Mario

**Mario**, the famous mascot of Nintendo and widely recognized as

the face of video gaming in general, is a Brooklyn-born Italian plumber
residing in the Mushroom Kingdom, In his games, Mario is known for being able to use a wide variety of
power up items to enhance his abilities, such as Fire Flowers, Super
Mushrooms, Power Stars, among others. This is a trait he shares with
Luigi, despite the latter being more timid and wary. They have many
friends in the Kingdom, namely Yoshi,
 a green dinosaur with a huge appetite and prehensile tongue, the
numerous Toads which inhabit the kingdom, and Princess Peach Toadstool,
the fair and beautiful ruler who shares a romantic interest with Mario.

## History

### Adventures as a baby

Mario's adventures began when he and his brother Luigi were mere
infants. The stork that carried the two babies was ambushed by Kamek,
and successfully kidnapped Luigi, but Mario barely managed to escape,
falling from the sky and onto the back of his future companion, Yoshi,
and on his island home of Yoshi's Island. With Yoshi and his fellow
Yoshis escorting him, baby Mario and Yoshi traveled across the island,
defeating all of Kamek's creations when they spotted him or vice versa
(including Burt the Bashful, Salvo the Slime, Bigger Boo, Roger the
Potted Ghost, Prince Froggy, Naval Piranha, Marching Milde, Hookbill the
 Koopa, Sluggy the Unshaven, Raphael the Raven, and Tap-Tap the Red
Nose), and were soon able to defeat Kamek and a young Bowser and save
Luigi and the stork that carried them. However, Mario and Luigi were
delivered to the wrong couple shortly after, and they were ambushed
again when the stork picked them up to take them to their real parents.
Just as before, Luigi was stolen, and Mario landed back on an island,
this time Egg Island, and back onto Yoshi's back. Once more, the Yoshis
lead Mario to his infant brother, fighting more of Kamek's evil
creations along the way (including Big Beanie, Count Fang, King
Clawdaddy, Furious Fred de Filet, and Punkey the Pokey Prince). Together
 they rescued him, defeated Kamek and baby Bowser once more, and even
defeated an adult Bowser from the future. Afterwards, the stork took the
 two infant heroes to their correct parents. Soon after arriving and
spending some time in the Mushroom Kingdom, they soon met their future
selves, who had arrived to thwart the invasion of an alien species
called The Shroobs. Soon, Kamek and his army of Toadies kidnap a number
of infants, only to be attacked by the same stork that delivered Mario
and Luigi to their parents. In the struggle, baby Mario and an infant Princess Peach
 fell onto Yoshi's Island. They soon met Yoshi, reunited with Yoshi in
Mario's case, and joined him and his fellow Yoshi on a quest to save the
 other kidnapped infants, while also meeting an infant Donkey Kong, Wario,
 and even Baby Bowser. Turns out, it was an adult Bowser from the future
 and a Kamek from the same future that the adult Bowser was from that
kidnapped the infants in order to find the Seven Star Children, seven
infants that posses extraordinary amounts of power, in order to harness
said power to take over the universe he was/is from. With help from
Kamek of the past, the Yoshis and the Star Children manage to defeat the
 evil Koopa overlord, though Kamek managed to escape. Afterwards, the
seventh Star Child, a Yoshi, was born. This Yoshi would go on to become a
 faithful companion to the Mario brothers and his future allies.

### The job hunting/switching era

After the constant attacks against the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario and
Luigi's parents sent their two children down through a warp pipe to
another world, far from Bowser's grasp. During this time, Mario was
drafted into a war as a teenager, but after he was relieved from duty,
he returned to his home and brother Luigi and they began searching for
jobs. The first job they took up was as part of a wrecking crew.
However, after getting regularly abused by Spike the foreman, Mario quit
 to find another job while Luigi stayed behind. After he quit, he tried
job after job. He tried everything from opening and operating a cement
factory, to being a doctor battling evil viruses, to being a boxing
referee, to being an archaeologist, to being a painter, to juggling for
pocket change, and many other jobs until he finally settled on being a
carpenter.

