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  • Whats the stupidest thing you can do? Sell the seeds that get you the lazy armor...

  • "do not attack the mist!"

    "wait for the dragon to reform!"

  • he should be a zelda boss

  • who would win culex vs. master hand & crazy hand, giga bowser, smithy, andross on expert mode, dr.eggman, godzilla, hades, his 4 crystals, dark lugia, king dedede, dimentio, ganon, zero 2, dark matter, nightmare, marx's soul, AND the dark star.

    well, my money's on culex!

  • i want this for my ring tone

  • when i was little he gave me NIGHTMARES ! o.o

  • screw smithy, this dude was the real G

  • Kind of tricky to fight something that can be both of the fundamental forms of matter, not to mention it's unprecedented knowledge of the future and the past.

  • How to pass the door that lead to him?

  • @GuilthyLight buy the Fireworks from a mole in Moleville. Then, go to a kid mole's "Imaginary Shop" and trade the Fireworks for a Shiny Stone. Next, go to the door in Monstro Town that claims it's been sealed. The Shiny Stone will React with the door and then the seal breaks. Be Careful, Culex is REALLY hard.

  • lol final fantasy II/IV was an amazing game and if you have not played it, please do.

  • I don't think he was that hard.

    I honestly had more trouble with the AXEM RANGERS than I did with him.

  • @InuYashafanboyee

    everyone did

  • 22 people forgot to bring Lazy Shell armor

  • Does anyone else think Culex could be the Shadow King; the husband of the Shadow Queen from Paper Mario TTYD?

  • @RDB1956 Except that I believe Culex stated he was from a different dimension than Mario's.

  • @RDB1956

    Paper Mario was originally going to be called Super Mario RPG 2, but Squaresoft cut the deal with Nintendo. They kept all copyrights from the game that they themselves owned, music, characters like Geno, even the storyline. Nintendo took all the code from SMRPG2 and turned it into Paper Mario instead to avoid loss. The two companies are not on speaking terms about SMRPG, so Geno wasn't in Brawl, and There's no way SquareSoft would let them make a character related to their game.

  • @marklenthecool however, they are getting a little bbetter now, since Geneo made a cameo in Mario and Luigi.

  • When you're way harder to beat than a game's main boss you know you're a badass.

  • not bad, but it would have been nicer if it wasn't just string orchestra.

  • OMFG this is really good i love it :D

  • Final Fantasy 4.

  • Oh My God! This is the best orchestration of this piece I have ever heard.

  • The greatest song ever. This is a great blend of all the instruments played. A testament to music!

  • hes got some major nut hair....

  • I think including his in smrpg got him even more popular

  • I cant believe they thought of this for mario its too kick ass

  • This is such a poorly executed orchestra mix.

  • @dx619hey  explain how this is poor. LINK a better one if u have it. I wanna hear :)

  • @CentralPerk68 I said poorly executed. The instruments don't blend well together. This doesn't sound pleasing, it sounds like a clusterfuck of orchestral instruments, that all sound similar. He keeps the bassline of the intro just cuz it was part of the original, when it would sound much cleaner without it. It would also benefit from using a variety of orchestral sounds.

    I don't have a LINK to a better one, I never said I did. Thanks for smiling, you seemed genuinely interested in my opinion.

  • I am matter...I am antimatter...I can see your past...I can see your future...I consume time...and I will consume you!

  • Too intimidating.

  • I was gonna draw Culex... But he's too inti

  • Awesome remix of the FFIV Boss theme.

  • @marioman3027. No.....geno is not in final fantasy 4. Who said he was?

  • @ishimuracrewman87 I believe he was referring to your statement that if FF IV is the greatest game of all time, then obviously Geno, who he believes to be an element essential for the greatest game of all time must be in the game somewhere. But he isn't. Obviously.

    Thus I believe Mr. Marioman was in fact dis-agreeing with you via use of a clever sarcastic comment because he believes SMRPG is the best. Because it has Geno.

