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|image=Brooklyn.jpg | |image=[[File:TSMBM Render Brooklyn BG.jpg|250px]]<br>Brooklyn as it appears in ''The Super Mario Bros. Movie'' | ||
| | |first_appearance=''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'' (1989) | ||
| | |latest_appearance=''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'' (2023) | ||
|greater_location=[[New York City]] | |||
|ruler=[[Mayor of New York City]] | |ruler=[[Mayor of New York City]], [[Pauline]] | ||
|inhabitants= | |inhabitants=Humans | ||
}} | }} | ||
{{ | {{quote2|We got a lot of people in Brooklyn. We got pool players, we got beautiful girls, we got restaurants, we got carpenters, plumbers, but normal? Huh-huh! Forget about it!|[[Luigi]]|</span>"[[The Mario Monster Mash]]"<span>}} | ||
'''{{wp|Brooklyn}}''' is a borough of [[New York City]], located in the [[United States of America|United States]], and the hometown of [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] in certain media of the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]]. It was initially founded in 1634 by the Dutch as part of the New Netherland colony, who initially named the city Breukelen after the town in the province of Utrecht in the Netherlands (located on the road between the city of Utrecht and [[Amsterdam]]), but when the English took over New Netherland in 1664 and renamed it to New York, the city's name was changed to Brooklyn, an English corruption of the name of the Dutch-built colonial city. Brooklyn later became part of the United States in 1776 after it declared independence from Great Britain, as part of the State of New York. Brooklyn was its own city until 1898 when it was annexed to New York City as one of the five boroughs. | |||
One of Brooklyn's first mentions in a game is in ''[[Mario's Time Machine]]'', in which, upon being asked if he was from Italy (due to his accent) by an imperial ruler in China, Mario says that he is from Brooklyn, New York. Of course, granted the time period, the feudal lord did not know what Brooklyn was. | |||
According to media such as the instruction booklets for the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|SNES]] version of ''{{wp|SimCity (1989 video game)#Super NES|SimCity}}''<ref>''SimCity'' SNES instruction booklet, page 4. "''Well, this is what you asked for. Bowser is on the loose, stomping, smashing, ripping down power lines, starting fires, tearing up roads and railroads and generally doing everything possible to make life about as comfortable as a bed of spikes. I can hardly bear to watch. And although you can’t see them, the SimCitizens are in the streets, screaming and running around like ants. After all, they didn’t elect their mayor to use the city as an experiment in terror. As for Bowser, you can hear in roaring in anger, unable to find Mario and Luigi, which isn’t surprising since they live in Brooklyn, not Tokyo. Listen closely and you’ll also hear explosions as factories catch fire. According to my statistics, over half of all mayors regret the decision to sack their cities, but fortunately for their peace of mind the guilt lasts only 2.6 seconds on average.''"</ref> and console conversions of ''[[Mario is Missing!]]'',<ref>''Mario is Missing!'' instruction booklet, page 2 (SNES) or 4 (NES). "''Will the brave brothers from Brooklyn permit this abominable snow plan? The boys say “Not!”''"</ref> [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] in the ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' [[Shogakukan]] guidebook<ref>"[https://shmuplations.com/mario64/ Super Mario 64 – 1996 Developer Interviews originally featured in the official strategy guides]" ''shmuplations.com''. Retrieved September 10, 2018.</ref> and ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' guides,<ref>M. Arakawa. ''Super Mario 64'' Player's Guide. Page 4. "''According to the visitor from Brooklyn, he had been invited to the castle for a piece of cake, which Peach had just baked.''"</ref> as well as the [[DIC Entertainment|DIC]] cartoon shows, ''[[Nintendo Comics System]]'', and ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'', Mario and Luigi are from Brooklyn. | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
===''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!''=== | ===''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!''=== | ||
[[File:Supershowplumber.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Mario Brothers Plumbing, the setting of every live-action segment, is located in Brooklyn.]] | [[File:Supershowplumber.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Mario Brothers Plumbing, the setting of every live-action segment, is located in Brooklyn.]] | ||
In ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'', it is shown that [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] ended up in the [[Mushroom Kingdom]] by getting sucked down a [[Warp Pipe]] connected to the drain of bathtub that they were unclogging. | [[File:Brooklyn.jpg|thumb|Brooklyn in an animated episode]] | ||
In ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'', it is shown that [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] ended up in the [[Mushroom Kingdom]] by getting sucked down a [[Warp Pipe]] connected to the drain of a bathtub that they were unclogging. In the cartoon episodes, Mario and Luigi often make reference to their former lives in Brooklyn, or lament how they wish to return home; the [[Brooklyn Bridge]] is seen in several of the episodes. The live-action segments all took place at the [[Mario Brothers Plumbing]] shop in Brooklyn, where the Brooklyn Bridge can be seen from the building and is also mentioned on a few occasions. | |||
In the episode "[[Brooklyn Bound]]", Mario and Luigi meet up with [[Salvador Drainotto]], a fellow Brooklyn plumber who had been lost in Mushroom Kingdom for thirteen years. However, Salvador Drainotto had discovered a one-way drainpipe to back to Brooklyn, which could only be used once. With Mario and Luigi's help, Salvador Drainotto was able to reach the pipe, and offered Mario and Luigi to come along. Mario and Luigi almost go along with Salvador Drainotto, but decide to stay behind in the end to save [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] and [[Toad]] from [[Bowser|Koopa Khan]] and the [[Koopa Troop|Koopa Pack]]. | |||
In the episode "[[Brooklyn Bound]]", Mario and Luigi meet up with [[Salvador | |||
Brooklyn is also featured in the episode "[[Plummers Academy]]". In an extended flashback sequence, Mario tells the story of how he and Luigi became plumbers after being flunked by [[Sergeant Kooperman]] at the [[Brooklyn Plumbers Academy]]. | Brooklyn is also featured in the episode "[[Plummers Academy]]". In an extended flashback sequence, Mario tells the story of how he and Luigi became plumbers after being flunked by [[Sergeant Kooperman]] at the [[Brooklyn Plumbers Academy]]. | ||
In the episode "[[Flatbush Koopa]]", a [[Warp Pipe]] leading to Brooklyn is discovered, and Mario and Luigi, having defeated King Koopa, get to return home. When they get there, they are surprised to see that King Koopa also escaped, and is slowly turning the city into "Kooplyn", as revenge against the Mario Bros. for ruining all of his evil plots. Although they manage to foil King Koopa and lead him back to the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario blows up the pipe with a [[Bob-omb|Bob-Omb]], if only so that King Koopa | In the episode "[[Flatbush Koopa]]", a [[Warp Pipe]] leading to Brooklyn is discovered, and Mario and Luigi, having defeated King Koopa, get to return home. When they get there, they are surprised to see that King Koopa also escaped, and is slowly turning the city into "Kooplyn", as revenge against the Mario Bros. for ruining all of his evil plots. Although they manage to foil King Koopa and lead him back to the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario blows up the pipe with a [[Bob-omb|Bob-Omb]], if only so that King Koopa cannot return to Brooklyn. By blowing up the pipe, Mario and Luigi are forced to stay in the Mushroom Kingdom until they can find another way to get home. | ||
===''The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3''=== | ===''The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3''=== | ||
In ''[[The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', more Warp Pipes leading to [[Earth|the real world]] had been discovered, making access to Brooklyn much more convenient. | In ''[[The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', more Warp Pipes leading to [[Earth|the real world]] had been discovered, making access to Brooklyn much more convenient. | ||
In the episode "[[Toddler Terrors of Time Travel]]", Bowser and [[Ludwig von Koopa|Kooky]] try to go back in time to stop the Mario Bros. from going down the drainpipe in Brooklyn, but their plan | In the episode "[[Toddler Terrors of Time Travel]]", Bowser and [[Ludwig von Koopa|Kooky]] try to go back in time to stop the Mario Bros. from going down the drainpipe in Brooklyn, but their plan is ruined when the [[Time Tube]] turns them, along with Mario, Luigi and Toad into babies. | ||
In "[[Misadventures in Babysitting]]", Mario and Luigi accidentally warp into a Brooklyn home, and get suckered into babysitting a brat named [[Junior (The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3)|Junior]], who warps himself to the Mushroom Kingdom in a game of hide and seek. | In "[[Misadventures in Babysitting]]", Mario and Luigi accidentally warp into a Brooklyn home, and get suckered into babysitting a brat named [[Junior (The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3)|Junior]], who warps himself to the Mushroom Kingdom in a game of hide and seek. | ||
