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Super Mario Bros. (1993)

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In 1993, Lightmotive and Disney (under the Hollywood Pictures label) made a Live-Action Adaptation out of Super Mario Bros.. That's right, an attempt was actually made to make a coherent narrative out of plumbers, killer turtles, and mushrooms — and it did so by reimagining the franchise in a cyberpunk fashion.Mario Mario (Bob Hoskins) and his younger brother Luigi Mario (John Leguizamo) are Italian-American plumbers trying hard to earn a living in Brooklyn. A run-in with Daisy (Samantha Mathis), a paleontology student in her 20s, has Luigi very interested, and the two quickly bond. However, all their lives are turned upside-down when Daisy, as well as Mario's girlfriend Daniella (Dana Kaminski), are kidnapped and taken through a mysterious portal in Daisy's dig site after it's sabotaged by rival plumbers from the Scapelli corporation, which is looking to build there.The portal leads to a parallel world where reptiles, instead of mammals, evolved into people and became the dominant species on the planet. The alternate world is mostly barren wastelands, except for Dinohattan, which appears as a dark and dystopian version of New York City, run by the despotic President Koopa (Dennis Hopper) and his lover Lena (Fiona Shaw), and further besieged by a mysterious fungus. Attempting to rescue Daisy and Daniella, the Mario Brothers end up going on a crazy adventure through every tier of this "Mushroom Kingdom". The brothers eventually realize that it's up to them to stop Koopa from conquering Earth for its resources and turning anyone who opposes him into their evolutionary ancestors.This film is notable for two major firsts. The big one is that it was the first-ever full-length, theatrical, live-action motion picture to be based on a video game, though it is not the first feature-length theatrical production based on a video game in general; that title is a tie between the obscure 1986 Japanese animated film The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach!, which was also a Mario movie adaptation, and an animated Star Soldier film released the same day. The other groundbreaker is that the movie was the first to be edited with computer software, utilizing a digital intermediate and a beta version of Autodesk Flame that allowed the filmmakers to composite over 700 shots of complex effects, surpassing the capabilities of earlier optical counterparts. The results would be cited as pivotal in the film industry's transition from practical effects to CGI, alongside the similarly dinosaur-themed Jurassic Park the following month.While it failed at the box office, the movie developed a cult following and has a dedicated fansite that archived various versions of the movie, restored many deleted scenes and trailers, and released a Region 2 Blu-ray with many extras. In June 2021, the people behind the site pooled their resources with filmmaker Garret Gilchrist (of The Thief and the Cobbler: Recobbled Cut and early RedLetterMedia fame) to create a Fan Edit combining over 20 minutes of deleted scenes with a re-edited version of the final film. It was released through Archive.org.A sequel webcomic with creative input from one of the movie's writers was announced for the 20th anniversary. However, the comic hasn't been updated since 2015. Super Mario Bros. (1991), an early script of the film, has its own page.Exactly three decades after this film was released, Nintendo co-produced a new film based on the Mario franchise, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, a Truer to the Text Animated Adaptation courtesy of Illumination Entertainment. It was released on April 5, 2023.
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Meek Mesozoic Mammal: The animated prologue shows Brooklyn 65 million years ago. Two grazing dinosaurs (a sauropod and a Triceratops) are depicted, and a small mammal scurrying beneath them (represented by a skunk of all things). The skunk takes one look at the Triceratops, gets so scared its stripes fly off, and runs away in terror.
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Canon Foreigner: Anthony Scapelli and Lena, though Scapelli might be very loosely based on Foreman Spike and Donkey Kong. Mario's girlfriend Daniella, who was based on Pauline, to the point where Pauline was her middle name.
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Off-the-Shelf FX: The de-evolution guns are Super Scopes (the SNES' light gun) painted black. This actually works pretty well, considering the Super Scope's sci-fi design.
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Age Lift: Mario is middle-aged in this film. In canon he's in his mid-20s, but this didn't come up till the 2000s (Mario's trophy information in the Japanese version of Super Smash Bros. Melee says he's 26), and early material for the games show that Mario might have been originally intended to be middle-aged. Mario's also considerably older than Luigi, but the Bros. wouldn't be established as fraternal twins until 1995's Yoshi's Island, so that's forgivable.
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Card-Carrying Villain: When Mario and Luigi meet up with their "attorney," the attorney tells them that they don't want to meet Koopa, as he is "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 asks "Did I lie?"
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Villain Opening Scene: Animated intro aside, the movie starts with Koopa chasing Daisy's mother through Brooklyn in an attempt to retrieve the meteorite piece.
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Darker and Edgier: So far the sequel is mostly drama and action, with little of the comedy and none of the slapstick heavily used in the film.
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You Can't Thwart Stage One: Despite the Mario Bros.' efforts to stop Koopa at the end of the film, they are unable to stop Lena from merging the two dimensions.
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Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: Daisy struggling against Iggy and Spike's kidnapping leads to her pendant necklace breaking and Luigi retrieving the rock. In the climactic battle against Koopa, Mario and Luigi lose their caps due to the strong beams from their devo guns.
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Not-So-Harmless Villain: Iggy and Spike are as dumb as a sack of rocks but are surprisingly good at kidnapping people, successfully kidnapping the Brooklyn girls, Daniella, and Daisy without anyone noticing.
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Misplaced Wildlife: The animated prologue shows Triceratops and an unidentified sauropod (likely Alamosaurus) living on the site of present-day Brooklyn during the late Cretaceous period. Both dinosaurs are only known from the western side of North America, which would've been separated from New York by an inland sea at the time.
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All There in the Manual: The name of the city that Koopa is ruling over is called "Dinohattan" (like the human world's Manhattan in New York City) in various promotional releases and a Freeze-Frame Bonus in-movie, but is never referred to by name in dialogue. The nation Dinohattan is in is "Saurasaland," a pun on Sarasaland, Daisy's kingdom from Super Mario Land. Lena's species is never stated in the film. But according to makeup artist Jeff Goodwin, she's a Pterosaur.
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Artistic License – Biology: One of the biggest plot points in the film is Koopa's ability to "devolve" characters back into primitive organisms. Evolution is not a process that affects species at the individual level, but rather the generational one: organisms with traits best suited for the environment thrive and reproduce, while ill-suited ones die off, with this process rinsing and repeating as genetic mutations make certain attributes more or less advantageous. Koopa is right that evolution isn't a purely upward process — certain features can be lost over generations if they are no longer necessary for a given environment — but a single organism can't "devolve" back to an ancestral species. The residents of Dinohattan, including Daisy, are said to descend from reptiles and yet somewhere along the course of their evolution, they developed the ability to grow hair, and (for the women) breasts, which would technically make them mammals. When Koopa's Devo Gun is used on humans, it turns them into chimpanzees. Humans never descended from chimpanzees (they evolved from a recent common ancestor with chimpanzees), so the gun should've turned them into some sort of ape-man creature. The inhabitants of the Dinohattan are stated to have evolved from various prehistoric reptile species. Although the copious use of Evolutionary Levels already falls under this trope, it's especially weird that everyone seems to be a different prehistoric species. By that logic different individual humans collectively descended from elephants, whales, platypuses, bats, and koalas. It's even weirder that the former king of Dinohattan evolved from fungus, yet turned out functionally the same as the reptile people.
