Most Annoying Mario Kart Wii Items

The Top Ten
1 Blue Shell The spiny shell, commonly referred to as the blue shell, is a well-known power-up item of the Mario Kart series of video games.

My vote has to go to blue shell. I HATE these things. You always have to get hit by one on the third lap when you're right next to the finish line and you can't escape them. There is a glitch that when you have a bannana peel and you're about to get hit by blue shell, you can let it go right when you're about to get hit and it will hit the bannana peel, not you. But it is next to impossible to do that! And it's also annoying whe you're NOT in first place. Why? Because when you are in dead last hoping to get an item that will save you, you get a BLUE SHELL. That won't help you at all, that just helps the people you are tring to get in FRONT of. Blue shells are truely the worst.

If socialists or communists designed an item, this would be it. There's no way of defending yourself from its merciless and devastating consequences, robbing you of your hard work, time, effort, and victory in an effort to even out the competition. As they say, capitalists try to make sure everyone starts equally, socialists make sure everyone finishes equally. AKA what the blue shell does. Perfect example of socialism in action right there people. They should ban the blue shell, no joke.

In case you guys didn't know, the blue shell is supposed to be unfair. There's nothing wrong with the blue shell itself. It just gets generated too often in the newer Mario Kart games. Mario Kart isn't all about being a skilled player and is an unfair game. Also in Mario Kart 8, you can defend yourself from this item.

Remember Mario kart 64 when the blue shell was rare? That is how it needs to be. I respect the blue shell but it comes up waaay too often in the newer games. I don't mind getting hit once or twice but NO I get hit by a blue shell 6 times in a race. That's more often than the POW block,Blooper and Lightning. If they make it rare again then people might like it a bit better

2 Lightning Cloud

The Blue Shell gets too much hate, Lighting Cloud deserves the hate it gets as it can cost a race for you if you get another one after suffering from the affects of a previous one or if everyone blasts on and leave you at the back of the pack with no way to get to 1st. Though the Blue Shell is still bad, I just hate Thunder Cloud more.

I wouldn't mind if that item was used in a special type of race with only 5 or 6 players. At the start of the race, only one could be near the beginning. A racer needs to drive into it to activate. Then it's just Mario Kart hot potato, with some wanting the cloud and others avoiding it.As a regular item, it just doesn't work.

Wow! This isn't no. 1? Seriously? This item sucks! It's really annoying especially when you get it when there's no one around you, you can't pass it to anyone, you get zapped, and a whole bunch of people pass you! And that happens to me a lot!

You can never lose it unless you get really lucky with passing it on to someone else. The blue shell is ment to give hope to weaker players, but the Thundercloud will always doom you and comes more often than the blue shell. Must never come back.

3 POW Block

I agree with you 100% I always thought the Sledge Brother was the most unfair item in this game because he is the reason why I get 7th place or lower all the time in this game. I also lost on Coin Runners for Battle Mode when I was playing as Princess Peach because of him. I was going to win for sure but then at the last minute he pounded the ground and made me lose half of what I collected. So you know that Sledge Brother really had a bigger impact on the game than I thought, Sledge Bro!! However I got to admit he made a perfect antihero in Mario Party 10 because he had a huge impact on my of the Bowser Party Mode that I play in Mario Party 10 and I couldn't of completed the challenge known as Bowser Party Pro without him. So uh yeah he is actually on my good side when it comes to that game.

In my opinion, the POW block seems like a slightly-tweaked lighting bolt. Sure, it's avoidable and it doesn't shrink you, but like the lightning bolt, it always manages to slow you down in some way or another, and it makes everyone drop their items. Although, the unoriginal concept alone isn't enough to earn this item the title of "most annoying. " No. It occurs SO MANY TIMES during one race, and avoiding it with a wiimote is just irritating, ESPECIALLY when you're trying to turn a corner using manual drift.

Really, I think the game would've been just as fun (if not more so) without the POW block. The lightning bolt already does a good enough job of pissing us off when we drop those three red shells we were JUST about to use.

Now I may be the only person who likes this item, but you can go in the air and never spin out, and worse, you can share your WII remote right before the POW Block activates to spin once.

I am super glad that it was only in this Mario kart game because this thing annoys me. I race and all of a sudden there's POW and then it just spins me out! It's just annoying!

4 Green Shell

The lyrics"Richochet, take your aim. Fire away, fire away." This would fit so well. At least you can hold it behind you.

Very annoying if there are 4 or 5 racing on the track in the same place though. I hate it.

I hate the green shell, it even sometimes comes back to hit me.

It is great, well if you have great aiming, if you don't yeah you will thnk it is useless.

5 Red Shell

At least they can easily be blocked unlike the Blue Shell. They aren't that bad...

Its like a heat seeking missile.
If you're the nearest player it WILL follow you until it hits you.

Red shells burn in a fiery death

Red shells are just annoying.

6 Blooper Bloopers (Often Referred To Bloobers Until Paper Mario, Though Blooper was in use beforehand) are Squid-Like creatures that are found in the ocean. They made their first appearance in Super Mario Bros., and various kinds of them have appeared in the Mario games since, normally as enemies. Mario Party 8 was the first game to feature blooper as a playable character. Bloopers come in different sizes and colors, though the original variety shown in super Mario Bros is white.

