Fun:Super Mario

The Super Mario series is widely regarded as one of the most recognized and beloved gaming franchises of all time. Created by the late 19th-century-gaming-card-manufacturer-turned-games company Nintendo, the series stars the titular character Mario, a plumber who often runs to save his love interest Princess Peach from the evil clutches of his evil turtle nemesis Bowser, using the aid of growth-enhancing and pyrokinetic flowers and with help of his friends, including his younger twin brother Luigi and Toad, who reminds players that the princess is in another castle, as that joke goes. With over 500 million Mario games sold and dozens of spinoffs from puzzle to crappy edutainment to minigame compilations to dancing to sports to JRPGs to even mahjong, which focus on various different characters in the universe, and not even getting into the comics/manga (one manga, Super Mario-kun, is a very long-running series though mostly Japan only), cartoons, anime films, and that crappy live-action one, it's safe to say Mario is quite the popular franchise.

In the Mario film, Mario was portrayed by Chris Pratt, of all the people.

His repertoire


Mario and his friends have been on many adventures over the years, and will probably continue to go on them for many years to come. Below is just a list of Mario's more noteworthy outings, along with a few notable feats by his friends:


 * Super Mario Bros.: The first game in the series. Even your Grandmother has probably played this one. Can be beaten in less than five minutes if you're good.
 * The Lost Levels: The true original sequel to the first game, was not released in America for many years due to fear of it being too difficult for American gamers (not to mention being too derivative as it is built on top of the original game's underpinnings). Instead we got...
 * Super Mario Bros. 2: The weird one in the series, where you can play as Luigi, Peach, or Toad additionally, since it was all a dream. It was ahead of its time for having all the time you need to be in a level.
 * Super Mario Bros. 3: The one everyone thinks is the best. Can be beaten in three minutes if you're good.
 * Super Mario World: The first Mario game on the SNES that also everyone thinks is the best. Can be beaten in 41 seconds if you're good.
 * Super Mario 64: Depending on who you asked, this game either aged like shit or is better than most modern platformers today. You will never unlock Luigi, no matter how many coins you collect or how many times you run around the statue. ROM hacks are really popular with this one.
 * Luigi's Mansion: Green Mario finally gets a turn in the spotlight (for the third time; first time was in second time was in ) as he runs through a haunted house sucking up ghosts and solving puzzles. This series would eventually get two more installments.
 * Super Mario Sunshine: Mario is a good civil servant and cleans up vandalism (after being framed for causing said vandalism and charged with cleaning it up). Home to infamous levels in the franchise including Blooper surfing,      and… good grief, there's a lot of them.
 * Super Princess Peach: The one time where Peach gets a turn to rescue her boyfriend. People might be put off how a game starring a woman is centered around emotions, but the good thing is that Peach is totally in control of her emotions, while everyone else, including Bowser, has zero emotional control and become emotional wrecks that Peach bests. Empowering. The tragic backstory about her talking umbrella being separated from his guardian has never been really resolved since.
 * New Super Mario Bros.: The series' first return to traditional 2D gameplay in years. A great game that would be followed by 3 sequels that are exactly the same.
 * Super Mario Galaxy: Mario travels through space to collect power stars for a giant starship. It's probably why you bought a Wii. Some people say the Gusty Garden Galaxy theme is the best, even though they're "obviously" wrong because the Purple Comet theme is underrated. Also, despite what some say, Bouldergeist isn't actually that hard to beat. Remember, the time elapsed between Super Mario Galaxy and today is longer than the time elapsed between Super Mario 64 and its Nintendo DS remake.
 * New Super Mario Bros. Wii: New Super Mario Bros. but with griefing other friends. You can dress as a penguin in this one.
 * Super Mario Galaxy 2: Super Mario Galaxy but with a two. Very occasionally, Yoshi is there.
 * New Super Mario Bros. U : New Super Mario Bros. Wii, but you dress as a squirrel for a fraction of the game.
 * Super Mario 3D Land: A 3DS launch title that, ironically, played like a 2D Mario game in a 3D environment. Would be followed up by a Wii U sequel whose quality is still debated to this day, with people disagreeing whether it's great or very great.
 * New Super Mario Bros. 2: New Super Mario Bros. but with a two, and its only redeeming quality is that it's not Paper Mario: Sticker Star.
 * Mario Kart 7 and Paper Mario: Sticker Star: Though technically a spinoff titles, they are listed here due to being two of the only Mario games to feature goats.
 * Super Mario Maker: A game that finally allowed players to make the Mario levels of their dreams, with numerous customization options. Of course, most levels players would make ended up being anything but actual Mario levels.
 * Super Mario 3D World: Super Mario 3D Land, but you can play as also Luigi, Peach, Toad, and Rosalina. You can wear costumes of new kinds of sick vermin and you can also grief your friends like in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, but even worse, since at least in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, you can save yourself with the bubble mechanic.
 * Super Mario Run: Nintendo's first take on the mobile market, had a unique situation of being a free to start game that then required a one-time purchase to access the rest of the content forever. The game, despite being really successful, disappointed investors that thought they could swindle much more money, and as such Nintendo has taken to employing typical predatory F2P practices (lootboxes!!! hooray!!) for all future mobile titles.
 * Super Mario Odyssey: The series' first return to 3D collectathon gameplay in over a decade. This is somehow an E10+ rated game despite being advertised as an accessible game anyone can play, and honestly, little kids will love this. It probably has to do with possession of things, bird vomit, or a cartoon tank going pew pew. This is probably one of the games you specifically bought a Switch for.
 * Super Mario Maker 2: Super Mario Maker, but with Luigi, Toad, and Toadette playable. More stuff added like slopes (yes, that was missing in the first one) as well. In the era of frequent ongoing content updates in video games, this game stopped receiving support pretty early in its lifespan.

