Post by Manspeed on Oct 9, 2011 13:06:09 GMT -5
I made this thread for fun. (Well, actually cross-posted from TMK). Below I have listed a whole bunch of silly theories and ideas about the Mushroom World. You guys are welcome to comment on them or post your own.
Everyone in the Mushroom World is born with a "Wa-" counterpart.
We know Wario isn't a clone. We know he's not related to Mario. We know he's not the only ugly rival character. We know Wario was brought by the stork at the same time as Mario if not some time afterward. Unless this is all one big coincidence, then I assume everybody is destined to have an ugly rival of some sort.
Peach is Princess Serenity and Rosalina is Galaxia.
This of course means Mario is Tuxedo Mask and Daisy is Sailor Jupiter.
Bowser is a metalhead.
Just look at him...
Prince Froggy is a teenage Wart.
Would explain why he has an army of Shy Guys at his disposal.
Birdo is Wart's failed attempt to create a Yoshi clone.
He tried to make his own gender-ambiguous dinosaur that shoots eggs. The result was not pretty.
Daisy is either...
....the butch in her relationship with Luigi.
oooooor....
....a lesbian using Luigi as a coverup.
ooooooooooooor...
....bisexual.
She acts like a total dyke in Mario Strikers, man.
Mouser is a hyper-evolved Squeek.
They used to be called "Lil' Mouser" for a reason.
Mario and Luigi were born and raised in whatever place Camelot's Mario Golf/Tennis RPGs are supposed to be set.
Mario is considered a hometown hero there.
Peach is the daughter of a human woman and a Toad man.
Would explain why her grandmother is a Toad. Also, in the Mushroom World all children tend to look exactly like one of their parents. Granted, all the known examples of this are boys but I'm guessing it applies to girls as well, which must mean Peach is the spitting image of her mom.
Sex doesn't exist in the Mushroom World.
All babies are brought by the stork. Simply kissing is considered promiscuous behavior.
The Koopalings are Bowser's nephews and niece. Not his kids.
Would explain why they all look different. Would also explain why they only refer to them as his "underlings" in NSMBWii. Also gives Bowser Jr. a more meaningful existence as Bowser's son.
Morton's dad looks like Gene Simmons.
He is modeled after Paul Stanley, after all...
Roy is half-blind.
That's why he wears sunglasses all the time and never seems to be able to land a hit.
Lemmy has the same disease as Gary Coleman.
That's why he's so small compared to the other Koopalings.
The X-Nauts were a sly parody of the Xbox.
Just look at Magnus Von Grapple...
Mario took on every sport ever in college and subsequently went to medical school, but decided to become a plumber after graduating.
It explains a helluvalot.
DK Jr. was actually DK Sr.'s grandson, but was raised as his son.
Explains the whole referral inconsistency. DK's dad disappeared at a young age, so Cranky had to raise him. Sure it makes no sense for him to be named "Jr." but it at least solves the whole "grandson/son" debacle.
Diddy Kong is an orphan.
Kong Isle seems to be mostly populated by apes, not monkeys. Almost all the other Kongs seem to have family members: DK has Cranky, and Dixie has Kiddy and Chunky. Where the heck is Diddy's family? Simple, he's DK's adopted nephew.
Dixie Kong is a commando.
That's why she wears the beret and the kneepads. She's probably also handy with a knife.
Goombella screwed up and actually meant to say Marilyn was a boy, not Vivian.
Really, Marilyn is the most masculine one.
Flurrie and Ludwig went to the same hair salon.
Just look at their hair...
Lemmy's hair is a dye job.
He has a little blond ponytail on the back of his head in NSMBWii...
The babies were sent to the present time on some sort of special mission that involves playing sports.
Why else would they be there?
The second Luigi in SMG was the result of Luigi winning the title of "Superstar of the Universe" in Mario Party 3.
He's the default character of MP3's story mode. The cursor is on him at the start. He's the only one without his own Star Stamp. Canonically, he was the winner. Thus, the Millenium Star put a clone of Luigi in space to help save the universe when the time arose.
