Wow I just watched the dk video like 30 seconds ago and apparently the Mario one dropped like an hour ago, what are the odds

- This is an interesting interpretation of Mario Lore. I especially like the idea of Magikoopa dark magic being used to power up Bowser and the other head honchos. I always imagined them just being naturally gifted mutants kinda like Freeza and his top minions in Dragon Ball. - I know most people interpret the sports and kart games taking place at the end due to Bowser being on more amiable terms. But I always interpreted it as more of a temporary truce. We see in the games that the Mario Kart races are big events with tons of sponsors and ads for in-universe products plastered throughout the race tracks. I imagine Bowser and other antagonistic characters are willing to be team players for the sake of revenue as these events would be a great way to make money. (I imagine Bowser is compensated handsomely for allowing one of his castles to be converted into a race track) - There actually is a niche part of the fandom dedicated to talking about this kind of thing. There’s a whole subreddit called Marioverse which is moderated by Tumblr user Sean D.Walsh who made an impressive timeline on his blog that I’d recommend checking out.

This is wonderful and covers way more ground than I expected going in. A few random notes: - Mario & Luigi visit Pop Star at some point, as they're seen in the audience of the King Dedede fight in the Spring Breeze subgame of Kirby Super Star, and they along with Birdo and Toad appear in the audience for the Megaton Punch mini-game in the same game. - The Beanbean Kingdom should be on the same continent as the Mushroom Kingdom, as the game depicts Stardust Fields as a borderland region between the Beanbean and Mushroom Kingdoms. - Even excluding the connections to Konami properties through Bomberman, there are connections to Earth through depictions in Mario's Time Machine and Mario is Missing. - The Koopas repeatedly seek the power of the stars in the games (Super Mario 64, Paper Mario, Super Mario Galaxy, etc.), and in Super Mario World we learn there are multiple entrances to an otherwise-unreachable place called the Star World scattered across Dinosaur Land. Perhaps this explains the Magikoopas' sustained interest in that region -- is their magic related to the stars?

I highly doubt Sunshine of all games would be the end of the timeline. Mario and Peach clearly never met Bowser Jr. before in that game as Peach asked "So you're Bowser's son?" and he'd become a recurring antagonist in later games where Mario and Co. are more familiar with him.

It makes sense that each kingdom is themed after a thing thats abundent in there area The Kart Cups are also themed after this, implying that the Cups are made per each kingdom’s theme Which is why the mario kart games tend to have so many characters as its basically an in universe olympics

I’m surprised you managed to connect Sonic to Mario through Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine of all things, rather than through their multiple outings at the Olympic Games or when Lost World had a literal Yoshi-themed DLC level. I would also like to add that the possibility of a connection between Mario and the Pikmin series. Peach’s crown and a mushroom with growth enhancement capabilities are both treasures in Pikmin 2, and Pikmin themselves have been present since Toadstool Tour and have been seen more frequently since Nintendo World. It’s not impossible to suggest that the post-apocalyptic world Pikmin takes place on was formerly Mario’s world before Wario incited a nuclear arms race, with Pikmin being the only survivors of the old world by downsizing to adapt to the new harsh biosphere.

While I don't think it's all one universe with Kirby/Zelda/etc, I do think that the multiple universes are linked through Kirby. Kirby literally lives in Dream Land, and the Fountain of Dreams is said to be the source of all good dreams. I think Kirby's universe is a base dream world that connects all of the Nintendo properties, and is the place people go when they sleep. It's how Wart was able to go from Mario's dream (in Super Mario USA) to the Wind Fish's dream (Link's Awakening). Kirby is also chock full of references to other series. The entirety of Great Cave Offensive, for example. You also mentioned Samus in Dream Land 3, but the game also features Professor Hector, who created ROB, and other non-Smash fighter cameos (Chao and Goku). Amazing Mirror also shows that Kirby's universe is connected to Master and Crazy Hands, as they're literally bosses in that game.

Pulling in Star Fox also brings F-Zero into the universe. For the uninitiated: both Arwings and F-Zero machines utilize a G-Diffuser system, both series include a version of a James McCloud, in an ending of Star Fox Command Fox & Falco become G-Zero racers, in another ending of Star Fox Command an older Falco can be seen wearing Captain Falcons boots, and also in Star Fox Command there is fight against Octoman who is also an F-Zero character. Also the Great Cave Offensive in Kirby Superstar basically connects a ton of games depending on whether you are playing the original on the SNES or the DS remake.

Metroid being canon to the Mario Universe would also make Pikmin canon seeing as Pikmin 1 references Space pirates which are the main antagonists of some Metroid games. But that raises it’s own questions with Pikmin having split timelines and a post apocalyptic depiction of earth, which Kirby also has Multiple of, and Kirby lore is it’s own can of worms; Also Hatsune Miku was on Super Mario Maker. Is Hatsune Miku Canon to Mario? Are Vocaloids Canon to Mario? Is The Internet Canon to Mario? Should I touch Grass?

You know it's going to be good when in the third minute the "Map of the Mario Universe" brings up Banjo and Conker.

