Fanfic / I HATE YOU

I HATE YOU is a Super Mario Bros. creepypasta based off of Super Mario World. It claims that the writer, Slimebeast, has found a lore-changing secret level in the game. It can be read here.

The writer loves playing Super Mario World on emulator and has been playing it for a decade. One day, while playing the Sunken Ship level, they spot something they've never seen before—a "Blind Boo," or Boo enemy without eyes. The Blind Boo is blocking the exit Warp Pipe, but there is another way out: a Key and Keyhole, which open secret exits in the game; the narrator is sure that this is brand new, as they've never seen nor heard of anyone discovering an alternate route in the Sunken Ship. Excited to be the first to discover the secret, the narrator grabs the key and passes through...

Mario then returns to the World Map, where a new level—signified by a whirlpool—appears. In a bit of foreshadowing, moving Mario to the whirlpool results in his expression becoming horrified, with a nearby giant Bowser rock formation crying tears of blood. A bit spooked but undeterred, the narrator enters the level, which is titled "OH GOD NO." Things quickly take a turn for the strange, as the level proves to be a kind of underwater castle that consists of a single long hallway that goes on for quite some time. As the narrator goes through the hallway, strange enemies appear, including more Blind Boos, Banzai Bills with screaming faces and blood gushing from their eyes, and Big Boos with horrific expressions of anger. Bloody messages also manifest on the walls, including "I HATE YOU" and "WHY WON'T YOU DIE?" The player is also forced to activate cheats to get through the level, as there is no way to escape the Bleeding Bills and Monster Boos.

After finally reaching the end of the hallway, the narrator finds himself in a new area filled with Thwomps. In another scary twist, the floor under the Thwomps is covered with blood, suggesting that they've successfully smashed their victims into pulp. Next up comes a room full of spikes—which have other Marios impaled on them, suggesting that countless incarnations of the plumber have tried (and failed) to get through this level. The player escapes them all and enters a boss door...

Once they reach the final chamber, the main character comes across Luigi himself. Entering a cutscene, they learn that Luigi has been an inside agent for King Koopa the entire time. He hates playing second fiddle to Mario, so he operates in the background and helps Koopa kidnap Princess Toadstool. Luigi is sick of his brother and wants him gone once and for all, so he stomps on Mario several times. This doesn't kill Mario. Mario takes his brother by surprise and pushes him into the lava.

The player plays through the rest of the game to see if anything changed. Nothing has changed, though they can't enter the level anymore. The only apparent change is the ending art: Mario frowns at Luigi, Princess Toadstool is crying, and Luigi's face has been melted off.

A ROM hack version of the creepypasta was released by SMW Central user Ersanio in July 2016, and can be found here. A reimagining of the creepypasta and the game titled Mario World: Ignited Hatred was released in early Feburary 2024 and can be downloaded here.

See also Mario Is a Monster, another creepypasta by Slimebeast about the Super Mario Bros. series.

I HATE YOU provides examples of:

