MarioWiki:Featured images

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At the Super Mario Wiki, Featured Images are those quality, intriguing, witty, provocative, rare, important, and otherwise simply interesting images that can be found throughout the site's articles. Users are encouraged to submit and vote on nominations for the Featured Image displayed on the Main Page. Every week (on Thursdays at 17:00 GMT), a new image is selected to be featured. This is done by subtracting the number of oppose votes from the number of support votes in each nomination - the image with the most "points" at the end of the week will be featured. Any image with a negative amount of points at the end of a week (that is a nomination with a majority of opposes) is removed from the selection process. The only condition for nominated images is that they must be in an actual mainspace article on the wiki. No personal images or images from non-mainspace pages are allowed. New image nominations can be added to the Featured Image Nominations section below.

Archived nominations of images that were featured in the past are found here.

A gallery of all Featured Images can be found here.

This page follows the No-Signature Policy.

Description of Image (Ex: 1-Up Mushroom from New Super Mario Bros.)

 * Subject: Main subject of image; include a link to the article it is included in. (Example: 1-Up Mushroom)
 * Nominated by: If you nominate the image, place your name here.

Comments
Place some comments here if you want to explain why you think this image should or should not be featured. Note: it is very important to include   at the end of the comments section!

Green Shell Artwork
Nominated by: Subject: Green Shell

Support

 * 1) Wow! Look at that quality! It's big, and an awesome scene overall.
 * 2) Was about to put this one up... Anyways, Per BPK497...
 * 3) Love it - he's coming right out at us!
 * 4) this was my favorite scene EVER from Partners in Time
 * 5) love it
 * 6) Per BPK497. This is awesome and has a perfect mixture of action and quality. But when you think of it LGM and MT sort of have a point.
 * 7) - Okay, my vote was partly based off of Baby Mario in the picture, but it is very detailed and epic that has the right to be a FI.
 * 8) This looks funful!
 * 9) Not bad, not bad at all
 * 10) I love Baby Mario

Oppose

 * 1) This picture is kind of meh compared to the other Mal pits. I know it's great quality and all, but...
 * 2) It looks rather strange to me. I mean look at luigi's foot.
 * 3) I'm not saying that it is a bad pic but the background being all scratched up like that makes the overall pic (excluding the characters) to look rather odd.
 * 4) Looks rather choppy in my opinion and it doesn't seem to hold on its own.
 * 5) Per MT.
 * 6) Per LeftyGreenMario. It isn't that great.
 * 7) It's a good picture but Baby Luigi and Luigi in the background are blurred and the erasing on the sides is distracting. Plus, there's a blank background.

Comments
You know what? This image should be on a 3DS. O.O

That would be so awesome BLOF. This is really one of the first images I supported.

Why does Baby Mario have a HAMMER while on that shell? That doesn't make any sense.


 * Yah, I agree with that. He NEVER carried that hammer while on a shell in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Crime. Maybe there's an enemy out there he REALLY doesn't like.

Lol Blof. Partners in crime?

Let's just hope Baby Mario doesn't slip!

Its probably beta. I remember a beta attack thats a Spiny Shell that the babies used that needed hammers...

Dinomighty Battle
Nominated by: Subject: Dinomighty fight from Wario World.

Support

 * 1) This image has really good quality, isn't boring and not to mention, it's from a quite unfamous game. Just saying.
 * 2) I can see the action :P
 * 3) Wario about to be killed by some giant, green monster. Just what I wanted!
 * 4) It's a unique image with good enough quality to feature on the main page! Also, per Fawfulfury65. Hope the monster doesn't eat him, though...
 * 5) Good luck Wario, you'll need it.
 * 6) That's a very good image. I like bright arena with the dark sky. Really dramatic, isn't it? Dinomighty's tongue looks somewhat familiar...NEWSFLASH! Wario brutally eaten by giant Yoshi mutant! Man, this image is so funny!
 * 7) NEWSFLASH: World hunger over, big Yoshi eradicates Wario. Per all.
 * 8) Big image, with great quality. I support!
 * 9) I don't think Warios about to get crushed, but I think this will be an AWESOME BATTLE!! Which Wario will win in as always>:)
 * 10) "Wario's tunnel of-a doom. Very scary."
 * 11) Wario's enemies can even look more grotesque than him. ;)
 * 12) I wasn't even aware of WW Artwork existing. It's a standoff against a giant boss, that's enough to get my attention.

