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'''Mario Mario''', played by the late [[Bob Hoskins]], is the main character of the 1993 film ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' He is portrayed as a [[Brooklyn]]-born plumber and co-owner of [[Mario Brothers Plumbing|Mario Bros. Plumbing]], a family business, with his younger brother [[Luigi (film character)|Luigi]]. He represents [[Mario|the main protagonist]] of the [[Mario (franchise)|video game franchise]] on which the film is based, but is separate from the official depictions of the [[Nintendo]] mascot. Unlike his in-game counterpart, Mario is portrayed in the film as grumpy, rude, and practical, and is initially the least willing to save Daisy of the two brothers. According to director Rocky Morton, the film was meant to show the "real" story that the games were based off of, which is supported by the post-credits scene where Iggy and Spike are commissioned to make their own video game.<ref>Meli, Jowi.[http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/11/interview_rocky_morton_on_the_chaos_of_directing_the_super_mario_bros_movie Interview: Rocky Morton On The Chaos Of Directing The Super Mario Bros. Movie], ''Nintendo Life''. November 3, 2014 (retrieved November 3, 2014)</ref> Hoskins was once reported expressing personal distaste for his work in this role.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/aug/03/2 "The Guardian" interview]</ref>
'''Mario Mario''', played by the late [[Bob Hoskins]], is the main character of the 1993 film ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' He is portrayed as a [[Brooklyn]]-born plumber and co-owner of [[Mario Brothers Plumbing|Mario Bros. Plumbing]], a family business, with his younger brother [[Luigi (film character)|Luigi]]. While taking strong inspirations from [[Mario]]'s [[Mario (franchise)|video game franchise]], he has notable differences from his video game depictions. Unlike his in-game counterpart, Mario is portrayed in the film as grumpy, rude, and practical, and is initially the least willing to save [[Princess Daisy (film character)|Daisy]] of the two brothers. According to director Rocky Morton, the film was meant to show the "real" story that the games were based off of, which is supported by the post-credits scene where Iggy and Spike are commissioned to make their own video game.<ref>Meli, Jowi.[http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/11/interview_rocky_morton_on_the_chaos_of_directing_the_super_mario_bros_movie Interview: Rocky Morton On The Chaos Of Directing The Super Mario Bros. Movie], ''Nintendo Life''. November 3, 2014 (retrieved November 3, 2014)</ref> Hoskins was once reported expressing personal distaste for his work in this role.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/aug/03/2 "The Guardian" interview]</ref>


==History==
==History==
Most of Mario's early life is unknown. It is known that, at a young age, he had to raise his younger brother (who never knew his parents). As they grew older, he trained Luigi in the family trade.
===Backstory===
As Mario and Luigi mention in one scene, Mario raised his younger brother, Luigi from a young age. Luigi mentions having never known his parents or family so he sees Mario as having fulfilled the role of mother, father, uncle and brother. It is not elaborated on the circumstances of the parental abandonment. As the two brothers grew older, Mario trained Luigi in the plumber business and the two have been working as plumbers in the "Mario Brothers Plumbing" but their business has been tapering and they have been running low on money.  


One day, Mario receives a call from River Front Café, requesting their services. As they prepare to leave, the bros start to argue over their financial problems, Mario complaining about Luigi spending money on a tabloid magazine called the ''New York Post''. Luigi replies by saying that there is an article on missing Brooklyn girls, though Mario does not care. They head to the restaurant, taking what Luigi called a "shortcut" through an alleyway to get there, only to see that rival business Scapelli Construction had arrived first.
===''Super Mario Bros.'' film===
[[File:MarioDaniella.jpg|thumb|260px|left|Mario and his girlfriend Daniella out to dinner with Luigi and Daisy]]
Mario is first introduced in the ''Super Mario Bros.'' film, taking a call from the Riverfront Cafe requesting their plumbing services. While preparing to leave, the two briefly argue regarding their financial problems. Mario complains to Luigi about his purchase of a newspaper, while Luigi expresses his concern over the article about various missing girls from Brooklyn. Mario does not care over these concerns, and the two head out to the Riverfront Cafe but are disappointed to see their competitors, [[Scapelli Construction]] has arrived before them.


