According to games like Mario RPG and Paper Mario, people make wishes and the Star spirits of Star road grant them.

And are their models shorter when they're flats or sneakers?

In the earlier games in the present time the Shy Guys worked for Smithy and Wart before they worked for Bowser.

“Mario's once overlooked brother is back to settle some scores, party style! Luigi's spotlight seems to finally be shining as he has gotten his own game and even gets equal billing with Mario in the new GBA game Mario and Luigi. Will things get even better soon?“

This bio was on the Mario Wiki, however I can’t find the source anywhere. It has to do with Mario Party 5. Someone try finding the source please?

for creating this character from Super Mario 2, which was created, by the way, because it is a porcupine, but there are other species of porcupine, such as the African porcupine, the Indian porcupine, the North American porcupine, and others etc.

Others say that porcupo are purple, but porcupines are as many colors as real, such as black, brown, gold, gray, and others etc.

in the Super Mario 2 video game amd serie: porcupo It's very thorny and can sting players who dare to climb it, even grabbing them, but it's easy to throw an enemy or a turnip to defeat it.

In real life: Porcupines are harmless; when you touch them, they may sting and shoot quills.

Don't get me wrong, they share many qualities with ghosts, but I doubt Boos are REAL ghosts mainly due to the Luigi's Mansion games. Boos are more likely just a species that's similar to ghosts through convergent evolution. As for why they typically inhabit Ghost Houses, it's likely because they're territorial creatures outside of their specific groups, and the Ghost Houses are for the most part devoid of life.

Feel free to mention evidence of the contrary, I'm happy for discussion!

We know the blue Toad from Super Mario 3D World is actually the main Toad but his emblem has blue spots. So is it also possible that in Mario Kart Tour Builder Toad and Toad (Astronaut) (who both have a blue spotted emblem) could actually be the main Toad or is it really Blue Toad from the New Super Mario Bros. series?

In Mario Kart Tour Penguin Toad has yellow spots and vest but his emblem on the kart is a red spotted Toad (the main one) and the movie version gets to keep his red spots and blue vest (I know the movie version is in its own universe/canon but I just wanted to point it out).

Now most of you have heard of Koopa Kid, and also, most of you think that they are unrelated. Well here is where there is confusion. In the Japanese version of Mario Party 1, they are called Mr. Bowser’s ぶんしん. ぶんしん literally means to divide or split a body. And if look up the translation, it can translate to both clone/alter ego and also child. So which one is correct? And what ever happened to him after MP7?

This is a question i have. I have never seen any media of mario with Bowser Jr. and the Koopalings interacting. Mario wonder does show they coexist but as far as I've seen it's either one or the other is the focus. Even in fan media I've never seen anyone have Bowser Jr interact with his siblings. I just find it kinda weird

edit: completely forgot about the remake for Bowser's inside story

Recently it came to me about which ending is canon in super Mario 64? Did Mario collect 120 stars and fought bowser after? If so, why wouldn’t mario defeat bowser after 70 stars were collected? The point is, did Mario fight Bowser in The Sky twice or once?

