40 Fun Facts About SMG4

Which Mario-series character is portrayed in SMG4 as a fugitive who keeps committing tax fraud?

Yoshi belongs to the Grand Council of Tax Fraud, a syndicate made up entirely of his own species that keeps on cheating the taxman together.

In SMG4's later lore, the letters SMG stopped being part of a username and came to stand for which title?

SuperMemeGuardian recast the title character as a partly amnesiac guardian who happened to become a video creator, replacing the old username meaning.

Which character, snubbed by Super Smash Bros., becomes the villain of SMG4's very first story arc?

Waluigi answers the snub by spreading a T-pose outbreak across the Mushroom Kingdom, so that everyone else feels the pain of rejection he has carried all his life.

At the end of SMG4's Anime Arc, a machine drained Meggy Spletzer's ink and turned her into what?

A human is what the Ink Zuccer 2000 left behind, and Meggy kept that form in every episode that followed.

Which sandbox game did SMG4 fully switch to in its seventh season, after years of Super Mario 64 footage?

Garry's Mod had been creeping into SMG4 since the middle of its first season, years before it replaced the old game footage entirely.

In SMG4's 2022 Lawsuit Arc, which real company takes legal action against the title character's channel?

Nintendo sues to get Mario back for new games of its own, leaving SMG4 and Meggy to fight the case in court.

Which SMG4 villain, the founder of his own streaming platform, replaced his head with a television set?

Mr. Puzzles started out as an ordinary person, and went on to become the longest-recurring antagonist in the whole series.

Which Mario-series villain appears in SMG4 as a retired bad guy who loves chicken nuggets and cooks well?

Bowser even started a cooking show with his old enemy Mario, where he proved to be possibly one of the best chefs in the series.

Which YouTuber created SMG4 around 2011 and voiced the title character, a stand-in for himself?

Luke Lerdwichagul ran the channel alone until around 2016, when his brother saw a business in its big audience and joined as a full-time writer and producer.

In 2019 around half of SMG4's audience was in the United States, but in which country was the series made?

Australia supplied only about 5 percent of the channel's subscribers at the time, even though the team worked out of a house in suburban Sydney.

Which studio, founded by SMG4's creator and his brother, later made The Amazing Digital Circus?

Glitch Productions was first revealed in an SMG4 fan mail video under the name Glitchy Boy, and it moved its own shows to a separate channel in 2020.

SMG4's Tari was first created as a teaser for which animated series, set in a separate universe?

Meta Runner stars a different Tari of its own, which is why Meggy, not Tari, counts as the first SMG4 character to get a proper spin-off.

Which SMG4 spin-off follows Meggy on a vacation that turns into a fight against criminals?

Sunset Paradise ran for ten episodes in 2021 and, unlike Tari's separate-universe show, takes place inside SMG4's own continuity.

In SMG4, the shy gamer Tari is obsessed with which objects, one of which was even squeezed to summon her?

Rubber ducks share Tari's affections with video games and cats, and her first Christmas special showed just how eager she was to get one.

Which SMG4 character, voiced by a text-to-speech program, betrayed his friends to chase fame as a rapper?

Bob Bobowski is a Garo, a species borrowed from The Legend of Zelda, and he made up with his friends only once his fame had gone.

Which hot-headed SMG4 fighter began life inside a fictional dating simulator called Kevin's School?

Saiko Bichitaru menaced the gang at first, then decided to be a better person and became a best friend of Meggy and Tari.

Which yearly SMG4 special began as a contest of dares between Mario and the title character?

War of the Fat Italians dates back to 2011, and since 2015 a rap battle has traditionally settled the contest.

Which SMG4 sub-series is a collection of quick skits usually released to celebrate subscriber milestones?

Ssenmodnar is the word randomness spelled backwards, and a deluxe edition in 2016 marked the channel reaching one million subscribers.

After a goop monster devoured Peach's Castle in 2023, where did SMG4 and his friends build their new home?

The Showgrounds was once an amusement park, and SMG4 brought along the only door of the old castle that survived the disaster.

Which rival of SMG4's title character was banished to the Internet Graveyard and ended up ruling it?

SMG3 grew comfortable in exile and won over the locals by entertaining them with dead trends, which are still popular down there.

