Here's where the Mario movie series may go next
The blockbuster success of Nintendo's new Super Mario Bros. Movie has likely guaranteed a galaxy of spin-offs and sequels will follow — and that's on top of the end-credits tease already sitting at the film.
There are several moments where the Super Mario Bros. Movie seems to set up characters and plot elements for future film entries — while the lack of story in this initial movie has come under criticism.
Join us as we take a look beyond this rather safe — albeit still enjoyable — new step by Nintendo into the world of cinema, and consider where the Super Mario Bros. Movie series will most likely head next… as well as where we hope it doesn't.
Spoiler warning: Discussion of the Super Mario Bros. Movie's plot and ending lies below.
Let's get the obvious one out the way first: Yoshi. The end of the Super Mario Bros. Movie shows a Yoshi egg hatching underneath the streets of Brooklyn. Eagle-eyed viewers will have spotted the same egg on Bowser's table of wedding gifts towards the end of the film.
Who gave Bowser the egg? What will become of a Yoshi born underneath «real-world» New York? It seems inevitable the next time we see Mario's world, we'll get some of these answers.
Nintendo fans had suspected the series' popular space-faring Princess to appear in the Mario movie, after it was revealed the film would feature a Luma — the child-like star-shaped race that Rosalina looks after.
A further hint at Rosalina comes as Mario and Peach discuss their backgrounds, and Mario suggests they were originally from the same world. After all, they are both seemingly human. Instead, Peach suggests otherwise, and states that there are «plenty of galaxies out there», hinting perhaps at the Super Mario Galaxy debut of Rosalina and
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