They're actors. In Mario Brothers 3 you can see the background bolted to the set and you go back stage at the end of every level. It's a production. Then they do celebrity sporting events.
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Also the intro cut scene is a curtain being lifted.
They've said as such at Nintendo. All the characters are actors, coworkers. If it's Tennis Day, they're playing tennis against each other. If it's Smash Brothers day, they're launching each other off floating platforms. Etc.
Everyone in Hollywood (Mario Bros edition) is banging anyways. Surprised they dont have "Super Mario Orgy 3: Step-Daughters are Peachy!"
Rule 34
Mario is a false narrator. She wasn't kidnapped, she left him because he would spend his meager paychecks on drugs.
He must be a shit plumber if his wages are "meager"
Every time he gets more than $99 it disappears and turns into an extra life.
They turn into special mushrooms.
Mario probably has a bunch of life insurance policies in his name, I know I would
Is not every plumber technically a shit plumber?
I would say theoretically not. If you only do new construction nothing you touch has had shit on it yet. But then again it is intended for shit so it depends on where you draw the line
There are gas and steam plumbers
i'm sure there's at least one plumber that has never touched toilet or sewage pipes in their long career
Maybe he just wasn't good at cleaner her pipes specifically, if you get what I'm sayin'.
Mario is a false narrator. She wasn't kidnapped, she left him because he would spend his meager paychecks on drugs.
Are we saying that Mario - Gorilla Kidnapper is not to be trusted?
Okay Jonathan Blow
But he always seems to have coins AND mushrooms?
Bowser has multiple castles to be fair, he is also buff and close to 6ft7. No contest.
Mario did this only once. The game is the memory of his trauma, playing on a loop.
Your playing is his therapy. Unless you lose. In which case, he wakes up from the bad dream in a cold sweat, and has to start all over.
this is why Super Mario Brothers 2 is a dream and 3 is a play and Wonder is a ketamine therapy session
That's why the flowers all have the same voice
My head canon is that the games where Bowser is the bad guy are just them playing roles and the sports games are their real selves. Rivals, not really enemies. Mario Kart World having all the mooks join in on the karting supports this idea.
I didn't know this. That's so wholesome and adorable!
not sure that's hugely better frankly, because now it's implied that the mooks are just there to let the important people act out decadent fantasies in absurd detail
like being an extra in a mr beast episode whose sole job is to get punched into cold water
They actually are in a polyamorous relationship and Mario has a cuckold fetish and a saviour complex. At the end of the day, all 3 of them fuck Toad.
Love me some unexpected Starbomb! Great song! Gets stuck in my head constantly
If I was a police officer, and after surviving an accidental catastrophic zombie outbreak in Raccoon City, my government said "Hey you're really good at that, want to do it 5 more times?" I'd simply pivot to being a construction worker or something.
So you're saying you're not a bad enough dude to rescue the president's daughter...
Isn't Bowser more of a turtle?
He's a koopa.
Everyone who doesn't know that is out of the loopa.
He's a turtle dragon.
Accidents happen in high speed races and no one is prosecuted. It would be a shame for an accident to happen to the lizard during the race.
I like to imagine Mario and Bowser have a sorta Doof and Parry kinda relationship.
Bowser makes no sense. He's larger than Mario, why doesn't he simply eat him?
"Mario. You can't a do this! He's a the one who keeps kidnapping peach!" Said Luigi. "No" Mario responded. "That's a why we do do this". Mario then narrowed his gaze and gripped the steering wheel of his cart, his gloved hands making the sound of a tightening rope. "Today, brother. We humiliate him. Tomorrow, we take a him down for good".
You also wouldn’t be in a video game either, but that’s quite besides the point.
Open world Mario Cart?
Meaning, normal Mario but with cart?
You can't let your personal life affect your career, sometimes you have to work with people you dislike.
well, maybe now you realise why he kept trying to get that interfering girlfriend away from you.