HE'S 49 YEARS OLD, NOT 24 FUCK OFF MIYAMOTO

He means, before the interview, you dolt. Saying he's around 24 isn't changing his backstory, when he had no official age in the first place.

And red mushrooms don't cause you to double in height. Who are you to say how 24-year-olds style their facial hair?

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you're good

He's been said to be in his mid-20s since fucking Melee

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But he's italian, OP.

He is only 20 something he does not look in 40s for fuck sake look at his wrinkle free skin user.
Your getting confused over the Cranky Kong shit huh? Kongs just seem to have a shit as fuck lifespan that is all there is to it.

Is this a lol thread?

Retarded. There is no such thing as Mario lore, anyone who wants there to be should be lynched.

Why does this bother you so much? Even if Mario's age mattered in the first place which it doesn't because Mario is an immortal midget, it's Miyamoto saying this. Everybody knows he pulls things out of his ass when he's put on the spot during interviews.

It bothers him because he had an idea of who Mario was, and this invalidates his idea. That's why characters like Mario (more symbol than character in reality) should never be defined in terms of age or anything material like that.

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Mario has no lore. It has an aesthetic and recurring archetypes, but no lore. Anyone who wants Mario to have a complex story or worldbuilding fundamentally misunderstands what Mario is and should be severely beaten.

What, just so people don't have their fanfic headcanons threatened? Fuck them.

Mario is a fascist

Giving him an age adds nothing to the character. Can you explain what the benefit of giving him an age is when it is totally irrelevant?

Have you seen a 49 year old italian?
They got way more facial hare.

How old are you? Seriously I'm 22 and got a beefy stache.

That's why you disregard things like Mario's age and Bowser's size since the answer is always going to change depending on what game you're playing and who you ask, and considering you're asking Miyamoto and he's says Mario is a fucking college student, it ultimately means that he's living up to his reputation of being a washed up hack,

It doesn't add anything to the character, but it doesn't take anything away, either.

It clearly does take something away. Every detail that is added makes Mario less universal, less interesting. The more useless trivia they heap on him, the gayer he is.

Either there's some serious time fuckery going on, or Mario did more shit in his 20s than fucking Alexander the Great.
>the 80s were 30 years ago
Feel old yet?

Being able to more easily create head-canons about him doesn't make him more interesting. In fact, it makes him less so. "Universal" is almost the straight definition of bland, generic, and uninteresting. When he's a blank slate, there's less to work with. There's less to learn about him. There's less to like about him. Something as trivial as age is still something. And, even if an explicit number wasn't assigned to him, there's still an obvious range he has to fall in. Anyone who legitimately thought he was middled-aged wasn't creating some legitimate, personal interpretation of the character. They were just being a retard with poor observation skills.

Also Link to the Past takes place after Zelda 1 and 2

Mario's age can be extrapolated by how long ago he last died in the game you played.
I really hope Miyamoto shuts the hell up about useless trivia that does nothing to make the games more enjoyable. He's a midget that says "Wahoo!" when he jumps, I don't need any more backstory.

That was never the case though, even when it was released

This.
Miyamoto is a senile overrated ideas guy.
He is talking about useless shit because he can't give ideas anymore, being senile and all, but still wants to be relevant.

HE'S 26 YEARS OLD, NOT 24 FUCK OFF MIYAMOTO

That says about 26, dumbfuck.

You guys are acting like Miyamoto just recently came out and said "Mario is now 24, guys". This was from an interview in 2005, guys. He only brought it up because he wanted to point out it was the only little detail they decided to set in stone with Mario. Even Melee, released four years before that interview, said Mario is in his mid-twenties.

He's still not wrong.

But Mario Odyssey got released on the same day when Wolfenstein got its 20th anniversary, yas queen

All this sperge over nothing

The bio said he used to be a plumber. Seeing as he does very little plumbing these days, the description is accurate
How does a movie change his backstory? Have you seen the movie?
See It's just the parasite press being retarded again

The only real change he's made to Mario 'lore' is claiming the Koopalings aren't Bowser's kids, even though they look exactly fucking like him

But where's his fascist uniform?

Pauline, Peach, Daisy, and Rosalina. How old do you think they look (physical appearance wise)? I would imagine Peach and Pauline are the oldest looking but I'm blanking on actual ages. At least over twenty, maybe some early thirties?

Easy to explain: you would wear one if you were socially maladjusted and you think it's a good idea to wear a 70's porno stache.

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