Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25819077-20150121210329/@comment-679780-20150123144158

PKMNthehedgehog2.5 wrote: Mario wasn't really MARIO at the time of Donkey Kong Jr. though. Originally Miyamoto was going to have him be the star of all his games until Mario Bros. came out, so anything pre-Mario Bros. is just Mr.Video/Jump Man. Not Mario. He could've done all that but I doubt it. I also doubt Mario was going to kill DK in a violent way. For all we know he could have been trying to send him to the zoo or back to the circus, which DKJr. might have been trying to prevent. As for the topic of Sonic's origins, he hardly needs one. This is just a strange fantastical world he lives in. This is how things work in his world. Not much elaboration is needed. Why don't you play DK Jr. sometime and ask yourself if Mario's "methods" are merely harmless tactics? Such as his use of fire or high-voltage electricity?

But yeah, Sonic is just Sonic from his own world.