What awakened it for me was Bowser's inside story, the part with the fawful food where Bowser eats it and becomes fat, and then tries to exercise it off, eventually falling through the floor and getting stuck, force fed untill he breaks the floor. I remember not knowing why at the time but I was upset when he lost the weight and hoped he would stay that way for the rest of the game, and I would load my save just to watch the scene over and over again, as this was before I had a phone, the internet, or YouTube available to me.
2 years