Board Thread:VS Debates/@comment-31816534-20171003210326/@comment-26374068-20171007021133

Mario keeps up with Bowser in both Galaxy games. And in SMG2, Bowser tagged Starship Mario with his meteors. Starship Mario can travel entire worlds, which are entire universes, as Lubba states that you must travel through space-time in order to reach unknown worlds, therefore stating each is its own space-time continuum. Starship Mario crosses said universes, going from one side to the other, in ten seconds. It takes 91 billion lightyears to do that in reality, so, Mario can travel and fight with speeds that cross 9.1 billion lightyears every second, and can react at such a speed.

In specific, he can cross World 5, which is a universe because not only Luigi calls it one, but... well, look at the background. Also, the background isn't static, it moves, which is why I say Starship Mario crosses it. Like, the entire background shifts to the point where galaxies disappear, and like I said, it takes Starship Mario ten seconds to do this.

As for the Pure Hearts, they were used in Super Paper Mario, but that was it. However, according to the story, he is the prophesied hero destined to wield them and destroy the Dark One (Dimentio). He lost them at the end of the game, but he used them for good reason. Regardless, Mario does have the ability to time travel, so he could still retrieve should push come to shove.