The real question is, how old is Thomas Game Docs. I'm actually 400.

@YahyaDustagheer

2 жыл бұрын

Your video was excellent! I appreciate it

@Giorno_Giovanna012

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@miepstrean

2 жыл бұрын

I never would've guessed

@veracious..

2 жыл бұрын

wow!

@Cliffordlonghead

2 жыл бұрын

D a must

Can't believe Mario has over 35 years of experience under his 25 years of life. Truly an inspiration.

@bootortle

2 жыл бұрын

Finally, a good resumé

@calebopossum5023

2 жыл бұрын

And Sonic has 31 years experience under 15 years of his life too.

@pasalasaga

2 жыл бұрын

@@calebopossum5023 Sonic is 16

@calebopossum5023

2 жыл бұрын

I was Close, Mario is older than Sonic in real life and in game canon 😂 confirmed

@michaelcarlton1484

2 жыл бұрын

@@pasalasaga Technically, if you count the games since Generations and the time-skip in Forces, Sonic should be 17.

I like to imagine that each Mario game only takes place like a week apart lol

@-themightymittens-

2 жыл бұрын

Poor Mario just can't catch a break lol

@desperado_Outlaw

2 жыл бұрын

@@-themightymittens- lol, no he can’t

@BenjaMan64

2 жыл бұрын

@@-themightymittens- Well, he does travel a lot and collects a lot of coins per adventure, so it's worth it. If Wario wants money, he should just adventure more like Mario.

@crimsonxvamp

Жыл бұрын

bowser, give the guy a break fr

@creeper_was_here

Жыл бұрын

yea it makes sencse and 4 donkey kong game its been a year

In Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, Baby Mario and Baby Luigi are able to toddle around (and use hammers and fireballs) (12 - 15 months old) while Peach is only capable of crawling (7 - 10 months old), which puts her at slightly younger than the Mario Bros. if you want to be hyper specific.

@mookieyomu7285

2 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the known age for babies to use fireballs.

@KT-rp9tx

2 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the known age to give babies to give babies huge hammers

@URFTBOUND4LIFE

2 жыл бұрын

@@mookieyomu7285 I remember my first attempt at using fireballs.... Good times

@skullerclawerbandicoot7966

2 жыл бұрын

The Pokemon fanbase is cancer

@guy-sl3kr

2 жыл бұрын

I'd say that Mario and Luigi are 2 years+ in that game because they can walk around everywhere without assistance. Not just toddling, but steady and upright walking.

Mario is both middle-aged and 25, it's just that life expectancy in the Mushroom Kingdom is around the early 50s.

@otherrad1240

2 жыл бұрын

This comment may be a bit joke of a joke, but that actually kinda makes sense.

@gregheffley5745

2 жыл бұрын

Actually life expectancy is eternal. That's why Mario never ages, and BTW he's actually 17.

@boghund

2 жыл бұрын

@@otherrad1240 joke of a joke

@Nick-up5wv

Жыл бұрын

Actually I think ORIGINALLY Mario WAS Middle-aged and doesn't age while in the Mushroom Kingdom. If he left he probably would rapidly age and die like a vampire. Now however I think the arcade Mario is Mario and Luigi's father and that's why they're the same age as Peach.

@gregheffley5745

Жыл бұрын

@@Nick-up5wv If Mario did agewhile outside the mushroom kingdom, by the time I beat Mario Odyssey he'd be older than my great grandparents if he started the run at 17.

Now I feel like I didn't achieve anything in my 26 years of life. I didn't saved any princesses or fought against giant turtles with spikes 😂.

@Alan_Marin

2 жыл бұрын

*Nor did I go to college either!*

@Hi-fd4cw

2 жыл бұрын

Baby steps, start out by fighting turtles *without* spikes

@jorgem.9690

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t worry, maybe one day…

@skullerclawerbandicoot7966

2 жыл бұрын

The Pokemon fanbase is cancer

@SuperZacYT

Жыл бұрын

Ok

E. Gadd also corroborates this. In Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time, E. Gadd moves from Thwomp Volcano to Boo Woods in the past - while Mario and Luigi are babies. In Luigi's Mansion, he claims he's been studying the Boo Woods for *twenty years.* Intentional or not, the events in these two games line up perfectly, since this places the "past" segments in Partners in Time twenty years ago, making Mario and Luigi in their twenties.

@montrosen2458

2 жыл бұрын

Cool insight! In Luigi's Mansion though, E Gadd says he's lived in the Boo Woods since he "was a lad of twenty or so", and in the game's end Gadd remarks his ghost research career has spanned sixty years. In PiT, he expresses an interest in ghost research after the Thowmp Volcano eruption.

@larniieplayz6285

2 жыл бұрын

@@montrosen2458 so he’s like so he’s like 80?

@URFTBOUND4LIFE

2 жыл бұрын

Mario and Luigi isn't canon though. In fact, NONE of the Mario spin-offs we're ever canon except the first Yoshi's Island

@No-vy4jp

2 жыл бұрын

@@URFTBOUND4LIFE Then technically Super Smash Bros and the future yoshi island games (since the first one was also under the name Super Mario World 2) also aren't canon, which breaks most of the ages.

@mattwo7

2 жыл бұрын

@@URFTBOUND4LIFE Mario doesn't even _have_ canon. It's all fiction-within-fiction as seen in SMB3 and All-Stars and SMB2 was a dream.

