Captain N/Super Mario Bros. XOver Special

Hey there, Toonsters and Gamers alike!

It's been since a long time since I did some ideas about crossovers and since Stefan has done a few, I thought I could give my ideas of another crossover. But this one is not just any crossover. Remember those Nintendo themed cartoons back in late 80s and into the early 90s? Well, this one's a doozy, so I will sum it up the best I can.

In the beginning, there was The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, which was followed by Captain N: The Game Master. When they first came out, their respective first seasons were shown separately on different channels. It was not until NBC in 1990 they aired both shows in an hour long block, promoting both season 2 of Captain N and The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3. A year later, before NBC killed off Saturday Mornings forever, they showed both shows, but it was cut to a half hour show called Captain N and the New Super Mario World. And even though we got the best of two worlds, neither Captain N nor the Super Mario Bros. never once crossed paths with each other...

Until now.

Now that the background of the Nintendo cartoons is done. Here is the plot of this awesome crossover.

Story: A long time ago, Videoland was once a peaceful happy place in all the world of fiction. All that changed when an army of gaming's most evil villains decided to claim Videoland as their own. Led by the villainous King Koopa, they led an assault on the heart of Videoland, the Palace of Power. That's right, folks, Koopa attempted to rule Videoland years before Mother Brain. As Koopa attempts to claims dominion over Videoland, he was stopped by Videoland's ruler, King Charles. Fortunately, Charles fought valiantly against the reptile king and banished Koopa from Videoland, sealing him up into the Warp Zone to his own world known as Koopa Valley, never to return. Since that time, while Koopa was exiled in his own world and starts his invasion of another world, the Mushroom Kingdom, Videoland enjoyed relative peace for many years.

And even though Koopa was banished, other gaming villains continued to carry on where he started, especially with Mother Brain. Since that time, King Charles disappeared and his daughter, Princess Lana took over the Palace of Power. Not even her and the other gaming heroes alone couldn't stop her. However, thanks to the Ultimate Warp Zone, Kevin Keene, a gamer from the real world, ends up being Videoland's new champion as Captain N: The Game Master. And time and time again, Kevin foils Mother Brain's insidious plot to rule Videoland.

But with her plans foiled again, Mother Brain, with her big brain, tries to find a way to get rid of Captain N once and for all, when she learns about Videoland's past and dark legend of King Koopa himself. Learning of the location of the Warp Pipe imprisonment,  Mother Brain finds it and opens it up, freeing Koopa from his Warp Zone prison. Initially thankful for free him, Koopa pledges his allegiance to Mother Brain and pledges to help destroy Captain N. And as Kevin confronts Koopa, he learned the hard way that he is more dangerous and calculating than Mother Brain ever was, as he diverted Kevin and the N-Team, allowing Koopa to go after the real target, the Palace of Power. And by doing so, he destroys the Power Glove (which is not only Kevin's way home, but also the source of his power), leaves the Palace of Power in ruins and nearly ending Princess Lana's life. While Kevin and other try to put two and two together, Koopa returns to Mother Brain in the world of Metroid to let her know that Captain N won't threatened the villains no more, now that the Palace of Power is in ruins. Enraged about what Koopa has done, Mother Brain reprimanded him for nearing destroying the palace and almost ended Princess Lana's life. All Mother Brain ever wanted was to rule Videoland, just to for the sake of greed and being vain. And feeling duped that Mother Brain is in this for her own greed, Koopa decided to take over Mother Brain's operations himself. Mother Brain tries to blast away Koopa, but she is no match for his dark magic, thus turning her into a brain in a snow globe. Fearing that Koopa would do the same thing to them, Mother Brain's henchmen, Eggplant Wizard and King Hippo, joined Koopa's ranks, thus Koopa plans to not only conquer the Mushroom Kingdom, but all of Videoland. As for Captain N, knowing that Koopa is too powerful and even more dangerous, and since King Charles isn't here to stop him, he figured that the only way to stop Koopa is locate the very heroes who fought against him in the past and knows the Koopa King better than he does and that is Mario and Luigi, the Super Mario Bros.. Will Kevin save all of Videoland or will King Koopa succeed where Mother Brain has failed? Only time will tell.

That is the story of this crossover in a nutshell. Here is a little synopsis, and everything else in between, on the whole story itself.

Synopsis: Captain N teams up with the Super Mario Bros. to stop the evil King Koopa. Where in the Mario cartoons he's a gruff, ruthless reptile king who just wants to rule the Mushroom Kingdom, Koopa, in this story, is as more dangerous, ruthless and more powerful as Mother Brain ever was. So much so, he disposes Mother Brain earlier in the story and forces her henchmen to do his bidding. As for Captain N, in order to defeat Koopa, he not only enlisted the Mario Bros. to help him, but also getting new powers and upgrades, such as new control pad belt buckle that resembles the SNES gamepad and a bazooka that resembles the Super Scope 6. He is going to need them as he, the N-Team and the Marios travel all over Videoland and save every world from Koopa's wrath.

Character Designs: The character designs will be the same as they were in their respective cartoons, such as Mario having red overalls and Megaman, Kid Icarus and Simon Belmont being nothing like their gaming counterparts. As for King Koopa, he will be the same as he was in the 3 Mario cartoons, all green and not mult-colored like his gaming counterpart and other than having some comedic moments, he will be a very, dangerous foe to both Captain N and the Mario Bros. Not to mention breaking the 4th Wall, as he confronts the N-Team members head on, in rather comedic fashion (e.g. mocking Megaman for not being like his gaming counterpart or calling Simon Belmont a warthog-faced buffoon instead of a fearless vampire hunter). All the characters will be in it, since all the cartoons I have mentioned are all linked together, so expect Yoshi, Wart's minions and the Koopalings (who will be called by their cartoon names, except for Kevin who calls them by their gaming names as their berserk button in the beginning) will be in it as well.

Voices: Most of the cast would return to voice their respective characters like Matt Hill, Venus Terzo, Garry Chalk and so forth. However, some the voices have since either moved on, or some of them passed away such as Levi Stubbs, Tony Rosato and just recently, Harvey Atkin. So finding voices that sounded very similar would be much harder to find. If you have suggestions, leave me a comment for that.

As for music, I know I want them to sound like the ones from the games. If you have any suggestions of who should do the music since people like Shuki Levy and Michael Tavera have since moved on to bigger, better things, leave me a comment.

Other than that, hope you like this crossover idea. I think this crossover is a bit long overdue.

Until next time...Saraba! (Farewell!)