GB

GB is a Game Boy inspired EXE created by user @MarcoJurez19. He is based off of Mario's appearance in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. He is specifically from a Bootleg pirate copy of Super Mario Land 2, with his true origins being unknown for awhile. He likes to play with his victims, who dare play his game. He can even manifest in his players head, and come into the real world, however mostly chooses not to, as he believes limiting himself makes things more fun.
==Biography==
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GB was created sometime during the year of 1995 by video game developer, Christine Hermer, in a rage-induced frenzy in creating a successor to the Gameboy console under OptiSoft. She experimented with his cartridge data by putting it into other cartridges such as Kirby's Dreamland and Pokémon Red, causing him pain in the process. Despite his pleas to stop, Christine ignored him and continued experimenting. Enraged, GB burned his cartridge in an act of retaliation, resulting in Christine going home and falling asleep since she was already exhausted. She was then the subject of a nightmare where she was in the body of Luigi inside of Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins and being chased by a demonic version of Mario, who was none other than GB himself. She eventually wakes up after being dragged into the ocean to drown, but is confronted by GB coming out of her living room TV in the real world, who proceeds to kill her after causing a blackout. Her corpse, which was horribly mangled and bled black ooze instead of blood, is discovered the following morning by an agency coming for the mortgage on her house. In response to this, Nintendo cuts their ties with OptiSoft, resulting in the company filing for bankruptcy months later.
==Appearance ==
GB looks similar to the original Mario, though he also takes some design ques from the Super Mario Land 2 sprite (I.E, the black brim of his cap) as well as appearing with a monochromatic color scheme alongside appearing pixelated (Though the pixilation either depends on the art piece or GB's current location). His eyes are often shadowed over by the brim of his cap.
With his true form on the other hand, GB drops the friendly façade and shows off a long, disgusting, exaggerated smile with large, slightly uneven teeth, and fleshy tendrils attaching the top and bottom of his mouth. His eyes now appear as empty sockets with wide and dilated realistic eyes sitting within them. His mustache also curls more aggressively and extends all the way up to the brim of his cap. Leaking from his mouth, his wrists and, in some older artworks, his neck and eye sockets, is a black ooze of some kind that drools down his sleeves and bottom lip. It is currently unknown if the same substance can still leak from his neck and eye sockets.
In the pen sketches done by Marco and in the final trailer for Mario's Madness V2, as well as many current day illustrations of GB, he's depicted with black vein-like extremities in various areas around his cap, with them seemingly replacing his hat emblem in the pen sketches. It's unknown exactly what they are or what they're made of, though it might be made out of the same black ooze that leaks from GB's mouth and wrists, and what was found leaking from Christine Hermer's body as described near the end of Black And White.
In Mario's Madness V2, GB appears more akin to his older designs in both his disguised form and his true form, appearing more simplified with a shorter, stockier build, and overall more rounded features. His teeth also appear more sharp in a few of his poses during the 2nd part of his song, Golden Land. (The more sharp look of his teeth are most notable in his idle animation and his laughing animation.)
In the Black And White story, it is shown that he takes the form of the main character based on what game he's linked to, as seen with his Kirby and Red forms. Prior to the Mario form, his original appearance was a set of white dots in the form of a person.
For his cameo in Hypno's Lullaby V2, he appears as a background cameo in his older design, this time wearing a light grey bowtie and carrying around a full wine glass in his left hand. Interestingly, GB doesn't show his eyes throughout the walk cycle, despite the brim of his cap not covering his eyes (though this could just be a design choice made by Marco.)
On March 10th (Mario Day) of 2024, Marco Antonio showed off a new GB design that was made for the upcoming rewrite of Black & White. This new design for GB (dubbed The Golden Boy) gives him a much more Mario-shaped figure, and also unshrouds his eyes in complete darkness, showing wide grey eyes with small, oval shaped irises and white pupils. His face and his sleeves appear much more wrinkled, and his hat retains some of the black veins in some places, with some of them also appearing in the shape of an M where the hat emblem would normally be. Also on GB's hat are a pair of rounded rabbit ears, giving him the appearance of Mario when he picks up the Carrot in Super Mario Land 2.
