User blog:The RPG Gamer/Why Mario Is NOT Mental Part 1

Many people have been trash-talking Mario calling him a sociopath and a murderer and saying he has ASPD because of MatPat's two-parter video Mario is Mental but all of that is false. This video has ruined many childhoods and many people have taken this theory as fact. I know Mario is not mental and I have evidence. Two YouTubers called Dafawfulizer and MetalBlade5 did responses to this awful theory but Dafawfulizer got a lot of dislikes which I don't know why as his evidence was excellent. I am going to be using some of their points as evidence as well.

Mario abuses DK
To start off we go all the way back to Donkey Kong stating that Mario is an animal abuser for forcing him to partake in a circus and caging him. Okay, this part has actually recently been debunked by MatPat himself as he now believes that Jumpman is Mario's father and not actual Mario. Anyway during the circus thing, he claims that Mario runs the circus but where's your proof? It is never mentioned that Mario owns circus he could be a member of the audience for all we know. Also in Donkey Kong Jr., he claims that Mario kidnaps DK (Cranky Kong rather) as revenge for kidnapping Pauline and forces Donkey Kong Jr. to "cheat death" and save his father. Did you even check the storyline for DK Jr., Mario is taking Donkey Kong back to the wild. He's the good guy here and he isn't forcing DK Jr., to do anything Donkey Kong Jr. just wants to stop him from taking his Dad away. Then there's the part where he tries to electrocute Donkey Kong Jr., here Mario has more than likely been pushed into a situation where he needs to electrocute DK Jr. to stop him from freeing DK.

How he kills Wigglers and Cheep Cheeps
They may not be trying to hurt Mario but they are part of Bowser's Army. To start off in Super Mario 64/DS, Mario had no way of knowing a Wiggler was living there and that he was ruining his home (unless you have Mario look up (if you choose to go inside the cave before the Wiggler mission) when he's in the Wiggler's house which is entirely optional). And in Super Mario Sunshine, the Wiggler was stopping the birth of the Legendary Sand Bird by sleeping on the tower preventing sunlight from getting to the egg so Mario had to get rid of the Wiggler to save an unborn bird. Also, in the next mission the same Wiggler is seen rampaging through Gelato Beach putting many innocent lives in grave danger so Mario had to destroy the Wiggler to save all the residents on the beach. As for the Cheep Cheeps not only do they kill you if you touch them but they swim in large numbers making it hard for Mario to avoid them. If Mario did this for fun, than it wouldn't be any worse than people who go fishing for sport and there are Cheep Cheeps such as Boss Bass, Cheep Chomp, Spiny Cheep Cheep, and several other subspecies that do try to hurt Mario.

Mario mistreating Yoshi
MatPat claims that Mario abuses Yoshi as he punches him in the 2D Platformers to make him stick out his tongue. Mario isn't punching Yoshi he's POINTING it's just the 16-bit graphics make it look like he's punching him. If you actually look closely, you can see that there's a finger there, it's a lot clearer in the NSMB games and then there's the evidence of Mario dropping Yoshi down a pit, you never have to do that. It's just a strategy that players came up with and Mario never actually drops him off an edge it's completely optional. If Mario dropped Yoshi of a cliff in a cutscene or in a scripted event where you have no control over Mario, then yes it can be used as evidence but since it's the player doing it and not Mario, IT CAN'T BE USED AS EVIDENCE!! . That's like saying he's bad in Paper Mario Thousand Year Door because you chose all the dick options but that doesn't mean he is a jerk.

Mario's supposedly being abusive to Luigi
MatPat referes to Luigi as one of the most innocent characters in the Mario series which I totally agree with but then he goes on to pay out Mario as this abusive and cruel brother to Luigi. To start of Luigi never asks Mario if he can come along normally Luigi is too shy or too nervous to ask. He only comes along by either being forced to or being there at the event in question. Also if something was happening somewhere else while Mario was trying to save Peach, Luigi could help that area like in PMTTYD, Luigi helps the Waffle Kingdom while Mario and his allies is trying to save Peach and open (and later seal permanently) the Thousand Year Door. Also, the adventure may be too dangerous and if something bad had happened to Luigi, it'd probably cause Mario to never forgive himself. In NSMBW's ending did you even take notice that the blimp door closes by itself. If they'd caused it to stop, it would cause the blimp to increase in altitude and there would be fire going out of the balloon.

Also, Mario doesn't even notice Luigi. He's too busy talking to Peach and by the time they do notice him, they see that the Toads have allowed him on their blimp so there was no worry there. Also, the Mario is Missing ending Mario is just standing there. That doesn't mean he's being a dick to Luigi. MatPat is just assuming that Mario is thinking "OH I HATE YOU SO MUCH LUIGI YOU SUCK!" when he could be thinking about anything. Luigi is doing the same thing (just standing there). Also, at the end of the PC version, Mario and Luigi hug at the end. And then we get to the stupidest argument in this entire two-parter with *GASPS* standing on Luigi's foot in Mario Power Tennis. MatPat literally overreacts here (this also goes to show that he doesn't have any siblings). It's sibling rivalry, all it shows, is that Mario is competitive with Luigi and that it's nothing more than brothers fighting which happens all the time. Brothers and Sisters fight all the time (especially if their twins) I have a younger brother and we've done way worse things to each other than that in fact MatPat is making it out like Mario punched Luigi or went up to him with a knife and then stabbed him in the stomach and then just started laughing maniacally but no it's just a friendly grinding on the shoe. Also, the entire Mario and Luigi series (which nearly every game in the series took place after MPT). Let's use M&L PIT as an example. The star gate in Star Shrine only let's good people pass. It lets Mario pass because he's kind and cares about his brother (alongside Baby Mario and Baby Luigi). That's a direct confirmation from Nintendo that Mario's a kind person. But the gate doesn't regular Luigi due to the fact that he's a coward.

He gives Mario 3 choices, either give up and go home, go on without Luigi, or find the Aurora Block and he'll allow them all to pass and what does Mario choose, he chooses to find the block. In Bowser's Inside Story in the Flab Zone, Luigi falls in a pit of mucus and is gotten out by Princess Lipid. Princess Lipid allows Mario to choose either Luigi or a treasure chest and Mario being Mario choses Luigi over the treasure and Princess Lipid returns Luigi to Mario and gives him the treasure anyway. Also in battle, if Luigi falls unconscious (by losing all his HP) if enemies are about to attack Luigi, he holds him preventing the enemies from doing anymore damage (also weighing him down in the process). Also, if Mario choses to run in the same case, he picks up Luigi and runs with his unconscious body. If Mario hated Luigi, he'd just leave him there to die. Luigi also does the same to Mario (but that's not important). Let's just forget all of that, because Mario stood on Luigi's foot ( ONE TIME ) that automatically makes him a sociopath.

Conclusion for this part
Okay I have proven that Part 1 is wrong. Stay tuned as I later try to debunk Part 2 here...