You may remember that PETA created Super Tofu Boy, a pointless response to Super Meat Boy — a game that wasn’t encouraging a single person to eat more or less meat. Now, I’m embarrassed to give further coverage to Mario Kills Tanooki — a response, I’m assuming, to Super Mario 3D Land. Apparently by allowing players to use a Tanooki suit, Mario is sending the message that it’s okay to wear fur.
According to PETA…
Tanooki may be just a “suit” in Mario games, but in real life, tanuki are raccoon dogs who are skinned alive for their fur. By wearing Tanooki, Mario is sending the message that it’s OK to wear fur. Play Super Tanooki Skin 2D and help Tanooki reclaim his fur!
In no shape or form do I condone wearing fur, but I think PETA has to make a little bit more sense when choosing what to skewer. Mario? Seriously? Mario wearing a Tanooki suit encourages the message that it’s okay to wear fur? What world are these people living in!
Anyway, this game focuses around the Tanooki getting his fur back from Mario, and is a one-button, derivative flash game. I can’t help but find the whole thing a little silly.
Mario Kills Tanooki [PETA]
ShiggyNinty
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 9:17 AMMan this makes me so angry that I’m going to skin the next 100 animals I see. Then eat as much meat as I can.
Charles
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 5:56 PMAs much as I see what you’re saying, that is a really stupid response. Too much meat will make your bowel movements irregular!
Lord Crumplebottom
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 9:23 AMWhy do we even continue to pay attention to these attention seeking, hypocritical idiots?
PETA kills more animals than it saves.
Trjn
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 9:24 AMPETA has exactly one good thing going for them, their batshit insanity is normally good for a chuckle.
Braaains
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 9:25 AMI wish media outlets would stop giving PETA coverage as if they were actually relevant to anybody or anything.
McNulty
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 9:27 AMOh god, not PETA again. *gets out deodorant spray*
Pioneer
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 9:30 AMEvery time PETA attacks something for not being in line with their views I make a point to eat twice as much meat that day.
Chazz
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 9:46 AMGood idea. STEAK NIGHT!
WiseHacker
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:00 AM*Fires up a BBQ 15 feet wide and pile 60 kilos of hamburgers, sausage, bacon and onions.*
Killer burgers anyone?
Seegrey
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:46 AMNo thanks, I think I’ll eat mine alive, since killing is wrong.
Vergas
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 11:37 AMI like the way you think.
ripperhugme
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 9:34 AMSo let me get this straight… They don’t kick up a stink about Red Dead Redemption in which you actually skin animals and pick the one game where the is no implication of skinning in anyway?
IphStich
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 9:39 AM+1
PETA are ef-ing nuts.
Hiero
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 9:42 AMTo be fair, Mario is aimed at little kids who are easily impressionable and are more likely to take after a video game character, and often connect invisible dots with their child logic, compared to grown men who are aware of worldly issues and is capable of calculated reason.
Still, PETA are being dicks here, no doubt.
shodannet
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 9:56 AMEven still, Im not sure a child would look at a racoon and go “I want to wear him so I can flyyyyy~!!”.
Especially when the racoon gets defensive :S
thxultra
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 9:58 AMA child wouldnt even come to that conclusion – unless an adult put the idea in their head in the first place!
Stevorooni
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:15 AMI guess all the people who played Super Mario Bros 3 in its many incarnations over the last 20 years are screwed then. Must..wear…fur….MUST…WEAR…FUR
Braaains
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:29 AMWhile on the subject, though, is Mario’s Tanooki suit actually made out of Tanooki fur? Or is it just a suit that LOOKS like a Tanooki but is, in fact, made out of some kind of vegetable or synthetic material? Quick, somebody check the label inside the collar!
WiseHacker
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:32 AMWho cares? It’s a game – a separation from reality.
What are you going to suggest next? That we see what variety of spinach has the same effect on us as Popeye?
ripperhugme
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:43 AMPETA have no proof that suit isn’t made with synthetic fur!
Wonko
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:42 AMThe only fur I like is that on a beaver ^^
Ozoneocean
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 9:05 PMThat’s not the reason man. The people Mario 3 were aimed at originally have long ago grown up into “grown worldly men”.
The reason PETA have pretended to care about this game because it was easy enough to make their own little cheap knock-off parody version in order to get press attention.
