Who is the second most iconic Nintendo character?

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Pikachu, Link, and then a secondary Mario/Pokemon character. All pretty close hand-in-hand, but that feels right.

The only thing that causes me to hesitate on Link is that I feel the symbols of Zelda are far more iconic than Link himself. If the Triforce was a character for instance, I'd easily put that over Pikachu as #2.

I can see the argument that Peach or Yoshi are better secondary Mario characters than Luigi.
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