If there's one part of the Mario universe that's always interested me and is almost never talked about, it's that one weird unnamed city/island from Mario Kart 8. Y'know, the one under N64 Rainbow Road with all the pretty lights and whatnot? What really gets me about that place is that it: - Is where Toad Harbour is located, as both this track and N64RR have the Peach parody of the Statue visible in the background - Is where Super Bell Subway is also located, as there are maps of the island located around the track, some detailing names of other tracks in the game - Has giant bridges sticking out of it on multiple sides, spanning far out into the ocean All implying that this place is largely used as a communal area where people are able to travel to the different tracks and locations across the series in-universe. And yet, this place isn't even part of the Mushroom Kingdom, judging by how it's mostly just isolated in the middle of the ocean in the middle of nowhere. I kinda wish someone analysed this a little more, or even if Nintendo mentioned it sometime, because 9 years later it's still one heck of a mystery.

A few things across the spin-offs + notes that I feel should've been included: -Although Sunshine ties up Bowser's relationship with Peach, I believe that Bowser either has a mutual agreement to continue conflicting with the Mario Bros. or is simply focused on taking over the Kingdoms and/or winning over the Bros. There are multiple games with post-Sunshine elements where Bowser still fights against the Bros, even in the sports games. Or maybe he just likes a bit of chaos every now and then. -The Fawful conflict. Fawful is a re-occuring character across the RPG's who's plans are seen being brought to fruition as early as Superstar Saga as seen in Bowser's Minions. This conflict may possibly be post-Sunshine considering that Bowser is the one taking the Bros. to the Beanbean Kingdom. This also opens up... -3RD CONTACT: The Shroobs, Dark Star, Geno, and the Smithy Gang(?). Due to shenanigans with a time travel machine (more on that later), E.Gadd accidentally brings down an alien race known as the Shroobs. After this whole conflict, Fawful gains access to the Dark Star, an evil artifact held away by the Star Sprites of the Mushroom Kingdom. The Dark Star's home and its motives/relations are unknown. Geno is a character sent from the Star Road, which is presumably related to Rainbow Road and the secret worlds of SMW, SM3DL and SM3DW. He helps Mario in repairing Star Road against the Smithy Gang, a massive army commanded by none other than Smithy himself. These characters are from another dimension of unknown origin, hailing from Exor, of which they use as a method of travelling between the dimensions. -TIME TRAVEL. Due to the whole Shroob conflict, a rip in space and time forms, which allows the baby and older versions of the Mario characters to be in one place, together. This could potentially be how the events of Mario's Time Machine happens, as well as how the Mario Kart games, and Yoshi's Island DS have paradoxical things such as baby characters existing in the wrong places and ages. -Smash Bros. Although Smash Bros could be seen as fiction, there is one character that appears and co-exists amongst the characters... the Metals. I believe the Metals to be a some kind of symbiotic race like Venom, as Metal Mario his variants are seen as both as power-ups and of nemesis to Mario. -2D Plane. As seen in Paper Mario, Odyssey, and SMRPG, some entities in the Mario universe like specifically on a 2D space. Culex specifically talks about this in SMRPG, and is shown to still be a sprite in the 3D remake. Odyssey also has sections where Mario is able to become a 2D entity for platforming, and Paper Mario is, well, living paper. This means that the entirety of Paper Mario is a dimension of its own seperate of The 2D as shown by Paper Jam. -More about Dreams. The events of Dream Team suggest that dreams do have a seperate world as shown by Antasma's schemes. Dreams can also be brought into the real world, which would explain Dreamy Bowser, and why themes from Subcon are able to appear in the real world.

I always figured after the entire galaxy is reset at the end of Mario Galaxy, that’s when Bowser just gave up and played sports. All the enemies are partying with the toads at the very end like a ceasefires been called and I mean.. if your defeat brings about the end of the universe and when it resets you STILL haven’t won you might as well just count your loses

I am a little surprised you did not take the geography of the Mario series more seriously. This topic is more deserving of a 4 hour long video.

I feel like a lot of this you have the right vague IDEA, but I’m not sure the linear timeline of events here makes sense, or the way you treat these diverse locations, at least not entirely. The way I think that a lot of this could be cleaner? If we treat the block thing as 1000% canon, then I think we must also treat the other main detail from the SMB manual as canon too: Mario and Luigi coming from another world through a warp pipe. This is a lore detail so important that they made it a whole part of the movie for Pete’s sake! And really, things like Mario refereeing for the WVBA (where all of the fighters are listed to be from Earth locales) make a whole lot more sense if we treat the Mario universe as being an interconnected set of ‘realms’, where one realm is a parallel Earth, another has the various Kingdoms we see in mainline and spin-off Mario titles alike (everything from the Beanbean kingdom to the Flower kingdom to Sarasaland to eeeeeeverything in Odyssey and more), another is the realm of Dreams that link and Mario both visit, which would lead to another one probably being Hyrule’s world (especially given that the Zelda series has its own self contained cosmology and pantheon that otherwise treat the world as an isolated reality), and you could go on. There’s also the factor of there being different planets in one selfsame universe that you mentioned, but I think that what planets are part of which greater realm is kind of iffy. And yeah you can say that using a sort of ‘multiverse’ approach is lazy, but especially given that a number of games seem to address isekai themes very directly it’s hard to simply scrub it aside, not to mention this is not just ‘a bunch of disconnected realities with a few interlopers’ but instead ‘closely linked parallel worlds whose inhabitants gradually become more and more integrated as they become aware of each other’. Great video all the same though!

