Fail Tuesday – PETA Attacks Nintendo Over Mario’s Tanooki Suit

[Gamercide]

Mario, a character that has been around since 1981′s classic Donkey Kong and not to mention the face of Nintendo, has fallen under attack from one of the mosted hated groups ever comprised of people who need a mental examination, PETA.

Instead of concentrating their efforts on animal poachers or saving the rain forest, PETA has decided that Mario is a fur hating, animal killer all because of the popular Tanooki suit that resembles a tan raccoon.  PETA has even launched a Mario Kills Tanooki website that depicts the fan favorite character taking a real like Tanuki raccoon dog, holding it’s decapitated head, and dancing in it’s blood while the head is some how crying despite missing it’s body.

This is not the first time PETA has attacked video games by creating a “video game” of their own.  Last year they wasted their time by creating an anti Super Meat Boy game called Super Tofu Boy, because you know, Tofu is not only healthy but incredibly badass in all of it’s tofu-ness.

“When on a mission to rescue the princess, Mario has been known to use any means necessary to defeat his enemy—even wearing the skin of a raccoon dog to give him special powers.   Tanooki may be just a “suit” in Mario games, but in real life, tanuki are raccoon dogs who are skinned alive for their fur. By wearing Tanooki, Mario is sending the message that it’s OK to wear fur.” - Statement made by PETA on the Mario Kills Tanooki website

Remember kids, if you purchase a new copy of the just released Super Mario 3D Land you are not only aiding Mario in rescuing Princess Peach and having fun doing it, but also killing, maming, decapitating, and skinning the real life Tanuki.

via Ingame MSNBC

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[PaNfOoT]

I'm starting to think PETA is getting so stupid they need PETPETA, People for the ethical treatment of PETA.

[PeeKnuckle]

I love the graphic of Mario pooping on PETA, LOL

[Siren]

That's a Gamercide original baby! Lol!

[PeeKnuckle]

I figured. Had Siren written all over it. haha <3

[Siren]

I think on those images I might start using a Gamercide watermark. Sound alright?

[Dateranoth]

Watermark is a good idea. I find it really funny that they attack stuff like this. I guarantee most had no idea about the suit until they brought it up. Which means their comments alone do more to support what they want to fight then anything. So silly.

[Kevnvek]

It's just so stupid. They freak out over a costume in Mario (that was in the series over 20 years ago), when games like Skyrim allow you to kill random animals on a whim to take their pelts. Shouldn't they have said something about Red Dead Redemption? You actually skin the animals and see them without their skins when you're done.

Whenever the media or a public group freaks out about something, it seems like a big double standard because there's always something much worse they didn't even comment on. That's why things like Fox News should lay off of video games, when they don't even know what they're all about lol.

[SegaCKY]

Well, until today I had no idea Tanookies even existed.

Peta has always been extremely effective at marginalizing themselves with nonsense like this, but that game is absolutely hysterical.

[SegaCKY]

Also, their characacher of Mario holding the things bloody head, is far more violent than anything every done in the games. Kind of moots their point, dummies.