This story contains spoilers for โThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie.โ
Everybodyโs favorite fearless and super capable princess is back for another adventure โ along with the denizens of her kingdom and a pair of New York plumber brothers โ in โThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie.โ
Now in theaters, the follow-up to the 2023 blockbuster โThe Super Mario Bros. Movieโ sees Princess Peach, Mario, Luigi and Toad joined by some new yet also very familiar faces as they try to thwart yet another evil plan by a member of the Bowser clan. The result is some intergalactic travel and family-friendly action.
Directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, who also helmed the first film, โThe Super Mario Galaxy Movieโ formally introduces into Nintendoโs movie universe the cosmically powerful Rosalina and her flock of star-shaped Lumas, Bowserโs ambitious mini-me, Bowser Jr., the insatiable dinosaur-like Yoshi, ace pilot Fox McCloud and more video game fan favorites. (That includes Mr. Game & Watch, one of Nintendoโs earliest playable characters.)
These introductions, of course, donโt stop when the filmโs main story ends.
Much like the first installment, โThe Super Mario Galaxy Movieโ features a couple of bonus scenes that are shown after the credits begin to roll. The first is a mid-credits scene that involves a breakout character from โThe Super Mario Bros. Movie,โ and the second, shown after the credits end, introduces another Nintendo royal.
Many Lumas appear in โThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie.โ
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The mid-credits scene is justice for Lumalee
Lumalee quickly won audiences over in โThe Super Mario Bros. Movieโ with his cheerfully nihilistic one-liners while imprisoned by Bowser. The blue Luma doesnโt appear during the main story of โThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie,โ but the star-shaped creature steals the mid-credits scene.
The bonus scene takes place sometime after the movieโs main story ends at the prison where Bowser and Bowser Jr. have been locked up. After Fox teases a possible sequel or โStar Foxโ spin-off by mentioning he is finally โheading homeโ as he approaches his ship, audiences get a glimpse of whatโs in store for the Bowser duoโs foreseeable future.
Peace may not be an option, because their prison guard is former Bowser captive Lumalee. And the role reversal โ complete with uniform โ doesnโt appear to have changed Lumaleeโs outlook on life in any way.
The blue Luma said it best in the first โMarioโ movie: โLife is sad, prison is sad, life in prison is very, very sad.โ Just how sad things might get for the Bowsers will be up to Lumalee.
Peach fights off some Ninjis in โThe Super Mario Galaxy Movie.โ
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The second post-credits scene introduces a new princess
The final bonus scene in โThe Super Mario Galaxy Movieโ is more of a teaser for what could come in a future โMarioโ installment.
This stinger takes place back at the hub known as the Gateway Galaxy. The mischievous thieving monkey Ukiki is once again trying to make off with the belongings of a passerby when he is stopped by another traveler: Princess Daisy.
Daisy is a character that first appeared in the 1989 Game Boy game โSuper Mario Land.โ Much like Peach in the first โSuper Mario Bros.โ video game, Daisy was the princess players were trying to rescue. She has since become a Nintendo regular, being featured as a playable character in โMarioโ-related titles including in the โMario Kart,โ โMario Partyโ and โSuper Smash Bros.โ series of games as well as the latest main series installment, โSuper Mario Wonder.โ
Although Daisy does not have any lines in the film, the video game incarnation of her is known to be energetic and feisty.
This brief glimpse of Daisy is another indication that there is more to come in the Mario movie franchise. Audiences will have to wait to see if (or when) a third movie is officially announced.
