Immediately after Nintendo wrapped up its 40-minute Direct presentation with a look at the upcoming side-scroller Super Mario Bros. Wonder, fans across the internet have been posting about how much they love the mustachioed plumber’s new form that turns him into a giant elephant man.
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Launching on Nintendo Switch on October 20, Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the latest 2D side-scrolling adventure for the overall-wearing jumpman. Showing Mario and the crew stomping Goombas and grinding rails, the game features familiar game mechanics for the old-school line of games, except with new consumable power-ups, like the Wonder Flower that unleashes the whimsy of the game’s world by bringing things like blocks and pipes to life. But the one new item that has captured the internet’s attention is a little tomato-looking power-up that resembles an elephant’s face. Once Mario gobbles it up, he metamorphoses into a red-shirted mastodon that’ll totally fuck enemies up. It’s a total 180 from Mario’s days as a cat.
It’s this Elephant Mario that the internet is in love with. While Twitter user RubberNinja said they felt “uncomfortable” seeing Mario transform into an elephant, specifically because the “porn is gonna be so fucking weird,” the rest of Twitter is memeing the ironic Nintendo character’s new look. There’s art that folks managed to whip together faster than I could type this blog, like Elephant Mario with his dick out and comic strips of Luigi calling the form “unsurprising.” But mostly, people are riffing off of how silly and unexpected elephant Mario is. And some in the trailer’s comments are dying to see other characters, like Daisy and Peach, turn into a tusker, too.
Super Mario Wonder (2023) pic.twitter.com/M5B2luKCO5
— Ultima📛 | #вʟм (@UltimaShadowX) June 21, 2023
I FUCKING LOVE THE NEW SUPER MARIO FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/2ZWVCe0x7E
— cappuccino (@TheCappuccino04) June 21, 2023
This is the new Mario power up pic.twitter.com/Xn2IcQtWVo
— The Primordial Beast (@VVBoiledXtreme) June 21, 2023
The Virgin Bowser vs the Chad Mario pic.twitter.com/v5WToL3DG4
— Colin (@IntroSpecktive) June 21, 2023
https://twitter.com/a/status/1671533376015138816
MARIO ELEPHANT💖✨#NintendoDirect #Mario pic.twitter.com/De2cTB5JIP
— ✨BENNY.exe✨ (@BennyCartoonist) June 21, 2023
This might’ve peak fiction pic.twitter.com/l3JfCEApXz
— No Context Super Mario (@SuperMarioOOC85) June 21, 2023
Immediately ran to see Vinny Vinesauce’s reaction to Elephant Mario and was not dissapointed. pic.twitter.com/kh2VNu07rO
— Ultima📛 | #вʟм (@UltimaShadowX) June 21, 2023
I can understand why folks are enamoured by Elephant Mario. It’s one of his first new forms since maybe Cat Mario in Super Mario 3D World. Of course the internet would lose it shit seeing Mario become a Giga Chad that folks online say is built like Family Guy’s Peter Griffin. And the way Elephant Mario yeeted that sleeping Goomba in the trailer is priceless. I cackled. But Super Mario Bros. Wonder wasn’t the only Mario game Nintendo revealed.
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There’s an untitled Princess Peach game coming to Nintendo Switch, a remaster of the 3DS game Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, some new DLC for both Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, and a remake of the beloved SNES classic Super Mario RPG, which hits Nintendo Switch on November 17. Mario fans will continue eating pretty good after the official movie broke records.
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