History WMG / MarioKart

Once an urge for a fourth installment of their Smash Battlery! was starting to emerge, The Hands had by then [[{{Mii}} created a race of sentient dolls]] and created a new way to play their usual board game with their Mario toys to the disgruntlement of a silent majority. They were even contracted to set up new Go-Kart Tracks on three separate occasions! But the multitude of magic the hands have worked over the two decades they've been at this would put a strain on the core of this world where Toys come to life.

Collecting Toys-to-Life figures like VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}, VideoGame/DisneyInfinity and a soon-to-be-announced VideoGame/LegoDimensions obviously did not help, especially since the latter can tap into their powers themselves. As a last resort, the hands [[HumanityEnsues turned a few pokemon into human beings]] [[LetsPlay/TwitchPlaysPokemon for a unique swarm of Unown to control]] with the goal of shifting the Pokemon they catch in the same way by becoming Pokemon Champions. Although The Nine Vessels and their companions were brave heroes in and of themselves, the cause of their existance ultimately proved to be the last straw. The Core emmitted a Jetlike Swarm which melded itself over the core to create Master Shadow, Master Edges, Master Beast, Master Giant and over a month later in the Wii U version: Master Fortress! Needless to say, the hands were afraid at first, but in time, they worked around this problem and intend to use this swarm to their advantage. [[{{Amiibo}} The Hands have even made peace with the Toys-to-Life genre]] and [[DownloadableContent loosened up the boundaries of their segregation of realms.]]

* Can't find the source at the moment, but essentially confirmed in an interview with the game's director. This "crappy" port exists to not only help fill out the Switch's first year of releases, but also to serve as a demonstration of the console's out-of-the-box local multiplayer. It also makes sense for Nintendo to re-release one of the Wii U's KillerApps on a system where more people can play it (since the Wii U didn't do so well in sales and all).

[[WMG: The next Mario kart game will go the route of Super Smash Bros Ultimate and bring back all the characters. karts/bikes and tracks from all previous games]]

Collecting Toys-to-Life figures like VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}, VideoGame/DisneyInfinity and a soon-to-be-announced VideoGame/LegoDimensions obviously did not help, especially since the latter can tap into their powers themselves. As a last resort, the hands [[HumanityEnsues turned a few pokemon into human beings]] [[TwitchPlaysPokemon for a unique swarm of Unown to control]] with the goal of shifting the Pokemon they catch in the same way by becoming Pokemon Champions. Although The Nine Vessels and their companions were brave heroes in and of themselves, the cause of their existance ultimately proved to be the last straw. The Core emmitted a Jetlike Swarm which melded itself over the core to create Master Shadow, Master Edges, Master Beast, Master Giant and over a month later in the Wii U version: Master Fortress! Needless to say, the hands were afraid at first, but in time, they worked around this problem and intend to use this swarm to their advantage. [[{{Amiibo}} The Hands have even made peace with the Toys-to-Life genre]] and [[DownloadableContent loosened up the boundaries of their segregation of realms.]]

[[WMG: ''Mario Kart 9'' (or whatever the next game is) will, ''[[ScrappyMechanic hopefully]]'', finally introduce ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''-style per-item frequency settings and an online mode that disables items (similar to "For Glory" mode in ''Smash 3DS/[=WiiU=]''.]]

[[WMG: ''Mario Kart 9'' (or whatever the next game is) will, ''[[ScrappyMechanic hopefully]]'', finally introduce ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''-style per-item frequency settings and an online mode that disables items.]]

[[VideoGame/SuperMario64 Koopa The Quick]] clearly likes racing, it simply makes sense with his character. The SuperMarioKart predates his introduction technically, but that's a minor issue.

[[WMG: Two retro tracks in the ninth Mario Kart will explicitly take place in the [[spoiler:PaperMario universe]]]]

[[WMG: Metal Mario is Bowser's answer to [[SonicCD Metal Sonic]].]]

Let's look at it this way, Master Hand is bored, so he creates toys out of Mario Characters and put them in Toy Go-Karts they find in their cosmic Toy Chest. Master Hand and Crazy Hand go and construct tracks for each racer to race through and fun is had by all, but this still bores the Hands... [[MarioParty So they create a board game]]! But when even that fails to amuse them for too long they go beyond Mario and pick one toy from nine other assorted toy chests while Crazy Hand picking another from the 151 Toys in the Pokemon Chest: Jigglypuff.

Paper Mario's been struggling [[VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar a lot]] with originality/familiarity, and it seems unlikely that something from an earlier Mario RPG would show up.

* By extension, Metal Mario is an EarlyBirdCameo for his appearance in the next mainline game, as he has never appeared in a Mario game since DrMario 64. It helps he's been depicted in recent spin-offs as Mario's rival.

[[WMG: Knowing what Mario Kart 8 did with Mario Kart 64's Rainbow Road, there's a chance that if Wario Stadium (N64 Version), the only MarioKart64 course so far not to be in a Retro Track, would receive the same "3 Section" treatment]]

[[WMG: The series takes place in the [[SuperSmashBros World of Trophies]] ]]