Our dear regent has been kidnapped, quick, call a plumber! For about 35 years now, our moustachioed hero in red has jumped over cliffs, eaten shrooms, smashed turtles, broken bricks, and gone down sewage pipes in the sole purpose to save Princess Toadstool (Peach if you're more modern, Pauline if you're more retro). He is the hero we always need, the bread to our butter, our one and true saviour of the Mushroom Kingdom. But doe🔯s that make him the most interesting character of his universe?
With the number of cooky cast members in the Mario Bros. franchise, we're sure to find someone a little more interesting than Mario. Already, I find that Luigi doesn't take enough credit as it is, so why should our red plumber get all the fame? 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Luigi is SO much more interesting.
However, as you could probably see by the title of this list, and more likely by the picture jumping out at you, we are here to talk about a much more underrated character. Our little mushroom friend often goes under the radar (except in Mario Kart 64, as he's the second most popular character picked after Yoshi) but always seems to🌼 keep his head up for a guy who's named after his entire race. After all, he does say "I'm the best!" over and over.
Is he really the cute little optimistꦰic guy we all know and love, though? Can the internet help us figure out who exactly Toad is or who the Toads are? Will fan theories clarify the story for us? Most likely not, but it's still fun to see how insane they are!
15 Girls Toads And Boy Toads 🉐
Toads are usually assumed to be male, but looking at it now, there isn't a shred of evidence suggesting that Toad is actually a boy-mushroom-person. Possibly𓃲 a more recent, and more verified theory, is that Toads don't actually have a gender to begin with.
According to Koichi Hayashida, producer of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Nintendo never really se🦩ttled on Toad's gender. This isn't even a crazy fan fiction, this is REAL.
"What about Toadette? THAT Toad definitel꧋y looks like a girl!" you might think. However, Hayashida says, and I quote, “we never really went out of our way to decide on the sex of these characters, even though they have somewhat ge🌃ndered appearances.”
For all we know, Toadette is a dude and Toadsworth, the moustac⛎hed Chancell🌃or of the Mushroom Kingdom, is a girl! Or both are gender fluid, we'll never know. Hayashida adds, “That’s one of the great mysteries of the Mario universe.”
14 ꩲ Toads Don't Repro𒅌duce In A Typical Manner
This theory, s💦uggested by multiple online geeks, pushes the previous one a little more beyond its borders. Let us discard the fact that Toads might act🔴ually be human for a moment and imagine how Toads reproduce as whatever they are, shall we?
If Toads aren't human, we might just assume that they're mushrooms like Goombas. How do mushrooms reproduce? Asexually of course! Not onlyܫ are Toads possibly devoid of gender, they may be devoid of sex altogether!
As we can see in Super Smash Bros., Peach uses a Toad as a shield because of his ability to spit out spores when hit. Now I'm not saying that these spores are the very same spores that Toads use to reproduce but... are thಌey?
13 Toads Are... Human? ꦗ
*insert Spongebob meme* "BuT ThEiR MuShRoOm Is PaRt oF tHeiR hEad." According to R൩eddit user Marhiin, that might not be the case. With all the humans in the kingdom (like Peach, Mario, Luigi, Doctor E-gad... etc), it would make senseꦚ!
Firstly, in Super Mario Bros. Wii, Blue and Yellow Toad's mushrooms change colour when a power-up is picked up,🌸 while Mario and Luigi have their caps change colour. Why would Toad's body change colour when eating a fire flower and not Mario or Luigi? You don't see Mario going ginger or Luigi's skin becoming Trump-like when picking up that power-up now, do you? That's because the Toads' HATS are changing colour!
I'm not going to develop too much on the different proofs, but just know that Toads have hair under their hat as revealed in the Paper Mario series, and the anime, though non꧋-canonical, still reveals Toad actually taking off his mushroom cap rꦚevealing three strands of hair! This is no coincidence!
12 When Toads Go Rogue ✨
Marhiin didn't stop there though (seriously, there's at least one other theory that c🦩ame out from their Reddit post).
As we know, not ALL enemies in the Mario Bros. series are mean. Just look at Kooper in Paper Mario (#NotAllKoopas). If it's possible to find nice "bad" guys, isn't it logical that bad "good" guys exist as well?
Hold on to your seats people, because I'm about to drop an unverified ♓and definitely subjective truth bomb on you: Shy Guys are actually Toads hiding behind a mask. Think about it, they're the same build, about the same size, and have about the same skill level.
If Goombas betrayed the Mushroom Kingdom to join the Koopa Troop as written in the American Super Mario Bros. booklet, would it be that much of a stretch to claim that some Toads joined the r🦩ebellion as well and were handed Shy Guy costumes to hide their identity by the Koopas?
11 Th🎐e Tragic Goomba Origin Story 𓃲
Speaking of Goombas, have you ever wondered why they revolted against the Mushroom Kingdom? They're clearly not the smartest species, seeing as though their only attack tactic is to walk side to side and get stomped on. So why make such a definite decision to join the Koop🅺as? Have they been manipu🅺lated?
