A major element of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars involved taking established characters from the Mario series and putting them in an all-new setting. While Mario, Bowser, and Toadstool were the game s most recognizable characters, one thing that Super Mario RPG is remembered for is its original creations. One of those original creations managed to stand heads and tails above the rest to the point that they re still revered to this day. That character is Geno.
Who is Geno? He is a spirit descended from the cosmos who chooses to bring life to a wooden doll. His actual name is ♥ !?, but he took on the doll s name to make pronunciation simpler for lowlier beings. In crashing through the skies, Smithy shattered the Star Road into seven star-shaped pieces, scattering them throughout the world. Geno has come to the terrestrial world to recover them and help rebuild the Star Road because its main function is to process and fulfill wishes. Geno s function, essentially, is to s
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”.
In discussing Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, we ve gone into detail about the ways in which this adventure opened Mario s horizons. However, his wasn t the only character whose worldview expanded. As much as this was a story about Mario branching out as a hero, it was just as much a story about Mario and his antagonistic relationship with Bowser. For the past decade, Mario, Bowser, and Peach were one-dimensional avatars filling roles for platformers. Super Mario RPG turned these three into fleshed-out characters, crafting their dynamic in new and unexpected ways. And in 1996, no plot twist was more unexpected than Mario and Bowser putting their contentious rivalry aside and banding together to face a common enemy.
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