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Post by Waffle Monger on Mar 22, 2006 22:16:36 GMT -5
I just realized that Mario is pretty freaking ugly. He is fat, short, deformed, and has got to be in his 40s. A girl was wearing a shirt today saying "I <3 Mario"  This was a pretty pointless thread I guess, and might get me subjected to ridicule, but I have had enough of it in my life, it's not going to change a thing. |
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Post by Pilgrim John on Mar 23, 2006 0:52:42 GMT -5
Well, Shiggy-san's prime idea for Mario's character was "a man who was not handsome, but had a strong sense of justice."
But hey, who doesn't think that bulbous nose is cute?
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Post by KoE_Hades on Mar 23, 2006 5:58:00 GMT -5
Well, because he is fat, short and deformed he is Mario. Just try to imagine a sleek, handsome Mario. *shudder*
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Post by Waffle Monger on Mar 23, 2006 15:04:53 GMT -5
Well, because he is fat, short and deformed he is Mario. Just try to imagine a sleek, handsome Mario. *shudder* Well I wouldn't want that either, but I mean...I bet you that Mario and Peach have, you know, hit it off, but I mean why? He is ugly. Just because someone saves you doesn't mean... I think I've gone off topic a weeeeeee bit. Anyways I love Mario as a video game icon that I grew up with and knew. Now just because I'm saying he is ugly, doesn't mean that I don't think he's an awesome character. I'd rather have a manly Mario than a dainty pretty boy Mario *shudders* |
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Post by Pilgrim John on Mar 23, 2006 22:45:15 GMT -5
Agreed. Leave prettyboy heroing up to the Belmonts and Final Fantasy heroes.  |
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Post by Jason-RN on Mar 24, 2006 4:22:05 GMT -5
Yeah, when you stop and think about it, Mario's pretty... average. There really isn't anything special about how. Well, expect for the fact that he stomps on turtles, rescues princesses, is a pro at tennis, soccer, baseball, golf, and go-karting, holds millions of parties, and even gets in a fight or two. But besides that, he's just your average plumber. |
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Post by KoE_Hades on Mar 24, 2006 6:30:15 GMT -5
Yeah, when you stop and think about it, Mario's pretty... average. There really isn't anything special about how. Well, expect for the fact that he stomps on turtles, rescues princesses, is a pro at tennis, soccer, baseball, golf, and go-karting, holds millions of parties, and even gets in a fight or two. But besides that, he's just your average plumber. Not to mention all the mushrooms he eats and brick blocks he breaks! |
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Post by Waffle Monger on Mar 24, 2006 15:50:04 GMT -5
Yeah, when you stop and think about it, Mario's pretty... average. There really isn't anything special about how. Well, expect for the fact that he stomps on turtles, rescues princesses, is a pro at tennis, soccer, baseball, golf, and go-karting, holds millions of parties, and even gets in a fight or two. But besides that, he's just your average plumber. Not to mention all the mushrooms he eats and brick blocks he breaks! The growing in size after eating the shrooms is a simile to getting high. |
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Post by Pilgrim John on Mar 24, 2006 19:51:43 GMT -5
Wrong. It's a throwback to Alice in Wonderland. She eats this one mushroom and grows into a giant. Then she eats a carrot to shrink right back down.
Literature has influenced video games more than drugs ever will.
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Post by Richard-RN on Mar 25, 2006 0:00:06 GMT -5
Well since Alice in Wonderland was read as a commentary if the contemporary drug culture of the 60s, its about the same thing
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Post by Waffle Monger on Mar 25, 2006 1:29:53 GMT -5
It was proven that when Carol Lewis was doign drugs while he was writing the stories and poetry that he whas written.
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Post by KoE_Hades on Mar 25, 2006 2:13:14 GMT -5
Ah drugs.... when will they learn...
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Post by Richard-RN on Mar 25, 2006 17:41:44 GMT -5
Well, its kind of hard to say graymatter. Carol certainly took some medications that contained opium and small amounts of cocaine, but they were perfectly legal and socially acceptable at the time. He wasn't a "drug addict" by any means, and probably didnt use them very much for recreational purposes, if it all.
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Post by Waffle Monger on Mar 25, 2006 23:56:37 GMT -5
Well, its kind of hard to say graymatter. Carol certainly took some medications that contained opium and small amounts of cocaine, but they were perfectly legal and socially acceptable at the time. He wasn't a "drug addict" by any means, and probably didnt use them very much for recreational purposes, if it all. But any drugs can ruin your perception, or at least make you think of different things. Explain the drinsk to make you big and small and the opium smoking caterpillar. |
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Post by Richard-RN on Mar 26, 2006 3:11:43 GMT -5
Im not suggesting by any means that there are not drug references in the book, because there clearly are (though the Caterpillar smokes Hookah as I remember, not opium (could be wrong tho)). I am just saying that to say Lewis Caroll thought of Alice in Wonderland on drugs is an overstatement that would be very hard to prove. I think he was a creative writer and a good storyteller, and tho drugs might have given him some of the particular ideas in the story, I think the concept and overall plot were derived from his imagination. People think up craaaazy things without drugs. Just look at Mario.
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