PETA: Mario Kills Tanooki

This sucks. Tanooki are a mythical shape shifting beast not the real animal Peta states. Mario is made of pixels not flesh and bone so he can't hurt real animals.

PS Animals are yummy

Eish! At first I thought, Ugh why are PETA messing with Mario?, but then I watched that video and I felt ill and sad.

Bludgeoning them like that and skinning them alive is so EVIL and horrible! They look so fluffy and helpless and completely in agony.

I don't think the game would entice Westerners to start wearing raccoon dog fur, but I do think an awareness campaign is important.

We don't know half the things that happen out there. I really hate fur.

Cause whenever I played Mario 3 I always assumed someone was putting hallowed out dead animal skins inside of those blocks and Mario just put them on. Mario also inspired me to become an astronaut so I could fly to the stars and become invincible for 30 seconds per star. When is the Peta theory about how Italians caused dinosaurs extinction by throwing them all into bombs going to start being taught in schools?

Ah yes, awareness. The best way to feel smugly satisfied without doing much of anything at all.

I wish some rational people would come out for animal rights, it irks me that the walking punchlines at PETA ruin a good cause so they can stage stunts and get attention.

So did Mario kill and skin a bee when he wore the bee suit? Come to think of it, his crimes against the animal kingdom are myriad. He's been kicking turtles into rivers of fire and jumping up and down on the heads of various wildlife for years.

By involving Mario PETA have found a way to get this posted on almost every nerd blog on the planet. Shame on Neatorama for playing into their hands.

From their website: "By wearing Tanooki, Mario is sending the message that it's OK to wear fur." Sloblock.

Nintendo should sue.

Actually there are "racoon dogs" tanuki, they are adorably cute.

It doesn't change the fact that Mario gets his from a magic leaf mind you. MAGIC.. he does not skin a tanuki for the suit.

and that reminds me of a joke.

"how many peta members does it take to change a light-bulb?

Trick question PETA never has changed anything and never will."

Also, parody is protected speech even when it's stupid. Nintendo would spend a lot of money and probably loose.

also it would draw more attention to the stupidity.

Are you freakin kidding me? When will PETA be reclassified as a cult? These people are stupid as hell.

Mario is not wearing anything. Neither is he depicted wearing anything. Mario becomes the tanooki dog! Personally, I think Mario should go all tanooki dog over the hide of the person at PETA responsible for this travesty.

So the mythological Tanuki/Tannoki actually use leaves to shape-shift in much the same way mario uses magical leaves to acquire the Tanuki suit.

The Tanuki are a mythological raccoon dog that drums on its own oversized testicles and is frequently depicted with its testicles slung over its shoulder as if it were a traveller's pack.

The term "Tanuki" is often mistranslated as raccoon or badger.

I don't get it though. I've played Mario 3 a fair amount and I didn't even know this was called "Tanuki suit" if Peta is going to go that far into it why not go a step further?

And they still haven't made up for their own mistreatment of animals...

Oh PETA. Way to make a real issue looks petty. I'm not totally opposed to animal products- I eat meat & wear leather (I realize there are ethical problems with that too)but I really draw the line at skinning something alive just to sell ripoff Uggs and make trendy clothes. The fur isn't being used for warmth, just looks, and that sucks more than I can say. As for Mario, he can wear whatever pixels he wants.

I always just assumed he put on a mascot suit. Fake fur and all that.

PETA is a joke.

Can we PLEASE stop feeding these trolls called PETA? Same for the Westboro Baptists assholes.

If we stop giving them attention, they'll have nothing to do but go the fuck away.