Cow is the early breakout character for Mario Kart World, and that's the udder truth

June 06, 2025 | 05:59am

Everyone Keeps Picking Cow In Mario Kart World, Of Course

Cow is the early breakout character for Mario Kart World, and that's the udder truth

God, never in my whole life that I had lot of fun with Mario Kart World 🫶🏻 10/10 for me. Also, COW MAINS RISE UP MOOO 🐄 pic.twitter.com/GRynbFwpKI
— Ryan (@Clawspls1) June 5, 2025

Anyone else’s online lobbies look like this in Mario Kart World? I’ve been in 3 full cow races https://t.co/3EW1KwuYjh
— PhillyBeatzU | BeatzGames (@PhillyBeatzU) June 5, 2025

The first guy to post a montage of the Moo Moo Meadows Cow winning races in Mario Kart World Tour to the song La Vaca by Mala fe, Is getting the Latino pass at the Carne Asada pic.twitter.com/kqd2chdfVc
— Vance (@vancedotexe) June 6, 2025

In retrospect, this shouldn't be too surprising. There was an inordinate amount of interest in Cow after she was first spotted in the Mario Kart World teaser. Art director Masaaki Ishikawa subsequently revealed that the decision to turn Cow into a playable character came from a silly drawing one of his colleagues made while working on the game.

The Cow can eat burgers in MKW, and she even hilariously seems to love it. That's led some to call her a cannibal, while others suggest that she's been eating a vegetarian meat substitute rather than consuming her own kind. Both of those theories may be overthinking the character a little bit.

Producer Kosuke Yabuki has acknowledged that Nintendo completely underestimated Cow's popularity, but the company is happy with her reception. He also declined to weigh in about the cannibal or vegetarian theories.

Mario Kart World is out now on Switch 2, and you can keep picking Cow as long as you want to.

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