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| 9 | [[WMG:[[center:[-''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' '''[[Characters/SuperMarioBros Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 10 | '''''Characters/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'''''\ |
| 11 | [[Characters/SMBMMarioBros Mario Bros.]] | [[Characters/SMBMMushroomKingdom Mushroom Kingdom]] | [[Characters/SMBMDarkLands Dark Lands]] | '''Everyone Else'''-]]]]] |
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| 13 | Everyone not associated with another faction in ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie''. |
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| 15 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 16 | |
| 17 | !!Brooklyn, New York City |
| 18 | [[folder:Pauline]] |
| 19 | !!Pauline |
| 20 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230729_152404_youtube.jpg]] |
| 21 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"[[TemptingFate Everything is under control, I promise you]]. [[BlatantLies We are very close to fixing this]]."'']] |
| 22 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JessicaDiCicco[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Marisol Romero (Latin American Spanish), Regina Maria Maia (Brazilian Portuguese)[[/labelnote]] |
| 23 | |
| 24 | The Mayor of New York. |
| 25 | ---- |
| 26 | * AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Pauline has a long history with Mario in the games, being his first-ever love interest in the original ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong''. In the film’s continuity, it’s apparent that the two have never met. |
| 27 | * BlatantLies: She claims that the city's sewer problem on the streets is under control while geysers of water are erupting from the ground. |
| 28 | * TheCameo: She shows up on a news report, addressing a large flooding problem in the city's streets. |
| 29 | * DemotedToExtra: Whenever she appeared in the games, she either had a main role (''Donkey Kong'' and ''VideoGame/MarioVsDonkeyKong'') or a supporting role (''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey''). She also appeared frequently in the sports games made after ''Mario Odyssey''. Here, she only has a small cameo in the first act. |
| 30 | * MinorMajorCharacter: She holds a very important position as the mayor of New York City yet has very little presence within the movie. |
| 31 | * OhCrapSmile: Her reaction when the worsening flood disproves her assurance that it's under control. On live TV, too. |
| 32 | * PragmaticAdaptation: She is still the mayor of a big city like in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'', but is instead the mayor of New York City in a separate world rather than New Donk City being in the Mushroom Kingdom's world. |
| 33 | * SpearCarrier: She only appears in one scene shown on TV addressing the flooding problem. |
| 34 | [[/folder]] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | [[folder:Foreman Spike]] |
| 37 | !!Foreman Spike |
| 38 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230729_152641_youtube.jpg]] |
| 39 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Get this through your tiny brain, Mario. You're a joke, and you always will be."'']] |
| 40 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Sebastian Maniscalco[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Fernando Cordero (EU Spanish), Creator/ErickSelim (Latin American Spanish), David Brau (Catalan), Creator/BorisRehlinger (EU French), Alexandre Fortin (Canadian French), Filipe Albuquerque (Brazilian Portuguese), António Machado (EU Portuguese), Creator/YasuhiroMamiya (Japanese), Göran Gillinger (Swedish), Matti Klemm (German), Chen Zhe (PRC Mandarin), Yuen Tak Kei (HK Cantonese), Sun Cheng (TW Mandarin), Lee Hyun (Korean), Richard M.R.Toelle (Indonesian), Tatphon Wongkrajang (Thai), Đoàn Châu Hải Quân (Vietnamese), Gabriele Sabatini (Italian), Yuval Yanai (Hebrew), Vasilis Milios (Greek)[[/labelnote]] |
| 41 | |
| 42 | ->''"Well, well, well. If it isn't Brooklyn's favorite failures, the Stupid Mario Brothers!"'' |
| 43 | \ |
| 44 | Mario and Luigi's former boss, and the owner of VideoGame/WreckingCrew. |
| 45 | ---- |
| 46 | * AdaptationalDyeJob: In the games, Spike's color scheme ranges from yellow, orange or khaki to purple. His outfit is blue in the film, likely to avoid confusion with Wario or Waluigi. |
| 47 | * AdaptationalNameChange: In Japan, he was always known as “Blacky” in the games. However, he’s renamed “Spike” in the Japanese dub of this movie, precedenting his name being officially changed to "Spike" in the games as well. |
| 48 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: Downplayed, but nothing suggested that he actively tried to have the Mario Brothers killed when they worked for him, and he never worked for Bowser here. [[spoiler:After seeing them save Brooklyn against Bowser and the Koopas, he happily cheers them on along with the civilians.]] |
| 49 | * AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: [[spoiler:He allied himself with Bowser in ''Wrecking Crew '98'', but here, when Bowser attacks Brooklyn, not even Spike is safe from his rampage.]] |
| 50 | * ArtEvolution: Compared to other characters who are based on either modern appearances or promotional artwork, Spike's appearance is a translation of his 8-bit sprite to modern graphics, with similar color shades and a thicker beard. |
| 51 | * BeardOfEvil: More rude than outright evil, but Spike has a distinctly bushy beard that completes his boorish image. |
| 52 | * TheBusCameBack: This movie is Spike's first non-cameo appearance in a very, very long time. His last appearance was in ''[[VideoGame/MarioGolf Mobile Golf]]'', which was released in Japan in 2001, 22 years before this movie. |
| 53 | * DirtyCoward: Spike enjoys picking on Mario and Luigi, who are both much smaller than him. [[spoiler:Also, when Bowser’s army comes to the human world and some of his minions gang up on Spike, he cowers in fear and doesn’t even try to fight back, even though the minions were smaller than him.]] |
| 54 | * EvilIsPetty: He's not genuinely evil, simply by writing a negative review on the Mario Bros.' website out of spite, but his reason for doing so has nothing to do with the service but because Mario and Luigi "deserted" his business. Also, [[spoiler:right before Mario battles Bowser in New York, [[NeverMyFault he apprehends Mario for almost denting his truck after nearly running him over]]]]. |
| 55 | * ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:During the climax when Mario warps back to Brooklyn, he nearly hits Mario with his van and manhandles him for almost denting it (albeit Mario did appear with almost no warning), never mind Mario would've been dead or injured from the impact.]] |
| 56 | * JabbaTableManners: He slurps down a whole pizza slice without chewing it. |
| 57 | * {{Jerkass}}: Spike antagonizes Super Mario Bros. Plumbing and leaves a negative review on their website because the founders left his employ. In the film proper, he mocks and antagonizes them at the pizzeria for leaving his business and questions if they had even found work, even physically squaring up when Mario has had it with his nasty attitude before leaving them be. |
| 58 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While he's a massive bully to the Mario Bros, he still remembers to pay as he's leaving the restaurant and [[spoiler:is the one who starts the cheers for them after they save Brooklyn]]. |
| 59 | * KickTheDog: He leaves a negative, 1-star review on the Bros.' website that says nothing about their plumbing business all so he can berate them for leaving ''his'' business. There were only three reviews when the website first launched. |
| 60 | * MaliciousMisnaming: |
| 61 | ** He calls Mario and Luigi the "SUBPAR Mario Bros" in his review on their website, clearly angry that they quit working for him to go into business for themselves. |
| 62 | ** He also calls them the “Stupid Mario Bros.” when they run into him at the pizzeria. [[spoiler:However, at the end, he does actually call them the "Super Mario Bros".]] |
| 63 | * {{Manchild}}: Has the personality of a schoolyard bully despite being a full grown man with a Foreman job. |
| 64 | * MeanBoss: |
| 65 | ** According to the Super Mario Bros. Plumbing website, the Mario Bros. got so tired of his "spiky" behavior that they ended up quitting and starting their own business. He was so angry about them quitting that he gave them a bad review on their website. |
| 66 | --->'''Spike:''' There's no loyalty w/ mario and luigi!!! The SUBPAR Mario Bros used to wrk for me until they decided to break off and start there own bussines... theyll learn their lesson someday... |
| 67 | ** [[spoiler:Subverted when Spike decides to update his review after the Mario Brothers save Brooklyn.]] |
| 68 | --->'''Spike:''' [[spoiler:the SUBPAR Mario Bros somhow managed to save Brooklynn… so i’m officiallly bumpin my review from 1 Star to 1 & a Half.]] |
| 69 | * MeaningfulName: His name is Spike and he's a real {{Jerkass}}. Mario and Luigi even acknowledge it by saying his personality while working for him was "spiky". |
| 70 | * MilesGloriosus: He acts extremely macho and tough when dealing with people smaller and weaker than him, such as the Bros, but [[spoiler:is left cowering in fear when some of Bowser’s minions attack him during the final battle and has to be saved by Luigi.]] |
| 71 | * NoodleIncident: While it's known that the bros quit working for him due to his "spiky behaviour", the exact things he'd done to them are never revealed. |
| 72 | * PetTheDog: [[spoiler:He's the one to lead the cheer for the Mario Brothers after they save the day.]] |
| 73 | * RougeAnglesOfSatin: The angry review he leaves on their website contains numerous spelling and grammar errors. At the very least in the movie itself, he pronounces his words correctly. |
| 74 | * SinisterShades: He wears a set of highly reflective, single lens sunglasses that immediately signify that he's an asshole. |
| 75 | * SinisterSchnoz: His character emblem, first shown in the cast reveal video in 2021 and later seen as his user profile picture on the SMB Plumbing website, depicts him with a big and pointy nose, and the website indicates that he's a jerk who mistreated the Bros. when they worked for him and continues to antagonize them for leaving. Contrasted quite noticeably with the brothers' more benevolent-looking button-noses. |
| 76 | * SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Despite being among the first characters that appears in the movie, he did not appear in a single piece of promotional material (barring a non-physical reference on the SMB Plumbing website). |
| 77 | * TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: He gets angry finding the Mario Brothers in the same pizzeria he's in (Punch-Out Pizzeria) and instigates a fight with them insulting their lack of business but ultimately decides [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he refuses to stay there]] and walks away from his pizza only a quarter-way eaten and briskly throws cash at it. |
| 78 | * ThinSkinnedBully: Despite trying to present himself as a strong macho man willing to manhandle Mario, he is frightened by even Bowser's weakest smallest minions and he lets them jump on him as he cowers in fear. |
| 79 | [[/folder]] |
| 80 | |
| 81 | [[folder:Woman from Commercial]] |
| 82 | !!Woman from Commercial |
| 83 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thesupermariobrosmovieplumbingadwoman.png]] |
| 84 | [[caption-width-right:250:''"Thank you, Super Mario Bros! It seems like the only thing you haven't drained, is my bank account...?"'']] |
| 85 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JessicaDiCicco [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Harumi Nishizawa (Latin American Spanish), Jéssica Vieira (Brazilian Portuguese)[[/labelnote]] |
| 86 | |
| 87 | A woman who acts inside the Super Mario Bros. commercial as their customer. |
| 88 | ---- |