As they are driving back, their van breaks down. Mario tells Luigi to check their messages at a local payphone for possible jobs while he fixes the van, entering a store to get water to cool the radiator. As he is leaving, he sees Luigi hand the phone to a girl named [[Princess Daisy (film character)|Daisy]]. Mario talks to Luigi about Daisy, eventually getting him to talk to her, and watching as he offers her a ride in their van, which she agrees to.
The brothers' van breaks down on their drive back home, and Mario enlists Luigi to check a local payphone for possible plumbing jobs while he enters a store to get water to cool the van's radiator. As he is leaving the store, he sees Luigi hand the phone to a girl named Daisy. Mario encourages Luigi to talk to the woman and offer her a ride, which she agrees to. Later that night, Mario and his girlfriend, [[Daniella]], along with Luigi and Daisy, have a double-date at an Italian restaurant called the Bella Napoli. Daisy discusses her excavation project where her team has found the possible location of the impact site of the meteor that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. During dinner, as Daisy and Luigi display romantic chemistry, Mario decides that he and Daniella will take the van home, while Luigi and Daisy can walk home to get to know each other better.


Later that night, Mario and his girlfriend, [[Daniella]], along with Luigi and Daisy, have a double-date at an Italian restaurant. The girls begin to discuss the dig, which began when a dig team sent by Scapelli found iridium, which meant a meteorite possibly struck there at some point, and recent studies have said that this was possibly the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs. They then begin to talk about the rock Daisy wears, as part of her necklace, and she says that this was the last thing that connected her to a childhood she never had. Luigi then tells her that he never knew his parents, as they died when he was young, and told them that Mario raised him as a parent and brother. As Daisy and Luigi look into each other's eyes, Mario decides that he and Daniella will take the van home, while Luigi and Daisy can walk home.
Mario and Daniella leave in the van, unaware that they are being followed by [[Iggy (film character)|Iggy]] and [[Spike (film character)|Spike]], two of [[President Koopa]]'s minions, thinking that Daniella was Daisy in disguise. After Mario drops her off at her apartment, he does not hear her screams as she is kidnapped. While Mario is home, Luigi and Daisy arrive urgently asking for help as workers of Scapelli Construction have flooded the excavation team's tunnel. Mario and Luigi arrive to fix the pipelines, but are knocked out by Iggy and Spike and the pair kidnaps Daisy.


Mario and Daniella leave in the van, unaware that they are being followed by [[Iggy (film character)|Iggy]] and [[Spike (film character)|Spike]], two of [[President Koopa|Koopa]]'s minions, thinking that Daniella was Daisy in disguise. As Mario drops her off at her apartment, he does not hear the screams of his girlfriend as she is captured.
Noticing Daisy is gone after awaking, they follow Daisy's echos through the pipes to track her down. They arrive at a solid rock through which her voice and occasionally her face is emitting from. Luigi attempts to jump after her, but is held back by Mario. After Daisy's face reappears, Luigi attempts to reach out for her but only manages to take her [[Meteorite piece|rock necklace]] off her neck. Luigi successfully leaps through the solid rock and disappearing into it, and a confused and skeptical Mario tries to follow, accidentally falling into it.  


