Re: Mario's "mysterious" past and status?
I used to believe Mario & Luigi were born in the Mushroom Kingdom, sent to Brooklyn at a very young age and rediscovered the Mushroom Kingdom somehow between Mario Bros and Super Mario Bros.
But now
I don't believe there's any real proof they ever lived in Brooklyn. I don't see any of the media mentioning Brooklyn as canon. I'm on the side that: the movie, the shows, the comics, the books and the edutainment games are not canon. I understand there's the side that they are, but I don't support it.
I don't even believe the first Donkey Kong took place in Brookyln, because in the
1994 remake, the area from the original game is in a place called
Big-City.
Now, I'm not saying Mario and Co don't travel to Earth. They obviously do in the Mario & Sonic Olympics series. The Earth (?) is also shown in games like Mario Party 7, Super Paper Mario and Mario Kart Wii. (According to
this article.)
One could say that the Mushroom World has land masses shaped exactly like the Earth, but one could also laugh at that notion and call it preposterous. I don't see why it's preposterous. What if the Mushroom World is just in a parallel universe, meaning it's simply the Earth of its own dimension?