| 89 | * BadBadActing: When she's reading prompted lines during the commercial, she squints at them, reads them in a stilted manner, and then shrugs incredulously. Additionally, her line suggests she's checking her bank account on her phone, but the screen clearly shows that's not the case. |
| 90 | * CanonForeigner: A character made exclusively for this movie. |
| 91 | * NoNameGiven: Her name is not known, told, or given to us. |
| 92 | * SpearCarrier: She only appears in a single scene where she delivers her line for the brothers' commercial. |
| 93 | * WhoWritesThisCrap: In the commercial, she reads her prompted lines with a confused expression, no doubt finding them cheesy. |
| 94 | [[/folder]] |
| 95 | |
| 96 | [[folder:Mario and Luigi's Family]] |
| 97 | !!Mario Brothers' Family |
| 98 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marios_family_tsmbm.png]] |
| 99 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Hey-ohhhhh!"'']] |
| 100 | !!!'''Father voiced by:''' Creator/CharlesMartinet ([[MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor English, Canadian and EU French, Italian, EU Spanish, German]])[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Víctor Delgado (Latin American Spanish), Paulo Bernardo (Brazilian Portuguese), Chen Guowei (TW Mandarin), Eko Afianto (Indonesian), Tobias Almborg (Swedish), Shaul Ezer (Hebrew)[[/labelnote]]\ |
| 101 | '''Mother voiced by:''' Creator/JessicaDiCicco[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]María Jesús Varona (EU Spanish), Gaby Cárdenas (Latin American Spanish), Creator/CelineMonsarrat (EU French), Andrea Murucci (Brazilian Portuguese), Coco Sung (TW Mandarin), Anneli Heed (Swedish), Adva Adani (Hebrew)[[/labelnote]]\ |
| 102 | '''Uncle Tony voiced by:''' Creator/RinoRomano[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Rubén Trujillo (Latin American Spanish), Marc Perez (EU French), Sven Plate (German), Song Yucong (TW Mandarin), Harry Suseno (Indonesian), Creator/AntonOlofssonRaeder (Swedish), Albert Kohen (Hebrew)[[/labelnote]]\ |
| 103 | '''Uncle Arthur voiced by:''' Creator/JohnDiMaggio[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Iván Muelas (EU Spanish), Creator/JoseAntonioMacias (Latin American Spanish), Mathieu Buscatto (EU French), Chen Jinyi (TW Mandarin), Abdul Aziz (Indonesian), Creator/AntonOlofssonRaeder (Swedish), Shachar Folk (Hebrew)[[/labelnote]]\ |
| 104 | '''Aunt Marie voiced by:''' [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/MariaFernandaMorales (Latin American Spanish)[[/labelnote]]\ |
| 105 | '''Grandfather voiced by:''' [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Jorge Roig Sr. (Latin American Spanish), Marcos Castro (Brazilian Portuguese)[[/labelnote]]\ |
| 106 | |
| 107 | Mario and Luigi's family members. |
| 108 | ---- |
| 109 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: The Mario Bros.'s mother is far more supportive than the ControlFreak she was in ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''. |
| 110 | * AdaptationExpansion: In the movie, we finally get to see Mario and Luigi's family like their mother and father (along with additional relatives) instead of leaving their family status vague (in the original games, their mother and father only have appeared briefly at the end of the ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' games, though their faces aren't seen) or non-existent (the additional relatives [[CanonForeigner haven't appeared or been mentioned whatsoever]] in the games thus far). |
| 111 | * AscendedExtra: The parents, compared to TheFaceless versions seen in the ''Yoshi's Island'' games. Here, we actually get to see them in the flesh, and they're much more characterized than their game counterparts. |
| 112 | * AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Papa Mario appears to be older than his two brothers, being the only one with adult children and significant hair loss, so naturally he looks very similar to Mario while his brothers look extremely similar to Luigi. |
| 113 | * BrutalHonesty: When asked directly by Mario what he thinks about their ad, the father says he thinks their decision is nuts. |
| 114 | * CanonForeigner: In the games’ canon, Mario and Luigi don’t have any known family members aside from their parents, though they were alluded to in other Western media like ''Super Show''. |
| 115 | * CanonImmigrant: Uncle Tony was mentioned in a segment of ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''. What makes it likely that this is a conscious reference instead of just the mutual use of a common Italian name is that the show alluded to him taking more than his fair share of food during family meals, which is exactly how he behaves in the film. |
| 116 | * CastingGag: |
| 117 | ** Creator/CharlesMartinet, Mario and Luigi’s voice actor in the games, plays their father in this film. |
| 118 | ** The other family members are played by voice actors whose last names indicate Italian heritage. |
| 119 | * DisapprovingLook: Everyone gives the father one after he insensitively hurts Mario's feelings by saying that Mario drags Luigi into reckless decisions by fulfilling a dream he finds "crazy". |
| 120 | * DopeSlap: Aunt Marie lightly slaps Uncle Arthur for making Mario and Luigi a laughingstock, prompting a "what did I do?" reaction from him. |
| 121 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Uncle Tony and Uncle Arthur make fun of Mario and Luigi’s commercial during dinner, as well as using coordinated outfits and white work gloves as a trademark of their business. However, when their father tells Mario he's dragging Luigi down with him for his “crazy dream” (along with deeming him a disappointment), making him storm off to his room, both of his brothers give him looks of disapproval along with the rest of the family, showing that even ''they'' knew that he went ''too'' far with his words. |
| 122 | * ExactWords: The mother's review on the SMB Plumbing website says that SMB Plumbing "treated me like family" -- because she ''is'' family. |
| 123 | * FantasyForbiddingFather: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] - Mario and Luigi's father is skeptical of their plans to start their own plumbing business, but he doesn't do anything to try and stop them and only gives his opinion when asked outright. |
| 124 | * GoodParents: The mom's review on her sons' website was the only five-star review when the website launched, and she talks about how polite and professional they are, as well as them being adorable and treated her like family (when she ''is'' family). It's clear as day how biased she is, but it shows just how much she cares. She's also the only relative wholly supportive of their dream at the dinner table. |
| 125 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Their father didn't mean to hurt Mario's feelings when he told him that his refusal to give up was a cause of trouble and tells him in the process that he's dragging Luigi down with him, even asking what he said when Mario storms off and the rest of the family gives him disapproving looks for offending him. |
| 126 | * JerkassHasAPoint: |
| 127 | ** Despite some of the family making Mario and Luigi's plumbing business the laughing stock at dinner, they aren't wrong when they said quitting their day jobs and dumping their entire life-savings on a dream of becoming working-class heroes (and with a cheap low-quality commercial for good measure) was a very risky move, and Papa Mario and his brothers were worried about their situation. |
| 128 | ** The father did hurt Mario's feelings when he admonished his son's refusal to give up and accused him of "dragging [his] brother down with [him]", but since his actions would later result in Luigi being kidnapped, imprisoned [[spoiler:and almost killed]], his concerns aren't unfounded. |
| 129 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: |
| 130 | ** Uncle Tony and Uncle Arthur keep poking fun at the Bros. for their struggling business, but they come off as more playful and [[EveryoneHasStandards didn't like their brother's harsher criticisms of them when Mario gets offended and leaves dinner]]. [[spoiler:They also cheer for the Bros. after the two save Brooklyn.]] |
| 131 | ** Mario and Luigi's father was quite critical of their decisions, but he [[InnocentlyInsensitive didn't mean to hurt Mario's feelings]] when reprimanding him and is only stern because he's worried about their future. He also doesn't hide how [[SoProudOfYou proud he is]] when [[spoiler:they save Brooklyn at the end of the film]]. |
| 132 | * LargeHam: Both uncles spend almost all of their screentime being purposefully loud and obnoxious. |
| 133 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The mother praises the song used during their plumbing ad, saying it should belong in a movie. |
| 134 | * LookalikeLovers: The brothers' parents both look a lot like them, particularly Mario, being short, round, blue-eyed, and brunette. |
| 135 | * MultigenerationalHousehold: Three of them, with nine members in total. |
| 136 | * MythologyGag: |
| 137 | ** The father resembles Talon, the Mario lookalike from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''. His brother Arthur likewise resembles Ingo, the Luigi lookalike. |
| 138 | ** Uncle Tony was one of the Mario Bros.' relatives mentioned in the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow Super Show]]'' episode "Glasnuts", where he was recalled as a BigEater. |
| 139 | ** According to the directors, the aunt's name is Marie. In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'', Luigi mentions an Aunt Maria in the episode "''Crimes R Us''". |
| 140 | * NiceMeanAndInbetween: For Nice, you have the mother, who's nothing but supportive of her sons' dream, and Aunt Marie, who slaps her husband for insulting them. For Mean, there's the Bros.' uncles for making fun of them, and their father, who thinks their plumbing business is a "crazy dream". For the In-Between, there's the grandfather and niece, who don't have anything to add to the dinner conversation, being a ScatterbrainedSenior and a PhoneaholicTeenager, respectively. |
| 141 | * NoNameGiven: While some like Tony and Arthur are identified [[AllThereInTheScript via the credits]], the bros.' parents, aunt, and cousin go unnamed in the film. [[https://www.polygon.com/23673074/mario-movie-family-members-dad-mom-uncles-aunt According to the directors]], their aunt is named Marie. The family name is also not revealed. While the ''Super Show'' includes a niece named Marilyn, there's no way to know whether or not the niece in the movie is meant to be an adaptation of the same character. |
| 142 | * ParentalFavoritism: The father appears to favor Luigi, as he initially chastises Mario for "bringing [his] brother down with [him]" when he brings up why they left their old jobs. [[spoiler:He comes around after seeing Mario's heroics during the finale.]] |
| 143 | * ParentsAsPeople: Mario and Luigi's father clearly loves them both and is worried about their future, but he is also clearly shown to not be able to see when his words genuinely hurt his eldest son and generally seems oblivious to how his criticisms offend him and how they affect him. He is critical of their decision to start their own company after resigning from their old job, and even though he only does this out of concern, his sternness causes Mario to take his criticism hard due to his lack of support for them to the point of misinterpreting his concerns as him thinking that he's a joke. |
| 144 | * PhoneaholicTeenager: While her age isn't revealed, their cousin, the youngest member of the family, is constantly seen on her phone. She is seen looking down at it for the entirety of dinner and [[spoiler:uses it to take a picture of the aftermath of the battle in Brooklyn]]. |
| 145 | * RambunctiousItalian: Most of the family fit this archetype to an extent, with the notable exception of the niece/little cousin who is [[InvertedTrope a moody teenager who barely emotes and never says anything.]] |
| 146 | * RemakeCameo: The Mario Bros.' dad is voiced by the most well-known voice actor for Mario himself. |
