
Pauline is sometimes considered a relative of Mario and Luigi because of this fanon, but it's not universal, since some people want to be able to still ship Pauline and Mario. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the idea that this Pauline is also the daughter or granddaughter of the original Pauline has sprung up from people who want to keep using this fanon. On the other hand, Super Mario Odyssey throws a wrench in this by having Pauline, who should be middle-aged or older according to this fanon, appear alongside Peach for the first time. Yoshi's Island DS seems to support this idea by having Baby Donkey Kong, implied to be the modern version of the character, appear alongside Baby Mario. This seems derived from Rare's Donkey Kong Country series - in which DK's elderly father or grandfather Cranky claims to be the original Donkey Kong who fought with Mario, a claim that is reiterated during one of Snake's Codec calls in Super Smash Bros. Let's not forget the idea that the "modern" Mario, born in the Mushroom Kingdom as seen in Yoshi's Island, is the son or grandson of Jumpman, the "original" Mario.This wasn't actually the case in the few games that treated the Brooklyn origin as canon, they'd simply always been able to jump like that.
had a different but similar idea with the jump-boots the Bros get. At its most basic, it extends to them jumping higher due to lower gravity.
In fan fiction that uses the concept, an often-repeated idea is that Mario and Luigi are normal humans that get their special abilities from being in the Mushroom Kingdom, and that the same could apply to other humans from the real world. Since Odyssey canonized Metro Kingdom, fans have since changed the idea so that the brothers were born in the Mushroom Kingdom and moved to New Donk City as kids, then moved back as adults. were born in the Mushroom Kingdom, with fans reconciling the varying backstories by deciding they were born in the Mushroom Kingdom but grew up on Earth after infancy. Meanwhile, the Yoshi's Island series of games flat-out state that the Mario Bros. The Marios being from Brooklyn was canon in Japan at the time of Mario 64's development and was adopted as canon by Nintendo of America in the 1990s, but the accident portion originated from the cartoons and was used in the movie. ( Or simply hallucinated the whole thing). originated in Brooklyn and ended up in the Mushroom World through a freak accident. The widespread belief that the Mario Bros. In fact, these personalities are so popular that quite a bit of SMB fanfic is exclusively about the Koopalings! 3 personalities of the Koopalings paired with the games' names for them is a pervasive piece of fanon, despite allusions to their canon personalities in Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam. The tendency to use The Adventures of Super Mario Bros.