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{{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}}''' is a borough of [[New York City]], [[United States of America|United States]] that appears in certain [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'']] media as the hometown of [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]].


{{llquote|We got a lot of people in [[Brooklyn]]. We got pool players, we got beautiful girls, we got restaurants, we got carpenters, [[plumber]]s, but normal? Huh-huh! Forget about it!|[[Luigi]]|[[The Mario Monster Mash]]}}
One of Brooklyn's first mentions in a ''Super Mario'' game is in ''[[Mario's Time Machine (PC)|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 a number of official sources, Mario and Luigi are from Brooklyn; these sources include 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|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! (Super Nintendo Entertainment System)|Mario is Missing!]]'',<ref>{{cite|title=''Mario is Missing!'' instruction booklet|page=2 (SNES) or 4 (NES)|quote=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|archive=web.archive.org/web/20160922162125/http://shmuplations.com/mario64/}}</ref> and ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' guides,<ref>{{cite|language=en|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]]''.
==History==
===''Super Mario Bros.: Trapped in the Perilous Pit''===
In ''[[Super Mario Bros.: Trapped in the Perilous Pit]]'', [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]] are cleaning a clogged sewer underneath a fortune-teller's shop in Brooklyn before being accidentally sent to the [[Mushroom Kingdom]].


'''Brooklyn''' is a borough of the greater city of [[New York City|New York]], and is located in the [[United States|USA]], on [[Earth]].
===''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.


One of its first mentions in an actual game was 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 fuedal lord didn't know what Brooklyn was.
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 [[Bowser's Minions|Koopa Pack]].


According to the ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' Official Player's Guide, [[Mario]] spent some of his life in Brooklyn; enough time, in fact, to be labeled a Brooklynite.
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]].


== Appearances in Other Media ==
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.


=== Cartoons ===
===''The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3''===
==== ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' ====
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 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 bathtub that they were unclogging on a plumbing job.
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 the cartoon episodes, Mario and Luigi often try make references about returning to Brooklyn. The live action segments all took place at the [[Mario Brothers Plumbing]] shop in Brooklyn.
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 the episode "[[Brooklyn Bound]]", Mario and Luigi meet up with [[Salvador Drainado]], a fellow Brooklyn plumber who had been lost on [[Mushroom World]] for thirteen years. However, Salvador Drainado had discovered a one-way drainpipe to back to Brooklyn, which could only be used once. With Mario and Luigi's help, Salvador Drainado was able to reach the pipe, and offered Mario and Luigi to come along. Mario and Luigi almost go along with Salvador Drainado, 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]].
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 Pack (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.


Brooklyn is also featured in the episode "[[Plumbers 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]].
===''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 "[[Rock TV]]" when Luigi reminds Mario of the phone bill they received from the ''"Speak to Santa Hotline"'' back in Brooklyn.


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 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]], if only so that King Koopa can't return to Brooklyn. By blowing up the pipe, Mario and Luigi are forced to stay in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Additionally, Luigi says "''Well, like they say in Brooklyn, early to bed, early to catch the worm. Or is it the bagel?''" in the episode "[[Mama Luigi]]".


==== ''The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3'' ====
===''Club Nintendo''===
The story of the [[Club Nintendo (German magazine)|German ''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.


In ''[[The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', more Warp Pipes leading to the  
The [[Wolkenkratzer]], which appears in the story "[[Super Mario in Die Nacht des Grauens]]", is also located "in the heart of Brooklyn".
Real World had been discovered, making access to Brooklyn much more convinient.  


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 screws up when the [[Time Tube]] turns them, along with Mario, Luigi and Toad into babies.
===''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.


In "[[Misadventures in Babysitting]]", Mario and Luigi accidentally warp into a Brooklyn home, and get suckered into babysitting a brat named [[Junior (TAoSMB3)|Junior]], who warps himself to the Mushroom Kingdom in a game of hide and seek.
===''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.


In "[[Recycled Koopa]]", the [[Koopalings]] dump their garbage down a Warp Pipe to Brooklyn. As a result, the garbage mutates the people there into [[Koopa Zombie]]s. Mario and Luigi do what they can to clean up the garbage before the entire city gets contaminated.
When [[Bowser's Castle]] is accidentally transported to Brooklyn, the Mario Bros. battle [[Bowser]] and [[Bowser's Minions|his minions]] on the streets. Once he is defeated, shrunk, and trapped in a jar, the citizens gather around Mario, Luigi, Donkey Kong, and Peach and cheer.