the fact that conker is canon means people in the mario-verse swear

Great video! You forgot about all the alternate dimension stuff though, which a whole can of worms. The Smithy Gang from Super Mario RPG use this to take over for a little bit. Also the Paper Mario World is another dimension accessed through a storybook. And this can explain how stuff like Smash happens, it's just a hub for different dimensions with portals made by Master Hand or something. Though Paper Mario opens up a whole other can of worms, does that mean that places like Rogueport and all the dimensions in Super exist in the normal Mario World also? I mean the star Spirits already exist in both Paper Mario and the normal Mario World, plus Black paint with Color Splash and then Bowser's Fury, so maybe? Obviously stuff like the Royal Stickers and Origami of living beings doesn't exist in the form they do since that relies on the world being made of Paper, but it's interesting to notate how the earlier game could or could not be canon with normal Mario as well. Also to tie into the Subcon Dream stuff, there's also Pi'illo Island, whose residents are naturally attuned with the "Dream World," along with other characters like Antasma and Luigi being naturally attuned with it. Perhaps Mario being Luigi's brother also created a pseudo Dream portal in Super Mario Bros 2? That would explain how characters like Birdo who once were part of a dream, came to the Mushroom World, maybe they entered the world through a Dream portal?

Finally, the long-awaited Mario universe video has been made! As something of a lore nut myself, I really appreciate the attempt to fully map out this whole maddening canon the Mario franchise has! Also, if Kirby and Zelda are indeed part of the Mario universe then there's potentially 2 very interesting connections that can be made: 1) In Rosalina's story book, the first Luma she meets has apparently been waiting for his mother, who he says would be travelling on a comet. While the comet itself isn't important, the fact that there was a Star Mother before Rosalina could imply that the Star Mother is an incarnation of Void (from Kirby Star Allies' Soul Melter EX mode), a god that incarnates whenever it encounters extreme emotion, in this case motherly love. This may have some precedent since Zero, the source of Dark Matter in Kirby, is believed by many to be an incarnation of Void born from extreme hatred that, much like the Star Mother, can incarnate multiple times (see Kirby's Dream Land 3 and Kirby 64). 2) Since the Dark Star from Bowser's Inside Story is a being of darkness that needs to be sealed by the "Seven Sages" and the sealing power of a mystical princess... So the Dark Star is likely a form or offshot of Ganon. Either an offshoot like Agahnim in A like to the Past/the Magician from Zelda 2 or the actual damaged mind of Ganon that was stripped from his body by Twinrova's botched resurrection ritual in the Oracle games. Thank you for coming to my deranged lore-based TED talk.

My theory is that Bowser Jr is a rebel against his father, allying himself with Mario & co in secret (Not to say he hates Bowser, he just is against his regime in the Koopa Kingdom) The only person who can make portals from paint is Bowser Jr, so he must have been the one to set up all the paintings in Mario 64 He purposefully made the paintings lead to places full of Power Stars bowser had stolen This is because he felt bad about what he did in Luigi's Mansion, trapping Mario in a painting (although he was likely manipulated into doing it by King Boo) And all this is why he allies with Mario in Bowser's Fury

Personally, I think Odyssey is the last game where Mario and Bowser fight. After he’s stranded on the moon, Bowser has a while to think. How much time has he wasted chasing this impossible dream of getting Peach to marry him? After he eventually makes it back, he goes through a midlife crisis of sorts, buying himself a theme park and terrorizing other non-Mushroom kingdoms (3D World and Wonder). But after a while, this gets boring, and so he eventually stops and becomes friends with the Mario cast, hence Mario Kart, Party, the sports games, etc.

Could you imagine explaining real world history like this?

Man. It's been crazy to watch your channel grow from your old videos. Love to see it, incredible how far it's come. Can't wait for what's next, great content

My fav theory about the Mario universe is, as I call it, the Actor Theory. It was born when realizing that making a Mario timeline is impossible as some games contradict themselves. The biggest example of that is in Lugi's Mansion where Mario and Luigi meet E. Gadd for the first time and where a fortune teller ghost tells us that "Mario had soundly defeated Bowser" while wondering if "King Boo somehow revived Bowser", meaning that in this game, Bowser is dead, but like really dead forever. But in some later games, like Mario & Luigi Partners in Time, we have Mario & Luigi, already knowing E. Gadd while Bowser is alive. Yeah, clearly Mario games are just fictions made without that much care about a perfect continuity, so how is it possible to make a perfect continuity? You don't. If they're all fictions that can't have a perfect continuity, then let's just say that they're that in their own diegesis! We already know that SMB3 is a stage play, and it's hinted that other games are fictions too, SM64 has a cameraman, Paper Mario games are books. Maybe some could even be video games! X^) So why not extending that to the other games? But obviously, those fiction would reside in a same world, a coherent one with a perfect continuity that can be inferred by what we see of it: The Actor World. The world where Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser, Wario, and everyone else are just the actors partially making those fictions. And not all games have to be in the Fiction World, some would clearly happen in the Actor World. Games that would be hard to place in a classic model, that don't have much to do with the main ones like maybe for the DKC games (but we'll talk about those later), or where the Mario characters are out of character compared to the main games, like for the Arcade Mario games, likely happening before Mario being a renown actor, or the Wario Ware series, and the Mario Kart, Tennis, Golf, Strikerz, etc. which are like an intermediate: they happen in the real world but the actors are still playing their characters while Karting, Tennissing, Golfing, Strikerzing, etc., with some even having fiction in it like the last Mario Tennis, those games would kinda be like catching. There is just one series which I'm not sure if it would be in the Actor World or the Fiction World though, those being the sequels of Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong 2 is probably in the Actor World given how Mario is the fricking bad guy. But for Donkey Kong GameBoy and the Mario vs DK series, it's hard to tell. I think that the events of Donkey Kong were what made Mario famous, allowing him to be an actor, and that those games are just an adaptation of the events of Donkey Kong, and with modern DK, not OG DK which is Cranky, also joining the actors. That also leaves the DKC games (and the other Rare games by extension) which are so disconnected to the Mario games that it's really hard to know if they're Fictions or happening in the Actor World. I think they're fictions though, 't would be weird for DK to leave the island he's protecting to be an actor among other reasons but a case could be made for them to be a part of the Actor World I guess. But outside of that minor inconvenience. The Actor Theory is really just a perfect explanation about all of the Mario Universe, and a relatively simple one too. It just works. It also makes theorizing about Mario games easier, with the games that makes the least sense simply out of the question. Because yes, it's still possible to theorize about the Fiction World (which btw could very well be Fiction WorldS) as, like irl, even though they don't have a perfect consistency, there's still a consistency. And for the imperfect parts, we can jus say that they're inconsistencies, which would be hard to buy if we pretend it's a fully coherent world, but with the Actor Theory, it's easier to accept that there are inconsistencies in the Fiction World(s). It explains a lot, is consistent, is simple, makes sense, nothing disproves it (as far as I know), it's an explanation that doesn't come out of nowhere, and it makes theorizing about those worlds easier and better while expanding the universe of the series, and I don't know about any other model about the Mario diegesis that does all of that better. I really don't see why it shouldn't be accepted by everyone. :^)

