So Maybe the US Won't Be Getting Captain Rainbow After All

Aug. 29 6:41 PM by Alicia Ashby

When Skip Ltd.'s new Nintendo effort, Captain Rainbow, was announced, I blythely declared it a lock for U.S. release. Now, I'm not so sure about that. It's sounding more like the sort of game that doesn't get seen outside of Europe, if it makes it into English at all. Case in point: a sequence Wired's Game|Life has just described featuring Birdo from Super Mario Bros. 2.

The officer throws [Birdo] in jail for using the ladies' room when he's clearly a man. Birdo asks you to go to his/her house and find "evidence that I'm a woman." So you do. This is how it happens. As you walk into Birdo's bedroom, you hear ... a buzzing. The pillow on her bed is vibrating and buzzing. You walk up to it, and Captain Rainbow looks under the pillow to find ... an item that's censored out on the screen. It's covered up with a question mark. "Proof that the owner is a woman," it says, leaving it at that.

So you bring what is in all likelihood Birdo's vibrator back to the police robot, who accepts it, whatever it may be, as prima facie evidence that Birdo is a chick.

Comments

There is nothing about this that is not breaking my brain.

 

There is nothing wrong about having a transexaul character. So why get ewwey with it. You never know boys. That girl you just have scoer have might have been a dude onces in her's life.

 

I imagine it's really less an issue of "transsexual character" (as Birdo has always been) and more an issue of "vibrator as plot point." Frankly, I find the whole situation just makes no sense in kind of a shitty mid-90s adventure game kind of way. For heaven's sake, anyone can own a vibrator.

 

Another thing I don't understand how Birdo is "obviously male". He's pink and he has a bow in his hair! These are practically secondary sexual characteristics in the Marioverse.

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You might be right. i hope it that is the caes. And why get tick off over what that TS women of mario character has in her room?

 

Perhaps Birdo has an incredibly manly voice... or something along those lines. Maybe Birdo forgot its bow that day. I'm just mostly confused by the "find Birdo's vibrator to prove its gender" thing on all levels.

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Am I alone in finding irony in the fact that Captain Rainbow's downfall has become a vibrator?

 

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