How OLD is Mario?

Mario is probably the most famous character from all of gaming. But Nintendo have Nintendo revealed one important fact about Mario: his age! Just how old is Mario? Today, I'm digging through the evidence to find out!
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[@ThomasGameDocs]

The real question is, how old is Thomas Game Docs. I'm actually 400.

[@YahyaDustagheer]

Your video was excellent! I appreciate it

[@Giorno_Giovanna012]

Lol

[@miepstrean]

I never would've guessed

[@veracious..]

wow!

[@Cliffordlonghead]

D a must

[@Rogeryoo]

Can't believe Mario has over 35 years of experience under his 25 years of life. Truly an inspiration.

[@bootortle]

Finally, a good resumé

[@calebopossum5023]

And Sonic has 31 years experience under 15 years of his life too.

[@pasalasaga]

@@calebopossum5023 Sonic is 16

[@calebopossum5023]

I was Close, Mario is older than Sonic in real life and in game canon 😂 confirmed

[@michaelcarlton1484]

@@pasalasaga Technically, if you count the games since Generations and the time-skip in Forces, Sonic should be 17.

[@AllTheMimsy]

In Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, Baby Mario and Baby Luigi are able to toddle around (and use hammers and fireballs) (12 - 15 months old) while Peach is only capable of crawling (7 - 10 months old), which puts her at slightly younger than the Mario Bros. if you want to be hyper specific.

[@mookieyomu7285]

Ah yes, the known age for babies to use fireballs.

[@KT-rp9tx]

Ah yes, the known age to give babies to give babies huge hammers

[@URFTBOUND4LIFE]

@@mookieyomu7285 I remember my first attempt at using fireballs.... Good times

[@skullerclawerbandicoot7966]

The Pokemon fanbase is cancer

[@guy-sl3kr]

I'd say that Mario and Luigi are 2 years+ in that game because they can walk around everywhere without assistance. Not just toddling, but steady and upright walking.

[@desperado_Outlaw]

I like to imagine that each Mario game only takes place like a week apart lol

[@-themightymittens-]

Poor Mario just can't catch a break lol

[@desperado_Outlaw]

@@-themightymittens- lol, no he can’t

[@BenjaMan64]

@@-themightymittens- Well, he does travel a lot and collects a lot of coins per adventure, so it's worth it. If Wario wants money, he should just adventure more like Mario.

[@crimsonxvamp]

bowser, give the guy a break fr

[@creeper_was_here]

yea it makes sencse and 4 donkey kong game its been a year

[@CarelessFoolFallsFlat]

Mario is both middle-aged and 25, it's just that life expectancy in the Mushroom Kingdom is around the early 50s.

[@otherrad1240]

This comment may be a bit joke of a joke, but that actually kinda makes sense.

[@gregheffley5745]

Actually life expectancy is eternal. That's why Mario never ages, and BTW he's actually 17.

[@boghund]

@@otherrad1240 joke of a joke

[@Nick-up5wv]

Actually I think ORIGINALLY Mario WAS Middle-aged and doesn't age while in the Mushroom Kingdom. If he left he probably would rapidly age and die like a vampire. Now however I think the arcade Mario is Mario and Luigi's father and that's why they're the same age as Peach.

[@gregheffley5745]

@@Nick-up5wv If Mario did agewhile outside the mushroom kingdom, by the time I beat Mario Odyssey he'd be older than my great grandparents if he started the run at 17.

[@DrMechano]

E. Gadd also corroborates this. In Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time, E. Gadd moves from Thwomp Volcano to Boo Woods in the past - while Mario and Luigi are babies. In Luigi's Mansion, he claims he's been studying the Boo Woods for *twenty years.* Intentional or not, the events in these two games line up perfectly, since this places the "past" segments in Partners in Time twenty years ago, making Mario and Luigi in their twenties.

[@montrosen2458]

Cool insight! In Luigi's Mansion though, E Gadd says he's lived in the Boo Woods since he "was a lad of twenty or so", and in the game's end Gadd remarks his ghost research career has spanned sixty years. In PiT, he expresses an interest in ghost research after the Thowmp Volcano eruption.

[@larniieplayz6285]

@@montrosen2458 so he’s like so he’s like 80?

[@URFTBOUND4LIFE]

Mario and Luigi isn't canon though. In fact, NONE of the Mario spin-offs we're ever canon except the first Yoshi's Island

[@No-vy4jp]

@@URFTBOUND4LIFE Then technically Super Smash Bros and the future yoshi island games (since the first one was also under the name Super Mario World 2) also aren't canon, which breaks most of the ages.

[@mattwo7]

@@URFTBOUND4LIFE Mario doesn't even _have_ canon. It's all fiction-within-fiction as seen in SMB3 and All-Stars and SMB2 was a dream.

[@IamTheHolypumpkin]

Now I feel like I didn't achieve anything in my 26 years of life. I didn't saved any princesses or fought against giant turtles with spikes 😂.

[@Alan_Marin]

*Nor did I go to college either!*

[@Hi-fd4cw]

Baby steps, start out by fighting turtles *without* spikes

[@jorgem.9690]

Don’t worry, maybe one day…

[@skullerclawerbandicoot7966]

The Pokemon fanbase is cancer

[@SuperZacYT]

Ok

[@topazstarv]

I've always liked the theory that 'Jumpman' was Mario's father. It would clear up several discrepancies with ages across the series, specifically concerning mario going from 'middle aged' to '24-25'.

[@straightupanarg6226]

That's supposing that there is anything like a canon to the Mario series, an idea Miyamoto literally laughed it.

[@seandwalsh3]

@@straightupanarg6226 there is a canon to the series. Miyamoto has never laughed at that idea.

[@seandwalsh3]

That theory makes no sense. Mario, according to Miyamoto, was envisioned as being “24-25” at his creation, ie. in Donkey Kong. ‘Jumpman’ and Mario are explicitly the same individual.

