I haven't played it yet, but is there an explanation?

Are Mario and Jumpman two different people, or the same?
Is Cranky no longer the arcade DK?
Did young Pauline just get time-traveled to the future?
Is none of this answered and Nintendo just did what they want?
I've also heard it's a prequel to Odyssey but I don't know the details.

>>716186790 (OP)
I don't think the lore has been affected by Donkey Kong Bananza.

>>716186790 (OP)
Nintendo fans be like YO THIS DORA THE EXPLORER LORE BE FIRE

>>716187082
Hey Eric, please don't be mean to us.

>>716187003
Isn't Pauline III singing music in New Donk City at the end of Bananza? I'm pretty sure she's the same person as Pauline Jr.

Also, you're telling me Jump Man/Giuseppe is Pauline Jr's father? Then why is he with Mario's family in the movie?

>>716187303
To answer your question, I found this.

>>716186790 (OP)
It's a game for children. It's not important enough to take seriously.

>>716186790 (OP)
Pretty sure Nintendo just went with "Jumpman and Lady are different people from Mario and Pauline"
Otherwise everything checks out. Cranky is still the original DK, all the DKC games happened, young Pauline grows up into Mayor Pauline

It's just a bit confusing how Mario himself ties into everything now

>>716187003
According to Nintendo, it's still Mario in the original Donkey Kong. That might throw a wrench in the Lady != Pauline theory.

But then again, Mario is canonically a time traveler in Yoshi's New Island. And he has the means to do so thanks to E. Gadd. So it very well may be the same guy after all.

>>716188009
What if there are two Marios, who are not biologically related?
Mario Mario, and Mario Jumpman?

>>716186790 (OP)
On the forbidden layer you can find Cranky and he has some dialogue about “climbing up girders” which was a clear reference to the arcade games. In addition there are some posters in Donk City that seem to imply that the events of the arcade games happened in the past, and there’s also a costume for Pauline called “Lady” which might indicate that Pauline and Lady are two separate characters. The issue is that we have no hard evidence of Lady being distinct from Pauline, let alone Lady being the mother of Pauline.

>>716188009
I think Mario is just a legend and he doesn’t age like other people do

>making a thread thats basically bait for the pauline schizo

>>716186790 (OP)

>>716186790 (OP)
>Jumpman is a separate character from Mario
>Cranky kong might be dk jr depending on if the dk fossil is just a reference or not

>>716187003
Don't listen to this shipping retard

There are fossils that still imply that 8-bit DK was Cranky "in the prime of his youth", and that Lady was a separate character from Pauline (possibly the grandmother that she mentions)

>>716188330
Pauline talks about her grandma a lot so I assumed the grandma was lady

>>716187003
No. Bad anon.

There is literally no lore in any Mario adjacent franchise aside from character cameos

>>716189662
What did I do wrong?
Would you rather be confused?

>>716189735
>any Mario adjacent franchise
Not entirely true.

>>716189735
this game literally came up with a in universe reason for why K. Rool and the Kremlings haven't been in any games for years. This notion that Mario has no lore whatsoever just isn't true

>>716190217
Based fuckin Pyoro.

>>716187003
Here's the official Kong family tree for comparison. Everything is clear now!

>>716191682
This family tree is obviously made as a joke.

>>716190217
QRD? Haven't properly played a WW since Gold. I hated Get It Together and the series is basically dead to me.

>>716191682
>>716191813
Seems legit, Don't think poppy and void would be siblings though.

The fact that rabbids were on there makes it more believable.

>>716191459
It is weird that cranky acts like it just happened though