His various offenses
On the surface, Mario appears to be a happy, family friendly character who is a good example for all. Beneath his friendly demeanor, however, lies a much more sinister figure. Indeed, when one tears off the disguise of some dashing hero who saves his girlfriend, one will find that this Super Mario's actions aren't so super...


 * He blew up at the center of the universe and nearly destroyed the universe in the process.
 * He started a disastrous war between multiple universes by kicking one of his friends on the foot.
 * He destroyed also by blowing it up. He also targeted and maimed the same three competitors in the process. First during a golf round where he blew up a castle and again during an intense golf match where killing his friends helped his golf ball chip in. His reaction to these atrocities? Shrugging them off.
 * He was sent to once, only to escape it.
 * He inexplicably time traveled at least three times to screw with the continuum. On top this, his cruelty extends to himself: as a consequence of the time travel, his own baby self, and baby selves of his other friends partake, at the same time, the same hazardous activities the adult Mario and his friends constantly engage in.
 * He has been seen bowing before a Koran and traveling to Mecca before destroying the Twin Towers.
 * that he single-handedly caused the inflation of the currency to skyrocket to the point that currency doubles as disposable hockey pucks and has a laughably stronger dollar and therefore a ridiculous exchange rate of at least 10:1 and up to 1,010,101,010,101:1.
 * He has dropped baby penguins and baby dinosaurs off cliffs.
 * He grabs without their consent.
 * He has beaten up
 * He by dissolving sugar in its water.
 * He has a possibly forged medical degree (though in Mushroom Kingdom, we've seen ) and has scammed numerous individuals with his phony medication.
 * He has been for stealing all of the Shine Sprites from Isle Delfino and vandalizing the resort with hazardous graffiti. (But he was actually framed for that one.)
 * He has caused numerous vehicle accidents in and even littered the road. He does not wear a helmet for riding a motorbike and also discourages others from doing the same. In spite of this, Mario, a hypocrite, has appropriate racing attire, including a helmet, but evidently does not allow others to use a helmet, barring Toad. Mario also promotes child endangerment, as children and infants are regularly seen in these competitions.
 * He has fought with his friends on who should be a Super Star (which is not an accredited title recognized by any official governing body) or and then hosted particularly violent minigames in his partying events.
 * He has body-snatched creatures to use their bodies against their will. Also dropped them off cliffs.
 * He regularly jaywalks in front of taxis.
 * When he was a child, he and his brother owned a giant vicious metal spike ball that ate anyone and even stole coins and Stars from people.
 * He has boxed and beat his girlfriend who is well below his weight class.
 * He is such a horrible typist,
 * He has proposed to exploit the conflict of the sun and the moon.
 * He has extensive history as a cop and
 * He has organized several sports that violate safety protocol. Most notorious are his soccer games where all players risk getting full-body electrocution, getting body checked and round-house kicked, blowing up, being set on fire, and more, while, with not much armor to protect them, they kick a spherical hunk of metal that can explode if it's pressed too hard.
 * He claims self-defense for being a law-abiding gorilla owner; he owns a pet gorilla to defend himself in case of attacks from other gorillas. Unfortunately, this gorilla has ransacked a toy company and even kidnapped people.
 * He has defeated Street Fighter characters through dirty tactics.
 * He is a massive racist who has appeared in blackface.
 * He caught COVID-19 from Dry Bones, who had a dry cough.

