Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1031724-20160315220335/@comment-24658561-20160331225033

Iggy and Lemmy are definitely brothers, the rest of them might be related but aren't necessarily. It's actually pretty unlikely that Roy and the twins are related since it is known that he's older than Iggy but younger than Lemmy.

Koopas are their own species of reptile-like creatures with a shell but they're not actual turtles. There are Koopas that don't look like turtles at all like the Spikes or the Buzzy Beetles. That's a thing the Mario franchise likes to do a lot: Cheep Cheep aren't fish, they just resemble fish, Goombas aren't mushrooms/chestnuts they just resemble them. Antasma however is not a Swooper, he's an actual bat. But in reality, noone really bothers to get lost in all of this except for some high-as-f*ck people at Nintendo. xD

Bowser surely wouldn't be as threatening if he mooed instead of roared but the implications would be much more unfortunate if he was a taurus.