Editing Brooklyn

{{rewrite|Does the historical info in the first paragraph relate to the ''Super Mario'' edutainment games in any way?}}
{{location infobox
|image=[[File:TSMBM Render Brooklyn BG.jpg|250px]]<br>Brooklyn as it appears in ''The Super Mario Bros. Movie''
|first_appearance=''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'' (1989)
|latest_appearance=''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'' (2023)
|greater_location=[[New York City]]
|ruler=[[Mayor of New York City]], [[Pauline]]
|inhabitants=Humans
}}
{{quote|We got a lot of people in Brooklyn. We got pool players, we got beautiful girls, we got restaurants, we got carpenters, plumbers, but normal? Huh-huh! Forget about it!|[[Luigi]]|"[[The Mario Monster Mash]]"}}
'''{{wp|Brooklyn}}''' appears in the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]] as the hometown of [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] in certain media, and it is a borough of [[New York City]], located in the [[United States of America|United States]], like in real life. It was initially founded in 1634 by the Dutch as part of the New Netherland colony, who initially named the city Breukelen after the town in the province of Utrecht in the Netherlands (located on the road between the city of Utrecht and [[Amsterdam]]), but when the English took over New Netherland in 1664 and renamed it to New York, the city's name was changed to Brooklyn, an English corruption of the name of the Dutch-built colonial city. Brooklyn later became part of the United States in 1776 after it declared independence from Great Britain, as part of the State of New York. Brooklyn was its own city until 1898 when it was annexed to New York City as one of the five boroughs. 

One of Brooklyn's first mentions in a game is in ''[[Mario's Time Machine]]'', in which, upon being asked if he was from Italy (due to his accent) by an imperial ruler in China, Mario says that he is from Brooklyn, New York. Of course, granted the time period, the feudal lord did not know what Brooklyn was.

According to media such as the instruction booklets for the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|SNES]] version of ''[[nwiki:SimCity|SimCity]]''<ref>{{cite|title=''SimCity'' SNES instruction booklet|page=4|language=en-us|author=Nintendo|publisher=Nintendo of America|date=1991|quote=Well, this is what you asked for. Bowser is on the loose, stomping, smashing, ripping down power lines, starting fires, tearing up roads and railroads and generally doing everything possible to make life about as comfortable as a bed of spikes. I can hardly bear to watch. And although you can’t see them, the SimCitizens are in the streets, screaming and running around like ants. After all, they didn’t elect their mayor to use the city as an experiment in terror. As for Bowser, you can hear in roaring in anger, unable to find Mario and Luigi, which isn’t surprising since they live in Brooklyn, not Tokyo. Listen closely and you’ll also hear explosions as factories catch fire. According to my statistics, over half of all mayors regret the decision to sack their cities, but fortunately for their peace of mind the guilt lasts only 2.6 seconds on average.}}</ref> and console conversions of ''[[Mario is Missing!]]'',<ref>''Mario is Missing!'' instruction booklet, page 2 (SNES) or 4 (NES). "''Will the brave brothers from Brooklyn permit this abominable snow plan? The boys say “Not!”''"</ref> [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] in the ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' [[Shogakukan]] guidebook<ref>"{{cite|url=shmuplations.com/mario64|title=Super Mario 64 – 1996 Developer Interviews originally featured in the official strategy guides|publisher=shmuplations.com|accessdate=June 5, 2024}}</ref> and ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' guides,<ref>{{cite|language=en-us|author=Pelland, Scott and Dan Owsen|date=1996|publisher=Nintendo of America|title=''Super Mario 64'' Player's Guide|page=4|quote=According to the visitor from Brooklyn, he had been invited to the castle for a piece of cake, which Peach had just baked.}}</ref> as well as the [[DIC Entertainment|DIC]] cartoon shows, ''[[Nintendo Comics System]]'', and ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'', Mario and Luigi are from Brooklyn.

==History==
===''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!''===
[[File:Supershowplumber.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Mario Brothers Plumbing, the setting of every live-action segment, is located in Brooklyn.]]
[[File:Brooklyn.jpg|thumb|Brooklyn in an animated episode]]
In ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'', it is shown that [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] ended up in the [[Mushroom Kingdom]] by getting sucked down a [[Warp Pipe]] connected to the drain of a bathtub that they were unclogging. In the cartoon episodes, Mario and Luigi often make reference to their former lives in Brooklyn, or lament how they wish to return home; the [[Brooklyn Bridge]] is seen in several of the episodes. The live-action segments all took place at the [[Mario Brothers Plumbing]] shop in Brooklyn, where the Brooklyn Bridge can be seen from the building and is also mentioned on a few occasions.

