Talk:List of advertisements

(First topic)

Please note that later in summer, I will try to upload all the files, mostly commercials so we won't have to use those links to see the commercials somewhere else. RAP... BTW, this is the first final version, the second one will arrive later this summer... ;)

Umm, wow... that was a long time ago. XD Anyway, if you guys are listening or even hearing this; or someone that at least finds this, I would like to point out something. Is this page just for all the Nintendo-based commercials/promos of Mario series and its others, or the Mario stuff that appear in outside Nintendo. Like Mario in a milk commercial. Wait... just asking about this... I find it tricky to decide if I should slot the commercials into the game articles only or something. Any help? RAP... Mmmm. Really. I wonder. I really like to work on it.

Dr. Mario

Can somebody tell me what the Dr. Mario game for the GB is? Hello, I'm Time Turner.

It's a remake of the original. This Is War 15:26, 22 February 2011 (EST)

Mexican KFC Toys

Are that KFC toys from the Kentucky Fried Chicken.
— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sonic & Boofan (talk).

Yes they are. Mario JC

DKC Returns

Anyone got links to the videos recently advertised for Donkey Kong Country returns? Saw some this weekend advertised like they were in boot camp but can't find them on youtube. =[ Garlic Stapler

Mario Party 9 Brazilian commercial

In my country(Brazil),when mario party 9 have released ,was a TV commercial,heres a link:,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOO_XRodp04&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DXOO_XRodp04 

Obs:I don't know how to spell "Commercial" User:Ashley anEoTselkie 11:35, 21 October 2013 (EDT)

==Mario Reference in Toys R Us Commercial++ In a Toys R Us commercial that I saw a few minutes ago, in the segment where the girl gets on a scooter, she rides the Rainbow Road, referencing all the Mario Kart games. Can this be added? 8:40 PM 8/21/14

Mario "references"

This seems less like a list of cameos from Mario characters in advertising and more like a list of every commercial specifically advertising a Mario game. Shouldn't this article be more about advertisements like this Sonic commercial (which contrasts itself with Mario) or perhaps the packaging of an Action Replay DSi (which has a notBowser as one of the characters)? The list of commercials certainly serves its purpose, but with the title as it is now, it's a misnomer. Hello, I'm Time Turner.

Yeah, agreed. This page should be moved to "List of Mario advertisements" (thus preserving the history), and then a new page can be created over the resulting redirect to be about actual TV, poster and packaging (etc.) advertising refs. Even things like The Wizard and Pixels, since Mario content crossovers/cameos in 'em. - Walkazo 14:03, 24 March 2015 (EDT)

So would it be okay to move the page? Niiue (talk) 23:12, 24 September 2015 (EDT)

So I finally moved this page to the new name and added those two legit references to the new List of Mario references in advertisements article. - Walkazo 16:22, 13 November 2015 (EST)

Since we've split up this article from the list of cameos article, think we should give descriptions for the various advertisements? Weedle McHairybug (talk) 07:34, 22 September 2016 (EDT)

Replace http://gameads.gamepressure.com links with YouTube links

I tried using the http://gameads.gamepressure.com/ links, except that GamePressure got rid of their gameads subdirectory. If possible, try changing all links to the ads to YouTube uploads of an acceptable quality. 172.59.224.244 11:16, April 10, 2025 (EDT)

I am currently working on finding the YouTube links equivalent to the GamePressure links. Rykitu

Summaries

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Add summaries, but don't link anything exclusive unless its an original creation for the advertisement 1-5-0-0-0
For the past week, I have been working on replacing most of the links here due to Gamepressure.com getting rid of the advertisements on their website, rendering most of the links here dead. While I'm fixing that, I would like to propose something that could also be on this page: the summaries.

A lot of these commercials have stories, and when something on this wiki has stories, we typically add a "Plot", "Plot synopsis", "Plot synopses" or a "Summary" section. Here is an example of what it would look like. So far the only section finished is the NES section. If you have any ideas on what could be improved, feel free to make them yourself.

If we are giving this full coverage now, that would mean advertisement exclusive characters, locations, items, etc. would get their own pages. Cowboy Jed and Ken Darling have their own pages and I guess Duffy and Patch too. The downside (or upside depending on how you look at it) is that this would result in characters like Ronald McDonald and The Hostess Munchies getting their own pages. But we already have pages for Inspector Gadget and even characters from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, so this isn't entirely new. So what are your thoughts on this?

