Wario

Wario is a video game character created by Nintendo. He made his first appearance as the antagonist in the 1992 Game Boy game Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. Wario eventually spun-off into his own franchise, starting with Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3.

While the character's original role was that of an antagonist; he would later become an anti-hero of his own series. He is greedy and manipulative, (unlike Mario, who is heroic and kind) and he will do anything to gain wealth whether it be good or bad. Wario has a bellicose cackle and an intense jealousy of Mario which fuels his fierce competitiveness. Even though his adventures are fueled by his infatuation for treasures and wealth, the outcome of his adventures often benefit many of the people involved in them. In Wario Land 3 for example, he had agreed to save a Music Box World after he was told that he could keep any treasures or money that he found. Similarly, Wario inadvertently saved a princess from a curse cast upon her in Wario Land 4 while simply hunting for treasure in a mysterious golden pyramid.

Wario has been incorporated into virtually every Mario spin-off game since Mario Kart 64 in some form, which has even led to the creation of Waluigi, a character created to be opposite of Luigi.

Since his appearances as a villain, Wario has become a more eccentric and comical version of Mario, with different abilities and adventures oriented around the acquisition of wealth as opposed to Mario's altruistic heroics.