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

@@seandwalsh3 Miyamoto called him middle aged in the 80's and referred to him as old man in the 90's. No need to retcon that out of history.

[@seandwalsh3]

@@juststatedtheobvious9633 it’s not retconning out anything. According to Miyamoto, Mario was envisioned as being 24/25 at his creation, that was the one detail Miyamoto was sure of about the character. Mario is explicitly the same person as Jumpman, no need to retcon that out of history.

[@pokepines2516]

Mario and Thomas sure have achieved a lot at 400yrs of age.

[@itsyako9752]

@@abc711d3 I mean, who goes into the comments before finishing the video? You will obviously see spoilers.

[@pokepines2516]

@@abc711d3 you're welcome!

[@catbird0406]

@@itsyako9752 its the comment at the top you see it when clicking on the video Edit: The person that said this didnt know it would be the top though so he isnt in the wrong

[@jacobmorin485]

Hes achieved a lot Just within the two years he was 24 and 25 , besides the games he is a baby, we don’t know what else he did during 22-23 years of life

[@GoodVibeWolf]

YOU SPOILED IT. We can see the top comment while watching the vid

[@deepmind5318]

I really don't think Nintendo is going to ever finalize an age for these characters. They are eternal characters, if they keep selling, they can exist forever without major changes in appearance. I've seen Mario's clothing become more and more realistic though. Like how you can see some stitching together on Mario's overalls, and since smash bros melee, Mario has been wearing Denim (Jeans) like clothing in some of his games. His mustache and hair in Mario Odyssey became far more detailed too. So while Mario will never age, he will become more detailed with each new console generation.

[@blackmario1117]

works for Mickey Mouse

[@deepmind5318]

@@blackmario1117 yes. But I'm excited to see the Mario universe become more detailed with each new game and generation of consoles. Nintendo sure knows how to optimize their games to look much better than what the console is capable of doing. The sequel to breath of the wild already took large steps in terms of their graphics. I couldn't see any jagged or blurry graphics. Maybe Nintendo is using that new A.i technology that makes games look and run better while looking sharp and good.

[@1000-THR]

Even when Mario loses his copyright But then people will make many more fan games But Nintendo will continue making games which are better than all fan games

[@rosencvetanov6129]

@@1000-THR mario is a trademarked character, he won't lose copyright. ever

[@NitroIndigo]

Mario becoming uncanny.

[@mayoshixi]

Oh, I see, Mario getting younger over time makes perfect sense. See, in the older Mario games, when he was an old man, he could only do pathetic jumps and nothing else. Nowadays, in games like Odyssey, he's a full on athlete, since he's gotten younger and is now able to do crazy moves like backflips or triple jumps. So Benjamin Button isn't alone with his case after all.

[@alpcreative2059]

Yeah

[@StarTheTripleDevil]

Maybe but then he should be like 10 in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.

[@StarTheTripleDevil]

Also then Yoshi's Island would be set in the future, not the past.

[@jorgem.9690]

True + he looks pretty young also.

[@TeamBlueToad]

That thumbnail is the absolute definition of priceless.

[@LuckyFunnyArms]

Ya! Hahahaha!

[@Tenjooo]

@@Mario_And_Sonic. stop advertising

[@Mario_And_Sonic.]

@@Tenjooo ok happy Easter 🐇

[@Eldoofus]

Haha Santa Mario

[@BBWahoo]

Daddio

[@WellToastedBagel]

Mario is forever roughly a 45 year old dude to me, lmao. It makes Mario's inherently goofy nature even funnier to me.

[@Headless_Toil2418]

Lmao, this makes him seem even more goofy and weird Mainly because he jumps really high and basically does stuff that would make 45 year olds yell "ow my back"

[@MangoesBangoesicup]

never really gave any thought to Mario's age tbh

[@greenamogus]

@@Headless_Toil2418 tobey

[@Headless_Toil2418]

@@greenamogus what does that mean

[@greenamogus]

@@Headless_Toil2418 it’s a reference to tobey maguire in spiderman when he says “my back…. My back”

[@SuperCatPrincess]

Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time actually came out before Yoshi's Island DS (about a year before). It would imply that Princess Peach is slightly younger than Mario and Luigi, since during the game, the baby brothers can walk, wield hammers, speak simple words and phrases (no full sentences though), while Peach cannot and is still in a stroller.

[@ThatOneKaijuFan]

According to the super Mario wiki peach is actually in her early 20s

[@daz6107]

I imagined Mario to be 36-37, I can’t believe he’s that young

[@BBWahoo]

High testosrone, some kids have deep voices by 13, not surprised Marios stache fully bloomed at 26

[@jbsMUWcreations2089]

So do i

[@jorgem.9690]

Makes more since if he’s that young since he can jump high.

[@skullerclawerbandicoot7966]

The Pokemon fanbase is cancer

[@briannawilson8845]

@@BBWahoo I remember reading this Nintendo comic when I was younger where Mario had a fully mustache as a kid. I think it was called "Mario: The Early Years" or something like that.

[@steam-powereddolphin5449]

In _Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door,_ one of the elderly NPCs (who is part of an elderly-people's club called the Silver Club, along with several others) says something along the lines of possibly seeing Mario in the club in another 20 years.

[@Shadistar]

that sounds about right, cause that'd be pretty close to when mario would be able to join the club if he's almost 30

[@asmr_sabri]

@@Shadistar elderly at 46 💀

[@skullerclawerbandicoot7966]

The Pokemon fanbase is cancer

[@Shadistar]

@@asmr_sabri thats not 20 years, I said he's almost 30, so 26+20 would be 56, which is really close to elderly age, so the toad wasnt wrong, wasnt precise but close, off by like 5-10 years but eh

[@bonzods]

@@Shadistar well if he looks 30 then that's al that matters

[@iKiwed]

I can't believe I'm older than Mario As a wise man once said: "Mamma mia."