• Adaptational Villainy: Luigi is an inside-agent that works with the Koopa Troop.
• Artistic License: The narrator says they used the B button to run... however, they were playing the SNES version, in which B is jump and X and Y are run.
• Art-Style Dissonance: It's a horror story featuring the cute Super Mario World graphics.
• Bloodier and Gorier: To actual Mario games, naturally. Lampshaded in the author's notes, being listed as one of the things that was included with the intention of making the story's nature as a creepypasta satire more obvious.
• Boss Battle: The original story and .exe lack one, but the ROM hack version turns the encounter with Luigi at the end into this.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: The secret level contains the corpses of dozens of other Marios who have tried, and failed, to complete the level.
• Cain and Abel: Luigi is secretly jealous of his more successful brother and wants him dead. Unfortunately for Mario, who is the Abel, when he nearly dies, he pushes Luigi into lava out of retaliation, inadvertently killing him.
• Canon Discontinuity: In-universe, this presumably happened, assuming the level isn't actually Dummied Out (hence why it's so difficult to get to). Mario knows Luigi's secret now, but all other Mario games ignore this.
• Cheat Code: The first hallway in the secret level has an unavoidable Bleeding Bill; due to this, the narrator is forced to use a Game Genie code that activates permanent invincibility. Averted in the ROM hack, which just has the invincibility activate at a certain point in the hallway.
• Dark Fic: The creepypasta describes itself as a lost, secret level to Super Mario World that no one has ever found evidence of. It's full of blood and gore, a dark twist, and attempted fratricide. It also parodies video game creepypastas with similar premises, in how it deliberately presents the dark content in a straightforward manner.
• Death from Above: The Thwomps, in a literal example of this trope, have successfully ground previous Marios to bits, as the floor below them is now covered in blood.
• Death Glare: The ending screen features Mario giving one hell of a disapproving glare at the now-horrendously burned Luigi.
• Disney Death: For a moment, Mario seems dead. He gets back onto his feet and delivers a finishing blow to Luigi. If the ending screen is anything to go by, Luigi undergoes this as well, since he's shown horribly burned, but his single glowing eye suggests that the lava didn't do him in...
• Easter Egg:
  • In the .exe version, you can find Weegee if you swim past the first pipe for a little bit.
  • In the ROM hack, there is a weird soundtrack that accompanies the ending art. When reversed, it’s revealed to be a distorted version of “I Love Beijing Tiananmen” from Hong Kong '97.
• Eyeless Face: The Blind Boos, naturally. They don't chase after Mario as a result, something the story itself notes.
• Eyes Are Unbreakable: Downplayed in Luigi's case, as the only eye he lost was his right one after falling in lava, despite his skin and nose having melted off with it too.
• Fatal Flaw: Luigi's is Envy. He grew tired of living in the shadow of his brother Mario, and thus helped Bowser kidnap Princess Peach out of hatred. Luigi stops waiting and goes to try and kill Mario once and for all at the end of the secret level, even taunting the latter with the line "You thought Koopa worked alone?" He nearly kicked Mario into the lava below them, but prematurely rubbed his victory in, just long enough for Mario to rise back up while he wasn't looking, beat him back, and push him into the lava instead. Though Luigi survived dying in lava according to the ending art the writer unlocked, his body is scorched, and he clearly gained Mario's scorn.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Luigi is jealous of Mario with such an intensity that he'd side with Bowser, aiding his plans to kidnap the Princess. When Mario finally reaches him, Luigi opts to take him on in a fight to the death.
• The Internet Is for Porn: The protagonist admits to having used his own computer to download "all sorts of pornography."
• Jump Scare: In the .exe version, after the ending (and when you touch the smiley mushroom right next to the pipe^note which is replaced by a red door in the ROM hack), a bunch of creepy images flash on the screen while a scream sound plays. They're completely irrelevant to the story, seeing as they include Sonic.exe and Suicide Mouse, among others, and it's likely they were added for simple shock value.
• The Mole: Out of his jealousy against Mario, Luigi has been working with Bowser for a long time, aiding him in his schemes.
  "You thought Koopa worked alone?"
• A Molten Date with Death: Luigi was close to beating Mario into the lava below them. Too bad Luigi celebrated too soon, as Mario turns the tables and pushes him into the lava instead, though Mario soon regrets doing so. Luigi can only helplessly utter "OH GOD NO" as he's drenched neck-deep. What's even worse is that Luigi somehow survives this, according to the new ending art the writer unlocked, though not without losing his skin, nose and right eye in the process.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Mario breaks down crying after he pushes Luigi into the lava in self-defense, accidentally killing him.
• Near-Villain Victory: If Luigi hadn't exposed himself to a brutal pushback from Mario by striking a victory pose for too long, he would have won.
• Oh, Crap!: It's easy to miss, but Mario's expression changes to one of horror when standing on the entrance to "OH GOD NO" on the world map.
• Only a Flesh Wound: The ending art the writer unlocks after beating the secret level plays this for horror by showing Luigi still standing in his usual pose like in the original game, with the only difference being his skin, nose, and right eye are burnt off.
• Red Herring: During the final battle, a Hell Valley Sky Tree from Super Mario Galaxy 2 can be seen watching the fight through a window. Other than it simply being there, it seemingly has no connection to the wider plot.
• Riddle for the Ages: What was the deal with the mushroom with a weird face? The writer didn't dare to touch it, so we never find out. However, trying to touch said mushroom in the .exe version triggers a string of screamers, while in the ROM hack it kills you and paints the overworld blood red, though not before stating that "Your Next".
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: Luigi, in his bid to help Bowser kidnap Princess Peach and kill Mario out of envy, not only had his scheme go up in smoke, but ends off for the worse, being horribly charred from the lava he tried to kick his own brother into, and said brother hating him back for what he did.
• Shout-Out: In the boss chamber, a strange, ominous figure looms in one of the windows, overlooking the action. It's one of the mysterious "aliens" from the Shiverburn Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy 2, which have also appeared in some other Mario games as Easter Eggs and prompted a ton of invokedfan theories.
• Sibling Murder: Luigi attempts to kill Mario, but he fails to. Mario ends up doing so instead, though not because he wants to.
• Springtime for Hitler: This fic's nature as a parody of creepypastas went unnoticed by most of the readerbase, and it instead became treated as a genuine creepypasta thanks to the sheer effort Slimebeast put into it.
• Stealth Parody: While the story was written as a parody of creepypasta, the amount of effort put into it meant lots of people didn't get the joke.
• Tear Off Your Face: More like "Burn Off Your Face". After Luigi fell into lava, the new ending art the writer sees shows that all of his skin, right eye, and nose melted off, leaving his reddened teeth exposed.
• Tears of Blood: When the narrator moves Mario over to the secret level's entrance, the entrance to Valley of Bowser cries up tears of blood.
• Troll Fic: In an inversion of invokedParody Retcon, the author claimed that they wrote it as a satire of video game creepypastas shortly after the story was initially released and praised. However, some ignored the author's claims and regarded it as a genuine creepypasta, with praise given to Slime Beast's sprites.