In Mario Kart, fun is key, and for that, races with more tension is needed.. The Blue Shell is specifically designed to track down the first place so that even he can have some actual fun, since being very far ahead of others is no fun, and the Lightning Cloud is designed to create more tension for players near the user with the cloud. The Blooper? It inks your screen! It only affects newbies and CPU players though, so from even a casual perspective, the Blooper is useless. Why can't it just be a replacement for a Big Banana? (sprays ink on the ground so that it will function like the ink in SNES Mario Circuit)

BLOOPER SUCKS OUT! 1. You can just look through the gaps. 2. You can also look at the map. 3. It slows down your opponents for you. NOTE: I'm familiar to this game one and all; SO I'M A PRO EXPERT!

Really you get inked you are super close to the water and washed away! This power up is useless! You can still see where you are going! We all have eyes!

Sadly, it comes back. In both 7 AND 8. Despite nobody liking this item, it's gonna come back in the next game whether you hate it or really hate it.

7 Fake Item Box

All right who would fall for this trap it is a different color from the others, why would you go towards the box. If it is well placed behind a real item box, I get, but if it is just sitting there in the open, then you have problems. It is like,"Oh hey do you want to come touch me? "Then you drive towards it, get electrocuted, lose the race. Not my fault you ran to an out of placed item box that is an obvious different color from the rest. Idiots.

What?! The fake item box makes people dumb! Your opponents will (or will not) fall for the trap!

What I hate about it because you can't dodge items with it in the newer Mario karts

I love passing real power ups and carefully dropping it in the mix. It screws them up every time muhaha.

8 Lightning

You can get crushed anyways, and it is much more challenging and a whole lot of fun. If you guys think that a non-challenging race is fun, then you guys are wimps. You guys are too afraid to lose, come on liven up that spirit and have fun. It is okay to lose. Look at me. When I lose I get fustrated, but then I laugh at myself and say,"Oh man, oh well, I will get them next time."I never stop trying you should do the same.

Worst item in the series. You never gain any ground on anybody and it is the only item that I hate getting when near the back of the field. Use any other item to catch up to everyone else - not this! If you are hit by this item, your strategy gets messed up as you can no longer use your precious items to take shortcuts or even dodge the Lightning Bolt!

They hit everyone except the user of the item and shrinks people. Whats worse? While your shrunk, you move A LOT MORE SLOWER, and you can get CRUSHED! It also makes you lose your items if your holding any!

Boy it's a nice item, isn't it? (SARCASM ALERT)

I like USING the Lightning Bolt. However, I HATE it when anyone else gets it. The thing I hate most is what it does to the usually amazing music. It makes the best music awfully painful.

9 Mega Mushroom

It's so annoying when I get ready to smash someone I shrink down to normal size.

It is so annoying when I get ready to smash someone I shrink down to normal size.

I actually like the mega it's fun to squish other racers

10 Banana

The banana is the most annoying item on the whole game! You never hit anybody with it! It is only useful when you are getting chased by a red shell!

Yes, the banana is almost useless. 95% of the time I don't hit someone with it. The only thing it's good for is deflecting shells.

The Banana Peel is terrible as heck! There's like a 1% chance somebody slips on it! The banana peel is the worst item EVER!

Pointless AND annoying but a part of the mario kart franchise so it must stay. think about all the memories

The Contenders
11 Bullet Bill

The bullet bill sucks it is horrible I would rather have a green shell than this item why slow down while using the bullet bill when you could knock over somebody with a green shell the only good thing: invincibility from lightning

How is this not at the top of the list. It doesn't have a set time limit, but lasts however long it takes to drop you off a cliff at the end. Worst troll item ever.

Why would you guys hate this item. It is fun and fast. So what if it trampels you over, who cares. It makes it more challenging and fun.

This item is for noobs who can't actually race, it doesn't even last that long unless you're last. And ya know who'd be last? A noob.

12 Bob-Omb Bob-ombs are a species found throughout the Mario series. They are small bomb-shaped beings who can create explosions by detonating themselves or being detonated.

Bob-ob-oMbs can slow down players, whether you throw it any direction. It's cool to use it, right?

Mostly, it just backfires, though.

Never works 4 me

13 Invincibility (Starman)

Its rare, but its annoying.
When you hear that music. Keep driving because if the person that is invincible touches you.
BOOM your automatically way behind everyone else...

14 Grow Mushroom

'Dude DON'T STOP! '
Person stops while using the grow mushroom.
'He just did! LOOK OUT! '

Mega Mushroom is one of the best items thank you

It's a mega mushroom not a grow mushroom

Love mega mushrooms only when I've got one

15 Flower

The flower costume was also released in mk 7 and if u don't have good aim there useless

16 Giant Mushroom
17 Coin
18 Golden Mushroom

Very anoying if cpu use it but awesome if you use it hard to handle though

19 Fire Flower
20 Gold Mushroom
21 Triple Mushroom
22 Mushroom

They are good; end of story

23 Super Star

It's great when you've got one! But when u don't and somebody else does? RUN!

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