EVERY Censored Mario Game Explained!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2021
- In this video I explain the biggest censorships in Mario series history from character design changes to removed content and much more. Which characters shouldn't have been censored, and were any the right choice? Let's find out.
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I find it funny how Kirby can allow blood, smoking, alcohol, and even a suggestive joke one time, but Mario can't.
Kirby: Poyo :)
Edit: You might want to deleted your comment and reupload because everyone is saying the same stuff all over
*what suggestive joke*
Explain. Please.
@@LollinoDamb64 Stage 5 of Red Canyon
@@cosaandres oh that's right
Nintendo: “We don’t want Mario wearing a sombrero!”
Also Mario: *The most stereotypical Italian with a strong accent and mustache and a love for spaghetti*
It was because of Twitter
The irony of the Sombrero Mario costume is that the Mexican community actually liked it. It was the "*Easily Offended On Other People's BEHALF White Twitter Moms*" who were offended.
@@gamrage specifically White Twitter Moms in the United States, because the United States is an unhealthy divided and debating roller coaster when it comes to cultural diversity from other races. The Mexican Mario thing is, in actually, not offensive, this is basically Nintendo pulling a Cartoon Network, because of growing concerns from white people, similar to when Cartoon Network removed the Speedy Gonzales cartoon shorts for a time due to “ethnic stereotypes” but Hispanics are in fact never offended by Speedy Gonzales, and neither is Mexican Mario, white people in USA really should look themselves in the mirror about this. I’m Latin American born person, and I never get offended by Speedy, and Mexican Mario.
Really??
" *Nintendo* : WE dont want Mario wearing a sombrero" ?!..
REALLY?!
@@benitosierrajr3958 You practically stole the words from my mouth, I'm Latin American too and I Always get pissed off every time a bunch of SJW and Twitter moms get offended and censor shit related to Latin stuff I never got offended with in the first place just because they believe it's inappropriate, they see the world through their twisted point of view where they believe they're the moral police of the world and they have to teach us peasants how to be like civilized people, those ass hats don't know a shit about Latin America or any other region of the world because they think they are better than everyone else often sticking their fingers into other countries business like the anime industry in Japan that is always attacked by activist groups for nonsensical reasons because they think they need to teach the Japanese people how to act like a ¨modern¨ society as if they weren't a long time ago.
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Censorship
Easily the best comment I’ve seen here
The thousand censorships door
Paper Mario: Thousands of Censorships
Paper Mario:The Censorship King
Papier Mario: Censor splash
Random Toad: talks about how people have rights and deserve freedom
China: shit he's onto us
Toad: makes statement about freedom
China: we don't do that here buddy
North Korea - Sorry buddy we don't do that here
Toad: Hey. The People’s Liberation Army’s here…
*BANG*
Lmfao
Random Toad: talks about how people have rights and deserve freedom
China and North Korea: we don't do that here
You forgot in Mario Galaxy, when Kamek is about to send Mario flying away from peaches castle, in one version he says “Go to heck mario!”
XD
"Go to hell Mario"
Is there some kind of censorship where the word hell can’t be said in any form of kids media?
XD
Is that the british english version? It's not in the NA English version.
No wonder they removed drunk wario
Who wants their protagonist to be a ducking lightweight
Kirby, Star Fox, Pokémon, Earthbound, Pokémon again, Super Mario, Super Mario again, Legend of Zelda, Legend of Zelda again, Pokémon again, Star Fox again, Legend of Zelda again, Pokémon again, Game and Watch, Kirby again, Metroid, Pokémon again, Sonic the Hedgehog, Pikmin, Super Mario again, Punch-out, Pokémon again, Duck Hunt, Bayonetta, Animal Crossing, Final Fantasy, and Kingdom Hearts.
At least in Smash.
Thats not what I mean and you know it
I hate how loudly I laughed at this.
Luigi also says "Oh, My God!" in the Japanese version of Mario Party.
Also, "spastic" is a derogatory term for a disabled person in the UK, that's why it's considered offensive.
specifically for people with Cerebral palsy
So they remove the image of Wine, but they keep the NOOSE in Rougeport?
Only in Nintendo, ladies and gentlemen.
i mean bobby literally kills himself in TOK so it's kinda fair
Honestly i like to think that the boos in Thousand Year getting bunny ears switch to cat ears might also have been Nintendo worried about a copyright suit from Playboy. There is no proof of this but it'd be hilarious
5:00 oh come on, you know americans where indeed complaining about Mario wearing a sombrero as racism (even when mexicans had no complain)
with it and without it people will still complain about it
Me, a Hispanic: damnit America, its always you
That's modern-day western left-wing socialist garbage for ya.
yeah if someone were to cancel mario odyssey because mario had a sombrero and a poncho, it would be the woke whites.
