Game Theory: Super Mario...BETRAYED! 

He's like that one kid at recces, who sells toys in his little "black market". Even if the bully wants something.

Quote from E. Gadd in Luigi's Mansion 3: "Hey, Luigi! Look at that... It's money, and lots of it! Even with all the dangers here, I'm sure we agree that money is still important! The ghosts don't seem interested in grabbing it... What's the saying? 'You can't take it with you'? *Well, I definitely want it anyway!* Keep your eyes peeled and grab as much as you can! You know, while you're capturing ghosts and saving your friends. Multitasking!" E. Gadd even sets up a shop where he charges 1000 coins for a gold bone or other items. He seems insistent on Luigi getting his ghost collection back while consistently forgetting all about Luigi's goal of saving Mario, Peach, and the Toads. It really makes you wonder.

He has a point in luigi mansion 3 he doesn't care that Luigi's friends are trapped and he even says that he need to collects coins

Gadd is the textbook version of "I'm playing both sides so I always come out on top"

This makes sense because in dark moon all ur gold and coins go to E Gads safe and u don't get to keep it

Another intriguing detail not mentioned here was also from the scene where Bowser Jr mentions E Gadd giving him the magic paintbrush. What MatPat didn’t mention is when FLUDD repeats what Bowser Jr said its voice sounds surprisingly distressed compared to how it normally spoke in the rest of the game. The way its voice sounded when it said “a strange old man...in a white...coat?” FLUDD having been created by E Gadd and created to fix the problem Gadd created himself must have really been a mind blowing thing for it. Just listen carefully to FLUDD’s tone and the way it speaks about E Gadd

Then Nintendo goes and makes Luigi's Mansion 3, setting Gadd himself up as a direct victim of the events in the game. Funny how that happens.

Matpat: I can die a happy theorist. Me:NOO MATPAT DON’T DIE ON ME!!

This theory felt very old-school, love it

One thing: E.Gadd is not doing this out of greed, but out of a search for knowledge. He fuels fueds to finance his research. On Ghosts. Sounds to me like an old man searching for immortality.

It would be so cool if Luigi’s Mansion 3 confirms this theory

Plot twist: One of E Gadd inventions told him he's in a videogame and he wanted to make it more interesting

Game Theory: Ruining your childhood in the most entertaining way possible.

I think E. Gadd is Nintendo's sly way of personifying Big Corporations and how they can affect both sides of the coin. They (being the Corporations) do not ally themselves with a side or countries, they only follow where the money takes them. They play to both sides as to not make enemies. To be an "asset" to either side if one of them were to be eliminated. Just my two cents. ;)

“Chaos is a ladder” -Elvin Gadd

Mat: in partners in time, he's does nothing to help. Me: *looks at stuffwell

Manufacture a problem, sell a solution.

Plot twist: E Gadd owns EA

Do you remember that South Park episode where Cartman told two kids that the other one hates them to make them fight? That's e-gadd of the show.

No one ever even realized what E. Gadd stood for... Evil gadd

Sometimes the worst is the neutral.

woah, under 15 minutes... are we getting the old MatPat back?

I feel like the Yoshi thing was an in-development veto, since I very clearly remember seeing art of Mario pointing forward.

E.gadd: here kid, knock yourself out, *gives bowser jr. the paintbrush* jr: hm..

They confirmed Mario was originally punching Yoshi? That's hilarious. lmao

4:42 I now realized that doctor Gadd is doing the same thing what the Netherlands did in WW1, supplying both sides of the battle. Coincidence, I think not!

E gadd theory: There's only one business in the galaxy makes you this rich

I think E. Gadd is more... neutral. I'm not sure if he's more looking for money or knowledge!

MatPat: *makes entire episode about a character neither good or evil* Also MatPat: "So is this character So Evil or So Good, no in between!"

9:23 I'm just saying that King Boo is also capable of trapping people in paintings. We SEE it in Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon! in the level E-1 "front door key" we can look through the window to see King Boo trap a toad in a painting!! We also see it during the beginning minutes of Luigi's Mansion 3! during the scene where King Boo chases you down, if you mess up, we see King Boo trap YOU in a painting!!!

