Mario is the bad guy

So a realized that Mario is the bad guy. The dude sells drugs, fights people constantly. Kills animals with his bare hands, lights them on fire or stomps them to death. Wario just spends his time playing arcade games and saving his money. The only time Wario is doing the same thing as Mario is when he is pulled into it by him. Plus, Mario has constantly got an angry face and Wario has got nothin' but a smile on his face. Am I crazy?

Forget both of those guys, Waluigi is the real good guy.

You make a good point. Goomba's do seem to just be going about their day not really harming anyone "Just going to the shops for some milk...ahh fuck!" SQUISH!. There's some flash game Patrick once linked to that makes fun of Mario being a dick... I've forgotten what it's called though.

I think most of Nintendo's good guy characters are probably terrible. If some dude just ran into my home and started throwing my pots about I'd be pissed.

Wait ... is this really happening? Isn't the 'Mario is the bad guy' thing been done, a whole lot?

Original NES instruction manual all of the citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom were turned into bricks.... he's the most famous mass murder on an epic scale.

#teamdonkeykong

That's all I'm sayin. Learn the real truth folks, He's an unrepentant kidnapper. It was right there in Donkey Kong Jr. for everyone to see

Waluigi has a sandwich named after him. He can't be that bad

Keep in mind that if Mario simply touches any of those goombas or turtles from the side, he literally dies. You'd be stomping on that shit too!

And animal abuse, throws yoshi to the garbage when he is done with him.

Just like spiders!

These words are the truth.

He IS the People's Champion. He has never done anything wrong and spends his days playing sports, racing karts and winning at board games.

@corruptedevil: No joke, I think he's the best racer (in terms of overall stats) in Mario Kart 8. I got really into trying to be good at that game to best an internet friend at it.

@kenobi: you make a good point till your on level 1-1 and let that first Goomba touch you instead of jumping on it.

i think there is a case to be made for a lot of good guys to be the actual villan. and i think of link is in the same situation even though in all concepts there are outliers

This. The guy might be calmly walking toward you, but your inaction results in a quick and untimely death. He's a murderer. Unless there's a Mario prequel which shows us that they're just acting in self-defense (and canon story would dictate they're acting under orders from a kidnapper and possible molester - Bowser).

Donkey Kong's Mario is Luigi masquerading as Mario and sullying the name of his goody two-shoes, saving Peach and defeating Bowser brother.

I don't know, that's like a cougar attacking campers. Yeah, it's pretty shitty, but Mario is coming into their home environment and they're wild animals, he should respect their territory.

If not the bad guy, he definitely takes competition everything a little too seriously.

Proof.

This. They're just out there in the wild and will kill you as soon as look at you. Parents now throw a hissy fit over playgrounds, imagine THEIR reaction to these things. Goombas would be terrorists or something.

I've never once seen this Italian stereotype do any plumbing. I'm not even sure he's legally allowed residency in the Mushroom Kingdom.

no no no noo no no no no no

Yeah he's basically the Cosmo Kramer of the Mario world. Never does any work, but always seems to have enough money to do whatever he feels like doing.

He gets money by pawning off his trophies from all the various sporting events he's won. His abnormally long legs give him an edge over every other competitor.

Luigi is a fuckin mook

Mario is bad and Wario is good? For real?

Mario ain't braid.

This is Mario, not Spec Ops: The Line

You can actually thank Hardcore Investigative Journalist and Giant Bomb's own Dan Ryckert for getting these sweet scoops, kind of proving this theory a few years ago.