| 147 | * ReusedCharacterDesign: Apparently, the character designs for the family were made by Nintendo's own artists and are many years old; presumably, they were considered to be included in the game series somehow, but this never ended up coming to fruition. |
| 148 | * ScatterbrainedSenior: The grandfather doesn't seem to be all there anymore, needing to be fork-fed, biting into the fork despite the spaghetti already having fallen off of it and not showing any hint of interest in the dinner conversation. |
| 149 | * SoProudOfYou: [[spoiler:After the final battle, the father tells Mario he was amazing, and then happily declares "These are my boys!" to the whole cheering crowd]]. |
| 150 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: |
| 151 | ** All the men have the same style of mustache. |
| 152 | ** The larger, rounded nose shape is a trait of all members of the family, even the ones who married in. |
| 153 | ** The two uncles look almost identical to Luigi aside from their hair and mustaches, especially Arthur, whose only difference is his more pronounced chin, with dad's resemblance to Mario not far behind. [[AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance Not coincidentally,]] the three of them are brothers per an interview with the art directors and Papa Mario is heavily implied to be the oldest. |
| 154 | * UnnamedParent: The mom and dad are among the unnamed members of the family. |
| 155 | * UnseenNoMore: While Mario and Luigi's parents have been known to ''exist'' since 1995, their presence had never amounted to more than a brief, [[TheFaceless faceless]] cameo at the end of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'' (or rather, [[SequelReset technically,]] its [[VideoGame/YoshisNewIsland sequel]]) before their surprise appearance in the film. |
| 156 | * WackyParentSeriousChild: The cousin spends nearly all of her screentime tapped out [[PhoneaholicTeenager on her phone]] while her dad loudly makes fun of Mario and Luigi's commercial. |
| 157 | [[/folder]] |
| 158 | |
| 159 | [[folder:Francis the Dog]] |
| 160 | !!Francis |
| 161 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_3488.png]] |
| 162 | |
| 163 | A dog that botches Mario and Luigi's first onscreen job. |
| 164 | ---- |
| 165 | * AintTooProudToBeg: He whimpers as Mario and Luigi are hoisting him back up to his owner's bathroom with a plunger, essentially begging them to save him. |
| 166 | * AxCrazy: Is pretty vicious, almost mauling Mario and Luigi just because the latter stepped on his favorite bone. |
| 167 | * BerserkButton: All it takes for Francis to go from a lovable Golden Retriever to a vicious, relentless dog out for blood is seeing his favorite bone ''accidentally'' stepped on by Luigi. |
| 168 | * BewareOfViciousDog: Francis tries to ''maul'' the bros simply because Luigi (and ''[[MisplacedRetribution only]]'' Luigi) [[DisproportionateRetribution broke his favorite bone by accident]]. [[spoiler:However, this is {{subverted|trope}} after they save Brooklyn, whereupon he drops the grudge.]] |
| 169 | * CanonForeigner: A character made exclusively for this movie. |
| 170 | * DeathGlare: He delivers these twice in the movie. He first gives one to Luigi after the man in green accidentally steps on and in-turn breaks the dog's favorite bone. He then gives another one to ''both'' of the Mario Bros. when he confronts them in the bathroom. |
| 171 | * DisproportionateRetribution: His whole reason for attacking and attempting to maul the Mario brothers and, in-turn, indirectly sabotaging and ruining their entire plumbing business in the first place? '''Because Luigi accidentally broke his favorite bone.''' |
| 172 | * DogStereotype: Completely and utterly ''{{inverted|Trope}}''; he's a Golden Retriever, but his [[AxCrazy actual]] [[{{Jerkass}} personality]] is the ''complete opposite'' of what Golden Retrievers are typically [[BigFriendlyDog portrayed]] [[FriendToAllLivingThings as]]. |
| 173 | * {{Expy}}: Francis somewhat resembles Dug from ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}''. If Dug was petty and vicious. |
| 174 | * FatalFlaw: '''Pettiness'''. He attempts to maul Mario and Luigi over the latter accidentally stepping on his bone. His attempt to lunge on them causes him to accidentally jump out of the bathroom window after the brothers ducked out of the way. Had they not narrowly saved him, he would've fallen to his death. |
| 175 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: He accidentally jumps out of his owners' bathroom window after Mario and Luigi duck out of the way of him lunging towards them. Fortunately, they save him by using a plunger to grab him. |
| 176 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He is a vicious dog. But after [[spoiler:the Mario Bros. save Brooklyn]], he nods at them in respect. |
| 177 | * KarmaHoudini: He's responsible for the Mario Bros. accidentally wrecking their first client's bathroom and gets no comeuppance in the end. |
| 178 | * KillerRabbit: Golden retrievers are usually seen as {{Big Friendly Dog}}s that wouldn't hurt a fly. Francis is an unusually psychopathic one. |
| 179 | * MisplacedRetribution: Only Luigi broke his favorite bone (by ''accident'', mind you), yet Francis' vendetta is directed towards both brothers. |
| 180 | * OhCrap: Just a second after diving out of the bathroom window and before plummeting, Francis has an expression on his face that underscores the danger he inadvertently put himself into. As Mario and Luigi manage to save him and are hoisting him back up, he's scared for his life and whimpering. |
| 181 | * SlasherSmile: He gives the brothers such a look after they trap him in the shower, only for the plumbing to flood the cubicle and carry him to the top where he's able to escape. |
| 182 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Francis takes an immediate dislike to Luigi when he steps on his bone. This leads to a series of events which culminates in the bathroom being completely destroyed. To a larger extent, this also motivates Mario into taking on greater jobs to repair their damaged reputation, leading to them being sucked into the warp pipe. |
| 183 | * TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler:After the Mario brothers save Brooklyn from Bowser, he drops the animosity towards them and is seen giving a mutual head nod to Luigi in respect.]] |
| 184 | [[/folder]] |
| 185 | |
| 186 | [[folder:Giuseppe]] |
| 187 | !!Giuseppe |
| 188 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/paisano.png]] |
| 189 | [[caption-width-right:250:''"Too much? It's-a PERFECT! WAHOO!"'']] |
| 190 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CharlesMartinet ([[MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor English, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Flemish, Canadian and EU French, Japanese, German, Hindi, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, TW Mandarin, Norwegian, Brazilian and EU Portuguese, Slovenian, EU and Latin Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Ukrainian, Vietnamese]]) |
| 191 | |
| 192 | A rather eccentric old Italian who hangs out at the Punch-Out Pizzeria, and enjoys playing the arcade game ''[[VideoGame/DonkeyKong Jump Man]]''. |
| 193 | ---- |
| 194 | * ActorAllusion: He compliments the Mario Brothers for their fake Italian accents; bear in mind, he’s played by the man who gave the brothers their distinct accents in the first place. Even the accent that Charles Martinet uses for Giuseppe is flat-out his Mario voice. |
| 195 | * CanonForeigner: He’s a character unique to the movie. |
| 196 | * CoolOldGuy: He plays arcade games despite looking to be in his fifties or sixties, and he supports the brothers when their commercial goes to air, which is a big deal considering how the brothers are held in low esteem by everyone else. |
| 197 | * GratuitousEnglish: In the Japanese version, he sprinkles a bit of Japanese and a bit of English in his assessment of Mario and Luigi's voices. |
| 198 | -->'''Giuseppe:''' Zenzen! It's-a perfect! |
| 199 | * InkSuitActor: Giuseppe bears quite a resemblance to [[Creator/CharlesMartinet his voice actor]], just with a graying mustache and an outfit inspired by the look of the original 8-bit Mario. |
| 200 | * MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: In-universe. When Mario asks Luigi if their use of exaggerated Italian accents in a commercial is "too much," the Italian Giuseppe overhears them and responds in a way that indicates his positive amusement: |
| 201 | -->'''Giuseppe:''' (''in a dead-ringer for Mario's game voice'') [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Too much? It's-a perfect!]] (''hops in the classic jump pose'') Wahoo!\ |
| 202 | '''Mario:''' Okay, I'm gonna trust you! |
| 203 | * MythologyGag: |
| 204 | ** He looks exactly like Mario's original Jump Man-era design as an old man, and he's introduced playing ''Jump Man'', an obvious expy of [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong Mario and Donkey Kong's video game debut]]. And of course, he's voiced by Charles Martinet, not just in the original English but ''twenty-six'' of the film's foreign language dubs, including the variants of French, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish. |
| 205 | ** Rather than overalls, he is seen wearing suspenders. It was the landlord of Nintendo of America, Mario Segale, wearing suspenders that encouraged the localization team -- after they noticed his amusing resemblance to the character with them on -- to rename Jumpman into Mario. |
| 206 | * NiceGuy: Unlike everyone else -- excluding their mother -- Giuseppe is supportive of Mario and Luigi's plumbing business, and goes out of his way to tell them [[ActorAllusion how much he loves the gimmick they use for it]]. |
| 207 | * RemakeCameo: Serves as one of two for Creator/CharlesMartinet, using his iconic original Mario voice. He reprises the role in almost every international dub of the film as well. |
| 208 | * SpearCarrier: He appears in two scenes; one where he praises Mario and Luigi about their accents, and later, cheering for the Mario Bros. alongside the townsfolk of Brooklyn after the brothers defeat Bowser. |
| 209 | [[/folder]] |
| 210 | |
| 211 | !!Assorted Islands |
| 212 | !!!'''Jungle Kingdom''' |
| 213 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230729_153134_youtube.jpg]] |
| 214 | [[caption-width-right:350:]] |
| 215 | A jungle kingdom populated by anthropomorphic apes and monkeys. Despite their primitive aesthetic, they're developed enough to produce a series of custom-built combat-ready vehicles. |
| 216 | |
| 217 | [[folder:Donkey Kong]] |
| 218 | !!Donkey Kong |
| 219 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kong_6.png]] |
| 220 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"It is on like Donkey Kong!"'']] |
| 221 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SethRogen [[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Felipe Garrido (EU Spanish), Mark Pokora (Latin American Spanish), David Jenner (Catalan), Xavier Fagnon (EU French), Creator/TristanHarvey (Canadian French), Pedro Azevedo (Brazilian Portuguese), José Nobre (EU Portuguese), Petter Isaksson (Swedish), Marios Gavrilis (German), Koji Takeda (Japanese), Miao Zhuang (PRC Mandarin), Chow Yee Tin (HK Cantonese), Chen Sixian (TW Mandarin), Kim Hyeon-soo (Korean), Muhammad Nur (Indonesian), Wan Muhammad Tamlikha (Malay), Konthorn Techolan (Thai), Nguyễn Đức Đại (Vietnamese), Creator/PaoloVivio (Italian), Amnon Volf (Hebrew), Creator/ChristosThanos (Greek)[[/labelnote]] |
| 222 | |
| 223 | ->''"It's what they came here for! Dancing pecs!"'' |
| 224 | \ |
| 225 | A boisterous Kong and the heir to the throne of the Jungle Kingdom. |
| 226 | ---- |
| 227 | * ActorAllusion: Seth Rogen does his trademark laugh twice in the movie, first after Mario shrinks himself with a Mini Mushroom during his fight with Donkey Kong, and then later when messing with Mario as they all drive to the Mushroom Kingdom. |
| 228 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: To a lesser extent; Donkey Kong is trying to earn his father's respect and wants to prove he's not just a guy that smashes things. The games imply that he's accustomed to his dad's attitude. |
