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Mario Chat / Re: Mario Canon (and Fanon, while we're at it)

« on: April 21, 2011, 11:37:09 PM »

I think the Brooklyn thing is pretty much canon. I'm not sure how it works, but the cartoon and movie had to have gotten the information from somewhere. You guys should read this:

Q: Mario is Italian. Or we assume he is Italian, was there something behind that?
As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well. So I drew some characters that had more western type features with a little bigger noses and what not. Now with Mario, I think with Mario Bros. we had a setting of course that was underground, so I just decided Mario is a plumber. Let's put him in New York and he can be Italian. There was really no other deep thought other than that.

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Nintendo of America probably told the people behind the cartoons and movie that was how Mario was, but who knows if this bit of NoA intention is still true in modern Mario canon.