=== Comics ===
==Names in other languages==
The story of the [[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.
{{foreign names
 
|Jap=ブルックリン
The [[Nintendo Skyscraper]], which appears in the story "[[Super Mario in Die Nacht des Grauens]]", is also located "in the heart of Brooklyn".
|JapR=Burukkurin
 
|ChiS=布鲁克林
== Trivia ==
|ChiSR=Bùlǔkèlín
 
|ChiT=布魯克林
* Additionally, the manual to ''[[Wikipedia:Sim City|Sim City]]'' says that the Mario Bros. live in Brooklyn, stating that it's odd that [[Bowser]] is looking for them in Tokyo rather than there.
|ChiTR=Bùlǔkèlín
|Kor=브루클린
|KorR=Beurukeullin
|Spa=Brooklyn
}}


* Brooklyn is also home to the well-known [[Brooklyn Bridge]], which can be seen all the way from Mario Brothers Plumbing. The bridge itself was also seen in several cartoon episodes and was mentioned a few times in the live-action segments of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!''.
==References==
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Brooklyn
View of Brooklyn in The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Brooklyn as it appears in The Super Mario Bros. Movie
First appearance Super Mario Bros.: Trapped in the Perilous Pit (1989)
Latest appearance The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
Greater location New York City
Ruler Mayor of New York City, Pauline
Inhabitants Humans
“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"

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City, United States that appears in certain Super Mario media as the hometown of Mario and Luigi.

One of Brooklyn's first mentions in a Super Mario 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 a number of official sources, Mario and Luigi are from Brooklyn; these sources include the instruction booklets for the SNES version of SimCity[1] and console conversions of Mario is Missing!,[2] Shigeru Miyamoto in the Super Mario 64 Shogakukan guidebook[3] and Nintendo Power guides,[4] as well as the DIC cartoon shows, Nintendo Comics System, and The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

History[edit]

Super Mario Bros.: Trapped in the Perilous Pit[edit]

In Super Mario Bros.: Trapped in the Perilous Pit, Mario and Luigi are cleaning a clogged sewer underneath a fortune-teller's shop in Brooklyn before being accidentally sent to the Mushroom Kingdom.

The Super Mario Bros. Super Show![edit]

Mario Brothers Plumbing
Mario Brothers Plumbing, the setting of every live-action segment, is located in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn
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 Toadstool and Toad from Koopa Khan and the 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, 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[edit]

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

In the episode "Toddler Terrors of Time Travel", Bowser and 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, who warps himself to the Mushroom Kingdom in a game of hide and seek.

In "Recycled Koopa", the Koopalings dump their garbage down a Warp Pipe to Brooklyn. As a result, the garbage mutates the people there into Koopa Zombies and turns other creatures into members of the Koopa Pack (e.g. seagulls into Para-Goombas and fish into 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[edit]

While the location itself does not appear, Brooklyn is mentioned in the Super Mario World animated series episode "Rock TV" when Luigi reminds Mario of the phone bill they received from the "Speak to Santa Hotline" back in Brooklyn.

Additionally, Luigi says "Well, like they say in Brooklyn, early to bed, early to catch the worm. Or is it the bagel?" in the episode "Mama Luigi".

Club Nintendo[edit]

The story of the German 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 Wolkenkratzer, which appears in the story "Super Mario in Die Nacht des Grauens", is also located "in the heart of Brooklyn".

Super Mario Bros. film[edit]

In the live-action Super Mario Bros. film, Mario Mario and Luigi Mario live in Brooklyn, where they run the 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[edit]

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 family apartment.

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

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ブルックリン[?]
Burukkurin
-
Chinese (simplified) 布鲁克林[?]
Bùlǔkèlín
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Chinese (traditional) 布魯克林[?]
Bùlǔkèlín
-
Korean 브루클린[?]
Beurukeullin
-
Spanish Brooklyn[?] -

References[edit]

  1. ^ "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." – 1991. SimCity SNES instruction booklet. Nintendo of America (English). Page 4.
  2. ^ "Will the brave brothers from Brooklyn permit this abominable snow plan? The boys say ‘Not!’" – Mario is Missing! instruction booklet. Page 2 (SNES) or 4 (NES).
  3. ^ "Super Mario 64 – 1996 Developer Interviews originally featured in the official strategy guides. shmuplations.com. Retrieved June 5, 2024. (Archived September 22, 2016, 16:21:25 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
  4. ^ "According to the visitor from Brooklyn, he had been invited to the castle for a piece of cake, which Peach had just baked." – Pelland, Scott, and Dan Owsen (1996). Super Mario 64 Player's Guide. Nintendo of America (English). Page 4.