It seems Nintendo accidentally used a fan-made Mario render on its website

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According to Twitter user ujiidow, Nintendo made a big mistake: it seems they accidentally used uJiidow’s unofficial rendition of Mario instead of a real one on the Super Nintendo World website that went live yesterday. At the time of writing, it appears that Nintendo has removed the image, hopefully to replace it with someone who has not a cheater. What is this, Among us?

Here are the two images, for reference, showing the unofficially one on the left, and the for real one on the right:

… Yeah, it’s hard to say, isn’t it. After all, they both look like Mario.

Here’s the ujiidow recording of the website and what it looks like now:

Further investigation has revealed that the creator of the trickster Mario also uses the coolest_luigi handle on Reddit, where they first posted the image. How very suspicious. We’re not saying this is the classic “younger brother gets jealous, sabotages sibling” plot, but it isn’t not say that.

Of course, it’s not the first time that Mario looks a lot like someone else, is it? We’ve all played Super Mario Sunshine, and we all know how it turned out.