Super Mario (DC Comics)

Super Mario (real name: Mario Daisuke Miyamoto), also known as the "Samurai dell'Oni Cremisi" ("crimson oni samurai"), is an Italian superhero in the DC Universe.
Super Mario is the leader of the Italian superhero teams Forza Violenta (composed of him, Psicopatica, Thalassophobia, Costruttore di Titani, Poeta Muto, Immagine Pallida Riflessa in un'Eclissi Solare, Il Gladiatore and Sakura) and Figli Venuti Male (with his brother the Green Lantern Luigi Miyamoto).
He's the in-universe inspiration for the Super Mario video games, which are made by his video game developer father Satoru Miyamoto of Nintendo (which, in the DCU, is an Italian company which made the PlayStation).
He's a much darker person than the Mario in the video games he inspired, being the anti-heroic protector of the city of Napoli and vaguely a cross between Batman and the villain Bane, systematically using both hi-tech gadgets and Venom mushrooms. 
He's fought both crime and supernatural or alien threats. 
He's sometimes been a Batman villain, especially in the story "Corporate Warfare", where Super Mario is in Gotham on behalf of Russian corporation Peremen Zaibatsu and has been tasked to attack Wayne Industries, leaving him in a melee a trois against Batman and Deathstroke. 
== Appearance ==
Super Mario is 25, and looks much younger than his Nintendo game counterpart, lacking the mustache and having much smoother facial traits. He's got a fair skin, straight brown hair with bangs, and blue eyes. He's reminiscent of Robert Pattinson's Bruce Wayne or Japanese singer-songwriter Gackt, or the video game character Squall Leonhart. 
On his forehead, he has the tattoo of the Japanese/Diabolic Language kanji for "fire", said kanji he also wears as a pendant in his civilian life.
When doing his "samurai" missions, he wears hi-tech Japanese-looking red body armor with the "fire" kanji on his chest, black adherent pants, and brown boots (looking somewhat similar to the Red Hood). In battle, his head is covered in a red hood, and his face is covered by a white oni mask with red horns and a black mustache.
== Weapons, Abilities and Superpowers ==
Super Mario doesn't have any superpowers, but he's got his own hi-tech weapon brand, produced by Peremen Zaibatsu and Macchine da Guerra Nagai.
Super Mario is a great kempo fighter, but his main weapons are technology and artificial goods such as the "Super Shroom" (the drug Venom in the form of edible mushrooms, which increases his strength at the cost of making him more prone to losing control), and the "Fire Flower" (a flamethrower, decorated with a sakura flower motif), but he's also got a handgun he uses to fire "shells" (especially the explosive homing Blue Shell used to kill flying enemies). 
He also uses different suits of armor such as the Rock Armor (a bulletproof suit of heavy armor which allows him to curl up in a ball and increase his combat strength), the Penguin Armor (a penguin-shaped suit of armor, which makes him able to breathe underwater and freeze it), the Cloud Armor (allowing him to create cloud platforms of extremely high-density water vapor in the air), the Wasp Armor (which has precision "laser stingers" and can fly through a jetpack), and the Specter Armor (created with ectoplasmic material from Hashmal the Phantasmal: allows Mario to phase through objects and attack Hashmal and other enemies immune to physical strength)
== Superhero Origin ==
Mario Daisuke Miyamoto and his brother Luigi Hideki Miyamoto are twin sons of video game designer Satoru Miyamoto of Italian company Nintendo, living in Napoli. Having failed college, Mario couldn't follow his father's footsteps as a game designer, and he and Luigi worked as plumbers under Gaspare Spinotti. However, Mario found out Spinotti was paying pizzo to Camorra and using bad-quality materials. He and Luigi were fired by Spinotti, so Don Rocco Cirino sent hitmen to murder the two siblings in order to avoid Spinotti being outed as a pizzo payer. Luigi became a Green Lantern, while Mario decided to become a "samurai" and protect the city of Napoli in a similar fashion to Batman, but, not having Batman's fear of becoming no different than his enemies, Super Mario made a contract with Peremen Zaibatsu and became their "samurai" protector of Italy (a warlord specialized in busting criminals lethally, but also establishing contacts with the underworld, and even investigating alien or supernatural threats looming on Italy). 
Super Mario has a contract with corporations such as the Russian Peremen Zaibatsu and the Italian company Macchine da Guerra Nagai, which hire him as a samurai to patrol various cities and "cleanse" them, and give him weapons.
== Rogues Gallery ==
Like most DC heroes, Super Mario has a prominent rogues gallery. His most prominent enemies are:
* Dragon of the Vesuvius (Ulrich Bowser)
* Mad Artist (Joshua Bowser)
* Don Rocco Cirino
* Black Knight (Roland Tokumbo) 
* Goomba The Mycelium (Zeno SigismondI)
* Wendy the Punk (Guendalina Vendena)
* Abominio Cosmico (Chradsluuk-Vuutarzratuluuk-Sajmrkyatsluuk)
* Hashmal the Phantasmal: Mostly an enemy of his brother Luigi, Hashmal the Phantasmal has come to Earth and fought Mario and Luigi together.
* Batman (Bruce Wayne): A rival of Super Mario during a corporate warfare between Wayne Industries and Peremen Zaibatsu. 
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