Post by cheat-master30 on Sept 19, 2010 18:57:05 GMT -5
Random question, and I'm not going to think about this a whole lot, but would it even be possible for the Mushroom Kingdom wildlife to form any kind of functional ecosystem?
A few issues:
1. Most Mario (and Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong Country and Wario) series wildlife is made up of likely obligate carnivores. Really. Yes, some background life and decoration exists, but said species are far outnumbered by those that seem to subsist purely on luckless explorers.
2. Many, many different sentinent species and civilisations. Now, I recall reading on certain sites about science fiction and such that multiple sentinent species on one planet causes problems for various aspects, that will lead to the likely extinction of at least one of them.
And the Mario series is really, really over the top here, with near enough every major species having real world human level intelligent, society and civilisation.
3. Does the equivalent to the square cube law exist in the series? I'm going to guess it can't somehow, because likely most larger Mario series creatures violate it in some way or another (especially scaled up mooks like Goombas and such which apparently exist in about ten different sizes). You can probably excuse the Mario Galaxy bosses here, presumably many of the large robots (and Gobblegut) can only exist in near zero gravity situations.
You still have to wonder how many, many things would work. Bellario's maxim is right at work here, because frankly, even most final boss castles would probably just collapse if you attempted to make them on Earth (really, I hear past a certain number of stories, brick and stone can't support their own weight).
A few issues:
1. Most Mario (and Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong Country and Wario) series wildlife is made up of likely obligate carnivores. Really. Yes, some background life and decoration exists, but said species are far outnumbered by those that seem to subsist purely on luckless explorers.
2. Many, many different sentinent species and civilisations. Now, I recall reading on certain sites about science fiction and such that multiple sentinent species on one planet causes problems for various aspects, that will lead to the likely extinction of at least one of them.
And the Mario series is really, really over the top here, with near enough every major species having real world human level intelligent, society and civilisation.
3. Does the equivalent to the square cube law exist in the series? I'm going to guess it can't somehow, because likely most larger Mario series creatures violate it in some way or another (especially scaled up mooks like Goombas and such which apparently exist in about ten different sizes). You can probably excuse the Mario Galaxy bosses here, presumably many of the large robots (and Gobblegut) can only exist in near zero gravity situations.
You still have to wonder how many, many things would work. Bellario's maxim is right at work here, because frankly, even most final boss castles would probably just collapse if you attempted to make them on Earth (really, I hear past a certain number of stories, brick and stone can't support their own weight).
