When Nintendo accidentally used FAN ART in their game

Thomas Game Docs October 10, 2024
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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! PATREON - https://patreon.com/ThomasGameDocs BLUESKY - https://thomasgamedocs.bsky.social MERCH - https://teespring.com/stores/thomas-game-docs 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

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