The people in the flower kingdom watching everything go down in the mushroom like it’s a regular afternoon Tuesday

The idea that wario came before Mario and Luigi is fucking hilarious I love it

I think it's also worth mentioning the book supposedly containing the paper mario universe; my interpretation is that it simply retells some of mario's past adventures, but at some point the magikoopas managed to place a curse on it, bringing those retellings to life and releasing them into the world on exactly one occasion

Super Mario Odyssey has an actual world map, so we know where the Mushroom Kingdom and New Donk City are at least. Because of Peachette, my theory is that Peach herself is a special kind of toad. Mario Party DS ends with Bowser befriending Mario and the gang, explaining stuff like Mario Kart, and no one ever talks about it I've thought a lot about crossovers like this, and believe me pulling in half the gaming industry is an understatement. You could pull in just about every significant pop culture thing eventually - Fortnite has tons of connections including DC & Marvel which have been crossing over with stuff for decades, Smash Bros is only one step away from other big crossovers like Project X Zone & Kingdom Hearts, I could go on. Every new connection you make tends to pull in more connections, so you'll find your crossover web will grow exponentially.

I never thought I would find Mario lore so interesting. I mean they are traditionally platformers I never thought I’d want to learn too much lore

Timestamps: 1:37 Ooh Banana 4:27 You want fun? Wario Show you fun! 6:28 Swing your arms from Side to Side 8:00 Storm Area 51 10:22 I spent Hours of my life stomping... KOOPAS! 14:37 Minecraft Manhunt 16:18 The Moon landing was "Faked" 19:57 What the fu-boom 20:39 Gadzooks! 26:06 We did it Patrick! We Saved the City!

I actually like that the way the mushroom kingdom is a seperate world/continent connects a lot with both the movie and mario oddyssey, amazing video, trying to find cohesiveness in these games is difficult and you did very well

Wario being a war profiteer of the Koopa Kingdom/Mushroom Kingdom conflict is an analysis I was not expecting today But a very welcome one

This is really cool! One of my favorite, and one of few remaining, KZfaq passions is people exploring and interpreting the inconsistent and fantastical lore/timeline of Nintendo’s universe. I love this stuff. A few things I noticed, though: New Donk is not meant to be the literal location of Donkey Kong (1981). If so, not only does every one of Mario’s “workman-era” games, as mentioned, have to take place there, but so does Punch-Out. That features characters who, like Mario, were meant to be from real world places. Also, Donkey Kong I (Cranky), was at one time one of Mario’s jobs. He worked at a circus where DK was performing. He may not have founded Donkey Kong island yet (or rediscovered/returned home). Also Waluigi isn’t necessarily Wario’s brother. Just a partner in crime.

This dude is insanely underrated 😫, I see no other channel going so far and deep into this kind of game content. Please give us more, you're awesome

Ice climbers exist in this universe with the penguin island or ice lands in the south. And the the idea that splatoon exists in a a post apocalyptic Mario world and universe makes so much sense because big man traumatized me from an old sting ray fight in super Mario sunshine resembling the paint from that boss fight

This was a great start! You could quadruple this into a multi hour video if you feel the mood

I adore massive deep dive videos like this. Fantastic work!

A couple things I've picked up on that you forgot about: 1. Due to the rhythm heaven series being closely related to warioware, I feel like it would've been appropriate to put those games on the list especially since they have a canonical land that those games take place in. 2. I'm not sure if you mentioned this in the kong family tree video but it seems like you didn't talk about the lands and characters from the donkey kong jungle beat game like the cactus king and dread kong.

I think Sonic and even Earthworm Jim exist in the Mario universe due to Sonic's shoes and Jim's gun being found in Cranky's Video Game Heroes in DKC2. This also confirms the existence of Hyrule in the Mario universe because Link is there too.

