User blog comment:Master General Guy1/WHY PAPER MARIO IS MARIO: A very crap analysis by Master General Guy1/@comment-26385028-20170314021238

You may not be able to use the Mario has no canon argument to help say that Mario and Paper Mario are the same people, but you could probably use it for Super Mario Kun. (Which does not actually use "Paper Mario" for it's PM Story-arcs but instead Mario found from every other installment in the long-running comics series.) Super Mario Kun has retold the first 3 Paper Mario games but not the later ones. (SS, PJ, CS) Super Mario Kun Mario could actually have all the same feats Paper Mario has since the same events from the Paper Mario Games all happen in Super Mario Kun. The problem is, the comics can actually differ a lot from the actual games and not everything about them is known to us outside of Japan. For all we know, Dimentio could have simply just said he was gonna throw an evil Tea Party in every dimension rather then destroy them.

I am certainly not going to go digging through the internet to see if major things in the comics are changed from what happens in the games. If you were to use this "Paper Mario Kun" with normal Mario, you could be making a lot of assumptions (Unless you find some scans or copies of the comics with evidence to prove what you're using from them...and learn Japanese....or find a translation), but then again, there really isn't any argument against using him unlike Paper Mario.

tl;dr: If ya can't use Paper Mario with normal Mario, you could use Super Mario Kun who could possibly have his feats but maybe not his exact feats found in the PM games, but it's much less argued upon to use him rather than Paper Mario