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Title Drop: Seen near the end of the movie.
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Railing Kill: Any time a person is looking away from the railing, they're likely to fall over it.
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Gone Horribly Right: After finally getting sick of Iggy and Spike's stupidity and incompetence, Koopa uses the Devo Chamber to vastly augment their intelligence before sending them out to the Koopahari Desert to recapture Mario and Luigi. However, Iggy and Spike are now smart enough to think for themselves and pull a Heel–Face Turn.
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The Cameo: Lance Henriksen appears as the Mushroom King for about five seconds.
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Green-Eyed Monster: Lena is intensely jealous of Daisy and Koopa's interest in her.
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Lady Macbeth: Lena supports Koopa's plans to take over Earth, sharing his disgust for mammals and the fungus-infested city, and mentions to Daisy that he needed her close by, hence her promotion. Later in the film, she betrays Koopa and tries to kill Daisy, intent on merging the dimensions herself.
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Stealth Pun: In real life, law enforcement officers are sometimes known as "troopers". Thus, the law enforcement officers serving Koopa are Koopa Troopers.
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Stripperiffic: Some of Lena's outfits, as well as dancers at the Boom Boom bar in a scene that was cut from theatrical release. You can still see them in the background in some scenes.
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Mook Lieutenant: Sergeant Simon first appears to be just a random Dinohattan desk sergeant but is given increasingly more important duties.
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Moses in the Bulrushes: Daisy's mother dies smuggling her to our world, leaving her on the doorsteps of a church to be raised by nuns.
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Crapsack World: Dinohattan is a sprawling police state filled with crime and fungus. Toad suggests that life wasn't always so bad, but things went south fast after Koopa took over.
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All There in the Script: The reason why Daisy is the only one that can merge the dimensions is because she's the sole survivor of the Portal-Keepers, an esoteric society mutated by the meteorite's radiation.
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Adaptation Expansion: 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 more defined motivation for kidnapping the Princess other than his infatuation with her from the games. It also suggests how Toad and Yoshi came to be at the Princess' side.
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Ironic Echo: "See ya later, Alligator!" is used first when Koopa de-evolves Toad, and later when Mario and Luigi de-evolve Koopa.
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Iconic Attribute Adoption Moment: Daisy initially wears a regular-day outfit before Koopa has Lena give her a princess dress. Mario and Luigi storm Koopa's tower they ditch their outfits for bright red/green and blue worksuits that are much closer to their game outfits. Exaggerated and subverted at the end of the final battle, where Koopa is devolved from a human-looking being evolved from a dinosaur into a dinosaur resembling his game counterpart, Bowser, only to quickly be devolved further into primordial ooze.
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Practically Different Generations: Mario is middle-aged, while Luigi is in his early 20s.
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Mythology Gag: Plenty to the games and even other Mario media. A more comprehensive list can be seen here. Much like the fish's depiction in the Nintendo Comics System, the movie's Big Bertha develops a crush on Mario. Luigi thought he was flying after running and jumping off the elevator shaft. Turned out a hook caught his overalls. Near the beginning of the movie, the Mario Bros. pass by a store called "Mr. Video III", a reference to one of Mario's original names, "Mr. Video". The barrels of the "Fry Guy" flamethrower guns look vaguely like red flower petals, while they are obviously named after the fiery boss of Super Mario Bros. 2. 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. Various bars/restaurants are named "Thwomp," "Bullet Bill's", "Hammer Brothers" and "Rex." A guy is selling Tweeters in hot dog buns. Koopa is officially a president in the film, but in Toad's song he snidely refers to him as the "evil 'King' Koopa." The "1-up" sounds can be heard in the background during Koopa's conversation with his henchman. They're heard again repeatedly when Daisy tries to find the Mario Brothers. During the climax, Mario confronts Koopa on a catwalk spanning the downtown of Dinohattan, recreating the imagery from Super Mario Bros. of Mario facing Bowser on a bridge over a pool of lava. Then later in the fight Koopa ends up in a bucket suspended above the brothers and looms out over the side, as in the final boss of Super Mario World. Koopa's last dino form before becoming slime resembles his game counterpart, with a yellow muzzle and belly and green elsewhere. The fact that dinosaurs are a major component of the movie was due to the recent Super Mario World taking place in Dinosaur Land. The vast desert outside of Dinohattan is called the Koopahari Desert, which was the name of the Desert World in Super Mario Bros. 3. Dinohattan itself is covered in fungus, and Koopa even explicitly refers to it at one point as a "Mushroom Kingdom". The "glug-glug-glug" chant that Mario and Luigi do on occasion sounds suspiciously similar to the powerup sound effect in the games. The deposed king of Dinohattan was transformed into the ever-present fungus engulfing the city and then is returned to his normal form at the end of the movie, right back onto his throne even. Just like the transformed kings at the end of each world in Super Mario Bros. 3. Mario and the captured Brooklyn girls escape from Koopa's tower by means of sliding through a large pipe.
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Verbal Tic: In the manga adaptation, once Iggy and Spike are turned into Goombas they tend to end their sentences with the word "Goomba."
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Funny Background Event
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Funny Background Event: After Koopa's defeat, Mario, Luigi, and Daisy can be seen dancing with Bertha and the old lady that stole the rock earlier.
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Early Adaptation Weirdness
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Early Adaptation Weirdness: The film contains a lot of old remnants, such as the manual's plot of Toadstool being the daughter of the Mushroom King, Koopa transforming Toads and other creatures with magic, Goombas being traitors to the throne, and Mario being a middle-aged man (which he originally was, but even in Japan this was changed by the late-1980s) and several years older than Luigi because they wouldn't be revealed as twins until Yoshi's Island.
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Furry Confusion
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Yoshi talks in most games, but doesn't in the movie, being more of a pet dinosaur.
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Anachronistic Animal
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Anachronistic Animal: A modern-day skunk appears alongside dinosaurs in the brief animated portion of the opening credits.
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Parental Abandonment
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Parental Abandonment: The Marios' parents died when Luigi was very young, leaving Mario to raise him alone.
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The Dreaded
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The Dreaded: Bob-Ombs are pretty powerful in the games but, thanks to its Adaptational Badass in the film, the presence of a tiny Bob-Omb forces almost everyone to scramble out the area. It lives up to the trope when Mario uses it on Koopa.
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Damsel out of Distress
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Damsel out of Distress: With help from Yoshi, Daisy manages to escape briefly and alert the Marios to her location, as well as save Toad from being set on fire.
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Dumb Dinos
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Dumb Dinos: While exceptions exist, the sapient dinosaur-people are generally more stupid, violent, and crude than their human counterparts.
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Depraved Bisexual
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Depraved Bisexual: Lena is a power-hungry villain, and shows interest in both Koopa and Daisy. The movie writers confirmed she was bisexual as well.
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Shipper on Deck
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Shipper on Deck: Luigi immediately likes Daisy, but he struggles to ask her out. Mario coaches him through it.
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Kinda Busy Here
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Kinda Busy Here: In the climax, Koopa gets calls on his walkie-talkie to let him know that his pizza is here, and that the Goombas are dancing again.