### Time as a carpenter

While working as a carpenter, he found a girlfriend named Pauline,
and even got a pet gorilla named Donkey Kong, but soon forced him to
balance on a barrel while juggling pineapples for the amusement of
others. However, Donkey Kong and his son, DK Jr. broke out of captivity.
 DK Jr went into hiding, while his father kidnapped Pauline and took her
 up one of the construction sites in the city. However, Mario captured
Donkey Kong, locked him in a cage, and used him as bait to attract DK Jr
 out of hiding. DK Jr managed to rescue his father, and the two left
Mario behind to return to their home, Donkey Kong Island. Mario would
end up getting in trouble for having a pet gorilla without a proper
license, and agreed with New York's finest to find and capture the two
apes before they left. Mario eventually heard that DK and DK Jr were in
Stanley's Greenhouse, but was too late to capture them as they retreated
 before he arrived.

### Time as a plumber/destiny revealed

Eventually, Pauline broke up with Mario and he joined his brother
Luigi in a business that would become their calling, plumbing. While in
the sewers, the Mario Brothers had to fix some pipes, but soon found
creatures coming out of the pipes. They were actually soldiers sent by
Bowser to find and capture the brothers, as Kamek told him of their
destiny as two of the seven Star Children. However, the brothers
defeated Bowser's troops, thwarting King Koopa's plan. Eventually, the
two found the warp pipe that led to the land of their birth, the
Mushroom Kingdom.

## The return home

### First adventures in the Mushroom Kingdom

After finding the warp pipe that led to the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario
and Luigi learned that Bowser, now grown up, had taken over the land and
 cast a spell over the citizens, turning them into bricks, stones, and
plants. Mario and Luigi fought their way through Bowser's minions and
made it to his castle, rescuing Princess Peach. However, she was
captured once more by Bowser, who emerged from the lava he was sent
into, prompting the Mario Brothers to chase after him once more, this
time across more difficult terrain. Soon, Bowser conjured up a storm to
cause the Super Leaves on a Super Leaf Tree to blow away in order to
obtain their power. However, Mario thwarted his plan and saved Princess
Peach, and his brother Luigi, and then Peach again, defeating the
persistent Bowser time and time again.

### Journey across the Mushroom World

After his triumph over Bowser's plan to use the power of the Super
Leaves, Mario and Luigi went on a new adventure to save all the
countries of the Mushroom World that were conquered by Bowser's
children, the Koopalings (Larry, Morton, Wendy, Iggy, Roy, Lemmy, and
Ludwig). However, upon returning to Peach's castle, the brothers
realized that the princess was captured and set out to Bowser's
stronghold in the Dark Land to save her. Ultimately, the Mario Brothers
and Princess Peach went on a vacation to Dinosaur Land after the last
adventure and rescue, but Bowser proved to be persistent and kidnapped
her once again, while also casting a spell on the land. This spell
caused the Yoshis in the land to become imprisoned within eggs, but
Mario and Luigi, along with a Yoshi, who is one of the Seven Star
Children, they saved, tracked Bowser down to the Valley of Bowser and
defeated him, saving the princess and breaking the spell. After
returning home, Bowser returned and kidnapped Peach once more. Mario
followed him to his castle, but was soon ousted by the arrival of a
giant, talking, evil sword named Exor, leader of the Smithy Gang, who
took Bowser's castle as his own and destroyed the Star Road upon his
arrival. Mario then set out to find the Seven Stars to restore the Star
Road, with Mallow, Geno, Princess Peach, and even Bowser joining him on
his quest, and together, they destroyed Exor and the entire Smithy Gang.

### The Quest for the Power Stars

Some time after Exor's defeat, Bowser set his sights on stealing the
120 Power Stars from Princess Peach's castle as well as trapping the
Princess and her servants within the walls of the castle. Ultimately, it
 took the combined team of Mario, Lugi, Yoshi, and a now adult Wario to
find all the Power Stars, defeat Bowser, and save the Princess.