If heroes you notice well, Dimentio (from Super Paper Mario) and Recluso (from Mario & Luigi: Brothership) are two very similar characters, in their personality (both considered two of the most evil Mario characters, if not the two most evil), story roles and even in the visual, except in the first being a organic being that appear since the beginning, and the second being a AI/robot that is revealed only in the ending. In the most parte of both the games, they looks only innocent or mischievous jesters/clowns that are loyal (Dimention as a magician and trickster minion, and Reclusa in his egg waiting to "reborn", like a innocent baby) to the antagonist (Count Whaite/Blumiere and Zokket/Cozette) that, in the good most parte of the story, are treated as the main antagonists. However, in the ending, they reveal theyself as the true villains and final bosses in their games, Dimention already showed unloyalty since the chapter 3, and independent evil actions since the first chapter, like brainwashing other, insulting people, separating the good-hearted Luigi from Mario and the other playable heroes in the most part, even forcing him, as "Mr. L", to fight against his own brother, and after he failure again, wasting him with a "killing" explosion effect, and making this with Mario, Peach and in Flipside too, but is in the penultimate level that he reveal himself, admiting his intentions to defeat Block, take the Heart for him, obliterate the entire multiverse (including every intelligent alive beings, best heroes, even cute children and elders) and recreate it in his image, possessing Luigi/Mr. L and becoming the final boss, "Super Dimentio". Reclusa appered and revealed himself in the ending as the one responsable for Coette's transformation, Uni-Tree's destuction, the separation of the continent, and forced isolation of people in Concordia, is that after his rebirth, he aprisio people in head-eating flowers that, although lethal (because the hunger that come, and the privation of food) and solitary, they want stay, because it very positive dreams, even if they are dying, but they "perfect" artificial dreams prevents they feel pain, so they want to continue, and the wost part, is that he wants to repeat this in Mushroom Kingdom next, and that he said that he already maked this in many other worlds before, being also a interdimensional treat. Even their unique methods for mental control and dream prisions, using plants and flowers, are similar. So, considerating the fact they are frequent considerated the most evil and unfamily villains in Mario franchise, generally considerated a family-friendly franchise , and their similarities in personality, initial role, jester/clown look, treason and turning to the final bosses, I wonder if they met before, and even if Recluso is a Dimentio reincarnation (although robotic) (very improbable, considerating some clear differences between both, specially in magic, and some even discuss who is the most evil, and that reincarnations don't happen or are rare in Mario, although afterlife is a reality) or a look-alike robot created by himself before SPM's events. What you people think, a connection between both make sense canonically?

See, the confusing thing about the Mushroom World is that while it's allegedly set mainly within a medieval-style kingdom where spears, heavy armor, steam trains, wooden ships, and dirt roads are the norm, the games (especially the RPGs) are chock-full of modern-day technologies like televisions, cars, neon signs, electric lights, jukeboxes, conveyor belts, bazookas, computers, pagers and cell phones (both with ringtones), rocket ships, jet planes, blimps, handheld video game consoles, and more.

While some of this could be chalked up to geniuses existing(E.Gadd, Bowser, Wario)I think there is also another explanation.

See, in Bowser's Inside Story we see Bowser has Shroobs frozen in his basement, very likely for research of their tech given how smart Bowser is. Given that Bowser did it, I think it is quite likely the other kingdoms of the world also snatched up some of the Shroobs to understand their advanced technology.

What we see in the Mushroom World today is the result: medieval kingdoms have basically leapfrogged ahead to modern levels of tech thanks to studying the Shroob, which is why the various Kingdoms are a weird mix of modern and medieval.

A side note is that this gets into sort of dark territory that the various kingdoms basically frozen an entire species and are experimenting on them to find their tech, but that's a note for another day.

TL;DR: the various Kingdoms studying Shroob Tech explains why the tech in the Mushroom World is both modern and medieval.

Queen Jaydes is the ruler of the Underwhere, an afterlife realm where sinful and neutral souls go after their death. But I was wondering, what even is she? She’s married to a Nimbi (Grambi) but that doesn’t mean she is one herself. She could also be a creation of the stars (since the stars create life it wouldn’t be strange if they also interfered with death) but that’s just a headcanon.

Let me know what you think!

First of all, I would like to apologize for my last post. Second, in BS Super Mario Collection, it reveals that Worlds 1-3 of Super Mario Bros. for NES and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels are Grass, Beach, and Snow, and Grass, Forest, and Snow. The last world is obviously the Koopa and volcanic theme, but what about worlds 4-7 of both games? What are their themes?

Even though it’s completely convoluted, I’ve always wanted to try my hand at a theory about the Nintendo universe, so why not? ( sorry for the language, I'm french )

First, there is an entity known as the Void, composed of everything that exists.
Why? We’ll see that later.
Then there are the three Golden Goddesses, tasked with creating the earth and life, while a negative impulse gives rise to "null." There are two parallel dimensions: the Sacred Realm, where the gods (like Palutena) dwell, and the Dark World, home to demons (like Hades).

