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 Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:58 am
 *Contents*Post 1 - Contents Post 2 - Luigi Post 3 - Peach Post 4 - Yoshi Post 5 - Bowser Post 6 - Toad Post 7 - Baby Mario Post 8 - Baby Luigi Post 9 - Daisy Post 10 - Wario Post 11 - Waluigi Post 12 - Toadette Post 13 - Toadworth Post 14 - Birdo Post 15 - Goomba Post 16 - Koopa
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:59 am
*Luigi* Luigi is the taller yet younger brother of Nintendo's official mascot, Mario, and has appeared in games throughout the Mario series. Although he was originally identical to Mario except for being colored green instead of red, Luigi has since developed his own personality and style. Luigi's name was inspired by a pizza parlor near Nintendo of America's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, called "Mario & Luigi's". His name may be a pun on the Japanese word ruiji, meaning "analogous", a play on the fact that his sprite was the same as Mario's in his original appearance.
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:19 am
*Peach*
 
Originally Princess Toadstool, Peach often plays the "damsel in distress" character of the adventure series. As the princess of Mushroom Kingdom, where many of the games are set, Mario and Peach appear to have a romantic relationship with each other.
Peach first appeared in Super Mario Bros. and has since appeared in many subsequent games, in which she is usually kidnapped by Bowser. She has also shown her fighting abilities in Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario RPG and Super Smash Bros. Melee. Despite being a leading character, Peach's first game as the main character, Super Princess Peach, was released worldwide in 2006.
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:27 am
*Yoshi* Yoshi is a dinosaurlike video game character appearing in a number of video games produced by Nintendo. Yoshi has appeared in a wide assortment of colors. However, the most widely known colored Yoshi is a green Yoshi. In Nintendo video games, Yoshi debuted as Mario's primary mode of private transportation in the game Super Mario World. Yoshi was created by Shigefumi Hino, a graphics designer and later the director of Pikmin, when Shigeru Miyamoto finished Super Mario Bros. This was in response to Nintendo's design staff expressing a desire for Mario to ride a dinosaur.
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:37 am
*Bowser* Bowser is the main villain of the Super Mario series of video games. He is the leader and most powerful of the turtle-like Koopa race. Although Bowser has joined forces with Mario in a few games, he never ceases to attempt to kidnap Princess Peach and conquer the Mushroom Kingdom since his first appearance in Super Mario Bros. As the central villain of one of the world's most popular video game franchises, Bowser is easily one of the most recognizable video game villains ever. He has eight children, known as Koopalings, who assist him in his various schemes. Bowser is depicted fairly consistently as nasty and brutish, though possessing some sarcastic wit. However, in a few games he has shown some (limited) capacity for good, such as in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. According to Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door however, he likes to be considered the "King of Evil", but more often than not comes across as quite oafish. He also has shown jealousy of other villains in Superstar Saga and The Thousand Year Door. According to Nintendo Power of UK, Bowser's wife and the mother of these children is Clawdia, Queen of the Koopas. Clawdia hasn't made an appearance in any games. Bowser Jr. possibly his eight child.
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:29 pm
*Toad* Toad is the general collective name of the "Mushroom People" found in the Mushroom Kingdom, who are a sapient, anthropomorphic mushroom race, with a peaceful, human-following monarchistic culture. There was a common rumor that spread throughout the Internet that Toad is a secret playable character in Melee, but this was disproved and deemed a hoax. "Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle!"
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:50 pm
*Baby Mario*  Baby Mario is the infant version of Mario. Although he has paradoxically appeared alongside his older self in Nintendo sports titles such as Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Mario Superstar Baseball and Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, these games are generally accepted to be outside the continuity of the main Mario series, and therefore do not suggest that Mario and Baby Mario are separate characters in the main storyline. Baby Mario's first official game appearance came in the Super NES game Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island where the Yoshis saved his brother Luigi from Kamek the Magikoopa.
