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Wario's name is literally “bad Mario”
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Sometimes the creative naming process is shockingly brief. The yellow-clad, garlic-chomping antagonist derives his name from a combination of the word 'Mario' and the Japanese adjective 'warui', which strictly means 'bad'. They quite literally flipped the M upside down and called it a day. It is the pinnacle of lazy brilliance that somehow birthed a beloved antihero.
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