| 229 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: In addition to the standard application of this trope to the Kongs, Donkey Kong has been characterized increasingly as a DumbMuscle type in the games, such as the Retro Studios ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' titles. In the film, whilst he's a jock, he's never shown to be or treated as if he is particularly stupid, with his vices instead being arrogance and anger. |
| 230 | * AdaptationalJerkass: Downplayed, but he is noticeably more arrogant in the movie than in the games, developing into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold as events play out. While he does prove himself to be capable of selfless and noble feats like he would in his own series of games, most of his role in the story is learning to manage his feelings of jealousy and rivalry towards Mario, hearkening back both to the original arcade games the characters debuted in as well as the ''VideoGame/MarioVsDonkeyKong'' series, which was based on their rivalry. |
| 231 | * AlwaysABiggerFish: [[spoiler:He gets a chance to fight Bowser personally when the final battle moves to Brooklyn. Not only is the Koopa King twice as large as him, but the only attack that DK successfully lands on Bowser is tackling him while he's distracted. We don't see the brief tussle between the pair, but DK is wounded and incapacitated. He was very close to being executed before Mario stepped in.]] |
| 232 | * AntiHero: At first DK's conception of heroism seems largely superficial. He only joins the heroes to save their world because his father lost a bet, and he's unnecessarily rude to Mario even when helping him, coming across less sympathetically in comparison while Mario remains both humble and kind-hearted . It's only when DK goes up against Bowser that he proves himself truly heroic, as Bowser was bigger and stronger than DK and any reason to fight him extended beyond DK's petty motives. |
| 233 | * ArrogantKungFuGuy: DK showboats to his adoring fans, pointedly avoids using any of the provided power-ups, and deliberately prolongs his beatdown of Mario for entertainment purposes. Then, when he's beaten, DK refuses to put it behind him. |
| 234 | * AscendedMeme: He quotes the memetic "It is on like Donkey Kong!" |
| 235 | * BadassNormal: DK shows himself to be a very powerful and capable fighter, even without power ups. |
| 236 | * BaitTheDog: After he and Mario are [[spoiler:eaten by the Maw-Ray]], they talk about how both their fathers don't appreciate them. They seem to be finding common ground... until DK callously says that Mario's father is ''right'' to think he's a failure. |
| 237 | * BaritoneOfStrength: DK is a powerful brawler with Seth Rogen's gruff voice. |
| 238 | * BashBrothers: After an act full of TeethClenchedTeamwork, DK and Mario join together in spectacular fashion to take on Bowser's army in the Mushroom Kingdom [[spoiler:to save Peach and everyone else captured for Bowser's wedding.]] |
| 239 | -->'''Mario:''' ''(Seeing a squadron of Koopas [[spoiler:procuring a stash of Power-Up Blocks]])'' [[LetsGetDangerous You wanna do this?]]\ |
| 240 | '''DK:''' ''([[HellYesMoment Sporting an ear-to-ear grin.]])'' '''Yes, I do!''' |
| 241 | * BicepKiss: He does [[https://i.pinimg.com/564x/c0/bd/40/c0bd402a1ea5ac5701e7feef529c3052.jpg this]] while singing along to the DK rap during his entrance at the arena. |
| 242 | * BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:DK and Mario make it back during the forced wedding and save the prisoners just in time, including Luigi and Cranky Kong, the latter of which finally shows some appreciation towards his son.]] |
| 243 | * BigEgoHiddenDepths: DK may be a boisterous showman beloved by the crowd, but beneath his cocky exterior is a son who just wants to earn his father's respect and be seen as a worthy successor. |
| 244 | * TheBigGuy: He's the muscle for Peach's resistance and physically the largest. |
| 245 | * BloodKnight: Implied. DK has a bit too much fun when fighting Mario in the Kong arena, and after [[spoiler:getting the Fire Flower and fighting Bowser's Koopa army alongside Mario, he exclaims that "This is fun!".]] |
| 246 | * BoisterousBruiser: He is shown to be as powerful a fighter as he is a showboating braggart, much to his father's consternation. |
| 247 | * BreakTheHaughty: Cranky Kong clearly didn't expect Mario to hold his own against his son at first -- especially not through snatching victory from the jaws of defeat after what initially appeared to be an OpenAndShutCase of a CurbStompBattle -- but he seemingly enjoyed seeing his arrogant heir get served a slice of humble pie. [[SoreLoser Meanwhile, DK has great emotional difficulty coming to terms with it at first]], but this unexpected victory ultimately leads to DK learning to fight for something greater than himself. |
| 248 | * ButtMonkey: Not to an extent like Mario, but he does get beaten several times. |
| 249 | * CanonForeigner: Fire DK. Donkey Kong generally has not used transformations in the games he headlines. The power-ups are implied to be usable by anyone in this continuity though. |
| 250 | * CharacterDevelopment: He starts out as an ArrogantKungFuGuy who relies solely on brute strength and fights only for his own vanity, yet is insecure about his father's disapproval of him. He learns to put his arrogance aside, fight for the common good instead of himself, and even becomes a bit more of a CombatPragmatist, using a Fire Flower in the final battle. |
| 251 | * ChickMagnet: He's implied to be this among the Kongs, because several female Kongs cheer when he does his pec dance. |
| 252 | * CommonalityConnection: [[spoiler:Bonds with Mario over their mutual issues with earning their fathers' respect.]] |
| 253 | * CompositeCharacter: He's designed to be a combination of the classic [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong arcade]] design and his ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' design. His general design and attire are modeled after his look in the ''Country'' series, but his body structure and facial features are heavily inspired by the artwork displayed on the original arcade cabinet and portrayals prior to the ''Country'' series. |
| 254 | * CreepyShadowedUndereyes: DK's eyelids are pitch-black, although they appear slightly less dark than they do in the games. |
| 255 | * CurbStompBattle: His fight with Mario starts off as a one sided beating, with the few blows [[NoSell Mario does land having no effect]]. He is on the receiving end when Mario gets the Cat Suit. |
| 256 | * CurbStompCushion: DK is no match for Bowser, but he does manage to get in a good punch that briefly sends Bowser flying. |
| 257 | * DecompositeCharacter: The traits he shares with Donkey Kong Junior are split into two Kongs. While DK being Cranky's son originated from some of the games, a separate Kong with Junior's appearance and tank top appears in the crowd to cheer him on. That is of course if you believe they're separate characters, which [[FlipFlopOfGod isn't totally clear.]] |
| 258 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: [[VitriolicBestBuds For a certain definition of "friendship"]], after Mario bests Donkey Kong in battle, he initially begrudgingly agrees to help Mario before gaining some respect for him and growing to see him as an ally. |
| 259 | * DubPersonalityChange: In the "Super Japanese version", Donkey Kong is less of a braggart and less antagonistic towards Mario, forming a friendly rivalry with him. He's also more hyperactive and enthusiastic, requiring Cranky Kong to keep him restrained. |
| 260 | * EnemyMine: While he downright hates Mario by his own admission, he still works with Mario to help defeat Bowser, even before [[spoiler:their small bonding experience near the end]]. |
| 261 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: When DK makes his first appearance, he gleefully intimidates Mario, flaunts his pecs and tries to coax some approval from Cranky, all of which demonstrate that he's got a fragile ego. |
| 262 | * FamedInStory: Donkey Kong is popular with the residents of the Jungle Kingdom and is implied to be respected outside of it, given Peach thinks Mario agreeing to fight him is a mistake. |
| 263 | * FireForgedFriends: [[spoiler:DK ends up developing a genuine friendship with Mario after their escape from the Maw-Ray and as they fight Bowser's forces on the way to Peach's forced wedding. He also becomes one with his brother Luigi, judging by his playful nudge to Luigi's shoulder after Bowser ends up shrunk by a Mini Mushroom.]] |
| 264 | * FriendlyRivalry: He has one with Mario. The two of them constantly argue and insult each other, but [[spoiler:Mario still saves Donkey Kong's life, and the two of them work together to crash Bowser's wedding with Peach.]] |
| 265 | * GladiatorGames: Mario fights Donkey Kong in a gladiator arena with numerous Kongs in the crowd, as part of a condition to get the Kong army to help stop Bowser. |
| 266 | * GoodIsNotNice: After the Kongs form an alliance with the main heroes, he's still openly rude and condescending towards Mario for most of their time together. |
| 267 | -->'''Donkey Kong:''' Cool raccoon suit!\ |
| 268 | '''Mario:''' Really?\ |
| 269 | '''Donkey Kong:''' Not at all! |
| 270 | * HandyFeet: He's shown using his feet for minor actions over the course of the movie, including handing the steering wheel of his cart when he makes fun of Mario flirting with Peach, and gripping the spikes on the mechanism for the cages, leaving his hands free to roll it back and raise the cages. It comes naturally with being an ape. |
| 271 | * HeadbuttingHeroes: Like in the games, Donkey Kong is ultimately as capable of being heroic as his rival, but even when working together with Mario to defeat Bowser and save the world, he holds onto his grudge against him and rarely misses an opportunity to make fun of him. |
| 272 | * HelplessWithLaughter: He's overcome with laughter upon first seeing Mario in the Cat Suit. |
| 273 | * HeroicBuild: DK has a bulky upper body that resembles an exaggerated bodybuilder more than a real life gorilla. |
| 274 | * HiddenDepths: He reacts very strongly towards Mario telling him to "smash things", citing in punctuations that he's more than just a monkey that smashes things, giving us a hint of how most, likely his father, see him as such and he doesn't like it. |
| 275 | * {{Hunk}}: A buff gorilla who is quite the ChickMagnet in his kingdom. |
| 276 | * ILetYouWin: He lies about letting Mario beat him on purpose to impress Peach. |
| 277 | * InkSuitActor: Downplayed. Although he doesn't ''quite'' resemble Seth Rogen, he does have some of the actor's facial characteristics. |
| 278 | * IResembleThatRemark: After Mario remarks that DK just smashes things, DK angrily rebuts that he is "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis MORE! THAN A GUY! WHO SMASHES THINGS!]]"...while jumping around and smashing things. [[spoiler:This outburst unwittingly helps both of them find a way out of the Maw-Ray as the creature belches, flying them towards DK's kart where they see its remaining missile and use it as a Rocket Barrel to escape.]] |
| 279 | * JerkassHasAPoint: After they get eaten by the Maw-Ray, Donkey Kong blames Mario for what happened on Rainbow Road. While this is a harsh accusation that offends Mario and he's still rather salty about his defeat against him, he's not totally wrong: as King Cranky's son, he's the prince of the Jungle Kingdom, and the only reason he and the other Kongs agreed to help Mario is because he made a deal with Cranky, who only gives his army in support of whoever manages to defeat DK. Since Mario defeated him and then they were ambushed and fell off because of the Koopa General, Donkey Kong's father and the other Kongs were all captured, meaning that Mario dragged his people in his mission to rescue his brother, putting everyone in danger. |
| 280 | * JerkassToOne: Most of his aggression is directed towards Mario, since the latter was the first one to actually outperform him in battle. [[FireForgedFriends But as they travel together, he does begin to develop a real connection with Mario]]. By comparison, DK seems to take an instant liking to Luigi, and stops bickering with Mario and Toad without issue as soon as Peach tells him to stop. |