Mr. Hoggle is a smuggler from Diamond City hiding out in Glitzville. The Yoshi Kid's egg was stolen goods.
Where else would he have gotten it? Come to think of it, who the hell would want to eat a Yoshi egg anyway? The very idea sounds like it should be illegal. I say Hoggle is from Diamond City specifically because he's a talking animal. Diamond City has an unusually large talking animal population.
The Yoshies on Isle Delfino were made by the Gaddbrush's goop, if not mutated by it.
That's why they only come in three convenient colors and melt when they touch the water.
Having your shoes taken away and being forced to walk on all fours is a form of punishment in the Koopa Troop.
It's either that or being burnt to ash by Bowser's breath. Your choice.
Goombas have minor telekinesis.
That's how they can carry stuff.
Ratooeys are a near-extinct species.
We've seen a grand total of two of them.
The Mushroom World's TV stations can transmit signals across dimensions.
That's how Francis was able to see all those shows he obsesses over.
Mario's hat is the source of his power.
He's twice as weak without it. Heck, they even use it as a visual cue for "one hit left" in Super Mario 3D Land.
"Plumber" is Mushroom World slang for "adventurer".
Think about it. The only four guys dressed as plumbers do more adventuring than actual plumbing. We never see any actual plumbers either.
Waluigi doesn't work for WarioWare because Wario didn't tell him about it.
He knew Waluigi would want a cut of the profits if not find a way to steal all of them outright.
Mario got his castle in SML2 the same way Wario got his at the end of WL1.
He found the genie and gave him 99,999 coins. The reason he wished for it was so he'd have a place to hide from the paparazzi.
An explosion that permanently kills a Bob-Omb is more powerful than one that doesn't.
That's why they only use it as a last resort. Of course, the actual power of the explosion still depends on the Bob-Omb's level of strength.
Rosalina's storybook wasn't fully autobiographical.
There's no way she could've been on the comet for that long unless she's immortal, and I highly doubt some random girl from Mario's planet can suddenly live forever. Everyone's game has to end somewhere.
Time passes quicker on DK Isle than it does in the rest of the Mushroom World.
That's why Cranky is old and Tiny had that growth spurt. DK, Diddy and Dixie haven't aged much because they've been spending a lot of their time playing sports in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Winky the Frog died after the events of DKC.
His stuffed corpse is clearly seen in the background of Cranky's Monkey Museum in DKC2.
The machine in Wart's room was a food dispenser that malfunctioned shortly before Mario and co. arrived.
It was set to only make his favorite food, but the malfunction caused it to only make his least favorite food.
The fruit from the Super Happy Tree only works on Yoshies.
We've yet to see anybody else using their restorative powers. Not even Baby Bowser used them and it was right there in his room.
Brown Yoshies are rare.
Again, so far we've only seen two of them. Other colors are considerably more prevalent.
Booster Tower used to be a four-star hotel.
Then the Booster family steadily got more and more insane over the years and converted it into an indoor daredevil obstacle course.
The Shy Guy's mask IS its face.
It contorts and makes expressions in Mario Strikers Charged. It's totally a removable face. The little robe thing is its body.
The Painting Worlds from SM64 are Galaxies.
Would explain Throwback Galaxy. Also explains why all the worlds are floating in a void and have Power Stars littered about.
The Power Stars are similar to the One Ring.
Whenever Bowser gives one to a boss character, it corrupts their mind. Look what happened to that Wiggler in Tiny Huge Island. This also explains why everybody competes so ruthlessly/acts like a mindless robot in Mario Party.
Booster is a Berserker from Final Fantasy.
He wears a little viking helmet, has a crazy beard and seems to operate purely on impulse.
Tatanga lives in the Space Zone.
He looks more at home there than Sarasa Land. Also the 3-Up Moons are his people's equivalent of Shine Sprites.
Those angry stars in the Space Zone are disgruntled Star Kids who were kicked out of Star Haven for bad behavior.
Tatanga then decided to enlist them as bodyguards.
Bowser is Jango Fett, Bowser Jr. is Boba Fett and the Koopa Kids are the Clone Troopers.
