Lightning Cup

The gold trophy of the Lightning Cup in Mario Kart Wii.

The Lightning Cup is a cup in the Mario Kart series. Its first appearance was in Mario Kart: Super Circuit. It was a cup between the Flower Cup and Star Cup. It was absent in Mario Kart Double Dash!! but it made a reapearance in Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart Wii as a cup with tracks from past Mario Kart games. The emblem of the cup is the Thunderbolt. It features tracks from the precious cups, Flower Cup, Lighting Cup (Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Star Cup, Special Cup The following tracks appeared in the Lightning Cup.

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Game	Course 1	Course 2	Course 3	Course 4	Course 5
Mario Kart: Super Circuit	Luigi Circuit	Sky Garden	Cheep-Cheep Island	Sunset Wilds	N/A
Mario Kart DS	SNES Choco Island 2	N64 Banshee Boardwalk	GBA Sky Garden	GCN Yoshi Circuit	N/A
Mario Kart Wii	SNES Mario Circuit 3	DS Peach Gardens	GCN DK Mountain	N64 Bowser's Castle	N/A

In the Mario Kart: Super Circuit manual, the Lightning Cup is called the Thunder Cup.
The Mario Kart Wii's Lightning Cup Trophy does have a Thunder Cloud instead of the Thunderbolt.