{"slug":"the-super-mario-bros-movie","type":"movie","title":"The Super Mario Bros. Movie","year":2023,"releaseDate":null,"franchise":null,"genres":["Animation","Adventure","Comedy"],"creators":["Aaron Horvath","Michael Jelenic"],"url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-super-mario-bros-movie","hook":"From the Punch-Out!! pizzeria to a hanafuda card shop sign, Illumination hid four decades of Nintendo history in nearly every frame.","intro":"The pizzeria is called Punch-Out. The arcade cabinet inside is called Jump Man. The guy playing it sounds exactly like Mario — because he's voiced by Charles Martinet, the man who *was* Mario in the games for nearly three decades. That's the first five minutes of **The Super Mario Bros. Movie**, and directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic keep that density up for the entire 92-minute runtime.\n\nWhat makes this movie unusual as an easter egg hunt is that the references reach far beyond Mario. Illumination's artists tucked in *Duck Hunt*, *Kid Icarus*, *Star Fox*, *F-Zero*, *Ice Climber*, *Balloon Fight*, and even a storefront sign honoring Nintendo's 1889 origins as a **hanafuda playing card company**. Some are front and center — Seth Rogen personally lobbied to bring back the DK Rap — while others, like the quiet credits tribute to late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, reward the most patient viewers.\n\nBelow are the 20 eggs most worth knowing, ordered roughly as they appear: Brooklyn first, then the Mushroom Kingdom, the Kong arena, Rainbow Road, Bowser's wedding, and a post-credits egg that was hiding in plain sight on a gift table.","identifiers":{"tmdbId":502356,"tmdbUrl":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/502356","imdbId":"tt6718170","imdbUrl":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6718170/"},"counts":{"eggs":20,"confirmed":5,"community":15,"theory":0,"sources":22},"postCredits":{"status":"yes","verdict":"Yes — The Super Mario Bros. Movie has 2 post-credit scenes.","scenes":2,"description":"Two scenes. Mid-credits: a certain humbled villain performs a downbeat reprise of \"Peaches\" from a very small cell. After the full credits: the camera glides through a Brooklyn sewer tunnel to a white, green-spotted egg that begins to crack as a familiar \"Yoshi!\" rings out — a direct tease for the sequel. Worth staying to the very end.","detail":"Two, and they sit at opposite ends of the crawl, so catching both means staying for all of it.\n\nMid-credits, the film checks back in on its villain. Bowser is still shrunk to keychain size after the finale and has been installed in a small cage inside Peach's castle, complete with a piano scaled to fit him. He picks the melody back up — a slower, wounded reprise of **\"Peaches\"**, the power ballad Jack Black delivers midway through the film — until a guard tells him to knock it off. It is the only real epilogue any character gets.\n\nThe post-credits scene arrives after the last name and lasts a few seconds: a slow push down a Brooklyn sewer pipe to a white egg with green spots, a hairline crack forming, and a **\"Yoshi!\"** landing over the cut to black. The good part is that the egg was not placed there for the sting. It is visible earlier in the film on the gift table at Bowser's wedding, and it gets dragged through the warp pipe along with everything else when the Mushroom Kingdom spills into New York — so the tease is a continuity payoff rather than a bolt-on.\n\nIt also paid off faster than most. Yoshi, voiced by **Donald Glover**, arrived properly in *The Super Mario Galaxy Movie* on April 1, 2026, first glimpsed in that film's second trailer. Illumination has kept the habit going too: *Galaxy* carries two credits scenes of its own, one of which finally introduces Princess Daisy.","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-super-mario-bros-movie/post-credits"},"eggs":[{"id":"punch-out-pizzeria","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-super-mario-bros-movie#egg-punch-out-pizzeria","title":"The Punch-Out!! Pizzeria Is a Boxing Hall of Fame","description":"The Brooklyn pizzeria where Mario and Luigi watch their commercial air is named **Punch-Out Pizzeria**, after Nintendo's boxing series that began in arcades in 1984. The walls are covered in framed headshots of the games' fighters — Glass Joe and Mr. Sandman among them — turning the whole restaurant into a Punch-Out!! shrine. It's a fitting deep cut for a Mario film: in *Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!* on the NES, Mario himself appeared as the referee, one of his earliest cameo gigs outside his own series.","scene":"Opening Brooklyn act — the brothers celebrate their TV ad at the pizzeria; scan the framed photos on the walls.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","visual"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Every Super Mario Bros. Movie Easter Egg","url":"https://collider.com/super-mario-bros-movie-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Den of Geek — Best Super Mario Bros. Movie Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/super-mario-bros-movie-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Mario Wiki (Fandom) — Punch-Out!! 