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Adapted Out
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Adapted Out: The CoroCoro Comic manga adaptation left out Lena and Toad, with their roles being combined for Iggy and Spike, and Lena's design being used for Daisy's mother. Scapelli, Daniella, Bertha, and Sergeant Simon are also adapted out.
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Thwarted Escape
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Thwarted Escape: Daisy is able to escape her cell with help from Yoshi, but is recaptured when Koopa uses surveillance cameras and microphones to find her location.
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Kick the Dog
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Kick the Dog: Koopa, in anger for making a bad impression on Daisy, literally kicks Yoshi.
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Fakin' MacGuffin
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Fakin' MacGuffin: Mario decides to bluff Koopa into thinking he has the meteorite necklace by holding shoelaces in his hand so Luigi has time to get the real one.
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World-Healing Wave
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World-Healing Wave: After Koopa's defeat, the fungus recedes and water returns to Dinohattan.
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Batman Gambit
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Batman Gambit: Mario thinks he's pulling one on Luigi during the police chase, by asking him to pick a direction and then figuring the wisest decision is whatever Luigi doesn't choose. Luigi outsmarts him though and gets him to go through a tunnel by telling him to drive away from it.
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Actor Allusion
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Actor Allusion: Bob Hoskins manages to give the Big Bad a Karmic Death being Hoisted by His Own Petard and liquified in some form. Why does that sound so familiar?
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Noodle Incident
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Noodle Incident: Iggy and Spike kidnapped the Brooklyn girls (and one from Queens) offscreen because they mistook them for Daisy, with only Daisy and Daniella's kidnappings being seen onscreen.
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Bad Boss
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Bad Boss: Koopa outright threatens to kill Iggy and Spike unless they recapture Mario and Luigi.
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I'm Melting!
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I'm Melting!: Koopa is de-evolved all the way back to primordial ooze. Barely subverted with the King who, while de-evolved into fungus, remained sentient and active enough to help the Mario Bros. In a deleted scene, Koopa de-evolves a technician into slime saying that "It's more than just dead, it's being...(shudders)...undone."
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Terminal Transformation
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Terminal Transformation: President Koopa's Devo Gun can devolve a sentient being into a more primitive stage of its evolutionary history (from a human to a chimp for example). During the climax, though, President Koopa gets blasted with the Devo Gun, at first devolving him into a T-Rex and seemingly making him an even bigger threat... up until Mario and Luigi blast Koopa with two Devo Guns at full power, melting him into green slime that splatters across the street, effectively killing him.
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Crowd Hockey
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Crowd Hockey: At the Boom Boom Bar, Lena and her soldiers try to take the meteorite necklace away. Mario and Luigi keep it away from her a couple of times by ducking through the crowd and tossing it back and forth, but eventually she takes it from them.
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Damsel in Distress
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Damsel in Distress: Daisy, Daniella, and other girls from Brooklyn were all captured and must be rescued by the Mario Bros.
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Sssssnaketalk
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Sssssnake Talk: Koopa talks like this, though oddly only in his first scene.
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Shirtless Scene
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Shirtless Scene: While the brothers are in the Koopahari Desert, Luigi has his shirt off the majority of the time, providing some fanservice.
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Save the Princess
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Save the Princess: Mario and Luigi rescue Daisy, Daniella, and the other Brooklyn girls Spike and Iggy kidnapped.
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The Stinger
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The Stinger: A Japanese video game company is interested in producing a game about... Iggy and Spike.
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Death by Adaptation
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Death by Adaptation: In the manga adaptation, due to Spike and Iggy taking Lena's role, they're killed by the meteorite energy instead of surviving as in the film.
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Scenery Porn
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Scenery Porn: Dinohattan isn't the most beautiful set in the history of film, but its design and construction is so well-thought out and elaborate that you don't even care.
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Adaptational Alternate Ending
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Adaptational Alternate Ending: The manga ends with Mario, Luigi and Daisy running back to the portal to Earth to turn the humans that were turned into chimps back to normal.
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Big Good
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Big Good: The fungus encroaching the city, who's really Daisy's father, helps save the Mario Brothers several times and gives them items to fight off Koopa at the end.
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I Never Said It Was Poison
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I Never Said It Was Poison: Mario and Luigi are already suspicious of Koopa when he tries to play a lawyer, but it only intensifies when he asks about the meteorite piece they got from Daisy, which he'd have no reason to know about.
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Humans Are the Real Monsters
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Humans Are the Real Monsters: The introduction comments on how the dinosaurs evolved into "intelligent, vicious, aggressive beings... just like us."
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Artistic License – Paleontology
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The concept of the parallel world "Dinohattan" runs on the premise that humans evolved from dinosaurs instead of mammals. Aside from laying eggs and Koopa having a lizard tongue, they are physically and behaviorally identical to human beings despite a completely different ancestry. The Mushroom King also apparently evolved into a human from... fungus.
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President Evil
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President Evil: Koopa is largely referred to as President Koopa in the film and his election posters pepper the background of the city. As elaborated on in the junior novelization, the people can vote for anyone in the elections... as long as it's Koopa.
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Utility Belt
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Utility Belt: Mario and Luigi carry their own tool belts (as they did in the live action segments of the animated series). Mario is attached in a sentimental way to his belt, treating it as a friend. He tries to make this lesson stick with Luigi.
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Animated Credits Opening
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Animated Credits Opening: Partially. The movie opens with a pixelated art style that shifts into live-action after the dinosaurs express their contentment with life, get wiped out by a meteor, and the parallel dimension concept is explained. This was due to focus groups, as test audiences weren't getting the concept of the parallel dimensions and needed it spelled out.
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Adaptational Ugliness
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Adaptational Ugliness: The Goombas are Tiny-Headed Behemoths and definitely not as cute as their video game counterparts (they actually resemble, and seem to play the role of, Koopa Troopas). In the film Koopa is good-looking, while in the manga adaptation he has a scaly head and big lips, looking closer to his semi-devolved form from the film's climax.
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Trash the Set
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Trash the Set: Koopa Square ends up getting wrecked between Koopa's flamethrower and various car crashes.
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Body Horror
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Body Horror: Daisy's father was transformed into a huge fungus that chokes the city. Toad is forcibly devolved into a Goomba. A deleted scene has Koopa de-evolve a technician into primeval ooze just for sneezing in his presence.
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Mario says "See you later, alligator!" before he and Luigi de-evolve Koopa for good.
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Bond One-Liner
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Bond One-Liner: Seconds after Lena is fossilized, Luigi says, "Man, she sure makes an impression."
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Delusions of Eloquence
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Delusions of Eloquence: Iggy and Spike think they're smarter when they're mentally evolved, but despite the added brainpower they're just as incompetent.
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Narrator
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Narrator: Dan Castellaneta narrates the film's opening sequence.
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Action Survivor
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Action Survivor: Mario and Luigi are a pair of average joes who spend the first half of the movie completely unprepared for the adventure they're thrust into, surviving on determination and luck.
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Adaptational Attractiveness
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Adaptational Attractiveness: Koopa is changed from a giant turtle monster to a relatively good-looking humanoid, until the end of the movie where he's devolved into a T-Rex...and then primordial slime.
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Fan Sequel
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Fan Sequel: The project began when the SMB Archive staff interviewed the film's writer and the discussion turned to the unproduced sequel.