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:57 pm
*Baby Luigi* Baby Luigi is the infant form of Luigi, similar to Baby Mario. However, he appeared in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! alongside his older self. Baby Luigi appeared in Yoshi Touch & Go, where Yoshi must rescue Luigi by throwing eggs in order to hit the Toadies carrying him. In the multiplayer mode, the second player's Yoshi will be carrying Baby Luigi instead of Baby Mario.
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:02 pm
*Daisy* Daisy is the princess of the fictitious Kingdom of Sarasaland who first appeared in Super Mario Land for the Game Boy, in which she is kidnapped by the alien Tatanga. Since then, she has appeared in several Mario-based sports and Mario Party games. She is commonly compared to Princess Peach, even though Daisy is known as more tough, or tomboyish. Although she has not appeared in a canonical story game since Super Mario Land, she is now a standard character in the Mario sports and Mario Party games, and has since become a staple character in the Mario franchise. She is usually associated with Luigi. While many hints have been given in various games on a possible relationship between Daisy and Luigi, no official statement has ever been made.
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:08 pm
*Wario*  Wario made his first appearance in the 1992 Game Boy game Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins as a self-aggrandizing, overweight, and narcissistic doppelgänger of Mario and the final boss. He eventually spun-off into his own franchise, starting with Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3. The character's original role was that of an antagonist; he would later become an anti-hero of his own series. He is greedy and manipulative, (unlike Mario who is heroic and kind) and he will do anything to gain wealth whether it be good or bad. Wario has a bellicose cackle and an intense jealousy of Mario which fuels his fierce competitiveness.
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:13 pm
*Waluigi* Waluigi has so far only appeared in spin-off and party games, as opposed to the main platformer titles. He is Luigi's evil counterpart, in the same way that Wario is Mario's evil counterpart. He is Wario's brother as well as one of his few friends Waluigi's first appearance was in the Mario Tennis games for the Game Boy Color and Nintendo 64, as Wario's doubles partner (though he had to be unlocked in the GBC version by linking it up with the N64 version). Later, along with Princess Daisy, he joined the Mario Party series's roster in Mario Party 3 and has been a playable character in every main entry in the series since.
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:17 pm
*Toadette* Toadette is a female member of the Toad species. Little is known about her because she debuted in mainly multiplayer spin-off games. Toadette is Toad's female counterpart and is rumored to be his sister or girlfriend. Unlike most Toads, she has a pink cap with white spots, instead of a white cap with colored spots. Little else is known about her, as she was mainly created to provide Toad with a partner in multiplayer games.
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:22 pm
*Toadworth/Toadsworth* Toadsworth is an elderly 60-year-old Toad who is also Princess Peach's longtime steward. His first appearance was in Super Mario Sunshine, where he comes along with Princess Peach and Mario to Isle Delfino. Following his appearance in Super Mario Sunshine, he appeared in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, with a minor role immediately before Mario and Luigi left for the Beanbean Kingdom. He later travelled with Princess Peach to Beanbean Castle but remained there until the game's ending sequence, which revealed him to be good friends with Lady Lima.
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:27 pm
*Birdo* Birdo is most frequently depicted as pink, although red, green, blue, yellow, orange, and gray Birdos are also seen in Super Mario Bros. 2 and other games; gray Birdos were changed to green in the remakes due to their attack patterns matching. In Super Mario Bros. 2, Birdo would spit out eggs and/or fireballs from her tubular snout. In later games such as Mario Tennis, Birdo's personal icon is her bow ribbon, much as Mario's is the red "M" logo from his hat. Though Nintendo's official drawings of Birdo have always depicted her as wearing a bow, it did not actually appear on her head in games until the Super Mario All-Stars revision.
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:31 pm
*Goomba* Goombas are the first enemy character to appear in the original Super Mario Bros., for the NES. Alongside Koopa Troopas, Piranha Plants, and Lakitus, they are the most common enemies in the Mario series. Typically, Goombas are brown and look like mushrooms with a face and feet. In North America, they are commonly believed to be mushroom creatures that betrayed the Mushroom Kingdom in alliance with the Bowser's Koopa army, but in Japan they are evil chestnuts.
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