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Here is a hint: When he is not the Mario, he is a very serious man.
Updated : Sep 30, 2017, 09:15 AM IST
Dressed as the video game icon Super Mario, in a comical cameo at the close of the Rio Olympics, Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe turned up donning a red cap and with the red ball of Mario.
Most had apparently never conceived of the normally blue-suited and politically conservative Abe and the moustachioed Mario merging into one.
The city handed over the Olympic flag to Tokyo, site of the 2020 Summer Games, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appeared in the stadium dressed as popular video game character Mario, tunnelling from Tokyo to Rio.
2020 Olimpiyatları için Japon Başbakan Mario oldu! #ShinzoAbe #mario #Olympics #Olympics2020 #tokyo #minister pic.twitter.com/rI7y6VwfBI
— Completo Digital (@CompletoDigital) August 22, 2016
Social media immediately lit up as scenes of Abe wearing a Super Mario costume proved jaw-dropping to Japanese watching the spectacle on television half a world away. Here is how the Twitter reacted:
You can be cool but not wearing a #SuperMario costume at a closing ceremony for a Olympics cool ! #ShinzoAbe !
— Cletus Quadros (@Cletus_Quadros) August 22, 2016
That's how #ShinzoAbe came from #JPN to #BRA in an instant #RiotoTokyo #Olympics @Tokyo2020 #SuperMario pic.twitter.com/tKnyCOixkO
— My Page (@MyPage763) August 22, 2016
Spent many infernal afternoons writing briefings on Abenomics. Here's a thing Shinzo's done that I can actually explain! #Mario #ShinzoAbe
— John McGee (@epouvantail) August 22, 2016
... the British version of Japanese PM #ShinzoAbe dressing as Super Mario...
— PommyT87 (@PommyT87) August 22, 2016
Is #TheresaMay dressed as Lara Croft. pic.twitter.com/T0sKxSPfgA
Somewhere, Sonic is pissed. #Mario #Doraemon #ShinzoAbe #ClosingCeremony
— Daniel Fouste (@JoelStrewth) August 22, 2016
Cool move, Mr Prime Minister!
(With Agency Inputs)