Well....not literally. Bowser Jr. was not brought by the stork but created as a clone of Bowser. The Koopa Kids were Bowser's attempt to build a whole army of clones and eventually start his own Clone Wars, but they sucked so bad he decided to only use them for party games.
Jr. Troopa is really a homeless midgit.
There's no way a mere hatchling is that smart and powerful and willing to wander the ends of the Earth solely out of vengeance.
Smithy is the Greek god Hephaestus.
He's a visitor from the heavens with a long beard and a hammer that he uses for forging weapons. Need I say more?
It was really Bowser's birthday during Mario Party 4.
It's got an interchangable plot surrounding the birthday of whatever character you picked, but I think the reason Bowser was all sad towards the end there was because he wanted attention. He was sad that everyone forgot his birthday.
Various common drones (Toads, Koopa Troopas, etc.) were killed as a result of the Strikers games.
This is why the Striker Cup tournament isn't held very often. :J
The Mushroom World is similar to Krypton.
People there develop superpowers when exposed to celestial bodies, etc.
Luigi doesn't live in the mansion E. Gadd built for him after LM because he's too afraid to go back there.
Specifically, the A Rank mansion is canon since it appears in MKDD.
Luigi's cowardice is the result of trauma he experienced as a baby in PiT.
To make matters worse, it's probably because HE was the one watching over himself.
In the Mushroom World, your heart is your brain.
Explains how Tubba Blubba's heart works.
Lanky Kong hasn't aged because he doesn't actually live on DK Isle.
Really, he hasn't. Look at him in DK Barrel Blast. Funky on the other hand looks a little bit older what with his lighter fur and added girth, and I'd wager Candy got a lot of plastic surgery over time. So far we have yet to see what Kiddy and Chunky look like.
Coins are made of Star Bits.
This is why the Lumas also eat them in SMG2. This is also why Yoshi can eat them. Would explain why coins restore Mario's health in SM64, SMS and both SMGs.
Chef Torte's cake got possessed.
Not sure what kind of demon it was that did the possessing, but it certainly wasn't a happy one.
There is more than one Big Bob-Omb, Petey Piranha, [Other drone boss], etc.
Every time Mario kills one, Bowser or Kamek just makes a new one by hyper-evolving another common enemy. We clearly see Petey melting away and then coming back alive and well three episodes later in SMS. How? Bowser Jr. just made another Petey. This also explains how Naval Piranha and Hookbill came back for Tetris Attack, and how the Shroobs were able to get Petey on their side in the distant past.
The Mushroom Kingdom is similar to the United Kingdom.
It's not really a kingdom. It's governed by a Chancellor/Prime Minister and the princess is just a figurehead.
Whatever species Boos are the ghosts of is extinct.
One Boo in Paper Mario wonders what he was before he died. We know other species tend to retain their form when they die, such as Dry Bones or Ghost T., but we've never seen anything that resembles a Boo. Clearly whatever they were spirits of are all gone.
Said species was probably some sort of fish.
Boos have fins, tails and little piranha mouths. They look like fish.
Humans command a great deal of respect in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Notice how all the royalty appear to be humans: Peach, the Seven Kings, etc. Also notice how the only other humans who live there are practically depended on by the Toads to save their little arses time and time again. Unless the Toads are really lazy, they probably look up to humans as more powerful beings than them.
The Toad Brigade is an attempt by Toad to start a civil rights movement.
He felt that Toads are just as capable as humans of traversing harsh landscapes/obstacle courses and started his own crack team of Toad adventurers. This explains how Toad is always able to catch up to Mario unscathed, and also why the yellow and blue Toads joined Mario and Luigi in NSMBWii.
Mario's ancestors built the pipes.
This is mostly a parody of how the Romans built aqueducts in real world history. Mario is an Italian plumber, so it's not unusual to assume he comes from a long lineage of plumbers. It's never really mentioned who built the pipes or if they were really built at all, but some of the pipes in PMTTYD look to be thousands of years old.
There is a ghost stork that brings baby ghosts.