Oppose

 * 1) It does have good quality but you can't get a good veiw of the action and I couldn't even tell that the image was focused on Dinomighty. At first look I couldn't even tell who that was in the foreground (too dark) and Wario is just posing looking like he's not going to do anything while he is being attacked. It's not a good camera angle (although I'm not sure there is one considering the lighting) and just oppose. This image should not be featured.
 * 2) it's too dark. can't see what's going on
 * 3) - Aside from the reasons that Superboo gave, the picture is just really boring. There's nothing interesting about anything in it.
 * 4) It's a nice picture and it is certainly exciting, however the picture is a tad too dark in my opinion. Aside from Wario and perhaps Dinomighty, everything else seems to be covered with darkness.
 * 5) Per Pixlfreak and the background pillars seem rather off in my opinion.
 * 6) Yuck, only Wario again! The pic is too dark as well!
 * 7) This is a dark image, And it looks more like a sreenshot than artwork.
 * 8) Per all, too dark, also there is nothing wrong with Wario.
 * 9) Per all.
 * 10) Per Commander Code-8.
 * 11) Having a screen of a Wario game seems too 'un-mario' for a mario wiki.
 * 12) Is this picture a 64 game? It amuses me that Wario pretty much wants to get his butt kicked. Plus, he's so far in the background he's blurred and yes, it is too dark.
 * 13) per Superboo
 * 14) You know I really don't get the view.......

Comments
Lol Fawfulfury. Come on, some people like Wario. But then again I don't like Wario... But when you... You just... *sigh* Whatever, I lost my point. Forget this. Anybody out there a Wario fan? If so comment.
 * Whoa, that's unbelievable that some people actually LIKE Wario. O_O No offense, though.

SuperBoo: Wario looks like he's telling the monster to bring it on. (In other words, he's asking to die.)

Pixlfreak and Propeller Toad: Too dark? I can see everything perfectly.

No seriously. Who likes Wario? Good point LGM. But I thought I told you to forget that.

The giant Yoshi mutant is going to die after eating Wario. Wario is disease wrapped in fat!

For those who asked for it, I like Wario. The main reason for this is he's my fourth best character on Brawl.

@Mariofanatic64: By the same logic, there shouldn't be featured Wario game articles on the main page. But as everything Wario is covered by the Wiki, I don't think that makes sense. --

Per LGM. Wario never learns to shut his trap. I mean, who would't agree? this is Wario, >:O. But my little brother likes him a bit because of Mario Strickers Charged.

I like Wario alot, due to him pulling through for me a million times during Mario Power Tennis. Also, I'm awesome at him in Supe Smash Bros. Brawl

you know what, screw it. Wario is the best Mario character ever made. EVER MADE! how can you not love him? compare him for example to Daisy. Wario = funny, imaginative and awesome. Daisy = annoying, a rip off and the worst creaature ever to be created. The same goes for waluigi, Rosalina and toadette. so how can anyone with half a brain-cell mock Wario when these disgaceful characters I've mentioned live? Oh and Wario pwns in Brawl. Lu-igi board

Love him? How and why would I love the fattest human video game character alive? Plus, I completely PWNED him in Mario Strickers Charged! Quit being so defensive over him because you KNOW I'M RIGHT! AND Daisy is loud just because she wants to annoy you! But you have to admit PEACH is the annoying one! Waluigi too! I laugh at Wario's face when he gets pwned at MSC. He puts a bomb to his head! And he attackes the ball and it blowes him up! You are a disgrace too all Daisy fans. Did you know the have a Daisy fan website? Do they have one for Wario?

Man, calm down. Though I do have to say Daisy is my least favorite Mario character (I seriously hate tomboys), everyone has their own opinion. Daisyrox2, so who cares if hes the fattest video game character alive? (and if you say that, you obviously haven't played alot of games in your lifetime)Hes cool, and his Warioware games are unique. And yes Peach IS annoying, but again thats our opinion. Plus, Wario probably does have his own fan website.

Har har, you're right. Wario is the cutest character ever and he's definitely the coolest. Unlike that little ugly, terrible monster called Baby Luigi. Baby Luigi is a complete rip-off of Luigi and Baby Mario! OMG!! He's more of a rip-off than Waluigi, Daisy, or Toadette!

Anyway, we aren't supposed to be arguing about the characters. It's supposed to be about the picture. Do that in talk pages, ok? This process is supposed to be nominating whatever goes on the front page. But Baby Luigi still sucks. Baby Luigi<<<<<<<<Wario.

