[alt text: a photo of a statue of Mario in the process of sliding down a flagpole, as he commonly does at the end of Mario levels. The statue is placed in the video game section of a a supermarket. In front of the statue, there are multiple human hands holding up wads of US dollar bills towards Mario.]
You never know with Nintendo. Don’t forget that Mario lives in a world where humans look like this:
So then…what is Mario?