History Headscratchers / MarioandSonicattheOlympicGames

*** WordOfGod id that it is, as it provides Eggman Nega's canon backstory.

* Alright does the Adventure Tours story modes in the handheld versions of these games mean now that Mario & Sonic's worlds are one in the same and that it somehow branches off into some real world locations? You know since it is a story mode and it did say it took place in Vancouver but afterwards Mario & Sonic's adventure took place in a place on that didn't seem to be Vancouver at all. If anything I'm even more confused about where Sonic's games take place in now since it referred to a real world location, it was a crossover story with Mario, the story took place in a non-Vancouver like place, and as we've seen in maps in Sonic and Sonic-related games the globe in Sonic's world is shaped nothing like ours. I don't really get it.

** I think, in the first M&S game, only two from each team could fit into each category of characters (Speed, Skill, Power and All Around). Sonic and Shadow both take up the spots in the 'Speed' slots (obvious choices), Tails isn't much of a power type (therefore 'All Around' was also out), and Skill type is the only one left. Besides, Tails is shown to be quite skillful in the games and even in the cartoons (SatAm showing this in 'Drood Henge' and hints of it in 'Sonic and Sally'), so it works.

** Well, the developers were probably faced with two options: assign Luigi the role of a FragileSpeedster or a JackOfAllStats since he's been both in previous games. It makes sense to put him in the same class as Mario since the only games that don't put them on equal footing are the ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' games, in which Mario is the GlassCannon and Luigi is the StoneWall / MightyGlacier and the dolled up Doki Doki panic where Luigi is the slow one. In everything else (''VideoGame/MarioKart'', ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', etc) the bros. have almost identical stats/abilities. Not exactly an answer, but maybe it offers a little insight. (Besides, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome how awesome is it]] to see Luigi beat Sonic or Shadow at a racing event, knowing full well that they're tailored to said event and [[BadassNormal he's not?]])

*** Let me answer that question with another question: Is ''Rivals'' canon?

** But, why would Rouge team up with someone that would [[VideoGame/SonicRivals lock her away in a card and try to destroy her life by putting her in a power up system]]?

** Well, the developers were probably faced with two options: assign Luigi the role of a FragileSpeedster or a JackOfAllStats since he's been both in previous games. It makes sense to put him in the same class as Mario since the only games that don't put them on equal footing are the MarioAndLuigi games, in which Mario is the GlassCannon and Luigi is the StoneWall / MightyGlacier and the dolled up Doki Doki panic where Luigi is the slow one. In everything else (''VideoGame/MarioKart'', ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', etc) the bros. have almost identical stats/abilities. Not exactly an answer, but maybe it offers a little insight. (Besides, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome how awesome is it]] to see Luigi beat Sonic or Shadow at a racing event, knowing full well that they're tailored to said event and [[BadassNormal he's not?]])

** So does this also indirectly make the Donkey Kong and Wario universes also a part of the same world as Sonic's? Which if I remember correctly considering Diddy Kong's appearance in Mario Spinoffs and the fact that Diddy Kong Racing's manual which stated that Banjo and Conker were friends Diddy had made also make the Banjo-Kazooie universe and Conker universe also the same world as Sonic and Mario's? I mean Banjo and Kazooie did appear alongside Sonic in the XBOX version of Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing plus is there any way the WarioWare series is part of it too? I mean am I right in guessing, that The Mushroom Kingdom (and other surrounding areas like the Bean Bean Kingdom), DK Isles, Diamond City (and the VideoGame/WarioLand series locations), Spiral Mountain (and Isle O' Hags), Timber's Island, Willo Woods (from Conker's Pocket Tales),The Fairy Panther Kingdom, Sonic's world (and all the locations in it) and the fantasy versions of the real world locations are all the same universe? If this is the case I'd say Sonic and Mario live in a world more massive than all the Pokemon games and their regions put together.

** So does this also indirectly make the Donkey Kong and Wario universes also a part of the same world as Sonic's? Which if I remember correctly considering Diddy Kong's appearance in Mario Spinoffs and the fact that Diddy Kong Racing's manual which stated that Banjo and Conker were friends Diddy had made also make the Banjo-Kazooie universe and Conker universe also the same world as Sonic and Mario's? I mean Banjo and Kazooie did appear alongside Sonic in the XBOX version of Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing plus is there any way the WarioWare series is part of it too? I mean am I right in guessing, that The Mushroom Kingdom (and other surrounding areas like the Bean Bean Kingdom), DK Isles, Diamond City (and the WarioLand series locations), Spiral Mountain (and Isle O' Hags), Timber's Island, Willo Woods (from Conker's Pocket Tales),The Fairy Panther Kingdom, Sonic's world (and all the locations in it) and the fantasy versions of the real world locations are all the same universe? If this is the case I'd say Sonic and Mario live in a world more massive than all the Pokemon games and their regions put together.

** Well, the developers were probably faced with two options: assign Luigi the role of a FragileSpeedster or a JackOfAllStats since he's been both in previous games. It makes sense to put him in the same class as Mario since the only games that don't put them on equal footing are the MarioAndLuigi games, in which Mario is the GlassCannon and Luigi is the StoneWall / MightyGlacier and the dolled up Doki Doki panic where Luigi is the slow one. In everything else (MarioKart, VideoGame/SuperSmashBros, etc) the bros. have almost identical stats/abilities. Not exactly an answer, but maybe it offers a little insight. (Besides, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome how awesome is it]] to see Luigi beat Sonic or Shadow at a racing event, knowing full well that they're tailored to said event and [[BadassNormal he's not?]])

** But, why would Rouge team up with someone that would [[VideoGame/SonicRivals lock her away in a card]]?