Continuing along with this redesign is a new true form design as well (dubbed The Greater Beast). In this design, GB now has a slightly taller and less stocky build, and is now exclusively Black & White. His overalls now appear wrinkled and now also have sharper ends on the straps, he now also has more human-looking hands alongside the addition of a 5th finger. His mustache is now frayed at the ends and has a less round nose, his jaw is now also much more resembling of his older design's jaw, though now with a lack of fleshy tendrils connecting the top and bottom of his mouth, and smaller less exaggerated teeth as well. GB's eyes are now small dots dripping with the same black ooze associated with him, and he now has the same shadowed over look he's had in previous designs, albeit a bit raised up to see his eyes better. His hat now has a longer brim and is covered with more veins than before, and his rabbit ears are now shorter and pointer with the inner ear now being pitch black as well. The ears also appear to have fused with his hat.
==Abilities/Weaknesses==
===Abilities===
*Disguise - Seeing GB for the first time will make you think he is innocent, however it won't last long as he will show his true nature.
* Shapeshifting - GB has the power to deform and contort his appearance into anything he desires, though he prefers to take the appearance of Mario most of the time so he can lure in his targets easier.
*Corruption - GB is a very powerful EXE, and his biggest power is being able to corrupt games. Once he's inside of any game he will ultimately corrupt it.
*Game Travels - As an EXE, he's capable to travel to any Mario game out there, including the newest ones.
* Omnipotence - GB is stated to be omnipotent inside the game, allowing him to turn on the game console he's plugged into, as well as change the TV values, and possibly being able to do more if he feels so inclined.
*Digital Transference - If GB is close enough to one or more Game Boy cartridges, he can begin to manifest inside them, possibly allowing him to target multiple victims at once.
*Psychological Torment - Those who play GB's game often start to see him in their heads, giving him the upper hand and letting him start to play mind games and torture their psychology.
*Real-World Manifestation - GB, while not doing it very often, can leave the game console and manifest into the real world, which can make him several times more dangerous for whoever he's currently targeting, with poor Christine unfortunately finding out in the absolute worst way possible.
=== Weaknesses (Still a W.I.P)=== 
*Himself (?) - While not having any real weaknesses that we know of, GB has been claimed to be holding back his true potential by limiting his powers. So maybe in a sense, GB is his own weakness by holding back what he's truly capable of.
== Trivia==
* Marco once said GB was made while he was on the toilet
* It was once thought that GB stood for Game Boy, but it’s since been confirmed that it is just GB, like how MX is just MX. This however may now be outdated due to GB's upcoming rewrite/retcon, but needs confirmation.
*Contrary to what people think, GB didn't exist before Mario's Madness. It was the first time he had ever appeared.
*It's heavily implied that GB is much more powerful than we're to believe, since he mostly stays in the game cartridge he resides in, with him thinking that "Limiting himself makes things more fun."
* GB was made because Marco Antonio wanted to make an EXE based on his favorite Mario game. He also comments that "GB was created while i was shitting lol".
*GB can travel to other Mario games and corrupt them. 
**GB can even go to newer Mario games, which he was going to utilize for his third phase in older plans for Mario's Madness V2.
* GB and the Game Boy Cameraman were confirmed to be best friends, but nowadays he's also seen as being best friends with ScrubbDubb's Turmoil.
*He is fluent in three languages, those being English, Spanish, and Japanese.
*In older lore, GB is more powerful than Ultra M. This was reversed in Mario's Madness V2 with Ultra M taking control of him.
* GB and Ultra M used to be the same entity in old Mario's Madness lore, but that has since changed, and he is now his own character.
*According to his older reference sheet, GB apparently hates panafrescos.
==Gallery==
GB.png|Render of GB's original design.
File:GBref.png|GB's now outdated reference sheet following his redesign.
File:GBRef-Outdated.png|One of his older reference sheets, showing his older design both disguised and revealed.
File:GB-NonCanonRef.png|GB's oldest known and now Non-Canon reference sheet, made when he was still the 2nd phase of Ultra M.
File:GB Ref-2024.png|Marco Antonio's Mario Day 2024 redesign of GB shown, made for the upcoming Rewrite/Retcon of Black & White.
File:GBApril2024Sheet.jpeg|Marco Antonio's latest redesign of Christine alongside with GB shown on April 27th 2024, made for the upcoming Rewrite/Retcon of Black & White.
