The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Opens the Door to a Full Super Smash Bros. Film, Where Any Nintendo Character Can Appear in the Future

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie features an in-universe mentation for wherefore Star Fox leader Fox McCloud is abruptly mixing with Mario and Bowser — and it opens the doorway to a afloat Super Smash Bros. Movie successful future.

Warning! Spoilers for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie follow:

Earlier this month, Nintendo stunned fans by revealing the information that Star Fox would look successful The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which begins launching astir the satellite successful a substance of hours. Fox is, of course, a quality who exists successful his ain acceptable of games wholly unrelated to Mario — and yet present helium present is, hanging astir with the Mushroom Kingdom's finest.

How is Fox successful the Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and what does this mean for Nintendo's cinematic beingness going forward? Head beneath for more, but beware of mild spoilers for the movie itself. We won't, however, spoil immoderate quality that Nintendo itself hasn't already confirmed.

After his instauration mid-way done the movie, Fox plays a amazingly cardinal relation successful Mario's program to decision Bowser Jr., acting arsenic a heroic Han Solo-like aviator for the film's set of heroes, including Luigi, Peach, Toad, and Yoshi.

At 1 point, Mario asks however Fox got separated from his accustomed unit — Falco Lombardi, Peppy Hare, and Slippy Toad — to which Fox replies that helium travelled done a wormhole from different universe. At the extremity of the movie, Fox references an quality to caput backmost home, suggesting that question betwixt universes isn't really that large of a woody — astatine slightest for a Glen Powell-voiced roguish abstraction skipper specified himself.

Elsewhere successful the movie, Nintendo's lovable Pikmin besides concisely marque an quality — different crossover that was confirmed earlier the movie launched. While Nintendo fable Shigeru Miyamoto has antecedently told IGN that Pikmin are thing of an objection to Nintendo's regularisation that characters typically enactment successful their ain universes (and really Pikmin person been making sporadic cameos successful Nintendo games for 20 years), connected insubstantial this appears to beryllium yet different illustration of cross-universe travel.

That, oregon the Pikmin's location satellite (which is Earth, wherever Mario exists arsenic a fictional video crippled character) besides exists successful the aforesaid world arsenic the Mushroom Kingdom, which seems unlikely.

Already, fans person been cross-referencing the Galaxy movie's agelong formed database with the Super Smash Bros. bid roster, and realizing that a decent chunk of the game's fighters are already determination connected screen. Mario, Luigi, Peach, Rosalina, Bowser, Bowser Jr., Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Fox, Pikmin, and ROB are each confirmed (and you could astir apt besides number Piranha Plant successful that number).

And that's not talking astir the Galaxy movie's different additions, which we won't spoil here.

Crucially, though, Nintendo appears to person established that inter-universe question is imaginable successful its Mario films — meaning that, lore-wise, determination is thing to halt further crossovers from happening. If anything, the sheer fig of additions successful Galaxy and the cardinal relation of Fox, a quality from extracurricular the accustomed Mario universe, suggests that we should expect much of this from the inevitable 3rd Super Mario Movie (and perchance that leaked Donkey Kong spinoff, too).

Watching the Mario Galaxy Movie, it's hard not to gully comparisons with the Marvel films, which steadily built up a halfway set of characters to the constituent wherever they could look unneurotic successful The Avengers, erstwhile a suitably large Thanos-level menace came along. Two films in, Nintendo has been contented to pit Mario against Bowser and Bowser Jr., but it volition surely privation to debar repetition successful a 3rd movie — and up the stakes. Is it clip for Master Hand, the brag of Super Smash Bros., to marque his large surface appearance? And who volition reply the telephone if so that happens?

For now, each we tin accidental is the Super Mario Galaxy Movie allows for beauteous overmuch immoderate quality to look successful aboriginal — though astir apt not the stars of adjacent year's The Legend of Zelda movie, which volition beryllium live-action.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social