Some time after arriving at home, Luigi and Daisy arrive, getting Mario to stop the flooding at the excavation site. They end up fixing the pipelines but are knocked out by Iggy and Spike.
The two unknowingly travel between parallel dimensions, arriving at the alternate [[Dinohattan]] dimension. They continue chasing after Daisy, who is taken into a cab and the car disappears. Two policemen pull the brothers away from the cab, and they take in their surroundings, finding themselves in [[Koopa Square]]. The brothers soon begin to realize their environment is a darker, hostile and grittier city, not resembling Brooklyn. An [[Old lady|older lady]] approaches the brothers and warns them of the dangers of the city. After learning they are unarmed, she unexpectedly tasers them with a stun stick and attempts  to mug them. She takes interest in Daisy's rock necklace and takes it from Luigi, before she is mugged by [[Big Bertha (film character)|Big Bertha]], who leaps away with the rock necklace in her [[Thwomp Stompers]].
[[File:MarioLuigiArrest.png|thumb|300px|right|Mario and Luigi handcuffed at the police precinct to be photographed]]
The brothers then encounter [[Toad (film character)|Toad]], a street musician who plays an anti-Koopa song for them. He is promptly arrested when two police cars arrive, and the brothers are taken with. At the police station, Mario and Luigi reveal to [[Sergeant Simon]] both their last names are "Mario" which confuses him, and are then taken to be de-fungused by the [[Fungus Unit]]. They are quarantined and placed into prison cages, with Toad in the cell above them playing a song for the brothers about how they are from a different dimension. Still confused, they ask Toad what he means and he begins to explain that the meteorite strike divided the universes into two parallel dimensions, and Mario and Luigi are from the other dimension.
[[File:MarioLuigiInterrogation.png|thumb|250px|left|Mario and Luigi talking to President Koopa]]
Sergeant Simon removes Mario and Luigi from their cells and takes them to an office room. There, President Koopa attempts to gain their trust by pretending to be their lawyer, for the intent of learning information as to where the "meteorite piece" is. As the brothers are unaware Daisy's necklace is a meteorite piece, they express that they don't know what he's referring to, and an angry President Koopa begins jamming his fingers into Luigi's eye. Mario pushes him off him before being stunned by Sergeant Simon. President Koopa takes the brothers to the [[Devo Chamber]] to threaten them as to what their fate will be if they don't reveal the meteorite piece's location. He demonstrates the Devo Chamber's abilities by turning Toad into a [[Goomba (film species)|Goomba]]. Enraged over Toad's fate, Mario pushes Koopa into the Devo Chamber chair, and has a short fight with Sergeant Simon, punching him to the ground. Mario and Luigi escape out of the room, with Goombas following them and they hide behind support beams. Luigi finds a [[Bob-omb]] on growing fungus, and the two head into a police garage. They steal a police car with Luigi behind the wheel and drive off with more police cars pursuing after them.
[[File:SrgtSimonMario.png|thumb|right|Mario punching Sergeant Simon]]
After a short chase and battle with the opponent cars, they escape by driving into an unfinished tunnel. The car's navigation system warns them that there isn't a route to continue driving on and the car shuts down due to it leaving the city's power grid. The car continues driving straight and drives off the unfinished end of the tunnel, falling off a cliff. The overgrown fungus plaguing the city saves them from the fall, catching the vehicle and safely dragging it closer to the floor. They exit the car and realize they are in the barren and desolate [[Koopahari Desert]], and become lost. They begin to argue over who is to blame for their situation.  


The Mario bros later wake up, noticing Daisy was gone. Using the pipe echos created by the screams Daisy made, they track Daisy, eventually arriving at a solid rock through which her voice is coming. Her face then comes through the rock, and Luigi tries jumping for her, but Mario held him back. Daisy then came back through, and Luigi tried to pull her through, only succeeding in taking her necklace. Luigi then decides to try and go through, successfully leaping through the solid rock, and Mario falls through.
They notice Iggy and Spike driving towards them in a six-wheeled vehicle. Mario and Luigi watch the duo drive off a cliff and they catch up to them and capture them, demanding more information as to what is going on. Iggy and Spike inform the brothers that Koopa wants Daisy's rock necklace to merge the two dimensions of [[Earth]] and Dinohattan to successfully conquer both of them. The four of them come to an agreement to work together as Iggy and Spike begin to change their stance and feelings towards Koopa. Luigi provides Iggy and Spike the description of who took the rock pendant, and they recognize her as Big Bertha and tell them they have to head to the [[Boom Boom Bar]] to get the necklace back. The four hijack a [[Sludge Gulper]] truck from [[Snifit]]s and begin their drive back to the city.
[[File:MovieMarioLuigi.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Mario and Luigi in their famous suits.]]
The two then continue to chase after Daisy after circling a meteorite, eventually arriving in the ruined city of [[Dinohattan]]. Eventually, they spot Daisy, who is taken into a cab. Two policemen then pull the Marios away, for creating an incident, and forces them to explore.


