Watch: Japanese PM dressed up as Mario has made us really excited about Tokyo 2020
Here is a hint: When he is not the Mario, he is a very serious man.
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.
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:
Cool move, Mr Prime Minister!
(With Agency Inputs)