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{{ | {{quote|Well, I thought [[Super Mario Bros. Plumbing|it]] was incredible. It belongs in a movie theater.|Mama Mario|The Super Mario Bros. Movie}} | ||
'''Mama Mario''' (referred to as '''Mama''' and '''Mama Mia''' by her children, maiden name '''Rigassi''') is the mother of [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] and a recurring minor character in the ''[[Super Mario (franchise)|Super Mario]]'' franchise and its spin-offs, particularly in ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'', where she was referenced throughout the television series' run and made two appearances in the live-action segments. | '''Mama Mario''' (referred to as '''Mama''' and '''Mama Mia''' by her children, maiden name '''Rigassi''') is the mother of [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] and a recurring minor character in the ''[[Super Mario (franchise)|Super Mario]]'' franchise and its spin-offs, particularly in ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'', where she was referenced throughout the television series' run and made two appearances in the live-action segments. | ||
A version of Mario's mother made her first appearance in ''[[Super Mario Issun-bōshi]]''. ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' was responsible for the expansion of the character | A version of Mario's mother made her first appearance in ''[[Super Mario Issun-bōshi]]''. ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' was responsible for the expansion of the character, being the first and, for much of the franchise's history, only source that showed her face or explored her personality, developing her as a comically strict parental figure who ultimately cared very much for her boys. Though Mario and Luigi fear her temper and punishments on the show, both boys return their mother's love. Mama Mario's connection to Mario and Luigi's [[Papa Mario|father]] is unclear, but the two are shown to live with each other in all of Papa's appearances, and the fact that Mama has a maiden name implies that she is or was married. | ||
Mama Mario's appearance is relatively inconsistent across the series: ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' portrayed her as a portly, masculine woman, while the ''[[Nintendo Comics System]]'' shows her as a dainty, blonde-haired, young woman. She also appears in ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'' living in [[Brooklyn]] along with [[Papa Mario]] and other members of Mario's family. | Mama Mario's appearance is relatively inconsistent across the series: ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' portrayed her as a portly, masculine woman, while the ''[[Nintendo Comics System]]'' shows her as a dainty, blonde-haired, young woman. She also appears in ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'' living in [[Brooklyn]] along with [[Papa Mario]] and other members of Mario's family. | ||
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===''Nintendo Comics System''=== | ===''Nintendo Comics System''=== | ||
[[File:NCS Mama Mario.jpg|thumb| | [[File:NCS Mama Mario.jpg|thumb|150px|Mario's mama appeared much more feminine in "[[Family Album "The Early Years"]]."]] | ||
"[[Family Album 'The Early Years']]" featured various photographs of Mario's early life, including one in which he was being bathed by his mother in the kitchen sink. "Little Mario", playing with locking pliers, detached the sink's faucet, sending a stream of water into his mother's face. | "[[Family Album 'The Early Years']]" featured various photographs of Mario's early life, including one in which he was being bathed by his mother in the kitchen sink. "Little Mario", playing with locking pliers, detached the sink's faucet, sending a stream of water into his mother's face. | ||
In the comic, the artists drew Mario's mother as a young and shapely blond-haired woman in a purple dress. | In the comic, the artists drew Mario's mother as a young and shapely blond-haired woman in a purple dress. | ||
===''Super Mario'' (Kodansha manga)=== | |||
[[File:Mario's parents KC Mario.jpg|thumb|left|150px]] | |||
During the final fight against [[Wario]] in the ''[[Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins]]'' arc, Mario is losing hope in beating and besting his rival and saving the [[Mario Land (Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins)|Mario Land]], until he turns and sees a portrait of his parents, whose faces are blacked-out, depicted as the former king and queen of [[Mario's castle]]. Mario regains confidence in order to make them proud and runs towards Wario to finish him. | |||