An [[old lady]] eventually confronts the brothers, asking them if they had recently arrived. During the conversation, however, the lady pulls out a taser after hearing Luigi saying they were unarmed and attempts to mug them, but instead, she steals Daisy's necklace. Just as she snatches it, though, the brothers can only watch as [[Big Bertha (film character)|Big Bertha]], a large black woman, arrives, steals the necklace, shoves the old woman aside, and leaps away, using her [[Thwomp Stompers]].
At the bar, Mario and Luigi disguise themselves in dancing clothes provided by Iggy and Spike to find Bertha. With Bertha wearing the rock necklace, Mario asks Bertha to dance and the two begin dancing with Mario making frequent attempts to rob her of the necklace without her noticing. He eventually successfully accomplishes to do so, but [[Lena]] and a group of Goombas arrive. Mario and Luigi attempt to escape, but lose the necklace in the process, which is picked up by Lena. Big Bertha assists in their escape by providing the brothers with Thwomp Stompers, kissing Mario before he leaves. The two take off in their Thwomp Stompers, followed by various policemen and Goombas, and they take refuge hiding in the back of a moving Sludge Gulper. The garbage truck conveniently dumps them off at the entrance of [[Koopa's Tower]], where Daisy, Daniella, [[Angelica (film character)|Angelica]] and the other kidnapped women are held.
[[File:MovieMarioLuigi.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Mario and Luigi in outfits more closely resembling their video game counterparts]]
Mario and Luigi infiltrate the building, and the brothers manage to shut off the building's heat pipeline system. An alarm sounds off, and as they begin to navigate the building, they come to a pair of mechanic outfits. They put on these outfits, which are more reminiscent of the iconic hat and overalls outfit Mario and [[Luigi]] wear in the video games. The brothers enter an elevator to hide in, though as the elevator continues upward deeper into Koopa's Tower, Goombas begin to file in. The Goombas are oblivious to the presence of the brothers. Luigi discovers they take a liking to the elevator music after Luigi begins rocking them back and forth and they begin to dance along to it. Mario and Luigi manage to get all the Goombas dancing to distract them and the two escape the elevaot.r


The brothers are then encountered by [[Toad]], a street musician, who begins to play an anti-Koopa song, and two police cars arrive, taking Toad and the Marios. They eventually arrive at a police station, where they are quarantined and placed in cells. While Toad is playing a song about how the Mario bros are from another dimension, Luigi asks what he meant, and Toad explained to them that the meteor striking divided their universe into two separate dimensions.
The brothers find Daisy in Devo 4, where she introduces them to [[The King]], who is the de-evolved fungus that has been growing throughout the city. Mario then learns from Daisy that Daniella is being held prisoner as well, and Mario rushes off to save her. He eventually reaches the Goomba Barracks room they are held at, defeating the Goombas guarding it and saving the women inside. He then places a barricade in front of the door, preventing more Goombas from entering, and he begins to work opening the ventilation shaft. The brothers take a mattress from the Goombas, sets it down on the pipe and the brothers and all the kidnapped women ride it down the ventilation system. They escape out to Koopa Square and encounter Koopa himself.
 
The police chief then has the Marios brought out to meet their lawyer, who is really King Koopa trying to get the necklace. His attempt fails, and he orders the Mario brothers to be de-evolved.
 
Mario and Luigi are then brought into a strange chamber, with Toad strapped into a chair. Koopa then orders the machine to be activated, causing Toad to devolve into a [[Goomba]], a loyal and stupid creature. Mario stops Luigi from attacking Koopa, and he asks what Koopa evolved from. Koopa replied by saying that his ancestor was the Tyrannosaurus. Despite threatening to devolve them if the brothers didn't tell him where the [[Meteorite piece|meteorite piece]] was, they still refused, shoving Koopa into the De-evolution machine and taking out his goons.
 
The brothers then escape, Goombas on their tails, and hide behind a support beam. Mario then pulls Luigi away, before he can take a [[Bob-omb]], and they head into a police garage. They attempt to steal a police car, with Luigi operating the computer as a result of video game playing, and they drive off, two other police cars pursuing them. After a short chase, they escape into a tunnel, which they are informed is incomplete, and the car powers down, as a result of leaving the city's power grid, and they fall down, through the end of the tunnel, but are saved by fungi, allowing them to leave the car unharmed. Soon after entering the desert, they become lost, and begin to argue over who is to blame.
 
They then notice Iggy and Spike driving toward them, in a six-wheeled vehicle. The Marios then watch as the other duo drives off a cliff, and they instantly capture them, wanting information. They then tell them the purpose of Daisy's necklace, and what Koopa plans to do with it. Luigi then offers them trade: the necklace for Daisy. The minions of Koopa agree, despite not having the necklace, but, using descriptions Luigi gave them, told them Big Bertha could be found at the [[Boom Boom Bar]]. The four then find and hijack a garbage truck (the [[Sludge Gulper]]) and use it to drive back into the city.
 
At the bar, Mario and Luigi, who have disguised themselves in dancing clothes given to them by Iggy and Spike, find Bertha, and Mario attempts to get the necklace back by distracting her with dancing. However, just as he gains the necklace, [[Lena]], Koopa's lover, and a Goomba squad arrive. They lose the necklace trying to escape, though Big Bertha helps them by giving them Thwomp Stompers, instructing the brothers on their use and stealing a kiss from Mario before they escape. Upon landing, Luigi once again notices the fungus is offering them a Bob-omb, though he is able to accept it this time when Mario pulls him away. As they continue running, they are corned by policemen and Goombas but are able to escape by jumping onto a moving Sludge Gulper on the way to [[Koopa's Tower]].
 