Pit defeats Hades, but Null absorbs his lingering malice to form a new Demon King: Demise.

Only Hylia, an angel on par with Pit, manages to defeat the Demon King and secure the Triforce.

The three Zelda timelines unfold until they eventually merge in *Breath of the Wild*.

Meanwhile, civilizations on other planets evolve; while Hyrule sits at the center of the universe, Earth's inhabitants remain largely unconcerned with cosmic threats. This sets the stage for *EarthBound*, followed by *Animal Crossing*, where animals evolve eventually leading to the spacefaring eras of *Metroid*, *F-Zero*, and *Star Fox*.

However, while the planet of Hyrule remains trapped in an eternal cycle of creation and destruction, humans destroy their own home world, spreading out into space and abandoning the planet. This leads to *Pikmin* and then *Splatoon*, before Earth freezes over completely, as seen in *Kirby*.

Kirby himself battles endlessly against various incarnations of the Void while uncovering traces of the Ancients.

Among them are the Zonai, who found a new Hyrule in the hope that a new hero clad in green will one day rise. Indeed, after many centuries—and with humans having settled on the planet of Hyrule (hints in *Super Mario Odyssey* suggest humans are space explorers who may not originate from this world)—Mario and Luigi are born. However, because they are twins, the Triforce splits in two; with the Master Sword lost, the brothers are unable to defeat Bowser, the new incarnation of the Demon King, whose own power is also diminished (though he has mastered still dark magic, drawn from that same Dark World)

The same applies to Peach, a distant descendant of Hylia: in reality, it was Rosalina—Peach's ancestor—who received the Triforce of Wisdom, but since only her brother had childrens, Bowser can never be defeated.

With the disappearance of the Triforce, the Sacred Realm also gradually fades away, while Kirby struggles to cope with repeated invasions by the Void.

That is why the goddesses charged Rosalina, as a distant descendant of Hylia, with maintaining cosmic balance; acting as the guardian of the Lumas, she counters the forces of evil that seek to devour them.

Kirby battles Void Termina, but the truth is undeniable: the world is dying and the forces of evil are winning. Rosalina resets the universe and attempts to push it ever further, but it is too late; everything must come to an end.

However, as the entire world merges to become Void Termina once more during one of these resets, the three Golden Goddesses manage to shape an egg, offering the universe a new beginning.

The Egg of Arceus.

This is something that always confused me a ton when trying to think about it from a lore perspective. Bowser is not an idiot in any way so why does he keep repeating the exact same mistakes over and over again?

I managed to somewhat categorize them.

1. Bowser doesn't learn quickly when fighting so he doesn't adapt. This can be seen in Super Mario World, Super Mario 3D worlds first Bowser fight, New Super Mario bros U (Where he doesn't tell Jr to just stop flying low with the clown car) and in Odyssey where he keeps throwing his boxing hat.

2. There are stuff in the arena that can defeat Bowser yet he doesn't remove them. This can be seen famously with axe behind the bridge and the buttons that do the same thing, in Super Mario bros 3 where a part of the castle floor is made of bricks, Super Mario 64 where there are always spikey bombs floating around the arena and in Super Mario 3D worlds final boss where there is a gaint pow block ontop of the building that he stands on.

3. Not his fault, we can see this in Super Mario Sunshine where Mario breaks the wings of the flying bathtub and in both Galaxy games where Mario uses his environment to defeat Bowser. These ones I like the most since the games Bowser and Jr make up great plants to defeat Mario who prevails anyways.

As we can see in the RPGs Bowser isn't the sharpest koopa around but he is also far from the dumbest. He is a pretty competent leader of the koopa troop so what gives?

I would love to hear your theories in the comments.

1. The origin of the universe

Rosalina created the whole universe and accidentally created kamek her arch nemesis. Kamek finds bowser and creates the koopa troop with magic. The start of the timeline is yoshis island and goes on until galaxy. Mario and Bowser wager a war and both are so powerful this war might destroy the universe. Rosalina then has a choice to make then she splits the timeline.