    And we all like Geno. :3

  • Although I think super Mario rpg is an awesome game, calling this theme the "culex theme" is a disgrace. This theme should only be referred to as: the final fantasy IV battle 2 theme. Final fantasy IV = greatest game of all time.

  • That orchestra makes an amazing song even more amazing!

  • Look's like a kirby final boss too.

  • COOL!

    marx:O_O

    :D

    marx:I CHALLENGE U TO A BATTLE!

  • Awesome.

  • Someday I'll make a true story about Culex and the Crystals about His true past and where he came from and how he got to Mario's World!.

  • @Jonathangoad1985 1. we cant make up the thruth 2. very little is known about him infact if I can rember he tells you he travels threw different demensions looking for an honorable opponent but I may be mistaken its been awile since I last played this

  • @Jonathangoad1985 Don't bother. I can tell you the truth of Culex... He's Gaz.

  • When are they going to make a game about Culex?.

  • @Jonathangoad1985 he could be a FF main boss sometime but idk if square even remembers him. the original idea was that he was going to be a boss in FFIV when it was still being made for the N64

  • @Jonathangoad1985 Never.

  • Huh. I had always imagined Culex with a draconic face. But he's still awesome. :P Great song, BTW.

  • At 47 how did you make that sound like a hockey puck moving over ice?

  • I hope they ahae this music in Heaven.

  • Linda a Muisica!

  • It would have been so much better had it not been completely in staccato. 

  • @IdleBigots Completely, yes. But if one of the incarnations was just stacatto just for style, that would be cool. But past the 2 min mark its annoying.

  • i remember seing a download link i one of these vids with this song.... where is it!?

  • I just noticed he looks like kefka in his final boss form

  • Oooo, this gave me goosebumps.

  • *sploodge*

    this is awesome

  • he looks tight

  • @bishopsonniertv LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OO

  • Is Culex a sort of crystal demon?

  • i love super mario RPG it is so great

  • I heard this song from Mario RPG long before I discovered Final Fantasy, the song was always very special to me, and when I played FF IV, it cheapened the song for me because it was used for almost every boss fight, and not just for a super awesome boss fight. I still love FF IV though is awesome game.

  • @AbrasiveTruth dude FFIV will always be known 2 me as FFII just like Final Fantasy VI will be FFIII =P

  • @Hexon666 Divide by 2, eh?

  • @faltzar2 thats what it use 2 always be...when it first came out in America it was 2. 3 then 7 haha

  • DrGameshark, I would like to curtiuosly ask you if you would allow me to use this music in a Let's Play I have planned. I think it would be great for the 100coin mission in the Big Boo's Mansion level. May I use it?

  • That was pretty amazing, glad I bumped into it

  • 1:00 to 1:18 is f-ing genius, man, this was on the SNES, unbelievable (the original of course) GREAT THEME

  • It's just the Final Fantasy IV Boss theme, really.

  • Needs more cowbell.

  • The first time I played this i didnt know about the shell armor and weapon thing so it was hard

  • Needs less tonguing. D:

  • Culex is hard...but no match for geno.

  • Weird, awesome idea: Culex v. something drawn by Toriyama in a Mario RPG dev'd by SE.

    Maybe that's asking too much, but I'm still on another Mario RPG Nintendo/Square Enix collab with some sort of Geno cameo. :D

    Another thing, must Nintendo keep on introducing new characters for EVERY game? Try keeping some well-established characters as staples in the series so we have an actual reason to play M&L3 more than twice, for Christ's sake!

    That might be harder for Geno as in M&L1, but I digress...

  • Still never beat that freak.

  • OMFG O_O.

    Epic !

  • lol

  • The original is more epic, me thinks.

  • still culex was a hard boss to fight but i want to know where to get this song!!!!!!

  • man for a long time i thought culex was from ff but then i realized it no he isnt but still he was created in the style. which is awesome! ff + mario = PURE... WIN!

  • Sirloinestake,Marklenthecool,a­nd Wildblue2,what do you mean?

