Editing Desert Land

{{redirect|Desert Hill|the course from [[Mario Kart DS]]|[[DS Desert Hills]]}}
{{about|Desert Land, the second world in ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]|the location in ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]''|[[El Desertland]]}}
{{world infobox
|image=[[File:Desert Hill map.png]]
|game=''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]''
|levels=9
|before=[[Grass Land|<<]]
|after=[[Water Land|>>]]
}}
{{quote|You can stomp on your enemies using [[Goomba's Shoe]]. I have enclosed a jewel that protects you.|Princess Toadstool|[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]}}
'''Desert Land'''<ref>''Super Mario Bros. 3'' English instruction booklet, page 31.</ref><ref>''Super Mario Bros. 3'' North American re-release and European ending.</ref> (alternatively '''Desert Hill''',<ref>''Super Mario Bros. 3'' North American original, ''Super Mario All-Stars'' and ''Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3'' International ending.</ref> the '''Koopahari Desert''',<ref>''Nintendo Power'' Volume 13, pages 3 & 17-24.</ref> or the '''Desert World'''<ref>''Nintendo Power'' Volume 13, page 9.</ref>) is the second world of ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]''. It contains five levels, two [[Boomerang Bro]]thers, one [[Fire Bro]]ther, a [[fortress]], three [[Toad House]]s, two [[Spade Panel]]s, special quicksand and pyramid stages, and a [[castle]] that has been taken over by an [[airship]]. Most of the levels have quicksand or [[Fire Snake|Firesnake]]s. The last [[Recorder|Magic Whistle]] can be acquired by defeating the hidden Fire Brothers level behind a rock in what appears to be the upper-right corner of the map.

Desert Land is home to some of the rarest enemies in the game, including the Fire Brothers, the [[Angry Sun]], and a [[tornado]] (an obstacle that is exclusive to the quicksand level). [[Morton Koopa Jr.]] guards this area and is the boss of Desert Land. The [[kings|king of Desert Land]] is an older bald man, with a white beard and a crown. During the events of the game, he was turned into a spider by Morton; the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|SNES]] and [[Game Boy Advance]] versions of ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' see him turned into a [[Hoopster]].

Going by the world map included in ''[[Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', Desert Land is bordered to the south of [[Grass Land]], and is northwest of [[Water Land]].

[[Desert Hills]], a race course in ''[[Mario Kart DS]]'' and ''[[Mario Kart Wii]]'', is based on this world.

In the NES version, early levels of this world have a light blue sky; the later levels have a pink sky.
==Level information==
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|[[World 2-1 (Super Mario Bros. 3)|World 2-1]]
|[[File:SMAS SMB3 World 2-1 Screenshot.png]]
|The first level of Desert Land. The level introduces the [[Pile Driver Micro-Goomba]] and the [[Fire Snake|Firesnake]].
|-
|[[World 2-2 (Super Mario Bros. 3)|World 2-2]]
|[[File:SMAS SMB3 World 2-2 Screenshot.png]]
|This level takes place in a hilly area with many quicksand fields and an oasis filled with [[Cheep Cheep|Cheep-Cheep]]s.
|-
|{{world-link|2|fort|World 2-Fortress}}
|[[File:SMAS SMB3 World 2-F Screenshot.png]]
|The fortress of Desert Land is a building with two stories and several enemies inside. The stage introduces [[Thwomp]]s and [[Boo|“Boo” Diddly]]s.
|-
|[[World 2-3 (Super Mario Bros. 3)|World 2-3]]
|[[File:SMAS SMB3 World 2-3 Screenshot.png]]
|This level is set in an area with some small pyramids composed of blocks and platforms.
|-
|{{world-link|2|desert|World 2-Desert}}
|[[File:SMAS SMB3 World 2-D Screenshot.png]]
|An area filled with quicksand pits. The [[Angry Sun]] resides here and will follow the player through the whole level.
|-
|[[World 2-4 (Super Mario Bros. 3)|World 2-4]]
|[[File:SMAS SMB3 World 2-4 Screenshot.png]]
|A level filled with [[Goomba]]s, [[Fire Piranha Plant|Venus Fire Trap]]s, and [[Boomerang Bro]]thers.
|-
|[[World 2-5 (Super Mario Bros. 3)|World 2-5]]
|[[File:SMAS SMB3 World 2-5 Screenshot.png]]
|Another level that takes place in an open desert area. This level introduces the [[Chain Chomp]].
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|{{world-link|2|pyramid|World 2-Pyramid}}
|[[File:SMAS SMB3 World 2-P Screenshot.png]]
|The player begins this level in an open area, but the majority of the level takes place inside a big pyramid. The interiors of the pyramid are composed of an underground maze filled with [[Buzzy Beetle]]s.
|-
|{{world-link|2|airship3|World 2-Airship (Super Mario Bros. 3)}}
|[[File:SMAS SMB3 World 2-A Screenshot.png]]
|The second [[Airship]] level in the game, manned by [[Morton Koopa Jr.]]
|-
|World 2-[[File:BoomerangBro-Map-SMB3.png|link=Boomerang Bro]]
|[[File:SMAS SMB3 World 2-E1 Screenshot.png]]
|Two Boomerang Brothers travel the main area of the map. Both of their arenas feature one Boomerang Brother on a ledge that the player needs to defeat. One will drop a [[Hammer]], whereas the other will drop a [[Music Box]].
|-
|World 2-[[File:FireBro-Map-SMB3.png|link=Fire Bro]]
|[[File:SMAS SMB3 World 2-E2 Screenshot.png]]
|One pair of Fire Brothers move around in the hidden oasis area of the map, accessible by destroying a rock near World 2-4 with a Hammer. Their arena is the same as the Boomerang Brothers' one, though with one Fire Brother at ground level. Defeating the two Fire Brothers will reward the player with the third and final [[Recorder|Magic Whistle]] in the game.
|}

