User blog comment:Master General Guy1/WHY PAPER MARIO IS MARIO: A very crap analysis by Master General Guy1/@comment-31259708-20170109180840/@comment-26036704-20170320203933

" Exactly. And you know what pretty much the only thing that proves Paper Mario isn't mario is?  An inconsistency."

No an ENTIER game showing them as 2 diffrent people (Paper jam)

plus differing stories never refrenced in the other canon (ie reguler and paper)

the fact that paper mario Can shapeshift (See thousand year door's curses)

and paper/2d elements of paper mario being entier game play featers.

Or in otherwords

Paper mario has naturally Diffrent abilities then Reguler mario.

"And, like I said, people still consider Dry Bowser to be Bowser DESPITE being confirmed to be a relative by Bowser himself,"

Because it's also been confirmed Multiple times to be the same person WE see Bowser change into dry bowser In Game

"so why should it be any diffrent for MArio and Paper Mario??"

Because it is a compleatly diffrent situation

Dry bowser and bowser exist in the same universe

We have seen Bowser transform into dry bowser multiple times.

have more than just hints but visual in game evidince they are the same.

the same can not however be said for mario and paper mario