User blog comment:Ganime/Mario vs. Sonic- REMATCH/@comment-26374068-20150803185444/@comment-26418719-20160526172230

@Cwilli15 Mario Galaxy is a humongous outlier anyway. It doesn't matter whether they were protected by Rosalina or not (Although they totally were), it still doesn't dictate Mario's usual levels of power, which are much lower than what Mario Galaxy makes them out to be. Bowser and Mario were amped. If we take into account Mario Galaxy, we'd have to take into account the Archie Comics, which ruins any and ALL versions of Mario, including Paper Mario w/Pure Hearts.

Going by your logic 'Aero Chasers outrun Sonic, so he's not FTL', in that case, Mario isn't even street level because he gets killed by GOOMBAS, and Toads can knock him over by punching him. We use FEATS wherever possible. And ONLY if there's nothing else to go off of do we use gameplay mechanics (LOOKING EXPLICITLY AT THE GOLDEN TANOOKI). Star Rod doesn't matter, Mario's never used the damn thing. It's not a part of his Arsenal. And it evidently IS limited, as the Star Spirits can nullify it. You're making all the obvious Mario fanboy arguments, which I have debunked thousands of times over.