[@skullerclawerbandicoot7966]

The Pokemon fanbase is cancer

[@dulceylisrangelrivera7691]

just beautiful 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@asackboyplush6508]

"Wahoo"

[@Gelasans]

A wise thing once said "gotta go fast"

[@mareo187]

The 2023 Super Mario Bros film kinda hinted his age and where he stands at. While the film begins as a prequel to his adventures, Mario and Luigi is actually a young guy around in his 20s that recently graduated from College, but wanted to pursue his own business ventures in plumbing with his brother.

[@ianwazowski5607]

They also live with their parents but that doesn't mean anything since it's common among italian households to live with their parents

[@Itsyallanimator]

It Dont got any prequel

[@Sheldon-senpai]

To be fair, the "minor Princess Peach rumor" thing has some sort of base. In the Writer's Bible of the "The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3" cartoon by DiC, Princess Peach's biography (or "Toadstool", as she's called there) states this: "Our indomitable royal heroine is definitely no old-fashioned damsel-in-distress, who does little more than wait to be rescued. She's very much a charming, energetic, contemporary young woman. Chronologically, a *seventeen-year-old*, but with a royal sense of responsibility and noblesse oblige that few teenagers possess." Obviously, this refers to DiC!Peach only, not Canon!Peach, but it's kinda shocking that they're somewhat right (pretty sure it's unintentional since I doubt someone actually knows of the existence of that biography).

[@ThomasGameDocs]

Oh wow, that's super interesting! Thanks for letting me know - perhaps that's also where the talk of Peach being a teenager online comes from, as you say!

[@hyliangames5977]

Sometime around the release of Super Mario Bros it was said Peach is 16 years old if that’s true it means that a 24 year old is dating a 16 year old

[@RabbiB0Y]

@@hyliangames5977 Mario and Peach are just friends according to nintendo

[@VioletLunaChan]

Yeah but the it being Dic-Peach ends this. I would've guessed Peach as around early-mid 20s and Mario in his late 20s-early 30s.

[@Sheldon-senpai]

​@@hyliangames5977 Except no one at Nintendo said Peach is 16. The only "official" source claiming Peach as a minor is the biography I posted before, which only works for the DiC cartoons canon, which almost no one knows about. If someone told you Nintendo established Peach as a teenager, they're either lying or using clickbaity videos/articles as their "source" (which, by the way, can't even state her age consistently, since people can't just decide a number between 15, 16 or 17).

[@pflynn12]

5:19 The thing about twins is that one can be older by a few minutes so that would still make mario older

[@Nick-up5wv]

That's what I've been saying. And as a fitting joke I believe Mario to be "2" minutes older. 😉

[@Taekaleaf]

I have been thinking the same thing lol

[@Kloyster2010]

@@Nick-up5wv I don't get it??

[@mariajimenafigueroa233]

​@@Kloyster2010 Luigi is offen seen as a player 2 character

[@MisticStyles]

I refuse to believe Mario will ever die. If Earth experiences an apocalyptic event and extinction, the next dominant species that eventually replaces Humans will find Mario and embrace him as their deity.

[@Ladondorf]

Not true. Mario has died countless times under my control.

[@MisticStyles]

@@Ladondorf and has always been resurrected. Hence, future deity.

[@KT-rp9tx]

I find it... oddly disturbing, that you are right. Indeed it sounds like some strange religion.

[@KT-rp9tx]

(imagine if we create time travel, send someone forward and they find people worshipping Super Mario, out of everything they could've worshipped)

[@skullerclawerbandicoot7966]

Can you make the Pokemon fanbase not complete cancer?

[@mottdropsie]

I was thinking early 30s, kind of surprised to see they actually stated his age at one point.

[@jorgem.9690]

I was thinking of him being early 20s.

[@coltgun876]

Idc what Nintendo says idk wtf they were smoking, but there's NO WAY IN HELL that he's only in his 20's. I choose to believe that hes in his 30's and Bowser is over 10,000 years old.

[@Vitallor]

@@coltgun876 how does baby bowser work then? It’s not like they age every 1000 years that would make no sense with the timeline plus 26 year olds can have mustaches too nothing else even proves that he’s that old in appearance or voice

[@coltgun876]

@@Vitallor Mario doesn't look or sound 26 at all. And I know 26 year old people have a mustache like cmon.

[@costumfangirlygirl]

I love the fact that Mario and his friends in their mid 20's (except for Bowser and DK because I'm still skeptical of their respective ages and they are freaking species), it teach you to not judge people age based on their appearance alone and I learned that lesson really hard from somewhere else. Who knows when you meet someone with features like they have mustache/beard on their face or taller physique they might be younger than you. That's why I'm rather convinced and stick into "Mario is around 24 or 25 years old" fact despite mix reaction here and there.

[@TheWispGuy]

I mean, Bowser was capable of speach in Yoshi's Island, so he's certainly a bit older than Mario. When it comes to Donkey Kong... well, the arcade DK/Cranky tended to get into a lot of mischief. I like to believe that maybe he, his son, and his wife came across a time machine and accidentally activated it, sending them back in time. They decide to settle on DK Island, and at some point around Yoshi's Island 1/DS, current Donkey Kong is delivered to DK Junior.

[@MrJosemolar]

All the other Mario characters: 24-26 years old Rosalina: Over 100 years old

[@Adventureruler]

6:22 Out of all the cutscenes with Peach, why did you choose the one where she's crying and on the verge of death xD

[@mariajimenafigueroa233]

It's not a cutscene, it's the Japanese commercial of New Super Luigi U

[@Poké-SealTM]

2:06 Miyamoto described Mario as weird!🤣

[@assshaking]

He eats mushrooms to become taller and stronger

[@jorgem.9690]

Lol

[@elijahlothrop7526]

Smg4 doesn't make Mario not just weird, he's STUPID!

