Little Mac

Little Mac, also known as Mac, Mac Baby and Useless Mac, is the main protagonist from the Punch-Out!! series.
== Charactah Account ==
Little Mac is an underdog pint-sized powerhouse champion boxer from the Bronx, who once took down Mike Tyson in his prime. Much like a real boxer, Little Mac is incredibly tough and powerful on the ground, but has little to no experience or strength fighting in the air.
Little Mac hails from the Bronx in New York. At some point, he became interested in getting into the World Video Boxing Association. By chance, he met Doc Louis, who was a former heavyweight champion in his own right. So with Doc Louis at his side and one of the toughest training regiments ever (some promotional material implies he didn't sleep), Little Mac began his journey to the top of the World Circuit, beating many other boxers standing in his path.
Little Mac does not have much development and not much is known about him or his personality. In his NES incarnation, he is shown to lack confidence and complain often in between matches. However, his Wii incarnation has significantly more motivation and willpower, even being able to resist getting knocked down through sheer perseverance.
== Appearance ==
=== Video Games ===
* Abobo's Big Adventure
* Captain Rainbow
* Doc Louis's Punch-Out!
* Fight Night Round 2
* Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!
* NES Remix 2
* NES Remix Pack
* Nintendo Badge Arcade
* Punch-Out!
* Super Punch-Out!
* Super Smash Bros. Brawl
* Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/Nintendo 3DS
* Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
* Ultimate NES Remix
* WarioWare: D.I.Y Showcase
* WarioWare: Smooth Moves
== Trivia ==
* Little Mac had 6 trophy figurines, an Applause mini figure and a Topps trading card.
* If you hover your pointer around Little Mac in Punch-Out!! (Wii), he reacts to it, such as trying to step on it, shoo it away, jump over it or even trying to punch the pointer. If your pointer flies around his face, he'll get dizzy.
* Mac, weighing in at 107 lbs., would be in the light flyweight/junior flyweight class if he were fighting in most major real-life boxing promotions (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO), including the Olympic games.
* Little Mac heavily resembles the real-life legendary boxer Jake LaMotta. Both fighters are American (Italian-American, in LaMotta's case), from the Bronx, look similar, have nearly the same short height (Mac is 5' 7", Jake is 5' 8") and fought many opponents bigger and taller than them. It is possible Jake LaMotta is the basis for Little Mac.
* The reason why Little Mac was shorter in the NES games than in modern Punch-Out!! titles is to allow the player to see his opponent's face easier.
** With the Wii's obviously superior graphics and moving camera angles, combined with Mac's transparency, the idea of keeping Mac at 4'8" was unnecessary and awkward, especially since the size comparisons against his enemies would appear distractingly obvious.
* In the Wii title, the later Mac gets up, the more stamina can he recover (e.g. If you get up at 9 you recover all of your stamina or at least almost all of it).
* Little Mac is the second lightest boxer in the series, the lightest being Hoy Quarlow.
* Little Mac is the youngest boxer in the series, the second youngest being Heike Kagero.
* In the Super Punch-Out!! (SNES) beta, the main boxer design beared a heavy resemblance to the NES Little Mac before being changed to the blond-haired design in the final version.
* In the NES game, Little Mac becomes the champion on April Fools Day in 1987.
** It also implies that Little Mac was born in 1970.
* In Super Smash Bros., Little Mac uses some elements from past Punch-Out!! games as attacks. Unique to his character, he can build up a KO Punch in a similar way to the Challenger and Blonde Little Mac. His special attacks include his 3 star jumping Star Punch from Punch-Out!! (Wii), a standard dodge-counterattack and a jumping hay-maker similar to Nick Bruiser's.
* In the Punch-Out!! series, Little Mac fights using an "Out-Fighter" style, keeping his distance until he has the opportunity to inflict maximum damage before backing off. However, in the Super Smash Bros. series, Mac uses an "In-Fighter" style, getting in close to overwhelm the opponent.
* Little Mac's original name was going to be "Peter Punch", but was changed for unknown reasons.
* Fight Night Round 2 erroneously states that Little Mac comes from Tokyo, Japan.
* In the live-action Punch-Out!! (Wii) commercials, Little Mac was portrayed by Paulie Malignaggi, an Italian-American former boxer. In an interview, Malignaggi stated that he was asked to play a "young Italian-American guy, good looking with a cocky attitude and a heavy New York accent." This confirms that Little Mac was designed to be Italian-American.
* It is possible to load Giga Mac into the single player modes. If he replaces someone in the opponent select screen in career mode, he will infinitely do his roar. His intro animation is set to be his pre-round animation. If he wins, he will do his victory animation like normal. He also has a set attack pattern in this order (immediately following a Roar):
** Jab, Overhead, Charged Overhead, Left Hook, Right Hook, Left Uppercut, Right Uppercut, Time Taunt, Star Taunt, Star Punch (if he gets a star successfully).
** He will begin a round with his Roar.
* There are two files for the Head to Head Little Macs in the game's data which have single player control data.
** The first is called "LittleMac" and will do some random punches and random dodges, and will also gain stars randomly.
** The second is called "LittleMacH2H" and will also throw Star Punches.
** In both cases, if they win, they will remain in place, and the Head to Head victory theme will play.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Little Mac at Punch-Out!! Wiki
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