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Dusty Dune Galaxy is the site of an Apocalypse How.
Like Atlantis, a prosperous civilization once thrived on that planet and its assorted mini-moons. They built pyramids, monuments, and even orbiting space-temples with their own gravity. Then, like Atlantis, some sort of disaster struck and and all the earth in that region started turning to quicksand, driving the inhabitants to extinction. By the time Mario visits, only a few scattered ruins and barely-functional automated defense systems are left as a testament to the builders' great achievements.

The events of the Luigi playthrough happen in Luigi's imagination.

After returning from his adventure, Mario eventually gets around to telling Luigi about what happened. Later, while either dreaming or daydreaming, or possibly even during Mario's storytelling, Luigi plays out the story in his head, except he replaces Mario with himself doling out the heroics. He apparently doesn't put too much effort into making the dream believable though, since he still ends up rescuing "Luigi", there's only sparse unique dialog concerning Luigi, and Bowser considers second-banana, gets-lost-finding-stars, probably-afraid-of-his-own-shadow Luigi as much of a legitimate threat as Mario himself.

  • Alternatively, the Luigi playthrough is the version of events that occur in the heavily altered universe seen at the end of the game.
    • Likely Jossed, since Super Mario Galaxy 2 is heavily implied to take place in the altered universe.

Kamella is Kammy Koopa

They do look alike, don't they? Kammy (which could be short for "Kamella") could be harnessing the energy of the Power Stars to battle Mario in a Super Mode.

Black Doom is Rosalina's brother

After finding out about his sister's journey into deep space, he started out on his own journey to find her. However, the aliens he encountered were not as friendly as the Lumas. These were the Black Arms, a murderous race of conquerors. He fought tooth and nail against these beasts, but even he fell to them after a long battle. The dying leader, impressed with this human's resilience and fighting prowess, saved his life by reconstructing his body into that of a new leader of the Black Arms. Afterwards, the leader died, leaving the reconstructed human to lead as Black Doom.

Since then, he led the Black Arms in a sick parody of Rosalina's life among the Lumas. Instead of nurturing them to grow, he ordered them to kill and pillage. Instead of peace, he promoted war. And instead of birth, he believed the most in death. And when the Comet Observatory finally makes contact with the Black Comet, there is no telling what will happen when brother and sister are reunited.

  • So Shadow is Rosalina’s nephew?

  • While I can see the similarities between the two, it’s kind of a stretch. If the Mario and Sonic series were in the same universe, then why didn’t Mario run into the Black Arms at any point during either of his galactic adventures?

  • Hold on... if the Mario and Sonic universes are one and the same and the Black Arms coexist with the Lumas, then that means THE END coexists with them as well. So its planet and star destruction tendencies involve it killing Lumas!

In the storybook, the girl's father and brother neglect her and are possibly abusive

Her mother was nice to her, but did little to help her. The girl portrays them somewhat affectionately, but that's because she wanted to make the story appropriate for young Lumas. The neglect and possible abuse explains why she initially had no problems with leaving her family behind to look for the Luma's mother. When she cries for her dead mother, it's because she has realized that her mother wanted to help her, but was too afraid of the abusers. The girl doesn't miss her abusers, which explains why she doesn't cry for them when they're probably dead.

  • Then why would she include them in the book at all? If they were abusive towards her and she just wanted to get away from them, she could've just made it a story about her and her mother, especially since the Lumas don't ever show any understanding of fatherhood.

Rosalina is the daughter of Mario and Peach from another iteration of the universe

Rosalina's appearance is very similar to Peach's. Plus, the extreme closeup of Rosalina's mother has Peach's hair and earrings. Furthermore, in the French version, there is an extra page at the end of the storybook that mention her father and his mustache. Her phrasing at the end makes it clear that this isn't Rosalina's first trip to another universe either. The real reason she helps Mario is so that she doesn't lose her mother again.

  • Or conversely Rosalina's mother is Peach, but her father is Luigi. Evidence is that one of her keepsakes is her father's telescope. Mario doesn't have a telescope, but Luigi does. Also, in the storybook, her brother has a green hat. Also, Rosalina is tall, just like Luigi.
    • Having a telescope and being tall doesn't necessarily mean Rosalina is related to Luigi. Also, there's tons of people in the world who have lookalikes and not be related at all. It's called Identical Stranger and Peach and Rosalina might not be an exception to that. And the part about the father having a mustache, that's ONLY in the French version. You'd think they would include that detail in other versions if it was so important.
    • Rosalina shares some similarities with Peach because she was originally going to be Peach's sister. In her storybook, she made it somewhat explicit that her mother was...dead, so it can't really be Peach. The storybook never says anything about her brother having a green hat. And if any of her family members were the same people she met in this game, don't you think she would've receognized them? And all of this is ignoring the fact that Rosalina's family lived and died eons ago - none of them, their children, or even their children's children could possibly be alive during the time this game takes place.
    • Maybe watch MatPat to joss your concerns. He has a similar theory yet he explains how Peach can be dead in the book yet alive everywhere else.
    • I've seen MatPat's videos. There's no reason to think that Rosalina is related to Princess Peach - as stated above, they look marginally alike as a remnant of the game's beta stages. There isn't any other evidence to suggest a connection, and saying that Rosie's mother wasn't actually dead would undermine the significance of the events in the storybook. (That, and it's not just the storybook that suggests her mother should be dead - Rosalina has been alive for at least a few centuries do to her travels in the observatory - there's no way her family could be alive so many years later.)

