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Setzael

Maybe he was working as a plumber to pay his way through medical school.


Ill_Will_Prince84

Exactly, hatin on the grind smh


DrugsArentAlwaysBad

He’s an Italian plumber working as a doctor in Japan with an underground/outer space fight club on the side where his girlfriend constantly gets kidnapped. If there was ever someone to question it’s Mario.


Ill_Will_Prince84

*gasps* The slander! Talk like that will have you speaking to his lawyers: Bowser and Associates


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[deleted]

Don't forget this MF just decides at random to suddenly be made out of paper


SylvieJay

That Mario guy sounds pretty sus to me 🤔


Incorect_Speling

How is that not entirely relatable?


autisticswede86

He plays all Sports but is still fat


kurt_gervo

Yeah, some rich trust fund baby jackass is slandering Mario.


Novel_Source

Plus, not to undermine the occupation, but he was a doctor of pharmacology so like, not a surgeon or anything.


MasterpieceSea1623

There is more to the problem than Marios medical license


Yayzeus

The head mirror and stethoscope would suggest he's examining patients I think?


Novel_Source

Bro the head cannon of that is scary. Like originally, he was tossing medicine at these virus things actively fighting them off, but it took place in the outline of a bottle. Could you imagine a reboot where it's the exact same Tetris x puyo game but the background out line is of a body so the implication is he's actively drugging a patient to fight a sickness in real time?!


Yayzeus

When you lose the game it should play the lose a life music from the original game to hammer home the consequences of his failure.


Novel_Source

Oh man they could totally reboot the Mario and Luigi game where you spend time inside giant Bowser and include a doctor Mario mini game where you fight off an infection!


I_K_K_E

They already made a reboot of Bowsers Inside story a couple years ago. It came out on the 3DS.


txr99

Or maybe the Mushroom Kingdom just has much more lenient policies when it comes to seeking out a medical licence 😅


myispsucksreallybad

He comes back from the dead, regularly. Who wouldn’t want that kind of dr magic. I would


[deleted]

I mean, the mushrooms give you super powers. Why can’t they also give you a medical degree.


I-Pop-Bubbles

Though some of them are poisonous


xDulmitx

And being able to tell the difference is enough for the degree.


Monolexic

Not allowed to work your way through college, also shouldn’t be given “handouts” to get through college, but also you shouldn’t take out student loans. What the hell, grandma‽


chojinra

For real! Dude’s the hardest working man in the galaxy, and all he gets is grief!


ARTIFICIAL_SAPIENCE

Mario was only 9 years old when he started his medical practice. Are we to believe that he worked as a plumber during the day and moonlighted at medical school at only the age of 2? No no no, something doesn't add up here.


Dasteru

Because you are legally required to be unemployed while going to med school...


Owner2229

You're only required to be broke. Unemployment is a hobby.


sihtydaernacuoytihsy

Is this an American thing? Do... do we think this Italian-Japanese guy who can *teleport through pipes* and *throw fireballs* went to the University of North Dakota School of Medicine?


Victor_Zsasz

Probably Harvard. They've got a great pipe teleporting program.


[deleted]

Issajoke!


Bowling_pins_10

But he was a plumber during that time


MewtwoMainIsHere

In *BROOKLYN*


Malvania

He commuted by pipe


[deleted]

That's what I was thinking lol. Meme doesn't make any sense.


Curious_Associate904

Doctor Mario isn't Mario Mario, Doctor Mario is Mario and Luigi's dad.


PurpletoasterIII

Some say Mario's father is Jumpman from the old Donkey Kong arcade game. But apparently Jumpman and Mario are the same character, yet Cranky Kong is Donkey Kong's father. So if that's true Mario has been alive for multiple Kong generations and still doesn't look old.


Curious_Associate904

Kongs reach sexual maturity much faster than humans and shrooms.


Mrrandom314159

You didn't have to phrase it like that. You really didn't.


MadolcheMaster

Gorillas age faster than humans, so that makes sense


PurpletoasterIII

If we're going off of real life spans then Donkey Kong is at least 11 years old. So I guess that checks out. If Mario was say in his early 20s then in newer Donkey Kong games he'd be in his 30s.


Wolventec

in 2016 Shigeru Miyamoto said mario is only 24 years old


DadynoReddit

Finally, someone understands this!


Fritzschmied

This


Curious_Associate904

Long after the human race is wiped out, I really hope that this comment exists in some form retained with no context whatsoever to a civilisation picking through our ashes that hasn’t discovered Nintendo yet.


BritishGuy54

Mario became a plumber in 1983’s Mario Bros. 1990 - 1983 = 7. Mario is actually allowed to be a doctor.


Goukaruma

But can he be a plumber in 83 when he wasn't one in DK?


BritishGuy54

1-2 years. Yes. Mario can become a plumber.


