Just remembered, i once discussed with someone about an idea.
What if Antasma come back but since he is dead, he come back as an evil angel like zero-two ? Turn out he is unable to move on the afterlife like a real vampire, so he stay on the real world and attempt to revive himself (possibly using vim since it is a form of life force) which is why he unfroze the Shroobs.
So he was never transcend. That is pretty tragic. I like the VIM coming back into play, as that is very vampire-like to do, and would justify Shroobs. This idea fits. Who on earth did you tell this to?!
Well this is what vampire do, they eat blood to sustain themselve and their soul is prevented to enter heaven, unless you kill them with special method.
So i can see Antasma unfrozing the shroob appearing to them in the form of an angel of sort (the angel of light trick) promising them that he will help them to rule the world in exchange of vim.
Toward mid-game, he absorb enough vim along with the Elder Shroob princess's power to regain physical form (which will look different if not outright his uncursed form) and the game will shift with Antasma putting his plans in motion (along with him regaining his lost memories, since he do not have the curse anymore)
It was a joke post originaly, basically i through, if Antasma is inspired by nightmare from kirby then who say they are gonna use inspiration from other villain like Dark Matter ?
Also another thing i checked, Merlumina was indeed haunting peoples's dreams not unlike Tas, so making Antasma showing up as a soul like her would make his connection to the ancients more obvious.
With a cleverly hidden self destruct mechanism in case of betrayal.
It could become funny since Merlumina is said to have made a Pure heart, so having Antasma creating a pure heart to further his plans would help setting him apart.
Because you think Antasma would ally himself with the genocidial alien race without any back up plan ? Specialy that he would know how such alliance would go thanks to Bowser.
He'll probably just haunt Bowser's dreams just to spite him, that or Blumiere (Blumiere ! Vhy did you kill our vhole clan ?!)
Blumiere: Can't sleep, enraged survivor of my clan will game over me, Can't sleep, enraged survivor of my clan will game over me, Can't sleep, enraged survivor of my clan will game over me, Can't sleep, enraged survivor of my clan will game over me...
Bowser: NOOOOO ! My awesome dream of peach is ruined ! (said dream is obviously Peach baking him a cake while giving him a kiss on the nose, what do you think ?)
About making a pure heart it could make sense if he wanted to restore something, like the destroyed count bleck's home dimension...
Good luck Bowser getting somebody to listen to you when you say your dreams are being ruined. I could see him in at a Toad Psychologist. "Where did you get that piano?"
He would want to restore that. He'd be going against nature though. Vampires are not supposed to restore.
As mentioned all those horrible things could be done because he believe that once his plan succeed, he'll be able to undo all evil things he has done and fix his past mistakes.
Because gaining the power to control time and rewrite history can make you do that.
The struggle come that the plan is extremly risky and might cause the destruction of the universe, thus you need to stop him.
Dimentio got close to controlling the universe. Now Antasma gets a shot! ^_^
Rewrite history and delete some of it.
Trying to stop him may actually cause massive damage. This would not be an easy or as one-sided as past villains, where it was obvious to just fight the villain at every opportunity. This situation will take care. Mario Bros. don't have that!
Dimentio, Count Bleck, Bowser and King Boo were the ones who caused the most damage to the universe.
He'll make Bowser the ruler of the mushroom kingdom just as an ironical spite (remember when i helped you to rule the world ? Well there you have it. See no need to get all paranoid and betray peoples)
Probably only if he put his spell in motion which the bros will attempt to prevent.
"You are right, shouted Count Bleck!" The did cause the most damage. Although, who really knows how much the Shroobs may have caused. Nightmare Fuel if you consider all the possibilities.
That will teach him. Make him ruler, but not through his own efforts. Take that, Bowser!
True. Luigi has been known to almost destroy universes though. Watch him closely.
It mean Time and Relative Dimensions In Space, i admit it's a odd name but well even the Tardis herself say it
Because Luigi is supposed to be stronger than Mario (he is only held back by his low self esteem and his cowardice), so it might make sense that the baddies are stuff out of nightmares (litteraly in the case of Antasma) who threaten reality itself.
Boos... Yeah, I guess we are talking about boos! EPIC! Never noticed the similarities. You are on a roll today. Should I die in some horrible forum disaster, I want you to take my place. ^_^
I know what it means, but still sucky name. TARDIS
Where did it say Luigi was stronger? Was that said or implied? I remember his faults holding him back though. I also remember Mr. L representing his faults.
Except he didn't in LM: dark moon, E gadd implied he send this time mario with probably the nessesary material, King Boo still trapped him.
Yeah, this is his only weakness.
Another reason luigi's villains are more dangerous could be simply because Luigi is more developped and his games more atmospheric, then you need villain that fit with the setting.
Remember that Luigi has has more experience though, thanks to the first game. Materials is only a small part of the battle. Luigi sucked massively even with the equipment when he first started.
I hope for Luigi being stronger though. I have always felt he was better in many ways.
True, his games have more detail instead of some generic stories. Then again, he has a lot less of them, so maybe that is why they are all unique for now.
All luigi need is motivation and courage, once he get it, he become pretty much unstoppable.
I also like how creppy his games can get, i definitelly hope we will see some Kirby level creepy if not outright Earthbound level creepy (considering that Luigi games can get sometime pretty trippy)