Super Mario Bros. (film): Difference between revisions

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=== The Super Mario Bros. movie provides examples of: ===

* [[~~Five Five Five|~~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.

* [[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.

* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: To be fair, as this movie was being written, the Super Mario Bros. series didn't have much story or defined personalities for the characters outside of the various cartoon series or somewhat obscure comics. Because of this the writers decided to write the story from the angle of a prequel, exploring ''how'' the Mario Bros. became the '''Super''' Mario Bros. In the process Mario and Luigi were given an older brother/younger brother dynamic/conflict and Koopa was provided a motivation for needing the Princess.

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* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Iggy and Spike}}.

** {{spoiler|They claimed to have always been the royal family's "loyal supporters", but who knows if it's true.}}

* [[He's Got a Weapon]]: "It's a BOB-OMB!" "HE'S GOT A BOB-OMB!"

* [[He's Got a Weapon!]]: "It's a BOB-OMB!" "HE'S GOT A BOB-OMB!"

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: Koopa is defeated with his own devo guns.

** Also, Lena ends up literally fossilized by the very power she tried to use to merge dimensions.

* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: Between Koopa and Daisy, though Lena gets in on it a bit as well.

* [[If Jesus Then Aliens]]

* [[If Jesus, Then Aliens]]

* [[In Name Only]]

* [[Jump Scare]]: A surprisingly effective one when {{spoiler|the Tyrannosaurus lunges out}}.

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* [[A Nazi By Any Other Name]]: Brief moment when Simon passes another cop in the hallway, who raises his arm in a salute and says "Hail Koopa."

* [[No Ontological Inertia]]: The King suddenly turns back to normal without the need of re-evolution as soon as Koopa is defeated.

* [[Off the Shelf FX]]: The de-evolution guns are just Super Scopes (the SNES' light gun) painted black.

* [[Off-the-Shelf FX]]: The de-evolution guns are just Super Scopes (the SNES' light gun) painted black.

* [[Orphan's Plot Trinket]]: Princess Daisy wears a meteorite fragment around her neck that she never takes off since it was the only thing left with her when she was left in the human world. The meteorite fragment is the one thing Koopa needs to orchestrate his takeover of our world. Earlier scripts indicate the metallic egg was also necessary for Koopa's plan to merge the dimensions.

* [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]]: One of the few Mario media that averts it and shows Mario and Luigi actually plumbing.

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** Luigi going the wrong way.

* [[Sequel Hook]]: Daisy dressed as [[Alien (Film)|Ripley]]. According to writer Parker Bennett, this was literally lifted from ''[[Back to The Future]]''.

* [[Shout Out]]: Tons to the games, although a lot of them are awkward and minimal. The barrels of the "Fry Guy" flamethrower guns look vaguely like red flower petals while they are obviously named after the enemy. The cartridges which power the jump-boots (themselves a reference to the Bros.' incredible jumping ability in the games and visually modeled after Thwomps) resemble Bullet Bills.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Tons to the games, although a lot of them are awkward and minimal. The barrels of the "Fry Guy" flamethrower guns look vaguely like red flower petals while they are obviously named after the enemy. The cartridges which power the jump-boots (themselves a reference to the Bros.' incredible jumping ability in the games and visually modeled after Thwomps) resemble Bullet Bills.

** A bar is called "Rex". A guy is selling Tweeters in hot dog buns.

* [[Smelly Skunk]]: A skunk appears in the brief animated portion of opening credits for no reason.