And power rangers taught kids to fight. Ninja turtles...living in the sewers was cool Spider-man....Go jump of buildings Seriously, every children's tv show can be taken as teaching kids bad behaviors. Or it can be taken as keeping your kids out of your hair for a half hour at a time. Either way, Pokemon was no different.
Not a very groundbreaking discovery, but it still holds true. Definitely a case of people taking things too seriously. Any game can be made to look evil. Mario jumps on turtles and then throws their shells around (animal cruelty), destroys public property, eats shrooms and picks up large amounts of coins without ever reporting the money to proper authorities. I say we string him up by his mustache!
jubino
Reminds me of what I read in TVTropes that Mario goes were actually Post-apocolyptic RPG's. "That is to say, all the creatures are mutated people and animals. Mario seems to have no qualms about killing any of these creatures, suggesting that he is either: (a insane, (b feeling opressed as a minority in the mushroom kingdom or (c scared by what he sees, and afraid that he will become them. It's like how no one in a zombie movie ever cares about killing zombies - they're already dead. Going with option (c, more speculation: * 1.Bowser, then, wishes to create a cure for the mutations by studying one of the last remaining humans alive. Mario is almost insane, and thinks Bowser's kidnapping was to kill Peach or turn her into one of them, so he goes on a murderous rampage through abandoned castles, hoping to discover Bowser's laboratory. The fireballs that Bowser shoots are actually attempts by Bowser to inject Mario with the cure, lest he succomb to his insanity and turn into one of the creatures. Mario then runs past bowser, and murders him with a hammer for testing reflexes (which is part of Bowser's medical apparatus). Mario pretends the Princess thanks him, when in reality, she is cowering in a corner. This explains why we never see her hugging Mario for what he has done; Mario cannot bring himself to pretend that this happened. * 2.Luigi never existed. Mario created him as an alternate personality to help deal with the stress of seeing his friends and family mutated. He is an idealistic Mario: shirt no longer stained blood red, taller than mario, and less overweight. * 3.Wario is Mario's mutated form. When Wario appears in a game of his own it could be said to be taking place after Mario kills Bowser, Mario having mutated and gained monstrous powers, although he can no longer jump like he used to due to his mutated legs and massive size. When Mario fights Wario, however, it could be a metaphor for how Mario is slowly losing his mind to whatever force that is turning everyone into monsters. The sadism of Wario is caused by how Mario was forced to kill so many mutated humans. * 4.Every Mario game with the same plot (ransack some castles, find the princess) is a flashback that Wario has. The reason they vary so much is due to Wario being traumatised and unsure of what he saw back when he was human. He relives what happened over and over again, due to the realisation that Bowser was trying to help him. In reality, the cute creatures were vile monsters. World 8 in New Super Mario Bros is closer to reality than most of Wario's hallucinations - as Wario gets closer to the climax of his grief he remembers things more clearly. * 5. Yoshis are mutated dogs, Toads are mutated children. "
Not a very groundbreaking discovery, but it still holds true. Definitely a case of people taking things too seriously. Any game can be made to look evil. Mario jumps on turtles and then throws their shells around (animal cruelty), destroys public property, eats shrooms and picks up large amounts of coins without ever reporting the money to proper authorities. I say we string him up by his mustache!
Treflis
Reminds me of what I read in TVTropes that Mario goes were actually Post-apocolyptic RPG's. "That is to say, all the creatures are mutated people and animals. Mario seems to have no qualms about killing any of these creatures, suggesting that he is either: (a insane, (b feeling opressed as a minority in the mushroom kingdom or (c scared by what he sees, and afraid that he will become them. It's like how no one in a zombie movie ever cares about killing zombies - they're already dead. Going with option (c, more speculation: * 1.Bowser, then, wishes to create a cure for the mutations by studying one of the last remaining humans alive. Mario is almost insane, and thinks Bowser's kidnapping was to kill Peach or turn her into one of them, so he goes on a murderous rampage through abandoned castles, hoping to discover Bowser's laboratory. The fireballs that Bowser shoots are actually attempts by Bowser to inject Mario with the cure, lest he succomb to his insanity and turn into one of the creatures. Mario then runs past bowser, and murders him with a hammer for testing reflexes (which is part of Bowser's medical apparatus). Mario pretends the Princess thanks him, when in reality, she is cowering in a corner. This explains why we never see her hugging Mario for what he has done; Mario cannot bring himself to pretend that this happened. * 2.Luigi never existed. Mario created him as an alternate personality to help deal with the stress of seeing his friends and family mutated. He is an idealistic Mario: shirt no longer stained blood red, taller than mario, and less overweight. * 3.Wario is Mario's mutated form. When Wario appears in a game of his own it could be said to be taking place after Mario kills Bowser, Mario having mutated and gained monstrous powers, although he can no longer jump like he used to due to his mutated legs and massive size. When Mario fights Wario, however, it could be a metaphor for how Mario is slowly losing his mind to whatever force that is turning everyone into monsters. The sadism of Wario is caused by how Mario was forced to kill so many mutated humans. * 4.Every Mario game with the same plot (ransack some castles, find the princess) is a flashback that Wario has. The reason they vary so much is due to Wario being traumatised and unsure of what he saw back when he was human. He relives what happened over and over again, due to the realisation that Bowser was trying to help him. In reality, the cute creatures were vile monsters. World 8 in New Super Mario Bros is closer to reality than most of Wario's hallucinations - as Wario gets closer to the climax of his grief he remembers things more clearly. * 5. Yoshis are mutated dogs, Toads are mutated children. " lmao that was a pretty awesome read
I can think of early Disney and Warner Bros cartoons that feature an unhealthy obsession with cross dressing, as well as being restrained, tied up and spanked bare bottom. Now that is messed up.
ah, that was the one I'm almost half-way through it, this is the most disturbingly deep and most amazing thing I have ever read. Whoever wrote this deserves a Nobel prize for cracking pokemon
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