Why Mario is so European?

[MikeRox]

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..

To be fair New Yok had a big Italian population settle there. Which I guess is what he's drawing from.

Really though, we all know Mario is based on Bob Hoskins, and that's why he was shoehorned into the Mario film ;)