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The '''''Mario'' universe''' refers to the [[Super Smash Bros. (series)|''Super Smash Bros.'' 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 adventure 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, and Mickey Mouse. 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 eight distinctive playable characters who originated from the series between ''[[Brawl]]'' and [[Super Smash Bros. 4|the Wii U and 3DS games]]: [[Mario]] (who has [[Dr. Mario]] in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'' as a clone), [[Luigi]], [[Bowser]], [[Princess Peach]] (who has [[Toad]] as an attack), [[Rosalina]] (who uses [[Luma]]s to attack), [[Yoshi]], [[Donkey Kong]], and [[Wario]]. The Mario universe is so expansive, in fact, that the last three characters are considered stars of their own sub-universes: the {{uv|Yoshi}} universe, the  {{uv|Donkey Kong}} universe, and the {{uv|Wario}} universe.