What Is Behind Shy Guys MASK?! - Video Game Mysteries

[@cosmicspacething3474]

Something that supports the second theory is that the name “Phanto” obviously means phantom. Phanto could literally be dead Shy guys. I mean you see them just resting inside vases, which could be the equivalent of a tomb for them. They only start chasing you if you take the key, which might be considered desecration to them, which obviously makes them mad.

[@warden1.195]

Exactly 💯💯💯

[@leerunion519]

🌙 (3up) Yes a Curse like a Mummy but with the limits of technology then a mask is as much as they could have.

[@gamingandcraftswithlogan8714]

And also, in Luigi’s mansion, the ghost guy’s masks resemble phantos

[@itsshowtime7478]

There is an actual mistake about the emotion in shy guys, it could be one or the other. In paper Mario origami king, you play a little mini game where you guess a shy guys emotions, and all you have to do is wait to read their line and they don’t change their mask at all. This could be a goof, a different race of shy guys, but check into paper Mario origami king and this could help a little

[@arekrekas213]

i mean, it's paper mario something that has been labeled as a seperate reality from the actual mario universe in Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam using it as a source of information (ESPECIALLY for a post M&L:PJ game) wouldn't really work in context of the actual mario canon

[@johnpett1955]

I think the theory that shy guy's mask is its actual face makes since. That's why in Mario strikers charged there's a cutscene where shy guy changes his facial features. And beneath it is nothing. That's why Luigi was spooked. He didn't expect to see nothing there.

[@drwily]

good point!

[@Veligus]

I dont know why people think devs will literally make a face for hackers to see like literally you weren’t meant to see his face or something.

[@FF8Irvine_Fan]

@@Veligus You obviously haven't been playing games very long. They do that sort of thing all the time.

[@evilmejosh]

I always thought shy guys may have been some kind of like hollow faced being. And the mask was the actual face, since we seen it can emote. They might be some type of phantom that has taken possession of a hooded coat with a belt and shoes, and using the mask as a face. Kind of reminds me of the hexadecimal character from reboot, her mask could emote But when it was removed she was just a hollow faced being

[@finlay9616]

I think all the Shy Guys are the children of Luigi. When the mask fell off in Mario Tennis Luigi was just horrified to see an identical face to his own.

[@deandresinclair]

My thoughts exactly. I remember watching the winning scene and luigi got freaked out by his face revealing in front of him. I wonder what type of face really is.

[@MagnustheValiant]

wait... who would be the mother?

[@fleetway2002]

@@MagnustheValiant ONE HOUR AGO

[@MagnustheValiant]

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[@TwelveRats]

@@MagnustheValiant Also Luigi

[@gyorggames9268]

Shy Guy is one of my favourite characters in Mario Universe. Glad you did a video about them 👍👍

[@nedflanders9045]

I always thought that they might just be rebel toads. But I really like the boo theory

[@critter2]

the only problem with boo theory is they have feet but boos don't

[@drwily]

well they can posses stuff, which might explain the limbs

[@TankerGunnerBalls]

Possessed toads!

[@AustynSN]

Nah. The Goombas are mushrooms who betrayed the Kingdom to Bowser.

[@Muffylov3]

@@critter2b🙄😝😊

[@Geiger_]

I honestly feel like the Shy Guys and Snifits worship the Phantos as some kind of god. This could explain why they wear mostly red and white too, as a way to replicate the color palate of the Phantos.

[@drwily]

interesting take

[@Geiger_]

@@drwily thanks, doc.

