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Why does Charging Chuck wear a football helmet to play baseball? I had been playing Super Mario World for 22 years before the ridiculousness of Chuck, a football player, deciding to play baseball, but wearing football gear, struck me as puzzling. But once I started thinking, I wanted an answer! The ignorant might take it to be the fact that the Japanese developers of the game would be ignorant of our American sports and cultures, but actually, the Japanese love baseball! For some reason, Chuck's wearing football gear while playing baseball is more quizzical to me than him wearing a football helmet under water while summoning fishes. While doing research for this post, I found an "answer" on the Super Mario Wiki The Super Mario Wiki posted:
Which I think if they are making fun of Chuck for being confused due to what is perhaps a series of blunt-force traumas to the head from playing football, that is rather tasteless. My own guess is something different. I think Chuck was one of those guys who peaked in high school, maybe catching the game winning touch down at homecoming, and since then wears his football helmet everywhere to protect his fragile ego, unable to cope with the shifting demands of adulthood. I imagine Chuck working as an accountant, and coming to work every day wearing a helmet. The new guy asks about it in a sotto voice by the watercooler, and Carl in HR says "Well, we had questions about it at first, but he threatened to make a disability claim, and you know, he is a drat good accountant. Just don't ask him about that game winning touchdown unless you have 45 minutes to spare. OH HEY Chuck I was just going to ask you about how the DeLancey Account is coming along. Oh, and um, we have the plumbers coming in later and can you try not to antagonize them again by throwing baseballs at them? I almost had to write you up for that."
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Charging Chuck just really looks up to Bo Jackson, okay? He's a big Tecmo Bowl fan. Don't shame his love.
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Dec 24, 2014 21:03
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It actually kind of makes sense. Baseballs go very fast when hit or thrown at a professional level, so you'd want something guarding your face.
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Dec 24, 2014 21:03
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I didn't read that but I'm pretty sure he also kicks footballs op
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Dec 24, 2014 21:04
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Silver Striker posted:It actually kind of makes sense. Baseballs go very fast when hit or thrown at a professional level, so you'd want something guarding your face. Your theory kind of falls apart because Chuck is the one DOING the throwing, not being thrown at. Have you even played the game???
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Dec 24, 2014 21:11
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They're very versatile and are wearing equipment for a variety of sports.
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Dec 24, 2014 21:14
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Doctor Goat posted:They're very versatile and are wearing equipment for a variety of sports. That is a possibility! Service in the army of King Koopa is the type of activity where you have to be ready for every challenge and every environment! I should be clear that while I like my explanation, I don't think it is the one truth. It is just my "head"canon.
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Dec 24, 2014 21:24
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glowing-fish posted:Your theory kind of falls apart because Chuck is the one DOING the throwing, not being thrown at. Have you even played the game??? What if Mario uses his cape to send one back at Chuck? Furthermore, Mario and Yoshi both jump on Chuck's head, so it's only natural he would be wearing protection. A baseball cap is simply inadequate.
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Dec 24, 2014 23:50
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Silver Striker posted:What if Mario uses his cape to send one back at Chuck? Furthermore, Mario and Yoshi both jump on Chuck's head, so it's only natural he would be wearing protection. A baseball cap is simply inadequate. He is a turtle. Isn't being a turtle like having your whole body be one big football helmet?
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Dec 24, 2014 23:58
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Sorry to get all lorefag in here but I actually know the answer. Charging Chuck was adopted by a gay couple. His father was a big football fan because he liked the way guys' butts looked in football pants and his other father was a big baseball fan because he liked the way guys' butts looked in baseball pants. One night the two dads were on their way home from the opera when a drunk driver drove them off the road and into a gulch. Chuck now wears the accoutrements of both sports as a tribute to their memory. Chuck is also gay.
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Dec 25, 2014 00:10
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glowing-fish posted:He is a turtle. Isn't being a turtle like having your whole body be one big football helmet? Your whole body... except your head. So he wears a football helmet.
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Dec 25, 2014 00:18
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Charging Cuck
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Dec 25, 2014 00:40
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Jackie D posted:Charging Cuck Please leave.