I wish there were brief follow-up videos after new games like Luigi's mansion 3 released after this video was uploaded. It would be neat getting additional input

Okay, I actually have another theory pertaining to E. Gadd and Bowser Jr. Let me start off like this: Where did Bowser Jr. come from? Bowser has no wife. There's no Queen Koopa. And, the ending of Sunshine confirms that Peach is not Jr's mother. Nowhere in any Nintendo game is Bowser Jr. shown to have a mother. Now, search up "Baby Bowser." Baby Bowser is the grown up Bowser, just at Bowser Jr's age. Comparing the two, they look COMPLETELY IDENTICAL except for Jr's bib. What do we know now? That Bowser Jr. is physically identical to Bowser when he was a child. So, how does this work? Well, the easiest solution is obviously cloning. But Bowser is nowhere near the technological or intellectual level needed to clone himself. He also doesn't have the tools... You probably see where this is going. Well, E. Gadd DEFINITELY was in contact with Bowser at the time of Sunshine (Bowser Jr's origin). Since E. Gadd supplied Jr. with his paintbrush, is it really a stretch to say that he provided the tech to create him in the first place, using Bowser's DNA? Think about it. Bowser wants to defeat Mario in any way possible. A scientist coming up to him and offering to make him an heir (for a price) who would TOTALLY be able to kidnap Peach this time? Bowser would take that offer. This would also explain why E. Gadd just HANDED Bowser Jr. his paintbrush: he was arming his own little creation. This explains why Bowser might be awkward about his son asking who his mother was, and why he lied and said it was Peach. Now, there's no conclusive evidence, this is just the only theory I could come up with that had no obvious holes. Give it a thought.

In dark moon you can view the vault of the amount of money you collected. The vault is in E. Gadd's lab and in the end of dark moon luigi didnt have the money he collected

Also elvin sounds like evil and gadd sounds like good so he could be neutral. Working for and against both good and bad guys

There is actually more evidence to back up this theory in the Luigi's Mansion series. (I apologise if this is a long comment). In Luigi's Mansion 3 , E Gadd can give you useful items like golden dog bones that save your life or boo trackers. However, he charges you a lot of money for these items even though Luigi and E Gadd are in times of crisis. Proving even more that he does not care and just wants money. 💵 👻 This second piece of evidence might be a stretch but throughout the Luigi's Mansion series, he shows that he really does not care about the Toads. In Dark Moon, he literally forgets that there was a second Toad in the Trecharous Mansion and could have sent toads to the mansions despite knowing that there are ghosts there. In Luigi's Mansion 1, he may have let Mario and the toads into the mansion despite knowing the dangers in the mansion. In Luigi's Mansion 3, he at one point sends a toad to get a piece for his invention. But he says how the hotel is filled with ghosts and toad has no way of protecting himself unlike Luigi, leading to the toad getting attacked by a ghost. This further shows his carelessness towards the safety of the good guys.

fun fact the greed wallet was suppose to be given to you by wario the greediest character in the mushroom kingdom (think about it)

At least I'm not the only one. I made an entire theory series based on this lil' bugger because he's shady. Pretty much a very similar concept.

I love how accidentally dark Mario is

I think E Gadd is also heavily fueled by great optimism, like he thought every time he gave weapons to """""Villains""""" (since it's quite hard to say it...)he is thinking "well, no worries, for any problem, the brothers will fix it anyway !"

Top 10 anime *betrayals*

E.Gadd - Strategic money grab Wario - Straight foreward money grab Bowser - Conquer lands money grab . . . Waluigi - pity from others money grab ;n;

Evil? Yes, you've convinced me. *Pure* evil? I'm not sure if anyone can be *pure* evil. That's semantics though.

Mario: Yoshi! Long time no see! Yoshi: Yeah... POW OUCH! WHAT THE FLIPPING FRUITCAKE MARIO! Mario: what? You must have a neck cramp

I have an objection with your end card tournament. I dont think he's good OR evil. He's just like you describe yourself in the beginning of the episode. Chaotic Neutral.

With the rise of bowsette, that fifty shades of grey at 1:53 is taken to a new level.

The undead using E. Gadd’s invention to turn invisible. GG

I always remembered E Gadd as a good guy when i watched old SMG4 videos like in the video ‘Where the wild Teletubbies are’

For that matter, did E. Gadd make the Propeller Mushroom and Penguin Suit that happen to be gifts on Peach’s birthday riiight before she gets kidnaped by bowser in NSMBW? Those gifts are presumably from the toads, but where do you think they bought them?

I wouldn't call Wario and Waluigi villains, antagonists sure, but not villains.

MatPat: "Not to take everything at face value" GT Fans: *takes his theories at face value* This will never stop being funny and sad.

This is a brilliant theory. I can’t believe I never noticed this. What a great episode

The ones that look weak are always the strongest

Gadd=Chaotic Evil? Discuss.

