Anyway! Today I'm going to talk about something interesting about the Mario Franchise: its timeline.
This isn't an official timeline, but more of theory. An interesting one nonetheless, because it covers a lot of ground. I won't be going into too much detail, just enough for you guys to be interested and watch the video where I got the info.
So the games order of coming out doesn't effect the timeline at all. In fact, the timeline looks a little more like this...
haha just kidding don't read that (it's a timeline, but not the one I'll be talking about)
So, every baby Mario game is the starter, because it's official that the baby IS the one that grows up to be the Mario we're used to. There is a lot of time travel going on, where Bowser goes back in time to stop the babies, but the baby Bowser's in the game really is just... past Bowser as a child as well: not Bowser jr. This is revealed through dialogue and even the way the characters interact with each other in the game.
Also, Super Mario 3 (on the gameboy) doesn't even take place at all. The location is made to look like a stage, and Mario even exits curtain right. OOOOOOh doesn't that sound crazy?
Finally, it turns out the original "Mario" appearance in Donkey Kong isn't even Mario at all. It's not a Mario look alike with a different name because they hadn't figured it out a good name yet, but it was a completely different character. Jumpman, as he is called, is actually Mario and Luigi's FATHER.
WHOA WHAT.
So these random little facts are all theories, so take them with a grain of salt.
Here's the video of a better laid out theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alcxiiN6xkU
We've had everything wrong this whole time.
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