| 281 | * JerkJock: He takes every chance he can get to antagonize Mario. Pretty much the only reason they agree to work together is because Bowser is stronger than either of them. |
| 282 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: |
| 283 | ** He's a cocky show-off, but he's not a bad person and he does develop a genuine friendship with Mario later on -- and despite his frustrations with his situation, [[IGaveMyWord he honors the agreement to help the Mushroom Kingdom]]. Also despite his harsh statement about Mario's daddy issues earlier, [[spoiler:he is later happy for Mario getting praised by his dad to the point he brings him and his family and friends into a group hug]]. |
| 284 | ** While traveling on Rainbow Road, he makes fun of Mario for trying to flirt with Peach. However, when Peach politely asks DK and Toad to back off, he does so without a begrudging attitude. [[spoiler:Plus [[ShipperOnDeck he is later smiling with approval at Mario and Peach holding hands upon reuniting]] after crashing her forced wedding to Bowser.]] |
| 285 | ** [[spoiler:With some effort, he halts the wheel causing the prisoners to drop into the lava and reverses it to save them all, and shields Peach and Toad from falling debris once they're all thrust into Brooklyn.]] |
| 286 | * KickTheDog: It was certainly quite harsh of him to say that Mario's father had the ''right'' to see him as a failure, which rubs ''more'' salt into Mario's wound. |
| 287 | * KillerGorilla: Downplayed -- he's a massive gorilla who, while by no means vicious or evil, is still a JerkJock who gives Mario a [[CurbStompBattle relentless beating]] in the arena while throwing [[PrepareToDie death threats]] his way. |
| 288 | * LargeHam: He tends to be quite loud and bombastic, which is expected given that Seth Rogen provides his voice. |
| 289 | * {{Leitmotif}}: He makes his debut wrestler-style with his own theme music, that being none other than the chorus of [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong64 the DK Rap]]. |
| 290 | * LightningBruiser: For an 800-pound gorilla, DK is very agile and light on his feet. |
| 291 | * LovedByAll: Across the Jungle Kingdom, DK is highly beloved by his people as they cheer and worship him when he enters the arena. Even outside the Jungle Kingdom, nobody seems to actively dislike him, as even when he and Mario started out butting heads a lot, they end up getting over their differences and become friends, after Mario was the one to reach out to him, no less. |
| 292 | * MakesUsEven: [[spoiler:After they escape from the Maw-Ray on the rocket barrel, he says to Mario "Now we're even!"]] |
| 293 | * MoodSwinger: After cackling at Cat Mario, he glares at him while [[HaHaHaNo bluntly and seriously saying, "Now you die".]] Cue [[MegatonPunch punch]]. |
| 294 | * MrFanservice: Downplayed as he's a cartoon gorilla, but [[FemaleGaze some shots emphasize his hunky physique]], including when he does his PecFlex ocassionally. |
| 295 | * NoSell: Mario comes at him with a leaping punch, but DK grabs him out of the air without even blinking, slams him into the ground, and starts slapping him around. When Mario does manage to land a few punches on DK later, they have no effect. |
| 296 | * PecFlex: He does this after he says "Dancing pecs!". Cranky finds it cringeworthy while the female Kongs love it. He later flexes his pecs once again at the end of the movie where he becomes part of the team with Mario, Luigi, Peach and Toad. |
| 297 | * PetTheDog: Despite being a SoreLoser from his loss to Mario, he still saves him from falling off Rainbow Road once Mario's kart is destroyed. |
| 298 | * PlayingWithFire: For the first time in the franchise, DK gets the power of the Fire Flower in the as he shoots fireballs at Koopa Troopas. |
| 299 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: After Mario gains the Cat Suit, Donkey Kong takes a moment to laugh at him before collecting himself and going back to their fight by saying, "Now you die". Averted, though, since Mario is able to turn the tables and defeat him. |
| 300 | * PrimalStance: His default posture. He is a gorilla, after all, and a very top-heavy one at that. |
| 301 | * PrimateVersusReptile: He tries to fight the dragon-turtle Bowser during the final battle. He manages to land a few blows, but he's ultimately overpowered. |
| 302 | * PrivilegedRival: A prince compared to Mario's plumber. He's initially the stronger of the two, but then Mario gets his second wind and turns the tide of their fight. After that, DK is still somewhat of a bully towards Mario but they eventually become better friends. |
| 303 | * PunctuatedForEmphasis: "I! AM! ''MORE!'' THAN A ''GUY!'' WHO '''''SMASHES''''' THINGS!" |
| 304 | * RapidFireFisticuffs: The moment he has Mario pinned down during their fight, he repeatedly slaps and punches him in the face at breakneck speed, not giving Mario any time to breathe. |
| 305 | * RedIsHeroic: Aside from his signature necktie, DK's fur turns red when he gets ahold of a Fire Flower. |
| 306 | * RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: The games have alternately portrayed DK as either Cranky's son or grandson. The film goes with him being Cranky's son. |
| 307 | * TheRival: To Mario. They meet by fighting a gladiatorial match and, after Mario wins, DK holds a grudge and continues competing with him before eventually realizing they have a lot in common. |
| 308 | * ShipperOnDeck: While he makes fun of him for it, he nonetheless recognizes that Mario talking with the Princess on their way to the castle is him flirting with her, even if Mario is seemingly unaware of this. He is later shown smiling at Mario and Peach holding hands when they reunite, making it clear that he does support them getting together after all. |
| 309 | * SillySimian: He dishes out a lot of AmusingInjuries to Mario in his opening scene, then goes on to spend most of the movie comically butting heads with him. |
| 310 | * SlasherSmile: He gives these to Mario on a regular basis. |
| 311 | * SoProudOfYou: [[spoiler:Seen briefly when Mario and Luigi beat Bowser to the Super Star and curb stomp the Koopa King and his entire army. After Mario throws a Sledge Bro into the soldiers, DK has a "You guys are screwed!" grin on his face as he shields Peach and Toad from the skirmish.]] |
| 312 | * SoreLoser: He does ''not'' take his loss to Mario well. As soon as he recovers, he chucks a barrel at Mario while saying [[BlatantLies he let Mario win]]. When they're preparing to drive across the Rainbow Road, DK takes a moment to tell Mario he hates him with no provocation. |
| 313 | * SuperDrowningSkills: [[spoiler:Unlike his canon counterpart from the games, DK cannot breathe underwater and is in danger of drowning after falling off the Rainbow Road. Luckily, Mario saves him in time.]] |
| 314 | * ThrowABarrelAtIt: True to the games, barrels are DK's primary weapon of choice. He chucks multiple ones at Mario during their showdown, mimicking the [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong original arcade game that started it all]]. [[spoiler:In the climax, he kickstarts him and Mario StormingTheCastle by throwing his Rocket Barrel-like missile at the Koopa Troopas to enable the duo to use the powerups.]] |
| 315 | * TokenEvilTeammate: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The majority of the characters opposing Bowser are established as unambiguously kind-hearted, but DK stands out as a JerkJock who would have become Mario's arch-enemy if they weren't [[TeethClenchedTeamwork forced to work together]], even giving implications he would have killed Mario in their fight. Even Cranky Kong isn't as openly abrasive about working on a team. With that being said, he never puts Mario and his allies in danger and honors Cranky's agreement, and even grows to like them to some extent. |
| 316 | * TooMuchAlike: DK refuses to admit he and Mario have anything in common even when it's obvious. |
| 317 | * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Despite being the team's most pompous and abrasive member, he does manage to generate a lot of chuckles. [[CharacterDevelopment He does get better, though]]. |
| 318 | * VitriolicBestBuds: [[spoiler:Becomes this with Mario. Despite their still ongoing bickering dynamic, they empathize with each other over their daddy issues and work especially well as a team. Later, as Mario is at first fearful of Bowser and hiding from him, Donkey Kong defends him by punching Bowser hard. They even share a group hug after Bowser is defeated, hinting that any animosity between them has ended.]] |
| 319 | * WarriorPrince: He's the heir of King Cranky and the strongest Kong in the kingdom. |
| 320 | * WellDoneSonGuy: [[spoiler:He has some insecurities over Cranky not respecting him, mostly due to a difference of opinion towards his showboating attitude.]] |
| 321 | * WillfullyWeak: At the start of his challenge duel, Donkey Kong boasts that he won't need to use any of the power-ups in the arena to defeat Mario. |
| 322 | * TheWorfEffect: He goes up against Bowser and gets trounced within seconds. |
| 323 | [[/folder]] |
| 324 | |
| 325 | [[folder:Cranky Kong]] |
| 326 | !!Cranky Kong |
| 327 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thesupermariobrosmoviecrankykong.png]] |
| 328 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Buckle up!"'']] |
| 329 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/FredArmisen[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Fernando De Luis (EU Spanish), Germán Fabregat (Latin American Spanish), Tony Sevilla (Catalan), Nicolas Marié (EU French), Sébastien Dhavernas (Canadian French), Léo Rabelo (Brazilian Portuguese), Fernando Luís (EU Portuguese), Naomi Kusumi (Japanese), Claes Ljungmark (Swedish), Bernhard Völger (German), Yang Mo (PRC Mandarin), Lee Chung Keung (HK Cantonese), Sun Zhongtai (TW Mandarin), Ryu Hae-moo (Korean), Surawijaya (Indonesian), Supap Chaiwisuthikul (Thai), Nguyễn Hữu Châu (Vietnamese), Creator/PaoloBuglioni (Italian), Tsvika Shvartsberg (Hebrew), Creator/HarisGrigoropoulos (Greek)[[/labelnote]] |
| 330 | |
| 331 | ->''"Enough with the showboating!"'' |
| 332 | \ |
| 333 | The king of the Jungle Kingdom and Donkey Kong's father. Princess Peach seeks out his aid because he has the largest and most skilled army in the known lands, although he's also notoriously aloof and unpredictable. |
| 334 | ---- |
| 335 | * AdaptationalHeroism: If you go by the backstory that Cranky was the one who kidnapped Pauline and fought Mario, then he counts, since this version has done no such things...unless the ''Jump Man'' arcade game is a dramatization of past events. |
| 336 | * AdaptationalJobChange: In the ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' games, Cranky is a retired adventurer who still holds a leadership-type role. Here, he is specifically the king of the Jungle Kingdom. |
| 337 | * AdaptationalLateAppearance: Downplayed since he's still part of the origin story, but in the games, he was [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong famously]] Mario's very first antagonist, appearing before Mario travelled to the Mushroom Kingdom and encountered Princess Peach and Bowser. |
| 338 | * AdaptationalModesty: In the games Cranky doesn't wear any clothes, but here he's dressed in robes with a gold headress to signify his regal status. |
| 339 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: Cranky in the video games is a classic grumpy old man who is in a perpetually foul mood, sneering down his nose at the younger Kongs, mocking their skills and openly berating them as {{Inadequate Inheritor}}s. Even the [[WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry animated]] version was a short-tempered, snarky old jerk. This iteration of Cranky, in contrast, is constantly upbeat and happy throughout most of the movie; he still acts like a jerk, but now it's more mischievous than mean-spirited. He only briefly displays anything close to the classic Cranky's... ''crankiness'' when he sees Donkey Kong showboating at the start of his duel with Mario. |