Oh, I see, Mario getting younger over time makes perfect sense. See, in the older Mario games, when he was an old man, he could only do pathetic jumps and nothing else. Nowadays, in games like Odyssey, he's a full on athlete, since he's gotten younger and is now able to do crazy moves like backflips or triple jumps. So Benjamin Button isn't alone with his case after all.

@alpcreative2059

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@StarTheTripleDevil

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe but then he should be like 10 in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.

@StarTheTripleDevil

2 жыл бұрын

Also then Yoshi's Island would be set in the future, not the past.

@jorgem.9690

2 жыл бұрын

True + he looks pretty young also.

I've always liked the theory that 'Jumpman' was Mario's father. It would clear up several discrepancies with ages across the series, specifically concerning mario going from 'middle aged' to '24-25'.

@straightupanarg6226

2 жыл бұрын

That's supposing that there is anything like a canon to the Mario series, an idea Miyamoto literally laughed it.

@seandwalsh3

2 жыл бұрын

@@straightupanarg6226 there is a canon to the series. Miyamoto has never laughed at that idea.

@seandwalsh3

2 жыл бұрын

That theory makes no sense. Mario, according to Miyamoto, was envisioned as being “24-25” at his creation, ie. in Donkey Kong. ‘Jumpman’ and Mario are explicitly the same individual.

@juststatedtheobvious9633

2 жыл бұрын

@@seandwalsh3 Miyamoto called him middle aged in the 80's and referred to him as old man in the 90's. No need to retcon that out of history.

@seandwalsh3

2 жыл бұрын

@@juststatedtheobvious9633 it’s not retconning out anything. According to Miyamoto, Mario was envisioned as being 24/25 at his creation, that was the one detail Miyamoto was sure of about the character. Mario is explicitly the same person as Jumpman, no need to retcon that out of history.

Mario and Thomas sure have achieved a lot at 400yrs of age.

@itsyako9752

2 жыл бұрын

@@abc711d3 I mean, who goes into the comments before finishing the video? You will obviously see spoilers.

@pokepines2516

2 жыл бұрын

@@abc711d3 you're welcome!

@catbird4455

2 жыл бұрын

@@itsyako9752 its the comment at the top you see it when clicking on the video Edit: The person that said this didnt know it would be the top though so he isnt in the wrong

@jacobmorin485

2 жыл бұрын

Hes achieved a lot Just within the two years he was 24 and 25 , besides the games he is a baby, we don’t know what else he did during 22-23 years of life

@GoodVibeWolf

2 жыл бұрын

YOU SPOILED IT. We can see the top comment while watching the vid

I imagined Mario to be 36-37, I can’t believe he’s that young

@BBWahoo

2 жыл бұрын

High testosrone, some kids have deep voices by 13, not surprised Marios stache fully bloomed at 26

@jbsMUWcreations2089

2 жыл бұрын

So do i

@jorgem.9690

2 жыл бұрын

Makes more since if he’s that young since he can jump high.

@skullerclawerbandicoot7966

2 жыл бұрын

The Pokemon fanbase is cancer

@briannawilson8845

2 жыл бұрын

@@BBWahoo I remember reading this Nintendo comic when I was younger where Mario had a fully mustache as a kid. I think it was called "Mario: The Early Years" or something like that.

I really don't think Nintendo is going to ever finalize an age for these characters. They are eternal characters, if they keep selling, they can exist forever without major changes in appearance. I've seen Mario's clothing become more and more realistic though. Like how you can see some stitching together on Mario's overalls, and since smash bros melee, Mario has been wearing Denim (Jeans) like clothing in some of his games. His mustache and hair in Mario Odyssey became far more detailed too. So while Mario will never age, he will become more detailed with each new console generation.

@blackmario1117

2 жыл бұрын

works for Mickey Mouse

@deepmind5318

2 жыл бұрын

@@blackmario1117 yes. But I'm excited to see the Mario universe become more detailed with each new game and generation of consoles. Nintendo sure knows how to optimize their games to look much better than what the console is capable of doing. The sequel to breath of the wild already took large steps in terms of their graphics. I couldn't see any jagged or blurry graphics. Maybe Nintendo is using that new A.i technology that makes games look and run better while looking sharp and good.

@1000-THR

2 жыл бұрын

Even when Mario loses his copyright But then people will make many more fan games But Nintendo will continue making games which are better than all fan games

@rosencvetanov6129

Жыл бұрын

@@1000-THR mario is a trademarked character, he won't lose copyright. ever

@NitroIndigo

Жыл бұрын

Mario becoming uncanny.

That thumbnail is the absolute definition of priceless.

@LuckyFunnyArms

2 жыл бұрын

Ya! Hahahaha!

@Tenjooo

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mario_And_Sonic. stop advertising

@Mario_And_Sonic.

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tenjooo ok happy Easter 🐇

@Eldoofus

2 жыл бұрын

Haha Santa Mario

@BBWahoo

2 жыл бұрын

Daddio

Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time actually came out before Yoshi's Island DS (about a year before). It would imply that Princess Peach is slightly younger than Mario and Luigi, since during the game, the baby brothers can walk, wield hammers, speak simple words and phrases (no full sentences though), while Peach cannot and is still in a stroller.

