History Characters / SMBMMarioBros

* AffectionateNickname: "Mustache", given by Peach.

* TheHeart: From the get-go Luigi is established as provding Mario with emotional support. Mario had second thoughts about using Italian accents in their commercial, but Luigi's facial expression and body language let Mario know he shouldn't worry about it, with the nearest Italian openly telling them he loved their accents. Later Luigi comforts Mario when he's feeling down about their father's lack of support. When the two were being sucked into another dimension and both were spiralling out of control, Luigi calling out for Mario's help spurred the latter into taking control of the current and flying forward to grab his brother. [[spoiler: And eventually Luigi saves Mario's life.]]

* UselessProtagonist: Downplayed. While Luigi gets the short end of the stick story-wise, he's not completely without agency. When Mario has moments of doubt or even depression, Luigi is always quick to reassure him. [[spoiler: And then Luigi ''saves'' Mario when it looks like he might get roasted by Bowser's fire breath, allowing both of them to acquire the power star and curb-stomp Bowser's entire army before pummeling the Koopa King himself.]]

-->'''Mario:''' ''[to Peach]'' You know what? Make fun of me all you want, ''but you're gonna help me find my brother.'' ...Please?

* FromZeroToHero: Mario goes from a struggling plumber who a lot of people don't respect to becoming the hero of both Brooklyn and the Mushroom Kingdom with his father's full respect, alongside his brother. Ironically, he never aimed to be the hero, to begin with, he was merely going along with Princess Peach's plan to save Luigi, but he did step up to the plate after he achieved his goal, without a second thought.

* MrFanservice: According to the [[https://nypost.com/2023/04/11/super-mario-bros-fans-are-losing-their-minds-over-sexy-luigi/ New York Post blog]], fans of the Super Mario franchise (including [[EstrogenBrigade female viewers]]) have been hitting the internet with their thoughts on just how sexy he ''really'' is.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is Mario's nickname for him spelled Lu or Lou? The international subtitles can't seem to agree.

* CompositeCharacter: They hail from New York and have Brooklyn accents like in ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' (as well as early supplementary materials that were phased out), but have an appearance, ages, and acrobatic abilities more fitting of the main series versions.

* EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler:The Mario Bros. use the Super Star [[HoistByHisOwnPetard that Bowser stole against him]] to thrash the Koopa King and his army while they're in a wrecked-up Brooklyn.]]

* StrongFamilyResemblance: As always, they practically look like a [[FatAndSkinny squashed]] and [[BigGuyLittleGuy stretched]] version of the same person, though the art style's added detail makes it particularly noticable.

* ThisLoserIsYou: Both brothers still live with their parents, are social outcasts, and find themselves out of their depth when it comes to the crunch, traits commonly associated with video game enthusiasts. Fittingly enough, their room is full of posters and memorabilia from other Nintendo franchises; Mario is shown playing ''VideoGames/KidIcarus'' on an NES after storming off from dinner.

* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: Although he barely knows Bowser, he was scared of him [[spoiler:and gets beatdown by him during the battle on Brooklyn. But after seeing his commercial glitching and repeating the words "Save Brooklyn", Mario loses his fear and faces Bowser despite his injuries.]]

* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: Luigi is the most scared by Bowser, especally since he was interogated by him to get info about Mario. [[spoiler: After hiding himself in a dumbster in Brooklyn, Luigi sees his brother Mario, ready to fight Bowser, which motives him to protect him with a manhole and to join him to catch the super star and defeat the evil Koopa King]].

* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: Although he barley knows Bowser, he was scared of him [[spoiler: and gets beatdown by him during the batlle on Brooklyn. But after seeing his commerical glitching and repeating the words "save Brooklyn", Mario loses his fear and faces Bowser despite his injuries.]]

* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: Although he barley knows Bowser, he was scared of him [[spoiler: and gets beatdown by him during the batlle on Brooklyn. But after hiding in the pizzeria and seeing his commerical glitching and repeating the words "save Brooklyn", Mario loses his fear and faces Bowser despite his injuries.]]

* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: Although he barley knows Bowser, he was scared of him and gets beatdown by him during the batlle on Brooklyn. But after hiding in the pizzeria and seeing his commerical glitching and repeating the words "save Brooklyn", Mario loses his fear and faces Bowser despite his injuries.

* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: Luigi is the most scared by Bowser, especally since he was interogated by him to get info about Mario. After hiding himself in a dumbster in Brooklyn, Luigi sees his brother Mario, ready to fight Bowser, which motives him to protect him with a manhole and to join him to catch the super star and defeat the evil Koopa King.

-->'''Mario:''' ''[to Spike]'' Say that again about my brother and you're gonna regret it!
** After spending most of the movie as a DistressedDude and always having Mario defend him since they were little kids, Luigi finally starts displaying his protective instincts towards his older brother in the climax by [[spoiler:shielding Mario from Bowser’s fire breath with a manhole cover.]]

* EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler:The Mario Bros. use the Super Star [[HoistByHisOwnPetard that Bowser stole against him]] to thrash the Koopa King and his army while they’re in a wrecked-up Brooklyn.]]

