Toad's Revenge (Youtube Miniseries)

Toad's Revenge is an animated game sprite miniseries on Youtube, created by JHand04. Based on several popular sprite animations both on Youtube and elsewhere on the Web, the story follows Toad, Princess Peach's faithful retainer, as he seeks revenge against the Mario Brothers for countless years of torture and bullying for kicks. The series debuted in February 2014; its sixth and final episode was uploaded in August 2017 following a lenghty hiatus by the creator.
==Premise==
Toad's Revenge is inspired by popular Mario sprite animations found on Yotube and the website Newgrounds.com, namely Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom by the late Randy Solem along with king asylus, and Mario Brothers by Alxlen, as well as the Mario's Calamity videos created by Bigfoot3290.
==Plot==
Toad, the ever-faithful mushroom retainer for Princess Peach of the Mushroom Kingdom, has been the butt of many pranks and cruel jokes by his on-and-off again frenemies, the Mario Brothers, over the years. However, the boys play one prank too many on the little mushroom, and Toad sets out to get payback any way he can! But the shenanigans between Toad and the Marios take a personal, dark turn when an old friend of Toad's becomes involved entirely against his will.
==Synopsis==
===Part One===
Mario and Luigi hide behind a bush somewhere in the Mushroom Kingdom, laughing together and waiting for Toad to come along. Eventually, the little 'shroom arrives and sees a treasure chest sitting suspiciously out in the open. Curious, Toad takes a key to open the chest, whereupon he is rewarded with a fire flower and a starman. Soon after, a Bob-omb jumps out and explodes, seeming destroying Toad! The Mario Bros. jump from behind their hiding place and cheer, only for a Bigfoot monster truck to run both over, hurling them into parts unknown. Toad then appears in the window and laughs at his bit of revenge.
===Part Two===
Toad is seen hiding behind a semi-solid block. Mario comes along and notices the "?" blocks hovering in the air. He bumps the two directly above his head, but when he jumps up onto a block and bumps the third "?" higher up, nothing happens. Suspicious, Mario turns away for a bit to observe the landscape and see if the item fell in the other direction. As soon as he does, however, Popo from the Ice Climber series jumps out of the "?," smiling mischievously. Mario turns around in time to pounded flat by Popo's hammer. Toad jumps out of hiding soon after and cheers, Popo himself clearly happy for the "mushroom man."
===Part Three===
In a series of painful mishaps inspired by Bigfoot3290's Mario's Castle Calamity series, Mario tries to enter an end-of-level castle. On attempt one, the flagpole falls down and Mario gets (strangely) squashed. Toad appears and mocks the plumber. On attempt two, a Bullet Bill flies in front of Mario and incinerates the plumber in mid-air. On attempt three, the flagpole is somehow electrfied, and Mario is shocked to a crisp upon grabbing it. He is then struck by a lightning bolt, and reduced to ash. Attempt four sees Mario grab the flagpole yet again, only to be frozen. He slides down the pole helplessly and shatters like glass. After some time, Mario is staring angrily at the flagpole when Luigi comes up to him. Mario explains that Toad is taking his payback too far and therefore must be stopped. Luigi replies, "Let me take care of him!" The boys then hide from Toad, who comes swinging around the flagpole dowwn to the ground, terrified at some unseen threat. Apologizing for his bouts of antagony, Toad tries to enter the castle for refuge, but the door slams shut! Now panicking, Toad begs and pleads Mario to let him in, when a rather familiar roar echoes through the air. The world around Toad mysteriously transforms into a dark void, where the mushroom backs into a wall. He is trapped! Suddenly, Rexy the T-Rex from Jurassic Park stomps onto the scene, giving off another of her trademark bellows. Afterwards, she lunges forward at Toad, prepared to finish off the 'shroom where he stands...but the world changes back to normal! The devious Mario Bros. jump on top of the castle and celebrate their one-ups-manship. Furious and turning completely red, Toad shakes in a violent fury before the screen fades to black...Rexy roars again, and the Marios scream simultaneously!
===Part Four===
Toad places a "?" block up into the sky, then jumps behind a big bush and hides. Mario comes along, seeing the block and bumping it. A giant Bob-omb pops out and explodes, frying poor Mario! Toad jumps out, laughs at his frenemy's blunder and speeds off into a forest. Enraged, Mario gives chase. Meanwhile, Toad stays another 20 steps ahead of his foe and plants three turnips into the ground. Mario plucks two of them, but the third is revealed to be a huge Chain Chomp, that looks down at Mario upon being picked from the ground. The plumber eventually looks up, sees what he is holding and resigns to his fate with a vocal "groan." The Chain Chomp barks, then the screen goes to a Censored card. Later, Mario is pacing back and forth in a stretch of road at night, wondering what he has to do to gain the mastery over Toad, who at this point is clearly determined to have his revenge. Mario then gets a big idea. After a while, Toad comes to the same road, and sees a group of four Mushroom Guys...getting stoned! Surprised and disturbed by the sight, Toad moves just a little closer, but then the scent of the substance gets to Toad and he rushes over to join the group around a bonfire while getting stoned himself. Toad's mind then enters a blurred tunnel, where he has visions of meeting and hanging out with a Toadette that he likes a lot. In the midst of his euphoria, Toad does not notice the Marios standing next to him until he snaps fully out of it. By then it is too late..both Marios pull knives on a screaming Toad before the screen goes to another Censored card. The "censors" apologize for blocking the footage, but warn that showing it would result in their firing. The screen returns to Mario and Luigi standing next to a pool of blood, with both men laughing at and cursing Toad. However, the latter has the last laugh when a massive Thwomp that almost completely fills up half the screen lands on and crushes the Marios!