Contrary to what PETA has claimed, however, Mario does not skin animals. That is something Miis already beat him to.

The real villain?
If you take my friend, not only will I literally crush every obstacle you put in the way of me rescuing her, I will crush every creature you command. I will invade every castle, fort, and stronghold that flies your flag and dump every lord who owes you fealty into lava. I will rescue every last servant, groom, and administrator and then I will come for you. Liam Neeson wishes he could be so threatening. Some kooky clickbait YouTubers speculate that Mario is actually the villain. No one in the series is really all that innocent, however. Yoshi eats things alive, without needing to, and poops them out to throw against other enemies. Luigi has looted and destroyed his own friends' (and his very own brother's) rooms in a hotel for money and jewels while they were kidnapped. Toad constantly misgenders Birdo. Princess Peach crashed into Luigi, unprovoked, while they were racing in invisible karts. Donkey Kong caused property damage and trauma for toy company employees only because he couldn't get a toy he wanted. Most are guilty of stealing coins and stars as well as starting wars over Chance Time results.

Bowser has done far worse in the grand scheme of things. It's commonly said that Mario is responsible for murdering the Koopa Troop, but Mario is only responding to a kidnapping of a political figure, and it is Bowser's responsibility to expend his own people in the first place to be destroyed by Mario. Additionally, Bowser has tried to melt the ice caps twice: to flood Earth the first time and to cancel the winter Olympics the second time. He and his minions also stole a hat pin from breaking in Lenin's Tomb. Bowser also tried to use the Music Keys to cure his tone-deafness and he showed no care that he caused everyone else to dance uncontrollably. And another time, Bowser, being left out of a fun vacation, caused havoc by giving them a fun vacation! And by that, he means NO FUN AT ALL!

MarioWiki has even described Bowser as such:

Some argue that Mario's stepping on Luigi's foot after Luigi won a tennis tournament qualifies for Mario's list of crimes or at least sibling abuse, but normal brothers tease each other all the time. Mario, has, however, rammed a star into Luigi's crotch at one point (in the  manga, among many many other things) and there's no excusing that. Others also argue that Mario bashes Yoshi on the head to stick the tongue out, but it's only because the developers told him to do this and saw it and didn't like it. and the only thing he's been doing is pointing.

Mario may not be exactly a perfect angel, but even he wouldn't stoop to the levels of Count Bleck, who tried to destroy the world because he thought he lost a girlfriend, and the story he was cast in tried to make us sympathize with him.