Koopa himself calls Yoshi a "throwback", suggesting a sense of racial superiority to their ancestors. Typical dinosaurs also appear in the city, yet are treated as pets or wild animals. While most of the population is indistinguishable from mammalian-evolved humans, some do possess reptilian traits such as tails, slitted pupils, scales, and oviparity. The inhabitants of Dinohattan are human-like creatures that evolved from dinosaurs displaced millennia ago from our world. The name features Koopa's name as well, which implies he renamed it upon taking over Dinohattan. The film repeatedly mentions "gold Koopa Coins" and "Koopons" throughout the film, suggesting some similarity to the form of currency seen in the games. The film concludes with President Koopa's defeat, as the rule is returned to the King, and his daughter, Princess Daisy. Koopa's assistant, Lena, manages to merge the two dimensions briefly in the film's climax. It is revealed early in the film that a link between the worlds exists within the sewers of New York City. While Koopa maintained that his desire to conquer the parallel Earth was meant to return his people to their former dominance, it is implied that he only sought Earth for himself. However, he was unable to accomplish it and instead created a grotesque parody, which deepened his desire to rule Earth instead. This fleeting vision obsessed Koopa with recreating the modern metropolis in his own dimension. The general pursued her into our dimension, first witnessing New York City. Only Daisy's mother escaped, fleeing into the Earth dimension with her unborn daughter and the meteorite pendant necessary for Koopa's planned merge. General Koopa used this position to secretly develop the de-evolution technology for a military coup that saw the slaughter of the entire Portal Guardian cult, and the land's King was turned into a mass of fungus. The Portal Guardians refused, though Koopa was given oversight of the city's power grid for research into conservation efforts. General Koopa, head of the military command, proposed merging the dimensions to claim the long-coveted stability and resources of the alternate Earth dimension. The Portal Guardian cult lost influence and faith, further dividing the already desperate people. However, their deteriorating dimension forced the planet's population into the capital city, straining resources and fracturing confidence in the Monarchy. They harnessed its energy into the grid that powers their great city. The Guardians were devoted to worshiping the monolith and maintaining the gateway between worlds, secretly ruling through the Monarchy. Dinosaurs living at the meteorite impact site were exposed to its geomagnetic energy, gradually evolving into the Portal Guardian cult. While the dinosaurs became extinct on Earth due to the meteor impact, it gave rise to the Dinohattanites within Dinohattan. Īccording to the film's introduction, the meteorite impact that hit Earth about 65 million years ago was powerful enough to split Earth into two parallel dimensions, one being Earth and one being Dinohattan. The name is never said within the film itself, though it appears on a sign at a subway stop, related media, and on the back of the film's packaging.Īccording to director Rocky Morton, Dinohattan was directly inspired by Dinosaur Land. The name Dinohattan is a portmanteau of the words "dinosaur" and "Manhattan". A deleted scene explained that the similarities between the two were the result of President Koopa (when he was still a general) catching his eye on the skyscrapers of New York while hunting down Daisy's mother and the meteorite. It is modeled after the Manhattan borough of New York City, bearing some resemblance to it including the buildings, subway stops, and overall look. Dinohattan is the name of both the city, and the planet as a whole, as the city is surrounded by a vast, empty and dry desert. It is the film's equivalent of the Mushroom Kingdom and Dinosaur Land. film, existing in a different parallel dimension to Earth. A few miserable streets and.endless desert.” - President Koopa, Super Mario Bros.ĭinohattan is the main dystopian setting of the Super Mario Bros. Dinosaurs, Dinohattanites, Humans, Goombas, Bob-ombs, Banzai Bills, Snifits
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