Creating The PERFECT Nintendo Kart Roster

Mario Kart 9 for the Switch 2 is right around the corner and might feature non Mario characters such as Kirby, Isabelle, Link and
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00:00 The Future of Mario Kart
00:57 Nintendo kart
01:43 Mario Characters
02:38 Nintendo Characters
06:49 The Final Roster
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[@ShawnicYT]

If u get 1k likes add sonic

[@Raggins]

Fine

[@mamounelhadidy6552]

@@Raggins oh man here we go again

[@ShawnicYT]

yay thanks raggins!

[@ShawnicYT]

And now u earn a sub:D

[@Zer0_245]

Gotta be honest i don't want it to be a 'Nintendo Kart'. Sure there can be a few crossovers but I think there should be around 40 mario characters and 10 crossovers just so its still MARIO kart

[@HypercatZ]

I concur. Maybe more characters from the Donkey Kong series, such as Candy Kong and Kalypso, some characters from Diddy Kong Racing, even Banjo and Conker if Microsofft allows, and some new entries such as Barbara The Bat and Arcade Bunny.

[@TheRealBobbleHat]

I agree. Keep the non mario characters to a minimum, we don't want another smash 4/ultimate situation

[@Wolfiyeethegranddukecerberus17]

Blud is a Pikmin fan yet hates Splatoon 💀

[@Hello86257]

That’s the most based opinion you can have, why in the absolute H E C C are you using the skull emoji.

[@ibrahim24685]

Why does he hate splatoon?

[@ZazaManJacky]

​@@ibrahim24685 is he stupid?

[@WobblyMiniGamer]

if you put kirby, king dedede and meta knight in this new hypothetical "Nintendo Kart," but not bandanna dee as well, its gonna be another riot to force nintendo to add him in (like it was for smash)

[@Traveler_of_the_Stars]

Hating on Splatoon and Fire Emblem while choosing Rex, Pyra, and Mythra over Shulk is certainly a choice. I'm a fan of the entire Xenoblade Chronicles series, but I don't know how much of a leg to stand on you have when you choose Rex as a character on the roster.

[@elmorlc]

The sad death of Dry bones

[@aratherbritishdinosaur]

Why are you hating on the Inklings? I’m not even a Splatoon fan and I’m wondering what they did wrong.

[@volvoman5262]

I don't want a Nintendo kart, I want to expand the "Mario" part of Mario kart, such as adding more DK, Luigi's mansion, Wario ware and Mario RPG games representation. Plus Nintendo kart feels more like promotion for other nintendo ip's, and as the potentialy only Switch 2 kart, I don't want it

[@zachpro5475]

6:13 the fact M&m got a kart racing game before Pokémon did

[@Tobunari]

Pokemon would rather do mobile games than do console spinoffs.

[@patatovky]

If Dry Bones is there, the roster is good

[@hhhh82user]

should we tell him

[@TheSpeedfoever]

Dry Bowser is there no dry bones so we good

[@theface9212]

Idk why people keep complaining about metal characters or babies, but not dry Bowser or dry bones. It's the same freaking thing!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@patatovky]

@@theface9212 nah, dry bones is light and smol, while the baby characters are all trash aside from baby luigi and metal characters hava pink gold peach

[@theface9212]

@@patatovky dry bones and baby rosalina have the same stats in mk8 (im pretty sure, correct me if im wrong). But that's not my point. My point is that dry bones and dry Bowser are the same thing as metal mario and baby mario. Glorified costumes. But fans only seem to complain about the latter and never the former.

[@Tobunari]

I’m kind of glad you put the disclaimer that GameFreak is iffy with Pokemon joining the roster, because they would be. Unlike everyone else who goes in and shoves them in because “They’re on Nintendo systems they’re made by Nintendo!” They like Smash Bros because they got in when it was early and they actively take part. Meanwhile, Inkling, Link, Isabelle, and Villager got in MK8 squarely because the games are a part of (formerly) Nintendo EAD, which would make sense why they get in. It’s also why F-Zero has tracks in MK8 and why Fox, Samus, and Olimar/Pikmin would get in Mario Kart: those franchises are all owned by Nintendo full stop. But when you get to 2nd party franchises like Kirby, Fire Emblem, Pokemon… That’s where it gets iffy. Another example is when Activision wanted Nintendo characters for Skylanders Superchargers, while they got Donkey Kong and Bowser, they originally wanted Peach, Kirby, and Fox. Nintendo told them no for Peach because they felt it didn’t fit, no on Fox because at the time Star Fox Zero was in the pipeline, and no on Kirby because Nintendo doesn’t own Kirby fully to lend out. So they settled on Bowser and Donkey Kong.

