Super Mario Bros. (film): Difference between revisions

 

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* [[555]]: Averted. There is a scene in the film where [[Big Bad]] Koopa has ordered a wanted poster of the plumbers posted all over the underworld, with an 800 number to call if they are spotted. The thing is, the number is a legitimate toll-free number in the US, and if you call it, it's now a phone sex hotline.

** Played straight with the brothers van.

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]] / [[Exact Words]]: When Mario and Luigi meet up with their "attorney," the attorney tells them that they don't want to meet Koopa, as "one evil, egg-sucking son of a snake." When it is revealed that Koopa was the person who acted as their attorney, Luigi expresses shock, to which Koopa then repeats the above description, and then says "Did I lie?"

* [[The Cameo]]: Lance Henriksen ''loves'' those plumbers, man.

* [[Composite Character]]: Princess Peach's personality and looks with Daisy's name, done because the writers felt "Toadstool" (the only other name available at the time) was "just weird".

* [[Clipped-Wing Angel]]: Koopa {{spoiler|is de-evolved into a T-rex near the end, but easily de-evolved further into primordial slime.}}

* [[Crapsack World]]: This is what happens when Blade Runner's setting is on shrooms.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The "Mushroom Kingdom" is a ''[[Blade Runner]]''-esque dystopia being slowly overtaken by sentient fungus. Goombas and Koopas are seven-foot-tall reptilian humanoids with tiny heads, and industrial-looking guns that shoot huge balls of fire are the film's answer to the Fire Flower.

* [[Deleted Scene]]: Nearly 30 minutes of footage was cut to get the movie down to a proper running time. Deleted scenes include:

* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: Dinosaurs popularity with children in the '90s is thought to be the reason they were so integrated into the setting.

* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: Koopa turns minor antagonist Anthony Scarpelli into one.

* [[Evil Brit]]: Lena. At the very least, she's portrayed by a Brit.

* [[Evil Is Dumb]]: {{spoiler|Iggy and Spike, after being made smarter through forced evolution, eventually join up with the Mario Brothers instead. It's implied from their statement to Lena about being her father's most loyal supporters that their stupidity was probably the result of brainwashing by King Koopa.}}

* [[Evolutionary Levels]]: The technology with which Koopa "evolves" or "de-evolves" both kinds of humans in the film. This technology was later weaponized as portable guns.

** Interestingly, the shooting script for the movie avoids this by explaining that the technology doesn't reverse the evolutionary process , it's just a standard [[Transformation Ray]] that forcibly mutated (or, ''evolved'') beings by triggering latent genes. Separate settings were meant to effect either an organism's physical or intellectual state.

* [[Fakin' MacGuffin]]: Mario decides to bluff Koopa into thinking he has the meteorite necklace so Luigi has time to get the real one.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Man, Koopa just ''cannot'' let that mammal thing go.

* [[Promoted to Love Interest]]: Luigi and Daisy

* [[Promotion to Parent]]: Was apparently the case with Mario and Luigi. Mario, being the older brother, having looked after Luigi since he was young.

* [[Railing Kill]]: Played straight, anytime a person is looking away from the railing, they're likely to fall over it for some reason.

* [[Repetitive Name]]: Mario Mario (explaining why they're the Mario brothers).

* [[Ret Canon]]: Luigi and Daisy as a couple; Daisy's only game appearance prior was in ''[[Super Mario Land]]'', where Mario rescued her. ''[[Mario Tennis]]'' reintroduced her as Luigi's partner.

* [[Running Gag]]: Koopa ordering pizza, which culminated in a cut scene of the delivery boy dancing on Koopa's de-evolved slime.

* [[The Starscream]]: Lena eventually became one of these nearing the second half of the film, when, after a failed attempt to get Koopa to reconsider focusing on Daisy, by deciding to achieve her goals to her end with the meteorite. Koopa caught on to it after she made the mistake of ordering the invasion under Koopa's word, but managed to retrieve the meteorite anyways after it was taken back.

* [[The Stinger]]: {{spoiler|A Japanese video game company is interested in producing something about... Iggy and Spike.}}

* [[Super Soldier]]: Koopa was attempting to create a new breed of soldiers by transforming the denizens of his universe into exaggerated mutations of their ancestral DNA.

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Iggy and Spike.

* [["The Villain Sucks" Song]]: Toad gets himself arrested for singing one.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Koopa

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Quite a few important plot threads are left unresolved and would have been [[Left Hanging]] had they not been put on the sidelines by numerous script rewrites and reshoots. Namely, the [[Alternate Universe|parallel world]] is still slowly dying from lack of clean, renewable resources, Toad and innumerable prisoners are still de-evolved, and rival plumbers Mike and Doug never get their comeuppance. The King remaining a citywide fungus ''would'' have been this had [[Lance Henriksen]] not cameoed in a reshoot where his character returns to human form after Koopa's defeat.

** Never revealed whether or not Scapelli changed back to human.

* [[Who Would Want to Watch Us?]]: In [[The Stinger]].

* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Despite Luigi, Daisy, and the Brooklyn girls chasing Lena, none of them do a thing to stop her from trying to merge the dimensions.

 

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