Mario

**Mario** is a plumber, adventurer, and legendary hero of the Mushroom Kingdom. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he and his brother, Luigi, ran their own plumbing business known as Super Mario Bros. Plumbing. One day, while investigating some pipes during plumbing, he is teleported to the Mushroom Kingdom, where he meets a talking mushroom tourist called Toad, who tours him through the kingdom. He later meets Princess Peach and is trained to be able to beat Bowser and save his brother.

## Biography

### Life in Brooklyn

Mario and Luigi worked for Foreman Spike at Wrecking Crew before they opened their new business, Super Mario Bros. Plumbing, in Brooklyn. After a routine job at a wealthy couple's house became a disaster due to the couple's violent dog, the brothers saw a significant utility hole leak reported on the news. The brothers take it upon themselves to attempt to fix the broken water main. At some point, Mario and Luigi enter a Warp Pipe that leads to the Mushroom World. Mario found himself in the Mushroom Forest, but Luigi ended up in the Dark Lands and was eventually taken hostage by Bowser.

### Arrival at the Mushroom Kingdom

Mario met Toad at the Mushroom Forest; Mario informed him about his missing brother. Toad brought Mario to the Mushroom Kingdom to Princess Peach's Castle where Mario met Princess Peach. Surprised to meet another human, Peach took Mario to an obstacle course for Mario to complete. After Peach demonstrated to Mario how to complete the obstacle course, Mario failed the obstacle many times. When he nearly reached the end of the obstacle course, Peach acknowledged him. Mario, Peach, and Toad set forth on an adventure.

The trio journeyed through several locales such as Desert Area, High Cliffs, Waterfall Area, and Yoshi's Island. They set camp at the Fire Flower Fields where Peach told Mario about her origins. Mario speculated that she may be from the same world as he was.

### Duel with Donkey Kong

The trio arrived at the Jungle Kingdom where Peach requested Cranky Kong for the Kongs to join forces with the Mushroom Kingdom. He refused but agreed only if Mario can beat his son, Donkey Kong in a duel. During the duel, Mario was getting injured and Peach granted him the Super Bell to transform into Cat Mario. Mario reigned victorious on Donkey Kong. Cranky Kong agreed that the Kongs join forces with the Mushroom Kingdom letting her know they can return to the Mushroom Kingdom quickly through Rainbow Road with karts.

The trio and the Kongs rode their karts and bikes on Rainbow Road to return to the Mushroom Kingdom. However, they were intervened by Bowser's army who learned about their whereabouts. The Kongs have been captured while Mario and Donkey Kong were swallowed by a Maw-Ray leaving Peach and Toad in despair as they managed to return to the kingdom to warn the Mushroom Kingdom citizens.

Trapped inside the Maw-Ray, Mario and Donkey Kong shared their bonds with their issues with their fathers. Donkey Kong and Mario used the rocket from Donkey Kong's kart to escape the Maw-Ray.

### Fighting Bowser

Mario and Donkey Kong intervened in the wedding while Peach and Toad fought Bowser's guests. While Bowser was frozen by the Ice Flower, they rescued the prisoners from the lava. As Bowser broke free from the ice, Peach, Toad, and Donkey Kong continued fighting while Mario used his Tanooki Mario form to divert the Banzai Bill to the warp pipe from where he came from in Brooklyn. This led multiple Mushroom Kingdom and Bowser's Castle elements to appear in Brooklyn. Bowser used the Super Star to fight Mario. As the commercial of his business started playing, he gained his resolve to go after the Super Star. Luigi helped out protecting Mario from Bowser's attacks until they both got hold of the Star's invincibility. Mario and Luigi pummeled Bowser and plowed his army. Peach then followed up by using a Mini Mushroom on Bowser and trapping him in a bottle.

The citizens of Brooklyn celebrated Mario and Luigi's victory over Bowser. After defeating Bowser, Mario and Luigi moved into a new house in the Mushroom Kingdom, while they continued to run their plumbing business back home, as they can use the pipe to return to Brooklyn whenever they needed.