@@LovelyLadyLocks mexicans are angry about mario wearing a poncho and a sombrero? that's hella weird lmao it's just funny
What Mario games are like at first glance: Goofy adventures
What Mario games are: Racism, sex jokes, murder, politics
That's life too.
So ture
Enlightening.
It seems like Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has more censorships than other Mario games. A testament to its deep story, perhaps?
In my opinion after seeing all these censorships they should have just rolled with it being a t rated game and if they never remake this game because they never will please bring Vivian back to being her trans self in my opinion she is a much better trans icon for the Mario series than birdo
yet they didn't care at all about the noose
I'm gonna assume China's censorship with Mario's pirate outfit was due to the skull symbol, I recall there's been a consistent amount of times China demanded media be censored whenever it came to living skeletons, zombies... generally supernatural things associated with the occult I believe. China nearly banned Disney's movie Coco, but it got a rare free pass as the censors loved the the movie's message of the importance of family, despite the movie predominantly being populated by living skeletons.
But this is just my guess, there might be something against pirates or not wanting a depiction of a pirate be portrayed in a positive light.
As for the gesture once done by Inkling and Bowser, while nowadays interpreted as an "up yours" gesture, it wasn't always so. There's that historically famous WW2 propaganda poster of Rosie the Riveter saying "we an do it!", it's my assumption Japan post-WW2 took a look at our old posters and likely interpreted the gesture and message to mean "we shall be victorious". We still see Japanese characters doing that gesture, often overly-confident characters like Dan Hibiki from Street Fighter doing it all the time in an arrogant way to insist they're guaranteed to win, usually prematurely, and often for comedic sake having it blow up in their faces. Though Japan likely missed the memo the gesture's meaning changed in the west since those olden days. Heck, it could also be interpreted with Rosie the Riveter just pulling her sleeve back to show off her bicep and implying "we have the strength to overcome" as the underlying message.
Again, my personal observation/conclusion, I could be wrong.
Sounds like good theories to me.
I imagine One Piece isn't translated and never will be. That manga is way too anti-authoritarian in it's message.
"we an do it"
I didn't even know putting your hand on your bicep was an explicit "up yours!" gesture. Is that just a North American thing? I thought it was more a show of power, assuredness, or arrogance.
I think China has a strict policy of skulls like strictly not allowing skulls
As a native american, I think the shyguys would of been cool in mario, I don't see anything wrong with that, there were more than one type of natives, some were violent and some weren't, just like every other type of person, like we wouldn't take a norse person out of the game for portraying vikings in a bad light just because a lot of the norse people weren't like that. Everyone should be allowed to be the good guy and the bad guy no matter what race.
Thank you
@@FireRising86 I will, I'll go before the twitter counsel and plead my case
Wow there is still logical humans. Not going of their emotions and feelings. You must be A.I.
-Shout out to those who get that
Yeah but you had to run into their teepees and destroy them then run over the shy guys while playing on the track
@@furby9284 Idc dude, doesn't change anything
I got addicted to Luigi's Casino for a month straight. I'm 4 years clean now
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There’s also a Pokémon trainer sprite in Gen 4 that was censored for the same reason as Inkling Girl. The Japanese version of the sailor trainer sprite shows him displaying that gesture
Pretty sure that was gen 3. But i could be wrong
I watched wild examples of Pokémon censorship
Regarding the gun censorship, there is a gun draw in Origami King, although the guns are just toys.
Lmao I didn’t know The Thousand Year door had that many sensorships. 2004 was a different time huh.
*c
@@gaurangikaul7410 sensorshipc
They should have changed “Crazy Wario” to “Dizzy Wario”
Done
Hi Siiroth, can you do a Smash Bros Ultimate series where you give everyone a new victory screen (N64-Ultimate)
Could be a fun idea maybe sometime :)
@@Siiroth ok thank you
@@Siiroth do you know when?
@@Siiroth This is a good idea, and every character gets a unique victory theme - I thought they missed a trick by not doing that
@@qqqqqqqqqqqq121212 I know you where taking to Siiroth but thanks for liking my idea
I’m glad Wario’s “OH MY GOD” still lives on as a meme to this day.
GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
10:02 The REAL reason why Mario has a mustache
Ehh, that's more of a Stalin 'stache than a Hitler 'stache.
Luigi's
oop
The mustache was made to they did not hade make a mouth for Mario in DK arcade.
@@eldartaghiyev8422 lol
In China skulls are seen as a bad luck sign, like really badly… so that’s why the costume was changed
Huh.
I thought it was because, y’know… China… Pirates…
The inkling “up yours gesture” was on British WWII posters which were designed to encourage women to work
I thought in that picture the lady was pulling up her sleeve and flexing, not doing the other thang
@@juliangonzalez4038 She is, but it looked similar.
American, not British.
I now have even more reason for vivian to be one of my favorite characters in the paper mario franchise
I think the goomba is the most underrated Super Mario Brothers enemy, because it is the first enemy and can be your first death ever too.
The Lonely Goomba said the thing on his channel.
7:14 You failed the social credit exam
3:54
IKR!?
Who were they trying to fool?🤣
8:05 that's a "derp in thought" gesture
10:05 if you look close its not even a salute he is just waving his hand up
I knew about three of these censorships. Had no idea about the rest. This was an interesting video! Good job!
For the record, the shyguys in Mario cart had there homes run over. So I guess their attack makes sense.
Isn't that kind of like what happened in real life with the American-Natives? I can definitely see why the American audience needed that censored.
I have an idea for a Smash Ultimate series. Adding a new item for every fighter (can be entire new item or assist trophy/pokeball)
Nice idea!
That's not a bad idea. Some franchises have a pitiful amount of items and assist trophies representing them. Nintendo's OG, Donkey Kong, has like one assist trophy and no items (and the assist trophy wasn't added until Ultimate, likely just because they were already making that Klaptrap model for Kongo Falls and Jungle Japes anyway)
0:43
Well considering that the version of the game that received an E for Everyone rating is the version without the murder scene, then yeah, there's a good reason why people don't talk about it much.
*RUSH E SONG INTENSIFIES*
*E*
Some context on the word spastic, in the UK the word was used in a documentary aimed to shed light on cerebral palsy as it's a medical term. However, it instead became commonly used to mock the disabled and now has very negative connotations, it's like cripple.
9:39 fun fact: in italian there Is still wine and not the chuckola cola
Pokemon Sword and Shield boxart being lame really works well, because the game itself is terrible as well
Oof.
Still better games than Black/White and Scarlet/Violet
@@eddmario you're just trying to trigger people now
Mario when greeting npcs with his wave: "Halloooo!"
Npcs: *pulls out a gun, loads it, cocks it and aims with the intent of opening fire.*
You know, ever since maybe mid 2000's I've never seen anyone do the "up yours" gesture. I would've gone under the impression that the gesture has completely faded into obscurity
Idk about everyone else, but I refer to Birdo as a female, it just feels right
I think there's a whole thing similar to the issue of Poison from Capcom. Birdo's gender identity and biological sex seems to vary by region .
Transfem birdo for the win
Male Birdo for the win!
I just assumed there are different birds like there are Yoshi and the modern birds is a female
Agreed, Birdo is better suited as a girl because of all the roles she plays in the games she appears in. Besides, who said that Birdo was only one character? She's a species too like Yoshi and has different colors found here and there, so we could just say Wart hired flirtatious male Birdos, and the main Birdo we know today is a genuine actress, just like how we see the main green Yoshi as Mario's best friend.
I think the up yours is actually a good pose in Japan, that’s why it’s in the game. I can’t remember if it has to do with victory or winning or something.
Plus in America, it is reminiscent of the old Rosie the Riveter posters, which were used for feminine confidence and strength in the workplace, similar to Japan.
@@Daniel_Coffman Yeah! And also one thing that kind of surprised me, is the fact that they didn’t censor Goh doing the pose in the English dub!
Does that pose just mean up yours in the UK? Because I'm pretty sure it's just a way of telling someone that you're strong in America.
@@magic2546 I’m American too, idk.
All I know is that it means “up your butt”
@@magic2546 Don't think it even means anything in America anymore; "Up yours" or otherwise. I've never seen it ever used outside of those Rosie the Riveter posters back in history. I think it is really only in Europe where it's "Up yours."
3:19 well my cousin (he was 5 years old) was adicted to these minigames.
About the "up yours" censorship: in Japan it's what they call a "guts pose". It's basically just means "I win/I'm strong".
