Grand Dad

This page is about the character called Grand Dad. For the meme itself, see 7 GRAND DAD. For Vinesauce Joel's famous reaction when he said "GRAND DAD!", see Joel's reaction to 7 GRAND DAD.

Grand Dad
The Grandest of DadsArtwork by retromangoman aka mangoman34alt
Source	7 GRAND DAD
Era	GiIvaSunner
First appearance	Wild Pokémon Battle - Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire

Grand Dad is a character in the SiIvaGunner universe. He's the bootleg version of Super Mario that appears on the title screen of 7 GRAND DAD. Grand Dad is the protagonist of the main mascots of the SiIvaGunner channel, and serves as a graphical representation of the 7 GRAND DAD meme.

History

Fortran

The badly drawn Super Mario lookalike character, later nicknamed Fortran, first appeared in the bootleg Taiwanese Famicom game Diànshì Mǎlì (電視瑪琍, lit. "Television Mari", also titled Big TV Mary Bar), developed by Bit Corp. and published by Fiver Firm (masquerading as "Namco Corporation") in 1989. His original color scheme was similar to Mario's. He had a red cap with a cyan visor, a red shirt, cyan overalls, white boots and gloves, white skin, black hair and moustache, cyan eyes, and a red mouth. He had the letter "F" on his cap, instead of Mario's "M".

7 GRAND DAD

see 7 GRAND DAD for more info.

In 1992, a new character using the same design (just with a different color pallet) was given his infamous bootleg game 7 GRAND DAD (named after him). However, he only appeared on that game's title screen. He had a red cap with a pink visor, a red shirt, pink overalls, white boots and gloves, white skin, blue hair and mustache, salmon-colored eyes, and a blue-red mouth. Instead of an "F" (or an "M"), his cap featured the Chinese character "wáng" (王) which means "king".

The same sprite, but with different color schemes, also appears in bootleg games Mario IV (a hack of the NES game Armadillo), where the character was given the name Merio thanks to the host of the youtube show pixelated memories jokingly refereed ton him as that due to the name appearing in the bootleg remake of mario 2 known as Super Mario 5, another example is Hario from Hario Fighter III (a hack of a hack of an unlicensed NES port of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior) Hario's name comes from the heavily compressed text on the title screen saying mario resembling the words, Hario. The former was actually possibly released in 1991, prior to 7 GRAND DAD's release in 1992, making it the first few rehashes of Fortran.

Weegee/Malleo meme

At the heyday of the Weegee/Malleo meme (around 2007-2008), Fortran and his variants enjoyed some minor popularity due to their similar nature and appearance to that meme. During that time, he was sometimes called "Grand Dad". As the meme's popularity faded, the character also fell into obscurity.

Vinesauce Joel

see Joel's reaction to 7 GRAND DAD for more info.

After Vinesauce Joel played 7 GRAND DAD, his reaction became a running inside joke among Joel's fans. They also nicknamed the character "Grand Dad". Grand Dad soon became the subject of numerous pieces of fan art and fan games created by the Vinesauce community. Interestingly, Grand Dad is characterized as an evil psychotic murderer in Vinesauce lore, unlike his friendly and heroic role in both 7 GRAND DAD and in SiIvaGunner lore.

Rips

See also: Category:Rips featuring Grand Dad

Overview

Grand Dad was featured in the very first GiIvaSunner rip, Wild Pokémon Battle - Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire. Since then, he became somewhat of an unofficial mascot of the channel, and has appeared in a number of rips as a character.

SilvaGunner: Rebooted

During the Reboot, all the major memes on the channel were replaced by similar counterparts, including Grand Dad, who was replaced by Homer Simpson (representing The Simpsons) and Peter Griffin (representing Family Guy). His most major appearance was in the end of "A Grand New Era ~Ending~ - SilvaGunner: Rebooted", after the pre-reboot universe and the reboot universe were merged.

SiIvaGunner's Christmas Comeback Crisis

Grand Dad briefly appeared in "Prologue", where he was one of the first figments to be released into the real world. Alongside Meta Knight and Loud Nigra, he boarded the Halberd, but got shot down by The Voice before he could travel far. His current whereabouts are unknown.

Gallery

Grand Dad being brought into the real world (with Sens, Tito Dick and Smol Nozomi).

Grand Dad alongside Loud Nigra and Meta Knight.

The Halberd being taken down by the Voice.

Second form

Grand Dad's second form

Grand Dad is sometimes represented by a different form, based on the playable character in 7 GRAND DAD. It's basically the sprite of Fred Flintstone (from The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino and Hoppy) with Super Mario's head (from Super Mario Bros. 3). Despite the drastically different appearance, this is presumably supposed to be the same character as the more traditional Grand Dad, as there's no evidence that could suggest otherwise. The 3D version of him also appears in PRESENTATION ANNOUNCEMENT.

See also

• 7 GRAND DAD
• The Flintstones
• Vinesauce Joel