Nintendo restored a character’s previously hidden gender identity in the new English version of a Mario game, after initially introducing the character in the 2004 Japanese version of the video game as transgender.
In the new Nintendo Switch version of “Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door,” game makers have decided to make it clear that a supporting character named Vivian is transgender after previously removing the language in the 2004 English and German version of the game, UK Metro reported.
In the original 2004 Japanese version, released for the Nintendo GameCube, the villainous character — born as a male — is introduced alongside his two villain sisters, the New York Post noted.
Vivian’s sister Marilyn asks him how they can be defined as “the three shadow sisters,” before exclaiming: “You are a man! A man!” Vivian then replied, “Sorry, sister … it was my…
