Geno

Artwork of Geno in Super Mario RPG: Legend Of The Seven Stars.

**Geno** is a party member in *Super Mario RPG: Legend Of The Seven Stars* and is one of PapaGenos's most wanted characters for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

## Background

Geno is a doll that is possessed by a star spirit by the name of ♥♪!?, who is sent down to Earth after the Star Road was destroyed to fix it. The little star spirit ends up in a house in Rose Town. During the night when Mario sleeps over at the Rose Town Inn, the spirit possesses a blue doll that is owned by Gaz. Geno wanders off in to the Forest Maze to fight off Bowyer, who has captured one of the many Star Pieces from Star Road. Mario and Mallow go in search of the missing Geno doll, only to find him confronting Bowyer. The two then join forces with Geno to help retrieve that stolen star piece.

After Mario helps him, Geno joins the party.

## PapaGenos's History

In PapaGenos's Why Geno? video, he explains the history he had with both Geno and Super Mario RPG, and talks about why exactly he wants to see Geno in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. At the time of Super Mario RPG's release, Papa talks about how Mario games never really had an ambitious story and every plotline always revolved around one thing: Rescue the Princess and defeat an evil villain. However, Super Mario RPG rolls around and it did what no other Mario game was able to do, which was have an intriguing storyline with a bunch of unique and interesting characters and locations. He points out how cool it is to team up with Bowser and Peach and to fight off a different villain, as well as praising the new party members introduced in this game, which is Geno and Mallow. Papa talks about how he was mind-blown playing this game as a kid, and because of this, he really wanted to see some of the characters introduced in this game in future games.

The only issue with that is that Geno and all related Super Mario RPG characters are not owned by Nintendo, but are owned by Square Enix, or at the time, Squaresoft. This resulted in these characters never seeing the light of day again. Papa also explains the falling out Nintendo and Square had in regards to Final Fantasy VII. Square wanted Final Fantasy VII on the Nintendo 64, but since Nintendo still opted for cartridges for the Nintendo 64, Square stopped working with Nintendo and moved over to the Sony PlayStation, making FFVII a PlayStation-exclusive game.

That is where Super Smash Bros. comes in. Papa talks about how Smash is a great tool to not only introduce new players to these new franchises, but to also revive old and forgotten characters and franchises as well, and how Smash is really the only way to see these characters again. As such, Papa talks about how he has been campaigning for Geno all this time. Geno was one of the many characters Papa was rooting for in Super Smash Bros. Brawl along with Banjo & Kazooie and Little Mac and even voted for him in the Smash Ballot, along with Banjo & Kazooie (Little Mac was already announced in the game at that point).

To this day, Papa is still rooting for Geno, as it is the only character from his most wanteds to have yet to get included, as Little Mac was included in Smash 4, and Banjo was included in Ultimate.

## Trivia

* PapaGenos's name is a pun based on a pizza restaurant he loves known as PapaG**i**nos, except the I was replaced with an E to spell, PapaGenos, based on his demand for Geno in Smash.