Why Mario is so European?

[LemonSlice]

NiKKoM said:

Miyamoto:

“As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well. So I drew some characters that had more western type features with a little bigger noses and what not. Now with Mario, I think with Mario Bros. we had a setting of course that was underground, so I just decided Mario is a plumber. Let’s put him in New York and he can be Italian. There was really no other deep thought other than that.”

Read more at http://nintendoeverything.com/miyamoto-explains-why-mario-is-italian/


So he thinks Italians live in New York..

Italian mafia is big over there, is it not? So Mario's a mobster? :O