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Published: 2006-11-02 08:58:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 7567; Favourites: 179; Downloads: 103
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Heya! This is another pretty kool one for the Super Mario Bros. Monster Compendium! I was tasked with drawing a shroob.... just a basic one! For those who don't know, shroobs are an alien race seeking to invade the Mushroom Kingdom of the past, and are the main enemies of Mario & Luigi partners in time! There are of course many different varieties.... and if I remember correctly, the "just a plain ol' shroob" kind didn't show up too much in battle... at least not without like a boss or something backing them up. So I was tasked with making a basic enemy look more interesting (the taskmaster was myself for this one, however). I drew him offa the manual illustration, but added a shroob flag that I made myself, and made a big ol shroob symbol in the background! Almost makes you feel kinda patriotic.... were it not for the fact that these dudes threaten the very fabric of the Marioverse!This work appeared first on 11/01/06 at [link]
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Coming to think about it, the Shroobs had to be the most dark Mario antagonists so far.
The Shroobs were devoid of any sense of morality. Though they were trying to survive their solutions to taking over the other planets are somewhat barbaric. Vim is basically the souls of the Toads which is harvested to power the Shroob weapons such as the UFOs. To make the Shroobs even more sick in the head, their second in command, Princess Shroob carries a martini glass with Vim in it which she drinks from a lot. She drinks liquid lifeforce, that is sick and wrong. Queen Shroob is also shown to be an absolute beast that really shows no concern for her subjects, just like her sister. She smashes a minion's ship to pieces, killing the pilot, all for a simple task such as bringing her a Vim glass, and in her second phase, she shoots them down so they crash into the Mario Bros. The Shroobs as a whole were a messed up and disturbing evil empire.
It's hard to believe a normally purely comical series such as Mario & Luigi got away with this, because a plot that is this serious is mostly in the Paper Mario series (not counting Sticker Star). Like Count Bleck trying to erase entire worlds just because he thinks after Tympani's supposed death made nothing else matter anymore in Super Paper Mario. Sure Bowser's Inside Story got a bit dark with Fawful trying to awaken an apocalyptic semi-sentient artifact and absorb it's power so he would shroud the world in darkness for eternity, but that is nowhere near close to the barbaric and inhumane atrocities that the Shroobs caused throughout PiT.
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In simpler terms, they're basically the closest thing to alien nazis
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Why was there a bucktooth in my comment?Oh wait i used : to say mario and luigi bowsers inside story
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Does anyone here know that these little guys are in Mario and luigi
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Ugly and awesome fungus from outer space, now amungus!
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The crazy purple alien fungi are pretty cool. I was hoping for someone to translate their weird language which consists of spirals and curvy lines.
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I've read the only "officialy" translated phrase is "destroy", which is repeated througout the game. Yay, destruction!
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Long live the Shroobs! ^_^ I really like the flag.
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I really like the shading of the Shroob. The texture and folds in the flag look perfect!
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Hurrah for purple 'shrooms! Whoa, dude, lay off the 'shrooms. This is well drawn, as per your usual.
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Only two from you, actually... I got another favorite on 'Smorg' just now (hehe, and I thought that was gonna be the least popular of my Mario stuffs).
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Hurrah for lag... Of course, you'll see "3 messages" and leap for joy, eh? Sorry to burst your bubble...
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Hurrah for purple 'shrooms! Whoa, dude, lay off the 'shrooms... Very well done, as per your usual. They have sharp, pointy teeth...
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