Nintendo has kicked off an era of revelations for our favourite videogame plumbercharacter.

First, the (non-)announcement: Mario is not a plumber anymore. (Not that he'd being doing a lot of pipe repairs recently anyway. Who's ever seen the moustachioed little guy doing any plumbing in its 32-year-old history.)

Now, a new revelation: Mario has been spotted in the latest Nintendo Direct presentation for Super Mario Odysseywithout a shirt on. And despite having no belly button a-la Kyle XY, he definitely has nipples.

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People on social media had a lot of feelings:

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Some were really grossed out:

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Others made more logical assumptions (though Mario is not a normal human, despite Nintendo's insistence that he is):

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Of course, somebody had kinda fetish and zoomed in, with a little addition:

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Others noticed with frustration "The Legend of Zelda" main character, Link, doesn't have nipples:

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Wait a minute: turns out there was a previous version of shirtless Mario!

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Then, the meme war started:

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