Made for the Mario mod I am working on, it functions as a stronger flak cannon.
Finished version. Tell me what you think. It tends to cause bad cases of missing limbs or blown up.

Fire Flower is finished now, no shells and Mario sound effects. Bullet Bill is next, then Banzai Bill, then I start the actors.

YAY! I'll try this out now. I can't wait for the actor.

Make the actor look like the original 8 bit Mario.

that has been done before in ash-33's pack it just doesn't
have real mario sounds, it just has the nes mario gameover music as dying sound

a remake would be awesome
(for that matter, make a luigi)

peach would be a brain clone, since bowser always kidnaps the princess

Make the actor be able to crush things by landing on them.

I know little about CC modding but could you accomplish that by... I don't know, making the actor extremely heavy and then compensating that by giving it a powerful enough jet pack to seem as if it was light?

That would work, but you'd have to balance it so that it didn't also sink into the ground. (Eg Massbot from hero pack 1)

Give it high jointstrength and attach emitters to its feet.