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**Maybe the boys could be Mario and Luigi's ancestors. Dick and Luigi look to be about the same height.
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** The odd skin color suggests ''[[WesternAnimation/RolandAndRattfink Rattfink]]''.
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** Nope, sorry. The Joker debuted in 1940, two years before Dan Backslide. However, they might have based some of Jokers later mannerisms on him, since the original version was a lot more subdued.
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** Related to the above, the short has a SharedUniverse with ''Super Mario Bros'', and is set 90 years before [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong the first game in the series]], with Mario and Luigi being descended from the moustachioed red-shirted guy in the opening, Wario being descended from the bartender in Dan Backslide’s introductory scene, Peach (And possibly Daisy) being descended from Dora Standpipe, and Waluigi being descended from Dan Backslide. But that begs another question: How do the Dover Boys themselves fit in this?
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** Related to the above, the short has a SharedUniverse with ''Super Mario Bros'', and is set 90 years before [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong the first game in the series]], with Mario and Luigi being descended from the moustachioed red-shirted guy in the opening, Wario being descended from the bartender in Dan Backslide’s introductory scene, Peach (And possibly Daisy) being descended from Dora Standpipe, and Waluigi being descended from Dan Backslide. But that begs another question: How do the Dover Boys themselves fit in this?
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They look almost identical aside from the skin color, and different shaped mustaches. They both even wear purple clothing. Though that begs the question: Does that give Waluigi a definitive surname?
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They look almost identical aside from the skin color, and different shaped mustaches. They both even wear purple clothing. Though that begs the question: Does that give Waluigi a definitive surname?surname?
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I mean, odd skin color, purple suit, shouts a whole bunch, LargeHam, doesn't really fight. [[ComicBook/TheJoker Sound familiar?]]
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I mean, odd skin color, purple suit, shouts a whole bunch, LargeHam, doesn't really fight. [[ComicBook/TheJoker Sound familiar?]]familiar?]]
[[WMG: Dan Backslide is [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Waluigi]]’s ancestor]]
They look almost identical aside from the skin color, and different shaped mustaches. They both even wear purple clothing. Though that begs the question: Does that give Waluigi a definitive surname?
[[WMG: Dan Backslide is [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Waluigi]]’s ancestor]]
They look almost identical aside from the skin color, and different shaped mustaches. They both even wear purple clothing. Though that begs the question: Does that give Waluigi a definitive surname?
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[[WMG: Dan Backslide is an alcoholic]]
Given that he's at a saloon in the middle of the day and the barkeeper is quick to serve up the shots, it's not too much of a stretch to say Dan Backslide is [[TheAlcoholic a drunkard]] in addition to all his other unsavory traits. We, the viewer, have no idea how long he'd been at the saloon nor how much he'd had before getting there. The sickly green skin tone, thinness, and generally unhealthy look fits the Temperance Movement's stereotype of an alcoholic wreck. [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy Being impaired by booze]] might also explain why the ''conveniently'' placed roundabout happened to be there for the stealing since, going off the previous WMG, it's actually his own and he'd forgotten that fact.
Given that he's at a saloon in the middle of the day and the barkeeper is quick to serve up the shots, it's not too much of a stretch to say Dan Backslide is [[TheAlcoholic a drunkard]] in addition to all his other unsavory traits. We, the viewer, have no idea how long he'd been at the saloon nor how much he'd had before getting there. The sickly green skin tone, thinness, and generally unhealthy look fits the Temperance Movement's stereotype of an alcoholic wreck. [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy Being impaired by booze]] might also explain why the ''conveniently'' placed roundabout happened to be there for the stealing since, going off the previous WMG, it's actually his own and he'd forgotten that fact.