[@Ryder-a-Blaze]

Mario’s not old he’s ancient

[@eeeeeee9000]

WOW YOU ARE RIGHT

[@MoonwalkerWorshiper]

What do you mean?

[@skullerclawerbandicoot7966]

The Pokemon fanbase is cancer

[@dragonsalty]

"Is Mario a child?".. lmao, a child with a moustache? xD Edit: 4:48 I stand corrected hahaha

[@Ollie.H-23]

I like the idea of Mario being 25. Mario's first game appearance was in 1981 and Sonic's first game appearance was 1991. Sonic is confirmed to be 15 years old. Since Mario released 10 years before Sonic, I think it would make sense if Mario was 10 years older than Sonic, meaning 25.

[@donkarasu-9644]

Another worthy character to mention is Yoshi. He's pretty much the youngest of the main cast, as he's seen to be born after them at the end of Yoshi's Island DS.

[@JamesTDG]

You kinda have to be hyper-specific, Yoshi can change across the time gap between every game, and we know Yoshis can grow up fast, merely only requiring no more than 1 minute of feeding to have a mature yoshi.

[@hectorsumaoang2320]

omg then who's the green yoshi who found mario and luigi???

[@sokiimoisanegg9520]

To me, mario looks like he's 25 and 40 at the same time haha.

[@vader9860]

I mean Mario first appeared 40 years ago

[@sokiimoisanegg9520]

@@vader9860 so I'm technically not wrong...?

[@MoonwalkerWorshiper]

Change your eyes. Mario has the body figure of a babified cartoon doll. No real life human being has those proportions. You're just looking at a moustache and go "this character has this age".

[@paulgilbert5278]

Yeah take away Mario’s stache and he looks like a kid. Always knew he’d be in his 20s

[@MoonwalkerWorshiper]

@@paulgilbert5278 People in their 20s are not kids.

[@BraxtonKovary]

I'm almost as old as Mario, wtf.

[@HeftyDan]

And how many princesses have you saved? Slacker smh

[@maismade6013]

I’ve been binging your videos from months and years ago for the past week so it’s pretty cool to be on time for once.

[@oddtomato1049]

This made me remember a video i saw a few many years back, apparently it was SwankyBox now that i have looked it up. He calculated Mario's age by adding how long it would take to get hired for as many jobs as Mario had. It's insane how this video got almost as many views in 6 hours than his got in 4 years.

[@kurichan355]

if you want to make both statements canon, you can say that luigi is mario's younger brother... by a few seconds.

[@GmanSir]

In Partners in Time, Baby Mario and Baby Luigi could walk, but not Baby Peach, so she’s at least a tiny bit younger, maybe by a few months.

[@paulamarina04]

girls generally learn to walk earlier than boys do, so the age gap between them is probably bigger than that

[@claudespeed277]

Maybe its because she's a blonde 😂

[@zangoon4546]

I don’t know about most of the characters being similar ages, especially Wario. I always get the vibe that he’s significantly older like early to mid 30s

[@seandwalsh3]

Wario and Mario were always described as childhood friends, so of course they’d be around the same age.

[@JamesTDG]

in some scenarios, people can simply just visually age faster than others, and we know with how unhealthy the Wario bros. are that their bodies are going to deteriorate faster.

[@supercamborg4218]

@@JamesTDG Wario does do a bit of weightlifting, I mean just look at the size of the dumbbells in Wario Land 4 and the Mario Power Tennis intro. He really doesn’t take care of the rest of his body though.

[@gregheffley5745]

Nope, he's eightteen.

[@Taekaleaf]

@Seandwalsh Well some kids could be friends with kids a bit or a lot younger or older than them,but mostly they have similar ages or only have a 1-2 year age gap

[@DefinitivNichtSascha]

I think an even better indicator of Peach's age is *Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time.* In that game, you see Baby Peach being looked after by Toadsworth, who, either has her in a baby carriage, carries her around in his arms, or lets her crawl about on the floor. Unlike Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, or Baby Bowser in that game, she does not seem to be able to walk yet, making her slightly younger than the Bros. All of the characters also seem to be slightly older than in Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's Island DS, as, like I stated above, the Mario Bros. are able to walk, and Baby Bowser speaks in much more coherent sentences than he did in Yoshi's Island. *Yoshi* is also born at the very end of Yoshi's Island DS, being a Star Child as well, making him slightly younger than Peach. Speaking of *Toadsworth;* we also get an official age for him in a newspaper article that exists in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, where he is revealed to be 60 years old.

[@Robert_H.]

My guess is that the timeline is simply the other way around. Currently, Mario's first adventures are released where he is younger, more agile and nimble, while on the N64 and NES his later adventures can be experienced where he is older and less agile and nimble.

[@ReadilyAvailibleChomper]

Thats what I was thinking.

[@ReadilyAvailibleChomper]

What?

[@ReadilyAvailibleChomper]

But I was literally thinking that before I saw the comment.

[@ReadilyAvailibleChomper]

I admit I can be gullible sometimes, but this is not an example of that.

[@Vitallor]

not really because donkey kong(arcade) is referenced in odyssey

[@hakirayleigh]

Nintendo made Mario younger because it could have been creepy if Mario, a 40 years old plumber always wants the the "cake" from a 22 years old princess.

[@GodIAdore]

Mario is Peter Pan in the Mario Universe. He NEVER ages, no one does. Mario and his friends will be 24 or 25 forever.

[@seandwalsh3]

No, they all age. Mario was “24/25” at his debut, but currently he’s around 30.

[@GodIAdore]

@@seandwalsh3 You bring up a very good point. But for fun I still call them children that will never age because you get that warm-hearted feeling from these characters.

[@Teknanam]

@@seandwalsh3 I've seen you saying this throughout the thread, but where exactly is it confirmed that Mario has actually aged past his 24/25 age? Because I don't think they've ever addressed his age since Miyamoto's interview.

