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Or maybe you just really like the color pink.
Either way, we gathered Vultures gamers to fight over the best playable Mario character.
Luigi
Luigi is the most important character in the Mario franchise, full stop.
But thats also what makes Luigi infinitely more relatable than Mario.
(Because, what the heck, he can go inside of the eggs he lays?!)
As a self-identified silly person too, Im picking Yoshi any day light blue if possible.
Justin Curto
Pink Gold Peach
Much like computer code, theMariofranchise is written in binaries.
The characters exist as a series of shadows and reflections, built out of pairs of opposites.
At the lunatic fringe of the playable Mario character realm lies my personal favorite: Pink Gold Peach.
and becauseMario Kart 8wanted another heavyweight driver.
glamourin the way she flicks her wrist open in her sports car.
Jackson McHenry
Daisy
Princess Daisy is not like other girls.
Well, other girl.
Princess Daisy does it for those of us who shopped in the blue-and-green section of Limited Too.
Thats the kind of representation we need in Super Mario leadership.
A woman of the Koopas.
Zoe Haylock
Monty Mole
We need more Monty Mole stans in this Super Mario world.
Its also hilarious when hes patting his lil tummy.
Can Luigi do that?!
Should Monty Mole get his own spinoff?
But here I would like to focus on his smallness.
Next to the Goomba, Toad is often represented as the smallest character in the Mario universe.
His head comes up to Marios chest.
His compact stoutness deeply informs his cuteness.
Thus, he further speaks to me with his spatial relation to the world.
I like the safety of small spaces.
I am wary of tall people.
I havea Napoleonic complex.
What resonates about Toad is his promise of expediency.
With my lightness, I will turn a tighter corner.
With my smallness, I will slip through the crack between Bowser and Luigi.
With Toad, I am the wind.
And when King Boo and Petey Piranha link up?
Move out the way.
I like to think that even Bowser bows down to him when King Boos in big red diamond-crown mode.
Also its spooky season so like show this literal ghost royalty some extra respect.
Dee Lockett
Bowser Jr.
I mean, look at him!
Unlikethe internets favorite sadboy, however, Bowser Jr. doesnt drown himself in the pressure.
The fact that its all in service of making his father proud?
Bowser Jr. is the Mario franchises very own babygirl.
Emily Palmer Heller
Toadette
Very few Mario characters seem like theyre having fun.
Mario is too boring to betrulyexcited.
Luigis got his inferiority thing going on.
Peach is too regal.
(Daisy, admittedly, can party.
Shes the Mario character I think could drink me under the table.)
Toad feels constrained by his sense of duty.
Toadette, meanwhile, is just out there having a good time!
Toadette is the cool girl ofKartcharacters.
No pressure, only fun vibes.
James Grebey
Tanooki Mario
He says TANOOKI!
Kathryn VanArendonk