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It's also the machine that quietly kicks off the film's Donkey Kong thread, an entire kingdom of which shows up in act two.","scene":"Punch-Out Pizzeria, opening act — the arcade cabinet near the counter, being played by a mustachioed regular.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","meta"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Every Super Mario Bros. 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His surprise cameos were announced on the record in Nintendo's September 2021 Direct that revealed the cast.","scene":"Punch-Out Pizzeria (Giuseppe at the arcade) and the family dinner scene (the dad).","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","meta","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ComicBook.com — Who Does Charles Martinet Play?","url":"https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/super-mario-bros-movie-who-does-charles-martinet-play-nintendo/"},{"label":"Shacknews — Who does Charles Martinet play?","url":"https://www.shacknews.com/article/134962/charles-martinet-super-mario-bros-movie-role"},{"label":"Den of Geek — Charles Martinet's Mario Movie Cameo","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/super-mario-bros-movie-charles-martinet-cameo/"}],"motifs":["cameo-of-original-actor"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"super-show-rap-commercial","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-super-mario-bros-movie#egg-super-show-rap-commercial","title":"The Plumbing Ad Resurrects the 1989 Mario Rap","description":"The brothers' low-budget TV spot is set to the **\"Plumber Rap\"** — the actual theme from 1989's *The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!* In the ad they briefly wear yellow capes, a nod to Cape Mario and Cape Luigi from *Super Mario World* (1990). Illumination released the full commercial as real-world marketing, and the details held up: the on-screen number **929-55-MARIO** was a working hotline with a voicemail recorded by Charlie Day's Luigi, and SMBPLUMBING.COM went live as an in-universe website. Bonus: Jeannie Elias, who voiced Princess Toadstool in the Super Show, has a cameo in the film.","scene":"The commercial that opens the brothers' story, airing on the pizzeria TV — listen for the melody and freeze on the phone number.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["music","callback","meta"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"SYFY Wire — Mario Movie debuts plumbing ad packed with eggs","url":"https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/super-mario-bros-movie-debuts-ad-plumbing-business"},{"label":"HotHardware — Catchy plumbing commercial with easter eggs","url":"https://hothardware.com/news/super-mario-bros-movie-drops-a-catchy-plumbing-commercial-with-easter-eggs-watch-here"},{"label":"ScreenRant — Plumbing ad is perfect marketing","url":"https://screenrant.com/super-mario-bros-movie-plumbing-ad/"}],"motifs":["music-cue-callback"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"foreman-spike-wrecking-crew","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-super-mario-bros-movie#egg-foreman-spike-wrecking-crew","title":"Spike Is Pulled from 1985's Wrecking Crew","description":"The bros' sneering ex-boss Spike (voiced by Sebastian Maniscalco) isn't an invented movie bully — he's **Foreman Spike** from *Wrecking Crew*, the 1985 NES game where Mario and Luigi demolish buildings while a rival foreman sabotages them. It's one of the most obscure character pulls in the film: Spike had barely appeared anywhere in nearly four decades before landing a speaking role here. The demolition-work backstory even lines up with the brothers having worked construction with him before going solo as plumbers.","scene":"Punch-Out Pizzeria — Spike mocks the brothers after their commercial airs.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — The Super Mario Bros Movie's 85 Easter Eggs","url":"https://screenrant.com/super-mario-bros-movie-easter-eggs-references/"},{"label":"Den of Geek — Best Super Mario Bros. 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It establishes Mario as a Nintendo kid in a world where Nintendo somehow exists alongside him.","scene":"Mario's bedroom after the family dinner — pause on the TV, the shelf above it, and the posters behind the bed.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Every Super Mario Bros. Movie Easter Egg","url":"https://collider.com/super-mario-bros-movie-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Den of Geek — Best Super Mario Bros. Movie Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/super-mario-bros-movie-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"duck-hunt-dog-trail","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-super-mario-bros-movie#egg-duck-hunt-dog-trail","title":"The Duck Hunt Dog Keeps Showing Up","description":"Nintendo's most infamous laughing dog haunts the Brooklyn scenes. The brothers' first client has a painting of the *Duck Hunt* dog retrieving ducks hanging in her house, the Punch-Out Pizzeria wall includes a photo of a duck bursting from the grass exactly like the game's title screen, and near the sewer entrance there's a French restaurant called **\"Chasse au Canard\"** — literally \"Duck Hunt\" in French. Three separate nods to a 1984 light-gun game in one act is the kind of layered gag that proves the art department was showing off.","scene":"First plumbing job (painting on the wall), the pizzeria photos, and the restaurant signage near the Brooklyn sewer works.