Mario (SuperMarioLogan, pre-2017)

Mario Mario (or Marvin and Mario Wilfred), or just simply Mario, is the main protagonist of the SuperMarioLogan series.

Why He Rocked

 * 1) He is a very sympathetic and relatable character as he tries his best to do nice things to others, but it feels like everyone pushes it away and it feels like nobody likes him.
 * 2) He is one of the most memorable characters in the series, mostly owing to his former adventurous and free-spirited personality, actually somewhat reminiscent of a more grounded take on his Nintendo counterpart.
 * 3) His voice acting is pretty good and memorable.
 * 4) He has interesting skills and traits whenever an episode focuses on him, his different interactions and dynamics with characters like Bowser, Black Yoshi and Mama Luigi are pretty interesting and entertaining to watch as he is able to play off of their quirks well.
 * 5) While he isn't intended to be a funny character, he does still have a handful of humorous and good moments that can make the viewers chuckle.
 * 6) Despite acting mean sometimes, he does actually care for others around him. He even cares for Jeffy and Rosalina, despite them often treating Mario poorly and being complete idiots. It is also implied he cares about Jeffy deep down, he just has a hard time showing it in an extremely relatable and understandable way.
 * 7) *He's also proven to be more caring than Bowser, as Mario does try to at least punish Jeffy for good reasons unlike Bowser, who disciplines his son the wrong way.
 * 8) He does have fair points when Jeffy doing something wrong, annoying, or idiotic for the most part.
 * 9) He along with Chef Pee Pee are one of the most sympathetic and relatable characters in the series.
 * 10) Unlike Bowser, he pays attention to his son a lot more than Rosalina really does.
 * 11) Though most of the characters like Rosalina, Jeffy, and sometimes Brooklyn T Guy, Bowser Junior, and Bowser seem to often show rudeness to him, Mario tries his best to ignore them and tries to be himself. Much to the point that characters such as Chef Pee Pee still find something good in him.
 * 12) Just like Bowser Junior, his puppet design, despite looking like a generic stressed dad, is passable enough seeing as his puppet design still seems to resemble him in a way and it does fit his current role in the series.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Sometimes, due to how his character is designed to play off other characters as mentioned above, he can be somewhat boring/flat, especially if he's in a scene on his own.
 * 2) He and Chef Pee Pee slowly became the show's punching bag as it went on.
 * 3) He was somewhat flanderized in 2016 as he was becoming a bit of a punching bag before fully getting flanderized in 2017 as he became an even more of a punching bag than he already was in 2016 and lets people walk over him for the most part.
 * 4) * As the years progressed he started to become greedy and lazy for no reason, particularly in 2020. Like Junior and Goodman though, he can still be considered fairly enjoyable depending on your POV.
 * 5) * He's also had many moments that have shown that Mario's time with Jeffy seems to have taken a toll on his intelligence. In "Jeffy's Lunch Money!" and "Jeffy Skips School!", he falls for the Jeffy disguises that Black Yoshi and Mr. Wilfred wear in those respective episodes; taken to ridiculous extremes in the latter as he assumes anyone wearing a shirt with Jeffy's name is his son and fails to recognize the real Jeffy shirtless. At the same time, though, the latter video also heavily implies that Mario isn't actually acting stupid, rather that he has a rare neurological condition called Prosopagnosia, which causes a person to be unable to recognize the faces of familiar people, meaning Mario has to rely on clothing to know who he's talking to (this same logic can be applied to Bowser, who has fallen for Bowser Jr.'s Chef Pee Pee disguises on multiple occasions). This still doesn't excuse how Mario has been uncharacteristically written to be a gullible fool on several occasions, much to the point of other characters like Brooklyn T. Guy pointing this out.
 * 6) * In recent 2020, Mario starts to act more childish. This includes pertaining his interest in a lego toy of his likeness instead of heeding the fact that Jeffy, Junior, and Joseph are exposed to a pandemic in Jeffy and Junior Sneaks To Disney World! and often letting his greed get the best of him, turning him into a completely spoiled brat, such as in Rich Mario.
 * 7) Even before 2017, he has a few uncharacteristically psychotic actions; arguably the most notable being "The Hitman" where he hires a hitman to kill Jeffy, who was 12 at the time, simply for wasting Cheerios.

Trivia

 * Mario is normally portrayed by Logan, but in Super Mario Got Milk (2017) and Jeffy's BIG Easter!, he is portrayed by Tito Jimenez, and in Jeffy's Switcheroo! he is portrayed by Lance due to Jeffy and Mario switching bodies.
 * From 2012 to 2015, Mario lost his status as the main star due to Bowser Junior appearing in many more episodes than Mario and his friends. This created the term "SuperBowserJuniorLogan" by a critic, which debuted in Bowser Junior's Macaroni. However as of 2016 since Jeffy started appearing in videos, Mario has appeared in more episodes compared to Junior and therefore has regained his status as the main star somewhat, but he is still overshadowed by Jeffy, hence why critics now refer to the channel as "SuperJeffyLogan".
 * Mario is the first and oldest character of SML, debuting in Super Mario Got Milk.
 * Mario was a diabetic, as revealed in Bowser's Dinner Date.
 * His new name is Marvin and he is shown to dislike that name.