Nintendo aren’t known for their LGBT+ representation in the iconic
Super Mario series.
Over the past 36 years, since the release of the first
Super Mario game, there have been plenty of conspiracies and fan theories. So for this Mario Day (March 10 – or Mar 10, get it?), we’re diving into the best ones.
Was
Super Mario‘s Birdo the first trans video game character?
Perhaps the most well known story of LGBT+ representation in the Mario universe is Birdo, a pink creature with a bow. First appearing in
Super Mario Bros 2 on the NES with the name Ostro as a pink egg-spewing mini boss, the game’s US manual stated “he thinks he is a girl and he spits eggs from his mouth”.