While side-scrolling games in the vein of Super Mario Bros. are possible on the system ( 1990's Scrapyard Dog is the best example ), it is significantly harder to develop such a title than on a tile-based system such as the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Cesare is the main antagonist of the video game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, acting as Captain-General of the Papal army in Rome and ordering an assault on the castle-town of Monteriggioni, home to the protagonist Ezio Auditore da Firenze's uncle, Mario Auditore.

The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).

In the Italian Ambrosio companies film La mala planta ( The Evil Plant ), directed by Mario Caserini, which involves a case of poisoning, there is an Insert shot of a snake slithering over the ‘ Evil Plant ’.

Italian Comedy is generally considered to have started with Mario Monicelli's I soliti Ignoti ( Big Deal on Madonna Street ) and derives its name from the title of Pietro Germi's Divorzio all ' Italiana ( Divorce Italian Style, 1961 ).

Also considered Spaghetti Westerns is a film genre which combined traditional western ambiance with a Commedia all ' italiana-type comedy ; films including They Call Me Trinity and Trinity Is STILL My Name !, which featured Bud Spencer and Terence Hill, the stage names of Carlo Pedersoli and Mario Girotti.

In 2008, Francesco Cossiga told about Mario Draghi: " He is a craven moneyman ".

The current President of Italy is Giorgio Napolitano and current Prime Minister of Italy is Mario Monti.

Mario Botta ( born April 1, 1943 ) is a Swiss architect.

* 1994 – At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.

* Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco – Capriccio Diabolico for classical guitar is a homage to Paganini, and quotes " La campanella "

In 1983, Mario Bunge has suggested the categories of " belief fields " and " research fields " to help distinguish between pseudoscience and science, where the first is primarily personal and subjective and the latter involves a certain systematic approach.

Mario Javier Fernandez-Vega is a legendary Puerto Rican forester, famous for his innovative silvicultural techniques and flamboyant soccer talent.

* In the novel The War of the End of the World from Latin American writer Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the main characters is Galileo Gall, a phrenologist whose name refers to Galileo Galilei and Franz Joseph Gall, founder of the science of phrenology.

Dr Silvano Gallus, of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmaceutical Research in Milan, attributed it to lycopene, an antioxidant chemical in tomatoes, which is thought to offer some protection against cancer.

However, every game since then has stated her as being a female, the reasoning behind this is likely that the ending of the game revealed that Mario had been dreaming, therefore the game doesn't necessarily play into other elements of the series.

The game is also seen as having been key to expanding the Mario series into non-platforming games, where the main goal in platform games is when the hero has to rescue the damsel in distress ; this diversity has led to it become the best-selling game franchise of all time.

Super Mario Kart is a kart-racing game featuring several single and multiplayer modes.

Mario Kart GP is the same as in single player, the only difference being that there are now two human controlled drivers and six computer controlled drivers.

Super Mario Kart was the first game to feature playable characters from the Mario series other than Mario in a non-platforming game and the selection and different attributes of the characters is regarded as one of the game's strengths, IGN describing a well-balanced " all-star cast ".

* Shine Sprites, fictional objects from the video game Super Mario Sunshine

In Dr. Mario, a falling block tile-matching video game, the fictional character Mario assumes the role of a doctor, dropping two-colored medical capsules into a medicine bottle representing the playing field.

Koopa Troopas, or just simply Koopas, known in Japan as, are fictional race of turtle or tortoise-like creatures from the Mario series of video games, and also appearing in its sister Yoshi series.

( DK ) is a fictional gorilla appearing in the Donkey Kong and Mario video game franchises.

is a fictional character in the Mario franchise.

is a fictional character in Nintendo's Mario series.

Although their names and backgrounds contain historical allusions, the four main protagonists, Cesare Angelotti, Mario Cavaradossi, Floria Tosca, and Baron Scarpia are fictional.

* Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone was a fictional character in Mario Puzo's The Godfather saga.

The is a fictional setting in Nintendo's Super Mario series, where most of the games take place.

The, later renamed in Japan and Europe, are a group of seven fictional characters in Nintendo's Mario franchise.

* The Godfather ( novel ), a 1969 novel by Mario Puzo about the fictional Italian Mafia family headed by Don Vito Corleone

Birdo, known in Japan as, is a fictional character in the Mario franchise, who first appeared in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic, which was localized for English audiences as Super Mario Bros. 2 as an enemy to Mario.

" was licensed to the National Milk Processor Board ( MilkPEP ) in 1995 to use on their celebrity print ads, which, since then, have included celebrities from the fields of sports, media and entertainment, as well as fictional characters from TV, video games, and film such as The Simpsons, Batman, Mario, The Powerpuff Girls posing in print advertisements sporting a " milk mustache ," employing the slogan, " Where's your mustache?

Michael Corleone is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's novels, The Godfather and The Sicilian.

His most famous creation is Mario Balzic, police chief in fictional Rocksburg, Pennsylvania.

Bowser Jr. ( クッパＪｒ ． Kuppa Junia ) is a fictional character ; the only child of Bowser in Nintendo's Mario franchise.

* Princess Peach, fictional character from the Mario series of video games

Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa became inspired by Alegría's work and incorporated a fictional character based on him, named Ricardo Santurce, in his play El loco de los balcones.

* Geno, a fictional character in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

* The Fourth K by Mario Puzo ( 1990 ), features Congress trying to remove President Francis Xavier Kennedy ( a fictional nephew of John F. Kennedy ) from office, using the 25th Amendment, claiming that he is mentally unfit to serve, following the assassination of his daughter.

; Jesus was also a Displaced Person ), the author's only full fictional novel about a Hungarian intellectual escaping from the Rakosi Stalinist Hungarian dictatorship sometime prior to 1956, published posthumously under the auspices of The Fenyõ Family Trust, with the consent of Mario D. Fenyõ, by Argumentum Kiadó, Budapest 2006.