Chris Pratt's Super Mario Movie Should Copy Sonic's Best Villain Decision
Jim Carrey's second outing as Dr. Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has been another hit and the upcoming Super Mario Bros.movie can learn a lot from how Paramount has established their main villain. Bowser has been confirmed as the film's big bad and he will be voiced by Jack Black. Like Carrey did for Sonic's archenemy, it's inevitable that the exuberant Black will bring fun, over-the-top energy to the role of Bowser. But Bowser needs to be handled carefully so that he can be a credible on-screen threat like Dr. Robotnik.
As the primary antagonists in their respective video games, Dr. Robotnik and Bowser naturally share a number of similarities. Both are larger-than-life characters who invent complex, evil schemes to achieve their dreams of ultimate power. Robotnik typically does this in the games by trying to steal the Chaos Emeralds to conquer the world, whilst Bowser famously kidnaps Princess Peach in the hope that the Mushroom Kingdom will give in to his tyrannical demands. Carrey's portrayal of Robotnik has worked well in the live-action Sonic franchise, which gives the Super Mario Bros. hopeful the belief that the King of the Koopas can have an equally strong outing.
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Bowser does not need to be a fully formed beast in the first Super Mario Bros. One of Sonic the Hedgehog's strengths was that it gave Dr. Robotnik space to evolve as a character and develop his maniacal personality. Robotnik wasn't a complete nobody; he entered as a world-leading scientist tasked with capturing Sonic. But because he was introduced as a grounded version of the mad professor, the audience had time to watch his resentment and frustration toward Sonic grow, which
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