Editing New York City

{{location infobox

|image=[[File:MK8-Course-Tour NewYorkMinute.jpg|270px]]

|greater_location=[[United States of America]]

|ruler=[[Mayor of New York City]], [[Mayor Chasen]], [[Pauline]]

|inhabitants=Humans, [[Mario]] (former), [[Luigi]] (former), [[Foreman Spike]]

|first_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]]'' ([[List of games by date#1981|1981]])

|latest_appearance=''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'' (2023)

'''{{wp|New York City}}''' (or simply '''New York''') is the largest city in the [[United States of America]], and is one of the largest cities on [[Earth]].

New York City consists of five boroughs: [[Brooklyn]], [[List of implied locations#Manhattan|Manhattan]], [[List of implied locations#Queens|Queens]], [[List of implied locations#The Bronx|the Bronx]], and {{wp|Staten Island}}. However, Brooklyn is the most notable borough to the ''[[Super Mario (franchise)|Super Mario]]'' franchise, as in certain ''Super Mario'' media it is depicted as where [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] grew up, and also where [[Super Mario Bros. Plumbing]] is located.

[[File:MB Sewers.png|250px|thumb|left|The sewer system in [[Mario Bros. (Game Boy Advance)|''Mario Bros.'' (Game Boy Advance)]]]]

According to Shigeru Miyamoto, ''[[Mario Bros. (game)|Mario Bros.]]'' takes place in the sewers of New York,<ref>Porges, Seth (October 19, 2009). [https://web.archive.org/web/20091022053804/https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4334387.html Exclusive Interview With Nintendo Gaming Mastermind Shigeru Miyamoto]. [http://www.popularmechanics.com/ Popular Mechanics]. Retrieved November 25, 2009. "''When we first created Donkey Kong, I kind of looked at him as your average, everyday foolish guy. The setting of that game was a construction site, so I kind of matched him with the setting of the game, and decided in that game that he was a carpenter. And then when we made the original Mario Bros. game, that was the first game that had pipes in it, and the enemies would come out of the pipes into this dark area and Mario would try to hit them and knock them out. Looking at the setting of that game, it had the feeling of an underground New York sewer system. And so with the pipes and the idea of it being an underground New York sewer system, I thought what kind of guy would be there working on the pipes? A plumber! So rather than saying Mario was a plumber, really it was a matter of what's his role in the game and what's the setting of the game and kind of occupation would put him in the setting to be doing what he's doing.''"</ref><ref>Snider, Mike (November 08, 2010). [http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2010/11/qa-mario-creator-shigeru-miyamoto/1 Q&A: 'Mario' creator Shigeru Miyamoto]. ''USA Today''. Retrieved March 25, 2016. "''As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well. So I drew some characters that had more western type features with a little bigger noses and what not. Now with Mario, I think with Mario Bros. we had a setting of course that was underground, so I just decided Mario is a plumber. Let's put him in New York and he can be Italian. There was really no other deep thought other than that.''"</ref> although Atari manuals state it takes place in the [[Warp Pipe|water pipe]]s of [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]]'s [[Mario Bros.' House|house]].<ref>"''Mario the carpenter and his brother Luigi{{hover| |* [2600/5200]}} are hopping mad! The water pipes in their house are blocked with{{hover| |nests of [2600] / pesky [7800/8-bit]}}crawling creatures. If the two brothers can’t get rid of them{{hover| |, [5200/7800/8-bit]}}they’ll never take a bath again!''" - ''Mario Bros.'' Atari game manual, first page.</ref>

New York City is mentioned several times on ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'', mostly in some of the live-action segments. In "[[Flatbush Koopa]]", [[Bowser|King Koopa]] announces that he will take over all of New York City and dub it "New Koopa" once he finishes taking over Brooklyn.

Excluding references to Brooklyn, New York City as a whole is also seen a few times in ''[[The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3]]''. In "[[Kootie Pie Rocks]]", [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] takes her friends to see a [[Milli Vanilli]] concert somewhere in New York City.

In "[[Recycled Koopa]]", the [[Koopalings]] end up dumping their [[Koopa trash|garbage]] down a [[Warp Pipe]] leading to Brooklyn. When their contaminated garbage winds up turning the citizens of Brooklyn into [[Koopa Zombie]]s, Bowser takes advantage of the situation by using the garbage to turn everyone in New York into his zombie minions, as well as other creatures into his minions (e.g. seagulls into [[Paragoomba|Para-Goomba]]s and fish into [[Spiny Cheep Cheep|Spiny Cheep-Cheep]]s), thanks to his [[Crud Cannon]]. Bowser's plans were foiled by Mario and Luigi, who build a [[Trash Smasher]] that recycles the garbage, turning everyone back to normal. The [[Statue of Liberty]] makes an appearance in the episode, first mutated by the garbage into a Koopa Statue, then after being transformed back to normal, the statue comments on the Mario Brothers' success at stopping Koopa's dumping spree.

[[File:New York City MIMSNES.png|thumb|New York City as it appears in ''Mario is Missing!''.]]