Star Bits grant you immortality.

Or at least a very long lifespan. How else would you explain why Rosalina looks to be around Peach's age, despite being hundreds (if not) thousands of years old?

  • I think she's immortal because she spends all her time in the observatory travelling at faster-than-lightspeed. (It would have to travel that fast in order to move through the universe, but return to the Mushroom World every 100 years.) She ages so slowly because time is moving faster outside the observatory, which is also why she was still a young child when she realized the other members of her family were dead.
    • She's also bloody tall compared to the rest of the human characters, can fly and also uses magic. I think she's just a magical space being. At the very least, she is Ambiguously Human.

Super Mario Galaxy is the last game in the "main" timeline.
In many of the Mario platformers, Mario and Bowser are sworn enemies and Bowser is legitimately threatening. However, in other games (particularly spinoffs), they're almost friends and Bowser is comic relief.

When the universe restarts at the end of the game, Bowser doesn't glare at Mario/Luigi at all, instead falling on his back clumsily and looking up. Both enemies and friendly NPCs are seen dancing and hanging out with no ill intent towards each other.

All the spinoffs - and maybe even a few mainline platformers like 3D World and Galaxy 2 - take place in the new universe where Bowser and Mario aren't really sworn enemies, but are at worst indifferent towards each other. Bowser tries to keep up a villainous image, slowly sinking to the point where the worst thing he does is crash Mario's parties, before finally giving up and going to their kart racing tournaments.

The reason Rosalina is called "Rosetta" in Japan...

...is because to Japanese people, the pronounciation of the name "Rosalina" would have been too ambiguous ("Rosalina"? "Rosarina"? "Loselina"? "Losarina"?), so a variation of her name that was less ambiguous was used for the Japanese release.note 

  • The game was made in Japan first. "Rosetta" was her name originally, and then was changed for the international versions. (Not just to Rosalina, either - in the Italian version (French version, my mistake) she's named "Harmonie.") The reason she was named Rosetta originally is because Rosetta is a special type of orbit.

Dark Matter was an experimental attempt to create a hazard that can permanently kill Mario
Bowser thought that maybe if he could utterly disintegrate Mario at the molecular level, he might bypass all the extra lives and keep Mario from coming back. It didn't work, obviously, which is why it's never seen again after that one level — it's probably more expensive to make than good old fasioned lava, so no point to keep making it if it doesn't kill him better than anything else.

Rosalina's parents were Timpani and Blumiere, from Super Paper Mario
  • Basically, this theory proposes that Tippi and Blumiere were actually sent from the Paper Mario universe into the main-series universe after they destroyed the Chaos Heart, which would also explain how they and Rosalina could meet the same Mario - it actually wasn't the same Mario. There's a lot of evidence in support of this, so hear me out:
    • Tippi and Blumiere are shown atop a hill near a tree after the credits of Super Paper Mario, just like the hill described in Rosalina's storybook as being near her home. (Also, we see them walking away from the camera, indicating the world they ended up in was three-dimensional.)
    • Rosalina and Count Bleck can both levitate, project barriers around themselves and others, and (possibly, in Rosalina's case) have vision problems. Bleck wears a monocle throughout the game, while Rosalina has bangs that cover one of her eyes.
    • In her storybook, Rosalina mentions stargazing with her father, just like Blumiere did back when he first met Timpani. (Described in one of Tippi's flashbacks.
    • At the end of Galaxy 2, when she's reunited with Luma, Rosalina makes a statement about how her desire to be reunited with Luma was stronger than some "mere whim of the stars," which is a similar concept to what Tippi tells Dimentio before he's defeated. ("All things determine their destinies.")

"Galaxy" is a translation error
Super Mario Galaxy features "galaxies" which are at most a few miles across. Given how each galaxy selection area looks like a star system (complete with Pluto's inclined orbit), it'd make more sense if the galaxies are actually planets/planetoids, and the six selection areas are solar systems. This confusion must have set in while translating between Mushroom Kingdom-language and English/Japanese.
  • Or maybe it was just named that way to give way to "UR MR GAY".
  • Yeah, except each level has multiple planets and sometimes a sun or moon. It makes more sense to me if the whole thing is technically one galaxy, but every level except Grand Finale is a solar system.
  • The Mushroom Kingdom language is particularly confusing for this sort of thing, hence different areas of the Mushroom Kingdom, Yoshi's Island etc. being known as "Worlds".
  • No, they are actual galaxies, Baby Planets aside, Mario only visits a small part of each galaxy, the part that has the power stars he needs.

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