The Very Official In-Universe Mario Timeline

Time Turner

Time Turner

You are filled with determination. (R/GD/TT)
80 Million BC - Mario travels to the distant past and places a single egg in a cave

65 Million BC - An asteroid hits the Earth, creating a dimensional portal that the dinosaurs get sucked through

369 BC - Mario travels to back in time to Athens and returns a copy of Plato's widespread book, the Republic, to him

47 BC - Mario travels to Alexandria and gives Cleopatra the staff that will let her rule with absolute power

105 AD - Mario travels to Luoyang and helps Cai Lun create paper

1292 - Mario travels to Cambuluc and returns one of Marco Polo's souvenirs to him

1429 - Mario travels to Orleans and helps Joan of Arc prepare for the Siege of Orleans

1455 - Mario travels to Mainz and gives Johannes Gutenberg one of the missing keys of his fancy typewriter

1503 - Mario travels to Florence and returns a single chisel to Michelangelo who should really keep a few spares

1505 - Mario travels to Florence (again) and returns Leonardo's book of notes; Michelangelo, nearby, does not remember him

1521 - Mario travels to the Trinidad and helps Ferdinand continue on his journey in which he dies

1595 - Mario travels to London and restores the Queen of England's position of power

1601 - Mario travels to Stratford and brings a single prop for Shakespeare's play

1610 - Mario travels to Padua and gets a series of moons named after him from Galileo

1687 - Mario travels to Cambridge and helps Issac Newton remember that he discovered gravity

1752 - Mario travels to Philadelphia and lets Benjamin Franklin get struck by lightning

1776 - Mario travels to Philadelphia (again) and founds the United States of America

1791 - Mario travels to Vienna and gives his magic flute to Mozart

1824 - Mario travels to Vienna (again) and gives Beethoven the chance to perform his final symphony

1831 - Mario travels to London (again) plays with magnets with Michael Faraday

1843 - Mario travels to London (again again) and gives Charles Dickens an inkwell as he is unable to get more ink

1863 - Mario travels to Washington, infiltrates the White House, and gives Abraham Lincoln the only glasses he owns

1879 - Mario travels to Menlo Park and helps make a light bulb with Edison

1885 - Mario travels to Paris and creates a vaccine, earning his name in history books

1915 - Mario travels to Tuskegee and gives George Washington Carver the only crank handle in existence at the time

1947 - Mario travels to India and helps Gandhi symbolically create a nation after Gandhi literally created it

1989 - Mario travels to the Berlin Wall and gives the people the tools they need to topple it

1993 - Bowser steals a bunch of stuff across time because he wants them in a museum

1994 - Mario travels forward(?) in time and helps some developers create the game he's currently in

2008 - Mario, Sonic, and company participate in the 2008 Summer Olympics

2010 - Mario, Sonic, and company participate in the 2010 Winter Olympics

2012 - Mario, Sonic, and company participate in the 2012 Summer Olympics

2014 - Mario, Sonic, and company participate in the 2014 Winter Olympics

2016 - Mario, Sonic, and company participate in the 2016 Summer Olympics



the history of the mario franchise is far-reaching and widespread
 
Where's the part where the meteorite hit the dinosaurs sixty-five million years and created an interdimensional portal smh.
 
A while ago in chat, we determined that the events of Partners in Time actually cause the Mario timeline to split. There is an original timeline in which no time travel occurs, and an altered timeline which came about by Mario and Luigi travelling back to the past and intervening. It turns out that their intervention stabilized the situation in the past and averted great catastrophes. Everything went well.

In the original timeline however, Mario and Luigi's absence proved fatal. Their baby versions were not strong enough on their own to deal with the Shroob evasion. As a result, the situation on Yoshi's Island grew out of hand and the Yoshi population was decimated. Yoshis became very rare and kind of obscure, enough so that the Yoshi doll in Link's Awakening would not be made because nobody there knew what a Yoshi was. Without the doll, Link was unable to initiate the trade sequence that was instrumental in waking up the Windfish. In turn, that Link never woke up and perished at sea.

LA Link's demise sent a ripple through time and damaged Link's immortal spirit. When Link was reincarnated into the Hero of Time, his soul was wounded and incomplete. In this state, Link was no match against Ocarine of Time Ganondorf, resulting in the timeline in which Ganon kills Link.

So it turns out that, by travelling back in time and teaming up with their infant selves, Mario and Luigi prevented the existence of the Zelda timeline. They are true heroes. :mario: :luigi:
 
But Link's Awakening only happens in the downfall timeline. So even if we assume future events have an effect on the past, as OoT is set before LA, wouldn't this simply guarantee the events of LA occurring? Or does this result in a time loop and he is still destined to fail in this hypothetical LA?
 
But you forget that time in Zelda doesn't make any sense to begin with. In OoT Master Quest, to complete the Spirit Temple, you have to step on a switch in the future to open a door in the past. If events of the future can affect the past, this means that the future occurs before the past, and Link's Awakening takes place before Ocarina of Time, as well as after it. In truth: Time in Zelda flows forwards and backwards at the same time. If you view this from an absolute standpoint, an object that continuously moves back and forth does not change its position at all. Ergo, time does not exist and is completely meaningless. The Yoshi doll's absence affects events both before and after LA, because past and future are referring to the same thing: an unsteady point of reference in the face of incomprehensible chaos. In this progression where the doll does not exist, LA Link is always doomed to fail.

However, through the Mario Bros. intervention, the Yoshi doll is created, and Zelda's time is stabilized. LA Link lives, and as a result OoT Link lives as well. In this scenario, the Zelda timeline is never conceived and every Zelda game remains its own separate entity, apart from the few ones that are definite sequels to each other, such as OoT-->MM, OoT-->TWW, and ALttP-->ALBT.
 
>Mario's Time Machine timeline
>Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time timeline
>Zelda Timelines
>Questioning the relativity of time itself
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[size=2pt]I'm sorry I don't even like that meme to begin with
 
1991- Mario beats up a young Soviet circus performer the night before the USSR dissolves. That young person would later be identified as Leon "Lemmy" Koopa.
 
Mario is a very important man. Even Issac Newton knows who he is.
 
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time [edit]
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Due to the fact that the Shroob invasion is not remembered by any characters, even Toadsworth, the invasion may not have actually been intended to happen in the past. Since E. Gadd's memory was actually rearranged by the events taking place in the past, the Shroobs may have actually been attacking the present, but been sent to the past by the time holes made by E. Gadd's time machine.
 
You forgot the part where Mario sends Bowser back in time to get stomped on.
 
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