Chauncy was born a ghost, and Lahla (I believe it was) mentions she's only 18, so apparently ghosts in the Mushroom World can "procreate". I picture the ghost stork looking like a Skeleton Goonie.
Everyone in the Mushroom World is born with a "Wa-" counterpart.
We know Wario isn't a clone. We know he's not related to Mario. We know he's not the only ugly rival character. We know Wario was brought by the stork at the same time as Mario if not some time afterward. Unless this is all one big coincidence, then I assume everybody is destined to have an ugly rival of some sort.
Peach is Princess Serenity and Rosalina is Galaxia.
This of course means Mario is Tuxedo Mask and Daisy is Sailor Jupiter.
Bowser is a metalhead.
Just look at him...
Prince Froggy is a teenage Wart.
Would explain why he has an army of Shy Guys at his disposal.
Birdo is Wart's failed attempt to create a Yoshi clone.
He tried to make his own gender-ambiguous dinosaur that shoots eggs. The result was not pretty.
Daisy is either...
....the butch in her relationship with Luigi.
oooooor....
....a lesbian using Luigi as a coverup.
ooooooooooooor...
....bisexual.
She acts like a total dyke in Mario Strikers, man.
Mouser is a hyper-evolved Squeek.
They used to be called "Lil' Mouser" for a reason.
Mario and Luigi were born and raised in whatever place Camelot's Mario Golf/Tennis RPGs are supposed to be set.
Mario is considered a hometown hero there.
Peach is the daughter of a human woman and a Toad man.
Would explain why her grandmother is a Toad. Also, in the Mushroom World all children tend to look exactly like one of their parents. Granted, all the known examples of this are boys but I'm guessing it applies to girls as well, which must mean Peach is the spitting image of her mom.
Sex doesn't exist in the Mushroom World.
All babies are brought by the stork. Simply kissing is considered promiscuous behavior.
The Koopalings are Bowser's nephews and niece. Not his kids.
Would explain why they all look different. Would also explain why they only refer to them as his "underlings" in NSMBWii. Also gives Bowser Jr. a more meaningful existence as Bowser's son.
Morton's dad looks like Gene Simmons.
He is modeled after Paul Stanley, after all...
Roy is half-blind.
That's why he wears sunglasses all the time and never seems to be able to land a hit.
Lemmy has the same disease as Gary Coleman.
That's why he's so small compared to the other Koopalings.
The X-Nauts were a sly parody of the Xbox.
Just look at Magnus Von Grapple...
Mario took on every sport ever in college and subsequently went to medical school, but decided to become a plumber after graduating.
It explains a helluvalot.
DK Jr. was actually DK Sr.'s grandson, but was raised as his son.
Explains the whole referral inconsistency. DK's dad disappeared at a young age, so Cranky had to raise him. Sure it makes no sense for him to be named "Jr." but it at least solves the whole "grandson/son" debacle.
Diddy Kong is an orphan.
Kong Isle seems to be mostly populated by apes, not monkeys. Almost all the other Kongs seem to have family members: DK has Cranky, and Dixie has Kiddy and Chunky. Where the heck is Diddy's family? Simple, he's DK's adopted nephew.
Dixie Kong is a commando.
That's why she wears the beret and the kneepads. She's probably also handy with a knife.
Goombella screwed up and actually meant to say Marilyn was a boy, not Vivian.
Really, Marilyn is the most masculine one.
Flurrie and Ludwig went to the same hair salon.
Just look at their hair...
Lemmy's hair is a dye job.
He has a little blond ponytail on the back of his head in NSMBWii...
The babies were sent to the present time on some sort of special mission that involves playing sports.
Why else would they be there?
The second Luigi in SMG was the result of Luigi winning the title of "Superstar of the Universe" in Mario Party 3.
He's the default character of MP3's story mode. The cursor is on him at the start. He's the only one without his own Star Stamp. Canonically, he was the winner. Thus, the Millenium Star put a clone of Luigi in space to help save the universe when the time arose.
Mr. Hoggle is a smuggler from Diamond City hiding out in Glitzville. The Yoshi Kid's egg was stolen goods.
