Magic Kombat
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Released in 1995 as an official entry in the Metro Manila Film Festival, Magic Kombat stars Filipino comedians Smokey Manaloto and Eric Fructuoso as Mario and Luigi, respectively, as they become accidentally transported into a video game and are forced to fight their way out of the simulation.
Magic Kombat is later followed by Computer Kombat (1997), which follows a similar premise and is also directed by Junn Cabreira.
A link to the full movie can be found here.
Tropes used in Magic Kombat include:
- As the Good Book Says...: Mario relates the biblical Adam and Eve story to Rio.
- Doppelganger Replacement Love Interest: A young woman by the end of the film is a dead ringer for Rio.
- Expy: Considering how this directly lifts scenarios and stuff out of popular video games of the era, such thinly-veiled imitations are inevitable, most especially the characters of Mario and Luigi.
- Invisible to Normals: Rio, who can be seen by both Mario and Luigi but not by everyone else, due to her being a video game character.
- Lightning Can Do Anything: Which accounts for why all of the computers at the school campus ended up malfunctioning, as well as Rio showing up in the real world.
- Mark of Shame: Vega gets tied to a fence and is forced to wear a placard by Mario and Luigi.
- Pac-Man Fever: Basically how the film's producers saw the medium of video games, especially considering the popularity of the Family Computer and fighting games such as Street Fighter II at the time.
- Shout-Out: The film is basically the Filipinos' love letter to video games popular with the youths of the era, albeit without the blessing of the video game studios whose works were incorporated in it.
- Slapstick: As is typical with Filipino comedies of the era.
- Stock Sound Effects: With 8- and 16-bit sound effects used in spades, and with a smattering of copyright infringement while we're at it, as said sound effects are directly lifted from Nintendo games and those of other developers as if the film's sound designer ran a Famicom (or more likely a clone thereof) and called it a day.
- Trapped in Another World: Rio comes to life in the real world while Mario and Luigi get stuck in Rio's world.
- Win to Exit: Mario and Luigi get sucked into a video game and are forced to fight their way out of it; Inverted with Rio who somehow ended up being transported into the real world.