The Mushroom Kingdom (キノコ王国, Kinoko Ōkoku) is the main location in the Mario universe and the setting of most Mario games.
Location description
The Mushroom Kingdom is presided over by Princess Peach and her family, and its celebrity hero is the brave hero, Mario.
The Mushroom Kingdom, though the fictional area where almost all Mario games take place, is not the only kingdom in the franchise; the Game Boy Advance game Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, in particular, takes place in the neighboring Beanbean Kingdom.
In Super Smash Bros.
As stages
The Mushroom Kingdom manifests as two separate stages, one starter, and one unlockable.
- Peach's Castle: A Super Mario 64-themed stage consisting in a stage in Super Mario 64.
- Mushroom Kingdom: A wide stage whose visuals and audio are a direct throwback to the original Super Mario Bros..
In Super Smash Bros. Melee
As stages
The Mushroom Kingdom is now the setting of three separate starter stages:
- Mushroom Kingdom: Princess Peach's Castle: A wide stage taking place on top of the said castle, where Banzai Bills drive into it and explode from time to time.
- Mushroom Kingdom: Rainbow Cruise: A unique, scrolling stage taking place on an aerial platforming and obstacle course inspired by the last world of Super Mario 64. The stage also appears in Brawl.
- Mushroom Kingdom: A wide stage whose visuals and audio are a direct throwback to the original Super Mario Bros.; in this regard it is the spiritual successor to the Mushroom Kingdom stage of the original Super Smash Bros., but it is designed differently having directly ripped sprites from Super Mario Bros. unlike the edited sprites used in the previous installment in the Smash series.
In addition, there is an unlockable stage named Mushroom Kingdom II, but it instead takes place in the dream world of Subcon (the setting of Super Mario Bros. 2)
In single-player
Melee's Adventure Mode has as its first stage Mushroom Kingdom, which is a lengthy platformer-inspired environment fraught with obstacles such as blocks and common enemies like the Goomba.
In Super Smash Bros. Brawl
As stages
- Mario Circuit: A stage based on Figure-8 Circuit from Mario Kart DS, with Shy Guys driving from both the background and the middle to attack the players. They are all seen on a screen in the background. The stage also appears in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
- Mushroomy Kingdom: A stage that recreates World 1-1 (and in Brawl only, 1-2) from Super Mario Bros. The stage also appears in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.
- Luigi's Mansion: A stage based on Luigi's mansion from the game, Luigi's Mansion. The stage also appears in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
In Super Smash Bros. 4
As stages
- 3D Land: A side-scrolling stage based off of Super Mario 3D Land as a whole.
- Golden Plains: A stage based off of three levels of World 1 in New Super Mario Bros. 2.
- Mario Circuit: A stage based off of the new Mario Circuit that appears in Mario Kart 8.
- Mushroom Kingdom U: A transforming stage based off of the worlds of New Super Mario Bros. U.