i cant believe back in 2007 nintendo was like fuck it we are going to create entirely new mario lore and characters for super paper mario that have nothing to do with anything thats ever happened and we are going to make a stylish woman turn into a demonic spider creature and have an entire universe get consumed by a black hole and send mario to the game equivalent of hell and let a kind robot butterfly marry a human-seeming evil man and it was such a culture shock to everyone that they overcompensated and decided never to make any new characters ever again















