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Of course VBW plays by favorites.

Kirby is possibly the biggest example. Yes, they haven't made him universal, but boy is his best speed calcs complete outliers and based on vague travel speed feats that require a bit of interpretation.

I also like how Mario characters have "With Power Stars" as a rating when only really one game had Mario and Co. use them for power, and even then, base Mario and Yoshi were able to beat King Bob-Omb who was powered by a Power Star or something. Let's forget King Boo's feat in Dark Moon where he creates a realm with stars, or Black Jewel in Wario Land, or the Galaxy games with a base Mario. Like, I don't even see a consistent star rating for Mario character beyond maybe one calc and Yoshi with the Raphael the Raven feat so I'm suprised they have base characters so high. I also like how Culex, Megabug, Galaxy Bowser surviving the universal reset (albeit debatable) and Mario harming him, Paper Mario and the infamous Sammer Kingdom thing as well as him being comparable to Mario and Luigi as of Paper Jam, Rosalina being consistently said to be on par with the heavies of the Marioverse in strength and shown being comparable to the others, Bowser wanting to destroy the dreams of people (which VBW has as universe-sized due to tge same game Bowser had stated such in), and likely others apparently aren't "consistent" enough for them despite even more vague and iffy claims, feats, and scaling being attributed to other characters. Honestly surprised Mario isn't considered universal there yet.

It's also funny how no one points out that the supermassive black hole near Bowser's Galaxy Reactor in Galaxy 2 was dwarfing galaxies based on the fact the Worlds progressively grew in size from a planet to a solar system; to a star system/nebula to a galaxy; to a galaxy cluster and then finally the black hole. Said black hole gets presumably dissipated along with Bowser's Reactor when he falls into his black hole-like thing and it collapses.

There's also the fact that the Sprixies seemingly created and powered Bowser Land and World Bowser which had it's own worlds in it wbich contained star systems in the sky as well as the Sun and Moon in a few levels. Even then, they could alter and calm the dark, stormy clouds and skies that plagued the land after being set free and the world itself was a conparable size to the islands beneath it.

And while I'm holding my breath, Mario Maker 2's story mode might have some nice feats along with the Creator being able to warp the skies into a vast array of stars and constellations (of which implications with promo material and the in-game cursors seem to convey the idea that Mario and Luigi are the ones crafting these worlds, but if mot, we can just chalk this up to a Player profile, if anything).

But yeah, I just find their Mario profiles odd.