### Captured by King Boo

Some time after saving Peach and her subjects and recovering the
Power Stars, Mario received word from Luigi that he won a new mansion.
Wasting no time, he rushed to the mansion, only to find that it was a
trap set for both him and Luigi by King Boo. Luigi eventually found him
after fighting through King Boo's fellow Boos and ghostly minions. King
Boo then resurrected the spirit of Bowser and drew Luigi into fighting
the revived Koopa King. Ultimately, King Boo and Bowser's ghost were
captured and Mario was released from his portrait prison by Luigi and
his new ally, Professor Elvin Gadd (E. Gadd for short) who supplied
Luigi with the Poltergust 3000 to capture the ghosts.

### Isle Delfino Vacation

After being rescued, Mario and Peach soon went on a vacation to Isle
Delfino while Luigi stayed behind to try and become a doctor. During
this excursion, Mario was framed for crimes of vandalism that he didn't
commit. Thus, he was sentenced to clean up the mess. However, he
discovered that he had an evil doppelganger who was the one who framed
him. And so, with help from Kieran and his friends, Mario defeated a truly
 ressurected Bowser and his son, Bowser Junior and cleared his name.

### The Jewelry Land Safari

After Mario returned from his vacation on Isle Delfino, Yoshi joined
him on his quest to save Jewelry Land from Bowser, who divided the land
into a light and dark half, and also kidnapped the ruler of the land,
King Fret and his son Prince Pine.

### Saving the Princess's voice

When representative of the Beanbean Kingdom arrived to give a gift to
 Peach from the Bean Queen, the ambassadors are revealed to be a witch
named Cackaletta and a wizard named Fawful who steal Peach's voice and
retreat. As Mario and Luigi go after them, Fawful proceeds to capture
Bowser, prompting his minions to go save their master. Ultimately, the
villains were defeated, Bowser was rescued, and Peach's voice was
returned.

### Saving the past, present, and future

Fawful ended up returning after his initial defeat and aligned
himself with Bowser, but they and the aliens invading the past known as
the Shroobs were defeated by the Mario brothers and their past selves.

### Inside Bowser and curing the Blorbs

Some time after Fawful's second defeat, Bowser found and ate a
mushroom called the Vacuum Shroom that allowed him to inhale everything
he saw with one breath, including the Mario Brothers! Ultimately, as
they traveled, quite literally, inside the belly of the beast while also
 searching for a cure for a Mushroom Kingdom ailment called the Blorbs,
Bowser Jr., meanwhile, assumed command while his father was away
fighting Fawful during his third attempt to take over the Mushroom
Kingdom, and dealt with Koopa Clan traitors Private Goomp, Sergeant Guy,
 and Corporal Paraplonk.

### Saved by the Princess

In a surprising change of pace, Bowser kidnapped Mario and Luigi
instead of Peach by using the power of the Vibe Scepter from and taking
the brothers to Vibe Island, allowing Peach to go on her own adventure
to save the saviors of the Mushroom Kingdom.

### The land of dreams

Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach are soon invited to Pi'illo Island, a
 place that is said to contain a special power to make people fall
asleep. Ultimately, Princess Peach was pulled into the dream world by
Antasma when Luigi fell asleep on a magic pillow and opened a portal to
the dream world. Mario and the dream world version of his brother, known
 as Dream Luigi, soon defeated Antasma and Bowser, who was working with
Antasma before turning on him, and saved both Princess Peach and Prince
Dreambert.

### Team up with the paper kind

During a drought in the Mushroom Kingdom, the paper counterparts of
Bowser, Bowser Jr, and Kamek escape from their world in a story book and
 team up with their real counterparts. However, Mario's paper world
counterpart also leaves his world to help them fight the two versions of
 Bowser and return the paper version to his world.