This is incredible. I've always loved playing around with potential canon for this franchise in my head so it's really fun to see others do so too! I'd totally watch a series based around the things discussed in this vid

There was so much time and care put into this, i wish there were more nintendo yt videos like this, that explore lore that isnt outright explained, but can be put together if you pay attention to the details

I love stuff like this. It may not be officially 'canon' but it's really fun to set up your own head canon and explore it.

Great video. Loved the unveiling of all the pieces.

This is extremely well thought out and executed. Props man 👍

As someone working on her own timeline and big lore ideas, this was very enjoyable! The idea of Bowser being a dark magic construct made by the Magikoopas is very interesting indeed. I’m not as knowledgeable about the DK and Wario series, so the Wario-Sarasaland connection is something I’ll have to look into myself! Personally, I believe that Sunshine takes place smack in the middle of the timeline, assuming that this is the first time Mario or Peach encounters Jr., which is a major crux of my timeline! Imaging the ending as Bowser’s villainy breaking point is quite a fun twist, though. Anyway, lots of interesting takes, and helped me with my own lore/timeline ideas! Well done video!

This is an incredible video because this can go on forever depending on how you look at it, yet you still managed to sum it up brilliantly. I even started to think about Great Cave Offensive and WarioWare's microgames and Mario sports games as ways of connecting even more franchises, like Mr. Saturn in Great Cave Offensive connecting EarthBound, the Falchion connecting Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy characters appearing in Mario sports games connecting it, Kingdom Hearts and Disney to this world. Not to mention how Xenoblade Chronicles is connected to Xeno Saga which has Kazuya Mishima in it. With Tekken and Pac-Man having many different crossovers, we can connect so much to Mario Kart Arcade GP. As said, this can go on and on

I'm convinced that Ice Climbers also takes place in the Mario world

It’s a good thing you stopped while you can, because if you tried to include everything, you’d end up with not only half of the video game industry, but also half of the film industry. It’s insane how much it ramps up from basically anywhere. That’s the magic of cameos. Like, every character, at least the playable ones in Smash Bros, (and way more,) can canonically exist in some way, except for Min Min. Because Arms was too new, and they didn’t add Little Mac to the roster. This also puts an infinite multiverse level of stakes for the World of Light. Now I’m questioning how many times the world was in threat of being ruined, or how many times the apocalypse occurred. Also how is none of this coming up in conversations for the other series? Like a sitcom character could of said about all of this junk that exists in their world, and the amount of times the world was saved. Or the fact that magic exists in multiple forms, or that they’re hundreds of literal gods, or even Pokémon. How are most religions supposed to work as intended, when there’s literally magic to bring back people to life, and actual gods? I can go on with questions about all of this, but I will stop here. It’s just interesting to think about…everything I said in this single comment that like 2 people will read.

But how does Odyssey and the New Super Mario Bros. series fit into this? There’s also Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario, the rest of Mario & Luigi after Superstar Saga, and the rest of the Yoshi and Wario Land series’ beyond what was mentioned. Also how would the events of Galaxy affect the world? The universe literally collapses in that game, and the universal reset Rosalina preforms results in all of the planets being merged into one. What would be the consequences of that?

I like to think of Wario as a man of all trades, you can put him in any situation give him any task, and if it involves earning or saving money, he will immediately do it, no questions asked.

my man🤝this is an absolute bonkers attempt at a greater mario universe/timeline and I respect it

You forgot Skylanders as Bowser and DK (the third or Junior or whatever we’re calling him now) are playable characters and have a comic detailing their arrival to the skylands

I love this video. Thank you for making it

i watched this video as background noise to fall asleep, but i liked it so much that i just rewatched it while wide awake. baller video

This video was a lot of fun man, I'd love one that goes fully in depth on the Mario universe; maybe in multiple uploads?? In any case yeah this was great fun!!

This is absolutely fantastic!

A couple of things to add: - Mario and Sonic are 100% connected through their time at the Olympics - Through Mario RPG, we also have a connection to Final Fantasy... Which also connects to Kingdom Hearts... Oh no... - If Mario Kart is canon, and Zelda is confirmed to be connected, then you can also connect F-Zero, Animal Crossing, and Splatoon through Mario Kart. - Furthermore, Animal Crossing in all of its weirdness has had items directly from several Nintendo properties in it before, of course including Mario, Zelda, Splatoon, etc. - If we wanna get really weird with it, Splatoon also technically brings us Ika Musume, the anime character from Squid Girl. Not sure what to feel about that one, but let's just go with it. - If you REALLY wanna stretch with collaborations, Puyo Puyo has crossed over with other franchises before, including Sonic (outside of Mean Bean Machine), and uh... Neon Genesis Evangelion... Am I mentioning this solely because it's my favorite anime? Yes, yes I am. Evangelion connects to a lot of things though, so it's only a matter of time before it gets connected. - Going completely off the walls bananas, Evangelion connects to Super Robot Wars. Amongst the many crossovers in there, we have characters from Xenosaga. That means that through KOS-MOS and T-ELOS, we can also connect the Xenoblade trilogy... and maybe X, but we don't talk about that one. - Since Sonic is here, we get a LOT of weird collaborations. For example, Hatsune Miku has had a lot of Sonic cameos and such in the past, like a full on costume/onesie in Project Diva. - Hatsune Miku also may or may not now be canon to the Pokemon universe thanks to Project VOLTAGE, but it's at least worth mentioning. - Hatsune Miku ALSO has a reskin of Puyo Puyo in Project Mirai, so I think at this point we should just accept her existence - Hatsune Miku is also a DLC character in the Persona 4 Dancing game, soooooo yeah. Eventually, you can just connect every series from Smash without actually touching Smash. At this point, it's just all part of the same gaming multiverse.

