Mario Bros

[yoshling]

Sorry for the vague title. I was just wondering peoples views on a few questions about the Mario brothers and the Mushroom Kingdom.

First of all, where did Mario and Luigi originate from? We know they were Italian plumbers (Though they never do any plumbing), but they lived in Brooklyn in New York according to some early games, cartoons and that appalling film. Yet in Yoshi’s Island they were babies and already in the Mushroom Kingdom delivered by a stork (O.o). Are these babies actually the Mario Bros. or their children? I’m guessing it’s them, as u see silhouettes of their parents at the end of the game and it’s not Mario, Luigi, Peach or Daisy (I would assume they would be the mothers if so). So… if the babies were the actual Mario Bros. how did they end up in Brooklyn? Didn’t that film say they were orphans? (Poor Yoshi wasting his time) Some people think that they were taken to Brooklyn to keep them safe from koopas. That would make a bit of sense…

Well, that would help explain Donkey Kong. I’m assuming Donkey Kong arcade wasn’t based in the Mushroom Kingdom. Mario was a carpenter back then and going after some chick named Pauline. Has the character Donkey Kong ever been seen in the Mushroom Kingdom though? I’m not sure if Mario Kart counts… So, this carpenter climbs up scaffolding after a huge monkey to get Pauline.

Then in the game Mario Bros. he and Luigi helped clear out Brooklyn sewers of weird creatures (the closest we see to them actually plumbing). Now… this is the confusing part… they’re under Brooklyn… yet there’s a “Pow” block, big green pipes, spineys and all other sorts of enemies. This is before they get to the Mushroom Kingdom. So, is the Mushroom Kingdom underneath Brooklyn? I always assumed they were taken to another dimension (Bricks floating in the air!). Everything seems to point to the mushroom Kingdom being underneath the normal world (I suppose it makes a small amount of sense). Why do we see the sky in the mushroom kingdom? (Why do the clouds have faces? D = ) Didn’t Mario go into space in Mario land 2? So confusing… Perhaps there was a portal to another dimension in the sewers?

Right… so he’s a plumber from Brooklyn who now lives underground or in another dimension? O.o (Wasn’t he a doctor too?)

Well, now he must be having a hell of a time eating mushrooms to grow, wearing suits looking like raccoons that make him fly (WTF?) and going after a princess called Peach (forgot about Pauline pretty soon, eh?). There’s a big dinosaur who keeps stealing the princess called Koopa… now… is that the same guy as Bowser? Perhaps a relative who has the same taste in princesses? Maybe his full title is Bowser Koopa… So Mario goes after him and defeats him on several occasions. Then he goes to ANOTHER dimension? O.o Going after a guy called Wart. There are shyguys here, just like in Yoshi’s Island which is based before this, though made afterwards.

But then there was Wario. Now, Wario and Waluigi are evils versions of the Mario Bros.? Is it just chance that these two plumbers (one with a Doctors degree) ended up here and meet two other guys who look somewhat like them? Or maybe they’re their evil counter parts from ANOTHER dimension who ended up in the Mushroom kingdom at the same time Mario and Luigi did.

Well I have many more questions which I may ask later on, the answers I gave were obviously only my opinion, I wanted to know what other people thought about a few of em.

[Wildfire the Dragon]

I'm not thinking of many questions to ask for now, though I agree on everything you said.

About Wario and Waluigi, I heard they're Mario's and Luigi's Cousins. It does make a little sense since their name are somewhat similar. The reason I heard the Wario Bros hate the Mario Bros is from their childhood. When they play a game like Cowboy, Mario's always the Hero and Wario's always the villian, and I think the same goes Luigi and Waluigi. I'm thinking the way Wario was treated affected his life. But then again, I heard this from a few Mario websites, so I don't exactly know if any of this is exactly true, but it does bring a few things into mind...

