People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has launched a campaign against Super Mario 3D Land because they believe the Tanooki Suit endorses animal cruelty. The PETA website states the following:
When on a mission to rescue the princess, Mario has been known to use any means necessary to defeat his enemy — even wearing the skin of a raccoon dog to give him special powers.
Tanooki may be just a “suit” in Mario games, but in real life, tanuki are raccoon dogs who are skinned alive for their fur. By wearing Tanooki, Mario is sending the message that it’s OK to wear fur.
I just saw that. I am speechless. Unbelievable.
I guess Nintendo should’ve said ‘No Tanooki’s were harmed in the making of this game’. Shoot, PETA didn’t make a big deal when Super Mario Bros. 3 came out almost 20 years ago! This is just a publicity stunt to gain popularity.
It’s so ridiculous I really have to consider it a joke. Regarding PETA, when it comes to members that feel this is a reasonable cause, I may (kidding here folks) consider cannibalism :)
PETA is 2 things.
1. A Terrorist organization. They firebomb labs and do all sorts of crazy violent things.
2. Insane. Not only do they do things like this and act violently. But, they also capture stray animals and KILL THEM.
In a lot of ways, PETA is to the animal rights movement, what Westbro Baptist Church is to religious groups. Nuts :P
I’m not sure if peta excited 20 years ago.
google it i could be wrong.
fur burgers
Unbelievable? Not really, it’s PETA. It’s what you should expect.
lol
thats all i have to say
LAST! Oh wait…
I failed…
hahahahaha this made my day XD
I’m glad it did some good for someone lol
*Salutes* well done xD
It’s ok, no one cares about PETA anyways..
So true.
Real comment:
This is retarded. God gave us animals for our use. Mario can use fur coats when he wants to!
For real, in fact native americans use to where fur to protect them from harsh cold weather. PETA is being too literal.
there is no god, just like there is no hidden meaning behind mario wearing this suit, people are just retarded
nokel yes there is a God just because you don’t belive in him doesn’t mean you need to go around spreading lies about him
Just because you believe in god, you don’t need to spread your intolerance to the ones who don’t
Go suck balls fag
Real cool. -.-
Nigger
And just because you don’t believe in God doesn’t mean you need to spread your obvious blindness to others.
well said bro.
God does not exist. And if he did he would be the most malevolent being in the universe. According to your Christian lore, God created everything in the universe, which means he created the Devil and allows him to do as wants with us. Look at Job, he was faithful servant of God, but just to prove a point to his son, Lucifer, God allowed Lucifer to torture the dude, kill his family, livestock and whatever else, to prove that Job would not abandon God. How fucked up is that? I guess the lives of Job’s wife and children are pretty petty next to God’s will. He’s like “Fuck ’em, I’ll make new ones” LOL.
quit dising God unlike u i am christian and when u get sent to hell and wish u would of believed me and become saved i’ll be in heaven with God partying. He created the devil as a angel and gave him a chose and the devil took the wrong chose and it is the devil’s fault and he will be sent in the lake of fire with u guys if u don’t get saved.
But God is supposed to know the past, present and future, right? That means he knew the devil would make that choice and everything else too. So that means that free will is a lie. If an all powerful being is controlling everything then you don’t have free will, you have a script.
like i said it was the devils chose and God knew that the devil would do that. God gave us a choose if God wanted he could make u kill urself but he doesn’t becasue he gave u a chose.
It’s funny how you think you’re so smart and that you, a feeble human being, can sum up existence by telling us the purpose of free will and God’s will. You have nothing to base your beliefs on except what you’ve ‘observed’ and been ‘told’ by other atheists/scientists.
If the devil didn’t choose, then we would all be programmed just to be good. God controls everything except ‘human will’. That’s the biggest gift and responsibility given to mankind.
Because the devil chose evil, we now have to decide whether we’ll follow God or be lead by His enemy. Honestly, I used to be on the other side but life was just a waste before. Debating the Bible never gets anything done, so I’ll just pray for you to see the Truth. Discussion over.
lol he took the wrong chose? learn to spell dumbass
i know it doesnt mean people are going to wear racoon tails and ears and start beating people with it it is a game like really i had super mario bros 3 and no one said shit
silly goose, if there is no god, how the hell did we get MLP:FiM? a gift from god btw
Actually, I would consider that proof that there is no God.
This is a good comment. It gave me giggles.
It’s true, people are retarded: some believe in gods, some believe PETA is rational.
Peta thinks they’re god.
I am not saying there is or is not but quit trying to change the subject
An imaginary being did not give us animals. They are the result of millions of years of small genetic mutations to each generation of organisms that resulted in a more complex creature. Humans are animals too. By your logic we can use black people as slaves and it’d be fine. Even though PETA is retarded for the way they’re complaining about a video game, that doesn’t mean you should kill animals for no reason.
I think he was joking.
You’re right that an imaginary being didn’t give us animals. God is most definitely NOT just some random imaginary being. (Not trying to turn this into a stupid fight that will get people mad at each other, I’m just standing up for what I believe in, please understand that.)
I’m with ThelcyPhantom on this one.
