MARIO

MARIO:
The family spirit

Mario inaugurated, twenty years ago, the plays of “platform” and action, in which a character must traverse labyrinths by collecting magic tools. But how this Italian plumber man with a moustache and fatty, prototype of the anti-hero, did become a star world? With a brother-in-law (Luigi), a beloved (the Pauline princess) and a twin malefic (Warrio), it incarnates the family spirit. He is also the “natural” father of all the characters of plays of action. The children are not identified with him, but rather see it like an accessory grandpa. In addition, it evolves/moves in the typical universe of the tales, like “Alice with the country of the wonders”: to pass from a world (a level of play) to the other, Mario must sometimes cross a mirror. Of universe where all is allowed the children like particularly this kind.