@ThatOneKaijuFan

Жыл бұрын

According to the super Mario wiki peach is actually in her early 20s

I can't believe I'm older than Mario As a wise man once said: "Mamma mia."

@skullerclawerbandicoot7966

2 жыл бұрын

The Pokemon fanbase is cancer

@dulceylisrangelrivera7691

Жыл бұрын

just beautiful 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@asackboyplush6508

Жыл бұрын

"Wahoo"

@No_more_gelatin404

Жыл бұрын

A wise thing once said "gotta go fast"

5:19 The thing about twins is that one can be older by a few minutes so that would still make mario older

@Nick-up5wv

Жыл бұрын

That's what I've been saying. And as a fitting joke I believe Mario to be "2" minutes older. 😉

@Taekaleaf

Жыл бұрын

I have been thinking the same thing lol

@Kloyster2010

Жыл бұрын

@@Nick-up5wv I don't get it??

@mariajimenafigueroa233

10 ай бұрын

​@@Kloyster2010 Luigi is offen seen as a player 2 character

Mario is forever roughly a 45 year old dude to me, lmao. It makes Mario's inherently goofy nature even funnier to me.

@Headless_Toil2418

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao, this makes him seem even more goofy and weird Mainly because he jumps really high and basically does stuff that would make 45 year olds yell "ow my back"

@MangoesBangoesicup

2 жыл бұрын

never really gave any thought to Mario's age tbh

@greenamogus

2 жыл бұрын

@@Headless_Toil2418 tobey

@Headless_Toil2418

2 жыл бұрын

@@greenamogus what does that mean

@greenamogus

2 жыл бұрын

@@Headless_Toil2418 it’s a reference to tobey maguire in spiderman when he says “my back…. My back”

In _Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door,_ one of the elderly NPCs (who is part of an elderly-people's club called the Silver Club, along with several others) says something along the lines of possibly seeing Mario in the club in another 20 years.

@Shadistar

2 жыл бұрын

that sounds about right, cause that'd be pretty close to when mario would be able to join the club if he's almost 30

@asmr_sabri

2 жыл бұрын

@@Shadistar elderly at 46 💀

@skullerclawerbandicoot7966

2 жыл бұрын

The Pokemon fanbase is cancer

@Shadistar

2 жыл бұрын

@@asmr_sabri thats not 20 years, I said he's almost 30, so 26+20 would be 56, which is really close to elderly age, so the toad wasnt wrong, wasnt precise but close, off by like 5-10 years but eh

@bonzods

2 жыл бұрын

@@Shadistar well if he looks 30 then that's al that matters

The 2023 Super Mario Bros film kinda hinted his age and where he stands at. While the film begins as a prequel to his adventures, Mario and Luigi is actually a young guy around in his 20s that recently graduated from College, but wanted to pursue his own business ventures in plumbing with his brother.

@ianwazowski5607

Жыл бұрын

They also live with their parents but that doesn't mean anything since it's common among italian households to live with their parents

@signaling1245

11 ай бұрын

It Dont got any prequel

I was thinking early 30s, kind of surprised to see they actually stated his age at one point.

@jorgem.9690

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking of him being early 20s.

@coltgun876

Жыл бұрын

Idc what Nintendo says idk wtf they were smoking, but there's NO WAY IN HELL that he's only in his 20's. I choose to believe that hes in his 30's and Bowser is over 10,000 years old.

@Vitallor

Жыл бұрын

@@coltgun876 how does baby bowser work then? It’s not like they age every 1000 years that would make no sense with the timeline plus 26 year olds can have mustaches too nothing else even proves that he’s that old in appearance or voice

@coltgun876

Жыл бұрын

@@Vitallor Mario doesn't look or sound 26 at all. And I know 26 year old people have a mustache like cmon.

I refuse to believe Mario will ever die. If Earth experiences an apocalyptic event and extinction, the next dominant species that eventually replaces Humans will find Mario and embrace him as their deity.

@Ladondorf

2 жыл бұрын

Not true. Mario has died countless times under my control.

@MisticStyles

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ladondorf and has always been resurrected. Hence, future deity.

@KT-rp9tx

2 жыл бұрын

I find it... oddly disturbing, that you are right. Indeed it sounds like some strange religion.

@KT-rp9tx

2 жыл бұрын

(imagine if we create time travel, send someone forward and they find people worshipping Super Mario, out of everything they could've worshipped)

@skullerclawerbandicoot7966

2 жыл бұрын

Can you make the Pokemon fanbase not complete cancer?

To be fair, the "minor Princess Peach rumor" thing has some sort of base. In the Writer's Bible of the "The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3" cartoon by DiC, Princess Peach's biography (or "Toadstool", as she's called there) states this: "Our indomitable royal heroine is definitely no old-fashioned damsel-in-distress, who does little more than wait to be rescued. She's very much a charming, energetic, contemporary young woman. Chronologically, a *seventeen-year-old*, but with a royal sense of responsibility and noblesse oblige that few teenagers possess." Obviously, this refers to DiC!Peach only, not Canon!Peach, but it's kinda shocking that they're somewhat right (pretty sure it's unintentional since I doubt someone actually knows of the existence of that biography).

@ThomasGameDocs

2 жыл бұрын

Oh wow, that's super interesting! Thanks for letting me know - perhaps that's also where the talk of Peach being a teenager online comes from, as you say!