[@ASM-99]

What if there was a Pikmin track where the water wraith chases you the whole time

[@leoooooo4726]

Use your head a bit more, Intead lets give him his own boss battle like in Mario kart ds

[@Pikachu_Gamer123]

or, we add the waterwraith as a driver that just runs until it can get it's rollers from an item box, and it takes three hits to destroy the rollers again

[@MoobOgler]

BRING BACK BOSSES

[@ColdBloodedDoc]

They better have my boy, King Boo.

[@Scuttlest]

Regarding the Miis, tbh Nintendo has started doing things here and there with the Miis again. Suddenly returning as player avatars in Pikmin Bloom and Mario Kart Tour. Those… whatever they were called, in Switch Sports, I get the feeling will be a one game only thing. They probably were intended to formally replace the Miis, but since the reception of that game wasn’t great, it looks like they just went back to the Miis.

[@Korbs64]

If funky, dry bones, or waluigi aren’t there then it’s not perfect Dry bones isn’t here I hate this roaster

[@Xenado22]

When i clicked on this video, it was halfway over, I have no idea what happened, but it was weird

[@autismandgaming4532]

From what community overlooking I've done, the general consensus I've seen is that the next Mario Kart SHOULDN'T be Nintendo kart. And while The new crossovers in 8dx were cool, it would be a bit much for that to be the entire selling point. Me personally I feel a good approach would be to leave the 8dx crossovers in 8dx and have 1 or 2 new ones in their place; Let's just Randomly say Captain Falcon and Olimar. Hopefully this way the crossover element can remain fresh without crossing over into Bloat. But as long as my boy Wiggler is on the roster then all is right with the world

[@AnAveragePurplePikmin]

Adam Sandler should be in the next Mario Kart game with all his costumes referencing his hit films like 8 Crazy Nights and Murder Mystery.

[@naqisback]

Yo Whatsup purple pikmin

[@AnAveragePurplePikmin]

@@naqisback Nothing much, how about you

[@LandonEmma]

Sure do hate Splatoon hate and people wanting Nintendo Kart…

[@kromatickirby1930]

Where's the ring fit rep?? I wanna see the squat powered cart going 120kpm

[@blinkingnora]

I've always hated the idea of a Nintendo Kart, the Mario franchise has such a wide selection of character choices to pick from already and the appeal of Mario spin-offs is being able to control these more niche options. We already didn't get Nabbit, Chargin Chuck, Dixie Kong, Poochy, King Bob-omb, etc from Tour in 8 Deluxe and that game's roster is enormous. Nintendo Kart would reduce their chances of being playable to a rock-bottom zero

[@volvoman5262]

yes

[@icepapermario99]

womp to the flipping womp

[@scribblsquid]

WHY THE SPLATOON HATE????!!!??!😭😭

[@LandonEmma]

Bro would love playing the Mario Kart DS Pikmin mod

[@CosmicTheGamer821]

4:03 our little orange waddling friend shunned again. First smash now mariokart 😔

[@magicalwizard1499]

they should just make 1 character per franchise and the rest as mario characters, dont turn it into nintendo karts

[@Wolfiyeethegranddukecerberus17]

If Poochy isn't in this shi, it's a failed roster

[@MoobOgler]

Poochy and Oatchi duo

[@DudeNinja29]

4:59 I mean you could technically group the whole team into one category

[@ShyGuyKart]

Truly underrated. Your videos are epic and need to be pushed by the algorithm. Keep it up! Just discovered your channel

[@Hello86257]

6:13 They have…

[@kevincurran9975]

Imagine instead of ganondorf we got beedle

[@nintendogamerkid350]

Bro said fuck pokemon

[@AxelAxelFFM]

If Kirby is in the game, he better be the best god damn character

[@Reuben0764]

It’d make sense too, he is the strongest Nintendo character character

[@XZavierdoesStuff2]

the perfect Nintendo Kart RoAster.

