Film Theory: Mario is IMMORTAL! (Super Mario Movie)

what is known as infantile amnesia, the natural and gradual loss of memories from the first years of life. In this scene, we see Peach using a pacifier, but he can walk too. Now human babies start walking between ten and 18 months, and pacifiers can honestly be kept around as long as parents are willing to let their children use them. Long story short, Peach in this scene is probably around two years old. And even if Peach was human and she knew it at that age, that knowledge would likely have been lost as part of the childhood amnesia process.

Instead, the knowledge of what a human being is seems more like a kind of innate knowledge that an intergalactic traveler might have, or at least someone who has acquired a lot of knowledge about the different galaxies and the races they contain. There is also a lot of evidence we can bring here from the games. In some really old game theories that are almost nine years old at this point. We talked about the origins and ancestry of the character Rosalina, the space-traveling princess from the Mario Galaxy games, who is literally the mother of stars. Those theories are great, by the way.

They hold up very well. They're old, but man, to this day they're some of my favorites we've ever made. Anyway, to quickly recap here throughout Super Mario Galaxy, Rosalina reads a storybook about a sad little girl searching for A luma's missing mother. Although it is never explicitly stated, it is likely that the story is about Rosalina herself. In the book, we see glimpses of Rosalina's mother, who looks an awful lot like Peach and also has Peach earrings. We also see Rosalina's childhood castle, one that has the exact same silhouette as Peach's Castle in most depictions, symmetrical spiers on the sides and a large spire in the middle.

Genetically, Rosalina's eye color, hair color, earlobes, and even her left-handedness would match Peach's. And even the author of this part of the storybook game has gone on record as saying that his original intention was for Rosalina and Peach to be related. There is also the French translation of this story, which mentions a father's characteristic mustache. So isn't it suspicious that the

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goes out of its way to promote the connection between Peach and other galaxies? The

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makers are doing everything they can, but explaining that Peach is Rosalina's mother in the night sky. Furthermore, the

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's captive nihilist Lumalee flatly says that time like hope is an illusion.

Another point towards that old

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of iterative variants of the universe and the connection between Peach and the stars. I suspect in the third

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they will realize the family connection and then there will be a final reboot of the timeline to start all over again. Exactly what we saw with the original Mario Galaxy. And finally, that brings us to

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number four, or, I guess, observation number four. As we mentioned earlier, we see Mario playing Kid Icarus on the Nintendo Entertainment System, the first home console Nintendo released in the United States. At first you may be thinking, so what?

Famous Nintendo product that appears as an Easter egg in a movie about Nintendo's most important franchise. What's the problem with that? Well, it's actually huge. You see, if Mario is a real person in this universe, that means his games don't exist. Now, some version of Donkey Kong or in this case, Jump Man still exists in this universe. We see an altered version of the original Donkey Kong Arcade cabinet at the Punch-Out pizzeria with a yeti in DK's place and different humans in Mario and Lady's places. But everything that Mario as an IP has touched doesn't really seem to be a thing in this world.

The existence of the Punch-Out pizzeria means that Mike Tyson's Punch-Out could not have been a game. In fact, Mario's complete lack of appreciation for the Mushroom Kingdom, Donkey Kong, the Koopa Army, Yoshi's imagery, all of this means that there's basically nothing related to Mario Brothers or Yoshi's Island or Donkey Kong as a video game in this world. . . At first glance, this may not seem like much until you remember that without Mario games there would be no Nintendo. When the NES hit store shelves, the United States was in the midst of the video game crisis of 1983. Consumers didn't trust video games because there was a huge surplus of poorly made garbage games like the infamous Atari version of E.T. years before.

That sentiment could only change when Nintendo released the Nintendo Entertainment System, marketing it more as a toy than a video game, proving that games could really be good. And the main way they showed that the original Super Mario Brothers platformer was a package title for the console. Americans only started to trust video games again when they saw Super Mario Brothers and saw that it was a fun, high-quality game. And the figures absolutely reflect this fact. The Nintendo Entertainment System had a launch lineup of 17 games, including Kung Fu, Hogan's Alley, Gyromite, and Excitebike. A lot of them that, you know, really set the world on fire, clearly.

And then of course there were games with creative titles like Golf, Pinball, Baseball and of course there was Mario. And of that group, Mario stood out far above the rest. Of the five best-selling NES games, three of them are Mario games. Super Mario Brothers alone as a bundled title for the console sold 40 million units. It is one of the best-selling video games of all time. The Mario games that top the list total around 65 million units sold. The only game in the top five that isn't a bundle or a Mario game sold 8 million. Zelda, Nintendo's second-highest performing IP, only sold 6.5 million, and let's not even talk about Kid Icarus, which couldn't even crack the top 30 with only 1.7 million units sold.

What I'm trying to say here is that without the Mario games, the NES probably wouldn't have caught the public's attention, and Nintendo probably wouldn't have survived the changing era of entertainment. Hell! Video games themselves may not have existed as a medium, considering Mario was the game that regained everyone's trust. At the very least, the industry would likely have been set back at least a decade from where it is today. No Super Mario means no revolutionary new 3D video game controls with Mario 64. That means no new 3D platforming revolution leading to games like Banjo Kazooie, Spyro the Dragon, and Ocarina of Time.

Without Mario Kart, without Super Smash Brothers, completely leaving out two of the most impactful and best-selling video game franchises of all time, and the lackluster growth of video games would probably also translate into differences on Sony PlayStation and Xbox. And all this without even touching all the ancillary businesses like CGI technology, all the amazing lighters, shaders and game engines that have been built from games and all those games from Mario. Since Mario is a real guy in this world rather than a video game character, it means that one of Nintendo's other IPs had to have been the one to spearhead the resurgence of video games as we know them.

And based on the fact that Mario has F-Zero posters and Star Fox replicas, but no Triforce merchandise, no Kirby Plushie, no Samus calendar, it means that none of those were made into games in this universe either. In short, what we're seeing in the Mario movie is a timeline in which Kid Icarus was the key app for the renaissance of Nintendo games, all its vertical platforms, all its eggplants, all of this. Oh no, we have entered the darkest timeline. But hey! That's just a theory, A FILM THEORY and cut. Given the great success of the Mario movie and the Last of US series.

I hope we see many more tie-ins to these video games in the future. I mean, apparently we're already getting a Minecraft movie directed by Jason Momoa, and I shudder to think what we'll have to talk about on this channel when the FNAF movie finally comes out. But we will be there. So if you want to see what theories we come up with when those movies start coming out and the trailers hit the subscribe button like you're smashing Bowser in the face. That way, you'll be the first to see when all those things will activate. And as always, my friends, we'll see you next week.