I’m with IcyPhantom too. God isn’t imaginary at all. People think God doesn’t exist cuz THEY’VE never SEEN or FELT His presence. Just because they haven’t and MILLIONS (yes, millions) others have, doesn’t mean He’s imaginary. It just means that those who don’t believe in Him can’t rationally fathom Him with your small minds.
I love that you think you’re being rational right now. The concept that even a religious person could truly “fathom” God is blasphemous in and of itself, so keep your ignorant opinions and prejudice of others away from here. Being religious in no way elevates you above anyone else; the very idea is against the humility your religions advocate.
Everyone’s equal but being Religous and believing in God doesn’t not make me think that I am better than ANYONE not even a murderer we all sin we fall short of glory but I would never ever think that I am better than anyone else
Well said. I agree.
amen
God is definitely imaginative; whether you believe in him or not does not matter.
Hey guys, remember that mario 3d land?
Let’s leave God out of this, please?
Fuck you and your stupid god.
Anybody here could measure your intelligence from that comment.
i’m guessing an IQ of -98.
you’re right. god is not a random imaginary being. he is just something that is not real in any way at all and you can’t prove me otherwise
Wtf kk d of backwards logic do you have? What separates humans from animals is conscience and free will. We are more than just animals because we don’t simply rely on instinct. Seriously not tryin to sound like an ass but think logically before you post because all you are doing is regurgitating what is taught out of a book. OH and answer this, if we come from apes why are they still around. No doubt that certain things change over time but evolution is still just a theory meaning its no law. Whether you want to believe in God is a personal choice, but know this. There is something higher governing based on simple reasoning. There is a natural order tolife through examination of it, hence why we can discover scientific laws. In addition to that there is a moral guidance to one center truth that governs how people behave.
Anyway sorry for the tangent but please leave religion out of these forums because people lack the civility to agree to disagree
If American colonists came from Europe, why are there still Europeans?
Good point, his argument was not very valid. But I think I know what his point was suppose to be:
He was trying to say that if we evolved from Apes then either there wouldn’t be anymore because they all changed, or we’d see some “big foots” walking around if they were still evolving. Since the latter idea is obviously the accurate one, I think he meant that ;)
Because Migration and evolution are unrelatable :p
>If we come from apes why are they still around
Confirmed for knowing nothing at all about evolution.
Confirmed that you took a more philisophical question literally instead of contextually
Man evolved from an ape-like creature. How many different species of monkeys are there on the earth currently? Around 3, is it so hard to understand that however millions of years ago, one of those ape species experienced an anomaly that lead to slow process that created the human race?
Yes it kinda is. 1. Where’s all the half man half ape creatures? 2. Why don’t we have any proof that genetic changes can alter an organism into an organism of another species? 3. Why did we lose good traits like a strong grip, or fur to keep us warm?
There are a lot of things wrong with evolutionary ideas, and that’s only a beginning.
we didn’t lose the fur part
the apes can’t shave but we can
It’s not hard to understand lol it’s not like I’m ignorant to the theories and explaination to evolution. Infact it should still be going on today. I find it hard to believe that we do originate from apes because of how findamentally different we are in terms of our mental development over millions of years. My point was that there are distinct feature that humans have that separate them from every single other species. It’s not something u can really argue about if u examine things. Sure we bear certain relations but that doesn’t mean that it’s not for certain. And just because people don’t understand or see where I’m coming from doesn’t mean they should dismiss me altogether. It’s certain civilitaty and intolerance people have for each other. In my experience this has been from radical religious men and atheist. People can’t tolerate separate opinions. Ironically we live in a country that supposedly promotes freedom of expression yet we are less socially accepted
Totally agreed.
Stop splurting your beliefs, he was just joking.
What the fuck is wrong with you idiots, those who are acting like they must spread their shit. Whether “God” exist or not, doesn’t matter. Take it to a site that discuss these things, not here.
@Ryo: I believe it’s called line of our common ancestor splitting into many different lines. Y’know, there wasn’t just one version of humans.
Wait, what? I don’t get what your saying? If you believe evolution,and that were animals, you would have to say that treating black people like animals is okay(survival of the fittest). So why are you saying that my idea of a God would support this when it doesn’t?
P.S. Please no stupid argumentative replies, keep this on an adult level guys ;)
“If you believe evolution, and that we are animals, you would have to say that treating black people like animals is okay(survival of the fittest).” I’m thinking you meant “we are”.
SO, I don’t get this at all. If white people are animals and black people are animals, we don’t really have to TRY to treat them LIKE animals (it would just logically happen), do we? Are you implying black people are animals whereas white people are NOT somehow? (not sure)
Maybe you mean to say is ok to treat anyone like animals if we are all animals, but, then why are you separating “black people” of everyone else. You are saying “treatment of animals” as if all animals SHOULD be threaten in a certain kind of way, and since we are assuming people are animals, all “human conduct” is “animal conduct”, so, again, it doesn’t actually matter.
