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7975070 No.7975070 [Reply] [Original]

Was it normal to think that Mario was in his 40s or so back in the SMB1 days or was it just me? My dad was 38 when I was born, so maybe on a subconscious level I defaulted to thinking of cool, heroic adults as being around his age when I was around kindergarten age.

>> No.7975079

>>7975070
Why is he a hero?

>> No.7975086

>>7975079
Mario? He rescues the princess and saves the kingdom.

>> No.7975090

>>7975070
How old's he supposed to be? I'd be assuming in his 40s as well.

>> No.7975093

>>7975090
According to Miyamoto, Mario is and has always been 26.

>> No.7975094

You think of a hairy italian plumber from Brooklyn, it’s natural to imagine a middle aged guy. I never assumed a specific age but imagined him in the mid to late 30s I guess.

>> No.7975098

>>7975086
Save from what?

>> No.7975107

>>7975093
Though he was originally imagined as middle-aged, his age has been approximated to be about 26 years old,[27] while Shigeru Miyamoto later placed it at either 24 or 25.[28] The Mario vs. Wario comic also implies Mario (and Wario) is roughly in his late 20s or early 30s, as he recalls his childhood 20 years ago.

>The above text is from the Super Mario Wiki and is available under a Creative Commons license. Attribution must be provided through a list of authors or a link back to the original article. Source: https://www.mariowiki.com/Mario

>> No.7975110

>>7975107
But is Mario vs. Wario canon...

>> No.7975126

>>7975098
King Koopa you dingus

>> No.7975132

He looks like he could be 40, but in real life guys who look about like that and work in trade jobs as plumbers are in their early to mid 30s.

>> No.7975380

The facilities manager where I work is a trade plumber that has a more than passing similarly but he is in his 50s.

As a kid admittedly I never thought about Mario that deeply. Maybe my age, or maybe the game scenario suggested this wasn't needed

>> No.7975605

>>7975093
Makes since as most 20yo Americans had that sort of girth.

>> No.7975610

>>7975070
>Was it normal to think that Mario was in his 40s or so back in the SMB1 days or was it just me?
Personally? I think this was due to the Mario movie that I saw around that time that I thought he was around 40.

>> No.7975684

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfG0-iW5o0Y

I always saw him as 40+, probably because of Captain Lou.

>> No.7975765
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7975765

>The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! is a 1989 American live-action/animated television series
>Each episode consists of live-action segments starring Lou Albano as Mario
>Lou Albano, b. 1933
>56 years old at show's premier
Mario was a man in his 50s.

>Albano died on October 14, 2009 in Westchester County, New York, of a heart attack while residing in hospice care.

>> No.7975806

>>7975070
Nobody cared how old he was.
He looks like a fat guy in his 20s or 30s to me.

>> No.7975839

>>7975070
The reason I fell in love with smb was I thought mario looked like my dad, mustache, hat pulled down tight, brown shirt, overalls, boots. I thought I was playing my old man as a super hero. Then the later marios made him a fat cartoon character and ruined it for me.

>> No.7975843

>>7975070
Those black and white levels were something else man, I just remember this feel of playing the game at night with my sister and when this level came I used to think it got dark because of the hours we were playing.

>> No.7975858

>>7975843
It's funny because we have games now that do just that. Cute and wholesome story.

>> No.7977207

>>7975839
I want to fuck your dad

>> No.7977223

>>7975765
Yeah, early Mario definitely makes me think of a guy at least in his early 40s, based on appearance and his demeanor in Western animation. As you point out, given the live action castings, apparently that's how others interpreted him as well. Even now with his playful, almost childlike attitude I'd guess early 30s... if not for his Charles Martinet voice making him sound like he's just entering puberty.

>> No.7977292

>>7975070
I still assume Mario is in his 40s or even 50s. Having Captain Lou play Mario in live action, and later Bob Hoskins, really reinforced that too. Fuck Nintendo and their "Mario is only 25" bullshit.

>> No.7977687
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7977687

>>7975070
Not 40s but definitely older than how he's portrayed nowadays

>> No.7977707

>>7975090
35 minimum. mario is no boy, he is a man

>> No.7977749

>>7975070
No. Mario was born 45lbs and with a 'stache. The overalls are the afterbirth.

>> No.7977806

>>7975070
As a kid I always assumed he was bald under the cap. I have no idea why, I guess just cause he's a chubby Italian plumber who always wears a hat so of course he'd be bald. I remember being annoyed when I played Mario 64 and he had hair

>> No.7977824

Mario has always either been either an ambiguous cartoon character or played by literal 50 year fat guys. The perception that Mario is a fat old plumber was basically ubiquitous until nintendo announced him to be in his 20's

>> No.7978294

>>7975070
He was always played in live action by middle aged men so 40s was roughly the expectation.