Which anime-smuggling chameleon, borrowed from Super Paper Mario, is the main villain of SMG4's Anime Arc?

Francis founded and led the Anime Cartel, which smuggled all things anime in and out of the Mushroom Kingdom, anime-based citizens included.

Which rival of SMG4's Meggy turned ally in the Anime Arc and became the first major character to die?

Desti came back as a spirit in a later film, where she congratulated Meggy on finally winning the big tournament.

Which SMG4 character, a celebrated manga artist, wields a magic pen that brings drawings to life?

Axol was bullied in his home city for loving anime, so he moved to Japan, where he rose to fame as the world's greatest manga artist.

Which SMG4 character is an eager boy scout from the Luncheon Kingdom who used to be a demon hunter?

Shroomy changed when a bite on the head on his birthday altered his personality, and he has since earned over 300,000 scout badges.

In SMG4, the resentful Marty is a sentient decoy that Mario made out of which material?

Cardboard Marty was put to work making pizzas with no pay and no credit, which is what turned him bitter towards his creator.

Which famous video game character presides as the judge in the courtroom of SMG4's Lawsuit Arc?

Kirby takes the bench for the last three episodes of the arc, and one scene finds him in his courtroom calmly sipping milk.

Which word for films made inside video games describes SMG4 and the Super Mario 64 parodies that inspired it?

Machinima of this kind dates back to 2006 on YouTube, and watching those early parody channels is what inspired SMG4's creator to start.

Which editing program did SMG4's creator use to lay text over game footage in the earliest videos?

Windows Movie Maker produced a humble debut: a rough video with buggy audio, built from the opening minutes of Super Mario 64.

SMG4's first episode, The Cake Is a Lie!, took its title from a famous joke in which video game?

Portal's best-known joke fitted a plot in which Peach invites Mario over for cake, in the episode that introduced both of them to the series.

Which gaming channel did SMG4's creator launch in 2016 and put on indefinite hiatus in 2020?

Hobo Bros opened with the brothers playing the original Super Smash Bros., and later mixed game sessions with looks back at older SMG4 videos.

Which magazine put SMG4's creator and his brother on its 30 Under 30 list in 2023?

Forbes listed the brothers under Media, Marketing and Advertising, six years after they founded their animation studio.

In SMG4's YouTube Arc, which device is stolen from the site's CEO and used to erase the gang from existence?

A remote was all the thief needed to wipe out the heroes and put an Anti-Cast of his own in their place.

After graduating from Omnia Academy in SMG4, Meggy Spletzer officially took up which career?

Sports coach was a natural fit for the gang's most competitive athlete, who had earlier settled on becoming a PE teacher after her vacation.

SMG4's sub-series in which Mario guards a spaghetti restaurant full of animatronics spoofs which horror game?

Five Nights at Freddy's only got the SMG4 treatment because so many viewers kept requesting it, and the spoofs then ran on and off for a decade.

In SMG4, the short-tempered businessman Jeeves is a giant, top-hatted version of which everyday object?

A fork with a fierce temper, Jeeves is the boss of many Mushroom Kingdom companies and once wrecked a lemonade stand for insulting his milk business.

In SMG4's final episode, who or what grants Mario's wish that his friend never retire?

The Wizard Rock simply carries out the wish, dropping Mario into a broken timeline, which makes the finale the only SMG4 film with no true villain.

In a 2022 interview, SMG4's creator credited videos about which rhythm game with bringing in lots of new viewers?

Friday Night Funkin' was his example of adapting to the algorithm, a challenge he said the team tries to turn to its advantage.

What did SMG4's creator give up in 2017 so that he could make videos full-time with his brother?

University was making him unhappy, he later said, and it was his brother who persuaded him to pursue what he enjoyed instead.

Which live-action martial arts comedy series, first teased in 2018, stars the brother of SMG4's creator?

Hitbox grew out of a live-action special the brothers had made to celebrate 100,000 subscribers on their gaming channel.

Which voice actor took over Meggy Spletzer in SMG4 from mid-2022, following Lizzie Freeman in the role?

Elsie Lovelock was the character's third regular voice, following Yuki Tsuji and then Lizzie Freeman, and stayed until the series ended in 2025.