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Captain Rainbow Confirms Birdo's Gender Once And For All?

Gothic Girl | August 29, 2008 | News | Wii 
For years it has been debated as to whether Mario's gender-confused friend Birdo is male or female. Mario Bros 2 first revealed he was a male, but various other Mario games have offered conflicting views on what gender the pink bird-thing is.

But does the Nintendo Wii's upcoming game Captain Rainbow finally confirm it? Birdo is seen by a police officer using a female toilet in the game, and is quickly whisked off to jail for using the wrong-gendered restrooms.
Birdo then sends you on a mission to collect "proof" that "she" is a female, and that proof can be found in Birdo's bedroom ... There you find a (censored) vibrating object under Birdo's pillow, named only "Proof that the owner is a woman".

So what do you think? Official proof that Birdo is a woman? Or just a sexually-creative male?
As you might recall from the instruction manual of Super Mario Bros. 2, the mini-boss character Birdo is, in certain versions of the Marioverse, a transvestite: He's a pink boy dinosaur who wears a pretty ribbon because he thinks he's a girl, and spits eggs from his mouth.

At any rate, one of two things has happened since the 1988 release of Mario 2. Either Nintendo retconned Birdo's gender crisis out of existence by turning him into a her, or, if you're following Reitz's interpretation, Birdo had a sex change operation. Either way, Birdo's referred to as a "her" in modern games like Mario Tennis.

Oh, but not anymore. Not in Captain Rainbow.

Birdo is seen by the island's robot police officer as he/she comes out of a public toilet. (The line he delivers as he comes out: "Wow, that was huge. That was like giving birth.")

The officer throws him 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.

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  • 0 thumbs!
    chautemoc | August 30, 2008
    This game is freaking insane. I want it.
    Anyway uhh..that's not..err..exactly proof.
  • 3 thumbs!
    Zeon I | August 30, 2008
    This is like old news. The trailer with Birdo's real voice was released before summer started. :/

    But OMG, a vibrator. Just because you have one, doesn't make you a woman. It makes you a...



    It's super freakay!
  • 0 thumbs!
    Big A2 | August 30, 2008
    This game is going to go under some serious localization.
  • 2 thumbs!
    Silver Mirror | August 30, 2008
    This game is going to be so awkward
    • 2 thumbs!
      Akira_EX | August 30, 2008
      quote Silver Mirror
      This game is going to be so frickin' awesome
      Fixed.
  • 0 thumbs!
    black doom | August 30, 2008
    Sounds like Grand Theft Smash Bros.
  • 0 thumbs!
    nflsmc | August 30, 2008
    I will definitely get this game now.
  • 0 thumbs!
    nnkklo | August 30, 2008
    This game just became 10x better in my book. Hopefully it'll be coming to America.
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    Oogity_Boogity_Boo | August 30, 2008
    ....What the *bleep* is this game about?
  • 0 thumbs!
    Komali | August 30, 2008
    Mama Mia....
    Captain Rainbow?
    Anyway Birdo in my opinion is a girl.
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    Shadow_Knight | August 30, 2008
    Yeah, I always thought Birdo was a girl. I don't need proof, I just thought Birdo was a girl from the start. The only thing that takes me off is the sounds...
    • 0 thumbs!
      Big A2 | August 30, 2008
      That's what everyone exept the seven people who read the Super Mario Bros 2 instruction booklet back in 1988.

      After that, Nintendo thought the character could be an issue, so they called him "her" from then on.
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    Kanon_fan | August 30, 2008
    Oh Birdo.
    You and your transitive habits.
    I dont know weather to find you disturbing of hilarious.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Starsky134 | August 30, 2008
    I always thought Birdo was a girl, the way it looks is supposed to imply that, amirite?
    • 0 thumbs!
      Big A2 | August 30, 2008
      You's think so, but no. This is Japan we're talking about.
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      Gogetenks | August 31, 2008
      Birdo was originally a male that believes he is a female. At least, that's what it said in the SMB2 manual, which is where Birdo appeared. In Japan, Birdo has apparently always been male, and in other regions, Birdo is usually a female.

      Now Captain Rainbow is saying Birdo is a female despite it being a Japanese game. It's really confusing.
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        Big A2 | August 31, 2008
        Like I said before,
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        This game is going to go under some serious localization.
        I kinda doubt it will even come overseas.
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    Dark Arcanine | August 31, 2008
    That's really disturbing...

    I always thought Birdo was female, unless they were aiming at a transvestite.
    • 0 thumbs!
      Gothic Girl | August 31, 2008
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      unless they were aiming at a transvestite.
      Obviously they were. XD
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    Final Blade | August 31, 2008
    WHAT THE....? This is more confusing than anything i'd ever seen.

    @Zeon- last time I check having a Vibrator or anything of that kind does make you a women. No guys, other than gays, have those.
    But then we know they're guys with more feminine touch.

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