Proposer: Rykitu (talk)
Deadline: June 11th, 2025, 23:59 (UTC)

Add summaries and make pages for red links

1. Rykitu (talk) Per proposal.

Add summaries, but don't link anything exclusive unless its an original creation for the advertisement

1. EvieMaybe (talk) makes sense to me. for guys like Ronald McCapitalism, their appearance is purely tied to the medium of advertisement, so just an external link will do.
2. Adtendo (Skip in 5 seconds) I think that adding summaries is a good idea (seeing how other pages do that), but I do think that new pages should limit themselves to original advertisement characters. In the given examples above, the characters have important appearances in Super Mario-related media (appearing as part of the plot instead of just advertisement purposes), but commercial-only external characters shouldn't be covered as much given that they are just for the commercials related to said media (and other non-Super Mario media) and their appearances aren't as noteworthy. Original characters are fine, though, as they aren't covered as much anywhere else on the internet.
3. Camwoodstock (talk) Per proposal, and especially EvieMaybe; we think pages for things in the advertisements is fine so long as they're explicitly inventions of that given advertisement. Our coverage of marketing is fairly poor at the moment (though not as bad as board games AYOOOOO), and this'd be a good start to remedying that.
4. Scrooge200 (Sponsored by Zocdoc): Per proposal. Original characters created for advertising Mario makes sense, but other brand mascots or advertising characters would be pushing it. Adding summaries also helps a lot with what these ads actually are instead of just clicking dead YouTube links and wondering.
5. Jdtendo (talk) Per all^TM

Super Mario Galaxy commercials

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Does anyone know what happened to Galaxy 1's foreign commercials? I can't find a lot of them on YouTube, and I doubt they're lost media. And yes, while vini64's compilation does have some of those, it is not everything, and I prefer individual uploads rather than compilations. Rykitu

Page split

This page is slowly getting rather large. It is currently the 17th largest page of the wiki, and I feel it could benefit from a split. Since I'm not very familiar with the expected scope of the page, I'm not sure how it should be split. Maybe by console? If that's too small, maybe by decade? I'd like to ask for @Rykitu's input on this, since you are the user working on this page the most. — Lady Sophie_17 ^(T|C) 07:56, December 8, 2025 (EST)

As it stands, this page is almost halfway finished. I think we could split this. Maybe by console type, like home consoles, handhelds, and everything else? Rykitu

Considering the format, a split by console type feels the most cromulent. A split based on year would be... More than a little muddy. ~Camwoodstock ( talk ☯ contribs ) 12:14, December 8, 2025 (EST)

Conjecturally named characters

This talk page section contains an unresolved talk page proposal. Please try to help and resolve the issue by voting or leaving a comment.

Current time: February 24, 2026, 16:46 (UTC)

As of right now, the most wanted article on this wiki is "Crazy grandfather", who is a conjecturally named character from this Super Mario RPG commercial. All he ever does is tell his grandkids about the story in a "crazy" manner. I am for making conjecturally titled articles for major enough characters, but this is where I draw the line.

Advertisement characters have been a bit controversial lately (mostly due to this proposal) and how little amount of time they appear in to be qualified for an article. I bet you can say the same for things for named characters like Bill (Mario's Picross), Adriane, and Jamie Anderson, but at least they are named characters and people, stuff that this wiki likes.

This proposal aims to regulate which conjecturally titled characters get an article, as there are some characters I do believe should get articles despite their lack of name for reasons which will be explained in my votes.

Also, for your convenience, here is every commercial the other red linked conjecturally titled characters are from:

• Wario's president
• Conjoined twins and dogs
• Goth lady and her victim
• The shaving man and his manipulator

Proposer: Rykitu (talk)
Deadline: March 1, 2026, 23:59 (UTC)

Should the conjecturally named characters get articles? (Crazy grandfather, Wario's president, Conjoined twins and dogs, Goth lady and her victim, Shaving man and his manipulator) all get articles?