So I think you ACTUALLY are saying is: treating anyone as inferior is part of the survival of the fittest (I mean, that’s what you are saying evolution states). Well, that is not evolution at all, the way you are using it. Also, you are applying a biological attribute to something social, and that never really works well. Is the same mistake as in relating evolution and migration.
I find it great (not that it should matter) that you are standing for what you believe, I will probably never reply to this, so yeah, sorry.
because there is a God and only 1 God
Sorry to make this a direct reply to your comment, I’d just like to address everyone here by saying the following:
I am an Atheist, Everyone in this thread is intolerant and stupid, that includes Christians, Atheists, and everyone alike. Now can we shut the fuck up and get back to talking about PETA hating on Mario?
Maybe I shouldn’t mention the word “God”, it makes people go crazy :?
But I would like to point out how everyone here, including people who believe in God, are acting a little rude. Let’s be a little nicer and the world will be a better place.
@everybodyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x_-IoeSB-A&feature=related
I don’t think we’re being rude. Just standing up for what we believe in. Many of us are tired of people saying ‘Screw you, God doesn’t exist’. Does that give us any excuse to react? No, but at the end of the day, one of us will be right. :D
The End.
Back to Mario. :)
This game rocks!
I don’t think we’re being rude. Just standing up for what we believe in. Many of us are tired of people saying ‘God exists, screw you, ’…
Many of us are tired of people prolonging this argument on a Nintendo site…
haha :) lol
… the hell?
Looks like PETA is ~20 years late. Super Mario Bros. 3 had the same thing.
SO TRUE
Lol who gives a damn what PETA thinks anyways? I dont want to wear an animal but they should seriously get out of peoples business.
Yeah, why didn’t they care then? SMB 3 also had raccoon tails and frog suits!
Yeah. They just have no more things to criticize on!
WTF. nuff said.
Not quite. There needs to be some to remind peta that it is just a game.
P.E.T.A……..Hummm……..People Eating Tasty Animals……..such a better meaning :-) Mmmmmmm, steak!
^ This
they have t-shirts haha
Hahahaha sooo funny
It IS ok to wear fur. These guys are crazy.
It’s almost entirely not good to wear fur, but that doesn’t mean PETA is right here.
PETA, the last I checked, the Tanuki was a goddamn myth. You are petitioning to save an animal that doesn’t exist in real life.
No, the Tanuki exists. It’s a japanese Racoon Dog. I don’t think PETA should be making that big a deal though.
Erm… It is real… Always has been. It’s just in a lot of mythology. If a cow is in a fictional story, is a cow a myth?
Oh that explains it. I always Tanuki in general were fictional because of things like having magic transformation abilities and big well…y’know.
Tanuki is actually a real animal. There are myths about them though.
It’s still retarded and PETA has proved once again that they are a joke and a waste of resources.
Tanooki is a Japanese myth.
Tanuki is a real animal.
Tanooki have huge balls.
Or do tanuki? Do they both have huge balls?
Japanese is a language.
Tanuki/Tanooki = Racoon Dog
Kitsune = Fox
Magic is Magic.
I don’t want to live on this planet any more.
umm they are a bit late aren’t they should of done that when the suit was originally used. Stupid people trying to get attention…
So stupid. I can’t even.
finish the sentence?
Some people need to grow a sense of humour. Activists give themselves a bad name by doing crap like this.
I agree with PETA. 100%.
You also know it comes from a leaf power up and has been out for years, right?
Wearing fur is wrong, I’ll give you that but I really don’t think that the power up which has been shown by Nintendo to not be real Tanooki will actually make human beings kill more animals. Actually, wearing fur isn’t wrong, killinganimals for fur is.
YOU FUCKING SUCK DICK! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!
what’s wrong with you? PETA is overreacting things but they do have a point, we are where we are right now with such enviromental disasters because people like to destroy the forests and killing animals for fun or fashion…. I’m not saying that we have to turn vegetarian, I love meat but I don’t like wearing things like leather, I think that’s cruel
well, at the end I just think this post is
Yes but to connect that to a power-up in Mario, regardless how long it’s been around, is fucking retarded. Especially when the game itself makes pretty fucking obvious you get it from touching a magical maple leaf. Not once does Mario actually skin a raccoon and where its pelt.
Hell we don’t even know if the Tanooki Suit is actual fur. For all we know, it’s made of cotton. That’s what PETA doesn’t get. They automatically assume that because it’s a costume in the appearance of an animal, they think it’s unethical for some ridiculous reason.
Damn right!
obvious troll is obvious
I thought the same thing
And they where okay with the penguins in NSMBW? Aren’t there more urgent matters of organisations like PETA?
Can peta shut the fuck up, shitload of dumbasses.
you sir, look like a dick, i mean your icon
LOL BRO!
Come on, that’s just a joke, right? I mean, no human being on earth could be this stupid…
they tried this with Cooking Mama and Super Meat Boy
>they tried this with Cooking Mama and Super Meat Boy
>this with Cooking Mama and Super Meat Boy
>Cooking Mama
>Super Meat Boy
Oh god.
How do they know Mario doesnt wear polyester, fake fur? Dumb bastards…
I like how they totally ignored that fact Mario kills Koopa troopers which are basically turtles. :P Such idiots.
