It's pretty wild how bootlicky Japan is to America, especially in the 80s and 90s. They even started doing the American thing of making all their heroes the colour of the American flag. Both Mario and Sonic use a red, white and blue colour pallet like Spider-Man or Superman.
Sonic was assembled like Poochie the Dog and his personality was modeled after Bill Clinton (no joke) so that tracks. Knowing way too much about old video games I can say for certain that Mario's look mostly came from making the most of a super limited color palette and green or blue would blend in with backgrounds.
Probably from the art for Super Mario USA which was the Japanese version of the western version of Super Mario Bros 2. It was a Japanese only release but Nintendo would sometimes use that artwork for July 4th issues of Nintendo Power or for their post 9/11 article.
Edit: I'm wrong. It's not from there and I can't find the image. I know what you're talking about and can remember it too but I can't find it at all. There is an America suit in smash ultimate and I think it's from Odyssey but I could be wrong. Also found this:
It's pretty wild how bootlicky Japan is to America, especially in the 80s and 90s. They even started doing the American thing of making all their heroes the colour of the American flag. Both Mario and Sonic use a red, white and blue colour pallet like Spider-Man or Superman.
Sonic was assembled like Poochie the Dog and his personality was modeled after Bill Clinton (no joke) so that tracks. Knowing way too much about old video games I can say for certain that Mario's look mostly came from making the most of a super limited color palette and green or blue would blend in with backgrounds.
I swear I have a memory from the 90s of Mario dressed like Uncle Sam
Probably from the art for Super Mario USA which was the Japanese version of the western version of Super Mario Bros 2. It was a Japanese only release but Nintendo would sometimes use that artwork for July 4th issues of Nintendo Power or for their post 9/11 article.
Edit: I'm wrong. It's not from there and I can't find the image. I know what you're talking about and can remember it too but I can't find it at all. There is an America suit in smash ultimate and I think it's from Odyssey but I could be wrong. Also found this:
And
mario has fumbs:(
Interesting lmao that AI is cursed