When was Mario a villain?

Type of Villain
Mario (or Jumpman) is the main protagonist of the 1981 Nintendo game Donkey Kong and the main antagonist of the 1982 Nintendo game Donkey Kong Jr. and 1984 Game & Watch game Donkey Kong Circus.
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Is Mario the true villain?

Mario is the Real Bad Guy

In all the Mario games, it's implied that Mario is the good guy, and that Bowser and his “minions” are evil. But when you think about it, what kind of evil actions do we actually see being committed by them?
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Is Mario cruel?

It's obvious that unlike modern-day circuses Mario does not have Donkey Kong's interests at heart and is subjecting him to cruelty and harsh conditions to make a buck. It was an early indicator of Mario's cruelty to animals that led to the slaughter of dozens of Yoshis.
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Is Mario an animal abuser?

On top of bullying, vanity, murder and animal cruelty, it only makes sense that Mario would diversify his villainy. Instead, he goes right back to animal cruelty. Every time he earns a Yoshi, ready and willing to help him, he's always doing something to get it killed.
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Does Mario abuse Yoshi?

Well, we now have official confirmation that Mario was indeed committing an act of animal abuse. In a recent interview on Nintendo's official site, developers Takashi Tezuka and Shigefumi Hino reflected on their time working on Super Mario World and the creation of Yoshi.
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Super Mario Villains: Good To Evil



Is Mario abusing Yoshi?

Well, Nintendo has finally answered the question and it turns out that yes, Mario really was committing animal abuse by taking his chubby but stern fist and banging it down hard across the top of Yoshi's head, in order to force him to extend his tongue and eat stuff.
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Why did Mario become evil?

He also whipped the animals that worked for him, eventually known as Mario's slave labor. This makes him extremely evil and cruel, as he also let unnecessarily made them know who was in charge (him). In the arcade ending, he falls down, gets up and tries to catch the escaping Donkey Kong and DK Jr.
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Who is the villain in Donkey Kong?

King K. Rool. King K. Rool is a hot-tempered, authoritarian and baleful green Kremling who is the main antagonist of many Donkey Kong games and has been Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong's archenemy ever since his creation during the era of Rare development.
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Are Mario and Donkey Kong enemies?

Donkey Kong and Mario were never enemies. According to the dialogue in the Donkey Kong Country games, as well as Snake's codec calls in the Super Smash Bros. series, Mario's original enemy was Cranky Kong.
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Who is the strongest villain in Mario?

Strongest Mario Villains Ranked
  1. 1 Dimentio.
  2. 2 Bowser. ...
  3. 3 Fawful. ...
  4. 4 Bowser Jr. ...
  5. 5 Count Bleck. ...
  6. 6 King Boo. ...
  7. 7 Cackletta. ...
  8. 8 Antasma. Antasma is an evil bat king that first appeared in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team. ...
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Is Donkey Kong a good guy?

Even though in some of the games Donkey Kong is known as the villain of the game, we know that he is not really a villain or bad guy after all.
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Is Wario related to Mario?

The most popular one was that Wario and Mario were cousins. But that's not the case. Wario and Mario were actually just childhood rivals, and the two share no blood relation.
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What is Mario's backstory?

A legendary Nintendo video game character, Mario was born in 1981. Initially, he was named Jumpman, and was a carpenter, in the arcade game Donkey Kong. The same year, Nintendo of America renamed him Mario. His name makes reference to Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segale, an Italian American.
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Are Mario and Bowser friends?

Bowser and Mario have a long detailed rivalry. As revealed in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, Bowser and Mario have been archenemies since they were infants. Bowser always wants to beat Mario and greatly dislikes him mainly for taking Princess Peach away from him.
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Is DK a villain?

Type of Villain

Donkey Kong, also known as Donkey Kong Sr. and later Cranky Kong, is the titular main antagonist of the Donkey Kong arcade games, serving as the titular main antagonist of Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong 3, and the deuteragonist of Donkey Kong Jr.
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Is Cranky Kong evil?

In the original Donkey Kong Country trilogy and other appearances, he is heavily implied to be the violent, bad tempered, and clumsy original Donkey Kong an escaped circus animal from Big Ape City in the classic Donkey Kong Arcade game, making him the main adversary of Mario (Jumpman) and Stanley the Bugman in those ...
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Who is Mario evil twin?

Wario (Japanese: ワリオ, Hepburn: Wario, pronounced [waꜜɾio]; English: /ˈwɑːrioʊ, ˈwær-/) is a fictional character and antagonist in Nintendo's Mario series, designed as an arch-rival to Mario.
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Is Wario a hero or villain?

Wario is a recurring antagonist and anti-hero in the Super Mario Bros. franchise, serving as the main antagonist of the Super Mario Land series, and the titular main protagonist of the Wario spin-off franchise.
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Is Dr Mario Mario's father?

As Miyamoto is departing he tells Mario and Luigi: “Okay, Dad's busy. Good luck with the photoshoot.” The man called himself, “dad.” Shigeru Miyamoto considers Mario Mario and Luigi Mario to be his progeny. The official Nintendo Twitter account later confirmed Miyamoto's statement, referring to him as “Mario's dad.”
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Why can't Yoshi go in castles?

Mario tells Yoshi that he doesn't want to go inside Bowser's castle because there's stuff like ghosts and lava inside. Yoshi just sarcastically tells Mario to have a big fun adventure and that he'll be waiting by himself.
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Is Yoshi evil?

Personality. Black Yoshi is a violent, homicidal, mean, evil, arrogant and aggressive Yoshi who kills people and steals things. He commits crimes and does other bad things.
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Is Yoshi Mario's pet?

Super Mario World was the first video game to feature Yoshi as a companion to Mario. Yoshi's rideability was inspired by Miyamoto's love for horseback riding.
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