>In Bananza, pauline is 13
>Bananza takes place before odyssey (pauline starts her music career at the end and is an adult in odyssey), but after DKC (Diddy and Dixie talk about DKC in Bananza)
>DKC takes place after the arcade DK games, this is well known and established outside the game and in-game by cranky
It's literally impossible for arcade pauline and mario to be the same characters, because pauline would have to go from being an adult back to a kid in bananza, and mario would have to not age a single year since the arcade game, even though all the characters around him like the kongs and pauline do