===Part Five===
In another play on the Mario's Castle Calamity series, this episode sees Toad fleeing from the Marios and locking them out of an end-of-level castle. Both brothers try to force their ways in with tanks, Bullet Bills and bombs, but they are both incinerated by return fire from Toad (in the case of Mario, he winds up getting totally annihilated by a smart laser turret hidden at the top of the castle)! Later on, Toad ventures outside alongside his friend and mentor Francois to check the landscape for the connving Mario Bros. Francois believes that the boys may have given up their futile pursuit, but urges that he and Toad stay alert. Francois then sees something (or someone) off screen, and throws Toad out of the way just in time for a knife to pierce and kill him. Toad then walks over to the body of his fallen mentor, grieiving. and clutches Francois one last time. He then lets the body go, glaring off into the distance in an unfathomably seething, steaming rage. Toad knows that the Marios have gone far too far this time, and that now he must settle the score. Unable to contain his fiery anger, Toad lets out a long, echoing, feral war scream of vengeance against his (former) allies...
===Part Six===
A week or so after the needless death of his good friend and mentor, Mushroom Chavalier Francois, Toad sits ouside a castle, staring at some photos of Francois and the Mario Bros. from much better times. Toad is still very much upset and heartbroken over the events of the past week, but it soon gives way to a deadly urge for revenge that Toad must satisfy. Picking up weapons out of an armory, Toad calls some acquaintances on his cell phone and fills them in on his plans. Soon, a group of other mushroom men (many of whom had defected from the Mushroom Guard ranks, having gotten enough of Princess Peach's clear doting upon the Marios) join Toad in his quest. After violently entering Peach's Castle and slaughtering all the Mushrooms still loyal to Peach and her retinue, Toad makes his away alone to the Princess's throne room. It's empty. After musing over what may have happened to Peach, Toad summons Yoshi, and together they fly off after the Marios. Meanwhile, the brothers have taken Peach as a hostage, and are riding in a red convertible, trying to get out of Dodge fast! But they aren't fast enough, as Toad and Yoshi zero in on them. Furious, Luigi fires a machine gun at the two; Toad responds in kind, and later finishes with a rocket launcher attack! Destroying the car, but not the Marios or Peach, Toad does his best to close the gap between him and his adversaries, but his shotgun jams. Meanwhile, a few other retainers are using machine gun fire in an attempt to flush out the Mario Bros. from hiding. One is shot and killed by a sniper round from Luigi. A fourth retainer goes to see what is wrong with Toad, who is becoming quite petty in his voyage for vengeance and complaining about the "company" that sold him the shotgun in his possession. He then bolts off the scene, leaving the others to continue after the Marios and Peach.
Later on, upon arriving at Bowser's Keep (the one other likely place Toad theorized that Mario and Luigi would bring Peach), Toad sees nothing but carnage in his path. The Marios have already slaughtered every Koopa inside the keep. Toad continues after the Mario Bros, who try to ambush him in a knife attack. Dodging the knife, Toad does not see the Marios haul off the Princess, so he gives chase again. Toad catches up to Luigi; blocks his path; beats Luigi to a pulp; and then slices him in half with a broadsword. One part of the threat vanquished, Toad continues after the other part. Meanwhile, Mario raises a steel barrier behind him and Peach to impede Toad. The little mushroom furthers in resolve to rescue Peach and blasts the barrier down! In the confusion, Peach flees from Mario. In his confusion, Toad disarms Mario and, quoting a passage from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, vows that Mario will join Francois in the afterlife, the same as Luigi. Mario, however, responds with a quote of his own from the same novel. Next, both Toad and Mario pull out fire flowers and transform into Super Saiyan versions of themselves, engaging in a brief battle of stength and wills high above the skies! Toad wins the battle, but Mario is now ready to kill Toad. The little 'shroom pulls out a whip to disarm his foe and flies into Maro, knocking him down.
