• @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    The Mario Brothers are supposed to be Italian American.

    Peach has already been established as blonde and white.

    Who else is a main character that you wanted to be non-white? All the other main characters, from what I remember, are animal-like creatures.

    • DroneRights [it/its]
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      21 year ago

      The 90s movie worked on the same source material as the 20s movie, in a more conservative environment, and still managed better representation in terms of onscreen characters. Deciding not to have any racially diverse characters because everyone’s a raceless cartoon is a choice the writers made, and they could have chosen differently.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Why are you ignoring the 30+ years of character design and refinement that went on in the Mario universe between the two films?

        Shouldn’t your beef be with Nintendo, anyways?

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      The Mario Brothers are supposed to be Italian American

      What are you even trying to say? Historically yes Italian Americans faced racism, descrimination and a strong lack of representation but that really hasn’t been a problem for most Italian americans about a hundred years

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        31 year ago

        I’m saying the race of those characters has been well established beyond just a “colour scheme” or arbitrary choice