This is a thread where I celebrate the greatest plumber in video games. I'll just post mostly pictures of him, but maybe the occasional video or so? Mario just needs more appreciation around these parts since he's always scrapped in favor of his loser beloved younger brother or other lesser beings like Waluigi or Bowser or Yoshi or whatever.



Love this one! The angle of this render is unique and is a much nice break from the frequently-used render from Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix. It's not used as much probably BECAUSE the camera angle is weird, but I like everything about it. Mario's pose, Mario's smile, Mario's arms, and it's just MARIO. You can also see that he has a bit of rim lighting on the right, and rim lighting's good. Looks good on Mario at least.


Funnily enough, it took them forever to find a quality image for THAT one too. since the previous image (now deleted) was low-res and had no transparency. I Can't believe it took so long for the people at MarioWiki to upload it, but we finally have something of quality for this image.

Those two images are actually different and not just the same model of Mario taken at different angles.

Posted by salty

Pfft, Mario is old news. Luigi is the new cool.

They're the best when they're together. But if you want Luigi, he is liked pretty much everywhere you go.



Though I like Mario more and Mario is a very underrated Mario character. You never see him top polls and I suppose the reason he does get a lot of votes is that he's recognized more than people fangasm over his amazing features. Fortunately, I'm one of those people who fangasm.

Posted by Baby Luigi

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I liked it when Mario's a talker. He was at his best in Fortune Street. He had plenty of character and charm when he's allowed to talk and I believe it will endear him to more players rather than have them be apathetic to his existence.

My sister will definitely agree that Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time is the best Mario & Luigi game. I don't play a lot of Mario & Luigi myself, got stuck in Dream Team, but overall, I like the series mainly for its brother-focused concept. I think it has some things holding it back, though I still like it more than Paper Mario.

Paper Jam is more of a Mario & Luigi title than a Paper Mario title. It's really Mario & Luigi with some Paper Mario characters. I like its concept and how it uses mostly Mario characters rather than creating original characters (something I was never too hot on), but I'd like to see it expanded. Right now, its major flaws are its overreliance on Toad quests and restricted use of Mario characters (and no Paper Luigi), or so what I've heard from critics.

One thing I appreciate about Mario & Luigi is that they still use 2D sprites and I think that works well especially when Mario's dominated by 3D nowadays. I do love 3D, though having sprites still being used is nice.

dis is a good pic from Mario & Luigi. Mario kicking Goomba ass, that's where it's at!

Will be looking forward to this game. Don't care for the reviews except in Ultra Smash's case. I'm sure I'll love most of Mario Sports Superstars, especially the horse racing part!

ikr? But it's Mario Sports Superstars.

I love the game, but I'm too tired to talk a lot about it. Maybe I will later. In the meantime, here is a horse (and Mario).

Of course, you can do anything that celebrates Mario the best character ever. Post pictures/fanart of him yourself, gush about how amazing he is. Anything to do with the character.

Posted by SuperML

Jokes aside, people need this thread in their lives. Mario is a beacon of purity.

Word! Mario is so awesome! I personally love your use of Marios. You can never have enough of Mario. Although I don't know what that red image is. Looks like an evil grin, as mask. Like, the devil. Something Mario would try to defeat.

Some official art that I've never seen before.

I like Luigi's facial expression. You know that Famicom Grand Prix II: 3D Hot Rally is the first game that Luigi is shown as taller and thinner? I think it's funny that the brothers' facial expressions match their personality today even though the art is probably very, very old. Maybe Luigi's personality was determined from this game?


This is from Mario's Picross. It might be a while before we get to see Mario in an outfit like this again, but it's also going to be a while before we get 2D artwork like this again. I like 3D, but I feel there's less artwork overall recently and I still miss 2D. The reason I like this? It looks like it came from a cartoon.


This is from Mario's Super Picross. This is the one with Wario in it. Again, it's been a very long while since we had Mario and Wario facing off like that, and I think that needs to happen again.

Posted by SuperML

It's a freak accident that happened while applying a bunch of weird affects to this creepy art of Mario.

Ah! Well, the real thing is always freakier!



Poor Mario! But we should hope he enjoys it.

this is one of my new favorite pictures of Mario. First saw it in an Angry Joe video, but I love it so much that I'll use it for every Nintendo screw-up.

Boom badda boom