How do you go from this...

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...to this?

very carefully

>>3177041
Pauline looks like a slut.

>>3177056
Bong.

>>3177056
2 whole pages at paheal can't be wrong ;)

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Plot twist: the Pauline from Donkey Kong '81 (aka Lady/Louise) and the new Pauline from Donkey Kong '94 are different characters.

>>3177195
>neat.jpg
Also the first time I've seen this artwork of Lady; much more proto-Peach than I expected. Drop a crown on her head and they could be sisters.

Lady's a qt

>>3177056
She was a girl from Birmingham
She just had an abortion
She was case of insanity
Her name was Pauline, she lived in a tree

She was a no one who killed her baby
She sent her letters from the country
She was an animal
She was a bloody disgrace

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>>3177835
There's also an artwork of Foreman Spike in the same book too.

Anyone know who created these really cool retro designs? Or a site where I can find more? Nothing feels more nostalgic to me than this art style.

>>3180351
The actual illustrations are probably by Yoichi Kotabe. But the designs probably came from a bunch of different people involved in the various games. That's how it usually works, anyway.

What if Lady is actually Peach before she became royalty?

Maybe she found her own way to the Mushroom Kingdom and they made her Princess.

>>3178448
can someone please tell me more about this guy? Is he related to the bros?

>>3180414
He's a rival construction worker in the Wrecking Crew series.

>>3180408
Peach, Lady and Pauline each have separate entries in the Mario Character Encyclopedia.
http://imgur.com/a/UvABP#0

>>3180408
>>3180432
What about Toadstool?

>>3180842
Peach is Toadstool. Toadstool was never used as a name in Japan.

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Remember when Zelda was a petite brunette and Luigi wore a blue hat and yellow shirt?

>>3180950
Who's the blonde character in front with the pony tail?

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>>3181001
Takamaru from the Mysterious Castle of Murasame.

>>3181001
Possibly Takamaru

>>3177195
But that's just a theory.

A game theory.

>>3181076
I frequently encountered John Nash in the halls at Fine Hall.
He was a funny guy. Often made jokes of his schizophrenia. When my ex (who was in the math department) greeted him once, he replied "I wasn't entirely sure you were actually there. Hello." Then he'd smile slyly.

He also liked trolling the fuck out of MIT every now and then.

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>>3180842
>What about Toadstool?
>being this underage

>>3181167
Wrong type of game theory.

>>3181168
>>3181162
>the penguinposter is back

>>3181176
It's never the wrong type of game theory.

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>>3181076
It's more than just a theory. Even the official Mario mangas (KC Mario and Mario-kun) treated Lady and Pauline as separate characters.

>>3177195
Deepest lore

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>>3178448
>>3180414
What does it mean?

>>3180868
so what, toadstool was just made up for the west? And if so, why?

>>3180950
Samus is looking pretty bulked up. Also, the helmet looks more like a Zaku I helmet.

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>>3181364
>so what, toadstool was just made up for the west?
Pretty much.
http://legendsoflocalization.com/super-mario-bros/manuals/
>And if so, why?
Same reason Eggman became Robotnik overseas. Who knows?

>>3177887
She had no style
She had no grace

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>That one Mario novel where Luigi turns out to be a disguised Prince who is engaged with Peach.

>>3181461
DEEPEST

>>3181461
wat

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>>3181461
Prince the musician?

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>>3177039
>>3177041
This way.

>>3184272
casualization happened

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>>3184253
>>3184265
No, just a generic anime prince.

>>3184272
Right is fanart, anon.

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i'll just leave this here...

>>3184272
it hurts

>>3185642
do you actually believe this tripe

>>3184265
I'm high right now and imagined rescuing princess Prince from bowser and he plays you this bitching solo before walking off

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>>3184272

>you can undress her from the very beginning as a reward
>people are now complaining that she's sexualized

>>3185642
>posting a fucking Dobson comic

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>>3185642
>thinking Link was originally brown-haired.
Top lel. That's what happens when your idea of Nintendo canon comes from shitty Americanized cartoon versions.

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>>3185642
yadda yadda samus with green hair was just her varia suit palette, her real hair was brown

>>3185695
People just like to bitch. She's still a strong womyn. If a female character isn't obese and homely or wearing the equivalent of a black burka people will claim she's being sexualized.

>>3186078
This. I find it laughable how so many so-called NES nostalgiafags bitch about Samus not having green hair anymore when it was never her default hair color. Was there any official art of suitless Samus prior to the GBA games?

>>3186804
Gunpei himself said he based her looks on Kim Bassinger for Super Metroid.

>>3186061
>insert Zelda into NES
He has brown hair
Art thou perturbed?

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>>3186901
Everyone knows the NES has a shitty palette and could only display three colors per sprite. It couldn't even display solid yellows.

>>3180414
He was their asshole boss in Wrecking Crew.

>>3186908
Six colors with the sprite-stacking technique

>>3184272
Was Benimaru Itoh's Samus design ever considered canon at some point?

>>3187691

While I don't think it was ever overtly labeled canon it's about the closest you'll get for the era. I don't think Nintendo ever released an 'official' artwork of armorless Samus until Fusion. She obviously had spritework, but no reference picture/s seems to exist.

That's honestly been the whole point of Fusion/ZM/OM, in the idea of it's trying to pin down just who Samus 'is' under the armor; it's just that Nintendo's answer seems to drive a lot of motherfuckers into paroxysms of rage.

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>>3186061
But anon, NES Link did have brown hair in every illustration of him. He didn't start getting blonde until the 3rd game, and even then it was a sandy dirty blonde.

Even the OoT Link nearly eneded up not blonde.

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>>3187840
Zelda II's Link had brown hair, but Zelda I's was clearly a blondie.

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>>3187854
That's orange at best and washed out as hell.

>>3187840
>He didn't start getting blonde until the 3rd game
But he had pink hair in ALttP.

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>>3188805
But promotional art. Didn't his sprite have pink hair because of his bunny transformation?

>>3181461
Is this in English somewhere?

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>>3188865
Nope, you can find info online by googling スーパーマリオブラザーズ物語 in moonrunes.

It's weird how Mario adaptations in Japan at the time had a habit of cucking Mario, seeing how Peach also had a fiancee in that one anime movie. Then again, he was a playa in the KC Mario manga.

>>3188805
>STUPID DOBSON, Link only had brown hair because of the sprite!
>LttP Link? He had pink hair, the sprite says so!

>>3188879
>It's weird how Mario adaptations in Japan at the time had a habit of cucking Mario.

Kind of glad actually. He's always being such a fucking dick to his brother, he kind of deserves it.

>>3188864
It was to provide additional contrast.