post any random Mario thought on your mind

One thing I've always wondered-how does Mario throw fire balls without burning his hands? Like in the "Mario and Luigi" games he creates a huge fireball IN his hand and holds it while he makes it, and THEN throws it. Also-what exactly are Bowser and the Koopalings? What does Nintendo say they are? I mean Bowser's Koopa Troopas are obviously turtles and I'd say Bowser and the Koopalings and Bowser Jr are too but they a lot like lizards to me as well. Maybe a combination? I mean Bowser especially look like a lizard in the DIC Mario cartoons in his "King Koopa" character depiction. So what exactly kind of creatures are him and his son and the Koopalings? Wondered about that even longer than what I talked about with Mario throwing fireballs. If anyone's going to answer the questions on this post I'd like to have THAT question answered first.
 
Last edited:
Maybe they're just really good gloves.

…well, and he and his friends don't seem to get burnt by the fireballs unless they're in direct competition, and the things stay ablaze underwater, so it's probably magic. Gives "friendly fire" a new, autoantonymous meaning.
 
Now that Vivian's gender identity has been retconned to transgender girl in the PM:TTYD remake, does that mean that her birth name was Victor and changed it to Vivian when she started identifying as a trans girl?
 
While not unheard of, I don't think it's that common for trans people to choose a name based on their birth name, since often that's tied to the gender they're less comfortable with if not dysphoric over. And transphobes take advantage of that to harass people and violate their privacy, so digging for deadnames sorta rubs me the wrong way even for fictional characters
 
That's a fair assessment, thanks for answering my question.
 
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is really good. Except for the unskippable text. Also why's the floor so reflective and shiny? It's paper!
 
Went to a phone repair shop to get my gf's screen replaced, the repair guy had a Tanuki Mario sticker and a Warioware Wario sticker on his computer. Was refreshing to see that.
 
I've been thinking about the different interpretations of Morton Koopa Jr. over the years...

  • In the cartoons, he's referred to as "Big Mouth" and his whole thing is that he talks way too much.
  • In more recent interpretations such as Paper Mario: Color Splash and the Mario & Luigi remakes on 3DS, he uses as few words as possible to get his point across and is portrayed as not being very smart.
  • Then there's Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam which is sort of an in-between, where the way he talks doesn't affect his personality at all. He talks like any "normal" character would.

It's kind of interesting to see how he's changed.