Toad finds Peach waiting in front of another steelblock wall; she is trying to find out how to get it down when an alarm goes off in the castle--the self-destruct mechanism has been activated. Before either one can act further, the steelblock wall lowers itself, and Toad and the Princess flee across a bridge at the other end of the castle. Toad then plants a bomb at the bridge's base to blow it up and prevent Mario from following. Once they get to the other side safely, Peach believes that the ordeal is over, though Toad has doubts about that. His suspicions are inevitably proven sound when a block from the ceiling falls down between Toad and Peach, somehow managing to blow the Princess off balance, knocking her into the lava pool behind her. Toad, in silent grief, anger, rage, confusion and stone-faced bewilderment, watches...his mind finally broken from all of the violence of that dark day in Mushroom history. His destruction of the bridge is also proven futile as Mario reveals that he got to the safe point long before Toad and Peach did. Mario then mocks Toad over his "affection" for the Princess. Toad is further incensed over the notion that all of the destruction and death was brought on by Mario's (false) assumption that Toad wanted Peach for himself. Whatever the case, it no longer matters: all Toad knows is that his mistress is now gone. Nothing left to lose nor gain, Toad sheds a final tear while mocking Mario for "showing the right side of his dirty face!" Toad then lets out another feral war scream and re-assumes his Super Saiyan form. Mario tries to do the same, but Toad is much too fast is in this state, and he grabs Mario, knocking the fire flower from his hand. The two then fly up into space, where Toad beats Mario into a bloody pulp, ultimately finishing with a punch so powerful, it causes Mario to explode!
The latest threat to the Mushroom Kingdom has been eliminated, but at too great a cost. Returning to normal, Toad's mind falls back on Peach, on Francois and the events of the past week. It all becomes too much for Toad to bear, and he screams out in pain, grief and rage yet again. By this time, however, the lava pools inside Bowser's Castle have started to boil over and overflow (possibly due to being imbibed by some power or force that Peach posseses; a gift handed down through the generations in her family[?]). The lava spills out into other parts of the Mushroom Kingdom, laying waste to everything in its path. Meanwhile, Toad senses what has happened, and how it might have come about, and is fleeing from the conflagration, but another lava pool blocks his path. Now utterly trapped, and completely spent emotionally, mentally and physically, Toad lets out a cry of terror, helpless to stop his doom from occurring...
Suddenly, Toad is in his bed, inside of his quarters. He gets up and pulls a curtain from the lone window in his room...and sees a sunny sky, green hills, pipes for miles! The entire ordeal with Peach (and in turn, the overall story itself) was nothing but a very bad dream!! Toad cheers, knowing that everything is alright now. A familiar voice calls to see if Toad is well...Francois rushes into the room to attend to Toad! Overjoyed that his mentor is alive, Toad runs and embraces Francois!! The joy is sooned turned into caution, however, as Toad asks Francois to join him outside of their castle. Both mushrooms feel something sinister in the air--a repeat of Toad's dream, perhaps? But before Toad or Francois can come up with answers, some off-screen enemy throws a knife at Francois, who effortlessly catches it throws the knife back at its source! Francois next orders two soldiers to investigate from whence the knife was thrown. Toad and Francois meet the soldiers at the crime scene, and both become immediately shocked and furious upon seeing the culprit. The following day, the Mushroom Chancellor holds trial for the suspect in question, revealed to be Link, the legendary young swordsman and defender of Hyrule from The Legend of Zelda franchise! How or why Link ended up in the Mushroom Kingdom is unknown, as is the reason he tried to kill a member of the Mushroom Guard. Although the Chancellor questions Link, he, true to his character, remains silent, much to the chagrin of the little Chancellor. Finally losing his patience, the Chancellor orders that the accused, Link of Hyrule, be taken out and executed for his treason. When two guards try to remove him from the courtroom, however, Link brandishes a sword and cuts both guards down easily. Link is then shot with a stun round by another off-screen character, whom the Chancellor thanks for their effort. Link is executed later that day. The event is nothing but a show for the Chancellor, who calls all spectators to lunch. Francois is left to fume over how a call to feasting can turn otherwise diginified Mushrooms into sheep.
Some time after these events, both Francois and Toad are moved up in rank within the Mushroom Guard. Francois offers his congratulations to Toad, who returns the favor. The Mario Brothers show up to congratulate Toad, and invite him to help himself to some of the Marios' famed "treasures." Toad, thoroughly touched by this gesture of good will, thanks the boys and jets off! The Marios look at each other and laugh, knowing something is about to happen..
Toad reaches the treasure chest, sitting out in the middle of a storefield. He opens it and gets a fire flower, POW block, super mushroom and a poison mushroom. Toad then waits to see if anything else is inside the treasure chest. Sure enough, an angry looking Bob-omb jumps, taking Toad by suprise, and explodes just as the screen fades to the final tally screen. The creator of the series, having long lost count, screams out, "AHHH, WHO GIVES A CRAP?"
===External Links===
Toad's Revenge Playlist (JHand04): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLltrQHq2603e08T89W4xq2ln4iEnMCL-Q
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Category:Mario (series)