Where else would he have gotten it? Come to think of it, who the hell would want to eat a Yoshi egg anyway? The very idea sounds like it should be illegal. I say Hoggle is from Diamond City specifically because he's a talking animal. Diamond City has an unusually large talking animal population.
The Yoshies on Isle Delfino were made by the Gaddbrush's goop, if not mutated by it.
That's why they only come in three convenient colors and melt when they touch the water.
Having your shoes taken away and being forced to walk on all fours is a form of punishment in the Koopa Troop.
It's either that or being burnt to ash by Bowser's breath. Your choice.
Goombas have minor telekinesis.
That's how they can carry stuff.
Ratooeys are a near-extinct species.
We've seen a grand total of two of them.
The Mushroom World's TV stations can transmit signals across dimensions.
That's how Francis was able to see all those shows he obsesses over.
Mario's hat is the source of his power.
He's twice as weak without it. Heck, they even use it as a visual cue for "one hit left" in Super Mario 3D Land.
"Plumber" is Mushroom World slang for "adventurer".
Think about it. The only four guys dressed as plumbers do more adventuring than actual plumbing. We never see any actual plumbers either.
Waluigi doesn't work for WarioWare because Wario didn't tell him about it.
He knew Waluigi would want a cut of the profits if not find a way to steal all of them outright.
Mario got his castle in SML2 the same way Wario got his at the end of WL1.
He found the genie and gave him 99,999 coins. The reason he wished for it was so he'd have a place to hide from the paparazzi.
An explosion that permanently kills a Bob-Omb is more powerful than one that doesn't.
That's why they only use it as a last resort. Of course, the actual power of the explosion still depends on the Bob-Omb's level of strength.
Rosalina's storybook wasn't fully autobiographical.
There's no way she could've been on the comet for that long unless she's immortal, and I highly doubt some random girl from Mario's planet can suddenly live forever. Everyone's game has to end somewhere.
Time passes quicker on DK Isle than it does in the rest of the Mushroom World.
That's why Cranky is old and Tiny had that growth spurt. DK, Diddy and Dixie haven't aged much because they've been spending a lot of their time playing sports in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Winky the Frog died after the events of DKC.
His stuffed corpse is clearly seen in the background of Cranky's Monkey Museum in DKC2.
The machine in Wart's room was a food dispenser that malfunctioned shortly before Mario and co. arrived.
It was set to only make his favorite food, but the malfunction caused it to only make his least favorite food.
The fruit from the Super Happy Tree only works on Yoshies.
We've yet to see anybody else using their restorative powers. Not even Baby Bowser used them and it was right there in his room.
Brown Yoshies are rare.
Again, so far we've only seen two of them. Other colors are considerably more prevalent.
Booster Tower used to be a four-star hotel.
Then the Booster family steadily got more and more insane over the years and converted it into an indoor daredevil obstacle course.
The Shy Guy's mask IS its face.
It contorts and makes expressions in Mario Strikers Charged. It's totally a removable face. The little robe thing is its body.
The Painting Worlds from SM64 are Galaxies.
Would explain Throwback Galaxy. Also explains why all the worlds are floating in a void and have Power Stars littered about.
The Power Stars are similar to the One Ring.
Whenever Bowser gives one to a boss character, it corrupts their mind. Look what happened to that Wiggler in Tiny Huge Island. This also explains why everybody competes so ruthlessly/acts like a mindless robot in Mario Party.
Booster is a Berserker from Final Fantasy.
He wears a little viking helmet, has a crazy beard and seems to operate purely on impulse.
Tatanga lives in the Space Zone.
He looks more at home there than Sarasa Land. Also the 3-Up Moons are his people's equivalent of Shine Sprites.
Those angry stars in the Space Zone are disgruntled Star Kids who were kicked out of Star Haven for bad behavior.
Tatanga then decided to enlist them as bodyguards.
Bowser is Jango Fett, Bowser Jr. is Boba Fett and the Koopa Kids are the Clone Troopers.
Well....not literally. Bowser Jr. was not brought by the stork but created as a clone of Bowser. The Koopa Kids were Bowser's attempt to build a whole army of clones and eventually start his own Clone Wars, but they sucked so bad he decided to only use them for party games.