In its first formal video game appearance, New York is one of the cities Luigi has to visit in the [[Mario is Missing! (PC)|PC]], [[Mario is Missing! (Super Nintendo Entertainment System)|SNES]], and [[Mario is Missing! (Nintendo Entertainment System)|NES versions of ''Mario is Missing!'']] His task, given by [[Mayor Chasen]] in the PC versions, is to return artifacts to some of the city's landmarks that were invaded by [[Koopa Troopa|Koopa]]s. The Koopas stole [[King Kong]] from the [[Empire State Building]], the [[Statue of Liberty Torch|torch]] from the [[Statue of Liberty]], the [[Statue of Prometheus]] from the [[Rockefeller Center]] in the SNES and NES versions, and a [[Rockette]] from [[Radio City Music Hall]] in the PC versions. It is primarily based on the borough of Manhattan.

 

Luigi must call [[Yoshi]] to his location using the [[Globulator]] and get rid of the [[Pokey]] blocking the city's exit. To do this, he must first deduce where he is from hints given by people in New York City.

New York City also makes several appearances in the ''[[Club Nintendo (magazine)|Club Nintendo]]'' comic series. In "[[Super Mario: Verloren in der Zeit]]", Mario is teleported into the Viking Age and, at the same moment, the Vikings [[Erik, Baleog and Olaf]] are teleported into New York. Their simple presence in the city causes an enormous chaos there, resulting in car crashes, for example. Finally, some New York policemen arrest them.

New York is also mentioned in the story "[[Sag niemals Holerö!]]", in which Mario vacations in [[Switzerland]]. At some point, due to the word "Holerö" being pronounced by evil alien [[KKDU|Heini]], all humans in Switzerland turn into cheese. Mario decides to leave the country, but notices that the crew of the airline that were supposed to bring him back to New York have turned into hot dogs. Doubting their aeronautical competence, the plumber decides to go to [[Germany]] instead.

===''Super Mario Bros.'' film===

In the ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' movie, Mario Mario and 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]] (named after Manhattan), an alternate-universe version of New York City in a world where humans evolved from dinosaurs. Besides Brooklyn, Mario briefly alludes to the Bronx borough of New York City when first arriving in Dinohattan, where he, in response to Luigi's speculation that they may have been in a coma and woke up in Brooklyn of the future, interjects that they may have arrived in the present day version of the Bronx when witnessing the extremely lawless situation in Dinohattan.

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[[File:SMO Metro Moon 35.png|250px|thumb|left|The sewer system in ''Super Mario Odyssey''{{'}}s New Donk City]]

In ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]'', the location of New Donk City is inspired by New York City. Its skyline backdrop also resembles Manhattan. The developers stated that the building designs were inspired by [[Donkey Kong (game)#Development|old-fashioned]] Manhattan, New York City.<ref>The Art Of Super Mario Odyssey, page 178 "Old-fashioned building inspired by Manhattan."</ref>

 

 

===''Mario Kart'' series===

 

 

 

 

==Profiles==

|boy=You're in the home where the buffalo roam, and the skies are not cloudy all day.

|boy_2=Being an early bird in the Big Apple really helps.

|tourist=The country is divided into 50 states. But the nation's capital isn't in any of them!

|tourist_2=Baseball is the national sport, and apple pie is the dessert of choice.

|reporter=So nice they named it twice, NY, NY.

|reporter_2=Catch a cab, or take the subway, not many private cars in this island city.

|officer=Thanks for asking one of New York's Finest, you're in New York City.

|boy=You're in the home where the buffalo roam, and the skies are not cloudy all day.

|tourist=The country is divided into 50 states. But the nation's capital isn't in any of them!

|scientist=Legend has it the colonists bought Manhattan for $24 from the Indians.

|officer=Thanks for asking one of New York's Finest, you're in New York City.

|boy=You're in the home where the buffalo roam, and the skies are not cloudy all day.

|tourist=The country is divided into 50 states. But the nation's capital isn't in any of them!

|officer=Thanks for asking one of New York's Finest, you're in New York City.

|officer_2=It's made up of five boroughs, this borough is Manhattan.

 

:[[Larry]], [[Roy]], [[Wendy]], and [[Iggy|Iggy Koopa]] were spotted yesterday at a Manhattan area unemployment office. Looking smoke-blackened and humiliated, the terminally terrible tortoises all claimed that the bad guy business wasn't shaping up too well. When asked about the reason for the downturn, all four replied, "plumber problems."

 

|title2=''Mario is Missing!'' (SNES)

 

|Jap=ニューヨーク市<br>''Nyū Yōku-shi''<br>ニューヨーク<br>''Nyū Yōku''

|JapM=New York City (「{{hover|市|し}}」 ''shi'' meaning "city", "town", etc.)<br><br>New York

|ChiS=纽约市

|ChiSR=Niǔ Yuē-shì

|ChiTR=Niǔ Yuē-shì

|ChiTM=New York

|Por=Cidade de Nova York<br>Nova York<br>Nova Iorque

|PorM=City of New York<br>New York<br>New York

*New York City's "The Big Apple" nickname was referenced in ''[[Donkey Kong Land]]'', which features a world known as [[Big Ape City]]. The nickname is also referenced in ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]''; being patterned after New York City, [[New Donk City]] is nicknamed "The Big Banana".

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