Over the past few decades of video games, Mario has always been in the conversati𒐪on and so has the Mushroom Kingdom. Whether you played the game only once or you've played every game in the series, you've spent some time in the Mushr꧙oom Kingdom and there are probably a ton of things you've missed or never experienced. Because most likely you're a maniac who just likes to smash enemies beneath your feet.

Well, so are we. But that doesn't mean that you can't take the occasional time to peruse a Mario Wiki page or to just do a sidequest for tꦛhe people shaped like mushrooms. How do you think that evolution took place. The mushrooms kept growing and growing until one of them woke up and asked Mario or his friends to not eat him.

The Mushroom Kingdom is filled with pretty colors and🅰 loveable characters. But it's also filled with darkness. And Dark Wizards from the darkness that turn mushroom people into blocks a🐻nd blocks into Koopas and then turn mushrooms back into people again. This is no place to step softly, be ready for the slowest enemies that will most likely make you end your own life.

So, here are all the things that we, as Mario fans, have forgotten about the Mushroom Kingdom over the years. Though we might have known some of this before, it's been pushed back to be nothing but a childhood memory. Some of these things we didn't even 🤪know until today!

25 The Blocks Used To Be Cit♋izens

When Bowser and his family showed up, they came ready to destroy an entir🃏e civilization. Whether or not Princess Peach was always the goal, or if Bowser just got greedy. What would have happened if Peach was open to it?

When Bowser and his crew ꧑showed up they turned everyone in the Mushroo♏m Kingdom into blocks. Yeah. Blocks. Like those things that you destroy with headbutts and twirly spins. Those were people.

24 ཧ Mario Is A Plumber 😼

You realize when you play the game that being a plumber is sort of irrelevant when it comes to what Ma𒈔rio goes through to defeat his enemies and save the princess. Unless, of🌟 course, that being a plumber in this world is different.

Let's🦹 say that there was a world where p🐲eople used pipes to teleport from place to place. These "pipes" would be seen as a major transportation and would fit into their culture like cars and roads do our own. Plumbers could be the highway patrol equivalent.

23 Kamek And The Babies 🐼 🌞

There's something about an enemy that's willing to go after babies. It's pretty medieval and sort of what it might take to win sometimes🌱. If Namek was able to get rid of Mario, who could st✃and up to Bowser.

Also, we want to know how long Bowser has been in power. There's got to be an 🍸official timeline or chronology that tells us if each Mario is fighting the same Bowser or whatever the case may be.

22 ✃ Smithy Is A True Enemy

𒈔When Smithy and gang show up they don't just steal the princess and throw a bunch of Koopas at you. The drive a giant sword into the biggest, baddest dudes castle and destroy the bridge𝐆 to it.

Smithy and Gang play by prison rules, and clearly, they are the toughest in the Mushroom Kingdom. This is one of the few Mario games where Bowser is not the real ene🐓𒊎my, and it is the ONLY Mario game where Bowser is your teammate against said real enemy.

21 Bowser Is Ruthles💛s

Speaking of Bowser, he's sort of a crazy tyrant. He rules with an iron fist and lives by the survival tactics of the jungle. He is definitely the biggest and toughest of all the Koopas and🐽 he knows what he wants. Princess Peach.

But before all of that, what did Bowser want out of li💛fe. Was he raised this way or did the anger begin to flow through him in his younger years, naturally leading to him being at the head of the famil🔥y warband? We may never know.

20 Mar🍒io Is In His 20s 𒁏

So even though Mario has been ജaround for like 30 years already, it's clear that time doesn't pass the same way in the Mushroom Kingdom. Mario has be⛄en around for longer than his age suggests is possible, but don't let that bother you.

Mario is in his peak performance years. Being in your twenties you slowly are starting to realize that the world sucks, most adults are idiots, most people lie, and food is the enemy. So it'd make sense♏ that this aged Mario would constantly save a princess.

19 Yoshi Has A Full Name ꧋

T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas. Otherwise and more 𒁃commonly known as Yoshi. So even before Yoshi started wrecking creatures left and right devouring them into his endless pit of a stomach, he was named for it.

This means that the last name being ꦰMunchakoopas is his parent's name presumably. That would mean that Yoshi comes from a long line of dinosaurs that eat Koopas for a living and name themselves after the situation.

18 The Truth About Bi🌠rdo

So Birdo is actually a male that thinks it's a female or wants to be a female. And there's nothing wrong with⭕ that. In fact, it just goes to show that all of us have been accepting of this lifestyle for deඣcades without even knowing it.

So for any of you haters of change out there think you don't ever condone or enjoy people being gender fluid or non-binary, you hate Birdo. And Birdo is awesome, just look at the way She shoots e♌ggs from her mouth.

17 🍒 Peach Is A Ruler Of Mushroom People✃

Say what you want about Diꦆsney princesses and other forms of cute royalty. These tyrants, these monarchs, are as ruthless and cruel as the worst 🌄of them. They just don't ever show you the bad side, and when they do, it's a cartoon.

They say good leaders c🐽reate strong times, strong times create weak people and weak people create tough times. Then Tough times create great leaders. Which one is Peach? Which is Bowser? And then which one is Mario?

16 ✱ Koopas Are Dark Wizards 🌃

So when all these turtle monsters showed up to the Mushroom Kingdom, they came wielding dark Magicks that turn people into blocks and force all enemies to be susceptible to being jumped on for a o🧸ne-shot knock out.

Wherꦫe they gained these magical abilities we may never know. But what we do know is that they are mean and pretty much objectively bad. The interest of them as dark wizards reminds us that Mario is sort of like a Knig🗹ht.