Who is the least popular Mario character? That is
the question I started wondering about a few weeks ago. There have been many surveys and rankings
over the years, but none of them can seem to agree on the answer. So, I figured there was only
one thing to do: I would create a poll of my own, in order to answer the question: who
is the least popular Mario character? So, the first thing I did was open Google Forms
and start to put together some kind of survey. Now, there are lots of ways you COULD get people
to answer who their least popular character is, like having a long list of characters and
getting people to rank them. But something like that would take way too long, so
I decided on a much simpler question: Do you like this character? For
every character in my survey, people would have to answer: “I like this
character” or "I do not like this character". So, next I had to pick which characters
to include. Again, I didn’t want to waste people’s time by asking them endless questions
about whether they liked the “blue bo-bomb from such and such spinoff” or whatever, so
I started with the obvious characters: Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Daisy,
Bowser, Donkey Kong. However, there are many characters who aren't on that list. So I pulled
up the Mario Wiki, and started copying across all of the significant characters I could find.
Like E. Gadd, King Boo, Polterpup, Luma, Geno; a lot of characters that most people probably
knew, but they weren't in every single Mario game. And then finally, I added a few names for just my
own self-indulgence. Mama Penguin, from Mario 64, if you remember her? Plus,
that evil piano that gave everyone nightmares. According to the
Mario Wiki, the piano IS a character, so I decided it should go on the list.
Those names were just for my own fun! Now, there were quite a lot of characters
I didn’t include. Species were ruled out, so no Goombas, Chargin’ Chucks, Chain Chomps, etc.
Oh, but I did include the Koopalings as one entry, and the Broodals from Mario Odyessey as well. But,
to get individual opinions on those characters I added two more questions: Which Koopalings
do you like, and which Broodals do you like. Next, I decided to add in a decoy
character. Bowser’s Brother. Now, Bowser’s brother IS a real character: he’s
a boss from the Japanese version of Mario 2, he’s like a blue coloured version of Bowser. However, I
think that almost no-one would recognise Bowser's brother, especially if the name was just put
in front of them. So, I figured it might be interesting to see how people answered when they
were met with a character they didn’t recognise. And then lastly, I knew people would
think of some characters that I forgot, so I included a box for people to write
in any other characters they liked or did not like. Phew! With all of
that gone through, that is the surv3y So, I posted the link onto Twitter, and as
a YouTube community post, expecting survey responses to trickle in, one by one. I was
mistaken. It was not a trickle, it was a gush. I was just sat there in front of my computer,
watching the number of responses quickly hit 100, 200, 500, 1000, 10,000! As of now, it’s on
over 16,000 responses, which is just unbelievable! So, uh, let’s go through some of this data then,
shall we? I've got the form up in front of me on my computer. I closed the survey with a little
message: "Sorry, I need to check the data now!" So, let's just look at what people said! First
of all there's the main characters: Mario, Luigi, characters like that. And right off the bat, we
can see that Mario is significantly less popular than Luigi. Mario's got about 13,000 supporters
and about 2000 people said they didn't like him. Luigi on the other hand: 15,000 people said
they liked him, only 600 people said they didn't like him! And there's 16,000 responses
so that's pretty impressive! Peach is even less popular than both of those characters. I mean and
with Daisy it goes even further downhill, so... Luigi really is more popular than any of these
other ones. Toad, he's more popular than Yoshi, he's more popular than Donkey Kong,
Rosalina. Ooh, Toadette's not doing good. And Birdo- Birdo is the first character that's
got a negative response - more people said they didn't like Birdo than said they did
like Birdo! So that's... wow, poor Birdo! So we'll come back to the other
characters and who is the least popular, but first of all I wanna look at the Koopalings.