After entering the building, they notice the horrible pipeline system the tower has, and Mario instructs Luigi to shut off the heat pipes. However, just as they do this, an alarm sounds, and the bros leave the maintenance room. Just as they head for the elevator, Mario notices a pair of mechanic outfits. Putting them on, the Marios finally enter an elevator, but, as it continues upward, Goombas keep coming in, all oblivious to Mario and Luigi. Finally, Luigi gets an idea: he and Mario gently rock the Goombas, causing them to dance. With the Goombas distracted, Mario and Luigi are able to escape.
 
The Marios eventually find Daisy in Devo 4, where she introduces them to her father, who is nothing more than a mass of fungus. Mario then learns from Daisy that Daniella is being held prisoner as well, and Mario rushes off to save her. He eventually reaches the room, defeating the Goombas guarding it and saving the women inside. He then places a barricade in front of the door, preventing more Goombas from entering, and he begins to work on the ventilation shaft. As soon as he has it open, he and the girls escape by riding a mattress. As soon as he gets down, Koopa is distracted long enough for Daisy and Luigi, who have been captured by Goombas, to rejoin Mario.
[[File:MarioFilm1993Mario.png|thumb|right|Mario holding a shoelace, making Koopa believe he is holding the meteorite necklace.]]
[[File:MarioFilm1993Mario.png|thumb|right|Mario holding a shoelace, making Koopa believe he is holding the meteorite necklace.]]
Koopa then approaches them with a flamethrower, declaring that he had won, but announcements from his communicator distract him. This gives Luigi enough time to grab a Thwomp Stomper's cartridge, which he gives to Mario. He then activates a Stomper, where it flies toward Koopa and knocks him onto a vat in the streets. Mario follows him down to fight, one of his hits knocking the meteorite piece, which was on Daisy's necklace, to the ground. As Lena runs off to place the piece, which she caught, in the meteorite, Daisy and Luigi go to stop her as Mario fights Koopa.
Koopa then approaches them with a flamethrower, declaring that he has won, but announcements from his communicator distract him. This gives Luigi enough time to grab a Thwomp Stomper's cartridge, which he gives to Mario. He then activates a Stomper, where it flies toward Koopa and knocks him onto a vat in the streets. Mario follows him down to fight, one of his hits knocking the meteorite piece, which was on Daisy's necklace, to the ground. Lena picks it up and runs off with it, and Daisy and Luigi follow her. Mario stays behind to fight Koopa on catwalks over the city, distracting him making him believe he is in possession of the rock pendant. To do so, he uses one of his shoelaces to wield the string to resemble a necklace.  
 
As their fight on the catwalk continues, Mario pulls the Bob-omb out of his toolbag. He winds it and sends it toward Koopa, though it falls through a crack in the ground. As the fight continues, the dimensions begin to merge as Koopa tries to hit Mario with his fire gun, until it breaks. A Goomba then hands him a De-evolution gun, but Mario dodges the blast as he fires the gun, instead hitting Scapelli nearby, who turns into an ape. Koopa then fires at Mario again, though he uses a mushroom to block the blast. The fungus then grows in size, eventually deflecting the blast, causing Koopa to fall over. The dimensions then become two again.


Luigi eventually rejoins Mario, handing him one of two de-evolution guns he gained from Toad. The Mario bros then begin to devolve him. The Bob-omb then finally reappears below Koopa, having finished its long trek and it explodes, knocking Koopa into the vat below. Silence then fills the city until President Koopa emerges from the vat, now in the form of a Tyrannosaurus. The brothers then blast him again and again until Koopa finally devolves into primordial ooze. The citizens of Dinohatten then cheer at the fact that their evil leader has been defeated.
As their fight on the catwalk continues, Mario pulls the Bob-omb out of his toolbag. He winds it and sends it toward Koopa, though it falls through a crack in the ground. Unknown to him, the Bob-omb continues its trajectory, and the fight continues. The dimensions merge after Lena successfully uses the meteorite piece, dying in the process. Mario and Koopa are transported to New York where a Goomba hands Koopa a [[De-evolution gun]] to shoot Mario with. Mario dodges the blast, which instead hits [[Anthony Scapelli]], who is [[De-evolution|de-evolved]] into an ape. Koopa then fires at Mario again and he uses a mushroom to block the blast. The fungus then grows in size, eventually deflecting the blast, causing Koopa to fall over. The dimensions then become two again after Luigi and Daisy remove the meteorite piece from the meteorite chamber.