[@B3N1TO]

Why not both? A boo that came across the living mask. The mask helps with the boos anxeity, helps interpret their emotions, the boo helps the mask function properly and not have to fly around everywhere and can finally be worn by something. It would be dope that two different enemies worked together to make a complete new enemy type

[@Maui_Bread]

Yeah, like Eye-Brawl from skylanders. The eyes and Headless beings were at war for years and years. When they got bored of fighting, they teamed up. The eye places itself on top of the headless being and creates a powerful duo. If you don't know what Skylanders is, I'm not surprised xd

[@DTgamer_Shiver-is-best-waifu]

In Mario Power Tennis, shy Guy comes up the stairs to get his trophy. He trips, his mask falls off and Luigi is shocked and frightened. By hacking the game, we can see that it's just a dark circle with a black line of where the strap would be. In short, there's no face behind his mask because the mask is his face. So here's the real question we should ask; What's under his robe? They could easily be the Mario equivalent of Mimikyu. They could just as easily be a dark shadowy figure wearing a robe just like how Mimikyu wears that porly made sheet of Pikachu.That's very creepy, unsettling and very interesting. That's my theory anyways. What do you all think?🤔😁

[@seasonslayer6093]

I like the idea if comparing Shy Guy to Mimikyu (mainly because Mimikyu is my favorite Pokémon).

[@DTgamer_Shiver-is-best-waifu]

@@seasonslayer6093 They're both very mysterious and a bit strange. I kind of like it though.

[@seasonslayer6093]

Yeah

[@Veligus]

Yeah bro they ofc didn’t model a face for shy guy because it’s hacks ya know?

[@DTgamer_Shiver-is-best-waifu]

@@Veligus That actually makes a lot of sense.

[@doubleDwiggles]

When I was younger my brother told me that it was a toad born without a mushroom.

[@Skypatroller_BenCD]

I personally think that Shy Guys are related to Fanto and the Ghost Guys' face can be their true face somehow

[@BandenIndarys]

I have a crazy thought about what they might be. There is a species of Shyguy called Beezo which is a winged shyguy that flies, it makes me wonder if Beezos might be a variation of Subcon, the little fairy creatures imprisoned by Wart who may have altered some of them to have insect wings and serve him, and some of these altered Subcons had their winds plucked forcing them to walk on the ground. Just a thought.

[@metaltom2003]

And don't forget about Snifits from the same game, who are essentially Shyguys with small cannons for mouths. They could all (Shyguys, Snifits, Beezos, Subcons, Phantos) be related in some way or another.

[@RosbifChaud]

It would be strange if Shy Guys are Boos since Boos werent created yet when SMB2 came out.

[@thecartoonistguy9843]

All the shy guys that were killed in SMB2 became boos in SMB3

[@christophermartinez8836]

It could also be one of the several million Yoshi's Mario and Luigi jumped off of and dropped down a bottomless pit. Maybe the Yoshi's came back as a ghost and put on that Shy Guy Costume, so they wouldn't have to face Mario or Luigi again.

[@phosphorus4]

They say Eeries from SMW are ghosts of Yoshis, and Eeries don’t hide their faces. Though their eyes are closed, and Nintendo Power described them as flying in their sleep…

[@PartyDude_19]

If the shy guy's mask is a detachable face, if their mask is taken off maybe you would see something like a face with exposed muscle tissue. That could explain Luigi's reaction.

[@drwily]

well who knows, in game youi dont see anything atleast even if you use a free form camera

[@DapperDunesOfficial]

Coming back to like, 2014, aren’t we, Wily? Haven’t watched your channel in a while, nice to see ya again.

[@drwily]

well good to see your back! and is this 2014 like? i hope you dont mean that in a negative way becuase im doing my best hahahah

[@DapperDunesOfficial]

nah, I don’t mean it in a mean way

[@mccuefam1452]

@@drwily I think they played Mario's virtual boy & his face turned red forever. He wore the mask ever since.

[@uname404]

What if the shy-guys are an combination between fantos and boos?

[@drwily]

discussed this in the video! :)

[@WarmLillie]

I can’t lie, I occasionally steal and detach my body parts. Halloween does a lot…

[@ZackeryGee]

They always reminded me of the Poes from A Link To The Past. Yellow crosses for eyes against a black canvas. But he is SHY guy..... guess he is an introvert! :-)

[@adamcronchey7264]

Shy Guys should've reappeared in Odyssey. How funny would a Pie Guy variant be?

[@SaiyanPiratePrince]

The Boo theory seems like a good one, but there are also Boo Guys (Shy Guy like ghost) in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island in the castle areas as well. I wonder if they too have a connection with the Boos and the other Ghost Guys in Luigi's Mansion as well? Big possibility I bet.

