Lightning Cup

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Artwork of the Lightning Cup logo, from Mario Kart 8.
The Lightning Cup logo in Mario Kart 8.

The Lightning Cup is a cup in the Mario Kart series, as well as Mario Power Tennis. Its first appearance is in Mario Kart: Super Circuit where it was placed between the Flower Cup and Star Cup. It is absent in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, but it makes a reappearance in Mario Kart DS, Mario Kart Wii, Mario Kart 7, and Mario Kart 8 as a cup with tracks from past Mario Kart games. The emblem of the cup is the Lightning. It mainly features tracks from the Star Cup and the Special Cup, though Mario Kart DS featured a sole track from the Mario Kart: Super Circuit Lightning Cup and Mario Kart Wii featured a sole Flower Cup course. The length and difficulty of the courses in this cup tend to be on par with those in the Special Cup. As of Mario Kart 7, the final track of the Lightning Cup is a past Rainbow Road, very similar to how Special Cup's final course is a new Rainbow Road. The table below lists every track in the Lightning Cup by course order and game installment.

Courses

Game Course 1 Course 2 Course 3 Course 4
Mario Kart: Super Circuit File:Luigi circuit icon.png
Luigi Circuit
File:SkyGarden.png
Sky Garden
File:CheepCheepIsland.png
Cheep-Cheep Island
File:SunsetWilds.png
Sunset Wilds
Mario Kart DS File:ChocoIsland2ds.PNG
SNES Choco Island 2
File:DSBansheeboardwalk.PNG
N64 Banshee Boardwalk
File:SkyGardends.PNG
GBA Sky Garden
File:YoshiCircuitDS.png
GCN Yoshi Circuit
Mario Kart Wii File:SNESMarioCircuit3-MKWii.png
SNES Mario Circuit 3
Peach Gardens
DS Peach Gardens
File:DK Mountain.PNG
GCN DK Mountain
N64 Bowser's Castle
N64 Bowser's Castle
Mario Kart 7 KoopaCapeMK7.png
Wii Koopa Cape
DinoDinoJungleMK7.png
GCN Dino Dino Jungle
AirshipFortressMK7.png
DS Airship Fortress
SNES MK7.png
SNES Rainbow Road
Mario Kart 8 MK8-Course-DS Tick-TockClock.jpg
DS Tick-Tock Clock

MK8-Course-3DS PiranhaPlantSlide.jpg
3DS Piranha Plant Slide
Piranha Plant Pipeway
MK8-Course-Wii GrumbleVolcano.jpg
Wii Grumble Volcano

MK8-Course-N64 RainbowRoad.jpg
N64 Rainbow Road

Gallery

Emblems

Trophies

Names in other languages

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Trivia

  • In the Mario Kart: Super Circuit and Mario Kart 7 manuals as well as Mario Power Tennis, the Lightning Cup is called the Thunder Cup.
  • Sky Garden is the only course to appear in the same cup in two different games. This is due to the Lightning Cup being a nitro cup in Mario Kart: Super Circuit (where Sky Garden first appeared in) and a retro cup in Mario Kart DS (where it appeared as a retro course).
  • The Mario Kart Wii's Lightning Cup Trophy uses a Thunder Cloud instead of Lightning.
  • Mario Kart 7 is the only game where the Lightning Cup, as retro cup, didn't have at least one course from Mario Kart 64. In fact, it is the only Retro Cup yet that does not feature a single track from Mario Kart 64.
    • Likewise, Mario Kart 8 is the only game where the Lightning retro Cup didn't have at least one course from Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart: Double Dash!!.
  • Since Mario Kart DS:
    • The first race in the Lightning Cup is a second Star Cup course (except Mario Kart Wii);
    • The second race is a Special Cup course (except in Mario Kart 8);
    • The third race of this cup is from 2 games ago. Also since Mario Kart Wii, that race is always a final Star Cup course.

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