
Mario Throwing a Brick
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Mario Throwing a Brick refers to an edited piece of promotional art for Mario Superstar Baseball depicting Mario throwing throw a brick at the viewer. The image gained viral spread on X / Twitter and YouTube in late 2023 and into 2024.
Origin
The image of Mario throwing a brick originally came from a piece of art[1] created for the video game Mario Superstar Baseball, which was released in Japan on the Nintendo Gamecube on July 21st, 2005.[2] The original image features Mario throwing a red fireball at the viewer (shown below).

On October 14th, 2023, X[3] user @TheSillySnail posted an edited version of the image featuring Mario throwing a brick instead of a red fireball to the viewer. The post gathered over 230 reposts and 1,000 likes in one year (shown below).
![I must.... Throw..... Brick!!!!! Silly Snail SILLY @TheSillySnail Good mario: I'm going to eat this brick! Yum! Evil mario: I must.... Throw..... Brick!!!!! Traducir post 6:10 p.m. - 14 oct. 2023 -22,1 mil Visualizaciones 8 236 1 mil 56 <]](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/949/888/474.png)
Spread
On November 24th, 2023, YouTuber [4] Trafficallity posted an animation showing Mario throwing a brick at the viewer. The video, titled "Mario throws a brick at you" gathered over 59,000 views in eleven months (shown below).
On March 28th, 2024, Redditor [5] AndrewTRM posted the image adding a Blur effect to the brick. The post received 45 upvotes in eight months (shown below).

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External References
[1] Gamekult – Mario Superstar Baseball Images
[2] IGN – Mario Superstar Baseball
[3] X – TheSillySnail
[4] Youtube – Mario throws a brick at you