Over the course of the next three weeks, Daniella moves in with the bros and is now making dinner. As they go to eat, Daisy bursts through the door, wearing military clothes and holding a flamethrower, and asks for the brother's help. They then put their tool belts on, ready to go.
Back in Dinohattan, Luigi and Mario receive de-evolution guns from Toad and begin to use them against Koopa. The Bob-omb from earlier reappears under Koopa, blasting him into a suspended vat. Koopa emerges from the vat, now in the form of a tyrannosaurus. The brothers continue using the de-evolution gun, turning him into primordial ooze. The citizens of Dinohattan begin cheering and partying in the streets, celebrating the death and defeat of the Koopa dictatorship. Following their victory, Mario and Luigi bid Daisy goodbye and return to New York. Over the course of the next three weeks, Daniella moves in with the brothers and is seen making them dinner. As they are ready to go eat, Daisy enters their home wearing military clothing and wielding a flamethrower, asking them for help. The brothers put on their tool belts and follow after her.


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This article is about the character from the live-action film. For the original video game character, see Mario.
Mario
Bob Hoskins as Mario in the Super Mario Bros. Movie.
Full name Mario Mario
Species Human
First appearance Super Mario Bros. (1993)
Portrayed by Bob Hoskins

Template:Quote2 Mario Mario, played by the late Bob Hoskins, is the main character of the 1993 film Super Mario Bros. He is portrayed as a Brooklyn-born plumber and co-owner of Mario Bros. Plumbing, a family business, with his younger brother Luigi. While taking strong inspirations from Mario's video game franchise, he has notable differences from his video game depictions. Unlike his in-game counterpart, Mario is portrayed in the film as grumpy, rude, and practical, and is initially the least willing to save Daisy of the two brothers. According to director Rocky Morton, the film was meant to show the "real" story that the games were based off of, which is supported by the post-credits scene where Iggy and Spike are commissioned to make their own video game.[1] Hoskins was once reported expressing personal distaste for his work in this role.[2]

History

Backstory

As Mario and Luigi mention in one scene, Mario raised his younger brother, Luigi from a young age. Luigi mentions having never known his parents or family so he sees Mario as having fulfilled the role of mother, father, uncle and brother. It is not elaborated on the circumstances of the parental abandonment. As the two brothers grew older, Mario trained Luigi in the plumber business and the two have been working as plumbers in the "Mario Brothers Plumbing" but their business has been tapering and they have been running low on money.

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Mario and his girlfriend Daniella out to dinner with Luigi and Daisy

Mario is first introduced in the Super Mario Bros. film, taking a call from the Riverfront Cafe requesting their plumbing services. While preparing to leave, the two briefly argue regarding their financial problems. Mario complains to Luigi about his purchase of a newspaper, while Luigi expresses his concern over the article about various missing girls from Brooklyn. Mario does not care over these concerns, and the two head out to the Riverfront Cafe but are disappointed to see their competitors, Scapelli Construction has arrived before them.

The brothers' van breaks down on their drive back home, and Mario enlists Luigi to check a local payphone for possible plumbing jobs while he enters a store to get water to cool the van's radiator. As he is leaving the store, he sees Luigi hand the phone to a girl named Daisy. Mario encourages Luigi to talk to the woman and offer her a ride, which she agrees to. Later that night, Mario and his girlfriend, Daniella, along with Luigi and Daisy, have a double-date at an Italian restaurant called the Bella Napoli. Daisy discusses her excavation project where her team has found the possible location of the impact site of the meteor that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. During dinner, as Daisy and Luigi display romantic chemistry, Mario decides that he and Daniella will take the van home, while Luigi and Daisy can walk home to get to know each other better.

Mario and Daniella leave in the van, unaware that they are being followed by Iggy and Spike, two of President Koopa's minions, thinking that Daniella was Daisy in disguise. After Mario drops her off at her apartment, he does not hear her screams as she is kidnapped. While Mario is home, Luigi and Daisy arrive urgently asking for help as workers of Scapelli Construction have flooded the excavation team's tunnel. Mario and Luigi arrive to fix the pipelines, but are knocked out by Iggy and Spike and the pair kidnaps Daisy.