This is epic and deserves more views

This is incredibly cool. I love this video so much.

Doki doki panic was originally a mario game, it got changed to be a crossover, it was designed as a mario game first and the playable characters and a few other things like mushrooms were the only things changed

Quick note: Mr. Gnw is here too, and tied deeply to Wario. Wario land 4 was just Wario robbing Shokora's grave, Shokora was cursed and turned into GnW. GnW dissapears into the void at the end, perfects minigames to avoid going insane, eventually gets back and becomes an instrumental figure in Warioware. (Also, as per brawl dojo, gnw is a self-replicating hive mind thats benevolent, so him working the factory in dkcr makes sense). Plus, its arguable paper mario was a oot-style split caused by gnw trying to get home that gave rise to smash bros. Gnw got into melee, then back home. If you want support that GnW is Shokora, watch his Subspace cutscene and give any other coherent reasoning for it.

If only Mario had a thing similar to the Sonic IDW comics so we could see some world building going on. This is a really interesting video!

I just assume that the mushroom kingdom is a large domain, composing of several monarchies (mario 3). but is probably somewhere close to Yoshi's Island (and indirectly, Dinosaur Land. if the Yo'ster Isle being yoshi's island in Mario RPG means anything). early promotional materials for Odyssey shows Delphino Isle as part of the world map but was removed (it still remains in the game's data as UV mapping data for the globe). also DK94 is a prequel to Super Mario Bros since DK ingests a poison mushroom and grows at the end, you even see the mushroom kingdom. Wario having the ability to fly planes isn't really uncommon since there's Wario's Woods, VB Wario Land and Wario Land 3. would not be surprised if the timeline went Yoshi's Island, Island DS, Donkey Kong, Mario Bros, Donkey Kong 2, Donkey Kong 94, Super Mario Bros, 3, World. if the DS version of 64 was canon, maybe Mario Land, Mario Land 2, Wario Land, 64 DS? Also, Lolo and Lala are *not* Lololo and Lalala. presumably, they added an extra La/Lo, because the Lolo characters were made independently from Nintendo's involvement as far back as the MSX days, whereas Kirby is a combined HAL Labs/Nintendo collaboration. it may help that the Lolo games were originally made by remixing levels from previous games (with dubious JP/US release windows). this also excludes the extended Eggerland characters as well as the Part Time UFO characters since it was made separately from nintendo as a mobile game. One take i would assume is that any place that seems relatively in-line with the real world could probably be tossed aside as New Donk City, like Donkey Kong, Mario Bros and Wrecking Crew. the Wario games seems arguably more cartoony but themed to a degree. like having islands named after kitchen appliances, condiments and food. a few indirect characters/monarch in Wario-related games have food names like princess shokora (Japanese-phonetic french word for Chocolate), maaaaaybe Prince Sablé and Princess Tiramisu (if the Mad Sciencestein in the Wario Land games are the same one from The Frog the Bell Tolls?). also technically-fictional characters like Count Cannoli, Carpaccio and Terrormisu (or Margherita, in japan) in Wario: Master of Disguise. Wario games usually features dimensions sealed inside artefacts, rather than maybe-portals like the Paintings are in Odyssey and (maybe) Mario 64. Finally, the MGS games are almost 1:1 with the real world. and are the real world. but any appearances in bomberman or smash doesn't really count.

I’m so glad someone made this. I wanted to make something like this for so long Additional info - Mario can now be seen canon alongside Rayman There is an official comic touching on how DK and Bowser wound up in the Skylands, potentially “canonizing” Skylanders to the Marioverse. >Spyro is canon to Skylanders >Crash is canon to Spyro. There is definitely more, but that’s just what comes immediately comes to mind. Edit: Kirby enemies are also in Links awakening, potentially connecting all three universes via dreamlands. Which makes sense because I’m fairly certain “physical dream travel” is canon in all 3.

mario lore is criminally underdiscussed i love videos like this

Great video! Can't wait for the RPG one!

I'm somewhat happy to see I'm not the only one who's willing to suffer fate of trying to figure out Mario lore and universe.

this is a masterpiece

okay that was fairly good. You hit on something there with the Dream/Subcon dimension connecting the Mario and Zelda universe. and after tech or magic advances enough they could probably open portals to bring everyone to the same spot for a gigantic contest like in SSB. Subspace emissary had some wild shit going on with it.

I think to some degree every other videogame world exists along with the Mario world, just light years and light years away as you said.

I thought that me trying to make sense of the Mario world was too much, but wow this is taking it to the next level. Maybe even a bit too much ^^'

This video was very cool. I like stuff like this. Now I demand more.

It is funny and it have inspired me to finally sit down and create my own script trying to explain the lore of Mario.

Amazing video! A little disappointed as a Mario and Luigi nut that you left out the other locales and implications from the other games past superstar sage and the beanbean kingdom. The shroobs invading the mushroom kingdom/world in the past because their world is barren and the bros having to team up with their past selves, the pi'illo island and its ancient history and connection to the larger dream world (and subcon presumably), and the book in paper jam containing the alternate dimension of paper folk where paper mario takes place have vast implications for mario lore and wouldve loved to see you try to make em fit!

