Timeline

*This timeline page should be taken with a grain of salt for its subjective nature. It can and should be disputed if there are disagreements.*
The **timeline** of the Mario Maker Cinematic Universe is a convoluted disaster of a mess. Luckily, it's not actually that important to understand lore.

## Overview

The main timeline is the "real world timeline", or the one we live in. This timeline is inhabited by Real Life humans like the Flobbyists when they're not playing Mario Maker or participating in other media that allows them to transcend to another world. However, this "real" world is also subjective to a different type of time drift. The events of Twitch streams are regularly adapted as Tuber videos days or weeks after they occur, allowing for a strange and confusing form of time travel.

The Mario Universe runs on a different timescale to the real world. Technically speaking, a new timeline is created every time someone plays a Mario game, ever. Fortunately, there are few significant changes in any timelines, allowing every timeline to exist concurrently in a strange Schrödinger's history.

## Mario Timeline

This Google Doc created by Sean D. Walsh of Project Marioverse contains evidence for many of the Mario games' hypothetical inclusion in a timeline. The Mario Maker games are unique for their refusal to fit inside the timeline. However, in-universe time is relatively irrelevant for Mario Maker events.

Based on certain dates, *Donkey Kong* likely takes place around 2009, while the most recent games take place around 2015. Filling out the rest of the timeline is easier if we place Mario Kart games biannually, including the eight main games, *Mario Kart Tour*, and the *Famicom Grand Prix* games.

## The actual timelines

### Real Life

#### Pre-boomer era (name tentative)

* c. 30: John Easter may have come into existence around this time.
* c. 299: John Christmas is created at 29 years old through Desbug's time paradox from 2021.
* September 23, 1889: Nintendo is founded. John Nintendo comes into existence around this time.

#### 1960s

* November 30, 1962: The original Bo Jackson is born.

#### 1990s

* November 16, 1994: Ian/Raysfire Cracked Johnson is born.
* March 18, 1996: Alex Tan/PangaeaPanga is born.
* July 5, 1996: Sam/RedFalcon is born.
* December 22, 1997: Desmond/Desbug is born. Alternatively, he may have been born in the years 200,000, 1992, and/or 19,222.

#### *Super Mario Maker* era

##### 2015

* September 10: *Super Mario Maker* is released.

##### 2017

* July 25: *Fortnite* is first released. John F. Kennedy is reborn as John Fortnite.

##### 2018

* June 15: *Among Us* is released on Android and iOS. The Impostors spread across the multiverse, one of them taking the identity of Beeg Yoshi.

#### *Super Mario Maker 2* era

##### 2019

* June 28: *Super Mario Maker 2* is released.

##### 2020

* August 4: *Fall Guys* is released on Windows and PS4. It becomes a trend until its fellow bean game, *Among Us*, faces a massive surge of popularity.

##### 2021

* March 2: Epic Games, led by John Fortnite, acquires Mediatonic and *Fall Guys*.
* March 31/April 1: Mario's Public Execution & April Fools' Day.
* April 4: After three days, Red Mario is resurrected on Easter.

#### The Future

* c. 2050: Raysfire time travels to 2021, becoming Old Raysfire.
* 2077: Now eighty years old, Desbug finally lets go of a particularly embarrassing Super Expert Desbug Special (as seen in so i played the hardest mario maker levels...) from 2021.
* 2100: 2021 Raysfire time travels to this year to enjoy the Future of Mario Maker Versus Mode.
* Unknown date: Special Fusions known as the Four Horsemen appear at the apocalypse.

### Mario Universe

* 2010M: Famicom Grand Prix: F-1 Race and Famicom Grand Prix II: 3D Hot Rally.
* 2011M: Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart 64.
* 2012M: Mario Kart: Super Circuit and Mario Kart Arcade GP/Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
* 2013M: Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart Wii. Around this time, Bowser invades the Sprixie Kingdom in the events of *Super Mario 3D World*.
* 2014M: Mario Kart 7 and Mario Kart 8. Bowser becomes Fury Bowser in the events of *Bowser's Fury*.
* 2015M: Mario Kart Tour.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ Aside from Super Mario Maker 2's Story Mode, where Toadette says that she meets Bowser for the first time despite their interaction in New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, Mario Maker just has too many levels in too many settings.
2. ↑ Specifically, the evidence on this page supports the idea that about six years have passed in-universe between Donkey Kong and Paper Mario: Color Splash. Color Splash probably takes place around the time of Mario Kart 8 based on Luigi's use of a Standard Kart from this game. Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart Tour both feature the sponsor Toad Polar Expedition 2014-2015, placing the games around the years 2014 and 2015 and thus *Donkey Kong* around 2009.
3. ↑ mario maker doesn't even know who I am (7:10)
4. ↑ As a Year of Luigi title with 8-Bit Luigis, *Super Mario 3D World* probably takes place around the time of *Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon*. *Dark Moon* takes place after *Mario Kart DS*, where Luigi has the Poltergust 4000 rather than 5000. It also probably takes place before *Mario Kart 7*, which does not include King Boo despite his appearance in both *Mario Kart Wii*, its immediate predecessor, and *Mario Kart 8*, its immediate successor, likely because of his imprisonment.
5. ↑ *Bowser's Fury* probably takes place after *Paper Mario: Color Splash*, as Mario is terrified of the Black Paint in the game's intro cutscene. Furthermore, it probably takes place before *Paper Mario: The Origami King*, as Bowser Jr. says that he would "never EVER" work with Mario in *Fury*. This implies that this is their first adventure working together, while they have no problems allying in *Origami King*. *Color Splash* and *Origami King* both have strong connections to *Mario Kart 8* through Luigi's Kart, placing *Bowser's Fury* fairly firmly in 2014.