## Personality

Mario is shown to be friendly, as even when it was his first time visiting the Mushroom Kingdom, he did not hesitate to give a coin back to a Toad who dropped it or greet the Toads. He cares a lot about Luigi, as he gets annoyed when people talk lowly about him, and he does not take kindly to those who are rude to him. He is shown to be confident in himself, sometimes too much, to the point of thinking he can handle a challenge despite having no idea how to, resulting in him getting himself injured in the process. Ironically, he has a distaste for mushrooms, as shown by his picking them off his pasta in disgust and refusing to eat a Super Mushroom.

Mario is also shown to be very protective of Luigi and will fiercely defend him from anyone who bullies him. Some examples of this include Mario protecting Luigi from a bully during their youth and standing up to Spike, who insulted Luigi.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* Star Enhancement:
	+ Superhuman Strength: Mario possesses superhuman strength that he can use to destroy blocks or lift enormous objects.
	+ Superhuman Durability: Mario was capable of enduring great impacts and getting hit by someone with superhuman strength.
	+ Superhuman Speed: Mario could run up walls, dodge lasers and bullets, and outpace the speed of sound.
	+ Superhuman Stamina: Mario can maintain continuous physical activity for an indefinite time.
	+ Superhuman Agility: Mario has shown to also have superhuman jumping abilities along with other expert acrobatic skills i.e., flips and flexibility.
	+ Superhuman Reflexes:

* Pyrokinesis: While Mario used to need the Fire Flower to use this power, he was trained by the Fire God to use some mild form of pyrokinesis without it.
	+ Fire Brand: A close-range attack, it charges up on a large fireball that blows up in the enemy´s face.
	+ Fireball: Shoots a fireball from his hand.
	+ Fast Fireball: Faster and fires in a straight line, though weaker than his standard fireball.
	+ Fire Orb: Shoots a series of fireballs rapidly at a single enemy, it´s much larger, stronger, and slower than a regular fireball. It´s incredibly slow and disappears after a few seconds, the upgraded ¨Super Flame¨ to rapidly fires larger, stronger fireballs, and the more upgraded ¨Ultra Flame¨ rapidly fires even larger, more powerful fireballs at a group of enemies.
	+ Final Smash: Mario Finale: Requires a Smash Ball to use, it launches a powerful two-streamed fire blast that expands as it moves. If enemies fall into the center of it, they will travel off with it, it also slows down the opponent making it harder to dodge/get out of.

* Mario Tornado: Mario jumps and spins his body simultaneously like a tornado to K.O. opponents in the Mario series. This is a special move in Super Smash Bros. and Super Smash Bros. Melee, where he only spins and gains height while repeatedly pressing on the down special move button. In Super Smash Bros. Brawl and onward, this move is his down aerial move.
* 4th Wall Awareness: Mario has knowledge of himself as a video game character and has sometimes talked to/acknowledged the people watching/reading. He has read his own manga and instruction booklets for some of his games and has even been summoned or pulled out of his game by real-world people.

### Abilities

* Expert Combatant: Mario's style of martial arts is mostly jumping but other than that, Mario also punches, kicks, leg sweeps (as shown in Super Mario 64 and the Super Smash Bros. series), and can grab and throw things high and far using his brute strength.
* Acrobat: Despite his chubby appearance, Mario is quite the acrobat, and he can be compared to the finest athletes in the universe.

## Trivia

* In an interview, it was stated that **Mario** and Luigi are of Italian descent due to being born into a family of immigrants from Italy and that they're from Brooklyn. This is unlike his video game counterpart since it was confirmed that he grew up with Luigi at the Mushroom Kingdom since they were babies.
* Similar to the TV cartoons of his video game counterpart, Mario isn't voiced by Charles Martinet, instead, he is voiced by Chris Pratt in an imitation of Lou Albano's voice from the *Super Mario Bros. Super Show!*