[@Serban_YT]

Maybe the Boo Guys are just normal Boos with their mask (Shy Guy's mask) without the whole costume.

[@starlight381a]

Shy guys are masked mercenary Subrosians. You can see it even in Luigi's Mansion, when you remove The Mask from the Shy Guys Ghosts.

[@sa3270]

I like that theory.

[@FF8Irvine_Fan]

IIRC, there are a handful of youkai that have the whole "the mask is their face" thing going on. Shy Guys were probably just a reference to that.

[@MartKart8]

The Shy Guys being Boos is confusing, in Yoshi's Island have Boo Guys, also how is that possible at 1:15, that Shy Guy took himself out, I've never seen that glitch before.

[@teddy4000]

The insides of shyguys are just void, the robe is it's true body because they don't want people to know about it

[@MagnustheValiant]

To be fair, Luigi isn't the... bravest character in the franchise, so for all we know, it could be a bird face (is that what you call it??) underneath there.

[@drwily]

hahahhaha a bird face

[@VitaEx]

I mean i think Luigi would be equally scared if nothing was behind the mask and he realizes the mask was the face and they had a big black hole but we’re still somehow alive

[@737Igi69]

I think that the boo is a good explanation, their arms are also similar

[@Boykeeplays]

Someone rotated the camera when luigi saw shy guy maskless, and it's...

[@drwily]

nothing because wasnt coded in hahahah looked into that yeah

[@Boykeeplays]

@@drwily yeah lol

[@jace3811]

a little fact i discovered is when shy guy drops his mask in tennis (aka the game where luigi gets scared) the part of his model that would have a face is flat and basically looks like his clothes (its red with the brown thing that holds his mask up) while this was obviously done because the everage player wouldn't see it so there would be no point in making a face it's still interesting

[@ivanledesma7347]

Hello, Wily. I really enjoyed this video, as it is nice to talk about stuff that relates to the side Mario games. I hope you continue including small details of side games whenever possible. As for what I think, Shy Guys are really mysterious. However, I do feel like both of your conclusions could hold some water, or maybe it could be a mix of the two. In the case of the Boo, besides the shyness, it is a small detail to note and might not mean much, but in Mario Power Tennis, Shy Guy's default partner in Doubles tournaments is Boo. As for the Phantos, the appearance of it looks similar to the mask of the Ghost Guy in Luigi's Mansion (again, a small detail that might not mean much in the end, since there is already a ghost Shy Guy enemy known as the Boo Guy). Some video suggestions that I have include trying to guess who Donkey Kong is, trying to look at the lore that suggests Goombas are traitors to the Mushroom Kingdom, and maybe trying to look at Easter eggs or references to the main series in side games. Even if none of those ideas work out, I still am looking forward to seeing whatever you come up with.

[@drwily]

Glad you liked the video, i wanna do more stuff like this again due to the good response on this vid I could look into the goomba thing, the others I'm not sure about

[@phosphorus4]

I feel like Luigi isn’t really scared, just shocked.

[@drwily]

could also be

[@fatalwaffle1715]

Awesome video bro! There's a video by the name of Shesez who does Boundery Break and turned the camera to see the Shy guys face. Which turns out be no face at all

[@drwily]

yeah saw that, didnt include it in the vid because nothing was there lmao

[@fatalwaffle1715]

Well it's close enough to an actual Shy Guy face reveal.

[@p.g89]

They also appear in paper mario

[@lucyluchador6779]

The Pokémon mimickyu hides in his own pikachu costume and the shy guy costume.

[@greenrobot5]

They are mini Jason Voorhees

[@DarrianBynum-z4g]

Another mystery you ought to cover. What are peahats from Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time? What are their purposes? They just chill out in Hyrule Field doing nothing but when Link gets close enough to them they fly into action and come after Link.

[@DSdemon767]

shy guys mask falls off Luigi: Oh no he’s HOT!!