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: {{Defied|Trope}} - the film is one of the few ''Super Mario Bros.'' works where the brothers are shown doing plumbing work, so much so that it's the primary focus of the first act. The entire plot is kicked off when they try to address a burst pipe and accidentally get sucked into the Mushroom Kingdom.

** Mario's arrival in the Mushroom Kingdom kickstarts a series of events [[spoiler:which lead to Bowser's defeat.]] His determination to find and rescue Luigi impresses Peach enough that she allows him to accompany her on her journey to the Kong Kingdom to recruit Cranky and his army. Mario fights and beats Donkey Kong, the champion and Cranky's son, earning Peach another ally against Bowser. [[spoiler:Even when the Kongs are captured by Bowser, and it seems that Mario and Donkey Kong have died, the pair escape the Maw-Ray which swallowed them and begin an assault on Bowser’s army, disrupting his wedding and rescuing Luigi and the prisoners. Mario then proceeds to save the Mushroom Kingdom from being blown up when Bowser launches a Bomber Bill.]]
** Luigi may have been chased, captured and tortured the moment he arrives in the Mushroom Kingdom, [[spoiler:but he still plays a significant part in Bowser’s downfall. In the climax, Bowser is ''dangerously'' close to winning: Donkey Kong is incapacitated and all Peach can do whilst restrained is knock the Super Star towards Mario with a Koopa shell. In a last ditch attempt to prevent Mario from getting said Star, Bowser shoots a stream of fire breath at him. It’s ''Luigi'' who ruins Bowser's chances of victory by way of shielding Mario and himself with a manhole cover. This action buys the Bros enough time to grab the Super Star and save Brooklyn.]]

* ThisLoserIsYou: Both brothers still live with their parents, are social outcasts and find themselves out of their depth when it comes to the crunch. Traits like these are commonly associated with video game enthusiasts.

* UnskilledButStrong: Applies to them both in different extremes - Mario is quite powerful, but he is at first overconfident and lacks technique since he hasn't yet gone on any of his famous adventures or learned any of his iconic moves. Over the course of his adventure, though, he picks up many skills that allow him to use his strength properly; for example, [[spoiler:once he picks up a Super Bell to help his reflexes, he delivers blow after blow to Donkey Kong, knocking the ape out.]] Meanwhile, while Luigi is even more uncoordinated, he nonetheless holds off a horde of Dry Bones while stranded in the Dark Lands, pulls off a ContainerCling [[spoiler:that ends up saving his life after the bottom of his prison cell melts in lava,]] and even hold his ground against [[spoiler:Bowser's fire BreathAttack with only a manhole cover and sheer force.]] By the end of the film, [[spoiler:the two of them are an unstoppable force against Bowser and his entire army after powering up with the Super Star.]]
* VagueAge: It's not entirely clear how old the brothers are supposed to be. They're grown men (though unusually short) with thick mustaches, that are long out of high school (if you look at the pictures in their dining room, one pictures the bros wearing graduation hats, so they apparently went to a university) and apprenticed and became qualified plumbers (which takes a few years) and worked for Spike (presumably as part of his wrecking crew) for a while before starting their own business, but their parents are on the tail end of middle-aged, their uncles look to be in their early forties, their cousin still seems to be a young child and at least one of their grandfathers is still alive (although notably very old and needing help feeding himself). They also still seem to live in their childhood bedroom (and have an 80s-era game console running on a CRT television presumably from their childhood yet it's seemingly the present day) and their life savings combined could only get them a rather poor quality television commercial. The best guess would be the mid-to-late-20s if their parents had them at a relatively young age and their game consoles and television were hand-me-downs.

* WorkingClassHero: They blew their entire life savings starting their own plumbing business and their commercial and van is of low quality. Said investment managed to lead to a series of events where they became heroes in another world [[spoiler:and later their own]].

* FiveFiveFive: Their plumbing [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q291GlSQwT8&feature=youtu.be advertisement]] features Mario and Luigi's plumbing number as 929-55-Mario, which serves Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. In the film itself, the area code is 917, which encapsulates all five boroughs.

* PrettyBoy: He is often shown to be this, especially without his hat.

* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: After getting slapped around a lot, Mario grabs a Super Bell to become Cat Mario as seen in ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld''. While it doesn't seem to affect his strength much, it gives him cat-like reflexes, which he uses to effortlessly dodge Donkey Kong's attacks and retaliate with powerful blows of his own. Later, upon losing his Super Mushroom, Mario grabs a Tanooki Suit from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', which he uses to divert a giant Banzai Bill away from the Mushroom Kingdom.

* BullyHunter: Mario's spent his whole life (literally, going by the flashback to when the Bros were babies) standing up to bullies to protect his little brother, and this likely informs his decision to stand up to Bowser after arriving in the Mushroom Kingdom, seeing him as another bully that's going after people weaker than him including Luigi and the entire Mushroom Kingdom.

* DubPersonalityChange: In the "Super Japanese version" Mario is more uncertain of himself, and treats the [[spoiler:Bomber Bill]] as a WorthyOpponent. Also, no one makes fun of his height.