| 340 | * AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: He never met Mario in his prime and formed a rivalry unlike in the games, with the initial rivalry instead being given to his son. |
| 341 | * AgeLift: Likely to make [[PragmaticAdaptation him being DK's father more plausible,]] Cranky isn't the crochety old ape he usually is in the games, appearing physically adept enough to pass for post middle-age and not even needing a cane. |
| 342 | * AmbiguouslyJewish: He sports a Jewish-sounding accent despite being voiced by a Venezuelan/German/Korean American actor, perhaps because Seth Rogen, who voices his son, comes from a Ukrainian/Russian Jewish family. |
| 343 | * BarefootCartoonAnimal: Unlike all the other Kongs, each of whom is an AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal, he's got a full, {{Mayincatec}}-inspired regal robe and headdress -- but he's still barefoot. Which makes sense because, as an ape, his feet are a second pair of hands. |
| 344 | * TheCaligula: This is how the ''Toads'' seem to regard him, though [[SubvertedTrope when the actual guy is revealed]] he turns out to just be a little unfriendly and hesitant about providing another kingdom with his army. Cranky's subjects are more devoted to his son than they are to Cranky himself and he doesn't seem to take any umbrage with that fact. Apparently [[UniversallyBelovedLeader Peach]] gave them very high standards. |
| 345 | * DecompositeCharacter: In the games, he was the Donkey Kong [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong who kidnapped Pauline and fought Mario]], with his son (or grandson) having [[LegacyCharacter taken over his name]] after he retired. [[FlipFlopOfGod Maybe]]. In the film, he has no history with Mario, kidnapping, or being called Donkey Kong, with his son being the only DK around. |
| 346 | * DistressedDude: [[spoiler:After being ambushed by Bowser on Rainbow Road, he and the other Kongs except Donkey Kong end up in Bowser's cells.]] |
| 347 | * DubPersonalityChange: In the Japanese version, Cranky Kong is less cranky overall, being more weary than aggravated. |
| 348 | * FrontlineGeneral: He personally goes with Princess Peach and leads his Army on Rainbow Road to fight Bowser. |
| 349 | * GoodParents: Though annoyed by his son's showboating, [[spoiler:when DK is seemingly sent plummeting to his death, he is clearly devastated. When DK is revealed to be alive, he doesn't hide how proud he is of him]]. |
| 350 | * GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:After Mario defeats Donkey Kong clean, Cranky looks annoyed, but relents with a "you got me" smile towards Peach.]] |
| 351 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He might seem, well, cranky most of the time, but he is a fair and just ruler: |
| 352 | ** While he at first is unwilling to help the Mushroom Kingdom, he was willing to give Mario, Peach, and Toad a chance to prove themselves, plus he even gave Mario a fighting chance by placing power-ups across the arena with no strings attached. Once Mario wins, he takes it in stride and immediately agrees to help the Mushroom Kingdom. |
| 353 | ** While he, at first, laughs uproariously at Mario's presence the moment the latter challenges him for his army, he quickly proves himself to be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure towards him by striking a deal with him that if Mario can defeat his son Donkey Kong, he will help the Mushroom Kingdom, even though Mario is in a social class lower than him. |
| 354 | ** His behavior towards DK is more of how he sees DK's antics as an embarrassment, not that he's embarrassed to have DK as his son. [[spoiler:When it seems like the Blue Shell sent DK and Mario to their deaths, Cranky is clearly devastated by it. When DK not only is shown to be alive but saves all the prisoners and Cranky, he is overjoyed and actually asks DK to do his signature "Pec Dance", something DK says he'll do later, as there are more pressing matters at the moment, something that clearly impresses Cranky too.]] |
| 355 | * KingKongCopy: Narrative-wise. A group of adventurers (complete with a pretty blonde damsel) travel to an island surrounded by an impenetrable wall whose population have a simian king known as "Kong". |
| 356 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His voice sounds remarkably similar to that of Creator/LarryDavid. |
| 357 | * NonIndicativeName: This version is more of a loud-mouthed [[TheGadfly gadfly]] than the classic GrumpyOldMan from the games and the [[WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry '90s cartoon]]. |
| 358 | * PassThePopcorn: When Donkey Kong is beating the tar out of Mario, while Peach and Toad are horrified, Cranky can be seen picking up a banana with a smile on his face. |
| 359 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Eccentric, aloof and at first unwilling to help the Mushroom Kingdom he may be, he's willing to make a deal with Mario, a person lower in social class than him, the minute the latter challenges him, simply because he was impressed by his bravado despite laughing at his presence earlier. When Mario defeats his son, Donkey Kong, as part of the deal, he takes it in stride and upholds his end of the bargain by helping the Mushroom Kingdom. |
| 360 | * RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: He's Donkey Kong's father instead of grandfather in this movie ([[ContinuitySnarl though that hasn't always been consistent in the past]]). |
| 361 | * SoProudOfYou: [[spoiler:DK earns his respect after he saves him and the others. He even tells DK that he earned a pec flex, though the latter turns it down.]] |
| 362 | * TemptingFate: Cranky brags about his army being the greatest there is. They were overpowered and captured by the Koopa Troop before they could storm Bowser's castle and don't get a chance to show off in the final battle. |
| 363 | * {{Troll}}: Cranky Kong put power-ups in boxes to help level the playing field between Mario and DK, [[spoiler:but he also includes the Mini-Mushroom and Super Bell for nothing else than his own amusement. The Cat Suit ended up backfiring, since it gives Mario increased speed and reflexes, and equips him with a pair of claws that ultimately help him win the fight]]. |
| 364 | [[/folder]] |
| 365 | |
| 366 | [[folder:Diddy Kong]] |
| 367 | !!Diddy Kong |
| 368 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230729_154456_youtube.jpg]] |
| 369 | |
| 370 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EricBauza[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Luis Leonardo Suárez (Latin American Spanish), Enzo Dannemann (Brazilian Portuguese), Zhang Yunqi (TW Mandarin) |
| 371 | |
| 372 | An overenthusiastic fan of Donkey Kong. |
| 373 | ---- |
| 374 | * AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: He's Donkey Kong's best friend in most iconic portrayals of the character, but here, from what we've seen, he's just a fan of DK. |
| 375 | * DemotedToExtra: Diddy is DK's sidekick in his games, makes the occasional appearance in the ''Mario'' series and gained enough fame to warrant [[VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing his own racing game]]. Here he's just a particularly recognizable spectator. |
| 376 | * HeroWorshipper: Most of the Kongs seem to adore Donkey Kong, but Diddy Kong is by far the most demonstrative about it. |
| 377 | [[/folder]] |
| 378 | |
| 379 | [[folder:Kong (species)]] |
| 380 | !!Kongs |
| 381 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230729_154618_youtube.jpg]] |
| 382 | [[caption-width-right:300:]] |
| 383 | |
| 384 | A simian species living on an island near the Mushroom Kingdom. |
| 385 | ---- |
| 386 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: All the Kongs are shown wearing various pieces of clothing, including Donkey Kong with his now iconic monogrammed tie; the only Kong who is fully clothed is Cranky Kong with his royal robe. |
| 387 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: Exactly how smart the Kongs are supposed to be has varied pretty wildly in the games. In the original arcade games, the Kongs are portrayed as effectively just animals -- maybe unusually cunning animals, but still animals. In the original ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' trilogy and its sequel ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'', they are presented as fully sapient beings, using BambooTechnology and speaking their own language. The ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' and the Retro Studios-released ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' titles present them much more like animals, largely by never letting them speak. In the movie, there can be no doubts as to their sapience; they speak, they have highly developed technological tools, and their city is even built around their love of using motor vehicles, an homage to both ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' and ''VideoGame/DiddyKongRacing''. |
| 388 | * AdaptationalModesty: A downplayed example for Dixie Kong. While she usually [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal wears a short tied-up shirt and no pants]], she's clad here in a long basketball top-like shirt that covers her like a sleeveless dress. |
| 389 | * AnthropomorphicShift: The film serves as the end point of this for them - throughout their history, the Kongs have gone from [[NearlyNormalAnimal Nearly Normal Animals]], to having a BambooTechnology-based civilization with their own language of primate grunts that are translated for the player, to their depiction in the film, where they are on a similar/higher technological level as their peers and have no language barrier with the humans and Toads at all. |
| 390 | * TheBusCameBack: For Kongs such as Chunky and Swanky, this is the first time they've appeared in any official ''Mario'' or ''Donkey Kong'' media since the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance remake of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'' in 2005. |
| 391 | * ContinuityCameo: [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1 Diddy Kong]], [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest Dixie Kong, Swanky Kong]], and [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong64 Chunky Kong]] are among the denizens of the Jungle Kingdom. Swanky drives a kart and slips on a banana peel during the "[[Music/{{Aha}} Take On Me]]" segment, while the others show up as audience members during DK's fight against Mario, with Diddy in particular being highlighted as he (with Dixie and Chunky sitting next to him) cheers DK on. Fans have also noticed Kongs that resemble Funky Kong, [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble Kiddy Kong]], VideoGame/DonkeyKongJunior, and even [[WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry Eddie the Mean Old Yeti]] among the movie's background characters, although it is unclear whether these are actual cameos or just generic lookalikes since they're not given any focus. |
| 392 | * FanserviceExtra: Gender inverted for the Great Kong Army members who are ''really'' [[WalkingShirtlessScene shirtless]] in a few scenes, including at the kart workshop where they prepare their travel to the Mushroom Kingdom with Mario, Peach and Toad. |
| 393 | * HeroWorshipper: The Kongs idolize Donkey Kong and indulge his showboating, much to Cranky's frustration. Diddy in particular needs to be specifically called out to stop cheering for his hero. |
| 394 | -->'''Kongs:''' (''cheering'') D! K! Donkey Kong! D! K! Donkey Kong!\ |
| 395 | '''Cranky''': Okay, simmer down!\ |
| 396 | '''Kongs:''' (''continue cheering'') D! K! Donkey Kong!\ |
| 397 | '''Cranky:''' (''yells'') [[BigShutUp I said, simmer down!]]\ |
| 398 | ''(All the Kongs except Diddy stop cheering)''\ |
| 399 | '''Diddy:''' D! K! D! K! D! K!\ |
| 400 | '''Cranky:''' ''That means you, Diddy Kong!''\ |
| 401 | '''Diddy:''' D! K! D— ''(stops mid-cheer and then sits down with a sheepish look on his face)'' [-Sorry-]. |