@hyliangames5977

2 жыл бұрын

Sometime around the release of Super Mario Bros it was said Peach is 16 years old if that’s true it means that a 24 year old is dating a 16 year old

@RabbiB0Y

2 жыл бұрын

@@hyliangames5977 Mario and Peach are just friends according to nintendo

@VioletLunaChan

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but the it being Dic-Peach ends this. I would've guessed Peach as around early-mid 20s and Mario in his late 20s-early 30s.

@Sheldon-senpai

2 жыл бұрын

​@@hyliangames5977 Except no one at Nintendo said Peach is 16. The only "official" source claiming Peach as a minor is the biography I posted before, which only works for the DiC cartoons canon, which almost no one knows about. If someone told you Nintendo established Peach as a teenager, they're either lying or using clickbaity videos/articles as their "source" (which, by the way, can't even state her age consistently, since people can't just decide a number between 15, 16 or 17).

I love the fact that Mario and his friends in their mid 20's (except for Bowser and DK because I'm still skeptical of their respective ages and they are freaking species), it teach you to not judge people age based on their appearance alone and I learned that lesson really hard from somewhere else. Who knows when you meet someone with features like they have mustache/beard on their face or taller physique they might be younger than you. That's why I'm rather convinced and stick into "Mario is around 24 or 25 years old" fact despite mix reaction here and there.

@TheWispGuy

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, Bowser was capable of speach in Yoshi's Island, so he's certainly a bit older than Mario. When it comes to Donkey Kong... well, the arcade DK/Cranky tended to get into a lot of mischief. I like to believe that maybe he, his son, and his wife came across a time machine and accidentally activated it, sending them back in time. They decide to settle on DK Island, and at some point around Yoshi's Island 1/DS, current Donkey Kong is delivered to DK Junior.

6:22 Out of all the cutscenes with Peach, why did you choose the one where she's crying and on the verge of death xD

@mariajimenafigueroa233

Жыл бұрын

It's not a cutscene, it's the Japanese commercial of New Super Luigi U

2:06 Miyamoto described Mario as weird!🤣

@userlolcom

2 жыл бұрын

He Is. He can shoot Fire from his hands!

@assshaking

2 жыл бұрын

He eats mushrooms to become taller and stronger

@jorgem.9690

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@elijahlothrop7526

Жыл бұрын

Smg4 doesn't make Mario not just weird, he's STUPID!

I’ve been binging your videos from months and years ago for the past week so it’s pretty cool to be on time for once.

These sets are absolutely incredible! It's insane how far Thomas has come!

Just found your channel yesterday and I love this channel. I, myself haven’t had a Nintendo product for a long time recently got a switch and fell in love with Nintendo once again. I like this Mario lore stuff keep it coming!

Mario’s not old he’s ancient

@eeeeeee9000

2 жыл бұрын

WOW YOU ARE RIGHT

@MoonwalkerWorshiper

2 жыл бұрын

What do you mean?

@skullerclawerbandicoot7966

2 жыл бұрын

The Pokemon fanbase is cancer

I'm almost as old as Mario, wtf.

@HeftyDan

2 жыл бұрын

And how many princesses have you saved? Slacker smh

My guess is that the timeline is simply the other way around. Currently, Mario's first adventures are released where he is younger, more agile and nimble, while on the N64 and NES his later adventures can be experienced where he is older and less agile and nimble.

@ReadilyAvailibleChomper

2 жыл бұрын

Thats what I was thinking.

@ReadilyAvailibleChomper

2 жыл бұрын

What?

@ReadilyAvailibleChomper

2 жыл бұрын

But I was literally thinking that before I saw the comment.

@ReadilyAvailibleChomper

2 жыл бұрын

I admit I can be gullible sometimes, but this is not an example of that.

@Vitallor

Жыл бұрын

not really because donkey kong(arcade) is referenced in odyssey

This made me remember a video i saw a few many years back, apparently it was SwankyBox now that i have looked it up. He calculated Mario's age by adding how long it would take to get hired for as many jobs as Mario had. It's insane how this video got almost as many views in 6 hours than his got in 4 years.

"Is Mario a child?".. lmao, a child with a moustache? xD Edit: 4:48 I stand corrected hahaha

I don’t know about most of the characters being similar ages, especially Wario. I always get the vibe that he’s significantly older like early to mid 30s

@seandwalsh3

2 жыл бұрын

Wario and Mario were always described as childhood friends, so of course they’d be around the same age.

@JamesTDG

2 жыл бұрын

in some scenarios, people can simply just visually age faster than others, and we know with how unhealthy the Wario bros. are that their bodies are going to deteriorate faster.

@supercamborg4218

2 жыл бұрын

@@JamesTDG Wario does do a bit of weightlifting, I mean just look at the size of the dumbbells in Wario Land 4 and the Mario Power Tennis intro. He really doesn’t take care of the rest of his body though.

@gregheffley5745

2 жыл бұрын

Nope, he's eightteen.

@Taekaleaf

Жыл бұрын

@Seandwalsh Well some kids could be friends with kids a bit or a lot younger or older than them,but mostly they have similar ages or only have a 1-2 year age gap

Another worthy character to mention is Yoshi. He's pretty much the youngest of the main cast, as he's seen to be born after them at the end of Yoshi's Island DS.

