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GameDaily listed the "unlikely hero" on its top 25 video game archetypes, and used Mario as an example of this. It stated that in spite of the fact that he should have run out of energy through the first level, he kept going. [194] Mario ranked fourth on GameDaily's top ten Smash Bros. characters list. [195] Mario was fourth on UGO's list of the "Top 100 Heroes of All Time". [196] They also listed Mario's hat twenty-first on their list of "The Coolest Helmets and Headgear in Video Games", stating "there's always somebody at your Halloween party wearing one." [197] Empire ranked him as the second-greatest video game character. [198] CNET listed him first on its list of the "Top 5 video game characters". [199] He was voted 100th in IGN's Top 100 Villains for his appearance in Donkey Kong Junior, adding "This Mario is a total jerk, holding Donkey Kong Jr.'s dad hostage", [200] and he has also been elected by GamesRadar as the 90th "most dastardly ne'er-do-wells" villain in video games in their "top 100". [201] Legacy Japanese prime minister Shinzō Abe dressed as Mario at the 2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony Hirokazu Tanaka's Works" (in Japanese). Sporadic Vacuum. Archived from the original on January 19, 2011 . Retrieved November 21, 2011. Tom Merritt (December 7, 2009). "Top 5 video game characters". CNET. Archived from the original on April 19, 2010 . Retrieved May 4, 2022.