Um, no. Mario doesn’t wear polyester or fake fur. He wears… pixels.
Also he kills goombas.
Holy crap. I can not believe it. So, Super Mario 3D Land is bad, but games like GTA and CoD where you shoot people are okay?
On CoD you can shoot chickens and pigs… :P
Heheh… Okay, that is pretty funny.
In read deaf redemption you can go hunting and then after you shoot the animal you can skin it lol also in cod you can shoot plenty of dogs….I’d never shoot a dog unless it was rabbid but it was pretty fun in a videogame lol
It’s kinda hilarious that PETA goes after games like this, when they don’t even touch games like Big Buck Hunting. :P
YEH!! In the MW series you can kill innocent chickens.
Look at Big Buck Hunting, you kill dears running around and yet PETA does not care.
Everyone knows animals are more important than people. In one of my classes when posed with the question of when it’s ethical to kill people some of the students replied “If they attack you or someone.” and when asked when it’s ethical to kill an animal those same students replied “never”. None of those students were vegetarians.
Wooooow. That’s pretty crazy.
i extremely disagree with that first statement.
I think he was stating “people think that people are more important than animals.”
Yeah but I was kind of exaggerating most students said it was ok there were around three or five that said it wasn’t…(And one of them said it was ok if the animal tasted good but otherwise never.)
Come on, that’s just a joke, right? I mean, no human being on earth could be this stupid…
I hope they hire some models to get naked in front of the nintendo store in NY.
*Head-desk* What is this even? Seriously, PETA?
Next, I bet they’ll say that slaying Ganon’s pig form with Link’s sword is cruelty to swine lol.
Lol ^
Just say it is face fur…problem solved.
Is this the first time PETA picked on Mario? Because stomping koopas and saying it’s creulty to turtles sounds like a stronger argument.
Fake Fur*
This may not be grammaticly correct, but here’s what I have to say;
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA
I’m literally dying of laughter here, how can there even exist such a stupid and just plain foolish organization? Maybe their goals are valid, but to start a campaign against MARIO because of the TANOOKI SUIT just baffles my mind!
Don’t they have anything else to do with their time?
This is why I only support WWF.
The Tanooki suit has been around since 1990!
1988 if you count the japanese release date of SMB3.
I know right, they just want free advertisement!
True… PETA Had no problem with the Suit.
The Suit mario is wearing is not a real Tanooki anyway.
WHAT THE FUCK!
There’s a word for these kind of “genius” conclusions. Oh, what was it again…? Oh yeah, it’s called INCOMPETENCE!!!
Seriously, PETA just buried themselves to a new low. (>_<;)
(Just so we're on the same page, the tanooki that appear in the Mario games are based on the tanuki from Japanese folklore, not from real-life!)
Just think of it this way PETA (People Entertained by Teased Animals), when Mario touches the suit, he puts on the Tanuki Suit, then when he is touched by a moving mushroom, he properly takes the suit off and kills the mushroom! (PETA, please don’t get mad at me about the mushrooms, their not animals.)
So next ‘frank’ will be starting a campaign because they think that watching Mario touch mushrooms will also make people think you can become physically bigger if you touch real mushrooms
What the hell?!? Why complain about this tiny thing, when guard dogs get killed on Call of Duty every minute? I think all organisations which think video games promote unethical behaviour are a pile of bullocks, but if they are ever going to complain, they need to get their priorities right…
I think they might overreact. *puts a lot of sarcasm in that sentence* Who the fuck thinks, oh Mario wears a suit that looks like a raccoon and a penguin, it’s ok to kill raccoons and penguins for their furr.
Because Mario games depict real life situations, and we should take their advice literally and apply it to our real lives. Seriously.wtf.
Yes, we should start bashing our heads on bricks and stomp on turtles.
And run around volcanoes, ice worlds, and the clouds in regular plain overalls.
Anyone else play the game?
http://features.peta.org/mario-kills-tanooki/
I beat it in 0:19 with 44 coins. By the way it’s perfectly fine to wear fur.
This is dumb. It’s not like Mario skins a racoon in the game to wear that suit. They should look up what they’re shoes, belts, and car seats (the fancy ones) are made of.
This is clearly a way to promote their goals using popular mediums. It happened again with the 3DS. My question is, why Nintendo? There are way more things that cause more harm to our environment than Nintendo, you know.
That’s just stupid
Let’s ask a PETA member to prove that one person can fit in Tanooki suit made from one Tanooki. (It’s actually a trick because then they’ll have to buy animal skin products which should be against their “rules”.
Laugh out loud. That’s how ridiculous PETA is being that I had to spell out “lol”.
Hey people, just STFO. All they want is that you talk about them and that’s exactly what you’re doing. Just don’t pay attention to that campaign and pretend it never existed. That’s all they deserve.
I just wish these types of people would shut up and let us play games in peace, it has been in SMB3 and did PETA exist then?
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
What a massive joke, what about the penguin suit from New Super Mario Bros. Wii?
Or the Bee Suit in Super Mario Galaxy?
