The Mario Bros. were delivered via stork because they are special/significant.Babies are not usually delivered by stork, but are born or hatched or spawned or whatever. The Mario Bros. are special, possibly even created by the Star Spirits to be delivered to their parents. Storks DO act as a baby delivery service, though, such as returning lost children and dealing with cases of adoption.
Peach's apparent idiocy and/or helplessness is an act. It's all part of a larger scheme. She's already proven she's capable of handling herself in the RPG games and SPP.
Luigi is very conflicted when it comes to love/attraction.The spin-off games strongly imply that he and Daisy are attracted to each other and may even be in a relationship. Yet he also appears to be attracted to Peach, considering he reacts to her the same way Mario does: hearts in eyes, blushing, etc. any time she kisses him. He's also seen pining over Princess Eclair in PMTTYD. While never really implied, there may be vague hints of attraction toward Rosalina, considering he insists Mario tell her
he found a Green Star, and after 100% completion,
a certain photograph (which also includes the Toad Brigade). Interpret that how you will. Luigi seems to wear his heart on his sleeve and very easily develops crushes. It may be due to low self-esteem and/or not knowing what he really wants. Poor Daisy.
Star Kids and Lumas are the same beings.Star beings in the 3D games just are not drawn with mouths. Compare the Star Spirits' appearances in Paper Mario to Mario Party 5.
The events of SMB2 were real.Although the ending implies the whole thing was a dream within a dream, Subcon is a real place that can only be accessed via dreaming. It's possible Luigi, Peach, and Toad experienced the same dream. Likewise, some (or all) of the creatures/characters from the game may be equally real, but also asleep in the normal reality/realm, and having the same dream. Kind of like Inception. ...Sort of.
(Oh, I guess CrossEyed kind of
already covered this. In a way.)
Bowser Jr. is actually Bowser's younger self.Bowser's already capable of traveling to the past (YIDS). He brought his younger self to the present and is raising him, with the intent of sending him back to the past after intensive training or something.
OR Bowser Jr. is a clone of Bowser.Bowser is Jango Fett, Bowser Jr. is Boba Fett and the Koopa Kids are the Clone Troopers.
Not literally, of course. The Koopa Kids were Bowser's failed attempt to start his own Clone Wars, but they sucked so bad he now only uses them for party games. Bowser Jr. was the only one that came out right. This explains why Baby Bowser was suddenly redesigned to look like a copy of Bowser Jr. in PiT.
The Chef basically had the same theory I do. I was even going to use the same
Star Wars analogy. Great minds?
Baby Bowser in MLPIT looks different (like Bowser Jr.) because he's older.Clearly he's older than in YI based on how he talks, plus the Mario Bros. appear to be toddlers instead of newborns. The main physical difference he has in MLPIT is the addition of tiny horns. The bandana is what makes him look more like Jr. In YIDS, he has the same design in his game art as in MLPIT, sans bandana. It'd make sense that he'd grow horns as he ages.
The "Secret" levels in Sunshine are actually alternate Galaxies.One of these Galaxies was in SMG2. The old Noki in Noki Bay even refers to the "Shell's Secret" as "a pathway to another world [that] has opened above [their] fair land."
Peach's Toad "Grandma" in SMRPG isn't really her grandma.It's a term of endearment, like how many people call certain family friends "Aunt" or "Uncle". Or she's Peach's adoptive grandmother. It's possible "Grandma" is also related to Toadsworth, who's a father-like figure.
Okay, so, these last two probably belong in Mariology, but considering that thread's been inactive for over a year...
Rosalina's mother and the lost Luma's mother are the same person: Rosalina from an alternate timeline/universe. This makes their story all the more tragic. Rosalina A reboots universe and at some point (including possibly the past) returns to her home (Mario's) planet (Universe B). The Comet Observatory is abandoned and/or destroyed and goes dormant. Eventually she marries and has two children--a son and daughter. The daughter is Universe B Rosalina. Rosalina B finds a lost Luma and they set about looking for his mother, who, ironically, was there all along. The dormant comet they find was the original Comet Observatory, which they unknowingly recreate. The Lumas they later find immediately call her "Mama" because she (her alternate self) IS their Mama. By then she had aged enough that the resemblance is clear, and they recognize her. Eventually Rosalina B reboots the universe, and, well... It becomes a cycle that endlessly repeats itself.
The Mario universe has a split timeline......Thanks to time-traveling. Similar to Zelda. I haven't quite figured it out, but here's a tentative
split timeline I came up with for funzies.
