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The '''''Mario'' universe''' refers to the ''{{b|Super Smash Bros.|series}}'' series' collection of characters, stages, and properties that hail from Nintendo's expansive and highly successful ''Mario'' video game franchise. The ''Mario'' universe is Nintendo's most lucrative franchise, and it is flat-out the most successful game franchise in global sales and in history. The ''Mario'' universe is a franchise of fantasy video games, and the most popular games are the fantasy adventure platform games called the ''Super Mario'' games. [[Mario]] himself is Nintendo's mascot and is considered the most well-known, most famous, and most popular video game character in the world; in fact he is more popular to Americans than other very well known characters like [[Sonic]], [[Pac-Man]], Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and Captain America. He, along with his many friends and nemeses, have appeared in dozens-upon-dozens of Nintendo's video games, many of them best-sellers and several of which are considered some of the greatest games ever released. Directly as a result from this, there are more ''Mario''-themed characters, items, and properties to be found in the ''Smash Bros.'' series than any other Nintendo franchise, not the least of which are eleven distinctive playable characters who originated from the series between ''[[Brawl]]'' and ''[[Smash 4]]'': [[Mario]], his clone [[Dr. Mario]], [[Luigi]], [[Bowser]], [[Princess Peach]] (who has [[Toad]] as an attack), [[Rosalina]] (who uses [[Luma]]s to attack), [[Bowser Jr.]] (who has the [[Koopalings]] as palette swaps), [[Yoshi]], [[Donkey Kong]], [[Diddy Kong]], and [[Wario]]. The Mario universe is so expansive, in fact, that the last four characters are considered stars of their own sub-universes: the {{uv|Yoshi}} universe, the  {{uv|Donkey Kong}} universe, and the {{uv|Wario}} universe. The {{uv|Wrecking Crew}} universe is also a sub-universe of the ''Mario'' universe, although no playable characters hail from it. It is the most heavily represented universe in the Super Smash Bros. series, by far - [[Trophy]], [[sticker]], and [[item]] count from the ''Mario'' universe is higher than any other series. The amount of playable characters, though, falls second to the {{uv|Pokémon}} universe (7 to 9).