Banana Cup

The Banana Cup logo in Mario Kart 8.

The Banana Cup comprises four courses, each of which is taken from the nitro cups of previous Mario Kart games, mostly the Mushroom Cup and Flower Cup, although occasionally Star Cup tracks are featured. The cup's symbol is a Banana Peel, and the cup's tracks are slightly more difficult and/or longer when compared to those of the Shell Cup. Its length and difficulty is on par with the Flower Cup. The Banana Cup also returns in Mario Tennis Open for the Nintendo 3DS. It appears after the Flower Cup and before the Champions Cup.

Courses

Game	Course 1	Course 2	Course 3	Course 4
Mario Kart DS	File:MKDS Donut Plains.PNG SNES Donut Plains 1	File:FrappeSnowlandDS.PNG N64 Frappe Snowland	File:BowserCastle2ds.PNG GBA Bowser Castle 2	File:BabyParkds.PNG GCN Baby Park
Mario Kart Wii	File:SherbetWii.jpg N64 Sherbet Land	File:ShyGuyBeach MKWii.jpg GBA Shy Guy Beach	File:MKWii DelfinoSquare.jpg DS Delfino Square	File:WaluigiStadium MKWii.jpg GCN Waluigi Stadium
Mario Kart 7	N64 Koopa Beach Koopa Troopa Beach	SNES Mario Circuit 2	Wii Coconut Mall	DS Waluigi Pinball
Mario Kart 8 / Mario Kart 8 Deluxe	GCN Dry Dry Desert	SNES Donut Plains 3	N64 Royal Raceway	3DS DK Jungle

Mario Tennis Open

File:DKBananaCup.jpg

Donkey Kong winning the Banana Cup

In Mario Tennis Open, the Banana Cup is the third cup in the World Open series. It is played on the DK Jungle court, and matches have one set for the starting round, three sets for the semifinals, and five sets for the finals. This cup can be unlocked by beating the Flower Cup, and once beaten will unlock the Champions Cup. The CPU difficulty is one step harder than that of the Flower Cup's.

Trading Card info

File:MKW-TC-BananaCup.jpg

"The Retro Cup racing festival peels off four challenging drives with the Banana Cup. It consists of one track from N64, one from Game Boy Advance, one from DS and one from GameCube...all with somewhat challenging levels of difficulty for Grand Prix or Time Trials competition."

Gallery

Emblems

• MKDS-BananaCup.png

  Mario Kart DS

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  Mario Kart Wii

• MK7-BananaCup.png

  Mario Kart 7

• MK8 BananaCup.png

  Mario Kart 8 / Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Trophies

• MKDSBananacup.png

  Mario Kart DS

• MKwii-Bananacup.jpg

  Mario Kart Wii

• BananacupMK7.png

  Mario Kart 7

• BananaCup MK8.jpg

  Mario Kart 8

Other

• Banana Trophy.png

  Club Nintendo Europe trophy

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	バナナカップ[?] Banana Kappu	Banana Cup
Chinese	香蕉盃 (Traditional) 香蕉杯 (Simplified)[?] Xiāngjiāo Bēi	Banana Cup
Dutch	Bananenbeker[?]	Bananas Cup
German	Bananen-Cup[?]	Banana Cup
Italian	Trofeo Banana[?]	Banana Trophy
Korean	바나나 컵[?] Banana Keop	Banana Cup
Portuguese	Taça Banana[?]	Banana Cup
Russian	Кубок банана[?] Kubok banana	Banana Cup
Spanish	Copa Plátano[?]	Banana Cup

Trivia

• In Mario Kart 8, this is the only cup in the game with all courses taking place in the daytime, and is the only Banana Cup so far to have this trait. It is also one of two cups in the game to use the same character as Staff Ghosts in two tracks of the same cup (being Peach in Dry Dry Desert and Royal Raceway), the other being the Egg Cup (being Mario in Excitebike Arena and Mute City).