Maybe I'm just a bitter boomer, but I just realized I hate almost every Mario character except for Wario, Waluigi, Daisy and Donkey Kong. Maybe Birdo if I'm feeling generous.

I detest Peach, Rosalina, Pauline, Toad, Toadette, Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Bowser, Bowser Jr., the babies and several other more.

Yeah sure I may like a good chunk of them, but I also hate a good chunk of them. The ones I hate all have terrible modern designs, terrible fanbases and just don't bring anything to the table. It's insane how flanderized they've become over the years and what little development they get. Everything past the Wii era sickens me. I think Mario worked better when it was still in its classic design era pre-3D with a smaller cast. All these promotional Nakaue drawings are good but they're just memberberries and Nintendo is too pussy and stingy to make use of them in a game, like maybe a 2D Mario with hand drawn animation. Even when Nintendo had games like Wonder and Mario Kart World with different character designed models they still use basic ass renders for promotional material. This series is just too far gone for me at this point.