[@XZavierdoesStuff2]

also 25 non Mario characters is a little excessive, maybe 15 would be a little better

[@venomicky]

I agree with your rooster is really what I can expect now from the newcomers if it goes to the Nintendokart direction. (But seriously, what did Splatoon do to you? pls explain.)

[@Wario_B]

Seeing King K. Rool race would be awesome …if they can fit him in the kart lol

[@logansmith2703]

I kinda despise the Nintendo Kart idea. I just straight up don't want that. I don't even like that we have some non Mario/Mario adjacent characters in 8.

[@volvoman5262]

yes

[@goldiandrubymii6320]

Bridgett 4:19

[@theface9212]

"I just dont like splatoon" Prepare for war, men.

[@rubenrodriguezalvarez12]

Olimar has high chances to be in the next game because it was made by Miyamoto and it wouldn't be so difficult to put him in the game. To be honest I just want to see 3 guest series: -pikmin: olimar -kirby: Kirby ,king dedede and meta kinght -pokemon: Pikachu,koraidon and miraidon

[@YoshiAteTooManyYoshiCookies]

Putting those three Kirby characters in will just create another riot like with Smash where people complain about the lack of bandana waddle dee.

[@rubenrodriguezalvarez12]

@@YoshiAteTooManyYoshiCookies then better just Kirby alone

[@FawfulPikmin]

I know It's never gonna happen, but I'd like to see Fawful from the Mario & Luigi series.

[@JrowYT]

all i need is shy guy

[@Neptune_The_Planet]

I think the characters you picked are good but personally E. Gadd should be replaced by polterpup they did poochie In Tour so I don’t see why they can’t do him

[@mariogalaxcrawford9376]

I’d love an air ride inspired kart in Mario kart 10

[@artbox_7553]

Olimars parachute should be a winged pikmin infla-

[@iffatjarin]

You have more than three strikes so yer out

[@WobblyMiniGamer]

a winged pikmin inflatable? that's a good idea. *wait did you mean a winged pikmin that was inflated-*

[@Ghostabo]

I'm used to the typical nintendo youtuber thing of hating fire emblem or making repetitive jokes about it (I'd choose byleth over marth btw), but hating both fire emblem and splatoon is a new one for me

[@YoshiAteTooManyYoshiCookies]

And what makes it even more surprising is that he has actually played something that isn't Mario, Zelda or Pokémon.

[@jimhorn3193]

I think Eevee and the Eeveelutions should be playable in place of the Lizors. They could fall under 1 character like Bowser Jr. and the Koopalings.

[@MAXYIGA441]

Why did you go ble to i inklings. Splatoon is fun but not the mk8d version

[@joshslater2426]

To be honest, I don’t think we need a Nintendo Kart when it’s Mario’s racing series. If you add too many non-Mario characters and locations, it loses its Mario charm. Besides, there’s hundreds of Mario characters who’ve never got to drive a kart before that would make interesting playable racers, like E. Gadd, Spike, Boom Boom, Toadsworth, Gooigi, Pianta, Sledge Bro, etc.

[@goodolbreadguy5038]

I love this roster! However I would just let Koraidon and Miraidon ride the karts rather than be the karts. They managed to do it with Wiggler, they can do it with them too. The 2 by themselves would just be out of place.

[@Zoxy146]

I think the should bring back all the characters that have ever existed and just add 15 new ones (I just want to play with Don-Chan)

[@volvoman5262]

Also giving characters special abbilities is a terrible idea, there is a reason why double dash was never popular in casual market, special items make it so that for a casual mom, it's unneseserly complicated how items work, she would only get protection hearts and not bowser shell. The reason why Mario Kart is so popular is beacuse anyone at any age can pick the controller and have fun. Do you seauriosly think that my old grandpa could get into double dash? No, but to 8 deluxe, it only took 3 races

[@Raggins]

I totally see where you’re coming from, but I think it would be a good alternate game mode. This way you could keep the standard Mario kart formula for casuals, but still make it a fresh experience for series veterans.

[@volvoman5262]

@@Raggins if it's for alternative mode then it's ok

[@madnessarcade7447]

Pokémon has made a racing game though it’s called pokemon dash and there’s even been racing minigames too Also have u even played splatoon as to not like it Ur loss man

[@user-qh2hh6gc1d]

2k likes add bandanna waddle Dee so the whole gang can be there

[@Lucky-le-Olive]

The moment they give me a maker mode, I’m going to be playing that shit for months.