I know people don't really talk about the intro but it's just so cool, even the old ones Also he makes a really compelling point

I like how you actually right the captions

I try not to have an opinion before watching these because I know I’ll be disproven Lol

That title change, I SEE YOU!! lol

Been playing Dark Moon.. And now I can't look at it the same..

Mat pat: these are good days to be a theorist Scott: hold my beat

...or maybe he's senile.

How can Mario’s Thiccness be fit into such a small vacuum?

If he’s really arms dealer, then that’s because he’s smart and knows how to make bank

I wonder if we'll get more clues in Luigi's mansion 3? *Update* Here's what I gathered so far. In the beginning where Luigi encounters e gadd, Luigi stumbles across some money. Filled with delight, e gadd says in these exact words: "Even with all the dangers here, I'm sure we agree that money is still important. What's the saying? 'you can't take it with you?' Well I definitely want it anyway!" This is *completely* opposite of what he said in the first game about money having "no concern for such things". In superstar saga+Bowser's minions he's just jabbering to himself about money in front of people he doesn't even know, but here he says it directly to Luigi's face!! Even Luigi should realize at this point that E gadd isn't acting the way he used to. Its almost like he's slowly descending into revealing the mad person he truly is (kinda like Danerys Targaryan). If you have any other clues, please reply what you saw

At 0:50 I was mouthing "welcome to game theory" but then it just stopped XD I laughed so hard

I missed theory’s like this

Maybe E.Gadd doesn't go for either side he just helps who ever is willing to pay him or do him a favour (like Luigi's Mansion where Luigi clears out the ghosts) he sells tools for the villains to make a mess and for Hero's to fix it

Imagine if e gadd sold weapons to all the kingdoms. It would be the end of the world and the eradication of maybe toads and koopas, this is closer to fact then theory.

Nooooooo, my tiny Cinnabon is evil. Darn it.

who else looked at the thumbnail and thought: " Luigi is the greatest enemy, is he?" and then its E Gadd and then you re like: " Oh." Edit: wow 108 likes already? thank you all so much and spammers, please stop. I know your not Matpat.

nothing like hitting the person who was your guardian and brought you home to your parents

In luigi's mansion 3 when E.Gad and luigi find coins E.Gad says "What's the saying? You can't take it with you?Well,I definitely want it anyway!"

Huh, professor E.vil... Nice

This theory brought me back to the good old days of game theory

Now I want to replay my copy of dark moon

Don’t mind me, just going through all matpat’s old Mario theories

Guess that all the time spent analyzing Freddy’s buttons paid off. Huh

he's figured out the secret *he's figured out how to get rich*

well all of this might be right but while he's helping villians he's helping hero's more

In Luigis Mansion 3 It is showed that King Boo CREATES Frames

Wasn’t the original final boss for Dark Moon supposed to be E. Gadd, but someone spoiled it so they scrapped the idea I thought I heard that somewhere.

All these theories about Mario should be made into a TV series.

“ this walking talking poop emoji” had me dying of laughter

1:33 WHY DOESN’T HE COLLECT ALL THE COINS BEFORE LEAVING???

Mat: these are good days to be a theorist Me: *starts makjng a theory channel*

Lol the room reference at the end was funny.

MatPat: *makes a valid point about everything lore and science* MatPat: But hey, that's just a theory! A FILM/GAME THEORY! Aaaand cut./Thanks for watching. Me: Yeahhhh, this should actually be canon.

Fun fact: the gadd logo on the flodd is a normal face but the paintbrush has an evil face for the logo. So I guess that means he might have different logos or factories to make his devices, so no one find out his true nature .

Yes! Glad to know I’m not alone in despising this guy! I honestly thought he was gonna be revealed as the villain in Luigi’s Mansion.

Let's not forget the fact that fludd seamed to recognise mario as it's owner

Luigi’s Mansion 3 came out after this theory. And it continues to prove this theory.

E gadd maybe was hypnotized by those glasses he was wearing

Hey MatPat, I figured out why Diet Coke won't sponsor you. Remember on you Wall-e Film Theory video, you said that you wouldn't eat potassium benzoate? ..... Diet Coke has potassium benzoate in it. BOOM! I'm a genius.

9:47 that's called murder

he seems to be strangely interested in money in luigi’s mansion 3

"The Smartest Show in Gaming" Well dang

Never give me the image of Bowser and Mario in Fifty Shades of Grey ever again.

E.Gadd? More like E.Badd! *crickets*

This makes a ton of sense Even though it’s been like a few years Still

Woah, That changed my life.

2:13 lol who else thought it was toad for a second