Yes

1. Koopa con Carne (talk) I can understand the rationale behind deleting Jack (Quest for the amiibo!) since that Quest for amiibo ad isn't for an actual Mario game, but all the characters invoked in this proposal are integral to media that is, for all intents and purposes, part of the Mario franchise. Even if said media is a 30-second clip and its "narrative" amounts to a simple gag. Heck, one of these characters outright interacts with an established character (Wario). I feel like the threshold for coverage should be more meaningful than "it has a name" and "it's recurrent". Even minor, unnamed NPCs get some level of discrete coverage (for instance, List of unnamed NPCs in Paper Mario by location (A–S)), which these one-off ad characters wouldn't otherwise. Funnily enough, all of these characters (even the goth girl and her victim) have more going for them than Chanterelle, an ordinary Toad who has an article literally just because someone else calls them by name.
   The only ones I would agree not giving coverage are the conjoined dogs, who play zero narrative role at all, being there just for a one-second, visual twist. But since the options have been merged...
2. President Altendo (talk) Per KcC and this previous proposal. I don't think that these characters lacking unique names should stop them from getting pages. If these pages being too short is an issue, we could probably make a list page like with the Super Smash Bros. fighters, but as it stands, these characters are just as noteworthy as minor characters like Jed Junior, so I think their pages are warranted.

#Rykitu (talk) Per my votes on the canceled selections.

No

1. EvieMaybe (talk) per my reasoning on the "Quest for the amiibo" proposal. there's just no benefit in either splitting info about the ad apart, or creating this precedent for other ads.
2. Camwoodstock (talk) Per all our other votes in the canceled sections. We don't feel like single-use, conjecturally-named "characters" only in advertisements should really warrant pages.
3. LadySophie17 (talk) Per others. I would rather these ads get articles themselves before the characters from them.
4. Rykitu (talk) Whoops, wrong vote. Per everything I said.
5. SolemnStormcloud (talk) Per all.
6. Keegster2 (talk) As awesome as those names are, if these characters are so minor that they don't even have official names, then they really don't need articles, especially since those pages would just consist of describing their appearance and the commercial they're from. Per all.
7. Jdtendo (talk) Per Keegster2.

Should "Crazy grandfather" get an article?

canceled by proposer

Yes

No

1. Rykitu (talk) Per my reasons in the proposal.
2. Camwoodstock (talk) Thank you. The grandfather in this advertisement is more-or-less just a narrator, with the only bits of "character" being his age, and his deliberately over-acted physical movement. As we mentioned in the this proposal, we do understand the draw to make pages for some of these advertisement-only characters, but we personally draw the line at these single-use, conjecturally named guys.
3. EvieMaybe (talk) per Camwoodstock and my comment on the "Quest for the amiibo!" proposal.

Should "Wario's president" get an article?

canceled by proposer

Yes

No

1. Rykitu (talk) While you could argue he has more purpose for an article than the grandfather, its still not enough.
2. Camwoodstock (talk) Single-use, conjecturally named, and almost literally just a puppet for Wario to control rather than an actual character. He fails our sniff test.
3. EvieMaybe (talk) see my vote on "Crazy grandfather"

Should "Conjoined twins" get an article?

canceled by proposer

Yes

No

1. Rykitu (talk) Not enough relevancy.
2. Camwoodstock (talk) Single-use, conjecturally named. Not much to say about these guys.
3. EvieMaybe (talk) see my vote on "Crazy grandfather"

Should "Conjoined dogs" get an article?

canceled by proposer

Yes

No

1. Rykitu (talk) They appear in the commercial for less than a second. It's literally blink and you miss it.
2. Camwoodstock (talk) Single-use, conjecturally named, yadda yadda, even if they were on-screen for more than a double-digit quantity of frames those would've made us pass on their article anyways.
3. EvieMaybe (talk) see my vote on "Crazy grandfather"

Should "Goth lady" get an article?

canceled by proposer

Yes

No

1. Rykitu (talk) Again, not enough relevancy.
2. Camwoodstock (talk) Single-use, conjecturally named, get outta here.
3. EvieMaybe (talk) see my vote on "Crazy grandfather"

Should "Goth lady's victim" get an article?

canceled by proposer

Yes

No

1. Rykitu (talk) Same reason as above.
2. Camwoodstock (talk) Single-use, conjecturally named, there's only so many ways to say it.
3. EvieMaybe (talk) see my vote on "Crazy grandfather"

Should "Shaving man" get an article?

canceled by proposer

Yes

No

1. Rykitu (talk) Again, no relevancy.
2. EvieMaybe (talk) see my vote on "Crazy grandfather"

Should "Shaving man's manipulator" get an article?

canceled by proposer

Yes

No

1. Rykitu (talk) Same reason I've been saying this whole time.
2. Camwoodstock (talk) Single-use, conjecturally named.
3. EvieMaybe (talk) see my vote on "Crazy grandfather"

Should we keep the Sonic the Hedgehog fan article?

