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When Queen Merelda thanks Wario for saving her kingdom, Wario tosses her aside and takes the Bottomless Coin Sack. When returning to his world for the final time, he shakes the bag to collect all the coins he always wanted. However, the celebration doesn't last long. Catching Wario off guard, Captain Syrup takes the Bottomless Coin Sack and all the coins Wario shook out from it and makes a quick getaway. Wario is completely humiliated that he was double-crossed from the start, angrily chasing Merfle around his garage.

[[File:WLS4.png|thumb|200px|Wario swings on a pole.]]

|align="center"|Armored skeletons that throw their heads like [[boomerang]]s, like the previous ''Wario Land'' games' [[Zombie]]. They can be dismantled with a Dash Attack, but eventually rebuild themselves, just as [[Dry Bones]] do. Their spiky heads protect them from jumps, but leave the body exposed when thrown.

The creation of ''Wario Land: Shake It!'' began when Nintendo producer [[Takahiro Harada]] was inspired to do a new ''Wario Land'' sequel after playing ''{{wp|Ganbare Goemon: Tōkai Dōchū Ōedo Tengu ri Kaeshi no Maki}}'', a [[Konami]] platformer released on the [[Nintendo DS]]. Having enjoyed the ''Goemon'' game greatly, he contacted its producer, [[Etsunobu Ebisu]]<ref>,[http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/がんばれゴエモン 東海道中 大江戸天狗り返しの巻 The Japanese Wikipedia page of ''Ganbare Goemon'' for the DS] lists Etsunobu Ebisu (蛭子悦延) as the game's producer. (Retrieved July 5, 2014)</ref> who had subsequently left Konami to make his own video game development company, [[Good-Feel]].<ref name="page 1">[http://www.wariolandshakeit.com/launch/developer_interview.html Staff interview on the official ''Wario Land: Shake It!'' website], page 1. (Retrieved July 5, 2014)</ref> While Ebisu initially envisioned a Wild Western-style shooter for the game, Harada convinced him that sticking to what they know with a platformer would be better. Picturing Wario as a reckless yet manly brute who relies on his strength to smash though obstacles and knock things down, they eventually came up with the idea of using the Wii's motion controls for shaking things around, with other uses of tilting and aiming to compensate for the lack of buttons on the Wii Remote.<ref name="page 1"/>

After some discussion, Harada and Ebisu decided to make ''Wario Land: Shake It!'' "the ultimate 2D game" by having everything hand-drawn, from the characters to the backgrounds. Knowing the massive amount of work this would entail, they considered simply using 3D polygons, but decided to take advantage of the fact that technology had finally advanced enough to support such a lofty undertaking (for example, according to program director [[Koichi Yagi]], "the scenery alone would have filled up the Nintendo GameCube"). A single action taken by a character amounted to about 30 animation frames, resulting in 6000 enemy patterns, with 2000 more for Wario alone, in order to animate the roughly 200 actions he can perform. The backgrounds were non-repeating and hand-drawn, and just as any change to a character's design required all the frames to be adjusted, "even a small change [to the background] meant everything had to be changed", according to design director [[Tadanori Tsukawaki]]. The end result was worth the "hard labor", however, as even in the early builds that only had basic line drawings, Tsukawaki could tell that the game "has impact". Knowing that they would benefit from the involvement of more experienced anime companies, Good-Feel brought in {{wp|Production I.G}} to help with character animation and the opening and ending cutscenes, while [http://www.kusanagi.co.jp/ Kusanagi] assisted with the background art.<ref>[http://www.wariolandshakeit.com/launch/developer_interview2.html Staff interview on the official ''Wario Land: Shake It!'' website], page 2. (Retrieved July 5, 2014)</ref>

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Madoka Yamauchi is credited as the director as well as one of the game's planners. The assistant director, Nobuo Matsumiya, had previously worked on several ''Mario'' franchise games such as ''[[Super Mario Bros. Deluxe]]'' and ''[[Yoshi's Island DS]]''. The backgrounds were illustrated by KUSANAGI, Inc. while the characters' animations and opening and ending sequences were created by Production I.G.

A cut track was found in pre-release versions of the game for a level known as "Plumber's Cave," the main melody being based on the [[Underground Theme]] from the mainstream ''Mario'' titles. It was featured on the game site as a soundtrack sample before release. For one reason or another, it was completely removed from the game. The accompanying "hurry up" theme was left in the game and used in Foulwater Falls.<ref>https://tcrf.net/Prerelease:Wario_Land:_Shake_It!</ref>

Queen Merelda.png|[[Queen Merelda]]

*''[[Yoshi's Woolly World]]'': Several sound effects are reused. These include the pipe entering and boss damaging sound effects.

*''Wario Land: Shake It!'' was [[List of Mario references in animated television#Saturday Night Live|referenced]] on the 2009 Valentine's Day episode of ''{{wp|Saturday Night Live}}'' in a sketch titled "Wii Guys." The sketch parodied the game's signature element of gameplay—shaking enemies and Money Bags by shaking the Wii Remote. The skit incorrectly states that the game has a 2-player mode. The parody can be viewed at [http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/wii-guys/n12442?snl=1 NBC.com].