Your sarcasticness is easy to spot BLOF


 * Yup, it's naturally hard to spot on the internet. Yeah, OF COURSE I was being sarcastic, hee-hee

Newsflash:I hate every single character in Mario Strikers Charged ESPECIALLY THAT DONKEY PETEY PIRANHA besides besides Mario and Luigi, shy guy, Yoshi, monty mole, and koopa.

Thousand-Year Picture
Nominated by: Subject: Title Screen artwork from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.

Support

 * 1) Exceptional quality picture!
 * 2) It's better than the other nominations and it looks right on the main page. Besides, I uploaded it, AND I was about to nominate it.
 * 3) The sky is pretty.
 * 4) It looks so... epic.
 * 5) best paper mario pic yet!
 * 6) Great.
 * 7) stunning.
 * 8) Per all.
 * 9) Amazing quality. Per all.
 * 10) It's so cute and the background is so pretty!
 * 11) A colourful picture that has great quality.
 * 12) Per all.

Oppose

 * 1) It's a nice image but the characters seem to be rather small. The background seems too big for the characters (ie the sky).
 * 2) The shading seems to be off and per Propeller Toad. Also that one odd section of some characters having a brighter light upon them seems odd (check from peach to the right to some characters).
 * 3) No offence but we already had two paper mario artworks similar to this one already featured (SPM and PM)..
 * 4) This is stupid, its EXACTLY the main title screen except photoshopped into some kind of weird blue sky. The main title screen is better looking. The characters are much too small.
 * 5) Ugly, and hard to see.
 * 6) - The quality of the characters are great, but it is too unbalance with the sky. I think it would be better with the title than without it.
 * 7) I am Zero! Per BMB. Zero signing out.
 * 8) even though I love paper mario as much as I do, this thing needs a title. the sky's becoming to much of an issue, and it looked better with the title in the first place
 * 9) per all
 * 10) To small. Per all

Comments
Propeller Toad: Well, this image originally came from the title screen, so that's where the title was supposed to go.

Ah I see! The title would definately complete the pic though I still don't completely support it with the big blotch in the sky (no title) though it is still a rather colourful and nice piece of art.

This isn't photoshopped; it is ripped.

However, when this image has a title, people are going to complain and say that the title looks ugly! points to Mario Party 6 artwork.
 * I complained about the Mario Party 6 artwork because it didn't need a title. It had characters in a good spot. Also, the title covered much of the characters that it blocked a lot of the interesting stuff. The title with be above the main stuff, filling in the sky that has nothing in it.
 * I like the sky. It's pretty. 0.0
 * Its pretty much the main thing about the picture.
 * The New Super Mario Bros. Wii has a lot of ground in the picture, yet barely anyone opposed.
 * I never saw that one.

Take a look. Not a very good featured image. The resolution can be much bigger, but anyway, there is so much GROUND!
 * Ew, how did that become featured image? Anyways at least thats actual artwork from the cover. The Paper Mario ttyd thing appears to be fanwork.

DK64 Kongs

 * Subject: The Kongs.
 * Nominated by:

Support

 * 1) High quality, reasonable size, nice. We need more FI nominees.
 * 2) I personally like it...
 * 3) WHAT THE HELL? WHY DOESN'T ANYBODY ELSE LIKE THIS?! IT'S FANTASTIC!

Oppose

 * 1) Hasn't someone already nominated this picture? I believe I opposed it last time and I will again. I don't like it.
 * 2) Too cluttered and the beautiful scenery in the backround is blurred.
 * 3) It's still quite small for artwork.
 * 4) Definetly too crowded.
 * 5) boring....
 * 6) Per Commander Code-8.
 * 7) I am Zero! This has already been nominated in the past. Zero signing out.
 * 8) Whats with the fatties next to Dk?
 * 9) Not this trash again!
 * 10) It's seems too... odd to me. I suppose I just don't like it's graphics.
 * 11) Too crowded. Donkey Kong looks squeezed between Lanky and Chunky Kong.
 * 12) Barfs here... Per all.

Comments
It lookes like they're all about to fall off the tree stump.

Booderdash: They are all clones of Wario dressed up near Donkey Kong. You know that Donkey Kong is friends with Wario. Both are fat. Hence, the fatties.
 * I never knew Donkey Kong was friends with Wario.0_0 He must be the female one to Dks right. The one on hs left has that retarded cheek, so he looks more like some dumb guy.
 * They are all Wario clones dressed up in costumes. Except for Donkey Kong.
 * 'Cept on the one on Dks left cuz hes WAY too fat.


