{"id":15267,"date":"2018-03-16T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/weirdness_mario_tennis_aces_artwork_triggers_an_unlikely_discussion_about_luigis_lunch_box"},"modified":"2018-03-16T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:35:00","slug":"weirdness-mario-tennis-aces-artwork-triggers-an-unlikely-discussion-about-luigis-lunch-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/16\/weirdness-mario-tennis-aces-artwork-triggers-an-unlikely-discussion-about-luigis-lunch-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Weirdness: Mario Tennis Aces Artwork Triggers An Unlikely Discussion About Luigi&#8217;s Lunch Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Mario <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/weirdness_people_just_cant_stop_talking_about_marios_nipples\">proudly shed his overalls<\/a> for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\">Super Mario Odyssey<\/a><\/strong>, it almost broke the internet (OK, it didn&#8217;t, but work ground to a halt in the Nintendo Life office, we can assure you of that).<\/p>\n<p>Now, we&#8217;re seeing a discussion occur online that could potentially dwarf &#8220;nipplegate&#8221;, and &#8211; as usual &#8211; it&#8217;s Mario&#8217;s lanky sibling who is stealing all of the column inches (no pun intended).<\/p>\n<p>Artwork for the forthcoming <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_tennis_aces\">Mario Tennis Aces<\/a><\/strong> shows Luigi in a pair of particularly tight shorts &#8211; so tight in fact that they proudly show the unmistakeable outline of his\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/and-what-inquired-mlud-is-linfords-lunch-box-1165856.html\">lunch box<\/a>. Any normal person would simply brush this off as Nintendo striving for a little anatomical accuracy, but <em>c&#8217;mon guys<\/em> &#8211; this is the internet we&#8217;re talking about here.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/weirdness_mario_tennis_aces_artwork_triggers_an_unlikely_discussion_about_luigis_lunch_box\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/weirdness_mario_tennis_aces_artwork_triggers_an_unlikely_discussion_about_luigis_lunch_box\/attachment\/1\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-03-16 at 16.30.40.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Some people have <em>actually<\/em> gone to the length (again, no pun intended) of <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/fortooate.tumblr.com\/post\/171856038144\/\">estimating the size<\/a> of Luigi&#8217;s nether regions. We won&#8217;t repeat what is said here, but feel free to click at your own risk.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, outside of <em>merely acknowledging<\/em> this truly bizarre discussion we&#8217;re going to leave it there, because some things are sacred &#8211; and that includes the contents of Luigi&#8217;s shorts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Mario proudly shed his overalls for Super Mario Odyssey, it almost broke the internet (OK, it didn&#8217;t, but work ground to a halt in the Nintendo Life office, we can assure you of that). Now, we&#8217;re seeing a discussion occur online that could potentially dwarf &#8220;nipplegate&#8221;, and &#8211; as usual &#8211; it&#8217;s Mario&#8217;s lanky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}