What is your Mario timeline?

I cannot wait for your reasoning. This is more thought than I have ever put into Mario. I do not even take part in Zelda timeline debates.

I'm impressed. Good job, man. This is an interesting topic.

Nice, I want an RPG timeline. That would be the second one of yours, right Viridi?

Cool, I never even thought of trying top put them in order other than the obvious order within each series.

Metroid timelines I get, but the others just confuse me.

I'll start with Blue Collar and surrounding branches.

Like all the timelines, Blue Collar starts with the Mario brothers being born. The stork loses its delivery, and Yoshi's Island takes place.

If Yoshi is defeated, Mario and Luigi are raised by the Koopas. They're on friendly terms with Bowser, as they all grew up together. Mario convinced Bowser not to attack the Mushroom Kingdom and instead united the two kingdoms. This is where Mario Kart and Mario Sports games take place.

However, Yoshi was successful, and the stork made its delivery. To the wrong couple. The stork never came back to fix its mistake, so the couple took care of the Mario Bros in their home located in Brooklyn, New York. Mario grew up, and started going steady with Pauline. He also got a pet gorilla and became a carpenter. You know where this leads, Donkey Kong.

The timeline splits again. In one timeline, Mario successfully captured Donkey Kong, and his son Junior freed him in Donkey Kong Jr. Their story splits when they later bug an exterminator named Stanley before being shipped away to what would later be Donkey Kong Island. Back to Mario, he ends up getting fired for letting a gorilla loose in a construction site. The rest of this section is Mario having jobs as a demolitionist in Wrecking Crew and a boxing referee in Punch-Out!!

Back to Donkey Kong, the other timeline has DK run off with Pauline, causing Mario to give chase in Donkey Kong (Game Boy). He gets Pauline back, but is fired for letting a gorilla loose on a construction site. Luigi gets the idea to open a plumbing business. They find a sewer infested with mutant turtles and crabs, but take care of it in Mario Bros. They then travel down the pipe, trying to find the source of the mutations. They end up in the Mushroom Kingdom, but find it abandoned. They find out the princess is kidnapped, and head out to rescue her. They succeed, and Mario is declared Mushroom Kingdom's hero. However, her kidnapper Bowser does not back down. He tries again, this time using the Tanooki leaves in Super Mario 3D Land. Mario saves her again, and they decide to take a vacation to Delfino Island. Bowser's son reveals himself and kidnaps Peach once more in Super Mario Sunshine. Bowser and his kid are defeated, and Mario and Peach take the vacation they planned. An unspecified time afterwards, Luigi wins a mansion in a contest. Mario goes to check it out, but is kidnapped by King Boo. Luigi ghost-busts the mansion and saves Mario in Luigi's Mansion. Time passes, and Bowser Jr tries to kidnap the princess again. His plan is foiled by Mario, who even skeletonizes his enemy in New Super Mario Bros. Of course, it's not permanent. Huge fast forward, Bowser decides to kidnap the Mario Brothers. Peach saves them in Super Princess Peach, but Mario's kidnapped again in Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon. Mario fears he is losing his touch, and decides to retire. He tells Luigi to help him collect 1,000,000 coins in New Super Mario Bros. 2 (the kidnapping is not canon). He then tells Luigi about his plan to retire, saying he's using half of the coins they collected to buy an island to live at. He passes the torch to Luigi, who becomes the new hero of the Mushroom Kingdom. He moves to the island and builds Mario Land. He lives a quiet life for a long time. Until one day, when he hears of Princess Daisy's kidnapping. Knowing Sarasaland has no hero, he realizes he has no choice. He ends up saving the day for the first time in a long, long time in Super Mario Land. He returns triumphant, only to find Mario Land is now Wario Land. He gets his six coins from the inhabitants turned evil and defeats Wario in Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins. Mario is back (also, Wario's story begins)! He reconnects with the Mushroom Kingdom. Bowser, hearing about this, kidnaps Peach for old time's sake. This sets in motion the plot for Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. After Smithy's defeat, he returns to his home, but not before borrowing the Geno doll from Gaz. He uses it as a basis for a line of toys, and starts the Mario Toy Company. He then reconnects with his old girlfriend Pauline. This is the end of the Blue Collar timeline: Mario vs. Donkey Kong series.

There was a pretty subtle nod to it the beginning of the game, where a Toad claimed that Bowser crumpled him up 256 times. Plus, Kersti's design could easily pass for a Pixl's.

To me it's not because otherwise it wouldn't fit with my story.

Besides, the coin collection is the main aspect of the game.

Alright, now for the action Hero timeline.

It starts the same. The brothers are born, the stork loses its delivery, Yoshi's Island, Yoshi gets Luigi back, and the stork delivers the babies. To the wrong couple.

The stork comes back to fix its mistake, but Kamek attacks him again, and Yoshi's New Island happens. Yoshi again gets them back, and the stork gives the babies to their actual parents.

Mario and Luigi grow up in the Mushroom Kingdom. One day, Bowser's troops turn all the Toads into blocks, bushes, and horsetail plants, and kidnap the princess. They save her in Super Mario Bros. and Mario is declared Mushroom Kingdom's hero. His first act as hero is to liberate all the other lands under Koopa control in Super Mario Bros. 3. He returns home (after saving Princess Peach) and they later took a vacation to Dinosaur Land. Of course, Peach is kidnapped again in Super Mario World. Mario finds a Yoshi and they save Peach again. Bowser has a kid during this time. He then tries to kidnap Peach again. Twice. Mario saves her in New Super Mario Bros. Wii and New Super Mario Bros. U. Tired from the adventure, Mario takes a nap and dreams about Subcon and the plot of Super Mario Bros. 2. If Mario fails here, he never wakes up and dreams about Super Paper Mario and Paper Mario: Sticker Star. But of course, he did save Subcon and woke up. Later, the Star festival happened. Bowser became huge and kidnapped Peach in Super Mario Galaxy 2. Also during the Star festival, Bowser kidnapped the Sprixies in 3D World. Mario and friends saving them with Rosalina's help is currently where the series stands, but isn't a definite ending.

Because RPGs

But if the next timeline is what i think it is....I feel sorry for the stork already

Really interesting timelines so far ^^ . I may or may NOT post my own timelines ^^

Now that last one is way too confusing for my tastes. However, this topic has been great so far with some interesting timelines. I just hate split timelines.

I definitely will not post my own timelines. I have none to post!

Yeah, time travel stories can cause that problem. I love PIT, OOT, and games with time travel, but they are nightmares when trying to place in a timeline.

Still, you did a good job trying to piece it all together.

Still, great job for bringing this here and tweaking them.

Which is your favorite timeline?

For the record, Lost Levels is probably my favorite Mario.

What is your favorite Mario game?

Sunshine was underrated. Nobody ever says Sunshine.