Noticing Daisy is gone after awaking, they follow Daisy's echos through the pipes to track her down. They arrive at a solid rock through which her voice and occasionally her face is emitting from. Luigi attempts to jump after her, but is held back by Mario. After Daisy's face reappears, Luigi attempts to reach out for her but only manages to take her rock necklace off her neck. Luigi successfully leaps through the solid rock and disappearing into it, and a confused and skeptical Mario tries to follow, accidentally falling into it.

The two unknowingly travel between parallel dimensions, arriving at the alternate Dinohattan dimension. They continue chasing after Daisy, who is taken into a cab and the car disappears. Two policemen pull the brothers away from the cab, and they take in their surroundings, finding themselves in Koopa Square. The brothers soon begin to realize their environment is a darker, hostile and grittier city, not resembling Brooklyn. An older lady approaches the brothers and warns them of the dangers of the city. After learning they are unarmed, she unexpectedly tasers them with a stun stick and attempts to mug them. She takes interest in Daisy's rock necklace and takes it from Luigi, before she is mugged by Big Bertha, who leaps away with the rock necklace in her Thwomp Stompers.

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Mario and Luigi handcuffed at the police precinct to be photographed

The brothers then encounter Toad, a street musician who plays an anti-Koopa song for them. He is promptly arrested when two police cars arrive, and the brothers are taken with. At the police station, Mario and Luigi reveal to Sergeant Simon both their last names are "Mario" which confuses him, and are then taken to be de-fungused by the Fungus Unit. They are quarantined and placed into prison cages, with Toad in the cell above them playing a song for the brothers about how they are from a different dimension. Still confused, they ask Toad what he means and he begins to explain that the meteorite strike divided the universes into two parallel dimensions, and Mario and Luigi are from the other dimension.

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Mario and Luigi talking to President Koopa

Sergeant Simon removes Mario and Luigi from their cells and takes them to an office room. There, President Koopa attempts to gain their trust by pretending to be their lawyer, for the intent of learning information as to where the "meteorite piece" is. As the brothers are unaware Daisy's necklace is a meteorite piece, they express that they don't know what he's referring to, and an angry President Koopa begins jamming his fingers into Luigi's eye. Mario pushes him off him before being stunned by Sergeant Simon. President Koopa takes the brothers to the Devo Chamber to threaten them as to what their fate will be if they don't reveal the meteorite piece's location. He demonstrates the Devo Chamber's abilities by turning Toad into a Goomba. Enraged over Toad's fate, Mario pushes Koopa into the Devo Chamber chair, and has a short fight with Sergeant Simon, punching him to the ground. Mario and Luigi escape out of the room, with Goombas following them and they hide behind support beams. Luigi finds a Bob-omb on growing fungus, and the two head into a police garage. They steal a police car with Luigi behind the wheel and drive off with more police cars pursuing after them.

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Mario punching Sergeant Simon

After a short chase and battle with the opponent cars, they escape by driving into an unfinished tunnel. The car's navigation system warns them that there isn't a route to continue driving on and the car shuts down due to it leaving the city's power grid. The car continues driving straight and drives off the unfinished end of the tunnel, falling off a cliff. The overgrown fungus plaguing the city saves them from the fall, catching the vehicle and safely dragging it closer to the floor. They exit the car and realize they are in the barren and desolate Koopahari Desert, and become lost. They begin to argue over who is to blame for their situation.

They notice Iggy and Spike driving towards them in a six-wheeled vehicle. Mario and Luigi watch the duo drive off a cliff and they catch up to them and capture them, demanding more information as to what is going on. Iggy and Spike inform the brothers that Koopa wants Daisy's rock necklace to merge the two dimensions of Earth and Dinohattan to successfully conquer both of them. The four of them come to an agreement to work together as Iggy and Spike begin to change their stance and feelings towards Koopa. Luigi provides Iggy and Spike the description of who took the rock pendant, and they recognize her as Big Bertha and tell them they have to head to the Boom Boom Bar to get the necklace back. The four hijack a Sludge Gulper truck from Snifits and begin their drive back to the city.

