so if you didnt know, a bit before the release of the mario we all know and love, there was a donkey kong arcade game
you kinda just try to make your way up to the monkey while avoiding barrels and stuff because DK over here stole Pauline, aka the love interest or something idk
im very sure this was the inspiration for the formula all mario games have nowadays, from the fact that you gotta save a damsel in distress from a b i g bad guy to just the main character in general
basically, the protagonist of the donkey kong arcade game was called Jumpman...until they renamed him Mario-
sooo i made him a seprate character from the red plumber, now have my design of him

i honestly forgot the colors of the hammer in the arcade game so it looks like he stole a hammer from the Ice Climbers-
also bonus

this image speaks for itself