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Green Aesop
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Green Aesop: Koopa mismanaged Dinohattan so terribly that the people are running out of food, water, and clean air, prompting him to invade Earth, where the same thing would likely happen. While made clearer in the novelization than in the finished film, Daisy's father managed things wisely and ensured there was enough for everyone.
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Fantastic Racism
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Fantastic Racism: Koopa just cannot let that mammal thing go. If the "throwback" line is any indication, Koopa also looks down on Yoshi and any other dinosaur who hasn't evolved.
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Genius Loci
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Genius Loci: The fungus, who's actually the transformed king, occasionally drops weapons (like Bob-Omb) to aid Mario and Luigi and attempts to communicate with them.
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Hellish Pupils
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Hellish Pupils: Koopa's eyes revert to a dinosaur's reptilian pupils after he's briefly trapped in the evolution machine.
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Magic Meteor
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Magic Meteor: One sent the dinosaurs to Another Dimension and serves as a portal.
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Doorstop Baby
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Doorstop Baby: Daisy was left on the door of a convent.
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Pragmatic Adaptation
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Pragmatic Adaptation: If you are going to adapt source material that cannot be adapted, then this is necessary. Most of the fantastic elements are given sci-fi trappings, Daisy's name is used instead of Toadstool, and Koopa is given a motivation for needing the princess.
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Heel–Face Turn
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Heel–Face Turn: Iggy and Spike turn good after becoming smart enough to think for themselves. They claimed to have always been the royal family's "loyal supporters", but the scene that confirmed it was cut from the release version.
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Sanity Slippage
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Sanity Slippage: Lena starts losing it after she has enough of Koopa rejecting her and his obsession with Daisy, but her sanity goes straight out the window after she falls and gets electrocuted.
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Freeze-Frame Bonus
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Daisy uses the light-gun communicator, the name of Koopa's city◊ can be seen, as can the various◊ systems◊ the communicator taps into.
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Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs
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Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs: Inverted. The meteorite that caused the dinosaurs' extinction actually split the world into parallel dimensions, one of which had the dinosaurs continue to thrive and evolve into sentient beings.
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Politicians Kiss Babies
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Politicians Kiss Babies: Some of Koopa's election posters show him doing this labeling him "Koopa the Sensitive".
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Domesticated Dinosaurs
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Domesticated Dinosaurs: Yoshi is a pet of the royal family, and while Koopa mistreats him, he quickly bonds with Daisy and helps her escape captivity.
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Missing Mom
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Missing Mom: Daisy's mother is killed escaping Koopa.
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Redemption Promotion
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Redemption Promotion: 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 Daisy about being her father's most loyal supporters that their stupidity was probably the result of brainwashing by King Koopa. And you can see it coming a mile away, from the moment Spike comes out of the machine. A deleted scene during the victory celebration implies they might have been faking their loyalty to Koopa in the first place and deliberately set up his overthrow.
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Human-Focused Adaptation
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Human-Focused Adaptation: Unlike the video games (but somewhat like the first two cartoons), the film distinguishes the "real" world and the setting of the games as being separate, adding in some human drama for the Mario Bros. (who are not from the video game setting) before entering Dinohattan with the Scapelli brothers. A variant of this trope is that many totally non-human characters from the games like Koopa, Toad, Iggy and Spike are turned into completely Human Aliens (although Toad and Koopa are de-evolved into speechless reptiles at points).
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Living Dinosaurs
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Living Dinosaurs: The inhabitants of the parallel dimension are evolved dinosaurs.
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Only the Chosen May Wield
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Only the Chosen May Wield: Princess Daisy is the only one who can withstand the force of the meteorite; when Lena uses it to merge the dimensions she's fossilized by its power.
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Bumbling Henchmen Duo
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Bumbling Henchmen Duo: Iggy and Spike are Koopa's two main henchmen and are initially dumb as rocks, having mistaken 5 different girls for Daisy under the basis of having two arms, two legs, and one head.
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Birth-Death Juxtaposition
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Birth-Death Juxtaposition: Done with the death of Daisy's mother. As she is being killed by the cave-in, we cut to baby Daisy being "born" (hatching from an egg) in the church.
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Two Words: Added Emphasis
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Two Words: Added Emphasis: Mario uses this trope to emphasize "impossible": " "IM-PROBABLE. UN-LIKELY. But never IM-POSSIBLE."
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Shabby Heroes, Well-Dressed Villains
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Shabby Heroes, Well-Dressed Villains: King Koopa wears a scaly black suit, Lena wears many different fancy dresses, and the Goombas are dressed in longcoats, while Mario and Luigi dress in their usual clothes before switching to red/blue and green/blue work overalls found in a maintenance locker.
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Adaptation Personality Change
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Adaptation Personality Change: Downplayed. Unlike the games, Mario is quite a grouchy and cynical man, and is initially the least willing to save Daisy. Over time, he gets better though.
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No Ontological Inertia
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No Ontological Inertia: The King suddenly turns back to normal without the need of re-evolution as soon as Koopa is defeated.
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And the Adventure Continues
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And the Adventure Continues: The final scene before the credits has Daisy call upon the Mario Brothers once again.
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Named by the Adaptation
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Named by the Adaptation: While the Mushroom King was referred to as Bowser in supplementary materials, he was unnamed in the film. The comic goes with Reznor, a reference to the fortress boss from Super Mario World.
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Adaptational Badass
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Adaptational Badass: The Marios are drawn less like 1990s Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo, and more like badass 2010s action heroes. Or well, they are still recognizable as their actors but look noticeably more fit.
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Because You Were Nice to Me
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Because You Were Nice to Me: The devolved Toad, who Daisy saves while on fire, gives both her and Luigi Devolution rifles to defeat Koopa and plays his harmonica to distract the other Goombas. It's implied that Yoshi is regularly abused, but Daisy treats him kindly and stops him from hurting himself trying to bite the chain loose. The little dino later tries to defend her. Although they are initially blackmailed into helping them, Iggy and Spike continue to assist the Mario Bros and Daisy because they were the only ones who appreciated their efforts.
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Arc Words
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Arc Words: "Trust the fungus" is spoken by Luigi as he urges Mario to trust in the fungi-fied king. It's later repeated by Mario as he heeds that advice.
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Vanilla Edition
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Vanilla Edition: The movie has only had three releases in the United States: one on VHS and two on DVD. The first DVD was released in 2003 and features nothing other than the movie and a horrible transfer sourced from the Laserdisc master, complete with non-anamorphic widescreen. The second DVD release came in 2010 and is the same exact movie, just with the logos re-arranged on the packaging. The Region 2 DVD and Blu-Ray release finally averted this, having a full restoration and many extras (which makes North American fans all the more furious, since they're stuck with the DVD release).
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Hated by All
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Hated by All: Despite being the ruler of Dinohattan, Koopa gets no love from its citizens, who all celebrate when he dies. Toad lampshades this during his "The Villain Sucks" Song. Justified as Koopa is an evil, sadistic despot who turned their once thriving kingdom into a dystopian, fascistic hellscape.