==Other appearances==
===''The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3''===
[[File:DesertLandCartoon.jpg|thumb|Desert Land in ''The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3'']]
Desert Land (as it was usually called) was the setting of several episodes of ''[[The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3]]''. Much like in the game, it was depicted as a vast desert filled with pyramids and palm trees.

'''[[Sneaky Lying Cheating Giant Ninja Koopas]]''': After the Koopalings conquer [[Giant Land]], [[Larry Koopa|Cheatsy]] suggests that the next land they take over should be Desert Land.

'''[[Mind Your Mummy Mommy, Mario]]''': The first episode where this world is shown as the title card. [[Lemmy Koopa|Hip]] and [[Iggy Koopa|Hop]] enter the Mushroomkhamen family tomb to steal the sarcophagus of [[Prince Mushroomkhamen]]. The theft awakens [[Queen Mushroomkhamen]], who chases the Koopa twins through Desert Land, but loses them when they hide in a pipe, and starts wrecking havoc. Mario and his friends travel to Desert Land to stop Queen Mushroomkhamen, but the mummy mistakes Mario for her son and takes him back to her tomb, where she expects him to stay, despite what Mario tells her. Luigi, Princess Toadstool and Toad buy a map to the pyramids from [[Toad's cousin]], and notice that Mario resembles Princess Mushroomkhamen. This leads to them getting the stolen sarcofagus back from [[Bowser's Castle|Kastle Koopa]], which they return to Queen Mushroomkhamen to prove that Mario is not her son. Despite this, Queen Mushroomkhamen mistakes Luigi for her husband, and proceeds to chase him through Desert Land.

'''[[The Beauty of Kootie]]''': The second episode where this world is shown as the title card. While taking a bath in his palace, the [[Sultan]] of a palace (implied but not stated to be in Desert Land) is startled when oil comes gushing out of the faucet. Mario and Luigi are called in to investigate, and they conclude that the pipes connected to the nearby oasis have gotten crossed with pipes from a nearby oil well. It turns out to be a plot by the Koopas to steal oil for the Doom Ship, with Cheatsy and [[Wendy O. Koopa|Kootie Pie]] working on the pipes in the basement of the palace. After a long series of events, Mario and Luigi chase the Koopas out of the palace, and finally out of the palace, accidentally destroying the palace in the process. Luigi then uses a [[magic wand|wand]] that one of the Koopalings dropped to restore the palace back to normal.

'''[[Do the Koopa]]''': When Bowser gets ahold of the [[Doom Dancer Music Box]], he uses its power to make everyone in the Mushroom World dance endlessly. At one point, the trees, a sphinx and even the sun in what appears to be Desert Land are all shown to be dancing.

'''[[Crimes R Us]]''': As part of [[Crimewave Clyde]]'s plan to get rid of Mario and Luigi, Cheatsy blackmails a [[Toad (species)|mushroom boy]] in the desert into luring the Mario Bros. into an underground dungeon. Crimewave Clyde and [[Morton Koopa Jr.|Big Mouth Koopa]] lock Mario and Luigi in the dungeon, where they are pursued by a [[Boom Boom]], [[Ptooie]]s, [[Sledge Bro]]thers and [[Thwomp]]s. After being double-crossed by the Koopas, Crimewave Clyde frees Mario and Luigi from the dungeon to help him get revenge on them.

Also, when Bowser is about to announce the ultimate crime for his children to pull off, Cheatsy suggests pilfering the pyramids of the "Koopahari Desert". This is the only instance the desert is referred to as such in the cartoon series.

'''[[The Venice Menace]]''': The third and final episode where this world is shown as the title card. While walking through Desert Land, Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool and Toad are taken by surprise when a [[gondolier]] from [[Venice]] drops out of a pipe. He explains that a sea monster (actually the [[Doom Sub]]) is scaring everyone out of the city. Mario and Luigi then head to Venice to sort out the issue. In the end, Mario gets rid of the Doom Sub by warping it to Desert Land, possibly damaging it in the process.

