Okay but if Cranky Kong was the one who kidnapped Pauline in 1981 how can there be a child Pauline with Donkey Kong the Third?
Maybe this is actually Pauline Jr.?

hmmmm who gives a fuck

This DK is the Cranky Kong we know. The Cranky Kong in Bananza is an older Cranky Kong. There is always a Cranky Kong, and there is always a Donkey Kong. We have entered DK's Hyrule era, DK is the hero and functions as a single character, but is actually multiple different individuals taking up the necktie and title.

>>713041509 (OP)
Welcome, to the Nintendoverse, kid. It gets a little...strange every now and again.

>>713041509 (OP)
nintendo is actively hostile to lorefags

>>713041509 (OP)
Why do you faggots do this yourself? Nintendo doesn’t care about lore they never did. Fucking Dark Souls is more coherent than Nintendo lore lol

>>713042568
I care.
I'm done waiting for Mario and Peach to reach their final happy ending.
When I was 12, and I first saw the trailers for Super Mario Odyssey, I thought that Nintendo was finally going to wrap up the Mareach saga, it really did look like the forced marriage was the climax of all of Mario's journeys, and that Mario and Peach would finally get married, and Bowser would be defeated permanently.
But I got a cliffhanger instead.
Since then, I realized that Mario and Peach might not be meant for eachother.

Look.
I'm not going to make any predictions or theories or keep arguing for why a theory or leak is correct.
I just want to say that Mario should go back with Pauline.

>>713043563
fucking zoomers

>>713041509 (OP)
that was Lady, lorelet

>>713043608
And?

>>713041509 (OP)
Don't care. We got loli Pauline.
Who give a fuck on how and why?

>>713041509 (OP)
Who cares.
Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsPSXwscyeQ

>>713043638
Odyssey confirms Lady and Pauline are the same character, and Nintendo has done a ton beforehand to fix that mistake too. it would be weird to undo all the fixing they tried to do about it.

>>713043563
>When I was 12, and I first saw the trailers for Super Mario Odyssey
Holy shit, kids that were 12 when Odyssey was announced can post on 4chan now.

Everything is ambiguous until they explain where Donkey Jr. is. He's the missing link between Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong Country, but they've left him limbo for 30+ years.