* InASingleBound: At first, Mario's jumping ability is quite underwhelming. When he first obtains a Super Mushroom, it boosts the power of his jumps quite a bit. By the end of the film, Mario has learned acrobatics that would make an olympian proud and performs an impressively high jump without the aid of the Super Mushroom to enter a pipe in the epilogue.

* StoutStrength: Mario is a head shorter than his brother, but is indicated to be the stronger of the two thanks to his desire to protect his brother. [[spoiler:He managed to drag an unconscious Donkey Kong to the surface of the water ''by his tie'', even though the Kong must weigh three times as much as he does.]]

* HypocriticalHeartwarming: [[DownplayedTrope Very subtly]] - he's visibly second-hand embarrassed when Luigi is trying to stand up to Spike on his behalf and [[NotHelpingYourCase only making him an easier target]], but [[BigBrotherInstinct goes dead serious]] the instant the bullying is directed to Luigi. He also takes it in stride when their uncles are lightheartedly busting both their balls at the dinner table, cluing in the audience that they're in the circle of people "allowed" to rag on him, and only storms away from the dinner table when told that his brother is suffering thanks to him.

* HypocriticalHeartwarming: [[DownplayedTrope Very subtly]] - he's visibly second-hand embarrassed when Luigi is trying to stand up to Spike on his behalf and [[NotHelpingYourCase only making him an easier target]], but [[BigBrotherInstinct goes dead serious]] the instant the bullying is directed to Luigi. He also takes it in stride when their uncles are lightheartedly busting both their balls at the dinner table, cluing in the audience that they're in the circle of people "allowed" to rag on him.

'''Mario Bros.''' | [[Characters/SMBMMushroomKingdom Mushroom Kingdom]] | [[Characters/SMBMDarkLands Dark Lands]] ([[Characters/SMBMBowser Bowser]]) | [[Characters/SMBMEveryoneElse Everyone Else]]-]]]]]

* HypocriticalHeartwarming: [[DownplayedTrope Very subtly]] - he's visibly second-hand embarrassed when Luigi is trying to stand up to Spike on his behalf and [[NotHelpingYourCase only making him an easier target]], but [[BigBrotherInstinct goes dead serious]] the instant the bullying is directed to Luigi. He also takes it in stride when their uncles are lightheartedly busting their balls at the dinner table, cluing in the audience that they're in the circle of people "allowed" to rag on him.

* HeightAngst: He doesn't appreciate attention being called to how short he is. He's quite pleased when the Super Mushroom makes him taller.

'''Mario Bros.''' | [[Characters/SMBMMushroomKingdom Mushroom Kingdom]] | [[Characters/SMBMDarkLands Dark Lands]] | [[Characters/SMBMEveryoneElse Everyone Else]]-]]]]]

-->'''Mario:''' ''[to Peach]]'' You know what? Make fun of me all you want, ''but you're gonna help me find my brother.'' ...Please?

-->'''Mario:''' Say that again about my brother and you're gonna regret it!

* DeathGlare: Both brothers sport this in their plumbing commercial as Mario demonstrates how he fixes a sink and Luigi plunges an overflowing sink. [[spoiler:This is their default expression in the climax upon using the Super Star power-up as they dispatch Bowser's army and waylay Bowser. Mario especially has an absolutely ''livid'' expression as he and Luigi are about to punch Bowser into his castle.]]

-->'''Mario:''' You know what? Make fun of me all you want, ''but you're gonna help me find my brother.'' ...Please?

* DeathGlare: Both brothers sport this in their plumbing commercial as Mario demonstrates how he fixes a sink and Luigi plunges an overflowing sink. [[spoiler:This is their default expression in the climax upon using the Super Star power-up as they dispatch Bowser's army and punch Bowser. Mario especially has an absolutely ''livid'' expression as he and Luigi are about to punch Bowser into his castle.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: He starts as UnskilledButStrong and suffers various AmusingInjuries upon arriving in the world of the Mushroom Kingdom and in obstacle course training. Eventually, he grows accustomed to the unexplainable gravity phenomena of the new world he's entered and is shown completing the obstacle course by punching through a wooden cutout of Bowser. By the time he puts on a Tanooki Suit, he has a much more focused facial expression as he deftly zigzags through the air.

* DeathGlare: Both brothers sport this in their plumbing commercial as Mario demonstrates how he fixes a sink and Luigi plunges an overflowing sink. [[spoiler:This is their default expression in the climax upon using the Super Star power-up as they dispatch Bowser's army and punch Bowser. Mario especially has an absolutely ''livid'' expression as he and Luigi prepare to punch Bowser into his castle.]]

* DeathGlare: He sports this in his plumbing commercial while demonstrating how he fixes a sink. [[spoiler:In the finale, while powered by the Super Star, he has an absolutely ''livid'' expression when he and Luigi punch Bowser into his castle.]]

* DeathGlare: Sports an effective one while he's plunging an overflowing sink during the SMB Plumbing commercial. [[spoiler:After getting the Super Star power-up, it’s his default expression as he dispatches Bowser's army and punches the Koopa King himself into oblivion.]]

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