[@drwily]

hahahha

[@Blank53689]

Fun Fact: That If You Turn The Camera Around In Mario Power Tennis It Shows Nothing The Belt Shows Black And In Super Mario Strikers Charge If You Put The Camera On The Ground It Shows Another Mask And The Developers Put The Prop Mask On The Bottom For The Players Not To See It

[@didiszvalaren907]

Maybe it’s both because if they as ghosts they wearing the mask as a ghost but they found a costume and the could wear it because if they can attack Luigi they would be able to wear stuff and no go trough it but he lost his mask so he found a new one and the mask thought he was forgeten and not needed so he ran away that’s why he rarely shows up.

[@MSFVIDS]

It must be something horrifying behind those masks.

[@edwardbrock3807]

Its the video game source code

[@JLee-lm1md]

But there’s one thing who don’t have in common when you look at shy guys, they don’t get scared or just shy, but then, but then you look at booze. They only get shy when you look at them.

[@Cosmic-Crusader321]

I think they're Toads who turned to the Dark Side Luigi isn't terrified he's surprised to see a Toad

[@Yipper64]

6:25 wait... the shape of the shyguy's head and the boo's tail.... OH MY GOODNESS. SHYGUY IS UPSIDE DOWN BOO WITH FEET.

[@AvasHodgePodge]

Fanto is actually a shy guy if you look around KZbin you will find A vid of Fanto he’s a Black and purple mixed and then when he in counters someone he will go into his mask form and the rest of them goes invisible

[@lawsonallen7741]

We get to see a Lot of Shy guys & some Phantos in the super mario super show.

[@shroomer8294]

My personal theory is that they’re some sort of Toad traitors. They have incredibly similar bodies even down to the shoes, they sound similar but lower pitched and if Luigi did find out Shy Guys are Toads that would be an incredibly fitting reaction. The only thing I really see against it is that the mushroom on Toad’s head probably would fit under Shy Guys hood.

[@processedmeats123]

I hope we learn more about the shy guys in the mario movie

[@drwily]

i bet we will see them yeah

[@pedge10]

Here’s an explanation to it all. Bowsers koopas or minions are immortal. Koopas become dry bones and goombas could very well become a ghost/boos if the goomba would want to walk again they just put on a red coat and mask and boom

[@Thedevil412]

I always thought they were masks that were brought to life by bowser's dark magic and they have the cloaks to look normal. The main is reason the mario strikers shy guy's mask holes move as if they WERE his face, so possibly luigi was scared because he saw nothing. I mean, if someone took off a mask and you saw nothing but a dark void, wouldn't you at least be a little freaked out?

[@f3lance]

Shyguys aren't the only ones with masks.. Tweeter, Beezo and even Subcon. But I guess we'll just have to pick on Shyguy for now!

[@ГеоргийСуботенко]

I have my own Theory about this : Maybe, JUST MAYBE , Nintendo Devs are still thinking of what face he may have.

[@aimeerivera3551]

You didn’t even like tell us what is behind Shy guy’s mask Well, yes boo yes, just yes he is a boo shy guy is a bow

[@AutisticN1994]

Theory: Shy guys are toads with lepresy.

[@cristoferchanimak]

Shy guy isn’t impossible to remove from Mario games. Nintendo has snubbed shy guy in most mainstream Mario games :(

[@drwily]

yeah true but they are still sene in a lot of them

[@suelenegracia3726]

WAIT A MINUTE. Theory unlocked. Koop a troopas aren’t actually visible dead they just sorta… oof. So they become dry bones. But… what happens to the goombas? Well I think the goombas when they die they become boos (A.K.A the ghost). Since the goombas are dead they are shy because they have been embarrassed by themselves being killed. So they use the shy guy suits to hide their real identities because shy guys are shy like the boos. Also fun fact: I have blown my own mind and yours

[@shroomer8294]

Nah. There’s a Goomba Boos in Mario Land (or Mario Land 2 I can’t remember) and Super Mario Bros U has Bone Goombas. My personal theory is that they’re some sort of Toad traitors. They have incredibly similar bodies even down to the shoes, they sound similar but lower pitched and if Luigi did find out Shy Guys are Toads that would be an incredibly fitting reaction. The only thing I really see against it is that the mushroom on Toad’s head probably would fit under Shy Guys hood.

