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The old one makes Mario's love interest a plus size black woman. The new one doesn't have any nonwhite characters except for extras and fantasy creatures.
The Mario Brothers are supposed to be Italian American.
Peach has already been established as blonde and white.
Who else is a main character that you wanted to be non-white? All the other main characters, from what I remember, are animal-like creatures.
The Mario Brothers are supposed to be Italian American
What are you even trying to say? Historically yes Italian Americans faced racism, descrimination and a strong lack of representation but that really hasn't been a problem for most Italian americans about a hundred years
I'm saying the race of those characters has been well established beyond just a "colour scheme" or arbitrary choice
The 90s movie worked on the same source material as the 20s movie, in a more conservative environment, and still managed better representation in terms of onscreen characters. Deciding not to have any racially diverse characters because everyone's a raceless cartoon is a choice the writers made, and they could have chosen differently.
Why are you ignoring the 30+ years of character design and refinement that went on in the Mario universe between the two films?
Shouldn't your beef be with Nintendo, anyways?