[@justinthyme5263]

I think the Pokémon reps should be Pikachu and Ash since they’re both very iconic and Ash just fits better

[@Agente482]

1:22 and the inkli- OH HELL NAH, IM NOT SEEING THIS VIDEO ANYMORE DUDE, IM *O U T A H E R E* (it seems like Raggins is a Splatoon hater)

[@Skonkgasm]

If they put Conker from Conkers Bad Fur day in one of these games or smash id be so happy.

[@donkeykong6426]

i would put 3 iconic wario reps in the game that would make sense and ike with his appearance he had in brawl as a alt

[@LandonEmma]

Wario Land 4 and Wario Land 3 reps would be so good. Also fire emblem does suck FR

[@YoshiAteTooManyYoshiCookies]

What's wrong with Fire Emblem?

[@LandonEmma]

@@YoshiAteTooManyYoshiCookies everything

[@YoshiAteTooManyYoshiCookies]

@@LandonEmma ah, someone who has an unreasonable hate for something just for the sake of hating it. Sorry, but I don't argue with idiots.

[@tanook4751]

No Tony Soprano :(

[@Xenado22]

Raggins, you can't put in a Xenoblade rep without playing Xenoblade, Shulk would be SO MUCH BETTER than Rex

[@Picoz245]

where. is. rob.

[@pikminlightz9944]

Before watching the video, I can predict pikmin is gonna be in the roster knowing raggins

[@pikminlightz9944]

Pin my comment, I'm subbed

[@Dilmi.AOUKLI]

the moment you talked about fire emblem I reacted just like him 4:38 and then I * BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM *

[@trashylookingmario]

Lets keep it as mario kart, nintendo kart just sounds wrong.

[@stik_inthe_mud]

Nice roaster

[@PotatoBeatboxer]

4:16 💀

[@Seth528]

Wobblewok is one of those games that quite literally never died.

[@mariobroultimate1808]

BLEGH! My favorite character!

[@Garfield4310]

I fee like The Rabbids would somehow sneak here to because of the Mario+Rabbids series. Was surprised they weren't here. You could have like a Rabbid for each one of the characters or like keep it to the regular and include some of the others like Rabbid Mario, Rabbid Luigi or Rabbid Peach or something :/ i don't know really I'm not big on Rabbids :P

[@firionkaiser8291]

You mean MK10

[@At-px6rm]

But slippy toad would be awesome in Mario Kart 9

[@cedgamer2009]

Now do Smash Bros but only Mario Characters

[@abyss8190]

i love your roaster

[@ASM-99]

When’s the stream?

[@ASM-99]

Tomorrow?

[@iggypikminunderly782]

Where thick min

[@Raggins]

Can’t believe I’m only seeing this now you madlad

[@MayoOverlord]

Great ! Now give them all stats to balance the game.

[@Raggins]

1000 likes😉

[@jaredfamily4626]

Rip petey

[@C_SonicDude]

I think it’d be kinda cool if we got a third party characters dlc pack with Pac-Man, Mega-Man and Sonic or somethin’

[@Cheeseburgerdestroyer3000]

"the more sales the more charactaers" me: UH OH I DON"T THINK OLIMAR IS GOING GET PIKCED- (edit he made it)

[@Sunset_8369]

Maybe change Koraidon And Miraidon to a different pokemon, but there would be bikes based off of them.

[@123emilymason]

1:22 I don't blame you going "ech."

[@Hatsune_mikuxX]

OK let's stop beating around the pikmin we all know we need Brittany as the next racer

[@logangreene685]

seems good just i would replace the babys with petey piranha maybe replace those pokemon bikes with sonic because if sega is willing to have him be in the olympics with mario then they would be fine with him racing with mario and i am not sure about mr. game and watch is that even possible he has only ever been seen in 2d i think maybe replace him for another pikmin character

[@mamounelhadidy6552]

guys we have to get this video to 1000 likes i wanna see what kart stages and items each character has like is link going to use the TOTK zonai gadget and ganondorf use his weapon or his gloom?. is star fox gonna use the weapons from star link. is donkey kong gonna use uhhhh oh i don't know COCONUT GUN and is princess peach gonna use the costumes from her showtime game?. there's things i wanna see from your nintendo kart