In "[[Recycled Koopa]]", the [[Koopalings]] dump their garbage down a Warp Pipe to Brooklyn. As a result, the garbage mutates the people there into [[Koopa Zombie]]s. Mario and Luigi do what they can to clean up the garbage before the entire city gets contaminated. | In "[[Recycled Koopa]]", the [[Koopalings]] dump [[Koopa trash|their garbage]] down a Warp Pipe to Brooklyn. As a result, the garbage mutates the people there into [[Koopa Zombie]]s and turns other creatures into members of the Koopa Troop (e.g. seagulls into [[Paragoomba|Para-Goombas]] and fish into [[Spiny Cheep Cheep|Spiny Cheep-Cheeps]]). Mario and Luigi do what they can to clean up the garbage before the entire city, let alone the whole Real World, gets contaminated. | ||
===''Super Mario World'' television series=== | ===''Super Mario World'' television series=== | ||
While the location itself does not appear, Brooklyn is mentioned in the ''[[Super Mario World (television series)|Super Mario World]]'' animated series episode "[[Mama Luigi]]" when Luigi says, '' | While the location itself does not appear, Brooklyn is mentioned in the ''[[Super Mario World (television series)|Super Mario World]]'' animated series episode "[[Mama Luigi]]" when Luigi says, "''Well, like they say in Brooklyn, early to bed, early to catch the worm. Or is it the bagel?''" | ||
===''Club Nintendo''=== | ===''Club Nintendo''=== | ||
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The [[Nintendo Skyscraper]], which appears in the story "[[Super Mario in Die Nacht des Grauens]]", is also located "in the heart of Brooklyn". | The [[Nintendo Skyscraper]], which appears in the story "[[Super Mario in Die Nacht des Grauens]]", is also located "in the heart of Brooklyn". | ||
=== | ===''Super Mario Bros.'' film=== | ||
In the ''Super Mario Bros.'' | In the live-action [[Super Mario Bros. (film)|''Super Mario Bros.'' film]], [[Mario (film character)|Mario Mario]] and [[Luigi (film character)|Luigi Mario]] live in Brooklyn, where they run the [[Mario Brothers Plumbing|Mario Bros. Plumbing Service]]. The bulk of the film takes place in [[Dinohattan]], an alternate-universe version of [[New York City]] in a world where humans evolved from dinosaurs. | ||
===''The Super Mario Bros. Movie''=== | |||
Brooklyn in ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'' is established as Mario and Luigi's place of origin, where they run a plumbing business before they arrive in the [[Mushroom Kingdom]] through a [[Warp Pipe]]. [[Pauline]] also resides there, as the mayor of [[New York City]]. A few locations in Brooklyn are shown, including [[Punch-Out Pizzeria]], a diner where the Mario Bros. like to spend their time, Castle Burger, and their [[Mario and Luigi's family|family]] apartment. | |||
When [[Bowser's Castle]] is accidentally transported to Brooklyn, the Mario Bros. battle him and the [[Koopa Troop]] on the streets. Once Bowser is defeated, shrunk, and trapped in a jar, the citizens gather around Mario, Luigi, Donkey Kong, and Peach and cheer. | |||
==Names in other languages== | ==Names in other languages== | ||
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|Jap=ブルックリン | |Jap=ブルックリン | ||
|JapR=Burukkurin | |JapR=Burukkurin | ||
| | |ChiS=布鲁克林 | ||
|ChiSR=Bùlǔkèlín | |||
|ChiT=布魯克林 | |||
|ChiTR=Bùlǔkèlín | |||
|Kor=브루클린 | |Kor=브루클린 | ||
|KorR=Beurukeullin | |KorR=Beurukeullin | ||
| | |Spa=Brooklyn | ||
| | |SpaM=- | ||
}} | }} | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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{{TSMBSS | {{TSMBSS animation}} | ||
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[[Category:The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 | [[Category:Real cities]] | ||
[[Category:The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! | [[Category:The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 locations]] | ||
[[Category:The Super Mario Bros. Movie locations]] | |||
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[[de:Brooklyn]] | [[de:Brooklyn]] | ||
Latest revision as of 09:34, April 23, 2024
| Brooklyn | |
|---|---|
 Brooklyn as it appears in The Super Mario Bros. Movie | |
| First appearance | The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! (1989) |
| Latest appearance | The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) |
| Greater location | New York City |
| Ruler | Mayor of New York City, Pauline |
| Inhabitants | Humans |
- “We got a lot of people in Brooklyn. We got pool players, we got beautiful girls, we got restaurants, we got carpenters, plumbers, but normal? Huh-huh! Forget about it!”