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Every Super Mario Bros. Movie Easter Egg","url":"https://collider.com/super-mario-bros-movie-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Den of Geek — Best Super Mario Bros. 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For a generation of players, that four-second jingle is instant recognition.","scene":"Brooklyn, before the sewer descent — listen when Luigi's phone rings.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["music","reference"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Den of Geek — Best Super Mario Bros. Movie Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/super-mario-bros-movie-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Collider — Every Super Mario Bros. 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Best of all, the Toad guards deadpan that \"the princess is in another castle\" — the line Toad tells Mario at the end of every fortress in the original *Super Mario Bros.* (1985), delivered here as a bureaucratic brush-off.","scene":"Mario's arrival at Peach's castle in the Mushroom Kingdom — exterior shot, entry hall music, and the guards at the door.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","callback","music"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Den of Geek — Best Super Mario Bros. Movie Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/super-mario-bros-movie-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Collider — Every Super Mario Bros. 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Framing old power-ups as literal antiques is the film's cleverest bit of world-building: in this kingdom, game history is just... history.","scene":"Mario and Toad's walk through the Mushroom Kingdom streets toward the castle — pause on the shop windows.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Every Super Mario Bros. Movie Easter Egg","url":"https://collider.com/super-mario-bros-movie-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"luigis-mansion-dark-lands","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-super-mario-bros-movie#egg-luigis-mansion-dark-lands","title":"Luigi Gets a Luigi's Mansion Audition","description":"Luigi's solo detour through the Dark Lands plays like a trailer for his own franchise. He wakes up in Bowser's spooky domain to a rendition of the **Luigi's Mansion** theme, creeps past undead Dry Bones and Shy Guys, and fumbles with a flickering flashlight — the signature mechanic of the 2001 GameCube game where his failing Poltergust and flashlight were half the tension. Combined with the commercial's earlier promise that the brothers service \"mansions,\" the film seeds a Luigi's Mansion storyline it never has to say out loud.","scene":"Luigi alone in the Dark Lands after the warp-pipe separation, before the Koopa troops capture him.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","music"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Every Super Mario Bros. Movie Easter Egg","url":"https://collider.com/super-mario-bros-movie-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Den of Geek — Best Super Mario Bros. 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Rogen said including the rap was important to him \"as both a rap fan and a video game fan,\" while cheerfully calling it \"objectively one of the worst rap songs of all time.\" Composer Grant Kirkhope's much-memed track had spent two decades as a punchline; the film weaponizes that reputation by scoring DK's peacocking showboat entrance with it.","scene":"The Great Kong arena, as Donkey Kong is introduced before his fight with Mario.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["music","trivia"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Den of Geek — Seth Rogen Fought to Put the DK Rap in the Movie","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/seth-rogen-fought-to-put-donkey-kong-rap-in-the-super-mario-bros-movie/"},{"label":"GameSpot — Rogen calls DK Rap one of the worst rap songs","url":"https://www.gamespot.com/articles/seth-rogen-calls-dk-rap-one-of-the-worst-rap-songs-of-all-time/1100-6512865/"}],"motifs":["music-cue-callback"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"kong-family-arena-crowd","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-super-mario-bros-movie#egg-kong-family-arena-crowd","title":"The Entire Kong Family Tree Fills the Arena","description":"Freeze on the Kong arena crowd and you can run a *Donkey Kong Country* roll call: **Diddy Kong** (DKC, 1994), **Dixie Kong** (DKC2, 1995), **Swanky Kong** (DKC2), and **Chunky Kong** (DK64, 1999) all cheer from the stands, with Cranky Kong presiding as king. On the later jungle warpath, **Funky Kong** and **Kiddy Kong** (DKC3, 1996) join the army, and Cranky's cabin matches his DKC shack. None of them are named on screen — the film trusts Rare-era fans to recognize two decades of sidekicks on sight.","scene":"The Great Kong arena crowd shots during the Mario vs. DK fight, and the Kong army mobilization afterward.