Possibly. Another theory🍸 suggests however that Toads kicked them off their native land and claimed it as their own, parading as the "nice, gentle citizens" of a kingdom that isn't theirs (sound familiar to certain real world events?). YouTube's The Game Theorists sure believe it.
What if the Toads and their silly hats were not the reason why the Mushroom Kingdom is called ꦯlike that? What if the Goombas were there in the first place, as the true, ambulant shiitake mushrooms that named their empire after their species? After all, if Toads are human, it wouldn't be improbable for them to wear mushroom hats as Goomba cultural appropriation.
10 Who Toadette Really Is ﷺ
This isn't exactly a fan theory, but one of the Mushroom Kingdom's mysteries that f🏅ans online have 🤪pondered about.
What is the DEAL with Toadette? Who is she (or it)? Our friend Koichi Hayashida, producer of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker mentioned previously, had this to say: "I think what I can say is that Toadette and Toad are not siblings—perhaps it would be more accurate to say they are a🍰dventure pals."
Adventure pals. How innocuous of him to say so, but we geeks aren't fooled. In Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, Toadette is introduced as Toad's partner, yet the official guide from Prima for Mario Kart Wii states that Toad and Toadette are actually siblings. What now Nintendo? Why the contradictions?
9 Toads And 🥂Somewhat Renewable Energy
Now to get creepy with our theories. Want renewable energy? Harvest a few mushrooms and put them in vats and voilà! Enough power to fuel a spaceship! Alterꦇnatively, you can use the blood of innocent mushroom people for pretty much the 🉐same effect.
According to YouTuber Dr. Wily, that's basically what happened in Mario & Luigi, Partners in Time. Evil aliens called the Shroobs would abduct Toads to plunge them in green vats and...harvest their life force through trees. You read that right, the game showed Toads getting drained from their vim, which after being mixed with chemicals in the "Vim Factory", becomes ♎fuel for the Shroobs' space ships🧸.
Dr. Wily assum🦂es that vim is the Toad equivalent to human blood, as to not scare children with c꧋razy vampire aliens (aliens AND vampires? Billy, go play with legos or something while we adults deal with those scary beasts).
8 Toads Are Supposed To Be Tal🐽ler
Toads are pretty small when you think🔴 about it. Picture this: you're the ruler of a proud kingdom and one of the only people that are your size are the plumber and his brother. Peach basically has an army of Oompa-Loompas to serve her. Ever wonder why that is? After all, anyone could just eat mushrooms to grow!
Redditor Marhiin strikes again witꦇh a depressing theory: the Toads are small because their ancestors were under-nourished. Marhiin suggests that before the somewhat peaceful rule of🗹 the caring princess Peach, Toads had to give away their mushroom produce to their to their king. Tough monarchy, eh?
What about Mario's bloodline yꦫou say? Simple: Mario isn't a Toad peasant. His parents live in Big City, he's obviously too upper class to be affected. Some hero...
7 💫 Step Aside Mario, Blue Toad Is Here
Man redditors love their fan theories. This time, Redditor wsw82 creates a parallel between The Legend of Zelda and the Mario Bros. series.
wsw82 points out that throughout the Mario games in which Toad is a playable character, there is a recurring Toad, Blue Toad, that steals the spotlight. In Mario Bros. 2, NSMB Wii and U, and Mario 3D World, we get to play with likely an imꦚportant figure in the Toad kingdom.
So where's the Zelda parallel? wsw82 suggests that Blue Toad (a🌜s he's officially referred to in a few games) is actually the Mushroom Kingdom's hero of legend, and gets to wear the traditional blue clothing of an ancient Mushroom Kingdom legendary hero when embarking on a heroic quest. Now does it sound familiar?
Step aside, Mario, Blue Toad will save the p♏rincess!
6 Mario's Crimes Against Toads... ꧒
In the very first Super Mario Bros. game booklet, there is a small piece of information that went by unnoticed for years: Bowser's original plan. The manual states that "The quiet, peace-loving Mushroom People were turned into mere stones, bricks and even field horse-hair plants." 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Bowser was pretty cool back then.
According to many people online, including ꧅the website TheTopTens, Mario breaking bricks means...that he's effectively killing innocent transformed Toads. Surely not ALL bricks are Toads (#Notallbricks), but imagine being Mario, breaking an inanimate brick and not knowing if you killed someone or not.
Well, he sure doesn't hesitate to break all the bricks he finds though. The "Toads transformed into bricks" theory pushes it to the next level and suggests that Mario is a cold blooded killer who doesn't care whether a Toad lives or dies (after playing Super Mario Bros. Wii with my friends, I can confirm that he doesn't give a flying crap about his Toad teammates). Yet there's even more unsettling information about꧙ M🍸ario...