- —Luigi, "The Mario Monster Mash"
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City, located in the United States, and the hometown of Mario and Luigi in certain media of the Super Mario franchise. It was initially founded in 1634 by the Dutch as part of the New Netherland colony, who initially named the city Breukelen after the town in the province of Utrecht in the Netherlands (located on the road between the city of Utrecht and Amsterdam), but when the English took over New Netherland in 1664 and renamed it to New York, the city's name was changed to Brooklyn, an English corruption of the name of the Dutch-built colonial city. Brooklyn later became part of the United States in 1776 after it declared independence from Great Britain, as part of the State of New York. Brooklyn was its own city until 1898 when it was annexed to New York City as one of the five boroughs.
One of Brooklyn's first mentions in a game is in Mario's Time Machine, in which, upon being asked if he was from Italy (due to his accent) by an imperial ruler in China, Mario says that he is from Brooklyn, New York. Of course, granted the time period, the feudal lord did not know what Brooklyn was.
According to media such as the instruction booklets for the SNES version of SimCity[1] and console conversions of Mario is Missing!,[2] Shigeru Miyamoto in the Super Mario 64 Shogakukan guidebook[3] and Nintendo Power guides,[4] as well as the DIC cartoon shows, Nintendo Comics System, and The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Mario and Luigi are from Brooklyn.
History[edit]
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show![edit]
In The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, it is shown that Mario and Luigi ended up in the Mushroom Kingdom by getting sucked down a Warp Pipe connected to the drain of a bathtub that they were unclogging. In the cartoon episodes, Mario and Luigi often make reference to their former lives in Brooklyn, or lament how they wish to return home; the Brooklyn Bridge is seen in several of the episodes. The live-action segments all took place at the Mario Brothers Plumbing shop in Brooklyn, where the Brooklyn Bridge can be seen from the building and is also mentioned on a few occasions.
In the episode "Brooklyn Bound", Mario and Luigi meet up with Salvador Drainotto, a fellow Brooklyn plumber who had been lost in Mushroom Kingdom for thirteen years. However, Salvador Drainotto had discovered a one-way drainpipe to back to Brooklyn, which could only be used once. With Mario and Luigi's help, Salvador Drainotto was able to reach the pipe, and offered Mario and Luigi to come along. Mario and Luigi almost go along with Salvador Drainotto, but decide to stay behind in the end to save Princess Toadstool and Toad from Koopa Khan and the Koopa Pack.
Brooklyn is also featured in the episode "Plummers Academy". In an extended flashback sequence, Mario tells the story of how he and Luigi became plumbers after being flunked by Sergeant Kooperman at the Brooklyn Plumbers Academy.
In the episode "Flatbush Koopa", a Warp Pipe leading to Brooklyn is discovered, and Mario and Luigi, having defeated King Koopa, get to return home. When they get there, they are surprised to see that King Koopa also escaped, and is slowly turning the city into "Kooplyn", as revenge against the Mario Bros. for ruining all of his evil plots. Although they manage to foil King Koopa and lead him back to the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario blows up the pipe with a Bob-Omb, if only so that King Koopa cannot return to Brooklyn. By blowing up the pipe, Mario and Luigi are forced to stay in the Mushroom Kingdom until they can find another way to get home.
