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Young Cricket is a major character in the WarioWare series, first appearing in WarioWare: Smooth Moves. He is a martial artist and a WarioWare, Inc. employee who is obsessed with meat dumplings, and is the devoted apprentice of Master Mantis.
History[]
WarioWare: Smooth Moves[]
Young Cricket makes his debut in WarioWare: Smooth Moves. While walking down Park Street, Young Cricket's stomach growls and he says that he is hungry. Soon, he smells dumplings being served at a nearby food stand. Cricket starts running on the Park Street Residents' heads to the front of the line. Eventually, he reaches the front of the line and asks for two dumplings, only to find that the people he stepped on are all angry at him. He apologizes and runs on their heads again to get back to Master Mantis, telling him that they should get in line.
WarioWare: D.I.Y.[]
In WarioWare: D.I.Y., he runs the Assembly Dojo alongside Mantis. He also appears as a comic stamp.
Game & Wario[]
Young Cricket also appears in Game & Wario, where he hosts the Kung Fu minigame. His training routine and love for dumplings are addressed once again, with his game combining both as the player controls Young Cricket through a series of obstacle courses to reach Master Mantis, collecting dumplings along the way to regain energy.
WarioWare Gold[]
In WarioWare Gold, Young Cricket is the host of the fourth stage of the Touch League, with the Sports theme. His design is slightly changed; while he retains his black eyes from Game & Wario, his hair is longer in the back, and his pants are smaller. In his story, he is shown training in Diamond City Amusement Park. Cricket analyzes how dangerous two rides are, and then decides he is ready to prove himself. Mantis leads him to a merry-go-round known as Precious Prancers, where Cricket is ready to start his trial after overreacting about how dangerous the attraction is. After Cricket survives the trial, Lulu, who mistakes him for one of the horses, jumps on his shoulder, and he tells Lulu to get off of him, which shocks her. He then proceeds to the next trial, the "Trial of the Lost Child", as Lulu (still clinging onto him) tells him to "giddyup, horsey."
He is later seen at Club Joe alongside Mantis, Jimmy T, Mona, Kat, Ana, Dr. Crygor, Penny, Mike, and Fronk, where his fighting moves end up attracting a large crowd to the club.
At the end of the game, Cricket is among the group who demands Wario to pay them for the microgames they designed for the Wario Bowl. After Wario trips and lets his money briefcase fall, Cricket uses his newly learned technique, the "Precious Prancing Pounce", to stop Wario from escaping further. All of Wario's friends then decide to split the remaining money equally between them as Cricket holds off Wario from interfering. The player is then rewarded the 10000 coins they were given at the beginning of the game to buy their admission into the Wario Bowl.
Young Cricket also hosts the Battle Time multiplayer game mode alongside Master Mantis. Cricket is represented by the player that selects Join Battle in the mode's title screen.
WarioWare: Get It Together![]
Young Cricket appears in WarioWare: Get It Together! In the game's story mode, he appears in the opening cutscene, eating dumplings alongside Master Mantis. He, along with the rest of the WarioWare, Inc. employees, gets sucked into the game world due to Wario's actions. His hair is slightly changed, with it being less longer in the back, and with some hair tips being more to the side rather than an outline.
Young Cricket is the second character to be unlocked following Wario, as he joins Wario in the first level alongside 18-Volt. After beating Wario's stage, 18-Volt recognizes the game bug that sabotaged Wario's stage, and Cricket hypothesizes that destroying the game bugs will fix the game. Throughout the various pre-stage cutscenes, Cricket is shown pushing 18-Volt due to the latter's inability to move.
Young Cricket appears in the intro of Jimmy T's stage where he does an aerobics performance with him, Mantis, Lulu, and Joe.
After beating Anything Goes, Young Cricket goes back to the real world alongside most of the other WarioWare, Inc. employees and chases after Wario after it is revealed their predicament was caused by his poor programming. When they soon remember other people were left behind in the game world, Cricket suggests that everyone return to the game world to rescue their friends, which they do immediately.
WarioWare: Move It![]
Young Cricket appears in WarioWare: Move It!, where he joins Wario along with the rest of the WarioWare Inc. crew to Caresaway Island. In his stage, "Battle on Flashfreeze Cape!", Young Cricket and Master Mantis are seen at the titular cape, where he catches multiple fish and organizes them above a campfire to cook. While waiting, snow suddenly falls on the cape, and the duo are ambushed by a gang of penguins, which Cricket switfly dodges. The head penguin commends Cricket's agility and challenges him to microcombat, who accepts. Eventually, Cricket defeats the penguin gang, leading the head penguin to reveal himself as a disguised Cicada, who further compliments Cricket's prowess before leaving. Cricket and Mantis remain confused to her presence and identity.
Appearance[]
Young Cricket is shown to be either an older teenager or an adult, and has a tall build. He has black hair with white tips and oval eyes. He wears a blue martial artist jacket with white buttons in the front, along with a white stripe wrapping around the bottom of his jacket, with two short stripes on the sides of his body. Along with this, he wears blue loose-fitting pants that somewhat flare out at the bottom, with blue and white shoes and silver martial artist armbands.
Personality[]
Young Cricket is heavily devoted to martial arts, training in difficult environments. He is also shown to be a big fan of meat dumplings throughout his appearances in the WarioWare franchise, like his WarioWare: Smooth Moves stage and the Kung Fu minigame in Game & Wario. Also, the Meat Dumpling Prezzy in WarioWare: Get It Together! is one of his most favorite, and his spirit in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has a dumpling Item Tidal Wave, referencing his favorite food. In WarioWare Gold, his serious personality remains, but for comedic effect, as he even goes as far as to "train" at the Diamond City Amusement Park, and also appears to have a tendency to overexaggerate. At least in WarioWare: Smooth Moves, he is shown being a little naïve; despite this, he is shown to fit in with the rest of his coworkers. He is also shown to be friendly and has joined his friends in activities like dancing at Club Sugar at the end of Game & Wario and Club Joe in WarioWare Gold and playing ball with Kat and Ana in "Pool Party Panic" in WarioWare: Move It!
Powers and abilities[]
Since Young Cricket is a martial artist, he knows a variety of kung-fu moves, including the Precious Prancing Pounce and We-Yu-Ken. In addition, he has excellent jumping abilities, being able to jump several feet high, as shown in both the Kung Fu game mode in Game & Wario and WarioWare: Get It Together! In the latter, he is also shown to be an excellent runner as well.
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