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[[WMG: Dan Backslide Backslide's alcoholism is an alcoholic]]
the reason he failed in his plan]]
Given that he's at a saloon in the middle of the day and the barkeeper is quick to serve up the shots, it's not too much of a stretch to say Dan Backslide is [[TheAlcoholic a drunkard]] in addition to all his other unsavory traits. We, the viewer, have no idea how long he'd been at the saloon nor how much he'd had before getting there. The sickly green skin tone, thinness, and generally unhealthy look fits the Temperance Movement's stereotype of an alcoholic wreck. His drinking habit has adversely affected his scheme to force Dora into marrying him, since [[AlcoholInducedIdiocyBeing being impaired by booze]] likely caused he to misjudge her ability to defend her virtues. It might also explain why the ''conveniently'' placed roundabout happened to be there for the stealing since, going off the previous WMG, it's actually his own and he'd forgotten that fact.
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Given that he's at a saloon in the middle of the day and the barkeeper is quick to serve up the shots, it's not too much of a stretch to say Dan Backslide is [[TheAlcoholic a drunkard]] in addition to all his other unsavory traits. We, the viewer, have no idea how long he'd been at the saloon nor how much he'd had before getting there. The sickly green skin tone, thinness, and generally unhealthy look fits the Temperance Movement's stereotype of an alcoholic wreck. His drinking habit has adversely affected his scheme to force Dora into marrying him, since [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy
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[[WMG: Dan Backslide is an alcoholic]]
Given that he's at a saloon in the middle of the day and the barkeeper is quick to serve up the shots, it's not too much of a stretch to say Dan Backslide is [[TheAlcoholic a drunkard]] in addition to all his other unsavory traits. We, the viewer, have no idea how long he'd been at the saloon nor how much he'd had before getting there. The sickly green skin tone, thinness, and generally unhealthy look fits the Temperance Movement's stereotype of an alcoholic wreck. [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy Being impaired by booze]] might also explain why the ''conveniently'' placed roundabout happened to be there for the stealing since, going off the previous WMG, it's actually his own and he'd forgotten that fact.
Given that he's at a saloon in the middle of the day and the barkeeper is quick to serve up the shots, it's not too much of a stretch to say Dan Backslide is [[TheAlcoholic a drunkard]] in addition to all his other unsavory traits. We, the viewer, have no idea how long he'd been at the saloon nor how much he'd had before getting there. The sickly green skin tone, thinness, and generally unhealthy look fits the Temperance Movement's stereotype of an alcoholic wreck. [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy Being impaired by booze]] might also explain why the ''conveniently'' placed roundabout happened to be there for the stealing since, going off the previous WMG, it's actually his own and he'd forgotten that fact.
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It just ''happened'' to contain clothes that fit him perfectly in the trunk and just ''happened'' to be purple like his suit. Not to mention Dan being an IneffectualSympatheticVillain would make it pretty in-character for him to steal something that originally belonged to him by mistake.
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It just ''happened'' to contain clothes that fit him perfectly in the trunk and just ''happened'' to be purple like his suit. Not to mention Dan being an IneffectualSympatheticVillain would make it pretty in-character for him to steal something that originally belonged to him by mistake.mistake.
[[WMG: Dan Backslide is an early version of a different fictional villain]]
I mean, odd skin color, purple suit, shouts a whole bunch, LargeHam, doesn't really fight. [[ComicBook/TheJoker Sound familiar?]]
[[WMG: Dan Backslide is an early version of a different fictional villain]]
I mean, odd skin color, purple suit, shouts a whole bunch, LargeHam, doesn't really fight. [[ComicBook/TheJoker Sound familiar?]]
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[[WMG: The Runabout was Dan Backslide's all along]]
It just ''happened'' to contain clothes that fit him perfectly in the trunk and just ''happened'' to be purple like his suit. Not to mention Dan being an IneffectualSympatheticVillain would make it pretty in-character for him to steal something that originally belonged to him by mistake.
It just ''happened'' to contain clothes that fit him perfectly in the trunk and just ''happened'' to be purple like his suit. Not to mention Dan being an IneffectualSympatheticVillain would make it pretty in-character for him to steal something that originally belonged to him by mistake.
