Swimming Pool Matriarch Visual Gag Variations 7

Author's Note: Can you believe that it has been several months since the last time I posted a Matriarch of the Swimming Pool Visual Gag Variations comic? Maybe time constraints do have a very serious effect on comic production after all...

I'm very sure Sofia the First from Disney's Sofia the First is secretly a Blaster Master fangirl because the vehicle driven by Jason in the Sunsoft NES game Blaster Master was named Sophia the Third.

Remember Sakura Kinomoto's Water Jester costume from Episode 3 of Cardcaptor Sakura? This battle costume is iconic because it appeared in both the anime and the manga. Given that the main part of Sakura's Water Jester costume had to be a water-resistant dress, it's possible that the core part of the battle costume is a swimsuit.

The default female Mii and Guest F are twin sisters because their faces are totally identical. The only difference is that the default female Mii wears a red shirt while Guest F wears a pink shirt.

Given that Mario likes Italian food, this mushroom eater would definitely love lasagna, meaning Garfield is not alone.

Starting from the London 2012 edition of Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, female characters get to wear gymnastics leotards that double as swimming costumes. Rosalina is playable in the gymnastics events of the Rio 2016 edition of Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games. However, Rosalina does not appear in the swimming events, meaning the leotard that she wears in the gymnastics events did not go for a swim at all.

Swimming in a leotard sounds like an absurd idea since leotards are not designed to go swimming. However, all of that changed when Destira designed leotards that can double as swimsuits. Therefore, Sakura Kinomoto's Water Jester leotard possibly being a swimsuit, as well as the leotards worn by the female characters doubling as swimsuits in the swimming events of Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games series, makes sense now.

Groin Kicked

Contrary to popular belief, Sega's rivalry with Nintendo did not cease after Sega exited hardware production as a result of the Dreamcast's discontinuation. Tyris Flare kicking Princess Peach's groin in this comic is proof that Sega's rivalry with Nintendo is still ongoing.

In this comic where Princess Peach gets her groin kicked by Tyris Flare four times, Peach is wearing four different attires. Panel 1 is her Super Mario Strikers attire, Panel 2 is her Mario Strikers Charged attire, Panel 3 is her Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games swimsuit, and Panel 4 is her Super Mario Odyssey bikini.

Ice Bucket Challenge 10th Anniversary Edition

2024 marks the 10th Anniversary of the Ice Bucket Challenge that went viral. Unfortunately, the people who inspired the Challenge, namely Anthony Senerchia Jr, Pete Frates and Pat Quinn, are dead. This means the Ice Bucket Challenge 10th Anniversary Edition will be dedicated to the memory of these three people as well as SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg, all of whom have died from ALS-related complications.

For those wondering if the two ladies in this comic are going to wear swimsuits for the Ice Bucket Challenge, the answer is yes. In fact, the swimsuits worn by Peach, Daisy, Rosalina and Samus would be among some of the best choices for the two ladies who want to look good after getting wet in the Ice Bucket Challenge.

If you want to know why swimwear and ice buckets go hand in hand, read my other two Ice Bucket Challenge-themed comics.

Nintendo games and characters © Nintendo.

Tentacle Crime 3

Characters getting molested by a Blooper in this comic, from top to bottom: Samus (In her two-piece swimsuit from the Metroid Zero Mission ending), Arle (PuyOlympics bikini), Peach (In her Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games swimsuit), Daisy (In her Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games swimsuit), Elena (Street Fighter 3).

Yet another comic about a Blooper molesting female characters? This Blooper is going to be in serious trouble with the police, and nobody wants to get captured by the police these days...

Swimsuit Design Modesty

Even video games that feature gymnastics and swimming, which are sports that contain fanservice, had to choose female swimsuit designs that have less fanservice appeal in order to reach out to the adolescent gamer market. But it's not just Nintendo that had to comply with such regulations. Sega had to give Amy and Blaze skirted swimwear, and some people think skirts would slow them down hydrodynamically. This, however, turned out to be false, at least by video game logic standards.

By choosing swimsuit designs that sacrifice fanservice for modesty, it's clear that some video game companies had to comply with regulations concerning female swimwear designs. Notably, the last two alternate costumes for Zero Suit Samus in Super Smash Bros for 3DS and Wii U and Super Smash Bros Ultimate could have been disallowed by the video game age ratings authorities. However, if a two-piece swimsuit consists of a sports bra swim top and a boyshorts swim bottom, it gets a pass from the video game age ratings authorities, possibly because sports bras and boyshorts are considered modest by two-piece swimsuit standards.

Miyuki's Protest

In this comic, Miyuki is unhappy not because she does not like fanservice. She is unhappy about the Larry Nassar scandal that revealed a huge abuse scandal in USA Gymnastics as well as the mistreatment of homeless people in Tokyo by the police that is evicting them from the Olympic Games venues. That's why she is protesting against the injustices relating to the Olympics.

If you want to know why Miyuki is wearing Rosalina's leotard, that's because Rosalina does not wear her leotard from the Rio 2016 Edition of Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games in the Tokyo 2020 Edition, and therefore, Miyuki can wear it. The reason Miyuki is holding a protest sign while wearing a leotard is because she stands in solidarity with gymnasts who had been victims of sexual abuse. Miyuki is also protesting against the injustices that nojukusha (Japanese slang for homeless people) are suffering from due to police brutality, which also led to the unlawful arrests of activists, one of whom goes by the name of A-san, whose arrest in 2016 for obstructing "official duties" was considered an unforgivable injustice.

Perhaps the Olympic torch relay was a mistake when it was first introduced, and the Olympic torch relay did not even originate from the Ancient Greeks that conceived the original ancient version of the Olympics at all. Yet another reason for the Olympics to be cancelled and abolished. For all the good intentions the Olympics promised, including peace, we had received almost nothing from it...

Update: The delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo has gone ahead as planned and concluded as scheduled. The campaign to cancel it was not successful.

In need of a redesign

It's official. The Tokyo Olympic Games, along with the Euro Cup and Copa America, will be postponed to 2021 as a result of a devastating pandemic that not only killed tens of thousands, but forced many events to be either postponed or cancelled.

Speaking of the Olympic Games, the video games based on the greatest amateur sports event will need to be renamed, redesigned and relabeled in response to the postponement. So please, change the name and redesign the box art for the two video games, Sega.

Update: The delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo has gone ahead as planned, and it was concluded as scheduled. But the cover art for the video game adaptations of the Tokyo Olympic Games did not get a redesign.