[@DevinPlayzYT2007]

2:26

[@thedragonsden2004]

I like the living mask theory

[@venkelos6996]

So, I think I'd like a more Doki Doki answer, since that was the game they were originally from, before being ported into the Mushroom Kingdom via last minute reskins, but I really like the answer of Boos more, and like it as an answer. I can also honestly say these things irritate me. I've been a Star Wars fan for the last 35 years, and it has two of these; they even live on the same planet. Tuskegee Raiders, also known as Sandpeople, are...we'll, that's the problem; we don't know. We do know that they often just seem like primitive, violent, sun-baked monsters, who attack and kill most things they encounter. As they live on Tatooine; a burning desert world with multiple suns, they conceal their bodies at all times, and mo one sees what's underneath their wrappings. Are they human offshoots? Scaly aliens? Bug-eyed monsters? We don't know, and seemingly neither do the other people who live there. They raid farms, and farmers kill them, but never take a look? Jawas are the same. These diminutive, conniving, sometimes duplicitous alien merchants ply their wares across the dunes, looking out from large, deep hoods, with glowing eyes. People also don't seem to know what they look like. You get close enough to know they smell bad, and give them money, but can't see their features? Luke, Kenobi, and the droids burn a heap of them, but didn't see? It just irritates me. I can almost accept that we fans don't know. Masked characters can go whole films without being revealed, but when they try to explain to me that the mystery extends beyond the audience, to the actual people within the story, and fictional universe, I just can't accept that. No one's ever come across a dead Quarian, popped off the mask, and callously snapped a picture? The galaxies are filled with cruel people, so it seems unlikely courtesy, fear, or anything other than maintaining audience mystique can explain the mystery, and Shy Guys are like the Mario equivalent.

[@Boykeeplays]

Smb2 still takes place in dream world not mushroom kingdom tho

[@WarmLillie]

Shy Guys… What behind the mask is I can ask… Is it like mimikyu? A curse to you? Are you really a boo… Are you a mask… But in the of the day… They’re the Bad Guy

[@Sparasemi456]

Shy guy is just... Well, shy

[@leerunion519]

I am happy to see someone else who thinks the Shy guy Ghost connection is a thing but. Let's get a bit deeper and darker remember that Manuel for SMB said the Residents of the Mushroom Kingdom have all been cursed and turned into all kinds of things Blocks,Veggies ect,etc. Maybe what's behind the mask is the shy Ghost of the former Residents of the Mushroom Kingdom who's Curse is Shyness/Social anxiety that prevented them from living life aside from where they lived in life. 🤔 That's my idea

[@Galvamel]

I love the theory about Boos being the Shyguys, but what about the Snifit, Beezo and Tweeter, they are also mask wearer's, how do they fit in? Is it an entire sub-culture of mask wearing?

[@froggyswow8537]

theory: an unmasked shy guy looks like a shy guy with a blank face.

[@Berry.Gaming131]

well i don't have a theory about shy guy but have got a theory about lego shy guy : YOU JUST TAKE THE LEGO MASK OFF -_-

[@no_one6657]

it could be that they use a mask not because they are shy but because what they're face may look like, maybe they're face looks disgusting or creepy, so they use the mask so no one see they're real faces.

[@drwily]

like the one in my thumbnail ahhahaha

[@SwizzDaVcp-e9i]

Make a shy guy keep off his mask and he becomes a boss Samus has to take down lol

[@thetoonafish2062]

We need to look back to Mario bros 2 in that every standard enemy (eg.ninjis and those shy guys that hop) are depicted as plain white human shaped little creatures so it would make sense the shy guy would look like that and on the ninjis we see that the eyes look normal at least

[@RunnerX13]

I always thought the strap around their heads was connected to the mask to keep on. Apparently not because the mask can be removed and the strap stays in place.

