Mario
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- "IT'S A-ME, MARIO!!"
- — Mario
- — Mario
Mario is the protagonist of a certain little franchise from Nintendo.
Bio[edit | edit source]
Back when Shigeru Miyamoto was planning Donkey Kong around the start of the 1980s, he originally wanted to the game to star Popeye the Sailor Man in order to attract sales for the then-young Nintendo of America. But license rights are a finicky issue if you're two years ahead of the Gaming Crash of '83; so Mario initially went unnamed. His actual name only came about when some NoA employees pulled a practical joke on one of their landlords, and the name kind of stuck.
To put this into perspective: Your average gaming protagonist in the 1980s was a no-name one-and-done figure whose personality was limited to the few pixels you would see on the screen. By comparison, Mario's entire background as a burly, mustached plumber from New York was carefully crafted for the American audience. This was before Japanese publisher realized they could make more sales by putting an angry-looking guy with a gun on the cover art, mind you.
Be it through genius marketing or the random hand of fate, Mario went on to become one of the most well-known icons of the gaming industry, and got so famous that most people will automatically see tiny, fat Italian men jumping around when you so much as mention the term 'video game'. Which is just as well, given that the only other stuff that place has going for it are pasta, organized crime, and violent epileptic seizures disguised as loud gesturing.
In 8chanmania[edit | edit source]
Season 1[edit | edit source]
Mario likely debuted in 8chanmania II. He fittingly won his first victory against his own brother Luigi, only to get stomped by Big Boss.
He and Luigi teamed up for 8chanmania X. They won an easy victory over Wario and Princess Daisy, but then were swept away when Rimanah and Mentor made big waves.
He later fought solo in 8chanmania XI. Mario defeated Frank West and then lost to Arai-san the next round. Mario has developed a trademark intro song during the mania, "Do the Mario!" sung by Captain Lou Albano (an equally fat and greasy Italian), which everyone in chat loves to sing when Mario appears in the ring.
Season 2[edit | edit source]
Mario made a notable return to 8chanmania during 8chanmania XLII, where he beat King Harlaus and then lost next round to his own fan and old golfing buddy, Plum. For whatever it was worth, fellow Italian Rita Ciano that she cheered him on during his fights (and supposedly unleashed the fury of an Italian fury on Plum after the mania was over).
Season 3[edit | edit source]
Representing Hotel Mario, he intended to bing bing wahoo his way to "Bad Games Mania", 8chanmania LXXII. This worked out comparatively well - he and Luigi mistook the Master of Disguise in his turtle costume as a Koopa and gave him a befitting trashing. Zara also was not nearly fast enough to escape his stomping, and FBI investigator Francis York Morgan promptly fell to the old chair trick. In took a fellow Italian countryman in the form of Piro Il Grezzo to stop his road to victory in the Semi Finals.
In 8chanmania LXXIX, Mario (still affiliated with the hotel business) tried to finance his own vacation with the mania prize money. It did not work out, as he was kicked out of the preliminaries by Knuckles Boom.
