Nintendo often use other companies for plagiarising their games. But on rare occasions, Nintendo has done the same thing! Art or writing copied directly from FANS has made its way into the Mario, Pokémon and Super Smash Bros series!

In this video I'll be talking about 4 times Nintendo has accidentally copied fan-art and fan created content!

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CREDITS
Thank you to Ragaraja Plays for allowing me to use this footage of the Mario Encyclopedia:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZfiFKHE13g

SOURCES
https://x.com/JoeMerrick/status/1334900613721845762
https://forums.serebii.net/threads/serebii-net-pok%C3%A9mon-omega-ruby-alpha-sapphire-discovery-thread.637946/page-9#post-17524236 

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/01/looks_like_nintendo_accidentally_used_a_fan-made_mario_render_on_its_website 
https://web.archive.org/web/20210107035855/https://twitter.com/ujiidow/status/1347029847370043394
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mario/comments/7hbegn/mario_nsmbw_render_recreation/

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/10/it_looks_like_the_official_super_mario_encyclopedia_plagiarised_a_fan-made_wiki 
https://x.com/SMWikiOfficial/status/1054827213219160064 
https://translate.google.com/?sl=fr&tl=en&text=Lumacom%C3%A8te&op=translate 
https://www.mariowiki.com/Super_Mario_Bros._Encyclopedia 

https://x.com/RandomTBush/status/1072809310005153793 
https://www.ssbwiki.com/List_of_spirits_(EarthBound_series)#Trivia 
https://x.com/Mode_Change/status/1073100061964406784
https://www.deviantart.com/warpstarx/art/Masked-Man-references-345749209