User blog:Master General Guy1/WHY PAPER MARIO IS MARIO: A very crap analysis by Master General Guy1

'''You can guess already from the tile, so I won’t waste too much time on the intro. Basically, it’s an explanation on why Paper Mario and Mario are the same guy, in spite of what Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam  may suggest. Now, I know what you're thinking:"General, you mental as SHIT", but plz, before ranting in the comments, lease read at least half of my legitamatley cancer-inducing article. Not much else to say, so let’s jump right in. '''

'''So yeah, Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam apparently proves they’re separate, riiiight?? '''

'''Except, NOOOPE!!!! '''

'''It’s sad how people will take anything at face value…. One thing to consider is, HOW did Paper Mario enter the Mushroom Kingdom? Via a book. And where does the entirety of Super Mario Galaxy 2 take place? A book, as shown in the true ending (where Rosalina finishes the storybook). This supports the idea that the Paper Mario games are stories based on some of Mario’s adventures we never saw. '''

'''So yeah, I’ve pretty much debunked all the evidence that they’re separate with that one statement alone-c’mon, do I REALLY have to continue? ...Well, fine, there are some diehard Mario downplayers, so I'll just overkill this. '''

'''With Paper Jam not proving they’re separate in the slightest, the only evidence that they’re separate comes from the commercial. And the game overrides the commercial. Always. '''

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">'''<span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">But even if we WERE to use commercials, then Paper Mario Sticker Star’s commercial counters the Paper Jam one. What happens in it? Oh, nothing much, except for <span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">MARIO TURNING INTO PAPER MARIO IN FRONT OF OUR OWN EYES!!!! <span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> Yeah. And this is further supported by the back of Paper Mario, the Thousand Year-Door’s case, which flat out states, and I quote this DIRECTLY, "Get ready for a two-dimensional role-playing game for the ages as <span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Mario returns to paper form <span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">to discover a mystery that sleeps behind an ancient, legendary portal called the Thousand-Year Door." '''

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">'''<span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Also, Nintendo and Intelligent Systems were in kahoots while making Paper Mario, so yeah, I don’t need much more proof that they are the same person when Nintendo, THE CREATOR OF MARIO, assisted the creation and signed another company to use the name Mario. And plus, in a 2012 interview with not just any major nintendo worker, but Shigeru Miyamoto HIMSELF (the man who created the character and whole concept of Mario), indirectly confirmed that the Mario series has literally no canon or non-canon to speak of. He stated the Mario gang was a “troupe of actors capable of adopting any role that they please.” '''

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">'''<span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Yeah, don’t get anymore legit than DIRECT CONFIRMATION FROM THE CREATORS. But there’s still moar left, so… AWAY WE GO!!! '''

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">'''<span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">This isn’t the first time Nintendo’s pulled this bullshit. Take Bowser and Dry Bowser. Nearly undeniable that they’re the same guy (I mean, seriously, how is Bowser outright melting into Dry Bowser in New Super Mario Bros DS not proof enough). '''

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">'''<span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">And now, prepare for a total shock! In Mario Party Island Tour, Bowser states that Dry Bowser’s his cousin (or something along those lines). Which is intensely contradictory (I mean, Bowser turned into Dry Bowser IN FRONT OF OUR FUCKING EYES),but when you get down to it, this may just be what Nintendo does best; make no sense at all. (There are more examples, like the whole Baby character shtick in the Mario sports games, but I’d be here all day if I listed each and every single one) This is why it’s such a great company; they don’t give a fucking damn if they make 0 sense. They use contradictions to their advantage to make great games, and this is the very nature of Super Mario Bros. '''

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">(This also debunks the crap argument of Mario and Paper Mario being separate for the fact that “lul they apeared on screen at the same time”. As if that matters by this point.) 

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">'''<span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">And lastly,if you somehow still fucking believe that they are different people, well, I’m sure that would be news to the big cheeses behind Death Battle themselves: Ben and Chad. They used some Paper Mario feats for Luigi when he fought Tails, and here, I’ll quote: '''

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">'''<span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">"Wiz: Even without it, <span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Luigi has defeated <span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Dimentio<span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">, <span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> discovered the <span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Grand Final Galaxy<span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">, raised a ravenous man-eating dinosaur, and even rescued Mario from certain doom on three separate occasions. The Green Thunder can pretty much do it all." '''

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">'''<span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">So in the end, a final comparison to bring thing home.. '''

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">PROOF MARIO ISN’T PAPER MARIO 

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">-Paper Jam’s commercial (Which even then, was only a hint) 

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">PROOF MARIO IS PAPER MARIO 

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">-Official Confirmation from Miyamoto himself 

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">-Sticker Star commercial 

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">-The case of Thousand Year Door 

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">-The nature of Super Mario Bros in general 

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">-The examples of Dry Bowser and Bowser’s relationship 

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">-Ben and Chad themselves’ occasional usage of Paper Mario feats 

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">'''<span style="font-size:18.666666666666664px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">And that’s pretty much it. Ciao! If you've made it this far, congrats on losing some brain cells. You're welcome! '''

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