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","visual"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Every Super Mario Bros. Movie Easter Egg","url":"https://collider.com/super-mario-bros-movie-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Den of Geek — Best Super Mario Bros. 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Even drift-boosting gets an on-screen moment.","scene":"The kart-building sequence before Rainbow Road, and the Koopa convoy chase across the track.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Every Super Mario Bros. Movie Easter Egg","url":"https://collider.com/super-mario-bros-movie-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Den of Geek — Best Super Mario Bros. 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The song became a genuine chart hit, got an official music video two days after release, and spawned a fan theory that its chords hide Rick Astley's \"Never Gonna Give You Up\" — an unconfirmed rickroll that Kotaku dutifully investigated.","scene":"Bowser's keep — Jack Black's piano serenade about the princess, reprised during the credits.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["music","trivia"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"The Hollywood Reporter — Jack Black on 'Peaches'","url":"https://hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/jack-black-super-mario-bros-song-peaches-1235709610/amp"},{"label":"SYFY Wire — Composer says 'Peaches' was improvised on the fly","url":"https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/the-super-mario-bros-movie-composer-praises-jack-black-peaches-ballad"},{"label":"Kotaku — Did Bowser rickroll us all with 'Peaches'?","url":"https://kotaku.com/super-mario-bros-movie-bowser-jack-black-peaches-song-1850344353"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"koopa-wedding-guest-list","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-super-mario-bros-movie#egg-koopa-wedding-guest-list","title":"Bowser's Wedding Guest List Is a Boss Rush","description":"The forced wedding doubles as a boss-battle reunion: **King Boo** (the *Luigi's Mansion* arch-villain) and **King Bob-omb** (the first boss of *Super Mario 64*) are both seated among the guests. Bowser's white tuxedo and top hat replicate his wedding outfit from *Super Mario Odyssey* (2017), which also built its finale around Bowser forcing a marriage on Peach. And Peach's escape weapon of choice is an **Ice Flower** — a power-up whose lineage collectors trace back to the *Super Mario-kun* manga in 1992, years before it hit the mainline games.","scene":"The wedding sequence at Bowser's floating fortress — scan the guest pews and Bowser's outfit.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Every Super Mario Bros. Movie Easter Egg","url":"https://collider.com/super-mario-bros-movie-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Den of Geek — Best Super Mario Bros. 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The character's doom-embracing worldview is rooted in *Super Mario Galaxy*, where Lumas willingly sacrifice themselves to become planets and supernovas.","scene":"Bowser's dungeon cages, with Luigi and the other prisoners; Lumalee also closes out the film before the credits.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["trivia","cameo"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"IMDb — Juliet Jelenic as Lumalee","url":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6718170/characters/nm14185788/"},{"label":"Super Mario Wiki — Lumalee","url":"https://www.mariowiki.com/Lumalee"}],"motifs":["crew-tribute"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"brooklyn-8-bit-finale","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-super-mario-bros-movie#egg-brooklyn-8-bit-finale","title":"The Brooklyn Finale Hides an 8-Bit Skyline","description":"The third-act battle drops blink-and-miss NES history all over Brooklyn. A news ticker warns of **giant crabs in the sewers** — the Sidesteppers from the original *Mario Bros.* (1983). Signage around the borough sneaks in *Ice Climber*'s sunglasses-wearing polar bear and a *Balloon Fight* drawing, and one storefront honors **Nintendo's 1889 origins as a hanafuda playing card company**. Even the mayor handling the crisis is a nod: she's widely identified as Pauline, the original *Donkey Kong* damsel who became mayor of New Donk City in *Super Mario Odyssey*.","scene":"The Bowser attack on Brooklyn in the finale — news broadcasts, street signage, and the mayor's appearance.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"Den of Geek — Best Super Mario Bros. Movie Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/super-mario-bros-movie-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Collider — Every Super Mario Bros. 