Mario

[Update, Fri 11th March, 2022]

Looks like the tweet below has been deleted, but we'll leave the link there for posterity. Here's the original image that was in the tweet, just for reference:

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Image: Supper Mario Broth

[Original: Thu 10th March, 2022]

"It's-a-me, Mario!" Oh, yeah. That's what you'd like us to believe, isn't it? No one's ever seen Mario's birth certificate, which means we all love to speculate on his last name. Sometimes, it's Mario... as in, Mario Mario and Luigi Mario, the Mario Bros. And sometimes, it's not Mario Mario.

https://twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog/status/1501971040137846790

Largely, Mario's last name has been Mario. But the brief periods in which his last name is not Mario — although no alternative has been suggested — are not insignificant. The most interesting one is the three-year period after which Satoru Iwata, former Nintendo President and CEO, stated categorically that Mario's last name was NOT Mario, but after Iwata's death in 2015, Shigeru Miyamoto returned us to the canonical Mario Mario.

Although, WAIT, plot twist: Shigsy actually said that Mario didn't have a last name in 2012!! THE CONSPIRACY CONTINUES.

Anyway. We all know that Mario's last name is 64, and Luigi's last name is Mansion.