[@seandwalsh3]

@@Teknanam Paper Mario: Color Splash, Dr. Luigi, etc. multiple games also mention years passing, which requires Mario ageing past 24/25, which was only stayed to be his age back in Donkey Kong.

[@Teknanam]

@@seandwalsh3 And that confirms him to be around 30 how? For all we know, those years could be just 2. Or it could be reference to years since Mario did something before his 24-25 year mark. Or knowing Nintendo and how little they care about continuity making since under scrutiny, they could just make it so time passes, yet the characters remain the same age. Lets be realistic. A corporation like Nintendo is not going to allow their mascot to age into an old man. Just as Capcom got rid of all the Street Fighter birth years to make those it so they never age and Sega forever keeps Sonic at 15 no matter how illogical it comes off with the acknowledgement of years passing in the games, Mario being 24-25 is most likely a hard rule that can't be broken. At least until Miyamoto decides to age him up.

[@SmokeTheHorsehog]

Imagine that. 25 canonical years of constant adventures, with most of them being within single days.

[@alexpotts6520]

4:44 I love that Mario is about 3 years old here and already has a fully-grown moustache.

[@mariajimenafigueroa233]

The comic says that Mario was born with a full head of hair and a full face

[@DJIncendration]

5:59 Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!

[@themadscarecrow288]

THANK YOU OMG. I'm so tired of people claiming peach is 16

[@IsaacHND]

also it would be kinda illegal if she was 16 😳

[@Wonkothenormal]

@@IsaacHND Depends of where you are in this world. In many countries the age of consent is 15 or 16. But anyway would that ever stop rule 34 weirdoes.

[@mariajimenafigueroa233]

People on the internet keep telling lies to get attention Remember to always do your research

[@RedAnimationsYT]

waluigi being 24-25 years old makes me uncomfortable

[@Dado_nastro]

Same, why can't he be 30?

[@jbsMUWcreations2089]

@@Dado_nastro or 40?

[@supersabobros]

Even if Mario gets old, I'll still remember him after all these years!!

[@CharcoalRabbit]

It’s a surprise a lot of characters from this franchise is about the same age.

[@jorgem.9690]

Same a thought bowser would be way older than Mario.

[@sledgen.]

I just wanna know how mario has had all of these adventures in such a short amount of time

[@Dado_nastro]

Simple, mario is a speedrunner

[@Dan_-]

"You're right, Ferb. It does seem like more than 104 days." -- Phineas

[@ericb5328]

Each game takes place over the course of a week or so

[@ThatOneKaijuFan]

I feel bad for anyone who believed 6:56

[@ZyNye2011]

So do I

[@globingoblin]

8:36 Oh right, I forgot that render existed

[@dstinnettmusic]

Mario is 28. That is my head cannon. He is old enough that he definitely isn’t a kid, and he is old enough that he works a skilled trade and and is good enough to run his own business with his older brother, Luigi. But he isn’t so old that I would call him “middle aged”. Some kids might call him a boomer, but if we’re a real person in 2022, he would remember Rugrats and Hey Arnold! As being favorite childhood cartoons.

[@madnessarcade7447]

He’s 25

[@seandwalsh3]

Recent games indicate that he’s 30. He was 24-25 at his debut, the games take place over the course of a few years, so he has aged.

[@jeshuarestituyo284]

@@seandwalsh3 no no recent games have said he’s 30, he was stated to be 24 or his early 20s

[@TheAlmightyWizardToad]

@@seandwalsh3 The only game I remember calling him 30 was Paper Mario Color Splash. Which was more of an off-hand comment in reference to the age of the series itself rather than Mario's actual age.

[@seandwalsh3]

@@TheAlmightyWizardToad the age of the series was 35 when Paper Mario: Color Splash released, so saying Mario was 30 in reference to the series wouldn’t make sense.

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

But the 'Mario' seen in Donkey Kong is NOT Mario, it's Jumpman, his father/grandfather.

[@Junior-qe8of]

It's just a theory, and pretty shit by the way. Mario and Jumpmam are definitely the same person, as demonstrated multiple times in official/canonical media

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

I'm pretty sure 'Jumpman' is a completely different character with a completely different personality.

[@TheSignatureK]

It really makes sense because if you take away his moustache, he’s got a baby face.

[@ShelbyAQD]

One adjustment I would make here is that Peach is likely 2 or 3 years younger than the Mario brothers based on their depictions in Partners in Time. Therein, Peach is still reliant on adults to carry her, whereas the brothers can walk around, fight semi-effectively, and have some very basic speech skills. Granted, the adults in her life might just be spoiling the princess.

[@gregheffley5745]

No. She isn't. Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy and Rosalina are all seventeen years old.

[@chikamotokenji3217]

Everyone thinks of Mario age 41 : his life since 1981 24 : Miyamoto thinks 26: Nintendo thinks

[@zixserro1]

I have to wonder if the modern Donkey Kong is actually the same age as Mario, or if he's much younger and the Baby DK from Yoshi's Island DS is actually Cranky Kong. It could go either way, really. I kind of wish they'd kept Mario in his mid- to late-30's. His design feels more like a middle-aged man than a guy in his mid-20's. I feel like they only lowered his age to make him seem more youthful and cool, and to make him closer in age to the younger Nintendo audience. That shouldn't matter, though. There are already plenty of teenage and 20's-ish characters (like Link & Samus respectively) in Nintendo's roster to be cool young heroes for their audience. Mario should've just been, like, 37 forever.

[@seandwalsh3]

It is the baby modern Donkey Kong in Yoshi’s Island DS. He is there through time travel. Keep in mind that Yoshi’s Island DS is a time travel story, where the future Bowser and Kamek travel back through time, kidnapping babies in search of the seven Star Children.