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It's the movie's most heartfelt hidden layer.","scene":"The end credits (the Nintendo executive listings) and the celebrating Brooklyn crowd after the finale.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["trivia","meta"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"The Escapist — Satoru Iwata listed in Mario movie end credits","url":"https://www.escapistmagazine.com/satoru-iwata-super-mario-bros-movie-end-credits/"},{"label":"Gamereactor — The tribute to Satoru Iwata in the Mario movie","url":"https://www.gamereactor.eu/there-is-a-tribute-to-satoru-iwata-in-the-super-mario-bros-movie-1255913/"}],"motifs":["in-memoriam-dedication"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"yoshi-egg-gift-table","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-super-mario-bros-movie#egg-yoshi-egg-gift-table","title":"The Post-Credits Yoshi Egg Was on the Gift Table First","description":"The film's final shot — a white, green-spotted **Yoshi egg** cracking open in a Brooklyn sewer as a \"Yoshi!\" voice line plays — isn't a random tease. Rewind to Bowser's wedding: that same spotted egg is visible among the gifts on the present table, and it gets sucked through the warp pipe during the climactic vortex, which is how a Mushroom Kingdom egg ends up under Brooklyn. It's a setup-and-payoff egg most viewers only catch on a second watch, and it pointed straight at Yoshi's role in the follow-up film.","scene":"Wedding gift table (the plant), then the very last shot after the full credits scroll.","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["foreshadowing","callback"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Mario Movie end-credits scene explained","url":"https://collider.com/super-mario-bros-movie-end-credits-scene-explained/"},{"label":"Destructoid — Post-credits scene explained","url":"https://www.destructoid.com/the-super-mario-bros-movie-post-credits-scene-explained/"},{"label":"TechRadar — Post-credits scenes explained","url":"https://www.techradar.com/news/the-super-mario-bros-movie-post-credits-scenes-explained"}],"motifs":["sequel-tease"],"referencesSlug":"the-super-mario-galaxy-movie","referencesWork":null}],"faq":[{"question":"How many easter eggs are in The Super Mario Bros. Movie?","answer":"We catalog 20 standout easter eggs on this page, but they bundle far more individual references — outlets like GamesRadar and ScreenRant each counted roughly 85 distinct Nintendo nods across the film. The density peaks in Brooklyn (Punch-Out Pizzeria, the Jump Man arcade cabinet, Duck Hunt gags) and the Mushroom Kingdom shopping district, where old power-ups are literally sold as antiques. Nearly every frame with signage or a crowd hides something."},{"question":"Does The Super Mario Bros. Movie have a post-credits scene?","answer":"Yes — two. A mid-credits scene delivers a comedic musical reprise from the film's villain, and a true post-credits scene shows a white, green-spotted Yoshi egg starting to hatch in a Brooklyn sewer, with a \"Yoshi!\" voice line as the screen cuts to black. That egg was previously visible on the wedding gift table, so the tease was planted well before the credits rolled."},{"question":"Is Charles Martinet in The Super Mario Bros. Movie?","answer":"Yes. Charles Martinet, who voiced Mario in the games from Super Mario 64 in 1996 until 2023, plays two roles: Mario and Luigi's father, using a naturalistic Brooklyn voice, and Giuseppe, the pizzeria regular playing the Jump Man arcade cabinet who speaks in Martinet's classic high-pitched game-Mario voice. His surprise cameos were announced in Nintendo's September 2021 Direct alongside the main cast reveal."},{"question":"Who voices Lumalee, the blue star, in The Super Mario Bros. Movie?","answer":"Lumalee is voiced by Juliet Jelenic, the young daughter of co-director Michael Jelenic. She originally recorded placeholder scratch dialogue for the storyboards, but the filmmakers kept her takes in the finished film because no professional actor matched the unsettling contrast of a sweet child's voice delivering nihilistic lines. The character's death-embracing outlook stems from Super Mario Galaxy, where Lumas sacrifice themselves to become planets."},{"question":"Is Yoshi in The Super Mario Bros. Movie?","answer":"Almost. Herds of multicolored Yoshis — every color except the iconic green — appear in the background as the heroes pass through Yoshi's Island territory on the way to the Kong kingdom. Green Yoshi himself is saved for the post-credits scene, where a spotted egg begins hatching in a Brooklyn sewer with an audible \"Yoshi!\" — a deliberate setup for the character's proper debut in the sequel."}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-08","updatedAt":"2026-08-05","source":{"name":"The Things You Missed","page":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/the-super-mario-bros-movie","api":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/api/titles/the-super-mario-bros-movie","methodology":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/about"}}