- This article is about Mushroom Moon. For other uses of the moon, see Moon (disambiguation).
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- "Boy, I guess there are pretty much just rocks on the moon. I guess I knew that, but it's still kind of disappointing. Bummer..."
Mushroom Moon, occasionally referred as The Moon, is an alternate Moon,[1] which encompasses the planet's moon orbiting around it, often depicted as Earth's natural satellite, and it has appeared commonly as decoration for a background or as a setting for a particular level.
The Mushroom Moon is accessible in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, Mario's Time Machine, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and Super Mario Odyssey.
History[]
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins[]
- The Mushroom Moon appears as a Moon Stage, the first level of Space Zone in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. The Moon can be shown smiling in the overworld map for the zone; once the zone's secret course is unlocked, a shooting star will hit it, changing its expression to a frowning and more gloomy one. If the player clears the secret course, the moon's anger expression will be changed to a sadness one.
Mario's Time Machine[]
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Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island/Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3[]
- The Mushroom Moon is seen as background in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and it's remaster throughout Yoshi's Island and a boss settling in World 5-8, where Raphael knocks Baby Mario and Blue Yoshi to the moon, as he follows them to battle (It is revealed, Ravens also used moon-like planetoids as their native turf). After defeating Baby Bowser and returns to his normal size, Kamek takes him and flies to the moon.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door[]
Mario just landing on the Mushroom Moon in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
The Mushroom Moon is seen in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door and it's remake as background and a major role to the story. The Moon has a large floating satellite of sorts is where the location of the X-Naut base is. There is less gravity here than on the Mushroom Earth, in being so, Mario jumps slightly higher in the overworld. Mario's basic movement is even slowed down as well. The stars in the sky can form constellations that look like power-ups such as the Fire Flower and Super Mushroom.
There is also many enemies called Moon Clefts that inhabit the Moon and they run much faster than Mario. Mario can only avoid a battle with them by riding on Yoshi though in battle, they can be easily taken down with Bobbery.
Donkey Kong Country Returns[]
The Mushroom Moon can be shown in each of the possible, but similar different endings in Donkey Kong Country Returns, depending on the characters remaining. After defeating Tiki Tong, the Kongs are blasted high in the night sky and fall down to the moon. If only Donkey Kong defeats Tiki Tong, Donkey Kong uses his fist to punch the moon into the atmosphere and slam into Tiki Tong Tower in the Volcano. If Tiki Tong is defeated by Diddy Kong, Diddy attempts to escape the gravitational pull of the moon to no avail and lands on his head. However, the force of the impact also results in Diddy unintentionally causing the moon to fall and slam into the tower. If Tiki Tong is defeated while both Kongs are active, Donkey Kong has Diddy Kong speed him toward the moon with his jetpack, accelerating Donkey Kong as he punches the moon, which causes it to fall onto the tower. After the moon crushes Tiki Tong Tower, the volcano erupts the banana hoard, sending the moon back into its original position.
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze[]
The Mushroom Moon wasn't shown in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. After collecting all puzzle pieces in Rocket Rails on Secret Seclusion. A concept image called the "secret moon world" shows Donkey Kong jumping a gap between some rugged platforms. The surface of the moon world is chipped by numerous fault mountains and craters, similar to the real world Moon, and some levitating platforms can be seen in the background. The image comes with sketches of the overall look of the moon world and its corresponding level node on the map (a fuming meteor crashed into a crater). This concept art, or the concept of a level taking place outside Donkey Kong's planet, was either scrapped or not used in the game.
Super Mario Odyssey[]
- The Mushroom Moon appears in Super Mario Odyssey as the location of three kingdoms, being the Moon Kingdom, the Dark Side, and the Darker Side. It has light gravity on the surface, but gravity is normal when inside the Wedding Hall or underground. The underground areas, such as the Underground Moon Caverns, are filled with lava. The moon is the source of Moon Rocks, the raw material that makes up the game's primary collectable, Power Moons.[2] Rabbits live on the moon, including the game's recurring antagonists, the Broodals. The moon is important to the game's story, as Bowser takes Princess Peach to the Moon Kingdom to force her to marry him. The moon is present in the backgrounds on all kingdoms, in the sky for the ones that are not part of the moon. While the moon's maria look the same, unlike the real life moon, the mushroom moon in the game is much larger (roughly the size of either the planets Mars or Mercury), orbits much closer to the Mushroom Earth, and its maria are located on its southern hemisphere instead of on the hemisphere facing Earth. If Mario uses Binoculars to look at the moon from kingdoms that are not on the moon, Cappy will comment on the view.
Locations[]
- Space Zone
- Moon Stage
- Star Stage
- Secret Course 2
- X-Naut Fortress
- Moon Kingdom - A natural Satellite Kingdom.
- Bowser’s Moon Wedding
- Ringing-Bells Plateau
- Underground Moon Caverns
- Wedding Hall
- Ever-After Hill
- Honeylune Ridge
- Culmina Crater
- Dark Side
- Darker Side
Music[]
Low-G Moon Walk[]
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Oddly, Mario doesn't need a helmet to breathe on the Mushroom Moon in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Super Mario Odyssey where in Super Paper Mario, he needs one. It is believed that the Crystal Stars are protecting him.
- During her Tattle while on the Mushroom Moon, Goombella makes a comment about a Goomba landing on the moon in '69 which is a reference to the Apollo 11 landing; the first manned landing on the real world's moon in 1969 by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, however in the Nintendo Switch remake, she no longer mentions a specific year. The moon in this game is shown to contain no land features other than craters and rocks.
References[]
- ↑ "Perhaps the best way to say it is that the human characters you're encountering here and Mario also live on an Earth together" Nintendo developer Kenta Motokura
- ↑ The Art of Super Mario Odyssey, page 301.
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