[@maruto0710]

Samus is in her late 20 to possibly her early 30s

[@Alan_Marin]

I have a theory that suggests that “Jumpman” was Mario’s father, that would solve all of the middle aged Mario going from “Middle Aged” to “24-25”

[@seandwalsh3]

@@Alan_Marin Jumpman is confirmed to be the same person as Mario.

[@Teknanam]

The initial designs do, but Mario's later designs have a bit of youth. Also I feel like keeping Mario as a middle aged guy only works if Luigi is a more clearly younger brother than just a younger twin. Because Luigi visually looks younger than Mario and has never had that middle aged look. IMO, since Mario is logically never going to be a character showing off how he's past his physical prime, its fine that he's made a younger man.

[@toko90s9]

I don't know what Miyamoto is thinking but no damn 24 year old looks the way Mario does

[@harrypainter7472]

You think a 24 year old can't grow a moustache?

[@jorgem.9690]

He does look young tho.

[@addyhasnothingtodo8711]

Maybe humans in the mushrooms kingdom work different I mean becoming smaller when getting hit umm

[@ZGURemixer]

I'm 17 and currently growing a moustache. It's possible.

[@Aspissim]

When 64 was released Miyamoto described Mario as "an old man doing acrobatics"

[@DeamLinX]

2:55 damn, Mario has even more professions that Johnny Sins

[@thatpersonyoudontknow4509]

5:53 ummm...... Mario and Luigi don't talk in a lot of their games as adults, so....

[@DraegoMH]

Mario... the Johnny Sins of the gaming industry. Or is it Johnny Sins the Mario of adult industry?

[@daddabubbaj]

*Ron Jeremy*

[@acanthafiore]

DK confuses me. I could've sworn there was a statement somewhere, maybe in a Smash Bros trophy or a guide book, that the DK we currently know of, is the descendant of the DK that fought against Mario in the first DK game. Did the baby games just retcon all of that?

[@Super_Top_Secret_Area]

That baby DK was probably Cranky Kong indeed. So, current DK's age is still a mystery. However, Yoshi's Island DS was apparently retconned and replaced by Yoshi's New Island, so it's hard to say for sure.

[@sebastiantheshadowkong8798]

Yoshi's Island DS is a time travel story where Future Bowser and Future Kamek were trying to kidnap all the babies. So Baby DK was taken from a previous timeline to the same timeline when Mario was a baby.

[@aymanaboufarise4346]

@@Super_Top_Secret_Area I thought new yoshis island retconned the first yoshis island

[@aymanaboufarise4346]

Cranky Kong is the dk from the arcades, which means current dk is the son of dk junior

[@lyly_lei_lei]

@@Super_Top_Secret_Area Yoshi’s New Island takes place between Yoshi’s Island and Yoshi’s Island DS.

[@Astaroth73]

"While he's best known as a hero, Mario has played many roles, including racer, doctor, golfer, and villain." Johnny Sins: "finally, a worthy opponent"

[@amozcheng]

Fun fact: 26 years before the release of super smash bros melee’s release(2001), it is 1985( the original Mario game’s release date)

[@mandi9558]

Thomas, something hit me while watching. Would you consider that since Bowser is a reptile, or at least, not the same species as Mario, do you think he ages faster than Mario? Since he is a reptile of some sort, maybe he matures faster than humans, therefore possibly making him younger than Mario despite having increased speech abilities? Great work as always man

[@TheseSetsAreAbsolutelyEpic]

These sets are absolutely incredible! It's insane how far Thomas has come!

[@ZipplyZane]

In Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time (her debut), Baby Peach always seemed a bit younger. She was always in her stroller or had to be carried, as far as I remember, while the other three (the bros and Bowser) could crawl, stand, and walk.

[@Tony_Baloney22]

I wonder how old Rosalina is… Although there is technically a baby Rosalina, it states in Mario galaxy she visits Mario’s planet every 100 years so she must be like a goddess or something…

[@Takumitsuu]

1:40 okay, Marios face is so cursed right there

[@KevX36]

Regardless of the age difference mario, Luigi and peach have to be somewhat similar age

[@Fluffyshot1997]

Mario is 41 years and peach is 18 so...

[@NoGoodNameHelpPLZ]

@@Fluffyshot1997 have you watched the video

[@NoGoodNameHelpPLZ]

@@Fluffyshot1997 he literally went over why people think mario is 41 and peach is 17

[@KevX36]

@@Fluffyshot1997 also in yoshi's iland ds and partner's in time(beforethe time travelling)we see baby mario and baby peach

[@Teknanam]

@@Fluffyshot1997 Comments like this are why you should watch the video before saying anything.

[@Nate_Joe]

Did anyone else find it weird that art of baby Mario and Luigi had mustaches already

[@mariajimenafigueroa233]

Yes

[@racuchnew1360]

6:30 i think marios going to jail

[@BeatInMySkull]

For Bowser, you should have based his age loosely on the lifespan of turtles in real life. Turtle years aren't quite the same as human years. They age much more slowly, so in human years he would probably be WAY older than 24-25

[@livvylisvlog8106]

Also, I personally think that Bowser Jr. is probably about 6 years old since he can talk, goes to school (because in one of the games he called his dad on the phone to inform that he finished most of his homework), and play the Nintendo Switch fairly well (demonstrated in the Nintendo Switch parental controls ad) so that means his age is at about 6. And the rest of the kooplings too, note that the kooplings are adopted by Bowser and Bowser Jr. is his only son.