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So Much for Stealth
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So Much for Stealth: Mario tries to sneak into the room the Brooklyn girls are being held in to rescue them. Daniella spots him, but he puts a finger to his lips and she gets the hint. Then another girl spots him and calls out to him. He sighs in annoyance before jumping down and taking out the guard.
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Actually, I Am Him
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Actually, I Am Him: The lawyer assigned to the Mario Bros. warns them that they don't want to deal with Koopa, who he describes as "one evil, egg-sucking son of a snake." It's ultimately revealed that their "lawyer" is Koopa.
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Bonding over Missing Parents
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Bonding over Missing Parents: Luigi and Daisy bond at the restaurant over not knowing their parents, though Daisy does find her father later.
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Brooklyn Rage
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Brooklyn Rage: Mario has a temperamental personality and, appropriately enough, sports a Brooklyn accent. Luigi is considerably more mellow in both personality and voice.
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Sinister Surveillance
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Sinister Surveillance: Koopa's tower includes an audio-visual communication system, letting him keep tabs on prisoners, issue propaganda to the city, and order pizza.
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Portal Door
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Portal Door: Daisy accidentally opens one in the ancient Portal-Guardian chamber.
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Villain World
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Villain World: Dinohattan has been ruled by Koopa for 20 years by the time the Mario Brothers arrive, and in that time he's turned it into a police state that's overusing the world's resources.
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Shackle Seat Trap
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Shackle Seat Trap: Koopa's devolution chamber has a chair that straps people in and forces them into the machine. Mario and Luigi later use this against Koopa by knocking him into the chair, briefly de-evolving him so they can escape.
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Small Role, Big Impact
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Small Role, Big Impact: The taser-wielding granny who briefly steals the meteorite necklace is the main reason the rock keeps changing hands throughout the movie.
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Super-Soldier
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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.
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Large Ham
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Large Ham: Koopa is played by Dennis Hopper. Did you expect anything less? Fiona Shaw's performance as Lena is pretty cold and understated... until she's trying to merge the dimensions. Then she reaches Rita Repulsa levels of hamminess. Of course, considering she had just been severely electrically shocked, her new hamminess may be the result of having her mind fried.
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Police State
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Police State: Under Koopa's rule, the police can arrest people for singing anti-Koopa songs while ignoring Daisy's kidnapping, and when an APB for plumbers is issued, they're quick to arrest the Mario Brothers as well.
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Spikes of Doom
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Spikes of Doom: The hallways of Koopa's tower are lined with these as a shout-out to the dungeon walls in Super Mario Bros. 3. Dinohattan's inhabitants wear these as part of their clothing.
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Dystopia Is Hard
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Dystopia Is Hard: Seen in-universe as Koopa's motivation. His dictatorship mismanaged Dinohattan so terribly that the world is running out of resources, so he plans to leave everyone there behind while he takes over Earth.
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Promoted to Love Interest
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Promoted to Love Interest: Luigi and Daisy. Though it wasn't the first time they were paired up, Nintendo wouldn't start consistently Paring the Spares till the 2000s, and even then, this Daisy is more based on Peach than she is the actual Daisy.
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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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 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, with Daisy and her father hoping to eventually set things right. 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. It's also never revealed whether or not Scapelli changed back to human.
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Doing In the Wizard
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Doing In the Wizard: The film removes most of the colourful fantasy elements in the original games and replaces it with a dark sci-fi skin akin to Blade Runner (although its use of "science" is rather loose). Instead of being a turtle-dragon beast who can use sorcery, Koopa uses a technological "de-evolution" ray to transform his subjects and he's a humanoid evolved from a Tyrannosaurus rex.
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Stating the Simple Solution
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Stating the Simple Solution: When Iggy and Spike report that the Marios are lost in the desert, Koopa immediately asks why they aren't out there holding them off.
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Bait-and-Switch
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Bait-and-Switch: The movie opens with the iconic overworld theme from the original, but then shows pixelated scenes very different from the games' art style before moving into live-action. The Stinger has a pair of Japanese men proposing to an unseen pair “a video game, based on your many adventures�. They’re talking to Iggy and Spike.
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Absurdly Spacious Sewer
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Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: The one the brothers are shown running around in under Manhattan is about the size of a subway tunnel.
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Always a Bigger Fish
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Always a Bigger Fish: Mario and Luigi get mugged for the rock by a Never Mess with Granny type with a stun gun; unfortunately for her, a passing Big Bertha sees the rock and hurls the old woman off a walkway and into a passing car, claiming it for herself.
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Cool Car
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Cool Car: The Koopa-Troopamobiles, aka the Dinohattan police cars, are powered by an electrical grid and create plenty of sparks when in action.
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Big Beautiful Woman
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Big Beautiful Woman: Big Bertha, the bouncer at the Boom Boom bar, is large and very strong. Mario dances with her in an attempt to get the meteorite necklace, and she later helps the Marios out when Lena and the soldiers invade the bar.
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Repetitive Name
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Repetitive Name: Mario's full name is actually Mario Mario.
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Tiny-Headed Behemoth
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Tiny-Headed Behemoth: The Goombas are done this way, in the exact opposite of how they looked in the games.
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External Retcon
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External Retcon: According to director Rocky Morton, the film was meant to show the "real" story that the games were based off of which became distorted over time like classical myths, which is supported by the post-credits scene where Iggy and Spike are commissioned to make their own video game.
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Karmic Death
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Karmic Death: Koopa is de-evolved into a Tyrannosauras rex and then into primeval slime just like every person he had de-evolved or killed.
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Laser-Guided Karma
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Laser-Guided Karma: For his efforts to sabotage Daisy's archaeological dig and the Mario Bros' plumbing business, Scapelli gets turned into a monkey by Koopa's devo-gun.
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Military Coup
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Military Coup: It is strongly implied that this was the method in which Koopa took control of Dinohattan.
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Clipped-Wing Angel
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Clipped-Wing Angel: Koopa is de-evolved into a T-rex near the end, but easily de-evolved further into primordial slime.
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Transformation Sequence
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Transformation Sequence: After spending the first 2/3 of the movie wearing various outfits that have nothing to do with their traditional video game appearance, the Mario Brothers find red/blue and green/blue jumpsuits in a maintenance locker, followed by a dramatic reveal shot of them in costume, complete with caps and jump-boots.
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Defiant to the End
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Defiant to the End: Toad continues to rant at and badmouth Koopa as he is shoved into the Devo Chamber.
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Orphan's Plot Trinket
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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.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: Wart.
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Never My Fault
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Never My Fault: Iggy blames Spike for getting the wrong girl, and for forgetting about the meteorite piece.
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Egg MacGuffin
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Egg MacGuffin: Princess Daisy is born from an egg that her mother left at a convent. In earlier drafts of the film, the egg was necessary alongside her pendant for Koopa to merge the dimensions.
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555
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555: Averted. Koopa has a wanted poster of the plumbers posted all over the city, with an 800 number to call if they are spotted. 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, which has a fake number.
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom: If Scapelli's illegal construction hadn't unblocked a way through, Koopa wouldn't have been able to get back into our dimension and try to remerge them.
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Family-Unfriendly Death
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Family-Unfriendly Death: At the end of the film, Lena gets Stripped to the Bone due to the meteorite's power.
