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Please read: If you are going to replace the current information on the Featured template, please see here before doing that and to look at which order our next FA's will be put on this page. Shadow Mario (also known as ? in the Super Mario Sunshine instruction manual) is an evil doppelgänger of Mario and serves as the main antagonist of Super Mario Sunshine. He has the same appearance as Mario, except that his body is blue and liquid. Shadow Mario wields the Magic Paintbrush, an invention designed by Professor Elvin Gadd. With the brush, Shadow Mario can magically create large quantities of Goop, which occasionally spawns lesser enemies. He used this power to vandalize all of Isle Delfino with varying amounts of Graffiti, thereby making Mario the main suspect in the trial held thereafter. Midway through the game, it is revealed that Shadow Mario is actually Bowser Jr. (Bowser's eighth child) masquerading as a Mario look-alike. (more...)