[@JezElectro13]

i think Weege is 2 years younger then Mario, and that Peach is another year younger, or about the same age, as Luigi. I mean, Peach is definitely slightly younger in Partners in Time. so probably Mario and Wario: 25 Luigi and Waluigi: 23 (before anyone asks, Luigi has the same Birthday as Mario and is his twin but he was just born few years later) Peach: 22-23 Bowser: 26 Edit: realized second i posted it, there are few more characters to tackle here. Daisy: 22-23 (my guess is around same age as Peach) Jr: around 6-12 probably. Koopalings... believe me when i say i used Mario Wiki for that and nothing else really. and yet i'm still guessing. Larry: 16 Morton: 17 Wendy: 17-18 Iggy: 18 Roy: 18-19 Lemmy: 19 Ludwig: 20

[@mariajimenafigueroa233]

That's not how twins work, twins are born on the same day. So Luigi is the same age as Mario

[@JezElectro13]

@@mariajimenafigueroa233 Apparently, while common, it is possible for twins to be born years apart.

[@allcapcomeverything3866]

Miyamoto probably made Mario younger just so that his thing for Peach didn't seem predatory 😂

[@DaniloSantosVieira]

No it's because Japan has an obsession with making every protagonist young. So they changed it to appeal to general japanese standards

[@addyhasnothingtodo8711]

@@ppo1502 it probably because Google is misleading them

[@prizm9515]

The DK in Yoshi's Island DS is actually Cranky Kong, not modern day DK, DK III. Modern day DK is pretty young in his debut in Donkey Kong Country 1, due to DK Jr not maturing until Super Mario Kart.

[@supercamborg4218]

Exactly

[@kaesar69]

In Mario vs Wario Issue 1 from Nintendo Power 44, Wario mentions that he's hated Mario for 20 years and it shows a flashback where they're both depicted to be about 5 or 6 so oddly enough it lines up perfectly with everything else.

[@SunkydotMPEG]

5:21 Until the voice actors for the Mario movie were revealed where Luigi is introduced as "Mario's little brother"

[@mariajimenafigueroa233]

Mario and Luigi are fraternal twins, Luigi is the younger twin

[@joshithehealermii5230]

As a small extra, the Yoshi we see following Mario and company everywhere in both the mainline games and spinoffs (with the exception of the Yoshi games themselves) is very likely the same Star Child Yoshi that's born at the end of Yoshi's Island DS, so we can assume he's around a similar age to the rest of the characters albeit younger due to him just being born at the end of the game.

[@supercamborg4218]

Also it’s incredibly likely that the Baby DK in Yoshi’s Island DS is the first DK, and not the current one, which is DK the third. Mario was an adult when he battled DK (who grew old and became Cranky Kong) and DK Jr, and DK the third had to have been born after the events of the arcade game DK Jr since DK Jr was still a child when he rescued his father and couldn’t have had a child of his own yet to be the modern Donkey Kong.

[@CallmehCat.]

Sonic is basically aging with his game releases

[@Sheldon-senpai]

Except he hasn't aged at all. Sonic's age has been consistently stated as 15 since the first Sonic Adventure. Just don't ask how everything between Adventure and Generations happened only in one year, that would make your brain explode. This changes in, as I said before, Sonic Generations, where he celebrates his birthday, meaning he'll turn 16, right? Wrong, the Sonic Channel still claims he's 15 for some reason. And that's from 2015, which is 4 years later since the release of the game, meaning they had the time to correct that. To put things worse, at the start of Sonic Forces (some time after Generations and Lost World, mind you) Dr. Eggman conquers the world in 6 months. Knowing that Sonic should be 16, shouldn't he be around 17 (give or take a month)? Again, current-day sources say he's 15 to this day. So, yeah, Sonic's age is just as messy as Mario's.

[@CallmehCat.]

@@Sheldon-senpai oh well rip

[@StarTheTripleDevil]

@@Sheldon-senpai Yeah, it's a plot hole that he has a birthday in Generations and is 15 both before and after it. Unless... maybe in Sonic's world, people "age" on New Year's Day instead of their birthdays (kind of like Korean ages). So this way, Sonic's birthday is on June 23rd (which is his official birthday), then the 6 months in Forces are from late June to late December (or maybe even mid-December if the 6 months was rounded down). But still, that doesn't leave time for much to happen after Forces with Sonic still being 15.

[@Sheldon-senpai]

@@StarTheTripleDevil While that being a fun trivia, I highly doubt they age (I think you mean "legally") like that, knowing it's made by Japanese (which don't really have the best relationship with Korea, no matter which one of the two) trying to be as Western as possible. Also, it's six months between the start and the rest of Sonic Forces, let's not forget we still have to count Lost World and Forces after Rookie and Classic's recruitment, meaning it's way more than 6 months, hence my comment of Sonic being around 17.

[@Rumplestiltzchen]

Luigi is younger! In mario maker 2 he says the phrase "big bro" when referring to mario

[@foodham3277]

Twins can be younger and older as they don't pop out at the same time, Mario must of been born a bit before Luigi to be the older brother

[@Platinum0615]

He's a younger twin

[@Rumplestiltzchen]

@@foodham3277 valid! Didn't think about that

[@shady5595]

@@Rumplestiltzchen 🤨

[@shyguymike]

I don't see info from Smash as canon, personally. Middle aged thing in early canon makes way more sense. Not to mention that one line of dialogue from Color Splash that referances him being 30 minimum. "Now I'm begging to see why you've been fighting this Bowser guy for 30 years" ~Huey

[@nintendolife25]

To be fair, it could be a situation similar to the Mario and Peach age comparisons where they are referring to how long the series has been going on rather than his actual age.

