Mario and Luigi's Parents

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Mario and Luigi's Parents
Mario and Luigi's Parents find their children delivered by the stork and pick them up.
Full Name	Mother: Mrs. "Mama" Mario Father: Mr. Mario
First Appearance	Mother: "Mama Mia Mario" Father: "Family Album "The Early Years""
Species	Human
Affiliation(s)	Mario Brothers Plumbing
Latest Appearance	Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3

Mario and Luigi's parents are Mario and Luigi's mother and father. The pair is relatively ambiguous, due to the unknown childhood of the Mario Bros. Additionally, their life before becoming the parents of the bros. is entirely unknown. Regardless of whether the pair married before or after their children were delivered, they lived together in a small mushroom-shaped house at least until their boys, and possibly the pair as well, moved to Brooklyn.

According to The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! either Mr. or Mrs. Mario's mother is Grandma Mia and one of them has a sister known as Aunt Luigeena. Mr. and Mrs. Mario have a pair of nieces named Marianne and Luigeena, and two nephews called Mario Joe and Luigi Bob. A second sister/sister-in-law of Mr. and Mrs Mario named Aunt Maria is mentioned in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3. It is not revealed which side of the Mario family any of the in-show relatives are from.

According to The Saturday Supercade's Donkey Kong cartoon, Pauline is the niece of Mario, which would make Mr. and Mrs. Mario her grandparents. However, this contradicts the continuity of the Mario series, in which she Mario's ex-girlfriend, and thus of no relation to his parents.

[edit] Mario and Luigi's Mother

Mama is displeased with the state of her boys' apartment.

Mario and Luigi's mother is known as "Mama" and "Mama Mario" to her two boys and Aunt Luigeena. She is known as "Mrs. Mario" publicly. Mrs. Mario's passed down her physical appearance to Mario, her oldest, although she used to be skinnier like Luigi. A strict, tough old woman, Mario and Luigi feared her visits to Mario Brothers Plumbing.

Despite her tendency to wear a hairnet, a floral blouse, and a pearl necklace, she is a very masculine woman. Her face is nearly identical to Mario's down to the moustache and sideburns. Her moustache is less pronounced than her son's. Since Mario and Luigi's delivery, she has become more stout and chubby. At one point she was a very shapely woman and had blonde hair. She wears a nightgown and slippers to bed.

Although Mario and Luigi are grown up, she smacks them across the face as punishment. Mario noted in "Mama Mia Mario" that he should have been able to tell her apart from Aunt Luigeena simply by the fact that Mama always hit with her left, and Luigeena hit with her left. Dispite her strictness, the brothers maintain a positive view of her cooking. Mario claimed in Mario and the Incredible Rescue that she used to make scrambled eggs for he and his brother and in "Flatbush Koopa" he and Luigi were eager to see their mother again to eat a home-cooked meal.

Her maiden name is "Rigassi" and her favorite show is The Legend of Zelda. On her visit in, "Mama Mia Mario" she ordered her brothers to show the audience scenes from the next episode.

[edit] Mario and Luigi's Father

Mr. Mario chases after Mario.

Mario and Luigi's father is known as "Mr. Mario" publicly. While his face has never been seen, he is a wide-set man similar in frame to Mario. While Mario was a toddler, he smoked a pipe. His current appearance, personality, and relationship with his boys are unknown.

He wears a tucked-in collared shirt while during the day and a nightgown and slippers to bed.

[edit] History

[edit] Life Before Parenthood

Mr. and Mrs. Mario's life before the bros. arrived at their doorstep is unclear, even regarding which world, the Mushroom World or the Real World, they lived in. However, they eventually married and moved in together in the Mushroom World, living in the unnamed village with the mushroom-shaped houses. The two shared a quaint, humble house there until the delivery of their babies.

[edit] Raising the Babies

One night years ago, as told in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, the stork delivered Baby Mario and Baby Luigi to the doorstep of the little house, waking up the husband and wife. When they arrived at the door, they were pleasantly surprised, and held their two children high above their heads. Mr. and Mrs. Mario had no inkling that her young ones had just been rescued from the Koopa Troop by the Yoshis.

However, they were aware of the second time Kamek kidnapped their children. In Yoshi's Island DS, Baby Bowser's minions attacked in the middle of the night, waking up the parents, who watched helplessly as their children were taken from them. However, The Stork returned the children to them shortly afterward.

As Mario and Luigi grew older, their mother revealed herself to be very strict, instilling into them dread upon the thought of her scrutiny. Whether this conduct facilitated to the brothers' close friendship is unconfirmed. During this time period, both the second kidnapping of their children and the Shroob attack occurred. The pair were unable to prevent the Toady from kidnapping their children, and during the alien attack the boys were at Princess Peach's Castle and isolated from them throughout the disaster.

[edit] The Real World

At this point in Mrs. Mario's life, her family moved to the Real World, where Mario and Luigi would later create Mario Brothers Plumbing in Brooklyn. The exact reason for the move is unknown, although the babies' second kidnapping and the Shroob attack mark the last appearances of Baby Mario and Baby Luigi in the Mushroom World, leading one to believe that the family feared for its safety.

Mr. and Mrs. Mario were at odds with the mischivious Mario frequently as shown in 'Family Album "The Early Years"'. He once broke the sink, spraying water into his mother's face. On another occasion, he meddled with his father's pipe and ran away from his father as he was chased through the house.

Even after Mrs. Mario's boys had moved out of her house, she retained an authority and presence over them. When she visited the apartment, Mario and Luigi would hurriedly clean up to avoid or minimize her scrutiny. In "Mama Mia Mario", she even forced Luigi to clean the apartment throughout her visit.

[edit] Modern Life

Whether Mario and Luigi's parents returned to the Mushroom World is unknown. While their children were transported there by accident, no evidence indicates that any of Mario and Luigi's family living in the Real World traveled there before or after them. Based on current evidence, the most logical hypothesis is that the two still live in the Real World.

[edit] Appearances

The first reference to Mrs. Mario occured during The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! live-action segment "All Steamed Up", in the Steam-O-Matic shrunk Mario. Luigi laments, "Mama mia! What am I going to tell Mama?" Mrs. Mario was mentioned in many more episodes of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, eventually appearing in the live action segment "Mama Mia Mario". She is played by Captain Lou Albano, who also portrayed Mario, meaning Mrs. Mario could only appear while Mario was off-set.

Both parents made a cameo appearance in the Nintendo Comics System single-page comic, Family Album "The Early Years". In the second panel, Mrs. Mario is bathing Mario. He breaks part of the sink and sprays her face with water. In the next panel, Mr. Mario is chasing his boy through the house while holding his pipe. Bubbles are coming out of the pipe, and the panel's caption implies that Mario did something to it. Neither of the parents' faces are seen in this publication.

Mario and Luigi's parents later had cameo appearances during the final cut-scene of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and in the game's remake Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3. After the stork dropped off Baby Mario and Baby Luigi, their bottom halves and hands were visible as they answered the door and picked up their children. Once again, their faces were never shown and they did not speak.

While not technically an instance of Mario's true parents appearing, Mario is raised by a Hammer Bro. couple (who were also Princess Peach's grandparents) in the Super Mario Amada Series adaption of Momotaro.

Baby Mario and Baby Luigi cry for their parents when they're in trouble (i.e. Baby Luigi cries "Mama!" when his kart drives off a racecourse in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!).

In Super Mario in Die Nacht des Grauens the zombified Princess Peach claims that Mario's mother is "scrubbing toilets in hell."