In the episode "[[Brooklyn Bound]]", Mario and Luigi meet up with [[Salvador Drainotto]], a fellow Brooklyn plumber who had been lost in Mushroom Kingdom for thirteen years. However, Salvador Drainotto had discovered a one-way drainpipe to back to Brooklyn, which could only be used once. With Mario and Luigi's help, Salvador Drainotto was able to reach the pipe, and offered Mario and Luigi to come along. Mario and Luigi almost go along with Salvador Drainotto, but decide to stay behind in the end to save [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] and [[Toad]] from [[Bowser|Koopa Khan]] and the [[Koopa Troop|Koopa Pack]].

Brooklyn is also featured in the episode "[[Plummers Academy]]". In an extended flashback sequence, Mario tells the story of how he and Luigi became plumbers after being flunked by [[Sergeant Kooperman]] at the [[Brooklyn Plumbers Academy]].

In the episode "[[Flatbush Koopa]]", a [[Warp Pipe]] leading to Brooklyn is discovered, and Mario and Luigi, having defeated King Koopa, get to return home. When they get there, they are surprised to see that King Koopa also escaped, and is slowly turning the city into "Kooplyn", as revenge against the Mario Bros. for ruining all of his evil plots. Although they manage to foil King Koopa and lead him back to the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario blows up the pipe with a [[Bob-omb|Bob-Omb]], if only so that King Koopa cannot return to Brooklyn. By blowing up the pipe, Mario and Luigi are forced to stay in the Mushroom Kingdom until they can find another way to get home.

===''The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3''===
In ''[[The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', more Warp Pipes leading to [[Earth|the real world]] had been discovered, making access to Brooklyn much more convenient. 

In the episode "[[Toddler Terrors of Time Travel]]", Bowser and [[Ludwig von Koopa|Kooky]] try to go back in time to stop the Mario Bros. from going down the drainpipe in Brooklyn, but their plan is ruined when the [[Time Tube]] turns them, along with Mario, Luigi and Toad into babies.

In "[[Misadventures in Babysitting]]", Mario and Luigi accidentally warp into a Brooklyn home, and get suckered into babysitting a brat named [[Junior (The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3)|Junior]], who warps himself to the Mushroom Kingdom in a game of hide and seek.

In "[[Recycled Koopa]]", the [[Koopalings]] dump [[Koopa trash|their garbage]] down a Warp Pipe to Brooklyn. As a result, the garbage mutates the people there into [[Koopa Zombie]]s and turns other creatures into members of the Koopa Troop (e.g. seagulls into [[Paragoomba|Para-Goombas]] and fish into [[Spiny Cheep Cheep|Spiny Cheep-Cheeps]]). Mario and Luigi do what they can to clean up the garbage before the entire city, let alone the whole Real World, gets contaminated.

===''Super Mario World'' television series===
While the location itself does not appear, Brooklyn is mentioned in the ''[[Super Mario World (television series)|Super Mario World]]'' animated series episode "[[Mama Luigi]]" when Luigi says, "''Well, like they say in Brooklyn, early to bed, early to catch the worm. Or is it the bagel?''"

===''Club Nintendo''===
The story of the ''[[Club Nintendo (magazine)|Club Nintendo]]'' comic "[[Super Mario: Im Rausch Der Geschwindigkeit]]" takes place in Brooklyn, where there is a fictional speed limit of 80 "dinosaurpower" Mario is overstepping.

The [[Nintendo Skyscraper]], which appears in the story "[[Super Mario in Die Nacht des Grauens]]", is also located "in the heart of Brooklyn".

===''Super Mario Bros.'' film===
In the live-action [[Super Mario Bros. (film)|''Super Mario Bros.'' film]], [[Mario (film character)|Mario Mario]] and [[Luigi (film character)|Luigi Mario]] live in Brooklyn, where they run the [[Mario Brothers Plumbing|Mario Bros. Plumbing Service]]. The bulk of the film takes place in [[Dinohattan]], an alternate-universe version of [[New York City]] in a world where humans evolved from dinosaurs.

===''The Super Mario Bros. Movie''===
Brooklyn in ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'' is established as Mario and Luigi's place of origin, where they run a plumbing business before they arrive in the [[Mushroom Kingdom]] through a [[Warp Pipe]]. [[Pauline]] also resides there, as the mayor of [[New York City]]. A few locations in Brooklyn are shown, including [[Punch-Out Pizzeria]], a diner where the Mario Bros. like to spend their time, Castle Burger, and their [[Mario and Luigi's family|family]] apartment.

When [[Bowser's Castle]] is accidentally transported to Brooklyn, the Mario Bros. battle him and the [[Koopa Troop]] on the streets. Once Bowser is defeated, shrunk, and trapped in a jar, the citizens gather around Mario, Luigi, Donkey Kong, and Peach and cheer.

==Names in other languages==
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|Jap=ブルックリン
|JapR=Burukkurin
|ChiS=布鲁克林
|ChiSR=Bùlǔkèlín
|ChiT=布魯克林
|ChiTR=Bùlǔkèlín
|Kor=브루클린
|KorR=Beurukeullin
|Spa=Brooklyn
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