Yes

1. Koopa con Carne (talk) Per previous vote.
2. Altendo the User fan (talk) Per my first vote.

No

1. Rykitu (talk) Not enough relavancy.
2. Camwoodstock (talk) Single-use, conjecturally named, but this guy already got a page somehow.
3. EvieMaybe (talk) see my vote on "Crazy grandfather"
4. LadySophie17 (talk) per my first vote.
5. SolemnStormcloud (talk) Per all.
6. Keegster2 (talk) This guy's really nothing more than a means to say "the SNES is a better value than the Genesis because it comes with Super Mario All-Stars!" Per all.
7. Wandering Badnik (talk) At best, he might warrant a very, very, very, brief mention in Sonic's article, but otherwise...
8. Jdtendo (talk) Per all

Should we keep the Gourmand man article?

Yes

1. Rykitu (talk) I hear this commercial and this character talked about more often than most of the people here, so in my opinion, it should stay.
2. Koopa con Carne (talk) Per previous vote.
3. Gourmand Altendo (talk) Ditto.

No

1. Camwoodstock (talk) Single-use, conjecturally named. Disregarding how gross the ad is, we feel like "memorability" isn't really a good metric for keeping these guys or not.
2. EvieMaybe (talk) see my vote on "Crazy grandfather"
3. LadySophie17 (talk) per my first vote.
4. SolemnStormcloud (talk) Per all.
5. Keegster2 (talk) Per all.
6. Jdtendo (talk) Per Camwoodstock.

Should we keep the Unbeaten spokesman article?

Yes

1. Rykitu (talk) Per Cam's reasoning below.
2. Camwoodstock (talk) ...Don't know anything about that FNF mod, but he actually does breach the veil of being single-use, making a vocalized appearance in another advertisement that was seemingly part of the "YOU CANNOT BEAT US" campaign. Since we draw the line at "single-use, conjecturally named", someone that does appear twice is, by definition, not single-use, isn't he?
3. Unbeated Altendo (talk) Even not being a general Mario appearance, his appearance in multiple Mario-esque ads makes him worthy of getting a page IMO. This ad is like a crossover; if Sonic can get a page, then he can stay.

No

1. EvieMaybe (talk) my concern here is that this isn't a Mario ad campaign, this is a Nintendo ad campaign. i'm ok with the ad campaign as a whole getting a page because it's Mario-related, but more granular coverage should probably be in NintendoWiki.
2. LadySophie17 (talk) per my first vote.
3. Hewer (talk) As I've argued previously, I don't understand why a generic character from an ad that isn't specific to Mario should have a page.
4. Keegster2 (talk) I'm on the fence about this guy, but I'm leaning towards "no", since 1, I personally don't think that appearing in two ads makes him that much more deserving of an article than, say, "Crazy grandpa", especially when the spokesman doesn't even physically appear in the second ad; 2, as EvieMaybe points out, the "You Can't Beat Us" ads are more just about Nintendo's games in general rather than specifically Super Mario Bros.; and 3, like Camwoodstock says about "Gourmand man", memorability shouldn't have any part on whether or not we give a character their own article (Seriously, please explain to me how a Friday Night Funkin' mod, of all things, has anything to do with this guy deserving a page). Per all.
5. ULTIMATE WANDERING POPLIN SYSTEM (talk) As long as the information is properly moved to the NintendoWiki, so it can still be found somewhere, I guess I'm OK with it's removal from this wiki.
6. Jdtendo (talk) Per all.

Conjecturally titled comments

Why in the world is this a poll proposal? These matters concerning groups of related subjects should be settled through a single overarching decision rather than a dozen individual ones! — Lady Sophie_17 ^(T|C) 15:36, February 15, 2026 (UTC)

@Rykitu please restructure your poll proposal into a regular proposal that encompasses all relevant articles into just two or three options, or into a smaller poll if you believe some of the articles need to be treated individually. Poll proposals are not meant to be used with such granular options, and their end result may often seem entirely one sided or arbitrary and without universal reasoning. — Lady Sophie_17 ^(T|C) 16:37, February 15, 2026 (UTC)

I put this as a poll proposal as each character has their own unique case and people could want some conjecturally titled characters to stay while others not so much. I thought about merging characters that could both be on the same article (like the shaving man and his manipulator) but that would make a whole other option for that person and the older one would be marked as canceled, which makes this long proposal more confusing. If you have any idea to change this without making it more confusing, please tell me. Rykitu

i agree with Sophie. the only character here with a different circumstance is the "YOU CANNOT BEAT US" guy. everyone else has the same circumstances, and no reason to carve out an exception for them. they should all be one vote. — eviemaybe (talk) 17:14, February 15, 2026 (UTC)