What about the “killing” of Koopas(turtles)
Seriously, PETA deserves to be flamed out for that sort of BS.
god they’re fucking retarded, it’s a fucking game, THERE IS NO HIDDEN MEANING!
Well……………………………I…………………………….have………………………………………………………………….no words for………………………………………………………………………………….this amount…………………………………………………………………of………………………………………………………………………………………stupidity -______-
ok PETA you are stupid i mean since when can a tanuki fly in the air (for short time) and become a statue also you get the power up from a leaf so…
Really PETA, really. That is a cry for attention.
This is ridiculous! The thought of skinning a raccoon dog to make this never crossed my mind when seeing Tanooki Mario.
The game is more brutal than Nintendo’s game.
just came back from playing dat game….. PETA’s disgusting, creating such a game…. some sick minded nothing good to do workers…..
If Nintendo can sue PETA in any way for making that game they should. And I think there are better things for PETA to do than create demented flash games.
Nintendo has all the rights to sue them because this is difamation
I’m completley stunned.
WOW…… PETA ppl shud get a new job if they really dont have anything to do…..=_=
I’d like to thank PETA for giving this game free publicity.
So an invented character with an invented suit is animal cruelty? So when the invented character wears a FROG suit, or a RACCOON suit, or a PENGUIN suit, it’s okay?
i find it hard to believe an animal is skinned alive!
well better buy this game before they get their way.
hahahahahaha yeah right.
PETA also was going after Sea World cuz they thought that since slavery was abolished it also the whale to be free from captivity.
if they would stop making STUPID claims like this then people would really take them more seriously.
Nintendo is probably having a huge laugh over this.
I’m surprised they having gone after Sega for having Eggman trap animals inside of robots. or Kirby inhaling and also transforming into what he eats.
For an company that says that animals should be left free, even though animals live more years in captivity or that weals should be considered to be in the constitution even though their not human, i should be a fucking retard to think this makes sence.
Members of PETA shouldn’t complain about wearing skins, since they all wear the skins of morons.
im sad about the pixel animals…
they bieng killed to dress up mario…
oh, and the turttles!!! mario is saying that is fine to smash them…
-.- come on… it’s just a video game!!!!
actually, the suit isn’t new… it’s available since mario 3
There goes my hope for humanity.
I have supported PETA on many fronts inthe past and understand the cause, but I’m fairly certain that anyone has actually put this much thought into the ethics of a Mario game.
I don’t see how putting on a virtual costume remotely condones people to skin a tanuki, or any other animal in hopes that they can amp themselves up.
Until there’s a couture fur tanuki suit that can make you shit a rainbow, I think this is completely asinine.
PETA can go suck a tanuki’s tail
Tanukis have much better things for PETA to suck, if you know what I mean.
It’s intended to be a costume PETA, not an actual suit.
Oh yes. Mario is also constantly sending the message that it’s OK to eat mushrooms in order to double your height. So terrible.
And that eating certain flowers will let you shoot fireballs from your hand.
Because the first thing I thought when I saw Mario wearing a Tanuki suit was that it makes me want to wear fur. These people are morons. But everyone knows that.
I guess I would be very VERY good at Donkey Kong Country Returns because if I let die Donkey or Dixie PETA would start a campaign against me for not taking care well the monkeys :(.
And when playing Resident Evil 4 I would never shoot to the dogs again, oh I like dogs sorry little zombie dogs for all the pain I might cause you :(.
I will never again, never, would kill the lyotes in StarCraft II in honour of the Coyotes (specially for Willy E. Coyote).
Oh, I’ve just remembered… :'( I will cry all the night because I’ve just remember… it’s so sad… sorry people… but I just have to confess that I enjoyed so much everytime playing Duck Hunt…
I’m a bad person :(.
That dog from Duck Hunt is a bad person!
OMFG REALY At this point I supported PETA a little but now for this it’s a fucking game with a suit that Mario’s been wearing since smb3 seriously now just so PETA can be right let’s all wear fur fuck it just coz Mario does SERIOUSLY PEOPLE NEED TO GET LIVES!!!
Thats like saying im going to kill people with a n explosive cross-bow cuz its in black ops, PETA just lost my respect.
Golly, they go out of their way to make a disgusting campaign against a harmless game I like?
BRB, gonna wear a tanooki hide and bounce around the PETA HQ.
PETA is on crack.
Wow, what idiots.
Nintendo IS DOOOOOOOMED! (Just like the other 9001 times)
It’s…. over 9000…….
Slippy Toad I never againg would let you die!!
I like toads… and… i like turtles.
PETA probably spent alot of time making that crappy little page that could’ve been spent dong something productive, like stopping whaling. Probably a more pressing animal rights issue in Japan, right?
PETA. STOP BEING STUPID. MARIO DOESN’T WANT TO HARM YOUR PRECIOUS LITTLE RACCOON DOGS. STOP RUINING EVERYBODY’S FUN!!
PETA… These guys are way to ridiculous.
FUCK peta they are fucking stupid.
