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In the latest Super Mario Odyssey Dev. Talk video, producer Yoshiaki Koizumi weighs in on a question that many have been asking themselves ever since they first played Super Mario Bros on the NES and glanced at the pixels that constructed the crude image of Toad on their TV's. And now, after years of wondering we finally have a definitive answer to that long-pondered question...

Is Toad's upper cranium a mushroom-shaped hat or is it in fact part of his head?

Here's what the producer of Super Mario Odyssey had to say on the subject:

So that, as it turns out is actually Toad's head. I'm going to have to leave it to all of you to figure out exactly how that works out. Maybe there’s something inside…

This goes contrary to the time Toad's mushroom was a hat in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, but now Mario has also spent time meeting and greeting realistically depicted humans in New Donk City who knows what to believe anymore?

So, do you buy the above or are waiting to hear from series creator Shigeru Miyamoto before making any absolute decisions about the anatomy of strange mushroom men in your favourite video game?

Super Mario Odyssey Dev. Talk - ft. Mr. Koizumi

 

[DeoNaught]

Checkmate atheists

egg head

It's always been his head, never question until now

 

[sarkwalvein]

Head. But I imagined it more bone like and not so much muscle and veins filled like the OP picture suggests. Ewww.

 

[Deleted User]

I've always thought of it as being part of his head because the only time you really see him take it off is in that old Mario cartoon, which I don't really trust as a place for accurate information about any Mario character.
I definitely don't think of it being like that picture though.

 

[Foxi4]

You know it can be both, right? He's a walking mushroom.

 

[DarthDub]

It's a hat and here's why. In Super Mario Odyssey, you can't capture someone if they're wearing a hat. Guess which characters can't be captured, that's right, Toads can't be captured. Checkmate, atheists.

 

[gameboy]

ive always thought of it as a hat, since Mario 2

 

[Spectral Blizzard]

It's a hat and here's why. In Super Mario Odyssey, you can't capture someone if they're wearing a hat. Guess which characters can't be captured, that's right Toads can't be captured. Checkmate, atheists.

Holy shit, you're right!
But that means Game Theory...

 

[gameboy]

it always made sense as a hat because a brain of that size would be the most worthless brain ever because the toad people are always 'not all there' and mostly just little slaves, a slave hat...

 

[Costello]

it's got to be a hat right? doesn't make sense from an anatomical standpoint ! this is all very scientific. Now let's talk about Yoshi and his DNA structure.

 

[Pedeadstrian]

doesn't make sense from an anatomical standpoint

I like to think of Toad as the hammerhead shark of the gaming community.

 

[Kioku]

it's got to be a hat right? doesn't make sense from an anatomical standpoint ! this is all very scientific. Now let's talk about Yoshi and his DNA structure.

Yoshi doesn't wear a hat though...

 

[8BitWonder]

Yoshi doesn't wear a hat though...

Does he wear a saddle, or is that just a red hump on his back?

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Does he wear a saddle, or is that just a red hump on his back?

It's a shell, pretty sure that's been confirmed

 

[8BitWonder]

It's a shell, pretty sure that's been confirmed

True. come to think of it, he does always hatch with it.

 

[Costello]

Let's just take a moment to realize that Shaun drew this picture by himself for this news article. Seriously.
You. Are. A. Legend.

 

[Deleted User]

Never really thought about it. I would think its a hat since you mentioned it.

 

[Psionic Roshambo]

Next up, is Mario really punching Yoshi in the back of his head?

 

[Spectral Blizzard]

Next up, is Mario really punching Yoshi in the back of his head?

That has actually been fucking confirmed before.

 

[markehmus]

toadstool has a mushroom cap ... humm cap = hat no ?
nice fancy horror pic though in the OP @shaunj66

 

[DKB]

lagtastic..also i always thought it was part of his head