| 402 | * InformedAttribute: The Kongs are repeatedly described as the strongest fighting force outside of Bowser's army, which is why Peach goes out of her way to negotiate their support. But once they finally join the heroes, they don't really get to show any of it, [[spoiler:as they turn out to have a really bad case of DecapitatedArmy syndrome and ''the entire Kong army'' is captured in mere minutes after DK and Mario are thrown off the Rainbow Road and presumed MIA]]. In the end, they really don't accomplish much outside of Donkey Kong himself. (Granted, they're still the best fighters around by far when compared to the Toads and penguins.) |
| 403 | * IntelligentPrimate: They have an affinity for technology (specifically go-karts) as well as a complex society and city. Their culture seemingly values more than brute strength, as shown by Cranky Kong filling the arena with power-ups that allowed Mario to win by via strategy and intelligent use of the resources at his disposal. |
| 404 | * SillySimian: In general, they're just as fun-loving as the toads but much more high-energy and loud about it, at the expense of [[AmusingInjuries overall safety.]] |
| 405 | * OhCrap: Swanky only has a moment to yell in fear before he drives over a BananaPeel that sends his kart careening. |
| 406 | * WackyRacing: Rather than the Mushroom Kingdom, karting is depicted as a hat of the Jungle Kingdom, with everyone using karts in extremely dangerous ways with the most mundane treatment. |
| 407 | [[/folder]] |
| 408 | |
| 409 | !!!'''Ice Kingdom''' |
| 410 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230729_153726_youtube.jpg]] |
| 411 | A kingdom covered entirely in ice, with the main population being anthropomorphic penguins. |
| 412 | |
| 413 | [[folder:General]] |
| 414 | * BrightCastle: The penguin castle is a beautiful, pristine ice palace before Bowser gets through with it. |
| 415 | * IcePalace: The penguins live in a castle made of ice. Bowser is shown easily destroying it with his fire breath. |
| 416 | * MauveShirt: The Ice Kingdom is set up to demonstrate the threat level that the Koopa Kingdom poses. It's also the place where the Super Star is hidden, granting it a degree of significance to the story. |
| 417 | * SlippySlideyIceWorld: The film opens with Bowser and his forces invading the Ice Kingdom populated by penguins. |
| 418 | [[/folder]] |
| 419 | |
| 420 | [[folder:Penguin King]] |
| 421 | !!Penguin King |
| 422 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/moviepenguin.PNG]] |
| 423 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"That is but a '''taste''' of our fury! Do you yield?"''[[note]]'''[[Characters/SMBMDarkLands Bowser:]]''' ''(chuckles)'' I do ''not.''[[/note]]]] |
| 424 | |
| 425 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KharyPayton (English), Pablo Adán (EU Spanish), Mauricio Pérez (Latin American Spanish), Creator/ThierryDesroses (EU French), Fayolle Jean Jr. (Canadian French), Marco Ribeiro (Brazilian Portuguese), Creator/AntonOlofssonRaeder (Swedish), Axel Malzacher (German), Chen Guowei (TW Mandarin), Fitra Hartono (Indonesian), Rattanachai Luangwongngam (Thai), Francesco De Francesco (Italian), Yuval Yanai (Hebrew)[[/labelnote]] |
| 426 | |
| 427 | The ruler of a kingdom of penguins that Bowser invades. |
| 428 | ---- |
| 429 | * BoisterousWeakling: When Bowser invades his kingdom, he proudly and confidently stands his ground against Bowser, even after his snowball attacks do absolutely zero damage to the Koopa King. |
| 430 | * CanonForeigner: The penguins never had a monarch in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''. Thus, the Penguin King is a new character created for the movie. |
| 431 | * TheComicallySerious: The entire point of his characterization. He's a dead-serious king who attempts to lead his troops to victory, but he's also a tiny penguin who attacks his foes with snowballs. |
| 432 | * CurbStompBattle: He's on the receiving end of one from [[EvilSorcerer Kamek]], who uses his magic to push his entire army away in one fell swoop, and their {{snowball|Fight}}s do barely more than leave Bowser unimpressed and hit a single Koopa soldier. |
| 433 | * FateWorseThanDeath: Being trapped above a pit of lava is bad enough for a creature acclimated to an icy environment, but the ''real'' torture is having to be within earshot of Lumalee while he harps on about how hopeless things are. |
| 434 | * GrinOfAudacity: The king of the penguins can be seen smiling with furrowed brows as he orders his soldiers to attack the Koopas -- even though [[CurbStompBattle his confidence is woefully misplaced]]. |
| 435 | * LittleNo: The Penguin King gives one when watching Bowser destroy the entire ice palace with his fire breath. |
| 436 | * NiceGuy: Assures Luigi not to listen to [[StrawNihilist Lumalee]]. |
| 437 | * NoNameGiven: He is merely referred to as "Penguin King". |
| 438 | * RequisiteRoyalRegalia: He's the only penguin with a crown and ermine cape. This confirms he is the king of the penguins and their kingdom. He continues to wear them even while a prisoner of Bowser. |
| 439 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: He leads his troops into battle as if he was their general, and directly tries to confront Bowser and get him to call off the invasion... though his snowballs [[NoSell barely do anything]] to Bowser. |
| 440 | * OutOfFocus: While the destruction of his Kingdom from Bowser and his theft of the Super Star is what kickstarts the plot, the Penguin King is a minor character that has very little scenes in which he appears, which is not helped by the fact that those scenes are short and show him sharing his limited screentime with Luigi, who also suffers this in the middle part of the movie, and Lumalee. Whenever he's on-screen, he's stuck putting up with Lumalee's macabre jokes. After he's freed in the last 15 minutes of the movie, he completely disappears. |
| 441 | * ShooOutTheClowns: He's out of the movie when DK stops the prisoners from being lowered into the lava and gets them to safety. The violence intensifies after this. |
| 442 | * UnderequippedCharge: He and his forces had military preparation. The problem is, said preparation was just enough for a glorified snowball fight and not an actual life-or-death war with a monster that breathes fire. |
| 443 | * VocalDissonance: A tiny, cute penguin with a regal, commanding deep voice. |
| 444 | * YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: The Penguin King exclaims this almost word-for-word after Lumalee mentions the only escape from Bowser's dungeon is death. |
| 445 | [[/folder]] |
| 446 | |
| 447 | [[folder:Penguins]] |
| 448 | !!Penguins |
| 449 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230729_154002_youtube.jpg]] |
| 450 | * AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: The only things the penguins wear are some belts and bandanas (and a crown and ermine cape for the king). |
| 451 | * BigShadowLittleCreature: The penguins are introduced as huge shadows looming on the gates of their kingdom, scaring a Koopa. Then the gates open and it's revealed that they are smaller than the gate itself. |
| 452 | * FishEyes: Whenever the penguins holler, their eyes go off in different directions. |
| 453 | * IcePalace: The penguins live in a castle made of ice. Bowser is shown easily destroying it with his fire breath. |
| 454 | * ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: In the opening scene, very few of the snowballs the penguins throw at Bowser and the Koopas even hit their targets ([[UnderequippedCharge not that it would have made any difference]]). |
| 455 | * PenguinsAreDucks: The penguins, much like the ones that appear in the games, have broad, duck-like beaks. |
| 456 | * PolarPenguins: The film begins with Bowser invading the penguins' kingdom, which features a giant castle made of ice. The penguins try (and fail) to attack the Koopa Troop with snowballs. |
| 457 | * SnowballFight: When Bowser invades the kingdom, its king orders his troops to throw snowballs at the invaders. Unsurprisingly, outside of one Koopa getting knocked out by a large, catapult-flung snowball, this does absolutely nothing. |
| 458 | [[/folder]] |
| 459 | |
| 460 | !!!'''Yoshi's Island''' |
| 461 | [[folder:Yoshi (species)]] |
| 462 | !!Yoshis |
| 463 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230730_171414_youtube.jpg]] |
| 464 | |
| 465 | A saurian species living on an island near the Mushroom Kingdom. |
| 466 | ---- |
| 467 | * AdvertisedExtra: That one shot of them in the trailer? That's the ''only'' shot of them in the entire movie, and they don't have any story relevance, only being part of a TravelMontage. [[spoiler:Aside from the green Yoshi egg, which similarly only gets two short shots during the movie proper -- and a SequelHook after the credits.]] |
| 468 | * AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: A variety of the Yoshis have colors seen in the games -- including red, yellow, cyan, pink, and black. [[{{Foreshadowing}} Conspicuously absent]] is the green Yoshi, which is canonically treated as the "main" one. [[spoiler:One of the guests brings a green Yoshi egg as a present for Bowser and Peach's wedding, and in TheStinger, the egg is seen in the underground Brooklyn sewers... and ''hatching''.]] |
| 469 | * TheCameo: They appear in all of one shot in the film. [[spoiler:Although a green Yoshi egg is one of the wedding presents and is shown hatching in the post-credits sequence.]] |
| 470 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: None of the Yoshis in the movie are colored [[spoiler:green.]] |
| 471 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Subtly referenced. As the heroes travel across the Yoshi homeland on their way to the Jungle Kingdom, Mario grabs a [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld berry]] to eat. A pink Yoshi in the background pauses to look at this and starts enviously licking its lips. |
| 472 | [[/folder]] |
| 473 | |
| 474 | [[folder:The Brooklyn Sewers Visitor '''(MAJOR UNMARKED SPOILERS)''']] |
| 475 | !! Yoshi Egg |
| 476 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Kazumi Totaka (archival) |
| 477 | |
| 478 | A green Yoshi egg that was stranded in the sewers of Brooklyn after the Mario Bros. defeated Bowser. |
| 479 | ---- |
| 480 | * AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In ''Super Mario World'', it's established that the green Yoshi was imprisoned in its egg by Bowser, but the movie confirms that Bowser at the very least didn't personally capture this Yoshi, as the egg was intended to be a wedding gift presented by one of Bowser's Koopas. |
| 481 | * EarlyBirdCameo: The green Yoshi egg can be seen on the table of gifts at Bowser and Peach's wedding. During the final confrontation it was stranded in the sewers of Brooklyn. |
| 482 | * SequelHook: After being presented at Bowser's wedding as a gift, the green Yoshi egg ended up in Brooklyn's sewers, and it's hatching... |
| 483 | * SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: The green Yoshi egg understandably does not appear in any of the promotional material in part because it sets up a possible sequel. |
| 484 | * WalkingSpoiler: The one scene it appears in with any plot relevance is TheStinger, a kind of scene known for containing spoilers, with said relevance being a spoiler since its appearance hints at the green Yoshi appearing in the sequel. |
| 485 | [[/folder]] |
| 486 | |
| 487 | !!!'''Other Inhabitants''' |
| 488 | [[folder:Lumalee]] |
| 489 | !!Lumalee |
| 490 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2023_04_07_20446_pm.png]] |
| 491 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"There's no escape. The only hope is the sweet relief of '''death.'''"'']] |
| 492 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Juliet Jelenic, Yuya Takezawa (chirps)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Valeria Garzón (EU Spanish), Victoria Céspedes (Latin American Spanish), Kaycie Chase (EU French), Lily Rose Régnier (Canadian French), Monique Filardy (Brazilian Portuguese), Catarina Machado (EU Portuguese), Ann Yamane (Japanese), Ines Kolonej (Swedish), Luiza Kampf (German), Wang Yunhan (TW Mandarin), Ayesha Tanziila Nugraha (Indonesian), Wirachat Wongkrajang (Thai), Dương Ngọc Hà (Vietnamese), Giulietta Rebeggiani (Italian), Liana Shachar (Hebrew)[[/labelnote]] |