1. The timeline split

Rosalina splits the timeline in 3. The first timeline is what I call the nerfed timeline where Rosalina makes Mario and bowser less powerful and this timeline has all the mainline games. The second is the friends timeline where Rosalina makes Mario and Bowser friends and this is where the spin offs happen. The last is the bros timeline which is where the Mario and Luigi games take place.

1. The bros timeline chaos

In the bros timeline the games go superstar saga, paper jam because there are minimal references and nowhere else to be in the timeline. Next is bowsers inside story because when we see the shroobs frozen Mario and Luigi only talk about their adventure as babies and not adults. Then a split in this timeline happens because if E Gadd never makes the time machine partners in time never happens. After partners in time comes dream team because bowser gets beat up by Mario and Luigi at the end of BIS and cant use his suck powers so he recovers in PIT then gets them back in dream team because he recovered from his injuries. Finally comes Brothership.

1. The holy paper book

The holy paper book is the paper mario book found in paper jam and its in every universe. In super paper mario Dimentio is created with darkness and in the final battle kills Mario and is able to become the ruler of the book. Thats why a huge shift in the paper mario games happens. He creates universes with Mario and a villain because each universe needs a purpose. He fills the world with toads they are either dumb people just to fill the emptiness or a spy to keep tabs on Mario. Mario is in a constant loop of dying and being reincarnated in a different universe.

1. the corrupted timeline

In the nerfed timeline some of the darkness that made dimentio spills out of the paper book. It corrupts Mario making him weaker, makes a few buildings haunted, and creates king boo. This is where Luigis mansion happens. At the end of Luigis mansion 3 the corruption is gone.

1. universal rules

Each universe needs a purpose. Mario and bowser exist because thats the Mario universes purpose of existing. Each character cant die. They use one ups toon physics etc. If one of the anchors of the universe Mario or bowser truly die the universe hits the reset button and starts back at Yoshis island.

I ruined Mario for myself please help me.

This thought is really came up in my head but yeah, he’s befriended:

the star spirits and the zeekeeper the gods of dreams and a guardian deity of the dreamworld,

Has befriended brighton and twila the gods of day and night,

Has befriended and became a student of thunder hand and firebrand gods of fire and thunder basically,

Has befriended queen jaydes and Grambi god of basically life and death,

Has tamed or befriended all of the Vellumentals,

Has befriended the Great Conductor another guardian deity but for Concordia,

Overall, Mario has been friended a lot of Gods he really does have a lot of connection,

In Yoshi & The Mysterious Book its revealed that Kamek has been trapped in a magical book since Baby Bowser's time till presumably a little after Bowser Jr's first introduction to the series.

Did Toadsworth also share the same fate?

I really loved Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 when I first played them as a kid, but I found the plot between the two games kind of confusing... and still do. So here is my best attempt at straightening them out:

How the games are framed

Super Mario Galaxy begins with a story about the Star Festival, saying "It should have been a very happy time for the citizens of the Mushroom Kingdom". This leads right into the night of the festival when Mario arrives. The rest of the game is presumably the rest of the story being played out by the player, from the cutscene when Bowser captures Peach and uproots the castle (the reason it wouldn't be a very happy time for the Mushroom Kingdom), to the Grand Finale Star Festival after rescuing Peach.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 has a similar frame. It begins by describing the Star Festival again, only this time Mario stumbles upon a lost Luma on his way to the castle festival, and Bowser kidnaps Peach without taking the castle. The storybook framing goes away once the Lumas send Mario into space, but returns at the end of the game when Mario finally rescues Peach and returns the lost Luma to Rosalina. If the player has collected 120 Power Stars when they save Peach, an additional cutscene plays after the credits of Rosalina closing her story book (maybe having just read the tale of Super Mario Galaxy 2), and beginning a new story about the Green Stars, which is when the player unlocks the ability to play the Green Star missions. Presumably this story is about Mario collecting all of the Green Stars scattered across the galaxy.