It's confusing that "Yes" means "Shouldn't have an article" for the last three polls whereas it means "Should have an article" for the others, which could lead some voters to vote for the wrong options. Naming the options "Delete"/"Keep" and "Create article"/"Don't create article" instead of "Yes"/"No" would be clearer. Jdtendo^(T|C) 15:39, February 15, 2026 (UTC)

We concur with Sophie for the most part. We're a bit more generous, since we figure that the three that do already have pages could do with further scrutiny (if Unbeatable salesman and the gourmand are to be trusted, there isn't a totally clear consensus as to how to handle those guys), but literally all of the ones that are presently redlinks are the exact same "single-use, conjectural name" deal. We can't imagine someone who would argue the Conjoined twins can get an article while the Conjoined dogs don't. Each of the redlinked pages could be easily summarized into one "Do conjecturally named, single-use advertisement characters get pages?" question, and you could literally just merge all of the polls into one with no real net changes; they're all "Do Not 0-3" from all the same voters. ~Camwoodstock ( talk ☯ contribs ) 17:47, February 15, 2026 (UTC)

Agreed. Especially when a poll proposal is so long that the options kind of blend into each other. Salmancer (talk) 15:51, February 15, 2026 (UTC)

I'll fix things accordingly. Rykitu

@LadySophie17 @EvieMaybe @Camwoodstock Turns out I was overthinking things again. I've canceled all the single character options and made a new one with all the conjecturally named characters. Rykitu

@Keegster2 The spokesman appears in the mod "Mario's Madness". I don't know much about FNF, but as someone who has a friend in the community, its pretty popular. So popular in fact the Youtube upload of the song he's featured in has quadruple the views of the most popular upload of the commercial. Rykitu

Sure, it's popular. Very popular. I can understand that (even if I personally despise that game). What I don't understand is what that has to do with the decision on if the spokesman should get his own article on this wiki. This isn't the Friday Night Funkin' Wiki, this is the Super Mario Wiki. Someone's decision to include this character in a mod - popular or otherwise - for a game that normally has no relation to the Super Mario franchise should not impact our decision to give that character an article versus any other character that has officially only appeared in TV commercials. Keegster2 (talk) 06:04, February 16, 2026 (UTC)

Thinking about it more, I can agree with your points. I still agree with Camwoodstock's reasoning, so my vote still stands. We won't mention that game again, don't worry. Rykitu

@Altendo (re: Unbeaten spokesman): That argument would suggest we should have articles for the Duck Hunt and Gyromite characters that also appear in the ad. Hewer (talk · contributions · edit count) 20:33, February 16, 2026 (UTC)

@Wandering Poplin: I don't think the information should be removed from the wiki necessarily, but covered on the List of advertisements pages rather than as a character page. Hewer (talk · contributions · edit count) 12:54, February 21, 2026 (UTC)

I personally think the pages should stay just because I like that over-comprehensive vibe... however, I think that a "List of advertising characters" page would be a great solution as well. Either way, advertising characters should have coverage individual from their commercials, I don't really see that much difference between them and game characters all things considered (though I could make an exception for characters like the conjoined twins or crazy grandpa who's adverts don't really have a plot besides "people talking"). Additionally, Cowboy Jed should have a devoted article no matter what, I would classify him as having way more in common with a character like Nester or Kinopio-kun than the gourmand man. --BubzieBobkat (talk) 00:39, February 23, 2026 (UTC)

Coming back to this, perhaps it'd be a good idea to cover all plot-driven commercials (excluding stuff which is just gameplay with narration or what have you) with their own articles? Most of these character pages are effectively just recaps anyway; people looking for info on, say, gourmand man, would probably just generally be looking for information on the advert as a whole (and not be looking for a giant list of all adverts); and it would allow better coverage of commercials with animated/mascot versions of game characters. Non-plot driven commercials can stay in a big list (though deciding what counts as "plot-driven" may be tricky). In a way I'd say they're comparable to WarioWare microgames, mostly original but non-distinct characters and a really short timespan, which we do cover with individual pages, and rarely cover characters from with small exceptions like Boji. Cowboy Jed can keep his page as a recurring character with multiple adverts though. Pages like Something's Gumming Up the Plumbing and Better Than Dirty could be reclassed as pages for their ads and not just the songs, and expanded. --BubzieBobkat (talk) 10:43, February 23, 2026 (UTC)