| 493 | |
| 494 | A Luma held captive by Bowser. |
| 495 | ---- |
| 496 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Lumalee in the games is shown to be just as cheerful as the other Lumas. In the movie, he's the main source of BlackComedy as he cheerfully accepts being one of Bowser's prisoners [[spoiler:and sacrifices]]. |
| 497 | * AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In the games, Lumas in general didn't appear until ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', where Mario already had a long career. Here, one appears during Mario's origin story. |
| 498 | * AdaptationPersonalityChange: Big time, though it’s PlayedForLaughs. Lumalee was a friendly, cheery little shopkeeper in the ''Galaxy'' games; here, he’s a CreepyChild and a StrawNihilist, and only acts cheery because it humorously contradicts his negative attitude. |
| 499 | * TheAntiNihilist: Lumalee is a StrawNihilist for the movie proper, [[spoiler:but before the credits, he gives a speech to the audience about how now that the movie is over, there’s nothing left but “[the viewers] and the infinite void”... and then he decides to play the saxophone for them.]] |
| 500 | * BlackComedy: He talks about how there is no escape from Bowser's Castle and that the only hope is "the sweet relief of death" with a childish voice, much to the penguins' dismay. |
| 501 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: [[spoiler:Before the credits roll, Lumalee pops out and drops one more existential bomb on the audience, as he did with his fellow prisoners. Then he [[MoodWhiplash whips out a saxophone and the main credits begin]]]]. |
| 502 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Is considered such according to the Penguin King. |
| 503 | -->'''Penguin King:''' Pay him no heed. He is cute, but he is... ''(makes cuckoo whistle)'' |
| 504 | * CrazySane: Lumalee makes a comment implying he sees himself and his attitude towards death this way. |
| 505 | * CreepyChild: The contrast between his childlike voice and his cheery disposition towards wanting to die is PlayedForLaughs. |
| 506 | * CuteAndPsycho: As the Penguin King puts it, the Lumalee is adorable but has a disturbingly twisted mind. |
| 507 | * DeathSeeker: He brings up a variety of macabre topics unprompted, and comments that the only escape from the dungeon is "the sweet relief of death." [[spoiler:When the prisoners are being lowered into Bowser's lava pit, he happily exclaims "Wheeeeeee!" and joyously giggles. He reacts with disappointment upon being saved]]. |
| 508 | * TheEeyore: Though, not in the conventional sense. His attitude is chipper, but his comments are exceedingly pessimistic, to the point that the penguins see him as a complete downer who's bringing down the mood in an already-grim situation. |
| 509 | * {{Foil}}: According to the DVD interview, Lumalee is something of an "Anti-Mario"; whereas Mario is chipper and unrelentingly optimistic, Lumalee is chipper and exceedingly nihilistic. |
| 510 | * {{Hammerspace}}: He can pull out random objects from nowhere like a pinwheel, a bubble wand and a saxophone. |
| 511 | * HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:He's a really great saxophone player.]] |
| 512 | * {{Irony}}: In ''Super Mario Galaxy'', Lumalee sold 1-Up Mushrooms, an item that famously grants Mario or Luigi an extra life. His role gets turned on its head in this movie since he mostly talks about death. |
| 513 | * NoodleIncident: Unlike the penguins, Luigi, and [[spoiler:the Kongs]], it's never revealed how he ended up in Bowser's captivity, particularly when there are no other Lumas and Rosalina is nowhere to be seen. |
| 514 | * PerpetualSmiler: He says the most morbid things while maintaining a cute little smile. The only time he frowns is when he's [[spoiler:''denied'' the "sweet relief of death," and as he [[BreakingTheFourthWall talks to the audience at the end]]... [[MoodWhiplash at least until he pulls out his saxophone]]]]. |
| 515 | * PlayAlongPrisoner: He could easily escape from his cage and even floats out of it once or twice, but stays in there seemingly because he wants to. |
| 516 | * ShesAManInJapan: Lumalee is originally referred to as a "he", but in the Croatian version (both dubbed and subtitled) he's female. |
| 517 | * ShooOutTheClowns: He disappears from the movie after [[spoiler:DK saves him and the other prisoners from the lava. After this, the stakes and violence intensify. Naturally, he comes back at the end of the movie when the danger is over.]] |
| 518 | * StrawNihilist: Lumalee is comically obsessed with death and oblivion. [[spoiler:That being said, he comes off as more of TheAntiNihilist when he [[BreakingTheFourthWall addresses the audience just before the credits]].]] |
| 519 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: It's implied that he is a child given his voice. However long he's been in Bowser's castle, it must have taken its toll since all he talks about is hopelessness and he's been driven to wanting to die. |
| 520 | * UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler:Does not appreciate being rescued from the lava pit. [[JustifiedTrope Mainly because he]] ''[[DeathSeeker wants]]'' [[DeathSeeker to die]].]] |
| 521 | -->[[spoiler:'''Lumalee:''' Booooo!]] |
| 522 | * WinkDing: He gives a wink with an audible "ding" after he [[spoiler:starts playing the saxophone after his talk about the movie being over and there being only "you and an endless void"]]. |
| 523 | [[/folder]] |
| 524 | |
| 525 | [[folder:Cheep-Cheeps]] |
| 526 | !!Cheep-Cheeps |
| 527 | [[quoteright:290:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230730_172213_youtube.jpg]] |
| 528 | Large red fish that are present in between the various islands. |
| 529 | ---- |
| 530 | * FlyingSeafoodSpecial: One part of the trio's trek to the Jungle Kingdom shows Mario, Peach, and Toad crossing a bridge with Cheep Cheeps jumping from an unseen body of water over them (referencing certain levels from the original ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''). |
| 531 | * PersonalSpaceInvader: While crossing a bridge on the path to the Jungle Kingdom, a Cheep-Cheep flies itself onto Mario's face. |
| 532 | [[/folder]] |
| 533 | |
| 534 | [[folder:Maw-Ray]] |
| 535 | !!Maw-Ray |
| 536 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230729_160005_youtube.jpg]] |
| 537 | |
| 538 | A gigantic eel. |
| 539 | ---- |
| 540 | * BurpOfFinality: [[spoiler:Shortly after eating Mario and DK, the Maw-Ray releases a quiet underwater belch.]] Averted in that [[spoiler:they do manage to escape, negating the finality]]. |
| 541 | * TheDarknessGazesBack: The Maw-Ray's existence onscreen is unnoticeable until it suddenly shuts its mouth, revealing all of its teeth. |
| 542 | * ExtremeOmnivore: The Maw-Ray's stomach contains blocks, shards of road, karts, and other assorted anomalies it should not be picking up from the way it chases Mario and DK. Even in its sleep it accidentally inhales a Blooper into its guts effortlessly. |
| 543 | * GettingEatenIsHarmless: [[spoiler:[[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged]]. It swallows both Mario and DK whole, holding them harmlessly inside it. Naturally, this results in TooSpicyForYogSothoth with a rocket. This is somewhat justified as Mario and DK were very clearly not in its stomach acid area yet and DK even comments that they will inevitably be slowly digested to death.]] |
| 544 | * GlowingEyes: Initially, the only part of it visible other than its teeth are its glowing blue eyes. |
| 545 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: All of the characters in this movie are faithful adaptations of their video game designs with slight adjustments (or a new costume in the case of Cranky Kong), with the notable exception of the Maw-Ray [[spoiler:that Mario and Donkey Kong encounter in the ocean]], which looks more realistic than its counterpart from ''Super Mario 64'', and also looks different than its design in ''Super Mario Odyssey'', which was also a more realistic version of the character design. |
| 546 | * RibcageStomach: The Maw-Ray has its ribcage lining its stomach above where food rests in an anatomical structure much closer to humans than real world eels. |
| 547 | * SeaMonster: A giant eel monster who lurks in the ocean [[spoiler:the Rainbow Road]] crosses over. |
| 548 | * ScaryTeeth: Each of its fangs are just as large as its ''eye''. |
| 549 | * SwallowedWhole: With all those teeth, [[spoiler:it makes no effort to chew its prey before sending them down.]] |
| 550 | * WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises / OneEyedShot: The shot of the Maw-Ray as [[spoiler:it begins to get sudden indigestion]]. When it [[spoiler:belches up its prey]], its eyes remain wide open before shutting tightly in pain. |
| 551 | * YourSizeMayVary: When it first appears, Mario and DK fit side by side in its mouth. In its final appearance, their kart is the size of one of its teeth. |
| 552 | [[/folder]] |
| 553 | |
| 554 | [[folder:Bloopers]] |
| 555 | !!Bloopers |
| 556 | White cephalopods. |
| 557 | ---- |
| 558 | * GettingEatenIsHarmless: One gets swallowed by the Maw-Ray, but the Maw-Ray's insides have their own ecosystem, so it doesn't seem like it will suffer immediately. |
| 559 | * OhCrap: The Blooper that gets eaten looks visibly panicked when it realizes it's about to get sucked into the mouth of a giant eel. |
| 560 | [[/folder]] |
| 561 | |
| 562 | [[folder:King Bob-omb]] |
| 563 | !!King Bob-omb |
| 564 | [[quoteright:500:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maxresdefault_272.jpg]] |
| 565 | The King of the Bob-ombs. |
| 566 | ---- |
| 567 | * ActionBomb: He explodes during the scuffle at Bowser's wedding. |
| 568 | * TheCameo: He appears momentarily as a guest at Bowser's wedding. |
| 569 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: When he realizes he can't put out his fuse, he sadly sighs and stops trying to put it out. |
| 570 | * HeavySleeper: He nods off during the wedding and somehow manages to sleep through all of the chaos caused by [[spoiler:Peach getting the Ice Flower]], only waking up when his fuse is lit by Peach. |
| 571 | * OhCrap: He starts to lose it when Peach lights his fuse. |
| 572 | * ThisIsGonnaSuck: When Peach lights his fuse, he panics trying to put it out, before he stops and groans, accepting his fate. |
| 573 | * TheVoiceless: Even though he's perfectly capable of speech in the games, he doesn't speak once during the movie. Though he does make some audible grunting and screaming noises when his fuse is lit. |
| 574 | [[/folder]] |
| 575 | |
| 576 | [[folder:King Boo]] |
| 577 | !!King Boo |
| 578 | [[quoteright:298:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_20230810_050326_youtube.jpg]] |
| 579 | The King of the ghost-like Boos. |
| 580 | ---- |
| 581 | * TheCameo: Like King Bob-omb, he appears as a guest at [[spoiler:Bowser's wedding]]. He's also the only member of the Boo species that shows up in the movie. |
| 582 | * DirtyCoward: Implied. Unlike the other wedding guests, Boo doesn’t jump into action. Instead, he remains in his seat and later flees the battle offscreen as soon as things start going south. |
| 583 | * FairWeatherFriend: He's implied to be one to Bowser. Despite Bowser inviting him to his wedding, he doesn't move a ghostly muscle to help when Peach starts fighting Bowser's forces. A later shot also shows he's absent, meaning he left at some point off screen. |
| 584 | * LivingProp: He has no lines and does nothing of significance in the film, simply mingling with the crowd and not even participating in the wedding battle or the one in Brooklyn. |
| 585 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Peach freezes Bowser at [[spoiler:the wedding]], all guests jump in to attack her, except for King Boo who quietly leaves the wedding offscreen. |
| 586 | [[/folder]] |
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