Mario Minion Wonderland

Mario Minion Wonderland is a slasher horror movie that will air in 2025 on SYFY.

## Poster

The main poster shows Pikachu with bloody claws, Mario with bloody sharp teeth, Ninki holding a baseball bat, Twist with his robotic nose exposed, Fleegle holding a bloody sword, Minion holding a crowbar, Minion Pig holding a bloody axe, and Kit with sharp teeth.

## Plot

When his vehicle breaks down, a quiet drifter named Garu ends up stranded in Hayesville, Nevada, where mechanic Mike Schmidt picks him up and takes him to Mario Minion Wonderland, a once-successful abandoned family entertainment center. Owner Henry Emily offers him to work as a night-shift janitor in exchange for repairing his vehicle before he and Mike leave him locked in the building. Meanwhile, teenager Pucca gets handcuffed by her caretaker, Hayesville's sheriff Mary Schmidt, due to her previous attempts to burn the restaurant. When Schmidt leaves, Pucca's friends Robin, Raven, Abyo, Beast Boy, and Cyborg come and release her.

As Garu begins his duties, the restaurant's now-withered eight animatronic mascots—Pikachu, Mario, Ninki, Twist, Fleegle, Minion, Minion Pig, and Kit— reveal to be sentient and aggressive. Twist attacks Garu, who beats him to death with a mop. While her friends douse the perimeter with gasoline, Pucca decides to enter Mario Minion Wonderland through the vents to get Garu out. Meanwhile, Garu is attacked by Minion Pig in the restrooms; he kills him by stomping his face into a urinal. In the vents, Pucca is chased by Mario, but she escapes into a fairy-themed room where Kit attacks her. Pucca manages to fend off Kit and encounters Garu, who ignores her warnings about the animatronics and refuses to leave.

Outside, Pucca's friends climb to the roof, which collapses, causing them to fall into the building. While Garu cleans the kitchen, Pucca explains that Mario Minion Wonderland was originally owned by notorious serial killer William Afton and his seven psychotic cannibalistic partners, who often murdered unsuspecting families. Eventually discovered, they committed a satanic ritual to transfer their souls into the animatronics. When she finishes, several animatronics become sentient and attack the group. In the ensuing chaos, Fleegle impales Abyo with a sword, Kit and Minion devour Cyborg alive, and Mario mauls Raven and Beast Boy to death. With Pucca's help, Garu decapitates Fleegle and breaks Mario's jaws, killing them both. Stalked by Ninki in an arcade, Robin calls Schmidt for help; she goes there with deputy sheriff Jeremy Fitzgerald upon learning that Pucca is in the restaurant. On the way, Schmidt reveals to Jeremy that after Mario Minion Wonderland was shut down, the animatronics continued murdering people around Hayesville until she, Henry, and Mike made a deal with them. Over years, they tricked stranded drifters into cleaning up the building, offering them as sacrifices to the animatronics in order to stop their killing spree. Pucca's parents were among the victims and a guilty Schmidt adopted her.

When Garu and Pucca arrive at the arcade, Ninki snaps Robin's neck, killing him. They subdue her and attempt to leave before Schmidt and Jeremy stop them. Schmidt handcuffs Garu and leaves him to die as Jeremy takes Pucca away. While driving, Jeremy is attacked and killed by a stowaway Minion as Pucca escapes. Back at the restaurant, Garu twists Ninki's head, killing her, and subdues Kit. Enraged, Schmidt tries to lure Pikachu to kill Garu, only for Pikachu to tear her in half. Pikachu and Garu fight each other until Garu rips his head off, killing him.

The next morning, Henry and Mike return to the building and find it completely clean, with the animatronics missing. Garu receives his repaired vehicle and invites Pucca to accompany him. While Henry and Mike discuss planning to re-open Mario Minion Wonderland, Kit suddenly appears and sets their car on fire with gasoline. All three are killed in a massive explosion that also destroys the entire restaurant. As the sun rises, Garu and Pucca drive out of Hayesville, running into and killing a wandering Minion along the way.

## Tropes

Died in the Opening Scene: Twist dies in the opening scene when Garu hits him with his broom.

Awesome: Every character has a bigger role

Massive Murder: Pikachu serves as the film's main antagonist and the last animatronic.