Mario
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Mario is the titular protagonist of a long-running series of videogames, and is generally regarded as the most famous of all videogame protagonists, if not the very first of them. The Super Mario franchise is vast, covering decades of games, with brief forays into cartoons and comics, but the fundamental plot has remained consistent and he remains a surprisingly well-liked character.
His most ancient backstory, which has technically never been retconned, is that Mario and his less famous brother Luigi are Italian-American plumbers who accidentally stumbled into a dimensional portal whilst trying to unclog a drain. This stranded them in the magical Mushroom Kingdom, which was being invaded by the evil Koopa Kingdom, led by a monstrous turtle-dragon-thing called King Bowser Koopa. Although Mario and Luigi beat up Bowser and rescued Princess Peach Toadstool, the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom, Bowser vowed revenge, and they found themselves drafted thereafter as the chosen ones of the Mushroom Kingdom.
He is most relevant to /tg/ for the fact that at least two attempts to create a roleplaying game set in the Super Marioverse exist: