Mario and Luigi: warrior plumbers tee

Matt sez, "The guy behind one of my favorite web comics, Dr McNinja, did this awesome tshirt design wherein Mario's world is de-cartooned and amped up. Yoshi is a scary dinosaur with a monstrous tongue, goombas look like acid visions of mushrooms and the piranha plants have shark-like teeth."

Warrior Plumbers T-Shirt (Thanks, Matt!)

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are you sure the goombas don’t look like… *mushroom* visions of mushrooms?
Takuan

dammit! it’s happening again…I’m sure that raptor is from somewhere… there are only so many ways to draw things just as there is a finite number of musical figures…
Takuan

a short story about a planet of robot dinosaurs?..
A New Challenger

Mario can’t shoot fireballs while riding Yoshi. FAILURE.

Kidding of course. This is a great rendering without going as far into the disturbing territory as some other reimaginings. Not that I dislike those either.
Daemon

Actually, what scares me is that Yoshi’s arms seem to be green coloured human limbs that have been surgically grafted onto the dino-thing.
Takuan

…from the style… maybe Galaxy… late 70′s…
adonai

Still falls behind The People’s Mario, but is pretty cool nonetheless.
GregLondon

Yoshi’s arms seem to be green coloured human limbs

Yeah, everytime I look at the picture, my eyes keep getting drawn to the trex with hands instead of claws. it weirds me out a bit.
fataltourist

This is my dream. This is my nightmare.
soundchaser

reminds me of this gem of japanese fan-art:
http://asame2.web.infoseek.co.jp/mariof1.html
jordawesome

The de-cartooned Mario & Luigi remind me of a Perry Bible Fellowship comic from a while ago.

http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF213-Mario_Too.jpg
MarlboroTestMonkey7

Like Mario’s Bros retold by someone who has never played a video game!

Kiddin’
Nice!
postliteracy_dot_org

Dunno. I’ve always thought of Yoshi as a Nanotyrannus, or at least a juvenile tyrannosaurid, rather than a Utahraptor. He’s never struck me as being particularly dromeosaurid in any way.
shyrock

This is remix of an early DragonBall manga cover, IIRC