Who are Mario's Parents? The 35 year mystery, SOLVED!

Have you ever wondered who Mario and Luigi's parents are? Nintendo have kept their lips sealed for the last 35 years. Today, I want to examine all the little details from old comics, cartoons, TV shows and video games, in order to find out who Mario's parents are!

Special thanks to the Super Mario Wiki, and everyone who has contributed to it over the years - this video could not have been put together with their hard work!

CREDITS
Yoshi’s Island
- Cutscene footage via xRavenXP

Yoshi’s New Island
- Ending cutscene footage via Zephiel810, other cutscene footage recorded by me
- Models extracted by ...me!

Super Mario Bros Tin
- u/l33tredrocket and u/nukemobile on Reddit
- User RAP on the Super Mario Wiki

MUSIC

[ogluca]

In the Super Nintendo World theme park showcase, Mario and Luigi address Miyamoto as 'dad', confirming that he is their biological father

[DOCTOR.DEADHEAD]

Quite disturbing that the comic detailing Mario's childhood implies that he had facial hair since birth and a full grown mustache by the time he could walk

[DemonicAkumi]

"It's only a tray."

Well um... why does the one that "might be" the father in the "only a tray" look a lot like the father in Super Mario Issun-boshi?
Same yellow and blue clothes, and his hair just got grey/gray as it won't be black when he gotten older.

Pretty sure it's the same father from Issun-boshi.

[arishnicoff]

The Mario Movie just came out, and we finally got to see his parents and the rest of his family.

[jacobsfunnyvids]

Its honestly crazy that Lou and Danny could play all those characters by themselves. Mad props to them.

[noelkannikkatt]

Everyone knows Miyamoto is Mario's father, though that would also make him related to Bowser Wait.

[undercoverduck]

Love that Nintendo games are so ungrounded in reality that a simple a question as this video's title calls for a deep-dive into obscure lore

[Gothamsgamer]

At the Nintendo world store in New York at the interactive Mario kiosk where you get to talk to Mario and Luigi as voiced by Charles Martinet, Mario often refers to his mother as his “Mamma Mia” and his father as his “Papa Pia”

[BinglesP]

12:07 To be honest Marylin’s design(well, in costume form, at least) is pretty cool, I wouldn’t mind if she was in more media than just an episode of a live action skit

[LEGOGamesYT]

10:29 Some live-action shows, like the famous Chavo del 8 in Mexico, actually used things like early chroma-key to make the same actor appear twice (for example, Florinda Meza interpreting Doña Florinda/Mrs. Worthmore and La Popis/Phoebe in the same scene), but the vast majority of live-action shows back then just didn't! And considering that El Chavo del 8 was produced in the 1970s and not in the 1980s, that's really impressive to me.

[williamdrake]

I always love the "Actor runs off-screen to return as a different character" gag. My favorite example has got to be Mark Hamil as himself and his "cousin" Luke Skywalker on The Muppet show.

[-ShellyT-]

"Luigi used to be younger by at least some years, but now they're supposed to be twins"
Isn't Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island 26 years old? They're twins for 26 years by now

[legoflixreal]

In the Mario Movie they answered this question.

[Pnc]

Thomas: *Makes an entire video analyzing what Mario's parents might look like and digging through game files to find an answer*

Mario movie- *Shows Mario's entire family in the first 20 minutes*

[CaveMiner]

Maybe we will find out in the movie. Let’s hope Mario looks like Mario in the movie and not some Illumination character with long toothpick legs

[cessnafun]

TL;DW: Best image we get of Mario's parents are cross-dressed men and a scribble on a tray.

[zixserro]

Pretty sure the actual real answer to questions regarding any parentage of any Mario characters from Nintendo is "Miyamoto is their mother/father".

[skakirask]

I'm most intrigued by Marilyn's parents. This suggests Mario and Luigi have another sibling that has somehow mysteriously stayed out of the limelight.

[Mikewee]

"That is mama luigi to you" 10:15

[gabrielbn]

The existence of Marilyn as Mario and Luigi’s niece implies that Mario and Luigi have a third undisclosed sibling.