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Evolutionary Levels
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Evolutionary Levels: Koopa "evolves" or "de-evolves" several characters physically and mentally, later weaponizing the technology 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 affect either an organism's physical or intellectual state. The concept of the parallel world "Dinohattan" runs on the premise that humans evolved from dinosaurs instead of mammals. Aside from laying eggs and Koopa having a lizard tongue, they are physically and behaviorally identical to human beings despite a completely different ancestry. The Mushroom King also apparently evolved into a human from... fungus.
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American Kirby Is Hardcore
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American Kirby Is Hardcore: References to the movie in Mario manga published around the time of the movie's release noted and lampshaded this trope, particularly with Yoshi being a realistic-looking dinosaur compared to his cartoony game self.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: In the scene where Koopa de-evolves Toad, he notes that his ancestor was Tyrannosaurus rex, also curling his hands at chest level like the dinosaur's arms. Koopa is eventually de-evolved into a Tyrannosaurus.
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Devolution Device
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Devolution Device: Koopa's Devo-Chamber, which he uses to create his Goombas. Near the end of the film, portable gun versions were created, which Koopa tests on Scapelli, turning him into a monkey. The Mario Bros. later use the devo guns on Koopa.
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I Am Who?
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I Am Who?: Daisy is shocked to learn that she's an interdimensional princess descended from dinosaurs.
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It's Personal
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It's Personal: Koopa grows to hate Mario after he's briefly put through the Devo Chamber, and targets him specifically when he attempts to take over.
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Meat Moss
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Meat Moss: The King is slowly but surely strangling Dinohattan with his tendrils.
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Dumb Muscle
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Dumb Muscle: The entire point of the Goombas, as Koopa takes every opportunity to hammer in.
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Stripped to the Bone
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Stripped to the Bone: Lena is fossilized by the meteorite's power, ending up as a skeleton.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: The dancing Goombas in the elevator scene is followed by an intense scene of Lena attempting to kill Daisy and stabbing Yoshi, then goes back to the dancing Goombas.
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And There Was Much Rejoicing
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And There Was Much Rejoicing: Following Koopa's demise, the entire city cheers the Mario Brothers and starts to dance and celebrate.
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Captivity Harmonica
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Captivity Harmonica: Toad, who is depicted as a street musician, plays one after he and the Mario Bros. are arrested, and placed in giant cages. He even plays it after his de-evolution to a Goomba.
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Meet Cute
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Meet Cute: Luigi and Daisy meet by chance when Daisy needs the phone Luigi is currently using. An earlier version of the script had a more traditional Meet Cute where Luigi helped Daisy after she slipped on some water coming out of the Riverfront Cafe.
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And I Must Scream
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And I Must Scream: The King apparently spent around twenty years as a formless mass of fungus, but was still sentient and conscious through it all. It's not as bad as it could be, as he was able to keep tabs on the entire city, contain Koopa, and help the Mario Bros. restore him, but it's still very unpleasant.
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DesertPunk
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Desert Punk: Much of the story is set in the desert and sees the characters wearing desert-appropriate outfits.
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Disappointed in You
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Disappointed in You: Koopa says this to Iggy and Spike when Lena informs him of their, in her words, "preaching your overthrow at the Boom Boom Bar".
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Koopa makes Iggy and Spike smarter after failing to get the rock several times. This leads to the two joining forces with Mario and Luigi to stop Koopa's plans.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: Subtle one for Koopa with Spike's first words after being evolved:
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I Choose to Stay
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I Choose to Stay: Daisy decides to stay in the other world to repair the damages caused by Koopa and leaves Luigi.
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A True Story in My Universe
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A True Story in My Universe: Director Rocky Morton claimed he envisioned the movie as being the series of "real" events that Nintendo then heavily modified into the original videogames. This is given a nod in the Post-Credits Scene where Iggy and Spike are approached by Japanese video game executives.
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Mage in Manhattan
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Mage in Manhattan: Koopa's whole plan is to merge his dimension with ours so he can devolve everyone into monkeys and take over both worlds. He even temporarily teleports to Manhattan when the human and dinosaur dimensions are merged, but only manages to fire his de-evolution gun on the secondary antagonist before he's sucked back to Dinohattan.
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More Despicable Minion
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More Despicable Minion: Koopa's motivation for invading Earth is to plunder our world's resources after turning Dinohattan into a dystopian Police State, and is adamant that what he cares about is the future of the dinosaur world's species. On the other hand, Lena is purely power-hungry and intensely jealous of Princess Daisy to the point of trying to kill her, stabbing Yoshi when he helps Daisy, and attempting to backstab Koopa and dominate the universe herself.
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Always Night
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Always Night: Aside from a brief scene in the Koopahari desert, Dinohattan is always seen at night.
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Digital Destruction
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Digital Destruction: The 2003 Region 1 DVD release from Disney is a phoned-in transfer of the Laserdisc master, which, among other things, suffers from massive DVNR, poor color correction, and constant motion smearing. Even worse, because the transfer is non-anamorphic, widescreen televisions read it as a full screen image, resulting in black bars on all four sides of the screen. Its only saving grace is the surprisingly impressive 5.1 surround sound mix. Compare this to Second Sight's 2014 Blu-ray release, which boasts a 4K restoration with much crisper picture and properly formatted for widescreen. Sadly, said Blu-ray release was released only in the UK and region-locked, so North American fans are still stuck with the DVD with no plans by Disney for a Blu-ray release.
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Fate Worse than Death
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Fate Worse than Death: Discussed by Iggy and Spike when one of them says that Koopa's going to kill them, only for the other to say, "He's not gonna kill us, he's not that nice." Koopa de-evolves Toad into a Goomba as punishment, making him work for the society that did it to him. He plans to do it on a larger scale to the inhabitants of Earth with handheld devo guns, and in the movie's climax Koopa is de-evolved further back into primordial slime.
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain: In the manga adaptation of the movie this is the only sure way to kill Koopa, as he regenerates from damage otherwise.
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Now or Never Kiss
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Now or Never Kiss: A familial variant occurs when Luigi is about to leap into the unknown to go after Daisy across a chasm that would kill him otherwise; he gives Mario a kiss before taking the leap.
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Terrified of Germs
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Terrified of Germs: Koopa. In his first scene, while ranting about ruling a world overwhelmed with fungus and slime, he dunks his hands in mud to sterilize them. When he first meets the Mario brothers, he shakes their hands, but wipes his hand off with tissues afterward; after assaulting Luigi soon afterward, he has a police officer spray his hands with disinfectant. In a deleted scenenote Kept in the junior novelization, he devolves a lab technician into primordial ooze simply for sneezing in his presence.
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If Jesus, Then Aliens
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If Jesus, Then Aliens: Luigi is presented this way at the beginning of the movie. His hobbies include weird tabloid magazines and bizarre mystery shows, and his mind is open to pretty much all of it. It's presumably the reason he so easily accepts the idea of an alternate dimension. This is echoed at the end when Mario comes around to his way of thinking after the unbelievable things they'd witnessed first-hand.
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Chest of Medals
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Chest of Medals: Koopa's military uniform has tons of medals, as well as spikes.
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Meat Versus Veggies
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Meat Versus Veggies: Daisy, despite being a human descended from dinosaurs, is a vegetarian, but is fed meat as a captive by the aggressively carnivorous King Koopa. She asks a Goomba to bring her steamed veggies instead, which he fails to get to her before she is rescued.
