Overrated Mario Characters (besides Yoshi)

Who do you think is the most overrated Mario Character?

  • Mario

    Votes: 7 11.9%

  • Luigi

    Votes: 6 10.2%

  • Fawful

    Votes: 7 11.9%

  • Rosalina

    Votes: 4 6.8%

  • The babies

    Votes: 2 3.4%

  • Toad

    Votes: 3 5.1%

  • Peach

    Votes: 3 5.1%

  • Waluigi

    Votes: 1 1.7%

  • Bowser Jr.

    Votes: 3 5.1%

  • Koopalings

    Votes: 3 5.1%

  • Geno

    Votes: 20 33.9%
  • Total voters
    59
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Title says it all. Who do you think is the most overrated Mario character?

For me, it's Luigi. I like to use him in games like SM64DS, but as a character I don't like him at all. I honestly don't understand why he's so popular.

If you think that there's someone I forgot, tell me and I'll consider adding them.

And no, I'm not including Yoshi. Don't ask me to. I know that there's several people who hate him, but I want to know who you dislike besides him.

(some of these guys probably wouldn't really considered overrated but oh well)

(and mods, if there's a thread similar to this that I missed feel free to lock it)
 
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Added the Koopalings because they are. As sin.

Also, add Geno.
 
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I forgot those guys. I agree that they are very overrated. (though my vote still goes to Luigi)

Added.
 
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When you say overrated, you can't just help but to mention Mario (sorry Mario fans). I know that this is the Mario series franchise (his own series); however, I can't help but notice that he seems to overshadow the other characters considerably to making them have very few roles in the games. Mario has had over 200 games, with the other characters having very few games on their own. I think some of the others need more development.

While I do like Mario, I just think that Nintendo should give a chance to the rest of the Mario characters to allow them to develop. I would have also said Yoshi, but I think he's been put down a bit since we haven't been getting any new Yoshi games for a while (though he is featured a bit too much in my opinion).

By the way, why isn't Yoshi on this list?
 
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Norbert said:
And no, I'm not including Yoshi. Don't ask me to. I know that there's several people who hate him, but I want to know who you dislike besides him.
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Whoops, sorry about that. Must have skimmed over that part. :P Let's continue over that.
 
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Yoshi because of his fanbase

My vote goes to the Koopalings. Honestly, I would have preferred original bosses
 
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Propeller Toad said:
When you say overrated, you can't just help but to mention Mario (sorry Mario fans). I know that this is the Mario series franchise (his own series); however, I can't help but notice that he seems to overshadow the other characters considerably to making them have very few roles in the games. Mario has had over 200 games, with the other characters having very few games on their own. I think some of the others need more development.

While I do like Mario, I just think that Nintendo should give a chance to the rest of the Mario characters to allow them to develop.
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MnSG said:
Geno is way too overrated if you asked me.
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Baby Luigi said:
My vote goes to the Koopalings. Honestly, I would have preferred original bosses
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I agree with all of these. The Koopalings and Geno are not very good characters in my opinion, and like Luigi, I have no idea why they are so popular.

And yes, Mario is featured a bit too much. I know he's the main character, but he needs to step out of the spotlight and give characters like Toad and Wario and Yoshi to get a lead role once in a while. The two I mentioned have only had one game, for example. (Super Princess Peach and Wario's Woods)
 
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More people hate Yoshi than Luigi but Yoshi has the biggest fan base put of all of the Big Eight. Luigi is second and I don't know people like him more than Mario and thinks he needs to star in more. (And they always play as him when they can in the SMG games).

I also don't get how Geno got a huge fan base and I think he has something to do with the forest maze which had a famous theme tune which could be one of the reasons.