@JamesTDG

2 жыл бұрын

You kinda have to be hyper-specific, Yoshi can change across the time gap between every game, and we know Yoshis can grow up fast, merely only requiring no more than 1 minute of feeding to have a mature yoshi.

@hectorsumaoang2320

Жыл бұрын

omg then who's the green yoshi who found mario and luigi???

All the other Mario characters: 24-26 years old Rosalina: Over 100 years old

I like the idea of Mario being 25. Mario's first game appearance was in 1981 and Sonic's first game appearance was 1991. Sonic is confirmed to be 15 years old. Since Mario released 10 years before Sonic, I think it would make sense if Mario was 10 years older than Sonic, meaning 25.

I think an even better indicator of Peach's age is *Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time.* In that game, you see Baby Peach being looked after by Toadsworth, who, either has her in a baby carriage, carries her around in his arms, or lets her crawl about on the floor. Unlike Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, or Baby Bowser in that game, she does not seem to be able to walk yet, making her slightly younger than the Bros. All of the characters also seem to be slightly older than in Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's Island DS, as, like I stated above, the Mario Bros. are able to walk, and Baby Bowser speaks in much more coherent sentences than he did in Yoshi's Island. *Yoshi* is also born at the very end of Yoshi's Island DS, being a Star Child as well, making him slightly younger than Peach. Speaking of *Toadsworth;* we also get an official age for him in a newspaper article that exists in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, where he is revealed to be 60 years old.

Interesting documentation as always, great job!

if you want to make both statements canon, you can say that luigi is mario's younger brother... by a few seconds.

Even if Mario gets old, I'll still remember him after all these years!!

8:36 Oh right, I forgot that render existed

Love your vids Thomas, been recommending u to all my friends! Queer-friendly gaming content really nourishes my soul!!

Love the zoom in on Link's description.

keep up your great work!

In Partners in Time, Baby Mario and Baby Luigi could walk, but not Baby Peach, so she’s at least a tiny bit younger, maybe by a few months.

@paulamarina04

2 жыл бұрын

girls generally learn to walk earlier than boys do, so the age gap between them is probably bigger than that

@claudespeed277

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe its because she's a blonde 😂

5:59 Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!

Imagine that. 25 canonical years of constant adventures, with most of them being within single days.

To me, mario looks like he's 25 and 40 at the same time haha.

@vader9860

2 жыл бұрын

I mean Mario first appeared 40 years ago

@sokiimoisanegg9520

2 жыл бұрын

@@vader9860 so I'm technically not wrong...?

@MoonwalkerWorshiper

2 жыл бұрын

Change your eyes. Mario has the body figure of a babified cartoon doll. No real life human being has those proportions. You're just looking at a moustache and go "this character has this age".

@paulgilbert5278

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah take away Mario’s stache and he looks like a kid. Always knew he’d be in his 20s

@MoonwalkerWorshiper

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulgilbert5278 People in their 20s are not kids.

Excellent video 👍🏽 it was perfect

I love how you uploaded this on my birthday

I just wanna know how mario has had all of these adventures in such a short amount of time

@Dado_nastro

2 жыл бұрын

Simple, mario is a speedrunner

@Dan_-

2 жыл бұрын

"You're right, Ferb. It does seem like more than 104 days." -- Phineas

@ericb5328

6 ай бұрын

Each game takes place over the course of a week or so

In Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time (her debut), Baby Peach always seemed a bit younger. She was always in her stroller or had to be carried, as far as I remember, while the other three (the bros and Bowser) could crawl, stand, and walk.

4:44 I love that Mario is about 3 years old here and already has a fully-grown moustache.

@mariajimenafigueroa233

Жыл бұрын

The comic says that Mario was born with a full head of hair and a full face

THANK YOU OMG. I'm so tired of people claiming peach is 16

@IsaacHND

2 жыл бұрын

also it would be kinda illegal if she was 16 😳

@Wonkothenormal

2 жыл бұрын

@@IsaacHND Depends of where you are in this world. In many countries the age of consent is 15 or 16. But anyway would that ever stop rule 34 weirdoes.

@mariajimenafigueroa233

Жыл бұрын

People on the internet keep telling lies to get attention Remember to always do your research

Thomas, something hit me while watching. Would you consider that since Bowser is a reptile, or at least, not the same species as Mario, do you think he ages faster than Mario? Since he is a reptile of some sort, maybe he matures faster than humans, therefore possibly making him younger than Mario despite having increased speech abilities? Great work as always man

It’s a surprise a lot of characters from this franchise is about the same age.

@jorgem.9690

2 жыл бұрын

Same a thought bowser would be way older than Mario.

I have to wonder if the modern Donkey Kong is actually the same age as Mario, or if he's much younger and the Baby DK from Yoshi's Island DS is actually Cranky Kong. It could go either way, really. I kind of wish they'd kept Mario in his mid- to late-30's. His design feels more like a middle-aged man than a guy in his mid-20's. I feel like they only lowered his age to make him seem more youthful and cool, and to make him closer in age to the younger Nintendo audience. That shouldn't matter, though. There are already plenty of teenage and 20's-ish characters (like Link & Samus respectively) in Nintendo's roster to be cool young heroes for their audience. Mario should've just been, like, 37 forever.

