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[javac]

Fixed.

 

[Green Mamba]

The only (maybe) black character in the Mario universe I can think of is Il Piantissimo.

EDIT: Beaten by a couple posts, but mine is at the top of the page!

 

[Ganondolf]

Funny, I was thinking today how many non-white characters Nintendo made. The closest I could think of was that one gym leader from Pokemon (Lenora).

there is a few in punch out

 

[spindashing]

The property value of the Mushroom Kingdom is too high.

 

[Crayons]

I think black caricatures would go over very well.

 

[PontyfaxJr]

Funny, I was thinking today how many non-white characters Nintendo made. The closest I could think of was that one gym leader from Pokemon (Lenora).

Gerudos are dark. Ganondorf is a sort of shit-green colour.

 

[Shadowlink]

Yeah, but when they do they will probably be attacked that the character is too much a stereotype ...

They might as well bring up Punchout.

 

[Zomba13]

There was Piantissimo from Sunshine.

I wouldn't mind him being included (though I think his time has passed ).

But yeah, the Japanese men and women at Nintendo are obviously super racist by only having white characters in this. They obviously don't want people playing as black person or an Asian person.

 

[Glorified G]

What do they expect? Black Mario? I... What?

Why not? There is black Jesus, black Santa Claus? What makes Nintendo so special? This is one of the reasons why Nintendo is struggling right now. They're stuck in the bubble.

Spoiler

In case anyone is wondering, I wasn't serious

 

[GamerSoul]

According to Yoshi's Island DS people of color exist in the world of Mario.

So where the hell did they drop them off?? I need answers.

 

[The Buffmuffin]

Lol the sensitivity and overanalyzing of things by certain people is laughable

 

[Buzzman]

I find it fascinating how we've had a sudden burst of racial/gender diversity threads here in the last week, what happened?

But honestly, some diversity in the Mario universe wouldn't hurt.

 

[TheSlySoul]

According to Yoshi's Island DS people of color exist in the world of Mario.

I never played that game. Then again, someone brought up Sunshine which had a black character. They should have added II Piantissimo to the roster instead of millions of babies.

 

[Tak3n]

the internet just plain amazes me sometimes

we see it with thread after thread, people go through the game looking for the smallest things to complain about..

it's a game, it is not meant to be real life ...when do you see Bowser racing down your street

You don't!

next we will be getting threads about religions not being in games!

 

[PontyfaxJr]

So where the hell did they drop them off?? I need answers.

Detroit

 

[Zomba13]

I find it fascinating how we've had a sudden burst of racial/gender diversity threads here in the last week, what happened?

But honestly, some diversity in the Mario universe wouldn't hurt.

Nintendo being insensitive to non-whites and non-straights.

 

[Mr-Joker]

Casey Malone is a game designer, comedian and freelance writer living in Boston. He has dibs on Shyguy, please respect the rule of dibs, thank you.

Guys I don't think he's being serous about this, but on the off chance he is then he's a terrible reviewer for trying and failing to shoehorn his agenda into his review.

Ahhhh, Mai Wafiu is so hot.

I wish they'd bring back the old school Daisy

Pretty sure that's Princess Peach during her brunette days.

 

[The Boat]

Tp

Mario, Luigi, and Wario are Italian.

Waluigi is Spanish.

The only white characters are Toad and Toadette.

Please tell me you know the difference between ethnicity and nationality.

 

[cloudyy]

What times we live in!

 

[HypnoDarkrai]

Funny, I was thinking today how many non-white characters Nintendo made. The closest I could think of was that one gym leader from Pokemon (Lenora).

Edit: As usual, some people can't focus on the issue instead of making light of it.

Gym Leader Grant in Pokemon XY

 

[jelani435]

I'm sorry, but a facepalm isn't enough to handle this stupidity. This is why I have no hope for humanity.

 

[terrdactycalsrock]

I have to believe that the reviewer wrote that into the review just to get more people to look at his work. Congrats, it worked! To bad its better to be relatively unknown and produce good work than it is to do subpar work by manufacturing a controversy for your ego.

