The Mario Brothers

You know, there is a question that I have yet to see asked in the internet world, and here I thought the internet had answered every possible question out there. Why do we call Mario and Luigi the Mario Brothers? (Don't tell me their last name is Mario. Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of the brothers, has said that the movie is wrong, their last name is not Mario). Isn't Luigi a little bitter about the fact that his entire identity is being Marios brother? Maybe this explains the obvious hero worship and depression that caused him to fall in love with a scary, psychotic double of his older brothers love and move into a haunted house.

                                                          Seen here on one of his 'good' days.

 Or we could always talk about Mario's delusions of grandeur and obvious narcissistic complex. He spent his whole life working a blue collar job, chasing a princess who is obviously enjoying getting kidnapped. One could argue that she is just into the whole being saved thing, and its some kind of kinky sex game between her and Mario. Until Nintendo 64's Super Mario World. That's when one of Bowser's kids announces to Peach and the whole world that Peach is his mother! And instead of being horrified, Peach calmly relpys, 'So you're Bowser's son.' Which would imply that she knew she had given birth to Bowser's illegitimate child and had abandoned it. Had Bowser raped her, gotten her pregnant, and taken the child? But if he was so horrible, why did she keep letting herself get kidnapped? I think the more likely scenario is she and Bowser are in love, but for political reasons, she cant marry him. So her and Bowser came up with a solution, he would 'kidnap' her, and that way she could live with her love and not destroy her royal name! But then along came Mario, thinking himself a hero, and 'rescued' her, and to protect her child, she had to leave him behind with Bowser! So there Mario is, breaking up true love, destroying a family, all so he can play hero, and he has convinced himself, despite evidence to the contrary such as her repeated disappearances,  that she of course must love him. Hes so awesome his little brother is known by his name too, how could she NOT love him?!