@seandwalsh3

2 жыл бұрын

It is the baby modern Donkey Kong in Yoshi’s Island DS. He is there through time travel. Keep in mind that Yoshi’s Island DS is a time travel story, where the future Bowser and Kamek travel back through time, kidnapping babies in search of the seven Star Children.

@maruto0710

2 жыл бұрын

Samus is in her late 20 to possibly her early 30s

@Alan_Marin

2 жыл бұрын

I have a theory that suggests that “Jumpman” was Mario’s father, that would solve all of the middle aged Mario going from “Middle Aged” to “24-25”

@seandwalsh3

2 жыл бұрын

@@Alan_Marin Jumpman is confirmed to be the same person as Mario.

@Teknanam

2 жыл бұрын

The initial designs do, but Mario's later designs have a bit of youth. Also I feel like keeping Mario as a middle aged guy only works if Luigi is a more clearly younger brother than just a younger twin. Because Luigi visually looks younger than Mario and has never had that middle aged look. IMO, since Mario is logically never going to be a character showing off how he's past his physical prime, its fine that he's made a younger man.

Nintendo made Mario younger because it could have been creepy if Mario, a 40 years old plumber always wants the the "cake" from a 22 years old princess.

So here's a neat thing about princess peach's age, at least in the Super Mario Super Show, or more specifically in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3. In the Complete Series box set, it contains bonus features for one of the disks, with one of the sections talking more in depth about the characters. Princess Peach/Toadstool was described as "Chronologically, a 17-year old" in regards to her energetic, tomboyish attitude in the show. I believe this was supposed to be reflective of both her age in the show and the how old the show was at the time of the bonus feature content was recorded (2007) from the show's initial premiere year (1990).

@mariajimenafigueroa233

10 ай бұрын

That makes sinces, especially since Mario never showed any romantic feelings for Peach in any of the cartoons

waluigi being 24-25 years old makes me uncomfortable

@Dado_nastro

2 жыл бұрын

Same, why can't he be 30?

@jbsMUWcreations2089

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dado_nastro or 40?

DK confuses me. I could've sworn there was a statement somewhere, maybe in a Smash Bros trophy or a guide book, that the DK we currently know of, is the descendant of the DK that fought against Mario in the first DK game. Did the baby games just retcon all of that?

@Super_Top_Secret_Area

2 жыл бұрын

That baby DK was probably Cranky Kong indeed. So, current DK's age is still a mystery. However, Yoshi's Island DS was apparently retconned and replaced by Yoshi's New Island, so it's hard to say for sure.

@sebastiantheshadowkong8798

2 жыл бұрын

Yoshi's Island DS is a time travel story where Future Bowser and Future Kamek were trying to kidnap all the babies. So Baby DK was taken from a previous timeline to the same timeline when Mario was a baby.

@aymanaboufarise4346

2 жыл бұрын

@@Super_Top_Secret_Area I thought new yoshis island retconned the first yoshis island

@aymanaboufarise4346

2 жыл бұрын

Cranky Kong is the dk from the arcades, which means current dk is the son of dk junior

@itsalily_lei_lei

2 жыл бұрын

@@Super_Top_Secret_Area Yoshi’s New Island takes place between Yoshi’s Island and Yoshi’s Island DS.

1:40 okay, Marios face is so cursed right there

love your video's, can you turn them into a podcast?

As a small extra, the Yoshi we see following Mario and company everywhere in both the mainline games and spinoffs (with the exception of the Yoshi games themselves) is very likely the same Star Child Yoshi that's born at the end of Yoshi's Island DS, so we can assume he's around a similar age to the rest of the characters albeit younger due to him just being born at the end of the game.

@supercamborg4218

2 жыл бұрын

Also it’s incredibly likely that the Baby DK in Yoshi’s Island DS is the first DK, and not the current one, which is DK the third. Mario was an adult when he battled DK (who grew old and became Cranky Kong) and DK Jr, and DK the third had to have been born after the events of the arcade game DK Jr since DK Jr was still a child when he rescued his father and couldn’t have had a child of his own yet to be the modern Donkey Kong.

i think Weege is 2 years younger then Mario, and that Peach is another year younger, or about the same age, as Luigi. I mean, Peach is definitely slightly younger in Partners in Time. so probably Mario and Wario: 25 Luigi and Waluigi: 23 (before anyone asks, Luigi has the same Birthday as Mario and is his twin but he was just born few years later) Peach: 22-23 Bowser: 26 Edit: realized second i posted it, there are few more characters to tackle here. Daisy: 22-23 (my guess is around same age as Peach) Jr: around 6-12 probably. Koopalings... believe me when i say i used Mario Wiki for that and nothing else really. and yet i'm still guessing. Larry: 16 Morton: 17 Wendy: 17-18 Iggy: 18 Roy: 18-19 Lemmy: 19 Ludwig: 20

im sure someones mentioned this already but peach's age being 16 can actually be traced to the record jacket of the "great mission to rescue princess peach" vinyl soundtrack. inside the jacket are quick blurbs about the characters, including their heights and ages. mario and luigi are also stated to be in their 20s, 25 and 23 respectively. obviously the movie is pretty much retconned at this point but it is interesting to see those ages listed so early on in mario history. there's images of the jacket available on the movie's mariowiki entry :)

@mariajimenafigueroa233

10 ай бұрын

So... Mario was in love with Peach who is a minor in the anime?