Licketty Split
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:22 AMwhat about the fact that you jump on and kill tortoises, fish, plants and whatever the hell those little brown things are (moles?)
Douglas
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:32 AMI’d assume that it’s because they think Mario is a significantly easier target, one much more likely to get attention because your average uninformed individual is more likely to be able to recognise Mario than RDR; additionally, I’m sure PETA’s “audience” would merely see RDR as just another of those “evil Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000 games” that such illustrious outlets as Fox News are always condemning and warning them about. To a complete moron (read: PETA’s “audience”), a title like Red Dead Redemption probably does sound the part. Additionally, Mario has extra recognition as a bright, happy child-friendly gaming experience, so really what it comes down to is THINK OF THE CHILDREN.
buckE182
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 9:40 AMIs it possible PETA is more out of touch than the ACL????
Freeze S. Preston Icequire
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:34 AMconsidering the ACL were recently claiming that even the gay community was against gay marriage, I doubt it.
Jiff
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 11:52 AMhaha
Oh, ACL…
GentlemanJ
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 9:41 AMJust ignore them, there are many, many more organisations that actually don’t waste their time and money on such things and actually help animals. I don’t think the animals themselves even want to be associated with PETA.
Dean
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 9:53 AMPETA is the wesboro baptist approach of animal rights.
Pat
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 9:58 AMHow many PETA members does it take to change a lightbulb?
None. They can’t change anything.
elhombre
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:18 AMHahahahaha
+1
Thermal Ions
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:49 PMI don’t know, they change my habit of not looking at women/fashion magazines when they have those covers where celebs are supporting “The Cause”. But then, it’s not normally “The Cause” that’s on my mind at that point ;-0
redartifice
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:01 AMPETA are the worst. Just the worst. The luantics are definitely running the asylum there.
Powalen
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:03 AMI’ll resist the urge to throw red paint all over my 3DS when playing.
Ruen
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:07 AMPETA must be feeling they’re losing relevance (not that they had any to begin with) Two retarded PETA stories within a week. . .
Once again my response has not changed since the last story
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa7/Spleener12/Reaction%20pics/1257443836328.jpg
Bigtones
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:07 AMMeat is Murder…….tasty, tasty Murder
Jiff
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 11:53 AMMankind for Ethical Animal Treatment
Lucifer9783
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:09 AMDid PETA even research what a Tanuki even is, it’s a freaking mythical creature
El Phantasmogoro
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:35 AMThen tell them to stop mythically trying to eat my garbage every Tuesday night!
Tanuki are as real as you or me.
Well, as real as me. You could be a tanuki for all I know.
Lord Crumplebottom
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:43 AMhahahahaha
I needed that.
Ynefel
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:14 AMIf we’re not supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?
Jiff
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:20 AMhahahahaha
Dave
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:14 AMIt’s a suit to make you LOOK like a tanooki. Not a suit made FROM a tanooki. FFS. PETA are now laughable and irrelevant in my books.
Bish
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:21 AMOnly just now?
elhombre
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:17 AMFor every animal PETA don’t eat i’ll eat two.
Todd
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:26 AMGuess it’s time to censor our history books too.
The fact we eat and used to eat other animals throughout our entire history means we should censor our history books so not to affect the current generation.
/sarcasm
Jiff
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:27 AMBy accusing a completely fictional character of wearing fur for fashion, PETA is sending the message that it’s OK to be completely delusional
WiseHacker
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:33 AMToo late – the ACL proved that years ago.
TvZ
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:28 AMWell done Mario! you are ridding the world of raccoons. Soon there will be no need for a raccoon city and no zombies. Though I will miss the skimpy clothed super hero girl shooting them. Now go and jump on all the turtles you can find so we don’t need TMNT and after that eat all of them shrooms to rid the world of the evil that is drugs!!! just bag a few for me as well please ;)
http://thethumper.info/?p=711
BasilF
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:31 AMDon’t mention Red Dead Redemption. I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it.
mchaza
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:40 AMwho worst
ACL or PETA
I can decide, they are both very annoying and have no idea what they are talking about.
Martin
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:43 AMWhat? No mention that the fire flower is teaching children to worship petro-chemical companies and pollute the world? Mario teaches children to eat mushrooms yet no accolades? Get your priorities right PETA