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Say what you will about the actual contents of the campaign, the Flash game they made is surprisingly entertaining. I mean, at least as entertaining as a lot of fan-made games based on Mario. You can’t design something like this and not have had at least a passing interest in Nintendo. I mean, look at the background in that game, and compare it to Super Mario World on SNES. Admit it PETA, you love Mario just as much as we do.
*facepalm
they didnt say shit when super mario 3 came out -_-
Fuck that! Nintendo doesn’t have to take this shit!! PETA is going to regret this if Nintendo and its fans have something to say about it! I want a public apology for starters, this is some BS!
actually its sexist because since the tanooki suit doesnt have a penis its implying it as a woman and saying mario can just wear women to help them do anything they want
I always thought that the suit made Mario turn into a Tanooki. I never, EVER thought that he was wearing fur.
Do they think that people are going to go out and kill animals and try to get in the skin? Like a Hannibal Lecter/TaunTaun sort of thing?
That’s what I thought too!
Pay no attention to the media-whores behind the curtain
Is there like an official PETA Facebook page or something? I’d like to go spam it right about now. Or at least see how some PETA followers support this claim.
If PETA dislikes this then they’re really gonna dislike furs XD. I’m not a fur but I would love to see 2 The Ranting Gryphon rip them a new one for this level of stupidity.
oh man lol
Stupid PETA, don’t they know Tanooki suits are made out of maple leaves
I wonder if every person in PETA is a vegetarian. Hypocritical bastards.
M.E.A.T
Men for Ethical Animal Treatment.
http://i.imgur.com/Uc01x.jpg
AHAHAHAHA
LMFAO!!!!!! Too funny!
PETA sounds like spanish for P****
Wow do these people have lives, this is the saddest complaint I’ve seen in years
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They’re absolutely correct. The Tanooki suit will lead to people skinning Raccoon Dogs in real life… just like the fire flower has lead to arson…
Two things. First, I like the fact that only an animal protection group would notice this thing. Second, I understand stopping animal cruelty is PETA’s (Penis Entering The Anus) focus but don’t they notice that every single game for children over 6 has SOME form of injury. Pacman eats ghosts, Mario stomps on Goombas (mushrooms), the original Donkey Kong is injuring DK, and even Madden games feature injuries. Add some more to this list if you could think of any.
When I went vegetarian, I started looking on their site for different veg-friendly foods. But I couldn’t, and still can’t, agree with 90% of what they say. I don’t like the idea of wearing fur, or using it for fashion. It’s gross, and it’s cruel. But this is a video game. I don’t think anyone is about to run out and skin a Tanooki and put it on and try flying around. Most people don’t even know what a Tanooki is! I always thought it was just a fiction raccoon. PETA really just likes attention, and the way they get it is by making bizarre and outrageous petitions. Nobody cares, nobody will. I think I’ll go find a leaf and float around now. Catch ya later!
Same here. I like PETA’s site because there’s a ton of helpful information there for practicing vegetarians like myself.
I can even agree with their complaints about killing animals in games, but they often take things too far. I don’t understand half of what they’re doing anymore.
So they hate the Tanooki suit? What about the Frog Suit or Racoon Tail (The Leaf) form from SMB3, or how about The Bee Suit (SMGalaxy), or the Penguin Suit (SMBWii), or the fact that Boomerang Mario uses a Turtle Shell? Come on PETA you sure did miss a lot to be truly animal lovers?
And in my opinion Mario is somewhat of a plant eater he likes Mushrooms and Flowers.
It is a game and a suit ………… it is not like there is a level where you go and skin a animal to unlock said power up! They just had nothing else to pick on at the moment and they wanted to make some flash game to bring kids to their site.
Oh come on, really PETA? And what about Skyrim? The guy wears a fur loincloth in the trailer and you can collect animal pelts from mobs, FFS. If you’re going after video games for “endorsing animal cruelty” then go after the ones that actually do “promote” wearing animal skin.
lol wow PETA is hopeless
Hahahahah, and there goes PETA again…
peta.xxx
’nuff said
They’ll be declaring war on Disney World next week. All those people running round in costumes, its an outrage!!!
That might have to wait until the following week. Right now they are busy suing SeaWorld on Shamus behalf. Apparently they believe killer whales have 13th Amendment rights and should be allowed to be represented in a Court of law. LOL!
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/11/peta_sues_seaworld.html
Freaking morons these people are.
The next Mario Game Peta is going to protest against the massacre of Goomabas And Koopas, So maybe in two more Mario’s, Mario won’t be even able to touch Bowser So the game will end at the moment the princess is capture. Hahahahaha this is just moronic.
Completely idiotic. PETA is just going to waste everyone’s time. I personally am against using animals in such a way. No one ever said the Tanooki suit was an actual fur coat. What about the penguin suit from New Super Mario bros??? I never heard anyone make a case about that. ITS A GAME.
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“By wearing Tanooki, Mario is sending the message that it’s OK to wear fur.”
Aha, it’s more like PETA that’s sending the message that “by wearing Tanooki, Mario is sending the message that it’s OK to wear fur.” The whole cruelty with the raccoon/fur business was no where near my mind until I read this.
Is this what sets PETA off. I guess they are still cool with kicking turtles!
