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Australian Brodcasting Corporation reveals that Mario is no longer working as a plumber, according to Nintendo's Japanese site (as translated by kotaku)!
In a recently updated Mario profile, the company's website said "Mario was once a plumber ... but that was a long time ago."
"All around sporty, whether it's tennis or baseball, soccer or car racing, he does everything cool. As a matter of fact, he also seems to have worked as a plumber a long time ago," the website said.
Although the games rarely feature Mario utilising his plumbing skills, the sudden announcement of his retirement has shocked fans and left many feeling betrayed.
"If Mario doesn't work as a plumber, then why is he dressed like one?" several fans asked.
[...] "The game's stage was a construction site, so we made him into basically a carpenter," creator Shigeru Miyamoto, who is also responsible for Donkey Kong and Zelda, said in a 2011 interview.
"[In Super Mario Bros] we brought in Luigi and a lot of the game was played underground so we made him to fit that setting and, we decided he could be a plumber."
"The scenario dictates his role."
The twitterverse is raging:
- Imagine if Mario was your actual plumber though. Come back from making him a cup of tea and find him jumping on your pet tortoise.
- It's Labour Day and Nintendo fires Mario from being a plumber? This is why the working man needs a union.
- In this gig based economy of course he isn't. He drives for Uber now.
- With DACA being repealed, Mario is no longer a plumber and has been deported back to Italy.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Wednesday September 06 2017, @12:28PM (1 child)
... or he got fired for not showing up to work for the last three decades or so, unless this was some kinda mob job where he just got paid even if he didn't do the actual work. Italian ... mob ... Mario ... It would also explain why he actually never does any plumbing. Mario is a mobster!
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday September 06 2017, @01:15PM
Mario was a mobster? Might make more sense that way. How else could he so easily drop into the goomba stomping1, turtle smashing murderous racket of heroism? Perhaps plumber is slang for "hitman", similar to cleaner.
1. Goombah or goomba is a mildly derogatory slang term for an Italian american here in New York. How appropriate.