You’re right, nobody should look up to Mario. He has committed several war crimes and cannot enter heaven as a result. These include:

**Using child soldiers.** Mario brings Yoshi into battle immediately after he hatches from an egg, surely classifying him as a child.

**Directing attacks against civilians.** It is entirely plausible that Koopas should be considered civilians in many games, as they tend to only attack Mario when provoked. Mario nonetheless wantonly slaughters them.

**Unlawful wanton destruction or appropriation of property.** Very few bricks in the games are parts of military structures, but that doesn’t stop Mario from ruthlessly and unlawfully annihilating these civilian structures.

**Using civilians as shields.** While I guess this isn’t *technically* a shield, using the body of a civilian Koopa as a weapon seems infinitely worse, so I think this should count as a war crime as well.

**Forcing a prisoner of war to serve in the forces of a hostile power.** Pretty much everything ever done involving Cappy falls under this category. You could make the argument that possessing someone’s body doesn’t count as taking a prisoner of war, but once again, it’s probably even worse.

That’s at least 5 war crimes that Mario has committed many, many counts of throughout his atrocious career. Let that sink in.