{"id":98937,"date":"2019-08-22T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/08\/random_weve_now_seen_wario_topless_and_we_have_all_kinds_of_questions"},"modified":"2019-08-22T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T11:45:00","slug":"random-weve-now-seen-wario-topless-and-we-have-all-kinds-of-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/22\/random-weve-now-seen-wario-topless-and-we-have-all-kinds-of-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: We&#8217;ve Now Seen Wario Topless, And We Have All Kinds Of Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/62216073df6ed\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/62216073df6ed\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Wario\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/62216073df6ed\/wario.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/62216073df6ed\/wario.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Wario\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Remember when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/weirdness_people_just_cant_stop_talking_about_marios_nipples\">Mario went topless<\/a> and the entire internet seemed to grind to a halt in order to discuss his nipples? <em>What a ride that was.<\/em> Well, 2019 has its own version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/video_super_mario_odyssey_producer_finally_addresses_mariors_nipples\">&#8216;nipplegate&#8217;<\/a>, although this time around, it&#8217;s the <em>lack<\/em> of nipple that is causing consternation.<\/p>\n<p>Recent footage from Switch exclusive <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_and_sonic_at_the_olympic_games_tokyo_2020\">Mario &amp; Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020<\/a><\/strong> shows the bare-chested duo of Dr. Robotnik (or Dr. Eggman, if you prefer) and Wario standing proudly on the podium. Nothing wrong with that, you might assume \u2013 after all, many sporting events require the participants to wear a limited amount of clothing.<\/p>\n<p>However, upon closer inspection, it would seem that poor old Wario <em>has no nipples.<\/em> This phenomena \u2013 as noted by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/2019-has-its-very-own-shirtless-mario-scandal-as-nintendo-fans-go-mad-trying-to-find-warios-nipples\/\">Games Radar<\/a> \u2013 has caused quite a stir online.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mario and Sonic at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games is gonna be wild. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B0eRQjs59D\">pic.twitter.com\/B0eRQjs59D<\/a><\/span>\u2014 AntDude (@antdude92) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antdude92\/status\/1163994223139545088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Now, before we start assuming that a nipple-less Wario is now canon, it&#8217;s worth noting that other Twitter users have posted visual rebuttals to this stance, citing <em>slightly<\/em> shaded areas which could be nipple-like in nature.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>However, the jury would still appear to be out on the whole topic, as Wario&#8217;s nips are certainly less pronounced than Mario&#8217;s. Also, why do both characters in this shot lack belly buttons?<\/p>\n<p>And they say games journalism isn&#8217;t glamorous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Mario went topless and the entire internet seemed to grind to a halt in order to discuss his nipples? What a ride that was. Well, 2019 has its own version of &#8216;nipplegate&#8217;, although this time around, it&#8217;s the lack of nipple that is causing consternation. Recent footage from Switch exclusive Mario &amp; Sonic [&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-98937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98937","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=98937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}