File:GB'sBestBud.png|GB and the Game Boy Cameraman when they were first confirmed to be best friends.
File:GB and Turmoil.png|Art of GB and Turmoil fist-bumping after murdering Boyfriend, confirming that they're best friends now.
File:TheMarios.png|The Starman (another Mario EXE take by Marco) meeting up with GB and MX. GB's line references a Jeramiah Calhoun video.
File:GoldenCoins.png|"THE GOLDEN COINS WONT SAVE YOU NOW"
File:FINISHTHEGAMEKID.png|"YOU MUST FINISH THE GAME KID"
File:GBLore.png|Cover of GB’s game.
File:GBvsMarioEPICO.png|GB vs Mario.
File:MXVoiceActor.png|Art of GB made by MX’s voice actor.
File:GB based on.png|The design of Mario used in Super Mario Land 2, of which GB was based upon.
File:Dorkly GB GG.png|Dorkly GB.
File:GBDoodle.png|GB doodle by Marco.
File:GB And Christine Size Comparison.png|Art by Marco showing GB and Christine side by side.
File:MadnessGBV2.gif|GB's disguised form as depicted in Mario's Madness V2.
File:MadnessGB-RevealedV2.gif|GB's revealed form as depicted in Mario's Madness V2.
File:MadnessGB-V1.gif|GB's legacy Disguised Form from Mario's Madness V1.
File:MadnessGB-V1-Revealed.gif|GB's legacy Revealed Form from Mario's Madness V1.
File:Fldp1nUXoAEtYMi.png|GB design explanation
File:FldqbI5XwAA-G18.png|Disguise form comparison between GB and Mr. L
File:Fldqx2YWQAQxGOE.png|Another GB artwork
File:Fq-E25vXoAQtp76.png|Artwork made for annoucment Chapter 1 of "Black & White"
File:GB QNA.png|Art used for QnA
File:GBfang.png|G-G - Sonic Mix/Shuffle GB
File:GBfnaf.jpg|GB FNAF Mix 
File:GIVd-LzWMAARVMm.png|GB sprites based on his current design
File:NITEMARE MARIO.png|GB's Nightmare design
File:GB-Trollface.png|GB's appearance in the final trailer for Mario's Madness V2.(Le epic troll)
File:Holy Fuck they're fighting.png|Ditto, but GB got into a fight with IHY Luigi.
File:MMCredits-Dominoes.png|Artwork from the credits of Mario's Madness V2 showing GB playing Dominoes with Mr. Virtual and Turmoil.
File:MMCredits-MoCap.png|Ditto, but showing GB doing Motion Capture with IHY Luigi and Ultra M on his shoulders.
File:MMCredits-AdmittingDefeat.png|Ditto, but with GB admitting that the mod did release but only because he roasted the developers in front of everyone. This is in reference to FunkKast and the final Mario's Madness V2 Trailer.
File:Char28.png|Golden Land freeplay artwork (Mario's Madness)
File:Char2mmnew.png|Ditto but old
File:D-Sides GB.png|The official (I'm pretty sure) D-Sides design for GB made by Marco, this time from unlicensed Super Mario Bros. Super Show VHS tapes.
File:Lullaby-GB Unused.gif|A walk cycle for GB, made for the song 'Pasta Night' in FNF: Hypno's Lullaby V2.
File:So GB and Gold walk into a bar.png|Ditto, but this time as a still image where GB is standing next to Gold from Hypno's Lullaby.
File:GB1FNFMMV2.webp|GB’s disguised form’s artwork in Friday Night Funkin’: Mario’s Madness.
File:GB2FNFMMV2.webp|GB’s artwork in Friday Night Funkin’: Mario’s Madness.
File:GB And Christine.png|A Drawing of GB with Christine's body while he says his now iconic line. This artwork can be found on the final page of Black and White.
File:GB&Turmoil.png|GB and Turmoil.
File:GB Doodles in June 152024.png|Drawings of GB done by Marco in June of 2024.
File:GB- AUQXEAE4hY9.jpg|The Mario's Madness release teaser with what seems to be GB in the backround
File:GBFunkCastKnife.png|GB Pulling out a Knife in the Second FunkCast Trailer for Mario's Madness.
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