Cows or Moo Moos have been a part of the Mario Kart franchise since 1996’s Mario Kart 64. However, Mario Kart World–one of the launch titles for Switch 2–is the first game in the series to feature a cow behind the wheel. And fans seem to love playing as Cow online.
Images and videos of players picking Cow have been shared all over social media (via Polygon) since Mario Kart World debuted earlier this week.
新作マリオカート、ウシ大人気でマジ草#マリオカートワールド pic.twitter.com/My1dGFS0UU
— マメソラ (@mamesora14) June 5, 2025
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.