Lol it could have been just a COSTUME or SUIT mario was in, not the real shit…
Oh yay, why Mario? Why not CoD or something like that. Stupid PETA…..
ROFL I’m sorry, I just can’t believe that some naturalist could ever interpretate something like that. I mean, let’s pick up the in-game information: how, exactly, does Mario get the Tanooki Suit? By catching A LEAF! He doesn’t kill any innocent animal to transform. Actually, the word “transformation” itself shall solve the problem: he doesn’t wear any tanooki skinned animal, he TURNS INTO ONE! That charge is just bullshit!
The question is: will Nintendo ever have problems with PETA? My guess is no, I think Big N is far bigger and more important than that (not saying that the enviroment isn’t important, but some groups are really extreme sometimes, which is a sad thing).
I don’t think it’s considered being “extreme”.
You see, people would love to support saving poor animals and saving the environment, but groups like PETA push people away. PETA makes the overall cause look stupid. More people would support their cause if PETA didn’t exist.
That’s just fucking stupid. They weren’t talking this shit when Super Mario 3 came out. PETA is just trying to score some publicity by riding Nintendo, just like everybody else.
What’s next? Are they going to protest the treatment of the poor half bird/half turtle Koopa Trooper, or Piranha Plants. And I personally wish they would start a campaign to free Chain Chomps from those restricted chains.
Wait a minute. Shouldn’t PETA actually be supporting this? Mario is finding out what it’s like to live under a Tanooki’s skin. If anything, they should be in favor of this improvement in Human-Tanooki relations.
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Ah, I see that PETA is being the masterfull trolls they are.
Lol, I was just thinking. I wonder what they’d think of the frog suit…
PETA, please realize it’s a Tanooki SUIT. Emphasis on SUIT.
Children dress up as puppies and kitties and other animals on Halloween. During the holiday season, shameless employees dress up as reindeer. People dress up as bunnies during Easter.
People dress up in costumes of animals all the time. That doesn’t mean they support the shaving of animal for their fur to make costumes.
501 Front St., Norfolk, VA 23510
757-622-PETA (7382)
Let’s spam these motherfuckers!
:: Because everytime I see mario wearing a tanuki suit all i can think of is how much i want to skin a racoon and wear its fur::
oh yeah its not like its called the tanooki SUIT, or anything, its definately called the tanooki FUR, in the commercial for SM3DL they said this exactly “alright kids, when you see a tanooki, be SURE you kill it, but thats not all, take its fur to! itll let you fly just like mario!” -.-
PETA. People Eat Tasty Animals.
Somebody already said that butthead
Couldn’t come up with your own acronym, huh? Had to go and swipe someone else’s? Smooooth, slick. Real smooth. :P
It is alright to skin animals. Just like it’s alright to boil lobsters and it’s alright to eat meat. PETA is alone on this one.
I really think PETA should get back to more meaningful endeavors like destroying private property, harrassment, and criminal stupidity.
Real fur coats FTW. Even Mario won’t settle for that faux crap.
fuck peta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FopyRHHlt3M
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For every animal Peta saves I shall eat TWO MORE!!!! I love me some burgers n steaks =) mmmm fuck peta
You might go starving, then. PETA actually kill more animals then they save.
Ps I had no fucking clue a toonooki was a real animal.
What a bunch of nutbags this organization is. They’re repulsive, actually. These type of people value animal life over humans’.
This. ^
Wow I didn’t realize a Tanooki was a real animal and that skinning a leaf magically becomes ones coat. I need to watch more animal planet.
just amazing
PETA’S flash game is really cruel and mean, people should do something about it!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bull. Shit.
Cause so many of us as kids skinned animals so we could fly. Fuck, when I was little, all I thought was I grab a leaf from this box, get this raccoon suit and fly. I didn’t think “Oh look, mario skinned an animal and gained super powers! I should do that!.” It was, and always will mean nothing to me, and I’m sure everyone agrees. I’m all for animals being treated right, but fuck sake, stop shitting all over my childhood. Btw, anyone see what they did to cooking mama?
It is okay to wear fur.
Send them your thoughts.
http://www.peta.org/about/contact-peta/email-form.aspx
so isn’t it more resourceful to use every part the animal? not just the meat? i mean seriously what are we going to do with the pelt? burn it? oh…. well i guess we can’t do that because it will destroy the environment… then the EPA will get upset…
We should submit their flash game to some coders so they create a longer version, killing more and more animals in each stage, and at the end when you beat the game, it should say that it was an initiative started by PETA.
The it should be added to minigames websites, so everybody can play it.
If PETA what to associate Mario with cruelty, we wil associate PETA to cuerlty.
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Why Now and Not back then, and why do they need to pick on Mario, and why not a game where animals really are being killed inhumanley!!!!!
Do the PETA committees eat meat?
Honestly PETA is maknig a big fucken trolling mess over a childs game just to grab attention of the buyers and screw them over, plus if they were around they would have been bitching about the Bunny ears from super mario land 2,the bee suit,frog suit,the penguin suit,Bull wario and dragon wario from Wario land super mario land 3 and if they care so fucking much by now they probably would’ve called kicking turtle shells off a cliff plummeting to their death is cruel.
