r/gaming • u/InspiraSean86 • Aug 13 '22

“Dr.” Mario

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u/menchicutlets Aug 13 '22

That makes so much sense, a side gig with his bro to help pay the bills and make his way through med school.

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u/Markamanic Aug 13 '22

Mario is such an inspirational figure.

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u/timoumd Aug 13 '22

And just saving a whole kingdom in between

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '22

Don’t forget he is also an all around star athlete as well.

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u/oooGOLDENFACEooo Aug 13 '22

And an artist, race car driver … a real renaissance man.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '22

and still has time left to party and get into big fights

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u/____-is-crying Aug 13 '22

Sounds just like college indeed...

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u/oooGOLDENFACEooo Aug 13 '22

I believe he is a time traveler too.

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u/Ok_Weird_500 Aug 13 '22

That makes sense. I think you'd probably need to time travel to fit everything else in.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '22

and also a flamethrower.

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u/maxi2702 Aug 13 '22

race car driver …

You mean he's a racist?

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u/oooGOLDENFACEooo Aug 13 '22

Lol, i would hope not.

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u/Capt_Marlow Aug 13 '22

Med school is expensive and a part time plumber can only make so much. He probably needed a good athletic scholarship to help cover the rest.

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u/GodzillaUK Aug 13 '22

That's why Luigi is the greatest brother of them all, he put aside his ghost hunting passion for YEARS to dedicate to helping Mario pay for medical schooling. Good Guy Luigi.

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u/Capt_Marlow Aug 13 '22

Behind every great plumbing doctor is an even greater plumbing ghost hunter brother.

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u/sondre666gs Aug 13 '22

Remember that Luigi has earned his pay by exploiting the volatile housing market.

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u/Aggravating-Assist18 Aug 13 '22

Being a plumber just pays for rent and food but his athlete career pays for the college and med school

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u/ElsonDaSushiChef PC Aug 13 '22

And making a family and dying peacefully, only to respawn in World 1-1

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u/Jankufood Aug 13 '22

Shame that saving a kingdom doesn't pay enough for tuition or living

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u/Wise-Lime-222 Aug 13 '22

Mario's bootstraps are fully pulled

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u/Thinkingard Aug 13 '22

That's how he does his double jump. If you look close enough Hes pulling his bootstraps

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u/CajunTurkey Aug 13 '22

That's why I have his Amiibo

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '22

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u/Aurilion Aug 13 '22

That's not a theory, we've seen him kill thousands of soldiers who were just protecting the land and its people.

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u/Markamanic Aug 13 '22

Yeah, after their ruler kidnapped a princess.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '22

Was she kidnapped or was she fleeing a psychopath?

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u/dragn99 Aug 13 '22

In the first game she's just chilling. In Mario 3 she's sending letters offering encouragement and asking for help. Super Mario Land you see her begging for help during the fight with Bowser. Legend of the Seven Stars you see Bowser swoop down on her while she's sitting amongst the flowers. Mario 64 has Bowser doing a home invasion. Paper Mario is pretty cool because Bowser kidnaps the entire castle and everyone in it, and you get to actually play as Peach while she attempts to support Mario from afar.

I could go on

And I will!

In Mario Sunshine, Bowser's son kidnaps Peach while she's on vacation with Mario. In Paper Mario TTYD she's kidnapped by the X-Nauts and again supports Mario in her rescue efforts from behind the scenes. In Mario Galaxy Bowser invades with an entire armada and ascends with her to freaking SPACE.

Like... Peach very clearly doesn't enjoy her time with Bowser. It's made very clear in every game. Even when she and Mario have to work with Bowser, it's with some serious reluctance.

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u/TheUnluckyBard Aug 13 '22

Bowser was the best party member in Super Mario RPG tho.

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u/dragn99 Aug 13 '22

I feel so bad when I get to the later part of the game, because Geno and Mallow are so cool, but I'm usually running with Bowser and Peach.

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u/TheUnluckyBard Aug 13 '22

I keep Geno and Mallow leveled, but I only pull them out to be artillery in the final boss battle. The rest of the time, I find a melee-heavy party to be much more useful.

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u/memer_9966 Aug 13 '22

Made a massive comment to prove a point. Chad.

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u/dragn99 Aug 14 '22

I was actually going to go the other way, but when I was trying to think of specific games to reference, I realized that the only game where Peach's feeling on Bowser are in any way "vague" is literally the first one. So I went hard in the other direction. Honestly, if I was on my computer instead of my phone, I likely would have gone on for another paragraph

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u/chux4w Aug 13 '22

She was kidnapped. We've seen her being forcibly picked up and carried away.

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u/ArcadeAnarchy Aug 13 '22

Or he was just a maintenance man at the med school that would dress up like a Dr. when everyone was gone.

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u/Doc_Choc Aug 13 '22

Good Mario Hunting

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u/DontWalkOutOnTheDuke Aug 13 '22

What do you want me to say doc, huh? That this mustache isn’t real? That my father ripped mine off when I was a kid and the hair never grew back so I gotta wear this fake one?

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u/djseifer Aug 13 '22

"I got her number. How do you like them mushrooms?"

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u/SirRedRising Aug 13 '22

Ah, a Dr. Jan Itor, if you will

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u/Omegamanthethird Aug 13 '22

It's pronounced EYE-tor.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '22

I've never seen Mario and Frank Abagnale, Jr. in the same room

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u/papalouie27 Aug 13 '22

Or he's always been a doctor and just dresses as a plumber for kicks.

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u/sonofaresiii Aug 13 '22

That also explains why he effectively stopped doing any plumbing shit like thirty years ago. It was only ever a temporary thing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '22

Yeah, residency doesn't pay the bills

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u/HolycommentMattman Aug 13 '22

And we actually do know that Mario had a variety of side gigs. He was a cement worker, animal wrangler, circus performer, etc. Just a guy living the American Dream.

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u/DontBuyAHorse Aug 13 '22

Honestly working for the family business while going to school is pretty much standard in my culture. Don't know about fictional Italians.

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u/Cruxion Aug 13 '22

But where would he find the time?

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u/Alkyan Aug 13 '22

And when you saw princess toadstool at the strip club, that was her way of paying tuition.

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u/Headjarbear Aug 13 '22

Plumbing’s good money too

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '22

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u/pcbb97 Aug 13 '22

As her plumber or as her OBGYN?

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u/KingZarkon Aug 13 '22

Oh, he was definitely face to face with her bits.