Editing Earth

'''{{wp|Earth}}''' is a planet on which a wide variety of people, cultures, and ecosystems reside. While the Earth that appears in the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'']] franchise has some features derived from the non-fictional entity, fictional alterations to the planet have also been applied. [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] has stated that the backstory of ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' has [[Mario]] arrive in the [[Mushroom Kingdom]] through one of the [[Warp Pipes]] seen in ''[[Mario Bros. (game)|Mario Bros.]]'' in [[New York City]] on Earth.<ref name="interview">{{cite|url=www.ndw.jp/mario-interview-230425/2|language=ja|title=インタビュー  マリオ映画公開記念！宮本茂さんインタビュー 制作の始まりから驚きの設定まで|date=April 25, 2023|publisher=Nintendo Dream Web|accessdate=April 25, 2023}}</ref> Similar depictions include those of the [[DIC Entertainment|DIC]] cartoons, in which the "'''Real World'''" is separate from the world of the Mushroom Kingdom, and ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'', in which Earth and the Mushroom Kingdom are in separate worlds connected by a [[Warp Zone]]. Later games have depicted the world of the Mushroom Kingdom as an Earth or Earth-like planet,<ref name="Motokura"/> sometimes incorporating places from the real world.

[[File:Real World in Super Mario's videogame series.png|thumb|700px|center|Countries, cities, and places on Earth that have appeared in the ''[[Super Mario (franchise)|Super Mario]]'' franchise]]

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====''Donkey Kong''====

Earth first appears in ''[[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]]'' with Shigeru Miyamoto stating that "Donkey Kong is set in [[New York City|New York]]".<ref name="interview"/>

*[[Tokyo]], Japan (''[[Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020]]'').

[[File:Welcome New Galaxy Ending.png|thumb|A full view of Earth during the last cutscene of ''Super Mario Galaxy'']]

Another Earth<ref name="Motokura">{{cite|quote=Perhaps the best way to say it is that the human characters you're encountering here and Mario also live on ''an'' Earth together"|author=[[Kenta Motokura]]|url=www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD_K8veKC14&t=538|timestamp=08:58|publisher=YouTube|language=en-us|accessdate=July 11, 2024|title=''Super Mario Odyssey'' Gameplay with Developers at E3 2017 – Nintendo Minute}}</ref> serves as the planet where the [[Mushroom Kingdom]] and other lands reside. ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' features [[Mario]] traveling between the planet and others across space, while ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]'' features him traveling between continents on the planet.

Much like the Mushroom Kingdom itself, depictions of this planet vary greatly between appearances. Some games, such as ''[[Mario Kart Wii]]'', depict a planet identical to the actual Earth in terms of landmasses, albeit surrounded by fictional elements from the ''Super Mario'' franchise, making its actual nature ambiguous. Other titles opt to obscure the surface of the planet, or show completely fictional continents altogether.

====''Club Nintendo''====

During the events of the ''[[Club Nintendo (German magazine)|Club Nintendo]]'' magazine comic "[[Donkey Kong in: Banana Day 24]]", aliens erroneously take Earth for a giant [[coconut]], and since they adore this kind of fruit, they take the planet with them, pulling it away from the sun. This results in a sudden drop of temperature all over the planet. When [[Donkey Kong]] and some of his friends talk to the aliens, they return Earth back to its original position.