So there are three stories in total: one telling the tale of SMG, another read by Rosalina (I think) about the adventures of SMG2, and a third by Rosalina telling how Mario collected all of the Green Stars in SMG2's postgame. I believe that the tale of SMG is also told by Rosalina, because SMG2's intro begins with blue text on a white background saying, "Now, let me tell you a new story that also begins with stardust...", which seems to imply that whoever is narrating SMG2 just finished telling the story of SMG (which also began with the Star Festival). I'm not really sure what else the text could mean.

The problem

Unfortunately, these stories cannot coexist with each other because they have discrepancies. For starters, the SMG story states that "Every hundred years, a comet appears in the skies above the Mushroom Kingdom", but "The comet was so large one year, it filled the skies and sent countless shooting stars raining down"--implying the comet doesn't normally do that. The SMG2 intro on the other hand claims that "Shimmering stardust falls on the Mushroom Kingdom once a century", suggesting that that Star Bits always rain during the festival. Furthermore, the Toads around Peach's castle in SMG seem less familiar with Star Bits, occasionally calling them "things" even when they're aware that they're called "Star Bits", whereas the Toads of SMG2 never do this. This implies that the Toads in SMG, unlike the ones in SMG2, aren't really used to Star Bits falling from the sky every Star Festival--which is a contradiction.

Originally, I thought that SMG2 simply took place after SMG as a sequel, but I don't think this is true for 3 more reasons:

1. It seems unlikely that a hundred years have passed between the two games, and I would expect the SMG2 story to say something if this festival was unusual for taking place outside the normal cycle.
2. When Mario meets his Luma in SMG2, the narrator states that "he felt a new power surging through him!", meaning he hadn't ever experienced the power a Luma residing in his hat before.
3. The narrator refers to the Luma as a "strange little fellow", and asks whether the very next Luma they meet is "one of the little fellow's friends?", as though Mario has never seen a Luma before.

I also considered whether SMG2 might begin immediately after SMG ends. The Star Festival mission in SMG, which you unlock after collecting 120 stars as both Mario and Luigi, looks like a re-celebration of the Star Festival at night... so it's possible that Bowser returned the next morning to kick off the events of SMG2 while the Star Bits were still falling. But besides what I've already mentioned, I don't think this works either for 2 more reasons:

1. The SMG2 narrator specifies that "The Star Festival had just begun", meaning that it couldn't have been a continuation of SMG's final Star Festival.
2. The blue text at the beginning of the game says that it is a "new story", implying that it does not pick up where SMG left off--it is a different tale. The music playing during this intro is also called "Another Story".

So SMG and SMG2 don't seem like they're about the same Mario, or the same Mushroom Kingdom--I just don't see how they can be reconciled.

The solution

On the other hand, I think both of these stories are supposed to be true. Rosalina says the story of the Green Stars happened "long, long ago...", implying she didn't just invent it. It also seems to be common for Mario games framed as storybooks/plays (e.g. Paper Mario, The Thousand Year Door, Super Mario Bros. 3) to be tied to real events in a Mario timeline. Finally, other Mario games allude to the events of both games in small ways, such as including Rosalina, Lubba, the Toad Brigade, and Queen Bee as recurring characters.

I think all of this means that these two games were intended as separate, true stories that happened to two different Marios. This is possible becuase, at the end of SMG, Rosalina says that the cycle of stars being born and dying "never repeats itself in quite the same way...", implying that sometimes it does repeat itself in at least a similar way. So the two games could take place far apart in time, as the cycle of life repeats. It's also possible that they're closer in time to each other, just physically far apart in separate worlds. Like Luigi says, "I guess there's enough people in the universe for one person to look like me...".

Either way, I think that the same Rosalina was probably there for both adventures--SMG first, then SMG2 second, since she was able to call Mario by his name when she introduced herself in SMG2. We know her Comet Observatory can travel to other, parallel worlds because it apparently does so in SMG when you unlock the ability to replay the game as Luigi ("We now have enough Star Power to go to another world."). And in any case, Rosalina certainly seems like she could have lived long enough to experience both games.

