Super Mario (franchise): Difference between revisions

Of course, Mario hasn't completely limited himself to the realm of video games. Mario and Luigi appeared in the ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]'', with live-action linking segments featuring the brothers as plumbers in Brooklyn and cartoons that showed them in the world of the games. The secondary [[Theme Song]] for the cartoons explains that they "found the secret warp zone while working on the drain" which is how they got to the Mushroom Kingdom from Brooklyn. Interestingly, none of the television show is technically 'canon', inasmuch as the games have that anyway, though it has affected some [[Fanon]]. This might be related to the irony that there's never been a show made of it in the country of origin, aside from the obscure theatrical anime ''[[The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach]]''. There was also a [[Video Game Movies Suck|critically-panned]] [[Super Mario Bros. (film)|motion picture]], where Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo as the titular brothers faced off against Dennis Hopper as Koopa, a hyperevolved dinosaur from [[Another Dimension]], intent on rejoining his own, mostly desolate world with ours. We were all confused, and the movie's [[Backstory]] has never been even obliquely referenced in other media. In addition, ''[[Super Mario Bros 3|Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' was notable for being previewed in the Fred Savage film ''[[The Wizard (film)]]'', whose climactic scene involved an autistic child playing the first stage of the game. A far [[Truer to the Text]] animated film, ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'', was released in 2023.

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