At the bar, Mario and Luigi disguise themselves in dancing clothes provided by Iggy and Spike to find Bertha. With Bertha wearing the rock necklace, Mario asks Bertha to dance and the two begin dancing with Mario making frequent attempts to rob her of the necklace without her noticing. He eventually successfully accomplishes to do so, but Lena and a group of Goombas arrive. Mario and Luigi attempt to escape, but lose the necklace in the process, which is picked up by Lena. Big Bertha assists in their escape by providing the brothers with Thwomp Stompers, kissing Mario before he leaves. The two take off in their Thwomp Stompers, followed by various policemen and Goombas, and they take refuge hiding in the back of a moving Sludge Gulper. The garbage truck conveniently dumps them off at the entrance of Koopa's Tower, where Daisy, Daniella, Angelica and the other kidnapped women are held.

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Mario and Luigi in outfits more closely resembling their video game counterparts

Mario and Luigi infiltrate the building, and the brothers manage to shut off the building's heat pipeline system. An alarm sounds off, and as they begin to navigate the building, they come to a pair of mechanic outfits. They put on these outfits, which are more reminiscent of the iconic hat and overalls outfit Mario and Luigi wear in the video games. The brothers enter an elevator to hide in, though as the elevator continues upward deeper into Koopa's Tower, Goombas begin to file in. The Goombas are oblivious to the presence of the brothers. Luigi discovers they take a liking to the elevator music after Luigi begins rocking them back and forth and they begin to dance along to it. Mario and Luigi manage to get all the Goombas dancing to distract them and the two escape the elevaot.r

The brothers find Daisy in Devo 4, where she introduces them to The King, who is the de-evolved fungus that has been growing throughout the city. Mario then learns from Daisy that Daniella is being held prisoner as well, and Mario rushes off to save her. He eventually reaches the Goomba Barracks room they are held at, defeating the Goombas guarding it and saving the women inside. He then places a barricade in front of the door, preventing more Goombas from entering, and he begins to work opening the ventilation shaft. The brothers take a mattress from the Goombas, sets it down on the pipe and the brothers and all the kidnapped women ride it down the ventilation system. They escape out to Koopa Square and encounter Koopa himself.

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Mario holding a shoelace, making Koopa believe he is holding the meteorite necklace.

Koopa then approaches them with a flamethrower, declaring that he has won, but announcements from his communicator distract him. This gives Luigi enough time to grab a Thwomp Stomper's cartridge, which he gives to Mario. He then activates a Stomper, where it flies toward Koopa and knocks him onto a vat in the streets. Mario follows him down to fight, one of his hits knocking the meteorite piece, which was on Daisy's necklace, to the ground. Lena picks it up and runs off with it, and Daisy and Luigi follow her. Mario stays behind to fight Koopa on catwalks over the city, distracting him making him believe he is in possession of the rock pendant. To do so, he uses one of his shoelaces to wield the string to resemble a necklace.

As their fight on the catwalk continues, Mario pulls the Bob-omb out of his toolbag. He winds it and sends it toward Koopa, though it falls through a crack in the ground. Unknown to him, the Bob-omb continues its trajectory, and the fight continues. The dimensions merge after Lena successfully uses the meteorite piece, dying in the process. Mario and Koopa are transported to New York where a Goomba hands Koopa a De-evolution gun to shoot Mario with. Mario dodges the blast, which instead hits Anthony Scapelli, who is de-evolved into an ape. Koopa then fires at Mario again and he uses a mushroom to block the blast. The fungus then grows in size, eventually deflecting the blast, causing Koopa to fall over. The dimensions then become two again after Luigi and Daisy remove the meteorite piece from the meteorite chamber.

Back in Dinohattan, Luigi and Mario receive de-evolution guns from Toad and begin to use them against Koopa. The Bob-omb from earlier reappears under Koopa, blasting him into a suspended vat. Koopa emerges from the vat, now in the form of a tyrannosaurus. The brothers continue using the de-evolution gun, turning him into primordial ooze. The citizens of Dinohattan begin cheering and partying in the streets, celebrating the death and defeat of the Koopa dictatorship. Following their victory, Mario and Luigi bid Daisy goodbye and return to New York. Over the course of the next three weeks, Daniella moves in with the brothers and is seen making them dinner. As they are ready to go eat, Daisy enters their home wearing military clothing and wielding a flamethrower, asking them for help. The brothers put on their tool belts and follow after her.

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References

  1. ^ Meli, Jowi.Interview: Rocky Morton On The Chaos Of Directing The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Nintendo Life. November 3, 2014 (retrieved November 3, 2014)
  2. ^ "The Guardian" interview