[Graedius]

Waluigi is justified by nothing. they just added him to new games as a double-character to Wario so that you could like, have partners and stuff. His name is even wonky and crap-sounding. TRIPLE BONUS MULTIPLIER ! !

As for the Tanuki suit, that makes sense partially by the ability to turn into a Statue temporarily -- why the Raccoon ears/tail and Tanuki suit allow you to fly is quite beyond me, though.

[Not-Garr]

Mario Bros. 2 can be explained easily. It was all a dream-world of Mario's (And possibly his friends'), named Subcon. Sub-conciousness. See? Hehe.

As for the rest of it, it's a total garbled mess, but I've worked out the following: Mario Bros. are born in the Mushroom Kingdom, stork fails to deliver and Yoshi's Island takes place. Some years after they've been taken to Brooklyn, New York, possibly because their parents wanted to get them away after hearing about what happened. Eventually, Mario became a carpenter, and Donkey Kong occurred.

Sometime after this, Mario and his now-of-age(?) brother Luigi opened a plumbing business, and while below Brooklyn, discovered a lot of weird stuff going on. Setting themselves up as sort-of superheroes, they cleared the sewers of Brooklyn until I assume they took a wrong pipe and were warped to another dimension altogether; in the Mushroom Kingdom. Maybe because she resembled Pauline, Mario decided to go after and save Princess Toadstool from the Koopa King. (Later his name Bowser became known.) Luigi tagged along to keep his older brother from getting himself killed.

They soon grew accustomed to this world, and stuck around, making friends, having the occasional adventure..(Super Mario 2, 3.) Were reunited with Yoshi, without knowing it. (Super Mario World) And so on.

I'm a big fan of Bowser myself, hehe. I like how over the years he's lost his general edginess and actually fell in love with Princess Toadstool AKA "Peach". And he's just going about the wrong ways of getting her to fall for him. XD

[plebenshiren]

this is a good, piont you got yoshling.
i think the main basis of it was: two plumbers were working in the brooklyn pipelines, when they stumbled acrossed, the mushroom kingdom, wich, i believe, is in another dimension.
but form there, onwards it sorta got outta hand and just went off what it was s'posed to be.
i dunno, cos i haven't really looked it up, myself. but i think that's what happened; it started off good, then just lost the plot.

[Lord of the Dance]

The movie wasn't that bad for a 90's movie. I actually liked it D=

Since the appearances of everyone in the games are so varied, I'm going to go out on a limb and say what they look like in the movies, TV show, and games are not revelant to the time line as much as the events that took place.
From what I gather, the beginning of what Gar said is true about the stork.
Just because there's already two dimensions in the Mario world, why can't there be more? Donkey Kong and his son found thenselves in Brooklyn, got caught by the zoo-peoples and put in a cage.
Mario and his first love, Pauline, decided to go on a date, and took a trip to the zoo afterwards. Donkey Kong manages to get out of his cage, and makes a break for it. Pauline tries to call the cops or whatever, and since Donkey Kong's not your average monkey, he grabs the girl who's trying to get help and runs off to the nearby construction site. Donkey Kong Junior follows a while later.
Mario gets his girlfriend back and manages to cage the stunned Donkey Kong, and tries to get him back to the zoo. Donkey Kong's son Junior sees this and tries to save his dad, thus completing the games "Donkey Kong" and "Donkey Kong Jr."
Correct me if I sound wrong...

...I'll finish later; that was a mouthful, haha. Especially right after school.

[Qinator]

How to come up in brooklyn/mushroom kingdom/NY?

I say the simpleist and fastest anfser is warp pipes D=

Lifetime of mario bros:

First they were transferred to Mushroom kingdom by the birds. Then the Yoshi got Mario safely to Peach along with Luigi (mysterious clouds helped, if T&G is marked to be in the story). Then Mario/Luigi helped Peach from bowser many times. And then they were actually going around world saving people, getting jobs (doctor), and helping everyone (saving the world by opening doors [paper mario])