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The Multiverse
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The Multiverse: The Portal Creatures invade the parallel dimension from yet another universe.
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Transformation Ray
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Koopa "evolves" or "de-evolves" several characters physically and mentally, later weaponizing the technology 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 affect either an organism's physical or intellectual state.
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It's All About Me
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It's All About Me: Seen as Lena tries to kill Daisy.
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Tyrant Takes the Helm
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Tyrant Takes the Helm: Koopa overthrew the King and took over Dinohattan, turning it into a police state overrun with crime and pollution; he's mismanaged the city so badly that the people are running out of food, water, and clean air. Toad even expresses how horrible Koopa's rule is in his "The Villain Sucks" Song, and screams as such in Koopa's face before being put through the Devo Chamber:
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Compressed Adaptation
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Compressed Adaptation: The manga adaptation heavily compresses the movie and combines several character roles.
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Lost World
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Lost World: It's implied that dinosaurs have escaped from the parallel dimension into our world and humans into theirs throughout history.
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Big Applesauce
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Big Applesauce: Like quite a few other Mario adaptations, Mario and Luigi are Brooklyn-based New Yorkers.
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I Have You Now, My Pretty
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I Have You Now, My Pretty: Koopa is intensely attracted to Daisy and attempts to seduce her; Lena gets in on it a bit as well when she talks about Daisy's dress and having her mother's eyes.
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Jump Scare
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Jump Scare: A surprisingly effective one when Koopa's Tyrannosaurus form lunges out.
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Alternate-History Dinosaur Survival
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Alternate-History Dinosaur Survival: The titular duo are sent to an alternate Earth's version of Manhattan, called "Dinohattan", where the dinosaurs never went extinct and evolved into humans.
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Dull Surprise
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Dull Surprise: Koopa goes into this when Mario sets the Bob-Omb.
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"The Villain Sucks" Song
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"The Villain Sucks" Song: Toad gets himself arrested for singing one. Mojo Nixon, Toad's actor, uploaded an extended version to YouTube.
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A Nazi by Any Other Name
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A Nazi by Any Other Name: There's a brief moment when Simon passes another cop in the hallway, who raises his arm in a salute and says "Hail Koopa."
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Irony
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Irony: Koopa is a major germaphobe who, in a kind-of You Are What You Hate Karmic Death, is de-evolved into primordial slime chock-full of bacteria, amoebae, and God-knows-what.
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Big Bad Wannabe
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Big Bad Wannabe: Anthony Scapelli has little involvement in the film past the first third and is helpless when Koopa de-evolves him.
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Ret-Canon
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Ret-Canon: Certain traits made it into the series proper, such as Princess Daisy depicted as a love interest to Luigi and the Mario Brothers' last names.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Two to The Wizard of Oz, a hallmark of the Trapped in Another World plot that this movie uses. Upon arriving in the other dimension, Luigi says "I got a feeling we ain't in Brooklyn no more." The Thwomp Stompers work by clicking your heels together. After being briefly electrically shocked, Lena gets a white streak in her hair reminiscent of the Bride of Frankenstein.
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Power Fist
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Power Fist: Lena wears brass knuckles for her final outfit, which she uses to shove a man aside by grabbing his face.
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Word of God
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Word of God: Invoked. The story is based off ideas from original writer Parker Bennett, as well as backstory he and partner Terry Runté wrote that didn't make it into the film.
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Weapon Stomp
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Weapon Stomp: Lena steps on the meteorite necklace as Mario and Luigi try to retrieve it.
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Seen It All
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Seen It All: By the time Daisy introduces Mario and Luigi to her father, who's currently a de-evolved giant fungus, Luigi treats the conversation as perfectly normal and thanks him for his help.
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Co-Dragons
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Co-Dragons: The villain is served by a male and female pair.
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Badass Longcoat
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Badass Longcoat: Toad wears a longcoat similar to the Goomba uniform.
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Big "SHUT UP!"
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Big "SHUT UP!": Mario tells Iggy and Spike to shut up before asking about the meteorite fragment.
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Hoist by His Own Petard
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Lena ends up literally fossilized by the very power she tried to use to merge dimensions. Koopa is defeated with his own devo guns.
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Adaptational Wimp
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Adaptational Wimp: Koopa was changed from a turtle dragon sorcerer into a humanoid President Evil with above-average strength. There's a brief moment at the end where he turns into a Tyrannosaurus rex, but he ends up devolved into primordial ooze in short order. Yoshi in the games is a big, rideable mount capable of taking out most enemies in one hit, including enemies Mario can't even touch, with a powerful tongue attack. In the movie, he's just a chained up pet and way too small to even ride, never mind fight enemies, although he does provide a momentary distraction allowing Daisy to escape from Lena by lassoing Lena's foot with his tongue.
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Writers Cannot Do Math
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Writers Cannot Do Math: Spike, after being turned super-intelligent, asks Iggy what the square root of 26,481 is, while delivering the answer immediately: 191. 191 is actually the square root of 36,481. Whether this is the fault of the writers for doing math wrong, the fault of the actor for just messing up the first digit, or actually deliberate (likely to show that Iggy and Spike aren't too intelligent, or just that it hasn't kicked in yet) is up in the air.
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Non-Mammalian Hair
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The residents of Dinohattan, including Daisy, are said to descend from reptiles and yet somewhere along the course of their evolution, they developed the ability to grow hair, and (for the women) breasts, which would technically make them mammals.
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Male Gaze
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Male Gaze: Shortly after she steals the rock, the camera puts heavy focus on Daisy's necklace dangling over Bertha's ample cleavage. Mario tries his best Leisure Suit Larry routine, but really, he's just desperate to get the crystal back.
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Fungus Humongous
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Fungus Humongous: Taken to a literal level with the transformed Mushroom King.
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Good Republic, Evil Empire
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Good Republic, Evil Empire: Inverted, as the good King Bowser was overthrown by the despotic President Koopa.
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Who Would Want to Watch Us?
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Who Would Want to Watch Us?: In The Stinger, a Japanese game company is interested in developing a game about... Iggy and Spike.
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Empathic Environment
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Empathic Environment: After Koopa's defeat, the fungus recedes and water floods the streets of Dinohattan, symbolically showing the city's on the road to recovery.
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Egopolis
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Egopolis: Koopa Tower, Koopa Station, Koopa Square, Koopa Kino Cinema, Koopa Canyon, Koopahari Desert, Koopa coins, and even the "Koopa Special" pizza. Possibly done not only out of narcissism, but also propaganda aside from his campaign ads posted all throughout the city. It's surprising he didn't rename the city "Koopahattan".
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Composite Character
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Composite Character: Daisy has Princess Peach's personality and looks with Daisy's name and kingdom traits. This was done because the writers felt "Toadstool" (the only other name available at the time) was "just weird", with the fantasy draft naming the princess Hildy. In addition to Foreman Spike, Scapelli is based on Donkey Kong as well, due to his harassing Daisy at a construction site and his de-evolution into a monkey. In the manga adaptation, Spike and Iggy take Toad's role as victims of the devolution process and Lena's role as victims of the meteorite energy.