### The return of the King Boo and the destruction of the Dark Moon

One night, King Boo manages to escape from his captivity and shatters
 the Dark Moon over Evershade Valley, causing the usually friendly
ghosts to turn evil and mischievous. Professor E. Gadd then contacts
Luigi and tells him of what happened. After arming himself with the
Poltergust 5000, and gathering 4 of the 6 pieces of the Dark Moon and
saving some Toads, Luigi learns of Mario's capture at the hands of King
Boo and frees him after defeating and capturing King Boo and reassembles
 the Dark Moon.

### The quintet kidnappings

Soon, Bowser returned and kidnapped Princess Peach four times with
the help of his Koopalings, but all four times, the Mario Brothers
defeated him and his children.

### The Star Festivals and the Sprixie Kingdom attacks

After his four defeats, Bowser decided to take matters into his own
hands and on the eve of the Star Festival, attempts to create his own
galaxy using the powers of the Power Stars and the Grand Stars, and
kidnaps Princess Peach to witness the event. However, Mario retrieves
all the Power and Grand Stars, defeats Bowser, and saves Peach. In a
parallel world, the eve of the Star Festival has arrived, but Bowser,
now giant due to the Power Stars, attacks and attempts to create his own
 galaxy. However, Mario, Rosalina, and Yoshi manage to stop him. Back in
 the original world, Captain Toad and Toadette fights and defeats a bird
 who loves shiny things named Wingo after he takes some Power Stars.
That night, during the Star Festival Bowser reveals to have kidnapped
the princess of the Sprixie Kingdom, prompting Mario, Luigi, Toad, and
Princess Peach to travel through a transparent warp pipe to save her.
They soon save all the Sprixie princesses that Bowser kidnapped and
defeat the evil Koopa together.

### The land of Subcon

After the Sprixie Kingdom save, Mario and his three friends ended up
in the land of Subcon, where they fought and defeated the evil toad king
 named Wart in order to free the land from his evil.

### Flu season

Soon, flu season hit the Mushroom Kingdom, prompting Mario to help
cure the sick with his Megavitamins. However, a mad scientist named Mad
Scienstein steals them, prompting Mario and Wario, who Mario thought was
 the thief, to go after him. Ultimately, Mad Scienstein is revealed to
be just a puppet for his master, Rudy, who reveals that he had Mad
Scienstein steal them to cure himself of his cold. Ultimately, Rudy was
defeated, but Mario decided to make him happy by curing his cold.

### The Odyssey

Some time later, Mario found Peach being kidnapped by a fancily
dressed Bowser, who finally managed to defeat him and escape with
Princess Peach. However, after meeting with Cappy in the Cap Kingdom and
 becoming his ally by promising to help save his sister Tiara, who was
also kidnapped by Bowser, the two set off on a globe trotting mission
across the Mushroom World, collecting enough Power Moons to get Mario to
 his final battle with Bowser. Soon, both Bowser and Mario tried
proposing to the Princess, but Peach wasn't having any of it and decided
 to go out and travel the world with Tiara on her own terms.

### The third ghost trap

After Mario concluded his Odyssey, he, Peach, some Toads, Luigi and
Polterpup decided to accept an invitation to a free stay at The Last
Resort hotel. They soon arrived and turned in, but as night fell, things
 got seriously spooky. Luigi soon found Princess Peach, the Toads, and
Mario kidnapped and put into portraits by King Boo, who had somehow
escaped again! With Professor E. Gadd's new Poltergust G-00, and some
help from his gooey clone Gooigi, Luigi manages to save his brother, the
 Toads, and Princess Peach from King Boo.

### Journey to Sarasa Land and defeating Wario

After returning from The Last Resort, Mario gets word that an evil
space alien named Tatanga had attacked and kidnapped Princess Daisy.
Mario rushed to her rescue and defeated Tatanga, and as a reward, Mario
received his own land and castle. However, Wario, jealous of Mario's
success, broke in the castle and took over the land. Mario managed to
find the six golden coins needed to unlock the castle, where he battled
and kicked Wario out of the castle.