There was a Prince in Zelda? >_>

There are a few characters from Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door, I really liked and had hoped would find life in the greater Mario Universe; but none seem to have.

But if you want a really forgotten Nintendo character, how about Pauline?

 Your picture is rather creepy. Devil Jin owns. :)

Outside of Japan, they were all named after celebrities, mostly musicians:

Morton Koopa Jr. = Morton Downey Jr.
Iggy Koopa = Iggy Pop
Wendy O. Koopa = Wendy O. Williams
Lemmy Koopa = Lemmy Kilmeister
Roy Koopa = Roy Orbison
Ludwig Von Koopa = Ludwig Von Beethoven (Just as Morton is a Jr. for no one, Ludwig actually has a different last name: Von Koopa)
Larry Koopa = Could be anyone, really.

Also, there's a creature in the Super Mario World named "Reznor."  Any coincidence that Miyamoto is a fan of various forms of Rock music, or that Trent Reznor is a gamer?  Who knows.

I was hoping Mike Jones from the 2 StarTropics games would get a mention.

Geno is an odd selection for #1, seeing as how he is mentioned in threads about favorite Nintendo characters so much. Seems like something more obscure, like #5, would be a better fit for #1.

For SMB2 it's probably because the game wasn't even a Mario game in Japan. It's original name was Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic and it didn't have the Mario characters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yume_K%C5%8Dj%C5%8D:_Doki_Doki_Panic

Pretty much the only thing that was changed when it was brought to the US was the main characters.

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=21M1AQq1HRs

Prince of Hyrule??!?! I thought it was only Zelda. o_0

Aside from #5, I didn't forget any of those.

Maybe "Albatoss" from Mario 2 or "whatever the hell you fight" from Wrecking Crew should've made the cut.

I have never heard of any of these five characters.

I remember all of these except the Prince of Hyrule.
People need to stop calling Geno a Ninty character.