"So Long Gay Bowser" myth fally bunked - N64 Squid

Contents:

• “SO LONG GAY BOWSER” MYTH FALLY BUNKED
• INTER POURS ONE OUT FOR SUPER MAR 64’S ‘GAY BOWSER,’ WHO IS AD NOW
• SO LONG, "GAY BOWSER" - FANS LAMENT THE LOSS OF MAR 64'S MOST FAMO LE SUPER MAR 3D ALL-STARS
• WHAT DO MAR ACTUALLY SAY WHEN HE THROWS BOWSER? "SO LONG EH/GAY BOWSER"?
• “SO LONG, GAY BOWSER”: A QUEER READG OF SUPER MAR
• INTER MOURNS LOSS OF SUPER MAR 64’S BELOVED “GAY BOWSER” VOICE LE
• SUPER MAR 64’S WEIRD 'GAY BOWSER' LE ISN’T IN SUPER MAR 3D ALL-STARS
• SUPER MAR 3D ALL-STARS REMOV BIZARRE ‘GAY BOWSER’ LE OM SUPER MAR 64
• SO LONG GAY BOWSER

“SO LONG GAY BOWSER” MYTH FALLY BUNKED

So long gay Bowser! Obvly, Ntendo would never approve of Mar llg Bowser gay, so I thought that Mar was jt sayg wh his exaggerated Italian accent. In the end, I gus will always be “So long gay Bowser” our hearts.

Mar's voice actor fally tells the tth behd the famo le "So long gay Bowser! Durg this heroic act, sounds like Mar says, “So long, gay Bowser” — but that inic misheard le is no longer prent the versn of the game that appears Super Mar 3D All-Stars on Ntendo Swch. To be clear, Mar never actually lls Bowser gay.

INTER POURS ONE OUT FOR SUPER MAR 64’S ‘GAY BOWSER,’ WHO IS AD NOW

There is a lot of fan nostalgia and love for the “gay Bowser” le that ’s pretty much a meme. Former gay in Bowser did not rpond time for prs.

SO LONG, "GAY BOWSER" - FANS LAMENT THE LOSS OF MAR 64'S MOST FAMO LE SUPER MAR 3D ALL-STARS

Mar's famo "gay Bowser" le isn't Super Mar 3D All-Stars' versn of Super Mar 64 - and fans are wavg a sad goodbye. In the origal N64 masterpiece, Mar shouts "so long, gay Bowser!

WHAT DO MAR ACTUALLY SAY WHEN HE THROWS BOWSER? "SO LONG EH/GAY BOWSER"?

A fan rtoratn published July 2020 mak sound even more like Mar is sayg "gay Bowser".

As reported by Kotaku, Mar don't say "gay Bowser" or anythg of the sort the Mar 64 that's Super Mar 3D All-Stars on Ntendo Swch.

" as he throws Bowser, and that's apparently bee Bowser is known as Kg Kooper Japan, and so the "gay Bowser" le had to be replaced. As you'd expect, there are plenty of people lamentg the loss of the "gay Bowser" le.

“SO LONG, GAY BOWSER”: A QUEER READG OF SUPER MAR

So long, gay Bowser, you uld say. Ntendo removg “So long gay bowser” is them directly acknowledgg that the origal le was fact “So long gay bowser”— wuhu ? SSC (@LegalizeWuhu) September 18, 2020.

INTER MOURNS LOSS OF SUPER MAR 64’S BELOVED “GAY BOWSER” VOICE LE

If we n all agree Martet isn't sayg "gay Bowser", what is he sayg? Or is he actually sayg so long, gay Bowser? "So long eh/gay Bowser"?

” But for years, the le has been misheard—likely thanks to the poor Italian accent of Mar’s voice actor Charl Martet—as “So long, Gay Bowser.

SUPER MAR 64’S WEIRD 'GAY BOWSER' LE ISN’T IN SUPER MAR 3D ALL-STARS

”While is unlikely, a game tailored to large youth markets both Japan and North Ameri, that Ntendo would pejoratively refer to what some have lled “the most succsful vio game character” as gay (though, my rearch I have not found nfirmatn of the actual le), left me wonrg: What if Bowser was gay this entire time? “So long, Gay Bowser”Femist readgs of the tradnal story arc Mar gam suggt s characters fall to typil patriarchal rol: Prcs Peach is the “damsel distrs” need of savg om a big bad, and Mar is the only man macho enough to help her.

SUPER MAR 3D ALL-STARS REMOV BIZARRE ‘GAY BOWSER’ LE OM SUPER MAR 64

But, if we step asi and nsir the Mar narrative om a queer perspective, Bowser’s inty be far more theory that Bowser is the strong gay woman we’ve all wanted vio gam would pos that Peach, always thought to have been need of rcue, is actually happily livg wh Bowser. In this way Mar parallels the stereotype of a straight man sistent on “flippg” gay women, pecially those viewed as straight-passg, like Peach.

” (Paper Mar)In an even queerer readg of Mar, my iend Alex Tar has suggted that perhaps even Mar and Luigi intify as gay, and that, their world of pulsory heterosexualy, the pair mt pass themselv off as brothers orr to be together. Further evince to support this is snt, held up by mere stereotyp: The two lour -ordate their outfs, and wear matchg overall sets (pretty gay).

They are equently together, willg to hold one another up pursu of goodns (also kd of gay). They each fight for Prcs Peach as a beard (very gay) brgs back to Mar 64 and that ial remark: “So long, Gay Bowser.

SO LONG GAY BOWSER

Maybe everyone is gay. So long, gay Bowser. “So Long, Gay Bowser” is a misheard le Super Mar 64 were many people mistook one of Mar’s voicele “So long, Kg Bowser” to “So long, gay Bowser.

” And a few have gused “So long, gay Bowser. Mar says different thgs when he throws Bowser pendg on what versn of Super Mar 64 you’re Ntendo / KotakuSuper Mar 3D All-Stars land on Swch today, but wh that ocsn some bad news: Mar no longer says, “So long, gay Bowser!

While he’s obvly not llg Bowser gay—eher as a pejorative or a simple scriptor of the Koopa kg’s sexualy—no one n e up wh a good alternative read on what he’s actually sayg. Let Mar ll Bowser gay! But not beg able to experience “So long, gay Bowser!