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3[edit]
In The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, more Warp Pipes leading to the real world had been discovered, making access to Brooklyn much more convenient.
In the episode "Toddler Terrors of Time Travel", Bowser and Kooky try to go back in time to stop the Mario Bros. from going down the drainpipe in Brooklyn, but their plan is ruined when the Time Tube turns them, along with Mario, Luigi and Toad into babies.
In "Misadventures in Babysitting", Mario and Luigi accidentally warp into a Brooklyn home, and get suckered into babysitting a brat named Junior, who warps himself to the Mushroom Kingdom in a game of hide and seek.
In "Recycled Koopa", the Koopalings dump their garbage down a Warp Pipe to Brooklyn. As a result, the garbage mutates the people there into Koopa Zombies and turns other creatures into members of the Koopa Troop (e.g. seagulls into Para-Goombas and fish into Spiny Cheep-Cheeps). Mario and Luigi do what they can to clean up the garbage before the entire city, let alone the whole Real World, gets contaminated.
Super Mario World television series[edit]
While the location itself does not appear, Brooklyn is mentioned in the Super Mario World animated series episode "Mama Luigi" when Luigi says, "Well, like they say in Brooklyn, early to bed, early to catch the worm. Or is it the bagel?"
Club Nintendo[edit]
The story of the Club Nintendo comic "Super Mario: Im Rausch Der Geschwindigkeit" takes place in Brooklyn, where there is a fictional speed limit of 80 "dinosaurpower" Mario is overstepping.
The Nintendo Skyscraper, which appears in the story "Super Mario in Die Nacht des Grauens", is also located "in the heart of Brooklyn".
Super Mario Bros. film[edit]
In the live-action Super Mario Bros. film, Mario Mario and Luigi Mario live in Brooklyn, where they run the Mario Bros. Plumbing Service. The bulk of the film takes place in Dinohattan, an alternate-universe version of New York City in a world where humans evolved from dinosaurs.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie[edit]
Brooklyn in The Super Mario Bros. Movie is established as Mario and Luigi's place of origin, where they run a plumbing business before they arrive in the Mushroom Kingdom through a Warp Pipe. Pauline also resides there, as the mayor of New York City. A few locations in Brooklyn are shown, including Punch-Out Pizzeria, a diner where the Mario Bros. like to spend their time, Castle Burger, and their family apartment.
When Bowser's Castle is accidentally transported to Brooklyn, the Mario Bros. battle him and the Koopa Troop on the streets. Once Bowser is defeated, shrunk, and trapped in a jar, the citizens gather around Mario, Luigi, Donkey Kong, and Peach and cheer.
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ブルックリン Burukkurin |
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| Chinese (simplified) | 布鲁克林 Bùlǔkèlín |
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| Chinese (traditional) | 布魯克林 Bùlǔkèlín |
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| Korean | 브루클린 Beurukeullin |
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| Spanish | Brooklyn |
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References[edit]
- ^ SimCity SNES instruction booklet, page 4. "Well, this is what you asked for. Bowser is on the loose, stomping, smashing, ripping down power lines, starting fires, tearing up roads and railroads and generally doing everything possible to make life about as comfortable as a bed of spikes. I can hardly bear to watch. And although you can’t see them, the SimCitizens are in the streets, screaming and running around like ants. After all, they didn’t elect their mayor to use the city as an experiment in terror. As for Bowser, you can hear in roaring in anger, unable to find Mario and Luigi, which isn’t surprising since they live in Brooklyn, not Tokyo. Listen closely and you’ll also hear explosions as factories catch fire. According to my statistics, over half of all mayors regret the decision to sack their cities, but fortunately for their peace of mind the guilt lasts only 2.6 seconds on average."
- ^ Mario is Missing! instruction booklet, page 2 (SNES) or 4 (NES). "Will the brave brothers from Brooklyn permit this abominable snow plan? The boys say “Not!”"
- ^ "Super Mario 64 – 1996 Developer Interviews originally featured in the official strategy guides" shmuplations.com. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
- ^ M. Arakawa. Super Mario 64 Player's Guide. Page 4. "According to the visitor from Brooklyn, he had been invited to the castle for a piece of cake, which Peach had just baked."
