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The mario series takes place in a huge, thick, rocky, interplanetary (maybe interstellar) atmosphere, with huge planets. It houses many species, like turtle-like humanoids (koopas), humanoid protofrogs (wart), two human subspecies (new donkers/mario's subspecies), iron-silicone based organisms (bob-omb, bullet-bills, chain-chomps), earth-sized silicon based organisms (moon in super mario oddysy), fungus-like aliens (mushroom kingdom and toads), and various other species.
 
From 2001-2017, the worlds of Mario and all other Nintendo characters are flat pancake-shaped planets with holes in the middle, and they can only do anything when their home planet passes through a small dark area with a powerful laser beam. Here's what the planets look like:
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What about the Pokimans?

Their main games were on handhelds.

Does it apply to the cartridges as well?
 
Kirby of the Stars said:
From 2001-2017, the worlds of Mario and all other Nintendo characters are flat pancake-shaped planets with holes in the middle
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flat donuts!
 
SMRPG takes place in an alternate universe. This AU is also the same continuity as the Mario & Luigi games, as evidenced by Geno's cameo in Superstar Saga.
 
Female members of Mario's subspecies have built-in antirape measures.
 
Waluigi is actually an accomplished sportsman. He doesn't have time to go on whimsical adventures because he has an actual job
Tennis is obviously his forte, but he's also quite skilled in many other sports
 
Tanooki Mario speaks fluent Russian and him without his neckscarf makes him feel very naked.
 
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Okay, seems like someone posted a broken image, let's see what's in the post.

*clicks "insert quote"*

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Aaaaand that reaction image is downloaded.

Anyways, a headcanon of mine is that Peach loses her power if she's captured. That's why she doesn't fight back if she already got nabbed, because she can't.
 
The Wiggler from Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside story, Dream Team and Paper Jam is all the same wiggler.
 
Is that the same Wiggler in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga?
 
If Waluigi gets his own game it really should be a dancing one. Maybe as part of a gimmick to have him sell tacos.
 
Mario and friends have shown Daisy her fan wikia and Daisy's reaction was utter disgust. "WHAT IS THIS!?"

Metal Mario is a separate entity from Mario and he spends time in Rosalina's library organizing books and reading them all.
 
Concussion-level insanity time!

Carpaccio from Wario: Master of Disguise is Stanley the bugman's more economically-successful brother, and both are Foreman Spike's sons.

Stanley's stuck around far longer than anyone realizes.

Stanley attempted to save the Princess in the beginning, but failed and was cursed into a darker colored Fake Bowser, "Blue Bowser." He restored himself by setting himself on fire, and layed low for a while in shame.

He later attempted to get revenge on Mario for outshining him by attempting to outdo him in racing events as Il Piantissimo. The unsteady amount of sun coming through the eyeholes of his costume made him constantly squint, causing him to remember a certain amount of Zelda characters.

After he found the magic brush, he became the Shadow Mario of Toadstool Tour. He went into space in the remnants of a Shroob UFO, and found he could absorb Dark Matter, and became Cosmic Mario (and Luigi).

After the Dark Star let out a hurricane of dark energy, he also gained the ability to split into endless
s. However, this excess energy eventually escaped from him and formed the Double Cherry items.

When Bowser's usage of them failed, Stanley took them back and reforged them into Pink Gold Peach, swapping a position intended for Petey Piranha with her, hoping to make people disinterested in the franchise from laziness.

When that ultimately didn't work, he reforged her into the Super Crown to destroy the internet, his closest-to-successful plan yet. With the discord he had sewn, he attained his most powerful form yet, Galeem. In order to allay suspicion of who he was, he created a copy of him to act as an unlikely spirit, but I'm too smartery to fall for that! Bangs tinfoil hat
 
Princess Mario said:
Mario and friends have shown Daisy her fan wikia and Daisy's reaction was utter disgust. "WHAT IS THIS!?"
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On a similar note, Waluigi sees all his reaction fanart to Smash and is also disgusted, but for a different reason. "Waluigi is no crybaby! Real Waluigi confident! Real Waluigi mad!"

I don't even like Waluigi, but I dislike OOC more.
 
A friend of mine has a different theory about Stanley, by the way.
He felt that Luigi took his limelight, and became obsessed with him. He took some weird height-altering drugs that made him super lanky to try and take Luigi's place, and got really into tennis.
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The pink nose is from snorting too much of that stuff.
And he's used to hand tools thanks to the bug spray, the tennis racket was a natural fit for him.
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After a lot of bantering between me, him, and later another person, I got to the point where I said:
[quote author=Doc von Schmelwick]Donkey Knog Jr. is the current Donkey Kong's father[/quote]

(I could probably transcript the whole conversation, but that'd take a long time....)

Donkey Knog
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tatanga and katsini are actually brothers with katsini being the older one. i have no idea why one is mostly naked and one wears a full set of clothes
all generic piranha plants have tiny feets but theyre hidden most of the time
 
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