The original Game Boy was the first gaming device I ever owned, and two of the games I played to death on that console were Wario Land & Wario Blast, so I’ve always loved Wario.

This is partly because I think he has a more fun personality, but also for nostalgia-based reasons. I realise those are many of the same reasons as to why people love Wario’s counterpart, Waluigi, but I’ve always preferred Wario. When we get to spend time alone with Wario, we see he’s more mischievous than evil, and the poor guy can never seem to catch a break. He’s presented as being evil quite a lot of the time, but really, he just lets his greed get the better of him. Where Mario is upbeat and always doing what’s right, Wario isn’t afraid to reach his goals by any means necessary. This list is going to get deep later on, so let’s start off with a fun one. The stories will still be incredible, but it’s just different when you go in blind. However, this is one of those cases where I really want to emphasise that if you haven’t played any of these games and want to, then you absolutely should do so before reading this list. I don’t do these very often because I assume you already know there’s going to be spoilers on a list like this. They could be anyone, a playable character, a companion, a rival, as long as they mean something important to me, then they made the list. There will be those characters that I connected with on a level that is so meaningful to me, I had to talk about it here. Naturally, with the huge amount of video games I’ve played, there will be some characters that stand out to me above the rest. They’re quite literally the conduit that allows the player to affect and change the virtual world they find themselves in. Video games have an interesting take on character because not only are they how you see the world, they’re how you interact with it. The characters are how you see the world, what drives events forward, and create the tense emotional stakes of just about any story. Characters are the basis of just about any form of fiction.

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