This honestly doesn’t feel like the best way to deduce its timeline placement. Though, Mario games (mostly the kart ones, but still) feature the leaf power up despite obligatorily taking place after Mario 3. Perhaps there are more trees than just the Tail Tree in 3D Land that create the Tanuki leaves (I’m also aware there is another leaf power up, presumably from a tree of the same/similar species implying there’s more than 1 tree anyway).
Yeah. Any game that’s part of the franchises I’ve listed will be on here
Mario Teaches Typing has no story and is canonically not actually Mario, anyway. Any game that has little to no story or has no gameplay involved (eg I am a Teacher: Super Mario Sweater) I won’t include
It wasn’t developed by Nintendo, and doesn’t have the Nintendo “seal of approval” a lot of non-Nintendo games with Nintendo characters had. It’s still an official Mario game, it just wasn’t developed or published by Nintendo, but Nintendo fully allowed the game to be produced and released officially
Wait it's canonically not mario? How?
Ehhh that does kinda put it in a gray area. They didn't work on the game at all, just allowed it to be released. It's obvious Nintendo doesn't really like stuff like that anymore it's why they're so protective over their characters now
This is also a highly subjective question. A lot of people only consider the mainline games to be canon, for example. Some people consider every game to be canon to itself and itself only (and any direct story-following sequels/prequels is may have). Though, I don’t see any reason to not include games simply because they aren’t a staple of the series. My least favourite example of people only considering staples of a franchise as canon is movie company shared universe theories. AFAIK I am the only person on the internet to have a full(ish) Pixar Theory, and Film Theory’s Disney & Dreamworks shared universe theories also only include the main movies (though not direct-to-video movies?)… but only when they don’t feel like it, since they’ll use expanded media to place things if they have nothing else to go off which is… I hate that idea. I went on a bit of a rant at Film Theory there, but I am strongly against that method of theorising
Again, licensing and Nintendo currently not liking crossovers does not reflect the timeline, especially when some connections have gone both ways
Just find any video of someone starting Mario Teaches Typing, the first 30 seconds of “gameplay” show this
I also hate timelines that only include mainline games. They'll say Spinoffs are noncanon for no reason other than the fact they're spinoffs, even though with movies and TV shows spinoffs are usually always canon to those so why wouldn't it be the same with games?
I am aware of this, and I actually went massively into detail with La Luna specifically (weirdly enough).
Again, read what I said about La Luna, I'm pretty sure the actual story they're trying to tell with Luca involves La Luna.
The Pixar Theory is a much more well-established idea than others, so I usually let it slide (I also let Dreamworks theories slide simply because of Theorizer's Mort Theory which is actually one of his more believable shared continuity theories) but obviously the Pixar Theory has been disproven, the point of my thread is to show what it could be like. I will use evidence from the main franchise over evidence from other franchises to place them, for example
Yeah I guess so, I just personally can't get behind theories like that in general. Tying in Guardians for example to the DreamWorks theory feels weird because the Man on the moon there was a pre-existing character from the book series (which the author has implied is canon with the film even though in the books Jack Frost was actually an alien named Night Light.... The books get wild I'm not going into it further here) and not connected to the Moon person in the DreamWorks logo.
Honestly, I would consider doing a HTTYD timeline if it weren’t for the modern day sequel show which is very aimed towards children. Obviously the movie and shows were aimed towards a younger demographic, but at least they were still watchable if you weren’t like 10 years old max
