War of the Fat Italians (series)

**War of the Fat Italians**, commonly abbreviated as **WOTFI**, is an annual series of fighting videos made by Luke Lerdwichagul and Aaron Rogers. It's mainly focused on a fight between SMG4 and Mario, which is usually settled by challenges created by X or by the viewers via the comments section, and from the 2015 video onward, always ends in a Rap Battle. As of 2022, 8 rap battles have taken place. The match is usually held by X, who appears in almost every episode of the series, the only exceptions being 2018 due to him being a T-Pose Zombie, 2020 due to him being vaguely absent in The YouTube Arc, 2021 due to him being vaguely absent in the Genesis Arc and 2022 due to him being vaguely absent in The Lawsuit Arc. The above mentioned matches are held instead by Waluigi, the Youtube Remote spirit, the Mario crystal and Kirby respectively.

It has a spin-off series called "The Meme Games".

## Videos in the series

The *War of the Fat Italians* series started in 2011, and progresses with one episode made every year, almost always in October. As of the first season, twelve editions had been held. Template:Episodeheading2 Template:Episodelist2 Template:Episodelist2 Template:Episodelist2 Template:Episodelist2 Template:Episodelist2 Template:Episodelist2 Template:Episodelist2 Template:Episodelist2 Template:Episodelist2 Template:Episodelist2 Template:Episodelist2 Template:Episodelist2

## Related Videos

1. A war is coming... [#teamSMG4]
2. A war is coming... [#teamMARIO]
3. War Of The Fat Italians THE GAME -- GMOD
4. War Of The Fat Italians 2018 - Official Trailer
5. WALUIGI'S MINI GAMES -- War Of The Fat Italians 2018 THE GAME!
6. WOTFI 2019 ANNOUNCEMENT
7. WOTFI 2019 THE GAME
8. War Of The Fat Italians 2020 - Official Trailer
9. The WOTFI 2020 Party Game
10. Hobo Theatre: SMG3 prepares for WOTFI 2020
11. Talking about our VERY FIRST WOTFI...
12. SMG4 reacts to WOTFI 2013
13. SMG4 is very proud of WOTFI 2014
14. SMG4 on WOTFI 2015 and why he started rap battles
15. SMG4 talks about WOTFI 2016
16. The WOTFI where we started doing things differently...
17. War Of The Fat Italians 2021 (Official Trailer)
18. War Of The Fat Italians 2022 (Official Trailer)

## Spinoff

Main article: Meme Games
 File:The Meme Games.png  The **Meme Games** is a game show series created by Luke Lerdwichagul. It is hosted by Mario and the contestants has to go through a lot of challenges sent by the viewers. It serves as a spinoff to War of the Fat Italians series.

## Trivia

* The original idea of War Of The Fat Italians came from X, which explains why X is usually the host.
* War of the Fat Italians 2014 (200k Special!) is the first video that celebrates SMG4's subscriber count.
* (2011) In the first WOFTI episode, Toad was the one who first came up with the name.
* (2014) SMG4 dancing can be also seen in the outro of Who Let The Chomp Out?
* As the years go by, the challenges get weirder and weirder.
* (2014) The Gay Sex challenge shows Mario might be gay because he went on with the challenge, while SMG4 was pretty freaked out by the challenge.
* X always breaks up their fights before the wars.
* (2018), (2020), (2021) & (2022) War of the Fat Italians is usually hosted by X. However, he was replaced by Waluigi in 2018 to torture Mario & SMG4 because X became a T-Pose Zombie and it was the final episode of The Waluigi Arc. In 2020, he was replaced by the spirit of the YouTube Remote to declare which is better and is worthy of the channel for the SMG4's Gang and SMG3's Anti-Cast as he was absent in The YouTube Arc and it was the final episode of The YouTube Arc. In 2021, he was replaced by the Mario crystal to stop the SMG4's Gang from rescuing Mario as he was absent in the Genesis Arc and it was the final episode of The Genesis Arc. In 2022, he was replaced by Judge Kirby to determine the fate of the non-Nintendo IPs as he was absent in The Lawsuit Arc and it was the final episode of The Lawsuit Arc.
* (2014) When SMG4 was dancing, Michael Jackson's Thriller could be playing on the dance-off.
* (2017) TheOdd1sOut, a fellow YouTube animator, helped animate a scene in "who is better at animating".
* The eighth in the series was actually revealed in a CHANNEL update of all things. It was shown in SMG4 Direct (HUGE CHANNEL UPDATE), alongside SMG4's own series Hitbox.
* (2018) In the end, the first teaser trailer for Glitch Production's new series Meta Runner is shown. It features Tari offscreen controlling Theo in his game.
* (2017) In the rap battle, the song that can be heard is actually Napal Baji made by PSY.
* So far, War of the Fat Italians 2017 and War of the Fat Italians 2018, the trailers for both episodes are made using Source Film Maker (SFM). (A War is Coming... #TeamSMG4 and #TeamMario and War of the Fat Italians 2018 Official Trailer).
* (2016) The episode may have been paying homage to the WarioWare series because of how the jingle from the games played in the Triple Round and the Boss Round against Bowser during the Rap Battle. \*Note that the Jingle also plays during the Triple Round in WOTFI 2017
* (2015) The music that plays after you enter a single-player minigame in the WarioWare series plays at 7:23.
* The first Rap Battle in the WOFTI Series was actually made in WOFTI 2015, rather than the first battle (2011)
* SM64: War of the Fat Italians 2016 (900k Special!), SM64: War of the Fat Italians 2015 (600k Special), SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2019 and War Of The Fat Italians 2020 are the only episodes which weren't released in October.
	+ SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2019 and War Of The Fat Italians 2020 are the only two of these episodes which aren't subscriber specials.
	+ It was announced that War Of The Fat Italians 2021 will be released in mid-September
* Currently, SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2018, SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2020, SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2021, and SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2022 are the only episodes that took place during a story arc.
	+ Additionally, SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2018 is the only arc WOTFI to be released before 2020.
	+ The Lawsuit Arc marks the third year in a row that a WOTFI ended an arc.
* War Of The Fat Italians 2020 is the first episode to have an originally composed Rap Battle, composed by AJ DiSpirito.
* Since the introduction of the Rap Battles, all WOTFIs during an even numbered year have featured a boss battle, with the exception of WOTFI 2021.
	+ Bowser in WOTFI 2016
	+ Waluigi in WOTFI 2018
	+ SMG3 in WOTFI 2020
	+ Niles (possessing Axol) in WOTFI 2021
	+ Lawyer Kong in WOTFI 2022
* There are some edits of where the rap battle is edited:
	+ On the NBC Go!, also known as The Nice Josh the Mickey Mouse Fan Channel, airings of "War of the Fat Italians 2020," the rap battle is shortened.
	+ On the NJTMMF Channel airings of "War of the Fat Italians 2021" and "War of the Fat Italians 2022," the rap battle is cut due to no rap battles in this channel. However, the rap battle is replaced by Agnes from Despicable Me 2 doing her mother's day poem.

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