They should never change Mario from who he is or what he represents.
I think I see where Sapphira was coming from--those are unrealistic expectations for women. Appreciating the human body isn't wrong, but it also isn't "natural," if you're going to go that way with it, for people to induldge too much in purient interests--sure, they make you exist, but if that's all we concentrate on, then people start to deviate--pretty soon, no one would be happy unless they had some unorthodox quirk or fetish, or they were homosexual or whathave you, and eventually reproduction would just stop!
Lol... maybe that was a bit of a stretch. But you have to have a happy medium. Happy, like Mario. Medium, like... a cheeseburger at McDonald's.
Don't change Mario, don't wish him changed. Mario is great. We see his greatness when we are fans, and he couldn't be more appealing. Change him, and he isn't "our" Mario anymore. You don't come to Mario, Mario comes to you. You're either born with it, and cultivated in it, or you'll never have it. We can't integrate people into Mario--being a Mario fan requires a certain persona, a certain way of life, a certain respect for certain things--and with all that certainty required, it would take a lot of changes to make him appeal to the swaying mass of "pop-culture": and then, would he even be Mario anymore?
"It's-a me, Mario! .. I think."
So... screw that! Never waive those withstanding blue overalls and red hat and shirt! I will never forget that on every school survey we took, my favorite color was "Mario red!" I will never forget my stopping people in the halls at school to correct the incorrect mushrooms on their Mario t-shirts! Bringing my plush, talking Mario for "stuffed animal day" in middle school!
So... [edit] that! I don't care if it gets edited!
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"Word I was in the house alone,
Somehow must have gotten abroad:
Word I was in my life alone.
Word I had no one left but God."
~Yes you will, since you just got a strike.
Edited by - Sapphira on 5/9/2004 5:00:46 PM