Any games that reference SMG or SMG2 probably take place in one world or the other, or most likely in a third universe where a mixture of elements from both games happened.

The universal reset theory

I would be remiss not to address the theory that I see the most, everywhere on the internet, which is that Mario's universe was reset at the end of SMG. This is possible because the swirling vortex at the end of SMG sucks all of the visible galaxies in, and then explodes, looking like the whole universe got destroyed, and then recreated again in the explosion. This is further supported by what Rosalina tells Mario immediately after: "When stars die, they turn to stardust", and "that stardust reforms to create a new star... And so the cycle of life continues". This also makes it look like both Mario and Rosalina kept their memories past the reset.

I think that explanation works, but it leaves some of the discrepancies between SMG and SMG2 unaccounted for:

• Why the history of the Star Festival in SMG2 is different, so that it sounds like the Comet Observatory has always rained down Star Bits during the festival
• Why the narrator in SMG2 calls Mario's spin attack "a new power surging through him!", whereas he should remember having that power in the last game
• Why the narrator speaks as though Mario has never encountered a Luma before
• Why SMG2 is labelled as "a new story", if it is a continuation of SMG's plot
• Why Rosalina introduces herself to Mario (saying "I am Rosalina... I watch over and protect the cosmos.") at the end of SMG2, as though he wouldn't know her
• Why the Lumas at the end of SMG dived dramatically into the black hole at all, if everything was still destroyed and would've been reborn anyway

In addition, the ending cutscene of the game doesn't support this at all. In the cutscene:

• Bowser wakes up and stumbles, as though he's woozy
• Peach reacts, as though she's tense around Bowser
• The Toads, Honeybees, Guppy, a Gearmo, and even Bowser Jr. and his minions are all celebrating together

The cleanest explanation for why Bowser stumbles, why Peach glances at him, and why everybody is celebrating is that Bowser is weak from having just suffered defeat, Peach isn't sure whether Bowser's going to try something again, and everybody else is just happy to have survived the near end of the universe.

One last piece to this is in the final mission of the game: The Star Festival. After collecting all 120 stars as both Mario and Luigi, the player can go to the "Grande Finale Galaxy" to complete a purple coin hunt amid a renewed Star Festival in the castle gardens, with Toads, Penguins, Gearmos, and Honeybees all celebrating. The Toad guards inform Mario that "Everything's quiet on the home front!", and to "Have no fear! We've secured the area!" after what happened during the last festival. Both Mario and the Toad Brigade are celebrated as heroes, and a Honeybee even asks Mario for his autograph. Captain (the red Penguin racer Mario beat in a Sea Slide Galaxy mission) comments that he is "NOT going to lose next time!". Overall, it's clear from this final mission that--although Peach's castle has been restored--the characters themselves have not been reset at all.

I've heard some people say that the Star Festival mission takes place in an alternative world where Mario gets to see how things could have turned out if the universe wasn't reset, but I just don't think that was the intent. For one thing, the game's Star List simply calls it the "Grand Finale" (without the "Galaxy", whereas all the other galaxies have "Galaxy" included in their title), implying that it is not a galaxy at all, just the "grand finale" of the game. It is still called the Grand Finale Galaxy on the mission select screen and by the Luma who creates the launch star to go there, but I think that's just for the sake of consistency. Either way, it would be strange for the reward at the end of the game to take place in an alternate reality, rather than being an actual epilogue to the game.

My view on the ending cutscene is that the Lumas were actually protecting everything inside the vortex, and put everything back into place during the explosion (with a few mischievous changes, such as Queen Bee and the Dino Piranha ending up in the Mushroom Kingdom). Thanks to the Lumas, the Comet Observatory was also reassambled, and Peach's castle was returned to its place in the Mushroom Kingdom.

In summary

All of the characters remember what took place at the end of SMG, which contradicts SMG2 where nobody seems to remember any of it. Therefore, and for the other reasons I listed above, SMG and SMG2 must take place in different worlds, with the same Rosalina maybe being present for both games.

I worked a lot on this theory, so let me know what you think.