I find it slightly hilarious that the Movie's interpretation of the Kong kingdom is EXACTLY the opposite of this one, lol. Excellent video, btw! Everything is very well thought out, and I love hearing your theories!

Dude I love this! This is my type of content.

This is a very fun video! Never knew that Wario was the Lord of War of the Mario Bros. universe but I love that he is.

i could listen to this all day

I'm not a big fan of Bowser Puppet theory because I feel like Bowser should be just a character, not a puppet with personality.

13:10 The seven kings we see in Mario 3 are probably actors, as the game is just a stage play as confirmed by Myamoto.

YO THIS WAS AN EXTREMELY AWESOME VIDEO MAN I love how well you managed to show a lot of how the Mario timeline went and I really liked the theory’s but although there is some things I’m confused about like how Mario’s home of planet earth is in this map when really the Super Mario world with all the kingdoms and stuff are in a totally different world and also when you were talking about bowser producing asexually and made the koopalings I’m pretty sure that’s not the case because if bowser did do that then all his children would look identical to him byenlarge but other than that love the video and I really hope to see more videos like this for other video games like maybe Kirby and Sonic

Yoshis fight Kamek specifically, so not just random magikoopas.

i now want a full crossover tree of every series that is at all related to mario

Definitely an interesting interpretation but I think that the ending of Mario Galaxy could have a huge effect of the Mario Universe. That game resent the entire universe. Maybe making new stuff and/or wiping slates clean.

In other words: in the beginning there was the Yoshi-Magikoopa conflict. It came to a head when the prophesied Star Children were scheduled to be delivered to their parents by Stork. These Star Children were Mario, Luigi, Peach, Wario, and a Kong (don’t know which anymore) as babies. Oh and Baby Bowser was with them too, being the only baby successfully abducted by the Magikoopas. Definitely need to think about this some more. Thanks for the great video!

I like how as you go farther North, you have the animal characters like Banjo, and Conker. This fits with the Polar dudes up North who are also all animals.

I really enjoy these videos :)

Great video! As a long time Mario fan it often dissapoints me when people claim "Mario doesn't have a story." or when they take Miyamoto's quote that that he sees the Mario cast as a troupe of actors that can fit into any situation literaly. Even if that were true, where's the fun in that? Using you're imagination and having fun is what Mario is all about. I've always enjoyed listening to fan theories and headcannons about how the Mario's world fits together. That being said there are a few common misconceptions that I thought I'd clarify as well as a few of my own thoughts: Super Mario Bros 2 was NOT just a dream. The Japanese exclusive sequel BS Super Mario USA confirms the events happend and gives a better explanation as to what Subcon, the land of dreams, actually is. Basically Subcon is a collection of many dream worlds. When ever someone dreams (referred to as "subcontractors") it creates a new Subcon. BS Super Mario USA explains that after the events of Super Mario Bros 2 Wart, AKA his Japanese name Mamu, simply escaped into another dream which helps explain his appearance in Link's Awakening. BS Super Mario USA also reveals Subcon has a King named Ōsama. Could he be related to Prince Dreambert? Waluigi is not Wario's brother. This was confirmed in a 2008 interview by Shugo Takahashi and stated in the DS version of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games where a news brief says "Wario and Waluigi aren't brothers." According to Shigeru Miyamoto, the original arcade Donkey Kong game takes place in New York, not New Donk City. Many believe the original New York setting has been retconed due to the introduction of New Donk City, but I'll explain why this may not be the case in a bit so please bear with me. According to Miyamoto in the Donkey Kong 1994 Wonder Life Special, Donkey Kong was Mario's pet. He kidnaps Mario's girlfriend Pauline not because he's in love with her, but because he's trying to make fun of his owner Mario. We don't know why Donkey Kong wants to make fun of Mario, Miyamoto simply says that "it's a long story". One possible explanation comes from the Game & Watch title "Donkey Kong Circus" which depicts Donkey Kong balancing on a ball and juggling various objects on a construction site that looks identical to the one in the arcade game. Whenever Donkey Kong makes a mistake Mario points and laughs at his pet. Perhaps this laughing is what caused Donkey Kong to become enraged and kidnap Pauline much like the cutscene in Mario Vs Donkey Kong where Donkey Kong kidnaps the Toads after they and Mario start pointing and laughing at him. After Mario rescues Pauline he take Donkey Kong to "some island in the South" according to Miyamoto in in a 2000 intertview for Nintendo Online Magazine and the events of Donkey Kong Jr. happen. Also according to Miyamoto the events of the Mario Bros arcade game take place in New York with Mario and Luigi encountering strange creatures that are coming out of the pipes in the sewers. There Mario & Luigi find a Warp Pipe that transports them to the Mushroom Kingdom and the original Super Mario Bros game takes place shortly after this. Many people believe Mario's Brooklyn origin featured in various shows, comics, and movies are simply made up and not canon to the games, but Miyamoto confirmed in a 2023 interview that was always the story he had intended for Mario. This means that as of 2023 Mario & Luigi being from Brooklyn, New York is still canon. In fact this origin was referenced in the games thanks to Super Mario Maker in the level "Did Somebody Call a Plumber?" Mario himself also mentions that he's from Brooklyn in Mario's Time Machine, but I can understand why some might not consider the educational games canon. "But wait!" You might ask. "How can the original Donkey Kong take place in New York if Donkey Kong Land and Super Mario Odyssey both confirm it took place in a city known as Big Ape City or New Donk City? Doesn't the ending of the Gameboy remake confirm it takes place somewhere near the Mushroom Kingdom?" That would be true if the Gameboy Donkey Kong game was a remake, but according to the Super Game Boy Strategy Guide and the 3DS eshop description which says: "Donkey Kong has once again kidnapped Pauline!". That means this isn't a retelling of the arcade game's story but instead a brand new adventure where Donkey Kong has kidnapped Pauline a second time. That means both stories are true: Donkey Kong kidnapped Pauline first in New York City and then kidnapped her a second time in New Donk City. The only hole in the Mario and Luigi are from Brooklyn origin is of course Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island which depicts the Stork delivering the Mario Bros to the Mushroom Kingdom. But this simply means that sometime while they were still babies Mario and Luigi moved to New York City, we just haven't seen that happen yet. Also I'm not sure if Wario is responsible for New Donk City. It's canon status is debatable, but according to Funky Kong in the Donkey Kong Country Rumble in the Jungle novel Big Ape City (which seems to be another name for New Donk City since both areas are confirmed to be where Mario rescued Pauline unless Pauline was kidnapped in another similar but different city for a third time) was created by the Kongs originally but as they began to favor the surrounding jungles, caves and mountains the city was eventually abandoned. In Super Mario Odyssey one New Donker is quoted as saying "This festival tells the story of our city's beginnings!". Since the festival seems to be a recreation of the Donkey Kong arcade game it seems to imply that humans didn't arrive in New Donk City until sometime after Donkey Kong started kidnapping Pauline. Perhaps New Donkers are formerly New Yorkers that moved there after hearing about Mario and Pauline's adventures? It wouldn't be the first time something like that happened in this series like with Little Fungitown in the Beanbean Kingdom. I've also head cannoned that many of Mario's odd jobs took place before he settled on being a plumber in Mario Bros, but Dr. Mario did not take place in New York or New Donk because the manual for the NES game has Mario explain that his is working in the Mushroom Kingdom Hospital with Peach as his nurse. Interestingly the manual states that viruses in the game are a result of a lab experiment gone wrong but the game's ending shows the viruses getting picked up by a UFO. Are the viruses actually from beyond the stars? I disagree that Bomberman would ever do business with Wario. Bomberman is a sentient robot hero with a strong sense of justice, even if we were to set a side his morals I don't see Bomberman wanting to associate with Wario after trying to stop him from invading his world as mentioned in the Wario Blast manual. Bomberman also has no need to purchase bombs because Bomberman uses the ancient Fire Stone to instantly create bombs as shown in Bomberman 64 the Second Attack. However Wario could potentially be supplying Bomberman's enemies with bombs such as the Hige Hige Bandits, the Crush Bombers, etc. The Wario Blast manual does mention that Wario "found the extra-dimensional portal that links his world to the one Bomberman inhabits." which could help explain how Wario is in contact with so many alien species. It's also worth mentioning that Mario explains in the Super Mario Land 2 manual that Wario "has been jealous of my popularity since we were boys." This doesn't contradict anything in your video, but I thought it was worth mentioning that Mario and Wario have known each other since they were kids. Thank you if you managed to read all this! I look forward to your video about the RPGs!