As a side note, I've never even seen someone actually do the up yours motion, irl or in fiction. Is it a European thing or something?
No I never seen someone do it so I guess not, must be because it can be seen as a rude gesture to some
That's also a pose on that one poster of that woman. Can't remember her name. I think she was WW1 or 2 propaganda to get women into the workforce while the men were off fighting.
@@espurrseyes42 you're thinking of Rosie the Riveter. That was a WWII thing.
It's rare, but I have seen it. Mainly in comedies, I think.
It's an older gesture, but it checks out, the only thing that comes to mind... I think it's in Spaceballs?
The thumbnail has me confused, but it is hilarious 😂
3:54 Okay… that’s just awesome 😂😂
The reason the boos wear cat ears rather than bunny ears in TTYD is that (for some reason) the Playboy bunny outfit is copyrighted, at least in the US. Nintendo didn't want any unnecessary lawsuits and thus changed the ears.
Rereleases of Super Mario 64 DS and New Super Mario Bros. would also recieve higher age ratings in some regions, kinda like Kirby's Dream collection.
Also the pirate outfit's appearance was most likely censored because of those laws against gore in Chinese videogames, even though the Skull is cartoony. As for why it's renamed, maybe China just hates pirates because of the whole stereotype about China producing pirated and bootleg media?
Do bunny ears really resemble the full playboy bunny outfit enough? They're just freaking bunny ears.
@@k-leb4671
Truth.
3:14 gambling in video games taught me never to gamble considering how bad I am with money. I learned I have a “just one more” mentality at a young age thanks to them
I’m from the UK and it’s HILARIOUS when Kamek says “turn the train spastic” lol
I have the reason why no skull on pirate mario because skulls are seen as bad luck in China
The Marioro ads in Mario Kart 64 are a parody of motorsport sponsors. Tobacco companies used to be very common sponsors, including Marlboro. Over time, ads for tobacco got banned in more and more countries, so they aren't really a thing anymore. Now energy drinks have taken their spot.
Check out the 80s McLaren formula 1 cars.
6:23 heh.
13:56 it means someone affected by cerebral palsy
3:00 Me (as a Korean) : There were mini games in Super Mario 64 DS?????????????
If you are Korean then I have a question. So the mini game are unlocked by catching the colored rabbits as every rabbit got a key to unlock a mini game. Any rabbit caught can end up shiny to get the 8 keys for that door by the characters with a Star in it. My question is did the colored rabbits give you nothing? I'm guessing they never gave you keys outside of the glowing shiny ones. I have wanted to ask somebody from Korea what they did and if they got removed or edited down.
@@cartergamegeek im not sure, actually.... it’s been a long time ago, and I didn’t play the game too aften. But I do remember there being no minigames... I’ll look into it! I’m sure I can find a korean youtuber who played this game!
@@ChomuOmu Cool. I always wondered if the rabbits did nothing in that version. I played it on DS in America so the rabbits unlocked mini games. It was weird thinking about them not doing much.
Mario Party:
Wario losing minigame:
Japan: Oh my god!
International countries: Oh, I missed!
Putting that Super Mario Strikers ad out there definitely uh...took balls
*ba dum tsss*
Sometimes censorship’s are for the better, though it’s always fun to check out the darker sides to Mario we never saw
About the sombrero, my best guess is that wearing a sombrero is considered _closed_ culture, where it's rude to participate in it if you're not of that culture unless you're invited. Contrast that with the American flag outfit, which is _open_ culture that can be used by anyone without breaking social rules.
It's similar to the reason some people argue that people who aren't indigenous American shouldn't try and figure out their spirit animals- the concept of a spirit animal is considered closed.
Well that's very xenophobic of them.
I like to think that in paper mario its more like he's waving
It is a wave, but that pose looks really bad.
That thumbnail is hilarious
(3:35) Party lacking in information there. Yes, PEGI does not allow gambling in games rated too low and it would increase the rating. But PEGI doesn't have an E rating. There actually two ratings not allowing gambling: 3 and 7. That's why a few Pokémon games were rated PEGI 12, the minimum rating allowing gambling.
The up yours symbol was used used in splatoon 2 as part of the squid sisters dance moves during the final battle
Finally someone noticed this
Back in around Early 2017 I got a Nintendo magazine with an SMO poster, and that was the original version, before they changed mexican Mario off the cover. Unfortunately, my mom threw the poster away a few years ago, due to age.
