Editing Mondegreen (section)

===In video games===

The video game ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' involved a mishearing during [[Mario]]'s encounters with [[Bowser]]. [[Charles Martinet]], the voice actor for Mario, explained the line was "So long, King-a Bowser";<ref>{{Cite tweet |last=Martinet |first=Charles |author-link=Charles Martinet |user=CharlesMartinet |number=1122713913269710848 |date=28 April 2019 |title=So long kinga Bowser! |access-date=17 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lane |first=Gavin |date=29 April 2019 |title=Charles Martinet, Voice Of Mario, Clears Up A Decades-Long Debate |url=https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/04/charles_martinet_voice_of_mario_clears_up_a_decades-long_debate |access-date=2024-07-17 |website=Nintendo Life |language=en-GB}}</ref> however, it was misheard as "So long, gay Bowser". The misinterpreted line became a [[Internet meme|meme]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 September 2020 |title=So long, "gay Bowser" – fans lament the loss of Mario 64's most famous line in Super Mario 3D All-Stars |url=https://www.eurogamer.net/mario-doesnt-shout-gay-bowser-in-super-mario-3d-all-stars-mario-64 |access-date=2024-07-17 |work=Eurogamer.net |language=en}}</ref> in part popularized by the line's removal in some updated rereleases of the game.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hernandez |first=Patricia |date=18 September 2020 |title=Internet pours one out for Super Mario 64's 'Gay Bowser,' who is dead now |url=https://www.polygon.com/2020/9/18/21445859/super-mario-64-nintendo-switch-3d-all-stars-gay-bowser-bye-charles-martinet |access-date=2024-07-17 |website=Polygon |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=19 September 2020 |title=Super Mario 3D All-Stars removes bizarre 'gay Bowser' line |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/games/super-mario-3d-all-stars-64-so-long-gay-bowser-nintendo-switch-b498058.html |access-date=2024-07-17 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref>

Other games in the ''Mario'' series, like ''[[Mario Party (video game)|Mario Party]]'' and ''[[Mario Kart 64]]'', also involve a mondegreen. Whenever the character [[Wario]] loses a minigame or a race, respectively, he says something along the lines of, "D'oh! I missed!" However, since he was originally designed to be German and his original voice actor, Thomas Spindler, was German, many people have heard this voice line as the German phrase "So ein Mist!", which means "oh, [[Wiktionary:crap|crap]]" in English. Spindler has said that this was the line he recorded in an interview in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Casey |date=2016-12-15 |title=Voice Actor Says Wario Was Originally Intended To Be A German Character |url=https://www.siliconera.com/voice-actor-says-wario-originally-intended-german-character/ |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=Siliconera |language=en-US}}</ref> Charles Martinet, who is Wario's voice actor, has said that the voice line he recorded for the game was indeed "D'oh! I missed!" in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-11-06 |title=Random: Charles Martinet Adds To Decades-Old Confusion Over Wario 'D'oh, I Missed' Dialogue |url=https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/11/random_charles_martinet_adds_to_decades-old_confusion_over_wario_doh_i_missed_dialogue |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=Nintendo Life |language=en-GB}}</ref>

In the video game ''[[Final Fantasy XIV]]'', the lyrics for the boss theme "Ultima" are "Beat, the heart of Sabik" but the English speaking audience heard the voice lines as "big fat tacos" instead. This resulted in fan video remixes with the misunderstood lyrics.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d6XaW5TeD0 |title=Big Fat Tacos - Ruby Weapon's theme misheard lyrics |date=2020-02-22 |last=theSrex |access-date=2025-04-19 |via=YouTube}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=April 2025}}} Developer Square Enix acknowledged the misunderstanding and embraced the joke,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-07-17 |title=FINAL FANTASY XIV on Twitter: "Big fat tacos 🌮 Big fat tacos 🌮 Big fat tacos, so big 🌮 #FFXIV #InternationalTacoDay" / Twitter |url=https://twitter.com/FF_XIV_EN/status/1312769450383269892 |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=web.archive.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220717062929/https://twitter.com/FF_XIV_EN/status/1312769450383269892 |archive-date=2022-07-17}}</ref> and made tacos a major plot point in the expansion ''Dawntrail''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-06 |title=The FFXIV Dawntrail Taco Stand Is Real (In-Game) |url=https://www.mmorpg.com/previews/the-ffxiv-dawntrail-taco-stand-is-real-in-game-2000131779 |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=MMORPG.com |language=en}}</ref>