For questions about the speculative fiction aspects of the Super Mario Bros. franchise from video game publisher Nintendo. The franchise consists mainly of video games, but also includes TV series and films released in 1993 and 2023. The first game was Donkey Kong, a 1981 arcade game, which was followed by other games, including the 1983 arcade game Mario Bros. Characters in the Super Mario Bros. universe include tradesman brothers Mario and Luigi.
Use this tag for questions about speculative fiction aspects of the Super Mario Bros. franchise from video game publisher Nintendo. The franchise consists mainly of video games, but also includes TV series and films released in 1993 and 2023. The first game was Donkey Kong, a 1981 arcade game, which was followed by other games, including the 1983 arcade game Mario Bros.
The main heroes of the franchise are Italian-American brothers Mario and Luigi who typically work as plumbers or, occasionally, at some other blue-collar trade, and their battles both at home and in parallel universes. Other notable characters in the franchise include the princesses Peach and Daisy, Bowser, Spike, Yoshi, Toad, Birdo, and Donkey Kong. The universe includes science fiction or fantasy elements such as intelligent dinosaurs, space travel, space stations, capes that allow the wearer to fly, magic carpets, ghosts and haunted houses, flowers that enable a person to shoot fireballs from their hands, mushrooms that can double a person's height in less than a second, and musical instruments that can teleport a person.
For questions specifically about the 1993 live-action feature film Super Mario Bros., also use the tag super-mario-bros-1993.
Please keep in mind that gameplay mechanics questions (e.g. "How do I make Mario shoot a fireball in Super Mario Brothers 3 for the NES?") are off-topic here but are likely on-topic at our sister site Arqade.
