>So then if the Italian plumber puts on a racoon suit, he'll

Why not? It's what tanukis do.
Mushrooms making you super, flowers making you throw fireballs or superballs, and starmen making you invincible, were more ludicrous notions.

>>4036845
>Italian plumber

There's no canon reason he's a plumber or Italian. Italy doesn't exist. He's probably from outside the Mushroom Kingdom. There are other humans, like Peach.

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>>4036883
>he takes mario "canon" seriously

>>4036845
>racoon suit

It's a tanooki suit, learn the lore noob.

>>4036845
Its a tanuki suit, you stupid piece of shit

>>4036883
When did he become a plumber exactly?

>>4036919
When he became disillusioned with carpentry.

>>4036903
>>4036912

That's literally just a Japanese word for raccoon you dummies.

>>4036947
>Hares are rabbits

>>4036947

You are retarded

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>>4036998
>>4037094

Don't post here ever again.

>>4036883
>Italy doesn't exist

I wish...

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>implying he's ever flying or turning into a statue
What the tanuki suit really does it give Mario to create illusions, hence the leaf.
In traditional japanese folklore, tanuki fools humans and other animals with leaves, they can use magic to make the other person see a different thing instead of just a tree leaf.
It's one of those things that get completely lost in culture transition.

>>4036883
Your Mario lore knowledge is weak

>>4037252

The leaf doesn't give you the statue ability, the suit does. They're two separate power-ups, you don't get the suit until later, like world 4 .

>>4036883

Miaymoto said he was Italian, it's canon.

>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.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2010/11/qa-mario-creator-shigeru-miyamoto/1#.WTMCbuvyvio

>>4037258
Yeah, I had a mindfart. I was also exaggerating the whole tanuki thing, but yeah, I remember being puzzled when I saw Mario turn into a monk statue for the first time, but I figured it was an asian thing. I had a Famiclone and my copy of SMB3 was in japanese.
Must have been weirder for people who had a NES and maybe weren't even aware Mario was a japanese game (back in the days, most kids didn't know who the developers were, or where they were from)

>>4036947
That's araiguma (洗熊).

>>4036998
Those are both lagomorpha. Raccoon dogs are more closely related to dogs than they are to raccoons.

As an American, no\, but it makes sense to the Japanese.

But the rest of the series is a mystery.

>>4036919
Mario Bros. That was also where the pipe, turtle and coin motifs began.

>>4037247
tanuki = raccoon dog = neither a raccoon nor a dog

>>4037247
The arrogance! Anon, I am truly appalled by your behavior.

>>4036938
lmao

>>4037510

If Google doesn't mind calling a raccoon dog a raccoon then why should anyone else?

>>4037558
I wasn't joking, in Donkey Kong he was supposed to be a carpenter. They changed it to plumber in the first Mario Bros (the arcade game, not Super Mario Bros).

>>4037273
In my country we weren't allergic to other cultures like the USA is, but in any case I never questioned the cultural implications of the statue. I mean mario just turns into a fucking statue, what's so strange about that?

>>4036947
No it's not you double homo. The correct English translation for 'tanuki' is Japanese Racoon Dog, which is neither a racoon nor a dog. A tanuki is it's own animal.

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>>4037562

>>4037562
It doesn't. Try the katakana (タヌキ) or kanji (狸) writing that actually get used for animal names.

>>4038008
>>4038128

Take it up with Google, it's on the record as raccoon.

>>4036947
>Japanese folklore mythical animal based on an creature that is native to the new world

>>4038853
So is the tapir (baku).

>>4037273
>>4036883
You where wrong and a fucking retard! Next time think twice before making an idiot out of yourself faggot! I'd fuck off from /vr/ forever after such a retarded post.

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>>4036845
That's not the Buddha.

>>4039580

Yes it is.

>>4039581
Prove it anon.

>>4039581
No, that's a Jizou statue; they can be associated with offering protection to travelers.

>>4039589
>>4039614

Jizo is the Buddha. He's not Gautama Buddha, but I never called it a Gautama Buddha statue.

>>4038891
You are trying waaay too hard right now.
>where

>>4038628
Google is the authority on nothing except your personal information. I'll go with the translation from actual animal experts, thank you very much.

>>4036845
As Nintendo has said multiple times - games are about gameplay, backstory just provides a simple setting for your game.

People obsessing over story in video games need to put down the controller and read a fucking book. That's the main reason the majority of modern games are shit. Modern gamers don't even care about games, it's just a television show to them.

>>4040143
9/10 books are bargain bin drivel too. Good stories are rare to come by and make video games look like high art.

>>4037997
>In my country we weren't allergic to other cultures like the USA is,
The USA has the opposite problem you shithead, it stopped maintaining its own culture in the 60's and doesn't even have one anymore.

>>4036845
You're right.

I'd have axed the statue, it's not like anyone uses it.

What's wrong with flying, though? That's what the tail is obviously for.

>>4041590
>I'd have axed the statue, it's not like anyone uses it.
>makes you invincible
>can be used to kill otherwise unkillable enemies like rotodiscs and rocket engines

>>4042403
>can be used to kill otherwise unkillable enemies like rotodiscs and ROCKET ENGINES
Bullshit!
>actually looks up a YT video for proof
Sonuvabitch!
https://youtu.be/T4QVeVXyFMM

>>4036845
>tanuki suit
>tanuki have giant balls
>balls can also be referred to as 'stones'
>statues are made out of stone
It all makes sense to me

>>4042635
think this guy's onto something actually
Can we get a fact check on tanuki ball size?

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>>4042714
Seem pretty big for me.

>>4042854
No wonder Japan is so fucked if little kids grow up with cartoons depicting massive testicles. That's borderline pornography.

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>>4043131
the bigger problem is designing and animated da ballsacks but the dickens is nowhere to b found

cultural differences my ass, that's plain dum

>>4043131
Humans are not instinctively fucked up by sighting the genitals. Remember Japan also has public baths.

You're the one that's fucked up

>>4043196
Public baths are another problem then. You shouldn't be exposing children to naked men.

>>4037252
I saw Uchouten Kazoku which prominently features tanuki and folklore beliefs about them and put two and two together which made it more interesting.

Only Murrican subhumans who can't see the world past mcdonalds require "localization" of games.

>>4043196
fucking retard

>>4036919
Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga brings up the brother's plumber status and even forces them to do some plumbing at a point of the game (Lady Lima's castle to be exact)

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>>4036947