[@mamounelhadidy6552]

also you should have said tears of the kingdom because ganondorf dosen't have an appearance in BOTW but it would be hilarious if calamity ganon a demon that destroy an entire kingdom and murder millions of people rides a kart in a family friendly racing game

[@Dankboi68]

As a massive fire emblem fan I'll lend you a hand here. Choose Hicks as the rep, just trust me. Trust me. You need to trust me. Wake up. Wake up. Please wake up. Alright, since its an inevitability you make a sequel video going into more depth on marth ive decided, as the only fire emblem fan in your audience, to give you a little help when the time comes. Ive thought about this long and hard and ultimately believe my decisions are the best possible. Im simplifying this so you dont have to think too much so here goes. First off, although he's super iconic its nigh impossible to get Marth to work. Fire Emblem has a heavy focus on cavalry with like half the roster riding a mount of some kind and Marth is not one of those. His wife can ride a pegasus but we can't put him on one of those since in FE pegasi can only be ridden by girls. Instead of Marth, the Fire Emblem rep will be a two-in-one selection like the koopalings and da baby, with Sigurd and Seliph (two rather popular lords that both use horses. Also their game is going to be remade next, so its believable they'll make it in to promote it.) Their custom "vehicle" will of course be a horse. Normal speed with superb acceleration and handing. Their custom item will be (and ive thought about this a lot) the Tyrfing, which lets them attack a nearby racer when pressed and for as long as the sword is held theyre immune to damage and effects. Of course the time remaining on the power up decreases each time they attack or negate an attack. Finally their custom race track will be the forested country of Verdane, its already very circuit-like in design and I LOVE VERDAAAAANE!!! Can't really think about anything else so yeah hope this helped and also hope you dont ignore it

[@Dankboi68]

Or Belf

[@bentleycatVR0714]

The honorable mentions are the dlc characters

[@rhubarb5297]

I HATE this kind of stuff, I mean since Myamoto left Mario Kart it became Nintendo Kart, it became just a racing game with all Nintendo characters but before we got, almost only Super Mario characters and now the half are not Mario characters.

[@fishdub_]

Great video, I think Mario Kart 9 should have the graphics quality inspired by the Mario movie's (obviously it can't be as good because it's a game not a movie but hey they can try), assuming the Switch 2 has good hardware

[@leogio8093]

I think the final pokemon guys from red/purple games should be bikes… not characters. Kinda like the wiggler mobile

[@Manny4Life948]

I want Bugs Bunny

[@TrayGaming_Reactions]

I have all three Mario Kart arcades from gp1 2 and DX and I've been wanting Pac-Man in a main line Mario Kart for the longest, if that ever happens one day that'll break the internet 7:10

[@VersentionXD]

i wish red or ash were in, also my kk got sniped, even though hes not very likely, anyways i enjoyed the vid

[@veebot75]

I hate the idea of more crossover characters.

[@LevenPM]

Game & Watch just comes out of the blue. I'd play him... or Kirby... or Olimar... that's it, I'd play as the others every so often but those three would be the characters I play the most (especially Kirby). Oh and if the series does well enough can you also do Mii Racing Suits! Great video, plz like the vid those that read this... I live Mario Kart so much and want more... also Subscribe(min Kart) to Raggins as he makes great videos.

[@user-pu9rk1dh4k]

I like the new content it’s really funny too bad a Pikmin game can’t come out every month for you to make videos

[@SirEEf13]

This video was interesting, well edited, entertaining to watch and I think this really could be the direction Nintendo will be taking Mario Kart. Just fun to watch. Which is interesting to me because, as someone who does NOT want a "Nintendo Kart" of ANY capacity, I disagree with a lot of what happens in this video, yet I can't even complain about it because considering your goal of making a Nintendo Kart roster everything you did was very reasonable. I do believe that for anybody who actually wants a Nintendo Kart, your video must be pretty spot on but for me the Nintendo Kart approach just doesn't do it.

[@ZingaMadinga]

i just want pac-man back in the next mario kart. its a crime that hes only in the arcade spinoffs that nobody cares about

[@user-kd3bb4re8v]

Let’s go to 1k .

[@waleniyi2898]

What about bandana de

[@can_not_find_name]

Might as well be called Nintendo kart