The Super Mario Bros Movie Easter eggs: 85 Mario and Nintendo references you may have missed
There are a lot of Super Mario Bros. Movie Easter eggs. How many? Well, we counted 85 references to Mario and Nintendo’s storied history – one for almost every minute of runtime.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie, then, is a true love letter to Mario and one that demands rewatch after rewatch thanks to how almost every frame is packed with nods, winks, and hard-to-spot details from the portly plumber’s video game exploits.
Ready? Join us as we head down that Warp Pipe and into a world filled with Super Mario Bros. Movie Easter eggs. We’ll take things in (rough) chronological order as they appear in the movie and, be warned, spoilers follow. Let’s-a go!
Let’s start out with the first Easter egg: Bowser’s moving lair (not to be confused with Bowser’s Castle, which also appears in the movie) is an amalgamation of various lava-based hideouts over the years for the king of the Koopas. It looks most like Bowser’s Lava Lair from Super Mario Galaxy 2.
Among Bowser’s minions in the opening scene are Blue Shell Koopas (which make use of their infamous blue shell attack from Mario Kart later in the movie), Kamek, a villain first introduced in Yoshi’s Island, and series staple enemies Bullet Bills.
Bowser confronts a group of penguins, whose designs are taken from Cool, Cool Mountain in Mario 64. Lastly from the opening, a ? Block (from Super Mario Bros’ very first screen back in 1985) and Super Star appear. The latter is a power-up from the Mario games that provides its user with invincibility.
Next, we move over to Mario and Luigi’s introduction in the movie. The cheesy ad for their plumbing company includes a rap that is directly taken from the equally-camp Super Mario Bros Super Show from 1989. How’s that for a deep cut? The end of
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