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After all these years, Nintendo finally showed us Mario’s nipples

Wa-hoo!

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Jay Hathaway

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Nintendo released a preview this week of its upcoming Mario game for the Switch console, Super Mario Odyssey. Odyssey brings many revelations about Mario, including that the beloved Italian plumber is no longer a plumber and, more importantly, that his nipples look like this:

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In his 35-plus years of existence, Mario has never been seen without a shirt, and people are freaking the heck out at his little pixelated nipples. Tweet after disbelieving tweet asked, “Whoa, Nintendo, what’re you doing?”

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https://twitter.com/radiatoryang/status/908103126493941761

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2017: The year we body-shamed Super Mario.

Some, however, felt Nintendo hadn’t gone far enough with topless Mario. They want to see his… uhh… “power-up mushroom.”

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Others were more sensible: Wouldn’t it be unusual for Mario, a fictional human being, *not* to have nipples? Maybe this is progress for Nintendo.

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Important questions still remained unanswered. Mario’s nipples are free on Twitter and on the Nintendo Switch, but will they violate Instagram’s infamous anti-nipple policies?

https://twitter.com/McKelvie/status/908106466225213440

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Furthermore, where are LINK’S nipples? Isn’t the hero of Hyrule human, or at least humanoid?

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Anyway, everything that needs to be said about Mario’s nipples has been said, and we’re all done talking about them.

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It was fun while it lasted, though.

 
The Daily Dot