Mario is lodging a formal complaint.
Mario was made in Japan sure, but his character was inspired by the west.
http://content.usato.../1#.Ub_TQflQEVs
Q: Mario is Italian. Or we assume he is Italian, was there something behind that?
As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well. So I drew some characters that had more western type features with a little bigger noses and what not. Now with Mario, I think with Mario Bros. we had a setting of course that was underground, so I just decided Mario is a plumber. Let's put him in New York and he can be Italian. There was really no other deep thought other than that.
Edited by EvilMoogle, 17 June 2013 - 07:34 PM.