Odyssey: It's illegal to depict a skeleton in China. Evidently just a skull counts.
0:09 What is the name of the song in the background?
time attack from mario galaxy i think
Does anyone know the name of the song used in the video from 0:00 to 2:28 ?
Thanks!
SMG2 - Hurry!
@@pixelsilzavon77 Thanks man! 👍
Gambling with luigi was the fricken best.
Also, in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, for some reason in the American Version (not sure for others) when there is a player from Hong Kong in your lobby their flag won’t appear.
You forgot luigi also said "oh my god" in mario party 1.
That was wario
@@superluigiretro Luigi also said it.
@@DannibalManRealOmgNoWay ohhh yeah I remember now!
This channel is the definition of thumbnail hell lol
9:40 not in all versions ! In the french version it's still alcohol, a "Grand Cru", to be precise, but the texture is indeed the censored one
"The release of Mario Party 8 went off without a hitch. Except in the UK where nothing ever goes off without hitches."
--Mr. 1Upz
In Super Mario bros DS I loved to play the Luigi casino mini games as a child.
the toad murder scene was censored to get the E for everyone, because iirc some nintendo people talkede about it and said that they paid advertising places and store stuff in advance and that if they do'nt get the E rating then it's all going to waste, and heavily affects the game's marketing capabilities
thanks for the video
Birdo's gender is the same as Mangle in FNaF, it's "Yes"
GREAT VIDEO ❤❤❤
The one where Mario wears a sombrero I actually got that version of it on a painting of Mario odyssey
It's on a painting if they change it
Huh?
If they did then my painting didn't change
I actually have the reason that the pirate outfit was censored it was because skulls are offensive in Japan 🇯🇵 and they removed the eyepatch so no connections were made
10:54 Japan: make character with blackface
USA: "censored" coloring all orange
In Super Mario Advance For the Gameboy Advance, Birdo is voiced by Charles Martinet.
Memory match was in super Mario 3 to get extra power ups and lives.
13:55 In some countries (other than the US), "spastic" is a derogatory term for people with mental handicaps. That's why the line had to be censored.
13:50, here in the Land of the Rising Apple Pie, we use the term simply for “go crazy!” Across the pond, it’s directly associated with cerebral palsy in the same way a certain word that literally means “slow” is automatically associated with people that have mental deficiencies.
Idk if this vid came out before pyra and mythra in smash bros but that might have counted to this list
Although I am not bothered with the fact of the content mentioned have been censored, however I am interested of how Toad remarks about rights of his race. I think Birdo shouldn't have been censored that much if people wanted to be clear with representative of the Birdo race's gender. However for myself I consider her female and I have a plush.
I think she’s a trans female 🏳️⚧️
@@fivepainbbles more like a drag / trap.
It was *born* male and (according to the booklet) it *thinks* it's female.
It didnt *turned* female..
Just *thinks* it is.
Speaking of thousand year door, you have no idea how much time my brother and I spent jumping into the gallows to see if we could hang mario.
Well..... No matter what you do.......
sometime, YOU CAN'T SATISFY EVERYONE!!!!!!
7:44 or hitting someone with an attack
For someon e who doesn't inr this thismuch it's threveal to turn out knw this. great video on this topic mna.
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taking sombrero mario off the front of the box of mario odyssey was pointless because the same image is still on the back
The sombrero outfit is my favorite outfit how sad it would’ve been cool to have it in the cover art but I understand why they wouldn’t keep it in just in case you never know
How auto-maticly looked at there mario case when they tried to see if they had the sumbrao mario but I have the underwater mario
I like to imagine everything in the thumbnail is in the same frame
13:42
I believe I heard that it was removed because in England, the word 'Spastic' is an offensive term used for someone with Cerebral Palsy. So Nintendo just decided to pull it off the shelves and remove the word.
Super Mario Odyssey has Mario wearing the sombrero on the back cover of the game...Hmmm🤔
10/10 thumbnail
15:05 WAIT DID THAT TURTLE NOT GET STUNNED
A "spasm" is just a muscle thing yes, but usually the term "spastic" refers to autistic spasming, or any other physical or mental disability that is typically viewed in a negative light
That's why most people usually see "spastic" or "spaz" as ableist terms
(Doesn't stop a lot of people from still using them though...)
Spastic was a term used in the UK to describe someone with Cerebral Palsy. It had nothing to do with autism.
@@andychamplin fr thats what i thought 💀💀
MaRo PaRtY?
Id love to see luigi's casino return