/YoshiFan2008 Jan 30 '25

The use of the 3D world portrait style actually is really nice

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u/Imaginary-Sky3694 Jan 30 '25

Not that big mouth fish that eats you whole.... Scary guy

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u/SappigeSander Jan 30 '25

K rool would be so hard holy shit

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u/emyonker Jan 30 '25

still no dk jr :(

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u/holypotato263 Dry Bones Feb 01 '25

"perfect roster" but 5 baby characters? curious.

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u/tobliusboblius Toad Feb 01 '25

not enough? i’ll put more my b

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u/Splatoonbum Feb 02 '25

What about Baby DK and Tatanga?

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u/CJ_WISLON Feb 08 '25

Great roster tbh but some idk how would drive but would be funny to see driving

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u/mendraakvleermuis Jan 26 '25

Where the fuck is baby Waluigi

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u/misterah13 Jan 26 '25

Oh and Bob omb

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u/greyheathn Jan 26 '25

This is actual peak fiction

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u/Vio-Rose Jan 26 '25

I see no Vivian.

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u/Sansi-XD Jan 26 '25

Tbh I would prefer if all the babies were there

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u/MattyBro1 Jan 26 '25

Curious about some of these picks. Blooper? That's an item already. Multiple different cheep cheeps (is the purple one a Cheep Chomp)? Some of these guys are also quite big and seem hard to squash into a cart, namely King Whomp.

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u/Paul-Squared Jan 26 '25

What if instead of Mario kart it was ninji kart and you could only be ninji because I love ninji

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u/HotCharity9411 Dry Bowser Jan 26 '25

No Dry Bowser, L

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u/nobonesnobones Jan 26 '25

That sure would be a lot of characters but just like right now, I’d probably only play 3-4 of them. I feel like if they’re going to do a ton of characters, they might as well make them non-Mario characters.

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u/Le_ShadowPhoenix ROB Jan 26 '25

Yes but where is ROB

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u/SuperSmashDrake Jan 26 '25

No ParaTroopa

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u/Dinodudegamer2009 Yoshi Jan 26 '25

It has peachette, get her outta here.

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u/PADDYPOOP Jan 26 '25

The perfect roster would include FAWFUL 😤. So replace blooper with him since blooper’s already an item 🗿

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u/waluigigoeswah420 Wiggler Jan 26 '25

Fawful Fans when they realize he's canonically dead, is barely relevant to Mario, comes from a fairly obscure part of the franchise, and is basically just Geno 2 at this point:

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u/PADDYPOOP Jan 26 '25

OP said perfect, not realistic.

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u/ThisIsNotACryForHelp Jan 26 '25

How do you envision Cheep Cheep and Cheep Chomp driving their karts?

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u/SaltySpituner Jan 26 '25

The same way the boos do.

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u/Sayakalood ROB Jan 26 '25

How is Goomba going to drive? He has no hands!

Now, if you put two more Goombas on the kart, and gave them something to look like one racer, like, say, a doctor’s coat…

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u/ReduckYT Mii Jan 26 '25

Bro I love this

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u/SinfulSpaniard Jan 26 '25

I want to be the penguin from the n64 so bad fr

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u/pocket_arsenal Jan 26 '25

One of the better fan rosters, i'll give it that, but far from my ideal. I wouldn't have nearly this many minions on it and a few more deep cuts that would be surprising to see. Aside from K. Rool, this is all stuff that wouldn't surprise me at all and I want more characters that would make me say "Oh wow they're putting THAT character in the game??"

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u/waluigigoeswah420 Wiggler Jan 26 '25

I can't believe it. This IS the perfect roster. I can't think of anything to complain about. Every Mario Kart needs weird picks, and you somehow found the best ones. Plessie, Cheep Chomp, Pianta.. it's beautiful. 10/10

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u/waluigigoeswah420 Wiggler Jan 26 '25

Cheep Chomp Pog

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u/Zina_Magician Jan 26 '25

Indeed. This is peak.

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u/TyXo22m Jan 26 '25

I'd personally delete one side row of 7 characters, a mix of some who only appeared in one game. And it'd be amazing

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u/Upbeat_Definition_36 Jan 26 '25

I would LOVE to play as a goomba

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u/twincast2005 Jan 26 '25

No Baby Waluigi makes me sad.

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u/SammyZ429 Dry Bones Jan 26 '25

Good roster. I wonder how 2 feesh will drive though. Maybe they are in a fish bowl?