===''Yoshi's Island'' series=== | ===''Yoshi's Island'' series=== | ||
====''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''==== | ====''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''==== | ||
[[File:Marioparents.PNG | [[File:Marioparents.PNG|thumb|200px|Mario and Luigi are discovered by their parents in ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]''.]] | ||
At the end of ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'', Mario and Luigi's mother made her first video game appearance. Only her lower half and hands are seen, and she is the smaller figure in the dress to the right, carrying Luigi. Once [[Yoshi]] rescues the [[stork]] and [[Baby Luigi]], the stork takes [[Baby Mario]] and Baby Luigi and continues on his way to deliver them to their parents. The video game's narration states that the boys' delivery has been "long awaited." Flying to a small, unnamed town surrounded by mountains where "mom and dad live," the stork leaves the bundles on the doorstep of a [[mushroom]]-shaped house. The parents awake, turn on a light, open the door, and are pleasantly surprised to see their twins have arrived. | At the end of ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'', Mario and Luigi's mother made her first video game appearance. Only her lower half and hands are seen, and she is the smaller figure in the dress to the right, carrying Luigi. Once [[Yoshi]] rescues the [[stork]] and [[Baby Luigi]], the stork takes [[Baby Mario]] and Baby Luigi and continues on his way to deliver them to their parents. The video game's narration states that the boys' delivery has been "long awaited." Flying to a small, unnamed town surrounded by mountains where "mom and dad live," the stork leaves the bundles on the doorstep of a [[mushroom]]-shaped house. The parents awake, turn on a light, open the door, and are pleasantly surprised to see their twins have arrived. | ||
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====''Yoshi's New Island''==== | ====''Yoshi's New Island''==== | ||
It is revealed in ''[[Yoshi's New Island]]'' that the parents seen in ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' are not the parents of Mario and Luigi, and the stork made a mistake. By the end of the game, the stork delivers the Mario Bros. to the right parents. | It is revealed in ''[[Yoshi's New Island]]'' that the parents seen in ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' are not the parents of Mario and Luigi, and the stork made a mistake. By the end of the game, the stork delivers the Mario Bros. to the right parents. | ||
===''Super Mario 4koma Manga Theater''=== | |||
[[File:Mario's_parents_4-koma.png|left|thumb|150px]] | |||
In the ''Yoshi's Island'' 4-koma collection, the [[Stork]] has a photo as a reference for the couple to whom it needs to deliver the babies. Both Papa and Mama Mario have a similar appearance and clothing to Mario. In the photo, Mama Mario has short hair, a ribbon where the hat emblem is, and flower-shaped buttons on her overalls. | |||
===Mario Quiz Cards=== | |||
[[File:Mother's Day MQC.png|thumb|150px]] | |||
One of the [[Mario Quiz Cards]] about {{wp|Mother's Day}} shows Mario and Luigi visiting Mama Mario with flowers. Mama Mario receives her children's presents on her doorstep, though only her gloved hand waving at them can be seen. | |||
===''Mario and the Incredible Rescue''=== | ===''Mario and the Incredible Rescue''=== | ||
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===''The Super Mario Bros. Movie''=== | ===''The Super Mario Bros. Movie''=== | ||
[[File:SMBPlumbing com BrosMom.png|thumb|100px|Profile picture of BrosMom on the Super Mario Bros. Plumbing website]] | [[File:SMBPlumbing com BrosMom.png|thumb|100px|left|Profile picture of BrosMom on the Super Mario Bros. Plumbing website]] | ||
In ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'', Mama Mario is first mentioned by Luigi after he brags to [[Foreman Spike]] of their first plumbing call, which is a cheerful message from her. She is then first seen having dinner with Mario, Luigi, and the rest of their family after the brothers return from their first disastrous job. While her husband is pessimistic about their career, she continues to show them support and affection. As Mario leaves the table, upset by his father's lack of support, Mama Mario disappointedly shakes her head at her husband. Mama and Papa Mario are later seen in the climax witnessing Mario and Luigi battling the Koopa Troop, and later hug them after they defeat Bowser. | In ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'', Mama Mario is first mentioned by Luigi after he brags to [[Foreman Spike]] of their first plumbing call, which is a cheerful message from her. She is then first seen having dinner with Mario, Luigi, and the rest of their family after the brothers return from their first disastrous job. While her husband is pessimistic about their career, she continues to show them support and affection. As Mario leaves the table, upset by his father's lack of support, Mama Mario disappointedly shakes her head at her husband. Mama and Papa Mario are later seen in the climax witnessing Mario and Luigi battling the Koopa Troop, and later hug them after they defeat Bowser. | ||
On the promotional website [[ | On the promotional website [[SMBPlumbing.com]], one of the fictional testimonials pertains to the Mario Bros.' mother, as indicated by the username '''BrosMom'''. This testimonial praises the [[Mario Brothers Plumbing|Super Mario Bros. Plumbing]] service, in contrast with those from users [[Foreman Spike|SpikeIsCool]] and [[BrKlyn Couple]], stating that "The Mario Bros. are the very best in the business! They’re polite, professional, adorable, and treated me like family!"<ref>[http://SMBPlumbing.com/testimonials Testimonials]. SMBPlumbing.com. Retrieved February 12, 2023. ([https://archive.ph/yrbJM Archived] February 12, 2023, 21:39:36 UTC via archive.today.)</ref> | ||
In an interview for the film, co-director {{wp|Aaron Horvath}} stated that both the mother and father have their designs strongly resembling the design from Nintendo's unused material.<ref name=Polygon>McWhertor, M. (April 8, 2023). "[https://www.polygon.com/23673074/mario-movie-family-members-dad-mom-uncles-aunt The Super Mario Bros. Movie drew on unused Nintendo designs to build out Mario’s family]". ''Polygon''. Accessed April 8, 2023</ref> | In an interview for the film, co-director {{wp|Aaron Horvath}} stated that both the mother and father have their designs strongly resembling the design from Nintendo's unused material.<ref name=Polygon>McWhertor, M. (April 8, 2023). "[https://www.polygon.com/23673074/mario-movie-family-members-dad-mom-uncles-aunt The Super Mario Bros. Movie drew on unused Nintendo designs to build out Mario’s family]". ''Polygon''. Accessed April 8, 2023</ref> | ||
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===Impersonal references=== | ===Impersonal references=== | ||
There have been multiple instances in which a character invokes Mario's mother in a general sense, rather than speaking of Mama's person, such as [[Rawk Hawk]]'s jab "Didn't your momma teach you any manners?!?" in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. Another noteworthy case is in the German ''[[Club Nintendo (magazine)|Club Nintendo]]'' comic, "[[Super Mario in Die Nacht des Grauens]]", when a [[Abigor|demonically]] possessed Peach tells Mario that his mother scrubs toilets in [[hell]], in what can be taken as a {{wp|"Yo mama" joke|"your mother" joke}} and reference to a line in the 1973 film ''{{wp|The Exorcist}}''. Additionally, in the ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' film, [[Luigi (film character)|Luigi]] jokingly says that [[Mario (film character)|Mario]] has been like a father and a mother to him, as their real parents died when he was still a baby and he was brought up by his brother. | There have been multiple instances in which a character invokes Mario's mother in a general sense, rather than speaking of Mama's person, such as [[Rawk Hawk]]'s jab "Didn't your momma teach you any manners?!?" in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. Another noteworthy case is in the German ''[[Club Nintendo (magazine)|Club Nintendo]]'' comic, "[[Super Mario in Die Nacht des Grauens]]", when a [[Abigor|demonically]] possessed Peach tells Mario that his mother scrubs toilets in [[hell]], in what can be taken as a {{wp|"Yo mama" joke|"your mother" joke}} and reference to a line in the 1973 film ''{{wp|The Exorcist}}''. Additionally, in the 1993 ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' film, [[Luigi (film character)|Luigi]] jokingly says that [[Mario (film character)|Mario]] has been like a father and a mother to him, as their real parents died when he was still a baby and he was brought up by his brother. | ||
==Family== | ==Family== | ||
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|Ita=Mamma | |Ita=Mamma | ||
|ItaM=Mom | |Ita2=Mamma Mia/Mamma Mario | ||
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|Ita2M=Mama Mia/Mama Mario | |||
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