>> No.7978309
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7978309

Back in the day Mario was drawn by a lot of different people and the designs always made Mario look older. His build was like Fred Flintstone. He didn't come off as a young guy only a few years older than Will Smith was at the time.

>> No.7978321

>>7975093
He doesn't look like any 26 year old these days. Maybe if they live in some shit part of the world, but even guys with blue collar/trades jobs these days in developed nations don't look in their 40s/50s at 26.

Mario is clearly late-40s + bad diet/no exercise mode, at the earliest. Hell even all live action depictions of him were played by middle aged men.

>> No.7978764

I'm 38 and Mario still seems like he's way, way older than me. It's the same with a lot of stuff I grew up with. Like Full House, Danny and Jesse were only in their mid-late 20s when that first aired, but since I was a kid at the time they seemed really old. Watching re-runs now they are 10 years younger than current me, but they still seem older because of my perception of them I had as a kid. I'll be 80 and they'll still seem older than me. It's weird like that.

>> No.7978778

>>7978764
The actors themselves are typically also older than their characters so that's part of it.

>> No.7978826

>>7978778
That's what I meant, the actors were like 28 or something IIRC in the first season. That's why it's weird watching it now, I SHOULD see them as being young, but I can't help but still see them as older than me.

>> No.7978847

>>7975110
more canon than something like the cartoon or live action movie

>> No.7979013

>>7978826
Probably because adults in those shows were all boomers or Gen Xers when being 28 with a house and kids was a fairly normal thing. It's impossible to watch as a millennial and relate to the situation at all.

Homer Simpson is only in his mid 30s but he somehow can afford to raise a family of five on a single income. It's made the show weird because of the sliding time that now puts Homer and Marge in high school during the 90s. They're living like typical baby boomers because of the show's 80s roots but are technically supposed to be millennials now. Homer's birth year is now later than Bart's was when the show started.

>> No.7979037

>>7979013
Interestingly, the stuffy silent generation adults in Gen X movies are a lot easier to relate to for me now because in retrospect the gen Xers in those movies were a bunch of assholes who took for granted the relative peace and economic prosperity of the 90s to bemoan their existence and through sheer boredom chose to live like bohemians to act like windmill crusaders against the nebulous notion of "selling out."

>> No.7979051

>>7978309
>that shark getting an orgasmic sniff at Peach's feet
GIWTWM

>> No.7979053

>>7979013
>Homer's birth year is now later than Bart's was when the show started.
goddamn son

>> No.7980350

>>7979013
If they made a show relatable to millennials it would be too cringe for most people to watch. Even zoomers.

>> No.7980462

>>7975765
And Hoskins was in his early 40s.

>> No.7980478

I think you niggaz forget, this is early/mid 80s. Dudes in their 20s looked like dudes in their 40s.

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>> No.7981608

Adding a moustache to any man instantly ages him 15 years

>> No.7981742

>>7979037
>in retrospect
Those people were hard to stomach even back then.

>> No.7981760

>>7977207
ill fuck your dad first

>> No.7982079

>>7981608
I decided to go with a moustache once because fuck it it turned out great and I couldn't help but notice I went from looking my proper age at the time, 28, to a 39 middle-age looking man.

>> No.7982663

>>7975070
Are you a fucking moron? Jesus christ.

>> No.7982671

>>7981608
>instantly makes him look like a pedo

>> No.7982713

>>7975070
I didn't even exist in the SMB1 days and I still assumed he was like 40. Even now I think I still subconsciously think he's middle-aged, even though I know they said officially he's like 26.

pretty much for this reason >>7975094

>> No.7982825

Even as primitive as the sprite is it gives the impression of an older man, in terms of illustrative tropes a young man is never going to have that prominent of a mustache.

>> No.7983196

>>7975070
i always just imagine lou albano

>> No.7983253
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7983253

>>7983196
or pic related

>> No.7983272

>>7983253
You know sometimes I think they're the same men

>> No.7983405

>>7975070
Mario has never, ever been a day under 43.
Luigi is perpetually 36.

>> No.7983434
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7983434

>>7978321
A 25 year old in the early 80s could pass for 50 in modern low-t society

>> No.7983606

>>7975070
I can only see him as being in his 40's or so, I don't buy Miyamoto's BS.

>> No.7984243

>>7983434
Now imagine this dude with a bushy mustache.

>> No.7984947

Despite making a comeback in the hipster world, the mustache is still a relatively outdated style so sporting one is going to age you the same way a center part in your hair would.