movie made Mario's last name Mario canon (which it did not). Thus, that 'big reveal' was actually Miyamoto saying that the (objectively terrible) Super Mario Bros. But, just like Mickey Mouse doesn’t really have a last name, Mario is really just Mario and Luigi is really just Luigi.” Based on the film, that’s their names ended up. Of course, this was ultimately included in the film. So, they made him “Mario Mario.” I heard this and laughed rather loudly. Somebody suggested that, because they were the Mario Bros., their last name should be Mario. There was a scene in the script where they needed a last name for the characters. “This is an old story, but Hollywood did a film version of the Mario Bros.

I like to believe that Miyamoto is just subtly mocking anyone who believes Mario 'canon' is a thing.Īfter searching for this, I found the quote here from an interview with Miyamoto:

It's certainly not the first time he's offered contradictory authoritative statements on the Mario world. Miyamoto's gone on record before that it's not their last name, and that they don't even have last names at all. In fact, some even see it as more of a joke to play on the fact that there is no official Mario canon, which Shigeru Miyamoto has done in the past.įrom this thread that says Miyamoto 'revealed' that Mario and Luigi's last name was 'Mario' the whole time, one of the top comments asserts that this is purposefully false information: However, it seems that this list is not widely recognized as a real list of canon entries in the series. In it to my surprise were the Super Mario Land games! Nintendo released a history of the Super Mario series. What came out of it was only something us Mario fanboys can fanboy about. Nintendo updated its Japanese Super Mario Bros. The Mario series in general has no sense of canon or continuityĭuring the 30th anniversary of the Super Mario series, however, it seems that Nintendo released what some considered a 'canon list' of the Super Mario games. The Super Mario series has no officially recognised canon

This is supported in various other places, as well. Therefore, arguments over canonicity (canon vs. Unlike many other franchises, the Mario franchise and its many spin-off series do not have an officially recognized canon. There is apparently no official canon, as mentioned in this wikia article:

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