Accents Although the cartoon established Mario and Luigi to be from Brooklyn a fact commonly accepted by fans despite having never been mentioned in any games Toad seemed to speak with a thicker Brooklyn accent The accents weren t mentioned in the games but the TV show was presumably a licensed product Until Nintendo decided to go with an Italian accent fans assumed the TV show and later the movie accent was the official standing Only when Nintendo s products included digitized recorded speech did anyone realize Nintendo intended them to be Italian not Italian American It s the same principle of updated canon that Star Trek and Star Wars licensed products run on