[@matthewberry2144]

Color Splash was more of a gag/comedy type of game to be fair. Huey just said 30 years to break the fourth wall basically

[@eeveefennecfox]

pretty sure they comfirmed him to be 25,and when they comfirmed that I was literally the same age at that time when they comfirmed that XD

[@YoshiBowserFanatic]

Yoshi, more specifically Present Day Yoshi, may also be 24-25 years old since he hatched from his egg in Yoshi's Island DS's credits and is part of the Seven Star Children, since all seven of them still meet each other in the present day. Though this means he's probably the youngest out of the seven since while the others are already born and crying, Yoshi just hatched the moment the credits end. The playable Green Yoshi in the Island games (SMW2:YI, YIDS, and YNI) is probably way older than Mario, and is different to Present Day Yoshi since unlike him, he's not a star child. The games without the babies such as YS, YTT, YWW, and YCW may be considered non-canon to the main series timeline. This means the order from youngest to oldest of the Seven Star Children will be... (Youngest) 1. Yoshi (24-25) 2. Peach (24-25) 3. Luigi (24-25) 4. DK (24-25) 5. Mario (24-25) 6. Wario (24-25) 7. Bowser (25-26) (Oldest) But hey, just a theory. ^^

[@lpsgenerationtvlpsgenerati3641]

Heyy i like this! also love your art and yoshi

[@ZyNye2011]

I feel like Luigi's older than DK, but the rest of the list is ok.

[@Nonwayy]

Bro giving me flash backs to matpats ash age video

[@averageplayer1928]

2:20 the most broken smash game out there

[@weebinary]

Also consider that, in the RPG series Mario & Luigi, Baby Mario and Luigi can now say simple sentences, which would make them at least 1 year old, while Baby Peach is still not able to say anything, so she's a few months younger. Also I'd say Baby Bowser is between 4 to 6 in both M&L Partners in Time and Yoshi´s Island.

[@soulgamer8774]

Him: Goes in depth. Me: Just does a quick google search.

[@bluequacker]

It's kind of confusing that Mario is in his mid 20s considering he fought against 3 generations of monkeys (Cranky Kong, Donkey Kong Jr. and Donkey Kong).

[@mouseworks]

How old do monkeys live to?

[@seandwalsh3]

@@mouseworks Kongs how extremely fast maturity rates. They typically grow up in the span of a year or less.

[@seandwalsh3]

He was in his mid 20s when he fought Cranky Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. and late 20s when he fought with modern Donkey Kong. He’s now likely around 30.

[@Nikku4211]

6:04 The thing is, we actually don't know how Bowser's species age. We don't know if they age faster than humans do, or slower than humans do.

[@seandwalsh3]

We actually do know that they age at a similar rate to humans, unlike say Kongs or Goombas, who mature faster.

[@RedLuigiE]

3:54 Not to be mean, you spelled filled wrong.

[@SirGito117]

If I remember right, in the games files for Luigi’s Mansion, there’s an unused ghost file for Luigi’s in the Gameboy Horror, and shows his age as 26

[@barrysmith4610]

Ideally Mario is anywhere between 25-30 and he will never move past that.

[@connordarvall8482]

I remember figuring out that if you worked out Mario's age, you just remember that all other major characters are the same age.

[@skribble-]

tbh it makes more sense for him to be younger rather than a middle aged guy given how athletic and energetic he is

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

Yeah, but he takes fall damage in Donkey Kong, and generally seems fragile as Hell.

[@jorgem.9690]

Agreed

[@jorgem.9690]

@@juststatedtheobvious9633 it’s because during those times he was an older version.

[@Nick-up5wv]

That's only do to wearing the hat though. In the early days Mario wore a different NORMAL hat; proving this is a different Mario altogether. Also according to Mario 64 and Mario 64 DS the Mario hat IS the source of Mario's incredible abilities. I believe his hat is to him what spinach is to Popeye or the sun is to Super Man. Without the hat he's normal; just like his ORIGINAL appearance, explaining why he comes off Middle-aged. He's not really Middle-aged. He's an out of shape Italian plumber from Brooklyn New York created by a Japanese man and forced to dress as frogs, rabbits, and bees, in his never-ending quest to save Taylor swift from a group of angry kidnapping turtle monsters that breath fire 🔥 😳 😀 😄 😜 😉

[@aymanaboufarise4346]

Umm, can we take into account that Bowser is a talking lizard? And that donkey kong is a gorilla? I'm pretty sure we can find a more accurate age for the latter in the DK(C) series.

[@breadisyummy_]

mario and luigi arent humans either. Have you even seen mario odessey

[@seandwalsh3]

@@breadisyummy_ Mario and Luigi are humans, they’re just a different race of humans to the freakishly tall New Donkers.

[@seandwalsh3]

Koopas age like humans, but Kongs age extremely quickly. The modern Donkey Kong was likely only around a year old in Donkey Kong Country, and closer to 5 years old now.

[@ZyNye2011]

@@seandwalsh3Ok, I don't know what you're talking about. First of all, if the modern DK was at one years of age during Donkey Kong Country, I'm pretty sure he's still look like how he did in Yoshi's Island DS. Secondly, Kiddy Kong is a CONFIRMED 3 year old and he is very clearly designed to be a baby, ok he was probably 3 during Donkey Kong Country 3, so if we go with that, that would mean that a literal baby is 2 years older that Donkey Kong, a full sized gorilla. And finally, Why would you say that Kong’s age extremely quickly, and then say that Donkey Kong is basically one of the youngest characters in the Mario universe?

[@seandwalsh3]

@@ZyNye2011 No he wouldn’t, because Kongs mature incredibly quickly. Kiddy Kong is not confirmed to be a 3 year old by any canon source, and either way he is a different species from Donkey Kong. I say that because it’s true.

[@naverick22]

So here's a neat thing about princess peach's age, at least in the Super Mario Super Show, or more specifically in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros 3. In the Complete Series box set, it contains bonus features for one of the disks, with one of the sections talking more in depth about the characters. Princess Peach/Toadstool was described as "Chronologically, a 17-year old" in regards to her energetic, tomboyish attitude in the show. I believe this was supposed to be reflective of both her age in the show and the how old the show was at the time of the bonus feature content was recorded (2007) from the show's initial premiere year (1990).

[@mariajimenafigueroa233]

That makes sinces, especially since Mario never showed any romantic feelings for Peach in any of the cartoons

[@KRcanondaisa]

I also remember the manual for Super Mario Land stating Daisy is fairly young, so she's likely just in her early 20s/late teens