Editing Mario (section)

==Physical description and traits==
[[File:Mario NSMB2.png|thumb|left|x180px|Mario seen in his traditional trademark outfit, as seen in artwork for ''New Super Mario Bros. 2'']]
Mario's distinctive look is due to technology restrictions in the 1980s: with a limited number of pixels and colors, the programmers could not animate Mario's movement without making his arms "disappear" if his shirt was a solid color; they did not have the space to give him a mouth; and they could not animate hair, so Mario got overalls, a [[mustache]], and a cap to bypass these problems. Mario's creator Shigeru Miyamoto has also stated when interviewed that Mario wears a cap because he finds it difficult to draw hair, the same reason Mario and Luigi have mustaches.

When Mario was first conceived, he looked, more or less, as he does today: a short, plump man with the trademark hat, brown hair, black mustache and overalls. He normally wears blue overalls on top of a red shirt, but such was not always the case. Originally, he wore red overalls on top of a blue shirt &ndash; almost exactly the opposite of what he wears now. The Famicom version of [[Mario Bros. (game)|Mario Bros.]] was the first game to depict Mario with blue overalls and a red undershirt (Although on the boxart he was depicted entirely in blue); however, it was ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' that standardized today's blue overalls-on-red shirt outfit. (Incidentally, the original ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' has neither in-game; Mario wears a brown shirt with red overalls). Mario's outfit rarely changes, though he's known to change it on occasion if the situation calls for it. For example, in ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'', Mario wore short sleeves instead of his usual long sleeved shirt, and could even forgo this entirely in favor of a more tropical shirt design worn over his normal shirt, which he always wore with sunglasses. When Mario appeared in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', his clothing was much more realistic than it was in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]''
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