


It wasn’t long before Mario became a full-on sex symbol, with many, many Twitter users expressing their desire to suck and/or lick Mario’s nipples, and one artist reimagining Mario in daddy form. One blessed soul turned Mario’s nip slip into the object of Ted Cruz’s horniness. Entertainment Weekly September 13, 2017 Here's what Mario's nipples look like, I guess While the discovery came as a shock to some, things started innocently enough internet denizens photoshopped shirtless Mario onto a cover of ESPN Magazine’s The Body Issue or with the cast of the recent Baywatch flop.īut some were titillated by Mario’s bare chest, so much so Entertainment Weekly felt compelled to blot them out. The image marked the first time we’ve ever seen Mario topless, and confirmed that the now-retired plumber does indeed have nipples. Nintendo of America September 13, 2017Ģ017 is the year we learned that canonically Mario has nipples and Link doesn’t /cz47qXAtva Earlier this week, Nintendo released two screenshots of its highly anticipated Super Mario Odyssey game, including one of Mario running shirtless on the beach.Įxplore the frozen fields of Shiveria in the Snow Kingdom & the sunny shores of Bubblaine in the Seaside Kingdom in #SuperMarioOdyssey! /p8AsDqBbTj Sure, there was probably some Mario hentai floating around somewhere in the digital ether - there is for every animated character - but I never imagine he’d become a mainstream sex symbol.Īlas, I was wrong, and all it took was a flash of Mario’s man-nips. Call me naive, but I always thought Mario was safe from the internet’s need to sexualize childhood icons.