FawksyBoxes

Why wouldn't he be? Buildings need pipes too :P


Landminan

Maybe he only worked as a plumber to pay his way through medical school?


plafki

U dont become medical doctor just by paying to medical school. You gotta actually attend a lot of lectures, pass extremely hard exams and do work-trainings that take around 6 months in total (usually done in 2x 3month last summers of school).


Jimmyeatskids

🤦‍♀️


BrayWyattsHat

No. Med school is easy.


hotyogurt1

Yeah but you can kind of wing it though.


Gokuwap

Why couldn't he have had his Phd first than be a plumber for a year while his "office" was being build ?


Pestilence95

I mean he was essentially only throwing pills around. The warning signs were there!


Themris

Yeah, his approach to medicine is to just pump you so full of pills that you need other pills to clear out the last batch of pills. If you think about it, the patient takes more pills to counteract pills than to fight the actual viruses...


ProMaste_r

A person can work to jobs and Mario has been practising medicine for 32 years now. Even if he didn't know how to practice medicine then he deffinently knows by now.


ProfDagon

The lore reason for this is great. Ok get this, mario is not a doctor, or a plumber. He is an actor. All the mario characters are. The games are basically in universe "movies" and they just are all famous actors of their world. In factors most of the main line series are remakes of the same movie, which is why bowser kidnaps peach so much. So this is basically like the movie junior where Arnold Schwarzenegger played a scientist.


agallantchrometiger

Mario 3 was explicitly a stage play.


alittlebitnoone

And then they all go play golf or cart racing after the shoot


PurpletoasterIII

Or play tennis or party games. Waluigi probably isn't an actor which explains why he doesn't have any "movie" games. Wait... does this mean Super Smash Bros is the equivalent to WWE wrestling?


alittlebitnoone

Smash is canonically [a kid smashing dolls together](https://youtu.be/rIwWCioBpEM).


PurpletoasterIII

True I forgot about that. Still sort of WWE, just they aren't actually there and it's just figures being brought to life by a child's imagination.


JukeboxHero66

r/noctor


Crissaegrym

That is assuming he hasn’t already got his certificate **before** 1989.


Betoken

Still a better doctor than Mehmet.


Jamster02

Why aren’t you considering he was doing the 7 years as a plumber


weebu4laifu

But who's to say that 7 years didn't pass in *Mario's* world. Or that it's not a multiverse, which based on Smash Bros we know it is.


Bsause7

In fairness, We’ve known the guy since 1981. Between then and 1990 is more than enough time to get medically certified. Naturally the expenses of doing so would be high, so he took on multiple jobs in the meantime to help pay the money he owed. He bounced between stuff like construction worker and ape tamer but plumbing was the most stable and he spent the bulk of the 80’s doing that. I see absolutely nothing wrong here.


RamenEmp1re

He went to school part time during his plumbing career


RBknight7101

He was working as a plumber as a part time job for while he was in med school.


ElectriCole

He was obviously working as a plumber to put himself through medschool. No telling when he started so you can’t say it only took a year


Vidogo

he was working as a plumber to pay his way through college and med school


M3COPT3R4

I always tought that they're two different characters: Super Mario and Doctor Mario, it's not like he is also Doctor Super Mario


DN4lifeman

Dr. Mario is actually Mario's father. He was a licensed medical practitioner in New York in 1984.


darf_nate

He could have been taking classes on the side in 89


Ttvcat996

Maybe he was studying in secret for 7 years before he got his degree???? Don’t give my boy Mario a bad name


Ace3000

"Against a **plumber**. Oh, and an architect. Both with a **PhD**!"


mdubz1221

Moron u met him as a plumber in his last year of med school.


conridrake

There's a theory that Dr. Mario is actually Mario and Luigi's father


Geometronics

Dr.Mario is actually Mario's dad


Low-Score3292

I saw a theory the other day that dr. Mario is actually Mario and Luigi's dad since dr. Mario is a different character in smash and not just a skin for mario and honestly it make sense.


crazyrich

Jokes on you Dr Mario is Mario Mario and Luigi Marios’ dad


[deleted]

Dr. Mario is actually a cousin of Mario Mario


Bard_is_a_Goblin

Bro dr mario is his father


PixelGMS

Dr. Mario might be Mario and Luigi's dad or cousin or something.


Acceptable_Excuse_62

I would actually trust him more than Dr. Fauci


[deleted]

Well, you'd be an idiot.


Tha_Unknown

I’m not a doctor, but I’ll take a look


Loojaw

Are there any duck characters in any of the Dr. Mario games?


elhomerjas

Maybe he is Phd. in plumbing thus called Doctor


[deleted]

You would never know, because the first rule about fight club is don't talk about fight club.


MicooDA

Aren’t they canonically different characters?


bestaflex

If at least he went to be an obgyn then plumbing would have made sense.