Also, I personally think that Bowser Jr. is probably about 6 years old since he can talk, goes to school (because in one of the games he called his dad on the phone to inform that he finished most of his homework), and play the Nintendo Switch fairly well (demonstrated in the Nintendo Switch parental controls ad) so that means his age is at about 6. And the rest of the kooplings too, note that the kooplings are adopted by Bowser and Bowser Jr. is his only son.

One adjustment I would make here is that Peach is likely 2 or 3 years younger than the Mario brothers based on their depictions in Partners in Time. Therein, Peach is still reliant on adults to carry her, whereas the brothers can walk around, fight semi-effectively, and have some very basic speech skills. Granted, the adults in her life might just be spoiling the princess.

@gregheffley5745

2 жыл бұрын

No. She isn't. Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy and Rosalina are all seventeen years old.

2:55 damn, Mario has even more professions that Johnny Sins

It really makes sense because if you take away his moustache, he’s got a baby face.

Your videos are all well-researched

@mariajimenafigueroa233

10 ай бұрын

Yup! Wish I can say the same for Modern Siiroth

Mario is Peter Pan in the Mario Universe. He NEVER ages, no one does. Mario and his friends will be 24 or 25 forever.

@seandwalsh3

2 жыл бұрын

No, they all age. Mario was “24/25” at his debut, but currently he’s around 30.

@GodIAdore

2 жыл бұрын

@@seandwalsh3 You bring up a very good point. But for fun I still call them children that will never age because you get that warm-hearted feeling from these characters.

@Teknanam

2 жыл бұрын

@@seandwalsh3 I've seen you saying this throughout the thread, but where exactly is it confirmed that Mario has actually aged past his 24/25 age? Because I don't think they've ever addressed his age since Miyamoto's interview.

@seandwalsh3

2 жыл бұрын

@@Teknanam Paper Mario: Color Splash, Dr. Luigi, etc. multiple games also mention years passing, which requires Mario ageing past 24/25, which was only stayed to be his age back in Donkey Kong.

@Teknanam

2 жыл бұрын

@@seandwalsh3 And that confirms him to be around 30 how? For all we know, those years could be just 2. Or it could be reference to years since Mario did something before his 24-25 year mark. Or knowing Nintendo and how little they care about continuity making since under scrutiny, they could just make it so time passes, yet the characters remain the same age. Lets be realistic. A corporation like Nintendo is not going to allow their mascot to age into an old man. Just as Capcom got rid of all the Street Fighter birth years to make those it so they never age and Sega forever keeps Sonic at 15 no matter how illogical it comes off with the acknowledgement of years passing in the games, Mario being 24-25 is most likely a hard rule that can't be broken. At least until Miyamoto decides to age him up.

i think the fact we need a ten minute video on figuring this out says we should have someone like Paul Rudd play Mario to further confuse everyone

Years ago, I went to the Nintendo store and they had a talk with Mario event going on. I believe I recall him saying he was 32 at some point. This was around 2012 btw.

what song is playing at 4:40?

I feel bad for anyone who believed 6:56

@ZyNye2011

10 ай бұрын

So do I

I always wondered this, especially considering the starts of Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 both take place at the Star Festival, supposed to happen once every 100 years in lore. So, is there a 100-year gap of time between these games? What happens in between?

@SprunkCovers

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe SMG2 is the last chronological Mario game and he is 125 years old there

@cacawsthelaw

2 жыл бұрын

@@SprunkCovers But he can still beat The Perfect Run...

@morganwheeleryear1123

Жыл бұрын

Rosalina resets the galaxy after the final boss due to the black hole at the end of the game. So the events of Galaxy 1 technically never happened, but Mario still seems to remember the events of that game (hence why he said ‘Welcome new galaxy!’). I see the Galaxy 2 Star Festival as the same one from the first game, but Bowser takes a different approach of taking Peach, and this time no black hole at the end of the game to reset the galaxy. Meaning the events of the second game canon in the main timeline of the series. This is my take on it.

@mariajimenafigueroa233

10 ай бұрын

​​@@cacawsthelaw Your comment brings the big question: How old is Rosalina?

In Mario vs Wario Issue 1 from Nintendo Power 44, Wario mentions that he's hated Mario for 20 years and it shows a flashback where they're both depicted to be about 5 or 6 so oddly enough it lines up perfectly with everything else.

3:55 favourite and colour are both spelled the correct Canadian way with a “u”

5:53 ummm...... Mario and Luigi don't talk in a lot of their games as adults, so....

Regardless of the age difference mario, Luigi and peach have to be somewhat similar age

@Fluffyshot1997

2 жыл бұрын

Mario is 41 years and peach is 18 so...

@NoGoodNameHelpPLZ

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fluffyshot1997 have you watched the video

@NoGoodNameHelpPLZ

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fluffyshot1997 he literally went over why people think mario is 41 and peach is 17

@KevX36

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fluffyshot1997 also in yoshi's iland ds and partner's in time(beforethe time travelling)we see baby mario and baby peach

@Teknanam

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fluffyshot1997 Comments like this are why you should watch the video before saying anything.

