Mario is sick of all this bullshit.

[Weltall]

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[A Black Falcon]

... And here's an example of why the actual Mario games will never get anywhere near that:
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... But yeah, they really have overdone the "Rescue the Princess" plot, that's for sure. Nintendo really needs to stop using it. Come up with something better... I know Nintendo (and Miyamoto in particular) hate stories in games, but still... come up with something, anything, better than that!