“Bullet William” almost made me spit out my coffee

Waited months after the dk family vid and absolutely worth the wait. This is utterly fascinating to me even as someone with only a passing knowledge of the mario games. Would love to see more vids like this. Watched it yesterday but im about to watch it again just bc i like it that much. Great job with this

Splatoon being canon actually in theory could be plausible, if there was 5 human world wars and a southern polar ice cap and a nuke powerful enough to melt it, also I doubt the E Gadd ink has anything to do with it because inkling ink is from the liquid crystal evolution process and fuzzy ink is a combination of Grizz's fur and the liquid crystals, but in the end, there isn't any evidence I don't think directly pointing to it, but it's plausible, maybe.

thank you for using that weird toad costume picture. that guy was my computer tech teacher in 7th grade and it was a big inside joke for my family

I clicked this assuming that u might not recognize the dkc3 connection, but u clearly know ur stuff. Im super excited for the remaining facts that ur gonna school these ppl on.

My idea is that the paintings from Super Mario 64 are like windows into tiny pocket universes, opposed to teleporters to real locations. In the Whomp's Fortress painting, you see the fortress. Jump in and you are taken into the fortress seen in the painting. The levels being the paintings themselves explains the level boundaries, and maybe even the blurred textures (Like smeared paint). There are more reasons I can think of that support this idea, but they're hard to put into text. It also might just straight up be the canon explanation, as described in some obscure magazine or manual. There are outliers to this idea. I'm pretty sure Hazy Maze Cave is real, since the metal cap stage spits you outside the castle. Same thing with a few other secret stages, and maybe some other levels too.

The mushroom kingdom imports the fire flowers from deep magma bog. Fight me.

Man I thought this was gonna be a big catalogue of all the kingdoms in Mario but it turned into a fanfic, missed things, and included random crossovers

I'm a Mario fan that probably cares way too much about the stories of the Mario Universe, so this is pretty perfect for me.

Been waiting for this

This video is nuts, i love it

Splatoon is also there because of Urchin Underpass in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and how somehow Big Man copied Phantamanta from Super Mario Sunshine. Excitebike as well because of Excitebike Arena (not sure though this counts 😅).

I’ve always wondered what nabbit looks like without the mask. That shit genuinely keeps me up at night