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Disaster Dominoes
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Disaster Dominoes: Minor example. When the Goombas are distracted by Toad's harmonica playing and stand in a line, a frustrated Koopa punches one, causing the expected chain reaction.
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Mars Needs Water
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Mars Needs Water: Koopa tries to merge his world with ours so he can access our water supply.
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Expy
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Expy: Daniella is based on Mario's first girlfriend Pauline, sharing similar hair and clothing and being in an established relationship with Mario. This is made even more obvious in the script, which reveals that Daniella's full name is "Daniella Pauline Verducci". King Koopa himself is one for Dennis Hopper's memorable villain, Frank Booth. His appearance is based on Max Headroom, a character previously created by the film's directors. Anthony Scapelli is based on Foreman Spike from Wrecking Crew, in that both are mean construction company bosses who are always trying to interfere with work of the Mario Bros.
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"Psycho" Strings
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"Psycho" Strings: A comical variation is used as the leitmotif for Iggy and Spike.
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Word of Dante
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Word of Dante: Invoked. Steven Applebaum and Ryan Hoss of the SMB Archive, the sole website devoted to the film, are scripting the story.
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Adaptation Species Change
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Adaptation Species Change: In the games, Daisy is a human, Bowser Koopa is a Koopa (turtle) and Toad is a humanoid species with a mushroom-shaped head of the same name. In the movie, they're a race of humanoid dinosaurs called the "Dinohattanites".
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Exact Words
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Exact Words: Seen when Daisy asks Lena for help to escape.
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Artistic License – Geography
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Artistic License – Geography: The asteroid that rendered the dinosaurs extinct and opened a portal to another dimension supposedly struck what is now Brooklyn, New York City when a lot of evidence suggests that the asteroid really struck what is now the Yucatan Peninsula.
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Merged Reality
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Merged Reality: Koopa wants to make this happen so he can take over the resulting merged world. It briefly happens until Luigi and Daisy manage to reverse it, and in the shooting script it went even further with New York locales being displaced into Dinohattan and vice-versa.
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Groin Attack
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Groin Attack: Mario hands Luigi his boots by dropping them on his crotch.
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Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me
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Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me: Koopa has Lena clean Daisy up and give her a makeover before they meet face-to-face, including a princess dress that belonged to her mother, a different hairstyle, and red lipstick.
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Crooked Contractor
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Crooked Contractor: Scapelli, who makes his Establishing Character Moment by talking to Daisy about how her archaeology work is getting in the way of his construction contracts like a standard big-shot member of The Mafia (lecherous looks included) and sends goons (who don't even bother to avoid wearing stuff with the company logo) late at night to sabotage the site.
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0% Approval Rating
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0% Approval Rating: It took until Koopa's death for the inhabitants of Dinohattan to drop their positive pretenses and come out of the proverbial closet to express their shared contempt for him. Toad was never in the closet.
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
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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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The Starscream
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The Starscream: Lena eventually becomes this in the second half of the film, when, after a failed attempt to get Koopa to reconsider focusing on Daisy, she decides to betray him and achieve her goals on her own.
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People's Republic of Tyranny
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People's Republic of Tyranny: As evidenced by the various Vote Koopa posters, Dinohattan was at least officially a Democratic Republic. Unfortunately, Koopa, their current president, managed to remain in office via false elections. King Toadstool and Princess Daisy point toward it originally being a Constitutional Monarchy, suggesting Koopa performed a coup against the ruling house and "reformed" the government to give him complete control. The junior novelization and a deleted scene reveals that Koopa has consistently run against himself for his entire reign — all the candidates have been Koopa with a different title marketing him in a different way to the populace. It was one of many bits of heavy political commentary that were cut from the release.
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Fire-Breathing Weapon
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Fire-Breathing Weapon: Koopa uses a flamethrower in his final confrontation with the Mario Brothers as a stand-in for his game counterpart's fire breath.
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Decomposite Character
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Decomposite Character: The game's King Bowser Koopa is split into King Bowser (the rightful ruler of the Mushroom World) and King Koopa (the usurper).
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Distracted by the Sexy
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Distracted by the Sexy: Early on, Luigi calls their house to see if they have any messages. He has his eyes on Daisy while a message plays, where a guy fanatically tells them he's got a very huge flood, but he gives her the phone and turns it off.
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Promotion to Parent
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Promotion to Parent: Was apparently the case with Mario and Luigi. Mario, being the older brother, looked after Luigi since he was young.
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The Alleged Car
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The Alleged Car: The Mario Bros.' van has seen better days, and breaks down shortly after arriving at the Riverfront Cafe.
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Humans Need Aliens
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Humans Need Aliens: The evolved dinosaur humanoids of Dinohattan saw the end of Koopa thanks to two human brothers from a parallel dimension who, to them, would be aliens. Lampshaded.
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Human Aliens
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Exaggerated and subverted at the end of the final battle, where Koopa is devolved from a human-looking being evolved from a dinosaur into a dinosaur resembling his game counterpart, Bowser, only to quickly be devolved further into primordial ooze.
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Product Placement
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Product Placement: The Bob-Omb has the Reebok logo on the bottom of its feet.
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Trumplica
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Trumplica: King Koopa has many Trump-like elements in terms of his hairstyle and the clothing he wears, plus there's a "Koopa Tower" in Dinohattan. An earlier script had Luigi refer to the completed tower as being like Trump Tower, furthering the connection.
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Ridiculously Potent Explosive
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Ridiculously Potent Explosive: The Bob-Omb is a teeny-tiny wind-up bomb that realistically would hold about as much explosive as a cherry bomb. People standing on the other side of a city street run in terror when Mario pulls it out and when it goes off it sends Koopa (who is halfway into de-evolving into a Tyrannosaurus Rex) flying several meters. The manga replaces this with Exploding Mushrooms, which are handheld-size mushrooms that contain enough force to blow people's arms off.
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Blame Game
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Blame Game:
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Laser Sight
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Laser Sight: Mario and Luigi get arrested by Koopa's men and have their mug shots taken, but the cameras have laser sights, making them briefly believe they are guns.
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Running Gag
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Running Gag: Koopa ordering pizza, which culminated in a cut scene of the delivery boy tossing the pizza onto Koopa's de-evolved slime. Luigi going the wrong way when driving.
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He's Got a Weapon!
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He's Got a Weapon!: "It's a BOB-OMB!" "HE'S GOT A BOB-OMB!"
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Wouldn't Hit a Girl
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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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Trash Landing
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Trash Landing: When stuck between cops and Goombas and needing a way to reach Koopa's tower quickly, Mario and Luigi jump into a sludge-gulper dump truck and land safely in the bags of trash.
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Well-Intentioned Extremist
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Koopa plans to invade Earth and subjugate its people and resources for his own species' gain.
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Adaptational Nonsapience: While the Goombas' sapience in the games wasn't clarified until much later, the Goombas in the movie clearly lack the mental capacity to speak much, and instead hiss like lizards. Yoshi talks in most games, but doesn't in the movie, being more of a pet dinosaur. The normally living Bob-Ombs are reduced to non-sentient wind-up bombs.
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Pet the Dog: Even after Lena betrays him, Koopa cares enough about her to release her from arrest once he gets the rock back.
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