===''Nintendo Comics System''===
Though never identified by name, the desert featured in the ''[[Nintendo Comics System]]'' story ''[[Just Deserts]]'' is presumably Desert Land. In the story, Bowser has set up a base in a hard light holographic pyramid, which Mario and Luigi destroy by pressing the deactivation button after rescuing the kidnapped [[Mushroom King]].

===''Nintendo Adventure Books''===
The [[Koopahari Desert]] appears prominently in ''[[Double Trouble (book)|Double Trouble]]''; after [[Iggy Koopa]] invents a cloning machine called [[GLOM]], he, [[Bowser]], and [[Wendy O. Koopa]] set up shop in Fort Koopa, their desert fortress, since GLOM creates its clones out of sand, which the Koopahari Desert obviously has an abundant supply of. Creatures that can be encountered by Mario among the sand dunes on his way to Fort Koopa include [[Shy Guy|Shyguy]]s, a nest of [[Fire Snake|Firesnake]]s, some [[Dry Bones]], and a single [[Chain Chomp]]. Upon arrival, Mario also recognizes the distinct smell of Fort Koopa,<ref><i>All of a sudden, a terrible odor wafts over the side of the ship. "I'd know that smell anywhere," says Mario, holding his nose. "We're at Fort Koopa."</i> - ''Double Trouble'', pages 111-112</ref> which suggests that it is the same fortress he had previously visited. In the book's successful ending, it crumbles in an explosion of smoke, lightning and strange machine parts.

After putting on a pair of cursed sneakers secretly given to her by [[Ludwig von Koopa]] for her birthday in ''[[Pipe Down!]]'', [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] is forced to travel from her castle to the Koopahari Desert, and the Mario Bros. can choose to follow her, though they quickly lose track of the princess, possibly after learning from her that they need to get a special pair of boots out the castle. In this book, an underground tunnel the Mario Bros. can discover in the desert leads to [[Pipe Land|Pipe World]], and enemies they can encounter on the surface include a flock of [[Tweeter]]s and a lone Shy Guy.

===''Super Mario Bros.'' film===
[[File:Koopahari Desert.jpg|thumb|left|The Koopahari Desert depicted in the ''Super Mario Bros.'' film, with [[Dinohattan]] in the distance.]]
[[File:KoopahariTunnel.jpg|thumb|The unfinished tunnel entrance to the Koopahari Desert.]]
The desert appears in the live-action ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' film, here called the "Koopahari Desert", where it makes up the majority of the barren, desolate [[Dinohattan]] planet. Escaping [[Koopa's Tower]], [[Mario (film character)|Mario]] and [[Luigi (film character)|Luigi]] steal a police vehicle and lead other police on a chase through the Dinohattan city. They take a tunnel labeled "Koopahari Desert Tunnel" that the vehicle GPS warns the brothers is unfinished. The car shuts down functions and continues driving off the ledge of unfinished road until being caught by a growth of fungus, which is later revealed to be Dinohattan's [[King (film character)|King]]. 
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==Gallery==
<gallery>
World2SMB3.png|Desert Land as seen in the original NES version
SMAS SMB3 World 2 Map.png|Desert Land as seen in ''[[Super Mario All-Stars]]''
Desert Hill SMAS-SMB3 oasis.png|The oasis is in the shape of a Roman "3", referring to ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' (as seen in ''[[Super Mario All-Stars]]'')
SMA4 Hidden Block.png|{{world|2|pyramid}}
SMB3 World 2-Fire Bro Whistle.png|[[Recorder|Whistle]] in World 2-[[File:FireBro-Map-SMB3.png]]
Desert_Hill.jpg|[[Fire Mario]] in Desert Land
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ワールド２ {{hover|砂漠|さばく}}の{{hover|国|くに}}<ref>''Super Mario Bros. 3'' Japanese instruction booklet, page 31.</ref><ref>''Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario 3 + Mario Bros.'' Japanese ending (in kana).</ref>
|JapR=Wārudo2 Sabaku no Kuni
|JapM=World 2: Desert Land (alternatively "Desert Hill"<ref>''Super Mario Bros. 3'' and ''Super Mario Collection'' Japanese ending.</ref> in-game)
|Spa=Colina Desierta
|SpaM=Desert Hill
|Fre=Colline déserte<br>Pays-désert (Super Mario Bros. 3 instruction booklet)
|FreM=Desert hill<br>Desert-land
|Ger=Land der Wüste
|GerM=Land of Desert / Desert Land
|Rom=Țara deșertului <small>(''The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3'')</small>
|RomM=Land of the desert
|Ita=Mondo del Deserto<ref>''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' Italian manual, pag. 31</ref><br>Il deserto<ref>''Club Nintendo'' (Italy) Volume 3 - 1991 Issue 6, page 18.</ref><ref>''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]'', pag. 38</ref><br>Deserto <small>(''Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3'')</small>
|ItaM=Desert World<br>The desert<br>Desert
|PorA=Terra Deserta<ref>''VideoGame'' magazine, issue 8A, p. 10, Editora Sigla, november/1991.</ref>
|PorAM=Desert Land
}}

==Media==
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