Game bug

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“That thing! It messed up everything it touched!”

—Wario, WarioWare: Get It Together!

Wario being covered with game bugs during the interrupted cutscene of his Anything Goes level

Game bugs are viruses that serve as a main component of the Story mode of WarioWare: Get It Together! They serve as obstacles in a number of ways, the largest one invading and corrupting every character's level.

A game bug is first encountered during the prelude to Wario's Intro Games level. As it jumps into his level, Wario notices that everything the parasite touches is corrupted, and jumps into his level as well to prevent it from being ruined.

This becomes a recurring concept in Story Mode, where Wario encounters the next character and their level only for them to realize that it has been corrupted. Once the level is completed and the game bug is ejected, the same character defeats it using their unique ability, clearing away the corruption near their level.

This continues until the final level in Story Mode, Wario's Anything Goes level, which is invaded by a larger and more hostile game bug known as the Mega Bug. Because of this, the level is much more corrupted to the point of the cutscene not finishing. Instead, the Wario seen in the cutscene is covered with game bugs, being turned into the Wario Bug as a result.

After the Mega Bug is defeated, all of the remaining corruption is cleared away. While the crew is discussing what to do with it, Wario decides to keep it in his level, allowing him to make it his own level, much to its happiness. Immediately after this, they encounter the Supreme Developer, who reveals that he was the one who brought them into the game to defeat the game bugs. Satisfied that all of the corruption is now gone, he allows them to return to the real world.

During the ending of Story mode, as the other characters wonder how the game bugs even came to be, it is revealed that they spawned into the game and multiplied as a result of Wario's own poor programming. Following this, he threw the console at the wall rather than fixing it.

Game bugs also appear during the tutorial stages for most characters, where they must be defeated in order to progress.