Super Mario RPG Cover Parodies

About

Super Mario RPG Cover Parodies are parody redraws of the Super Mario RPG video game box art, featuring the game's protagonists standing together and facing forward at an angle. The Japanese Super Famicom version of the game's cover first became the subject of parodies in mid-2023 following the announcement of the Nintendo Switch rerelease of the game, with the rerelease's updated cover also becoming the subject of parodies and redraws.

Origin

On July 6th, 2023, X^[1] user @veganSwampert posted a parody of the cover for Super Mario RPG (Japanese Super Famicom cover shown below, left) featuring Pokemon instead of the protagonists of the game, garnering over 35,000 likes in six months (shown below, right). This is the earliest known parody meme of the cover.

Spread

On November 17th, 2023, X^[2] user @zakochirashi posted another version of the cover featuring Pokemon, garnering over 22,000 likes in two months. On November 24th, X^[3] user @Flannelson posted a Garfield parody of the cover, garnering over 54,000 likes in the same span of time (shown below).

On January 11th, X^[4] user @Jackson_Dunson posted a Regular Show cover parody of the new Nintendo Switch cover that gained over 22,000 likes in a week (shown below).

On January 13th, 2024, X^[5] user @EoKawanhsilvArt posted an Uncle Grandpa cover parody, garnering over 28,000 likes in four days (shown below, left). On January 15th, X^[6] user @lumspark posted a Pizza Tower redraw, also posting it to Tumblr,^[7] garnering over 10,000 likes on the former and 500 notes on the latter in two days (shown below, right).

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