 * I can imagine one of them speaking and Wario's voice comes out. LOL! DK would kill them all! Take that Luigi-board!!!!
 * Um, don't insult other users.
 * Except DK is friends with Wario.

You don't know know the names of the kongs? From right to left: Diddy Kong, Lanky Kong, Donkey Kong, Chunky Kong, and Tiny Kong. Just FYI material.

Mario meets Rosalina



 * Subject: Mario meets Rosalina in Super Mario Galaxy.
 * Nominated by:

Support

 * 1) - Ok, I want to feature this because it has an HD quality (the screenshot was taken from the Dolphin emulator so you can see the smoothness around the models - unlike that ugly pale noise seen in a wii screenshot) looking almost like artwork.
 * 2) I am Zero! Even though it's a little jagged, it's a nice, big image. Zero signing out.
 * 3) The light in the background makes Rosalina look like a goddess. Lovely picture.
 * 4) It's a depiction of a rather important scene, with quality to the point of looking like official artwork. It would be hard trying to find another game screenshot of this quality.
 * 5) I can't so no. Rosalina is just too awesome
 * 6) Great quality, but  is it possible to crop it to get rid of the black bars?
 * 7) Mario was just slapped in the face with intergalactic hotness. A great image.
 * 1) Mario was just slapped in the face with intergalactic hotness. A great image.

Oppose

 * 1) I would support if it weren't for those black lines on the top and bottom. it's too distracting and makes you feel like something's been cut out of the image.
 * 2) Even though it's high quality and big, it's a boring screenshot with ugly black bars.
 * 3) The bars ruin it.
 * 4) horrible, terrible no-thrills image.
 * 5) Its a screenshot! Plus Rosalinas story is boring and unnesscarily sad.
 * 6) Black bars say hi
 * 7) sadly, those black bars ruin it.
 * 8) nice one BabyLuigiOnFire. I agree. Per all.
 * 9) - Even if those ugly black bars were not there, it still would look bad because it's a screenshot. Things like this only look good when there's actual movement on a screen, rather than being a still picture.

Comments
Sorry for removing my support but I changed my mind

Rosalina's story isn't boring! It's interesting! I just don't get how her mom died.

Read Igns review. Plus thats your opinion and I accept that. But I think its boring.;)


 * So what it her story is boring? How does that make the image bad? This image doesn't even do anything with her story.
 * Just wanted to say that. Its bad because its a screenshot with black bars. Plus I don't like Rosaina:p

Bowser Attack



 * Subject: Bowser attacking Mario.
 * Nominated by:

Support

 * 1) High quality and great. Go Bowser!
 * 2) I am Zero! Nice quality and a big image, nice, but what is that ball on the bottom-right corner. Zero signing out.
 * 3) - Ahhh. Familiar, funny, awesome memories, and the quality as it was when it was the generation of the Nintendo 64. Every time I see this, I think of the final battle against Bowser, and how challenging he was on that last toss. I Love it.
 * 4) I like classic stuff like this.
 * 5) I've been wanting to nominate this one for a while. I love it.
 * 6) I like it, and it has high resolution for its age.
 * 7) Per all.
 * 8) Its an awesome action shot, and it has the classic orange skin Bowser! My favorite! Bowser wins again!

Oppose

 * 1) Not low quality, but Mario looks like hes 10 years old. Plus, it looks like both of them are dolls. And actually Super Mario 64's ingame sprite is better than this picture.
 * 2) Mario looks coo-coo.
 * 3) Is it just me, or did Bowser get a haircut? Good quality but it... Wow. Everybody already said everything.
 * 4) I would rather have 14 game overs than have this featured.
 * 5) I would agree with Booderdash if Mario didn't have a moustache. I don't think this picture would be FI quality if it were nominated the first day the pic was completed.
 * 6) Me personally don't like 64 animation
 * 7) - The image would be good, if it wasn't so crowded and/or cut off.