[@cristoferchanimak]

Don’t forget that in doki doki panic, ending a level means walking into a mask

[@juliocesarcamilo5132]

I have a theory: maybe shy guys are Just a blankets that a Boo found and possesed to hide their identitys but theres a hole where the face is supposed to be and people could Discover their true identity so they picked the nearest Phanto mask and covered the hole

[@Ender_noob77s_bsstipsandmemes]

Shy guys:HOW MANY TIMES DID WE TRAVLE THE MULTIVERSE

[@geirhagen5016]

How did a boo become king!!!

[@megaman37456]

I always called Ghost Guys Shy Ghouls.

[@ericka.5434]

I think the shy guy is a monster that hides its identity to pretend to be a normal being

[@Lichcrafter]

There is an enemy called a Toady in the Yoshi's Island series that wears robes identical to those the shy guy wears, so it seems likely that shy guys have the face of toadies.

[@InfinityBOIIIIII]

What if you could buy to see who the shy guys are but it would cost 99999$

[@drwily]

pass

[@InfinityBOIIIIII]

@@drwily yeah, I would too

[@PaintballShyguy]

..nothing to see here.

[@menandcastro3972]

..

[@frankyjager]

The head of a shy guy is the same shame as an upside buu, same as the arms and the tail... so my theory : it's un upside buu , that's luigui was so scared.... also could be another one , doing the legs...

[@RunnerX13]

There’s about 5 different enemies from Subcom that wear masks so Phantos and Shyguy being the same being doesn’t fit.

[@ArrowKey_Kraken]

the shyguy could be a boo subspecies that has a symbiotic relationship with a phantos subspecies

[@kenzofuntv9451]

The shyguy is already explained in Nintendo Unity, sorry Dr. Willy

[@alexnacinovic3812]

Ghost guys are basically just ghosts with masks on 😮

[@STRANGExDAYSx]

They remind me of the jawas from starwars when the mask is off, I bet that's where the concept came from.

[@speakerbasstester1639]

The thumbnail is terrifying 💀

[@AustynSN]

Both theories could be valid if you reverse the first. Their mask is their face. Boos are the ghosts of dead shy guys. They're doomed to an eternity of being exposed without their "mask" for their crimes in life.

[@norelysmartin8479]

My theory is that maybe the boos evolved into those bodyless masks and the bodyless masks were evolved into shy guys cuz that bodyless masks has both the colors of a boo and a Red shy guys so maybe the shy guys may evolve into a body with a color of rainbow maybe evolved like a turtle

[@Your_average_arranger]

Shy guys is the Mario’s universe’s dream

[@Oceane1803]

Yeah the Boo theory is also what I had in mind.

[@aziztarghibakkali9596]

hopelijk hebben we het mis en gaan ze ons het wel ooit vertellen wat er achter shy guy’s masker zit. wel bedankt voor deze video,wie weet zijn ze verwant aan boo’s op een 1 of andere manier.

[@drwily]

geen probleem!

[@Mr.Silver230]

I think shy guy are just toads that betrayed the mushroom kingdom and bowser had to take there mushrooms off and since they would have the same face they where a mask. Thats my theory but other than that I think its the boo cause thay have the same arms

[@maksiurino]

I think it's like a combination of the both like it's a boo with a phanto on his head.

[@B_allen]

I have a theory maybe boos ate dead shy guys as ghosts that's why they are both shy and their body is almost the same

[@ReworkNotHere]

Shy guy actually originated in Doki Doki panic, that was reskined as what we know as Super Mario Bros. 2

[@ReworkNotHere]

Plus the moment where Luigi saw its face, it was empty, even the people who make the figures don't know. The shy guy had a removable mask that revealed an empty robe.

[@daniellarsen1386]

Shy guys were mass so they could cover their terrifying face just like in the Mario movie

[@LeathalAlchemistSlap]

Well i Think It's a Boo Maybe!?!

[@jckstudios7693]

Do this, but with professor Farnsworth from futurama

[@sslunsford6]

When He said if the booze just dressed up As the Shy guys booze Then how come the booze wouldn't have been able to fly?

[@BurningFlamesofDivineDragon]

I like this boo theory its really interesting.