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This Heroic Benchmark was headlined on July 2024.

Hooray! Thank you for rescuing me. My name is Yoshi. On my way to rescue my friends, Bowser trapped me in that egg.
~ Yoshi introducing himself to Mario.

Yoshi (ヨッシー, Yosshī) is a major character in Nintendo's Super Mario series, and the titular main protagonist of its video game series of the same name, within Nintendo's Mario franchise.

He is a green omnivorous dinosaur-like creature who lives on the eponymous island, where he saved Baby Mario and Baby Luigi years prior to the mainline series. Overtime, Yoshi has become Mario's best friend and sidekick, Birdo's love interest, and Kamek's archenemy.

He is voiced by Kazumi Totaka.

His Good Ranking[]

His Heroic Deeds[]

  • For the most part, he has no negative traits or aspects of any sort to his characterization.
  • He saved the Mario Bros. when they were infants and took them back to their parents.
  • He saved his island and his species from Bowser and other villains.
  • He is generally kind to everybody, only fighting them if they provoked him.
  • He willingly sacrifices himself to save Mario from larger pits.
  • He frequently helps Mario out in many games such as Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy 2.
  • He saved the Flower Kingdom from Bowser in Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
  • He saved the World of Smash Bros. from being taken over and consumed by Tabuu.

Why He Doesn't Stand Out?[]

  • While he may have a role to play in who Mario and Luigi are today, he still massively fails the high admirable standards to them because he fails to keep up with their multiple acts of saving the universe.
  • The heroism he does on his own amounts to just generic kindness and supportive heroism.
  • While he does save the babies and his island on multiple occasions, these acts of heroism are shared with the rest of the Yoshis, and his characterization is inconsistent throughout the titles, meaning none of them stand out from one another.
  • His status is far too dependent on which Yoshi color the player chooses in the games, and his action of sacrificing himself to save Mario from larger pits is 100% dependent on player choice.
  • He is gluttonous, as he relentlessly eats Luigi after mistaking him for a pineapple in Mario Power Tennis, drools on a Goomba in a LINE sticker, passes out into a fantasy where he would eat all the food he wanted if you win in Mario Strikers: Battle League and some games require you to eat enough of a certain food for him to reward you.
  • Just like Princess Daisy, he is incredibly grouchy and immature in the sports games and displays terrible sportsmanship since he constantly whimpers like a baby whenever he loses instead of ever acknowledging that what he's playing is just a game which is hardly ever played for sympathy in the games and in Mario Strikers Charged, he straight up chastised the opposing team for making him lose.
    • However, these two detracting qualities only appear in sports games, and he usually doesn't exhibit such behaviors outside of them, which makes both of them minor preventions.

Trivia[]

  • He used to be Pure Good. However, when it was revealed that his characterization is too inconsistent, and having a status completely dependent upon the player's choices, he was cut and moved to Heroic Benchmark instead.
  • He is the only character of the 12 fighters from the original Super Smash Bros. to be considered Heroic Benchmark.
  • Yoshi replaced Snow White as the icon of the Heroic Benchmark wiki since Snow White was too much of a standard hero to be an HB following an update of the Heroic Benchmark criteria.

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Video Games
Marioverse
Major Characters
Princess Daisy | Yoshi | Cranky Kong | Waluigi | Bowser Jr. | Kamek | Koopalings | Lakitu | Captain Goomba | Captain Koopa | Captain Shy Guy | Captain Boo | Koopa Kid | Kylie Koopa | Pauline | Birdo |

Rabbids
Rabbid Cranky | Rabbid Yoshi

Paperverse
Jolene | Mimi

Other Games
Mr. Game & Watch

Movies
Cranky Kong | Penguin King | Toad General

Fanon
Bob Bobowski | Fishy Boopkins | Bowser (SuperMarioLogan)

Kingiggy Series
Midbus | Elite Trio | Luigi | Donkey Kong | Diddy Kong | Toad | Extension Corps | Crossbones | Papyrus |

See Also
Nintendo Heroic Benchmarks

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