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Dec 25, 2014 00:44
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Maybe it was originally a baseball helmet, but it offered inadequate protection against fireballs, so he welded some bars over the front. We don't see the shorter half of the baseball helmet. It just LOOKS like a football helmet. Then he got it on and was like "You know what? I was made for more than baseball."
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Dec 25, 2014 00:50
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Sir John Feelgood posted:Sorry to get all lorefag in here but I actually know the answer. Charging Chuck was adopted by a gay couple. His father was a big football fan because he liked the way guys' butts looked in football pants and his other father was a big baseball fan because he liked the way guys' butts looked in baseball pants. One night the two dads were on their way home from the opera when a drunk driver drove them off the road and into a gulch. Chuck now wears the accoutrements of both sports as a tribute to their memory. Chuck is also gay. I hate to think that Mario is a gay basher.
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Dec 25, 2014 00:56
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Jackie D posted:Charging Cuck 
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Dec 25, 2014 01:09
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codenameFANGIO posted:I didn't read that but I'm pretty sure he also kicks footballs op
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Dec 25, 2014 01:21
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Dec 25, 2014 01:39
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Jackie D posted:Charging Cuck lmao
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Dec 25, 2014 02:14
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Jackie D posted:Charging Cuck rofl 
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Dec 25, 2014 02:16
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Ever since I got a SNES+SMW bundle somewhere the early nineties I have been asking myself which sport involves digging out chunks of rock with shovels
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Dec 25, 2014 02:17
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qnqnx posted:Ever since I got a SNES+SMW bundle somewhere the early nineties I have been asking myself which sport involves digging out chunks of rock with shovels Curling. It isn't actually a shovel, its just a badly rendered broom. The rocks are coming towards Chuck perpendicular to the screen, and he is sweeping them towards Mario. He was actually purposely put in there to increase the game's appeal in Canada. That is the same reason why most Mario games had an "ice" level. Although in Canada, those levels were just called "normal" levels, and the other levels were called "the hot levels". Many Canadian Children, never having seen the sun, also assume that the way the sun attacks Mario in the desert of SMB 3 is how the sun really behaves.
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Dec 25, 2014 02:28
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loving owned.
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Dec 25, 2014 02:29
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glowing-fish posted:He is a turtle. Isn't being a turtle like having your whole body be one big football helmet? Holy loving poo poo I never considered they might be Koopas until this. They just look like angry asian guys. 
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Dec 25, 2014 02:30
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glowing-fish posted:Curling. That explains all the scarred children, they were all canadians. No whistling chuck from that one forest area underwater level that woke up all those charging fish, 0/10 qnqnx fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Dec 25, 2014 |
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Dec 25, 2014 02:35
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codenameFANGIO posted:loving owned. If you read my OP, you would see that I did research and yes, that document was one of the documents that I came across in my research and 1. it isn't canon and 2. it leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
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Dec 25, 2014 02:35
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No one read your OP and the answer to the thread title is that he is the variant 'Confused Chuck' END OF THREAD --------------->8-------------------
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Dec 25, 2014 02:45
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codenameFANGIO posted:No one read your OP and the answer to the thread title is that he is the variant 'Confused Chuck' END OF THREAD As someone else has mentioned, the source for that material isn't even complete: they failed to even mention the Fish-Calling Chuck. I bring up a valid question, and suddenly by referring to a single, non-canon, incomplete source, you are going to claim that the question is over? I don't think that is the way it works!
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Dec 25, 2014 02:53
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i played little league with a kid who's dad made him wear a full face grill to bat. he also made him pitch because he was the coach but the kid was so bad we got mercy ruled out of every game by the 4th inning. that boy grew up into charging cuck
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Dec 25, 2014 03:15
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i'm laughing my rear end off at the word cuck being posted repeatedly in this thread
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Dec 25, 2014 04:22
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the infamous cuck meme
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The holy moly emoticon.
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Jackie D posted:Charging Cuck Is that why he hates Mario? I mean, Mario is a plumber, the profession most likely to cuckold married men.
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👍Yeah!
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Dec 28, 2014 03:47
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glowing-fish posted:Why does Charging Chuck wear a football helmet to play baseball? 
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