That’s ridiculous no one would even think it’s “ok” to skin a tanooki from a video game. People don’t take it that seriously lol
I mean for crying out loud they even have fucking hunting games for the wii and other consoles like hunting season why the fuck did it have to be mario after grabbing some magical brown maple tree leaf does not mean he killed some fucken tanuki for its fur so for all PETA knows they have no fucking facts to even back up their campaign
What next, ban whack a mole games because it promotes stoving a moles head in with a mallet?
Don’t get me wrong, I agree with what PETA does but it takes a special kind of idiot to have thought of this.
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oh the new COD has come out its saying that its ok to kill
NO WAIT MARIO IS WEARING A FUR SUIT THAT ISN’T REAL QUICK EVERYBODY PANIC
So the PETA complain now about the wearing of fur suits during missions but haven’t uttered a peep about Mario’s behaviour regarding turtles, sealife or beetles over the last 25 years. So the message here is… wearing fur BAD!.. kicking, stomping, burning or in any way harming animals OK!
Seriously peta shut the hell up. This organization kills more animals world wide than every animal shelter put together. At one point in time the founder of peta killed more than 30 animals a day because they were imperfect. So please for the love of animals if you are a member of peta or a follower of them castrate yourself.
Seriously????? This whole thing is total bullshit. They HAVE to know that Mario is not wearing the fur of a defenseless animal; it’s all just to get attention. Everyone keeps talking about it and saying how dumb they are, when THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT. Publicity is publicity, even this comment is creating more publicity for them. I just want to forget about this whole thing and not give PETA what they want, and I wish everyone else would too. This whole thing is just stupid and it’s giving me a bad impression and imagery in my head that has ruined my thoughts when I see Tanooki Mario, even though it could not be even close to true.
I love animals as much as the next person but we are on top of the food chain… PETA is taking it a little too far!!! It’s a video game I would understand if it was real life than maybe we should do something kids are not gonna go out n shoot a raccoon. If they have enough money to purchase these games they are not going to do that.
PETA is definitely taking it too far.
Mario has lots of different suits. What about the penguin suit, and the rabbit one? And the frog and bee one? It’s not like Nintendo sat down calmly one day and said “Hey, lets start thinking of animal suits for Mario to wear, so we can encourage people to skin animals and wear their fur.”
Did some wikiing and learned the history of “The Tanooki Suit”
Legends of the tanuki have them using leaves to shape-shift. They also use leaves that fool merchants, they resemble money, and turn back into leaves once the creature has left. Tanuki stories are a great example of Japanese tall tales/folklore, and a clever addition to Nintendo’s Italian plumber’s adventures.
Here’s why PETA is (kinda) full of it:
Has anyone noticed that the suit is clearly modeled after the tanuki creatures, yet it is named “The Tanooki suit” There is a reason for this. The name “Tanooki” reefers to Mushroomland’s first tailor. His name was simply “Tanooki” and he sewed tanuki tails to the back of each of his suits. These tails give the wearer magic powers. The suit would shape-shift into a leaf, and turn into a suit once used. PETA may have a case against Mr. Tanooki, it is unknown if actual tanuki tails were used for the suits. This would be a fair assumption since the tanuki’s themselves have the magic powers. While this may seem cruel to PETA I’m sure many a swindled Japanese merchant must be thrilled that a tradesman finally got revenge on the huckster raccoon-dogs.
Sadly for Mr. Tanooki the Mushroom Kingdom was not spared during the global economic crisis, and due to the recession he was forced to close up shop. His suits are now incredibly rare. Mario, and his brother must have great luck in finding the few still left in Mushroomland.
While PETA has a right to be offended, their anger should be sated by the sick satisfaction that Mr. Tanooki died penniless while Tanukis run free. Yet they insist on conducting a smear campaign against the Mushroom Kingdom’s most celebrated hero. Mario has, and will continue to use any means necessary to protect the sacred monarchy in Mushroomland, and while a few tanukis may have lost their tails, the horrific dictatorship of the King of the dragon-turtles has consistently been averting thanks to the Italian foreigner. A Bowser rule would spell utter peril for tanukis, and anyone unfortunate enough to be his subject.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanuki
http://www.mariowiki.com/Tanooki_Suits_Me
On a more serious note: Nintendo is the video gaming artist’s video gaming artist. The Mario franchise is one of the best examples of video gaming as a respectable medium. It engages all ages, and its innovation is unparalleled. Graphical differences aside, just one, or two frames of Sunshine, Galaxy, and 64 are all you need to tell the games apart. No FPS can claim such creativity.
I was depressed that there were no Midnight releases for the game. While I have no moral objection to violent video games, and I understand their success; I just don’t see how video gamers of all stripes don’t want a copy of Mario.
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Actually Mario “transforms” into Tanooki Mario. That “skin” as they call it is actually “part” of Mario himself. He isnt wearing a suit, he is a new form of Mario! After touching the special mushroom Mario morphs into Tanooki Mario therefore PETA is wrong about Mario endorsing the wearing of fur.
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