  • imagine if culex was a bad guy and a requierd fight this game would be soooooo much harder

  • Culex is similar to Chernabog from Kingdom Hearts.

  • actualy its the oter way round culex came first on smrpg for the SNES where as the kindom hearts games came out way afrer on PS2

  • THAT'S RIGHT GET YOUR GAME CHRONOLOGY STRAIGHT CELEFERGUSON!!!! ARGHEHGHH!!!! *implode*

  • you meen chernabog is similar to culex because culex is in good games and came out first.

  • I just shit myself

  • just in case you didn't know the Culex boss theme is also called Final Fantasy 4's boss theme

  • @rappy101 indeed it was from there, and the Final Fantasy II game for SNES also first appeared in 1991, so that game was first before Mario RPG, cause Mario RPG was out since 1996 and these people think this song is from culex but it isn't, its actually one of Final Fantasy's Series Hope you all undrstand.

  • @rappy101 Not also, it is ONLY....Nobuo worked on FFIV before SMRPG, this video is misnamed and FAILS! To discredit his work is a screw you to his Genius.

  • @archangelmai Bit excessive of you, don't you think?

  • @MistressMareth Maybe on the failing part, otherwise no.

  • @archangelmai He never really worked on Mario RPG, the Battle 2 theme from Final Fantasy IV was the only song by him in the game. Same thing goes with Koji Kondo and that mysterious Zelda sound. Yoko Shimomura composed the rest of the music.

  • @Lusciousfuga I never said Nobuo worked on SMRPG, I said that this song is by Nobuo, used under the license of Squaresoft because at that time, he had not created Smile Please, so Squaresoft could do what they want. There were no co-composers for FFIV, and the only FF Yoko Shimomura has worked on is FF Versus XIII which is not even out yet. Maybe I am misunderstanding your comment though.

  • @rappy101 man who cares about final fantasy. this song had the honor of being featured in /super mario rpg/.

  • @coffmantra18 The only reason I played Mario RPG was so I could fight Culex! Mario RPG had the honor of featuring awesome FF music

  • @coffmantra18 The only reason I played Mario RPG was so I could fight Culex! Mario RPG had the honor of featuring awesome FF music

  • @rappy101 I need to get that game. I would hear that so much and never get sick of it!

  • @rappy101 Isn't this FF4's Battle Theme, not boss theme?

  • @TheFinalActongaia no its the boss theme :]

  • @FirebatMoogle Yup, I realized that about 30 minutes after posting this comment. Man, I feel like an idiot.

  • Culex is my favorite boss in Mario RPG

  • he has arm pit hair

  • his head hair is long

  • lol no i think thats just his hair from his head going down his back.. but i have to hand it to you.. it does look like it at first glance

  • @lanog20cp

    WHY

  • @lanog20cp He has no pubes.

  • @zimtower That's because his crotch is frozen

  • @lanog20cp that's just his insanly large hair behind him.

  • @lanog20cp not arm pit hair.

  • Cool!!

  • love it!

  • Long live Lord Smithy!!! The Mushroom Kingdom shall fall!

  • This isn't played by orchestra. It's a midi that someone piped through a rather cheap sounding strings soundfont/VSTi.

  • at first it looks like donkey kong 64 factory

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  • hes a secret boss in Super Mario RPG right????

  • yea

  • Doesn't sound authentically orchestral. More like a digital-mimic. Still a good song though.

  • The theme was from FFIV, which was called FFII when it hit the states the first time, but is really the fourth installment. Get it right.

  • no culex was from FFII in the states. and in IV if I recall correctly.

  • Which is pretty much what I just said, but in the re releases of the game, it is called FFIV.

  • Culex was NOT from FFII or IV. He was not even in the Final Fantasy series. He was created as a character to be similiar to bosses found in the Final Fantasy series. He is not any character from the series. the music is from Final Fantasy IV as it's supposed to be a homage to the series as Square created both Mario RPG and Final Fantasy. Hope that cleared things up

  • i always thought he was a she cause in the game it looks like he has boobies XD

  • he reminds me of...omg, whats his name, from disneys fantasia...? but, either way, i agree with the above statements

  • Ah Chernabog

  • how about a clear some crap up

    culex was based off of ff bosses and shares music with them.

    other then those simalirtys culex is not related to ff and has only apeared in SMRPG

  • Exactly!