Comments
Why is Mario putting his hands in his pants?
 * Because his overalls burn, and it's hot? Also, about "dolls", the image simply shows what 3D models in the Mario series looked like back then. --
 * I don't know how this isn't high quality. And how does Mario look 10? I don't know of any 10 year olds with mustaches.
 * Ok, how is this low quality? I really want to know why. Just because they look like dulls doesn't mean its low quality, that's just how it's drawn.
 * Well, if you look close up, you can see some of the pixels. At least I can see it. And remove the mustache and he looks ten. The angle of his lower left mouth isn't with the rest of his face. My 12 year old friend can draw better than that. Off topic, but I had a little mustache when I was 10.
 * You can see some of the pixels in just about any image if you look really close to it. So that doesn't really call this image low quality.
 * The image is made up of pixels, so of course one can see them. And you could remove Mario's moustache from any artwork to make him look "younger." --

Sorry for asking, but what game is this? And Booderdash has a good point.
 * Super Mario 64, of course. --

Yoshi's Island enemies
Nominated by: Subject: Yoshi and several of the monsters from Yoshi's Island

Oppose

 * 1) Small and low quality.
 * 2) Low resolution, quality, and it's too crowded
 * 3) The thumbnail is the image at its biggest!
 * 4) I am Zero! Very small and a larger similar image has been nominated in the past. Zero signing out.
 * 5) The thumbnail is bigger than the image. Not good.
 * 6) Lu-igi board yeah!
 * 7) Boo this stinks!
 * 8) Per BLOF and LKF.
 * 9) Too many characters in one THUMBNAIL! I have one word for everyone, crowded.
 * 10) Just boring in my word
 * 11) Crowded, small, and confusing. No way.
 * 12) Really bad quality and its small. It also too crowded. Its kinda cool but still...

Comments
Just wanted a picture of Yoshi's Island for a change. Also enemies rule
 * Why are there no support votes?? Shouldn't this nomination be deleted.
 * Yes
 * No, we have to wait until 17:00 GMT Thursday to delete this nomination.

Donkey and Diddy Feeling the Beat!
Nominated by: Subject: Donkey and Diddy enjoying fun on the beach.

Support

 * 1) High quality and it great.
 * 2) Awesome
 * 3) Feel the beat!! This image is unique and colorful.
 * 4) I am Zero! Feel the beat, nice big, colorful image. Zero signing out.
 * 5) Feel the awesomeness!
 * 6) I can't say no to this! It looks like the cover of a brochure! It's hilarious!
 * 7) Very colorful
 * 8) It's...different, but it catches my eye. Colorful, and unique, to say the least. I like it.
 * 9) Thats cool, its colorful and creative.
 * 10) I think this is the perfect picture for summer. The picture is also nice and colorful.

Oppose

 * 1) Lu-igi board MY EYES! THEY BURN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 * 2) Per Lu-igi board
 * 3) Look at it in highest resolution. The words are way too distracting, DK's left (his left, your right) fist is way to big you can see the straight lines, and the right palm tree looks akward compared to the rest of the picture.
 * 4) Dk and diddy look like they've been copy and pasted in there. Did the Dk and diddy drawing even debut there?
 * 5) too bright
 * 6) This looks like a cartoon drawing!!
 * 7) - I like the art style, but the words make it look unofficial.

Comments
LOL, feel the beat on the main page? That's funny.

Wario kicks butt



 * Subject: Wario's defeated enemies fall at his feet
 * Nominated by:

Support

 * 1) WOOT! classic :P
 * 2) Actually good quality. especially that pteryadactl.
 * 3) This is an awesome picture! It's great quality and I like Wario, and this picture tells you he rules. Although I expect this to get bashed for it being "boring" and for their dislike of Wario.
 * 4) It's kind of dark, but I'll let it slip this time. I feel sympathy for the good guys, though. I mean, the villain of this game killed them!
 * 5) I can't say no to this image. It's amazing, triumphant, but it is a little dark.
 * 6) I like it.

Oppose

 * 1) I am Zero! Nominated in the past and Wario looks like an early 3D model while the enemies are too cartoonish. Zero signing out.
 * 2) - The various parts of the image really don't go well together. There's a realistic sky and group of hills, behind an ugly two dimensional fire, behind a cartoony Wario and monsters, which look like they've been cut and pasted onto the floor. In other words, it doesn't look good. It's also just a boring picture.

Comments
after a previous argument I was involved in, I would like people to focus on the image quality, NOT there hatred of Wario.

How can those dinosaurs support Wario?

Same reason the ground can support Chunky Kong and the other fat gorillas in that other pic.


 * Hm. Actually, Wario isn't even standing on the dinosaurs. He was just posing for a picture, but the artist decided to draw those defeated dinosaurs around Wario to make Wario look more awesome.