So, most of the Koopalings are just about in the positive. People like Larry, Morton, Iggy,
people like Roy and Lemmy and Ludwig. Only Wendy O. Koopa has got a negative response,
which is pretty surprising to me! I mean, I like Wendy. I am a Wendy stan. But
clearly I'm in the minority because 6000 people said they did like her, and 8400 said
they did not. So Wendy, not looking good for her. The Broodals though... No-one likes the Broodals
from Mario Odyssey! All of them are negative. Um, Madame Broode is the least popular out of all
of them. Again, I like Madame Broode more than any of the other Broodals, but again people do
not agree with my taste! Poor Madame Broode: 9000, almost 10000 people said they did not like
her. So she's got a lot of haters out there... Then moving on to the write-ins. There's quite
a lot of range for characters people did like. Shy guy, shy guy, goomba, Fawful (I think
from the RPGs), two of the Kongs: Funky Kong, Diddy Kong. FLUDD - not technically a character
but sure. Quite a lot of range here... On "do not like" though it's kind of the opposite - there's
a lot of repeated answers. Pink gold Peach, pink gold Peach, I think there's another...
pink gold Peach down here. And then the other thing is the babies! Baby Mario, Baby
Luigi, Baby Peach, Baby Daisy, Baby Rosalina, again Baby Daisy, Baby Rosalina. People do not
like the baby characters. I think in general people don't like the like, Mario Kart remix
characters, like the metal ones and the babies. I know technically they're from, like, RPGs
and stuff but people don't like them, clearly! Finally though, let's move on to the rest
of the answers for that first question. So, where did we go up to... Toadette,
Birdo... Right so, Captain Toad, Pauline: both of them are kind of... Pauline is- I
love Pauline! She's probably my favourite Mario character but people don't like her that
much. She's positive, so I guess that's good... Oh THIS is really interesting. So like I said, I
put in Bowser's brother. He is a real character, but I wanted to see how people would react if they
got a character they didn't recognise, because chances are people do not know who Bowser's
brother is. People voted against Bowser's brother in HORDES! There's some defenders here,
but 8000 people - 8 and a half thousand people in fact! - voted for a character they had probably
never heard of, and they did not like him! In fact, none of the Bowser, like, spinoffs
were very popular. Bowser's brother, Dry Bowser, Bowser Jr... Bowser is a lot more popular
than all of them! Wario and Waluigi as a pair, Waluigi is significantly ahead. Which is good!
It means you guys have taste! Like, not to be rude to all the Wario fans out there but, I think
Waluigi is the objectively better one of the two. Koopalings, like we saw with the
individual Koopalings, as a whole they're not that popular. Kamek, King- oh King
Boo! I love King Boo. He's doing well. Luma, Cappy... Both of them are like, yeah people quite
like them. Professor E Gadd!? I would have thought more positive to him. Nabitt! Nabitt is in the
negative! I mean again, Nabitt is kind of like- he's a nothing character. I'm
surprised he's got so much negativity! Petey Pirannah, Lakitu Brothers, Undodog
from Mario Paint and Mario Maker is not doing great... Uh, Mother... Mother Penguin from
Mario 64; she lost her baby. I thought I was being funny with that one, didn't I? Look at Thomas
all goofy. PEOPLE DID NOT RESPOND TO THE GOOF! Gino! I thought everyone loved Gino!
Everyone wanted him in Smash, but clearly a lot of people did not like him.
Mad Piano from Mario 64 - I guess all the negative responses are because he gave people
nightmares, so I understand that! I sympathise. Hellen Gravely?! I love Hellen Gravely. I
will support Hellen Gravely in a major way, I thought she was a great character from
Luigi's Mansion 3, fun design, fun voice, great boss battle... People DO NOT agree with
me though. And finally The Broodals. Well, we saw how unpopular they were. However, I skipped
over one person on this list! The least popular out of every character I asked people about - by
a long shot - was Wart from Super Mario Bros 2! Are you ready? The least popular Mario character is... Wart! *laughter* No way! What the hell! That's
not okay! Is this RIGGED or something!!!!!! But there we go! That is the data, that is
the results of the survey! Uh, I feel like now I'm questioning why I did this... It's not
a very useful question to know the answer to, now I think about it, but we through all that
effort, 16000 people answered the survey, I needed to share the results with you all! So
thank you for coming on this little journey of discovery with me, even if the final answer
was not actually- I mean it was never gonna be useful! I don't know why I thought
this was a good use of anyone's time... The worst character... Why are you announcing it??!!! Wait! Wait wait wait wait! The most unpopular- No I'm saying it! The least popular, oh! I look like I've ran through a hedge! I can't breathe...... Katie WAIT oh Ella's gone... Katie? I've got some information for you. What information do you have, Thomas? I've got the information of who the
least popular Mario character is! Who's the least popular Mario character? You're not gonna know him. His name's Wart! OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