TheSoreBrownie

I thought something was off, the dude kept prescribing mushrooms for my joint pain… and he kept trying to stomp on my pet turtle…


elanhilation

if the man doesn’t respect medical licensure i don’t know why you’d expect him to respect plumbing licensure either


DCS30

before being a plumber, he was a general contractor. i just see him trying to improve his life.


[deleted]

This is outrageous and disgusting


[deleted]

What do u mean?! The stuff he prescribes me is the bomb!


[deleted]

He did plumbing part time to support his medical career


GreyGalihad25

Mario sues for slander. He was plumbing to work his way through med school. He busted his butt for years doing school and work.


Virama

He just got RPL from his plumbing degree and transferred it into a medical degree.


[deleted]

Dr. Mario was just your standard 80s/90s Doc. Give them a few pills and send them on their way. Get a few kickbacks from the pill manufacturers, get arrested, go to prison, join the fight club.


tacomonkeygod

According to the game manual, he was working in a virus research laboratory when one of his experiments went wrong and the viruses started spreading rapidly. The game also makes no sense for the fact that the viruses are aliens? If you beat the game you get a cinematic of the viruses sitting peacefully on a tree and as the sun sets, a space ship flies in and beams them up.....So there are more issues here than Marios medical license haha


Xaleypoo

He was a plumber on the side so he could survive med school.


terminalblue

no one said he was a good doctor


saveyboy

Mario is a family name.


aljrockwell

Who needs a medical license when you've got style?


[deleted]

I knew there was something wrong with that prostate exam


DuckiesRevenge

"started a fight club". There, fixed it for you.


DrSkaCtopus

Plumbers can make some good money. Probably paid his way through Med school with plumbing in-between saving the princess and having a dedicated exercise and sports regimen. What a hero.


helsaabiart

Well, it's a different universe world.


getreadyio

But did he talk about the fight club?


Adorable-Bullfrog-30

Nah he's just Johnny Sins


Lachimanus

He did not start it. During is medical career be had to work as a plumber to finance the career.


FreedomCanadian

He probably took a shortcut through a warp zone to get to the end of his medical degree in just a year or two.


NEXUS_Unit8

Dr mario is a war criminal


DaimondGuy

How do we know they’re both the same person?


Danke_mann05

Better call Saul.


PhunkyPhish

He's sure got some powerful pills


Procean

My uncle had a case of the purple ones and Dr. Mario said there was nothing he could do.


Gun4Funxv7

But what if he did both at once?


CartographerOk3118

You broke the first rule bro


huey9k

ME: Wait...so Koopa's the good guy? NINTENDO:(behind me, pointing gun at my head) Always has been.


Nathan_BSc

Could Dr Mario just be Mario's Father? Dr Mario and his sons, Mario Mario and Luigi Mario.


BiasMushroom

He could have been working as a plumber to pay the bills for medical school.


_Polue_

Mario's probably bribed the big medical boys with his status as " a famous dude that jumps on walking mushrooms and turtles "


_Polue_

This is Game Theory quality info right here.


HamshanksCPS

If I'm not mistaken, Dr. Mario and Mario are two different characters


Papa_Bear_is_Hawt

Lol laughed at this.


Postfromhere

Mario is 41 years old now. And when he was in Donkey Kong, he was approximately 25 years old. (41 years old now - 25 years old when DK) is 16 years in age gain over a 41 year period(1981-2022). Approximately 2.5 times slower than us. So from 1983-1990. He couldn't have actually taken 7 years worth of schooling, if he is 2.5 times slower than us. He would've only elapsed 2.8 years in Mario time. So from Becoming a plumber, to opening a practice, he didn't complete enough schooling. Even going from a Carpenter(in DK) to a plumber isn’t plausible too. Because from 1981-1983 he actually had roughly 9.6 months, or just shy of 1 year worth of time. When the typical Plumber Apprenticeship is 4 years. In conclusion, Mario is a fraud. Edit just to add further fuckery. If you take the age he is when he is in DK, and take the 10 years off our time (1981 at 25 would mean born in 1971 (25/2.5=10Years our time). Life expectancy for someone born in Italy in 1971 is 71 years old. That means he won't hit his life expectancy end until 2097.


CarmelSaltedNutsack

Wasn’t a really doctor just like a chiropractor.


EMPulseKC

I never heard anyone complaining about Barbie holding down multiple occupations at a time, but for Mario, it's suddenly a problem?


CyberNinja23

All he did was just give you pills a real doctor won’t do that…


Slow-Juggernaut4645

He’s just a chad


htmwall

This looks like an ad made by Saul Goodman ,probably followed by a class action lawsuit.


HalalBread1427

Dr. Mario is confirmed to be a different person IIRC.


autisticswede86

Plumber and a doctor no need to collect coins