Super Mario Bros. (film): Difference between revisions

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* [[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.

* [[Canon Foreigner]]: Anthony Scarpelli ~~and~~ Lena. ~~And~~ Mario's girlfriend Daniella ~~(who was based on [[Donkey Kong|Pauline]]~~.)

* [[Canon Foreigner]]: Anthony Scarpelli, Lena, and Mario's girlfriend Daniella.

* [[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.}}

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* [[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.

* [[Expy]]: Daniella is based on Mario's first girlfriend [[Donkey Kong|Pauline]], which is made even more obvious in the script, which reveals that Daniella's full name is "Daniella Pauline Verducci".

* [[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.