  • wow

    orchestal

    amasing :D

  • I wonder if they will play this on this year's Video Games Live...

  • sounds epic

  • this guy made an aperence in super mario rpg

  • thats the only thing he made an appearance in

  • oh but he looks like hes from final fantasy and when you face him i think its the boss music for ff 4

  • thats the joke they put in there. since the game was developed by square which also develops final fantasy they added a final fantasy-esque boss and the FFIV boss music as a reference

  • oh ok and also i wonder if his thing hurts from being frozin lol

  • This boss in Super Mario RPG was hard as hell. Those annoying cristals. >:(

  • culex should have made his way into kingdom hearts. that would have been epic.

  • I thought snake was in because Hideo Kojima "practically begged" Nintendo to include him in Melee, but it was too far in production.

  • that was probably the case so they put him a brawl instead.

  • He should have been an assist trophy!

    Sadly, I think he is SquarEnix property...

  • he is. the only reason snake got in was because the original metal gear was for the nes (or sens I think... I dunno)

  • Love the pic, he deserves to have a real role in a game, I think.

  • This orchestrated version is very impressive.

  • This is epic:)

  • FF4

  • A very common misconception is that this theme is from Super Mario RPG. This theme is called "The Dreadful Fight" It was scored by Nobou Uematsu(Spelling?)For the game Final Fantasy IV. SMRPG was made by Squaresoft who also made all the FF games. So when they made Super Mario RPG they decided to throw in a boss that looked like it was from an FF game and toss in their most recognizable theme at the time. So the whole Culex thing was a tribute to Square's most lucrative franchise.

  • this is actually just the boss battle music from FFIV. not Dreadful Fight. >_>

    Dreadful Fight is the music that plays during the Four Fiends battles while this music plays during normal boss battles.

  • Ah,You are quite right. My mistake.

  • its a shame square didnt make any more rpgs for them, geno and mallow were never seen again!

  • I don't mind mallow's disappearance... but Geno's :(

  • also after defeating him culex says "we will meet again in a nother world", showing that he was meant to be a boss or extra boss in a future final fantasy.

    however, due to copyright problems among other difficulties he has yet to be in any other game.

  • He really has to appear again, just like he told Mario that he would. Maybe as a boss in the next SmashBros game?

  • oohhhh my god i would have to have a mangasm if that happend!

  • Culex was easier than quite a few bosses IMO...probably thanks to Rock Candy though, hehe.

  • The first time I fought him I was extremely underleveled....lasted 3 hours before he finally killed my party, lol. I came back after I got the Lazy Shell equipment and stomped him

  • i remember the first time i fought culex i used mario (52) geno (55) and mallo (51)

    i lost

    then i came back later on with

    mario (67) bowser (70) and peach (66)

    killed him, that was fun

  • what? O_O"

    the levels only go up to 30 smartie pants...

  • it was probably a hacked version of the game

  • uhh. how did u get to level 52?? exp. goes up to 99999. or level 30

  • There are hacked versions of the game you can play.

  • Did you know that Paper Mario (N64) was about to be the "next" Super Mario: RPG, but Square argued that they had the copyright for Geno, Mallow, and music composed for them. They were forced to make a different title for it and exclude Geno and Mallow. I wish Nintendo did what they did to Atari's Tetris Copyright >_>.

  • Atari didn't own the copyright to Tetris. The Soviet Union did.

  • It is possible that Cluex is a Dark Knight from FF He does say he traveled dimensions

  • apparently until now there aren't any mentions of culex in any of the FF worlds (or universes)

  • Culex is the epic-win combo of FF Villians and is completely original in the fact that he is only based off of other Villians for basic style. He is an Honorable Ass-Kicker who looks evil as heck.