A week after the release of Nintendo’s bubbly racer on Switch 2, there’s plenty of footage showcasing new tech, amazing shortcuts, and impressive plays. But part of what makes Mario Kart such a memorable franchise is the chaos and randomness, which means players are also sharing clips of themselves getting owned. Turns out, a blue shell can be the least of your worries in Mario Kart World.
We’ve got the classic scenario where someone in first place befalls compounding tragedy 0nly to find themselves ranked somewhere in the double digits. Naturally, some of these incidents begin with a blue shell and only get worse from there:
Heavy hangs the crown; if you’re leading the pack in Mario Kart, you should expect to have a target on your back. And honestly? Sometimes these guys deserve seeing the scales tipped against them:
None of these clips are nearly as painful as the ones where the finish line is mere pixels away, but the player can’t reach it because of lady luck’s BS.
When you’re getting hit by an assembly line of Mario Kart items, it’s hard to fault a player for crashing out — especially if they’re not even doing well in the first place.
Thanks to free roam, sometimes you don’t even have to be in an actual race to experience misfortune:
That’s the Mario Kart experience, really. One moment you’re flying high and smoking everyone. The next moment, an army of dung-covered cannibal cows decide to delete you from existence. All you can do is laugh and boot up the next race.