 

[Ganondolf]

Gerudos are dark. Ganondorf is a sort of shit-green colour.

Ganondorf is suppose to be the same colour as the Gerudos as that's his tribe.

 

[eXistor]

Christ almighty, seriously? I'm just out of the FC4 thread and now this shit? I m all for equality, but people are just all over the place with their targets here.

 

[Synless]

What am I seeing here?

 

[Slamtastic]

Funny, I was thinking today how many non-white characters Nintendo made. The closest I could think of was that one gym leader from Pokemon (Lenora).

 

[Kodaman]

Edited inb4 ninjas...

 

[jelani435]

Fixed.

???

 

[Shadowlink]

What am I seeing here?

The diversity of costumes?

 

[Wensih]

Is this the full roster? The bigger blasphemy is that Dry Bones isn't in the roster.

 

[GamerSoul]

Gym Leader Grant in Pokemon XY

Overall, X/Y did a great job of diversifying the pokemon trainers.

Detroit

I laughed

 

[Zomba13]

Is this the full roster? The bigger blasphemy is that Dry Bones isn't in the roster.

But Dry Bones is white so it'd just add fuel to the fire.

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

Is this the full roster? The bigger blasphemy is that Dry Bones isn't in the roster.

He's dead.

 

[braves01]

Ganondorf is suppose to be the same colour as the Gerudos as that's his tribe.

And as a person of color, he's the big arch villain of the series while whitey Link and Zelda are heroes. SMH Nintendo, can you be more racist?

 

[jelani435]

Nintendo being insensitive to non-whites and non-straights.

Really bro? Don't treat this like something that it isn't. They obviously didn't do this on purpose. Try not to shed the wrong light onto this, kay?

 

[nckillthegrimace]

I don't think being able to play as your Mii address the issue of having characters people of differing ethnic groups can relate to through similarity because that's just an abstraction of the person playing. Also, Nintendo could easily add new characters to the roster that only show up in this game; anyone remember Plum from Mario Golf N64? (There were some other characters, but no one remembers any of them)

 

[PontyfaxJr]

Ganondorf is suppose to be the same colour as the Gerudos as that's his tribe.

The ladies must be wearing some great foundation or something then, or maybe Ganondorf is just a little under the weather.

Edit: Maybe it's fake tan.

 

[bobbychalkers]

Err....Reggie's Hatian.

 

[Porcile]

I'd be more offended if they just stuck a random black or Asian character in there for no reason other than to have a black or Asian character.

 

[theechrisfox]

Yeah, yeah, boycott Nintendo.
*crickets*

 

[vinnygambini]

I'd remove that picture if I were you to be honest.

Just a safe precaution.

 

[Blizzard]

Pretty sure that's Princess Peach during her brunette days.

With daisy-shaped earrings and a daisy on her dress?

 

[Tak3n]

oh and I mean no offence to anyone

Here in the UK we are always getting told how the one thing you notice when you go to the states is how over weight most of the population is...

well how come these reviewers don't pick on games where 90% are slim people hey?

I never see them moaning that most of the people in game should be fat!

 

[Brian_FETO]

SEGA does what Nintendon't

 

[Uncle Rupee]

But Mario Kart is made by Nintendo, and developed by a predominantly Japanese team. If anything you'd expect there to be Japanese characters in their game. If anything, we should be applauding them for including characters of another race, like Italians, because that is the unexpected thing for them to do.

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

Why are they singling out Mario Kart/Nintendo by the way???

You could find any roster on any system from any company that lacks racial diversity.

 

[Wensih]

 

[Salsa]

pastemagazine (whatever the fuck that is) going for the SCANDAL clicks and succeeding

 

[Amazeballs]

If you count out the babies (who are really just younger versions of existing characters) there's only 6 human representatives.

Edit: 7 human representatives. I'm sure everyone else for about Waluigi too.

 

[Doctor Decimate]

well, counting the baby version of an existing character is certainly one way to beef up that number