JUDGE

Created by user Angsty in late 2021, JUDGE takes the form of a mildly different Luigi, featuring lankier and longer limbs, a shorter torso and a differently shaped head. His mustache points downwards and slightly curls up, all of this giving him a sad/empty expression.

JUDGE wears the same attire as Luigi without buttons, featuring a more desaturated and dark version of the color palette from Super Mario Bros., although his hat is green instead of white, and features Japanese kanji for "judge", or "seal" on a pale orange-ish yellow background, while his hair is a dark, almost gray brown and his gloves are a light brown. His white shirt features occasional brick-like patterns.

Biography
JUDGE is an entity of data of unknown origin, which is primarily encountered in original copies of Super Mario Bros. from 1985, but also rarely in emulated versions of the game.

JUDGE takes on the role of a digital guardian of Out of Bounds sections of the Super Mario game it is located within. The thing will be aggravated if the player decides to wander out of the intended game area, in which the encounter begins. The only RECORDED encounter of JUDGE dates all the way back to 2004, where a teenager jumped past the flag pole of a Super Mario Bros. level.

The encounter sequence for JUDGE is a peculiar one. Once the player has gotten past the flag pole, JUDGE will only show his presence if the player begins running until the graphics begin freaking out and displaying improperly (which is a normal thing and happens with every copy of Super Mario Bros.). If the player runs far enough, a modified version of the Luigi sprite will show up running after them and jumping ontop of a newly spawned Koopa Shell. This, in itself, would be no problem, if it wasn't for the fact that the player's ability to jump will be removed once JUDGE launches the shell, starting an endless chase sequence where you cannot outrun the shell, as it goes EXACTLY as fast as the player's top speed, running endlessly through the corrupted OOB (Out of Bounds) area of Super Mario Bros.

The chase only ends when the player is killed by the shell (which results in the game cartridge being corrupted, and becoming unusable, or simply corrupting the data of emulated copies of the game), or when the game inevitably ceases to function due to how far the player has gone.

Abilities
Extensive data manipulation

JUDGE is capable of heavily influencing the behavior of objects within the game, such as being able to glitch objects into each other. (For example, he can make Koopa Shells freak out and turn into a Hammer Bro for a short instant, in which it WILL launch hammers like a Hammer Bro, but will keep moving and behaving like a Koopa Shell.) JUDGE can also do much more, such as warp between every level, erase data/modify it, and toy around with the game like we're in Super Mario Maker, but it is not interested in doing so, since it only wants to get rid of people who go too far.

His abilities CAN slightly vary depending on the Mario game he is located within.

Complete file invisibility

JUDGE cannot be located within the source code/files of Super Mario Bros. His modified Luigi sprite being changed in real time, it is not located anywhere in the game's memory, and neither is he referenced anywhere.

Extreme agility and reflexes.

These abilities never come into play in a game encounter with him, but if he WERE to get in a canon engagement with an opponent, JUDGE makes very good use of his lightning fast thinking skills and his swift movements, despite his lanky body.

Weaknesses
JUDGE is not a spirit haunting the game, or an omnipresent being. Simply NOT going out of bounds is enough to avoid an encounter with him, and the same goes for not playing a Super Mario game at all. You can also use invincibility cheats to get past the Koopa Shell, but that is only a short-term solution, as JUDGE knows how to deal with that.

Trivia
- JUDGE, as a person, is very careless about literally everything. He rarely shows interest in any activities/topics, does not speak, and always looks depressed, so it's extremely hard to interact with it.

- JUDGE, while represented in a 3D Mario game, will only show up as an eyeless model of Luigi when possible. If there is no model of Luigi available, JUDGE will simply show up as a cloud of whatever particle effect it can find within the game.

- JUDGE is asexual.

- JUDGE's main two weapons are a slightly smaller version of the flag pole, which it uses as a melee combat tool, and the other is his fabled homing Koopa Shell, which is extremely good at tracking down opponents.

- You don't want to see him when he takes his hat off.

- JUDGE's sprite's cap changes color depending on what version of the game you are running. If your version of the game is emulated, then the sprite's cap will be green. If it's an official cartridge of Super Mario Bros, then the cap will be white.