Jr. Troopa is really a homeless midgit.
There's no way a mere hatchling is that smart and powerful and willing to wander the ends of the Earth solely out of vengeance.
Smithy is the Greek god Hephaestus.
He's a visitor from the heavens with a long beard and a hammer that he uses for forging weapons. Need I say more?
It was really Bowser's birthday during Mario Party 4.
It's got an interchangable plot surrounding the birthday of whatever character you picked, but I think the reason Bowser was all sad towards the end there was because he wanted attention. He was sad that everyone forgot his birthday.
Various common drones (Toads, Koopa Troopas, etc.) were killed as a result of the Strikers games.
This is why the Striker Cup tournament isn't held very often. :J
The Mushroom World is similar to Krypton.
People there develop superpowers when exposed to celestial bodies, etc.
Luigi doesn't live in the mansion E. Gadd built for him after LM because he's too afraid to go back there.
Specifically, the A Rank mansion is canon since it appears in MKDD.
Luigi's cowardice is the result of trauma he experienced as a baby in PiT.
To make matters worse, it's probably because HE was the one watching over himself.
In the Mushroom World, your heart is your brain.
Explains how Tubba Blubba's heart works.
Lanky Kong hasn't aged because he doesn't actually live on DK Isle.
Really, he hasn't. Look at him in DK Barrel Blast. Funky on the other hand looks a little bit older what with his lighter fur and added girth, and I'd wager Candy got a lot of plastic surgery over time. So far we have yet to see what Kiddy and Chunky look like.
Coins are made of Star Bits.
This is why the Lumas also eat them in SMG2. This is also why Yoshi can eat them. Would explain why coins restore Mario's health in SM64, SMS and both SMGs.
Chef Torte's cake got possessed.
Not sure what kind of demon it was that did the possessing, but it certainly wasn't a happy one.
There is more than one Big Bob-Omb, Petey Piranha, [Other drone boss], etc.
Every time Mario kills one, Bowser or Kamek just makes a new one by hyper-evolving another common enemy. We clearly see Petey melting away and then coming back alive and well three episodes later in SMS. How? Bowser Jr. just made another Petey. This also explains how Naval Piranha and Hookbill came back for Tetris Attack, and how the Shroobs were able to get Petey on their side in the distant past.
The Mushroom Kingdom is similar to the United Kingdom.
It's not really a kingdom. It's governed by a Chancellor/Prime Minister and the princess is just a figurehead.
Whatever species Boos are the ghosts of is extinct.
One Boo in Paper Mario wonders what he was before he died. We know other species tend to retain their form when they die, such as Dry Bones or Ghost T., but we've never seen anything that resembles a Boo. Clearly whatever they were spirits of are all gone.
Said species was probably some sort of fish.
Boos have fins, tails and little piranha mouths. They look like fish.
Humans command a great deal of respect in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Notice how all the royalty appear to be humans: Peach, the Seven Kings, etc. Also notice how the only other humans who live there are practically depended on by the Toads to save their little arses time and time again. Unless the Toads are really lazy, they probably look up to humans as more powerful beings than them.
The Toad Brigade is an attempt by Toad to start a civil rights movement.
He felt that Toads are just as capable as humans of traversing harsh landscapes/obstacle courses and started his own crack team of Toad adventurers. This explains how Toad is always able to catch up to Mario unscathed, and also why the yellow and blue Toads joined Mario and Luigi in NSMBWii.
Mario's ancestors built the pipes.
This is mostly a parody of how the Romans built aqueducts in real world history. Mario is an Italian plumber, so it's not unusual to assume he comes from a long lineage of plumbers. It's never really mentioned who built the pipes or if they were really built at all, but some of the pipes in PMTTYD look to be thousands of years old.
There is a ghost stork that brings baby ghosts.
Chauncy was born a ghost, and Lahla (I believe it was) mentions she's only 18, so apparently ghosts in the Mushroom World can "procreate". I picture the ghost stork looking like a Skeleton Goonie.