If I remember right, in the games files for Luigi’s Mansion, there’s an unused ghost file for Luigi’s in the Gameboy Horror, and shows his age as 26

I love the videos Bro. I’ve been a huge fan for a while. But I’ve always wondered what happened to the black mask shy guys. I think it might be a good mystery for you to solve

Luigi is younger! In mario maker 2 he says the phrase "big bro" when referring to mario

@foodham3277

2 жыл бұрын

Twins can be younger and older as they don't pop out at the same time, Mario must of been born a bit before Luigi to be the older brother

@Platinum0615

2 жыл бұрын

He's a younger twin

@Rumplestiltzchen

2 жыл бұрын

@@foodham3277 valid! Didn't think about that

@princenobody5595

2 жыл бұрын

@@Rumplestiltzchen 🤨

2:20 the most broken smash game out there

1:41 It's also an affectionate term that loosely translates to "uncle". A fact that subtitles use completely wrong sometimes.

Answers to questions I never knew I had

Everyone thinks of Mario age 41 : his life since 1981 24 : Miyamoto thinks 26: Nintendo thinks

The DK in Yoshi's Island DS is actually Cranky Kong, not modern day DK, DK III. Modern day DK is pretty young in his debut in Donkey Kong Country 1, due to DK Jr not maturing until Super Mario Kart.

@supercamborg4218

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly

Good video! Can you do one where you tell us why Jessie and James don’t sound like they used to?

That's interesting, but it makes you wonder how the timeline lines up with Donkey Kong. My understanding is that the original DK is the current Cranky Kong, so him facing off against Mario doesn't add up, unless it's a different Mario.

Bro giving me flash backs to matpats ash age video

Sonic is basically aging with his game releases

@Sheldon-senpai

2 жыл бұрын

Except he hasn't aged at all. Sonic's age has been consistently stated as 15 since the first Sonic Adventure. Just don't ask how everything between Adventure and Generations happened only in one year, that would make your brain explode. This changes in, as I said before, Sonic Generations, where he celebrates his birthday, meaning he'll turn 16, right? Wrong, the Sonic Channel still claims he's 15 for some reason. And that's from 2015, which is 4 years later since the release of the game, meaning they had the time to correct that. To put things worse, at the start of Sonic Forces (some time after Generations and Lost World, mind you) Dr. Eggman conquers the world in 6 months. Knowing that Sonic should be 16, shouldn't he be around 17 (give or take a month)? Again, current-day sources say he's 15 to this day. So, yeah, Sonic's age is just as messy as Mario's.

@CallmehCat.

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sheldon-senpai oh well rip

@StarTheTripleDevil

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sheldon-senpai Yeah, it's a plot hole that he has a birthday in Generations and is 15 both before and after it. Unless... maybe in Sonic's world, people "age" on New Year's Day instead of their birthdays (kind of like Korean ages). So this way, Sonic's birthday is on June 23rd (which is his official birthday), then the 6 months in Forces are from late June to late December (or maybe even mid-December if the 6 months was rounded down). But still, that doesn't leave time for much to happen after Forces with Sonic still being 15.

@Sheldon-senpai

2 жыл бұрын

@@StarTheTripleDevil While that being a fun trivia, I highly doubt they age (I think you mean "legally") like that, knowing it's made by Japanese (which don't really have the best relationship with Korea, no matter which one of the two) trying to be as Western as possible. Also, it's six months between the start and the rest of Sonic Forces, let's not forget we still have to count Lost World and Forces after Rookie and Classic's recruitment, meaning it's way more than 6 months, hence my comment of Sonic being around 17.

1:55 At the 80s, the median and the mean age at Japan was lower than nowadays. Perhaps The term "Middle aged guy" was perceived to be more younger back then. Just like in my place where the mean age is still relatively low and we sometimes considered 30ish as middle age. Let alone for places like Sub Saharan Africa, where 30 ish is double the mean.

When 64 was released Miyamoto described Mario as "an old man doing acrobatics"

Mario... the Johnny Sins of the gaming industry. Or is it Johnny Sins the Mario of adult industry?

@daddabubbaj

2 жыл бұрын

*Ron Jeremy*

Mario is 28. That is my head cannon. He is old enough that he definitely isn’t a kid, and he is old enough that he works a skilled trade and and is good enough to run his own business with his older brother, Luigi. But he isn’t so old that I would call him “middle aged”. Some kids might call him a boomer, but if we’re a real person in 2022, he would remember Rugrats and Hey Arnold! As being favorite childhood cartoons.

@madnessarcade7447

2 жыл бұрын

He’s 25

@seandwalsh3

2 жыл бұрын

Recent games indicate that he’s 30. He was 24-25 at his debut, the games take place over the course of a few years, so he has aged.

@jeshuarestituyo284

2 жыл бұрын

@@seandwalsh3 no no recent games have said he’s 30, he was stated to be 24 or his early 20s

@TheAlmightyWizardToad

2 жыл бұрын

@@seandwalsh3 The only game I remember calling him 30 was Paper Mario Color Splash. Which was more of an off-hand comment in reference to the age of the series itself rather than Mario's actual age.

@seandwalsh3

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheAlmightyWizardToad the age of the series was 35 when Paper Mario: Color Splash released, so saying Mario was 30 in reference to the series wouldn’t make sense.

That would place the DK arcade 20ish years after the mainline Mario series. Perhaps Mario and DK had a falling out and became enemies.

Interestingly, the Saturday Supercade animated series depicted Mario and Pauline as teenagers or young adults back in the 80s, in their shorts based on the Donkey Kong arcade game.