The Super Mario Bros. Movie/Plot

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## Plot

The film opens when the evil Koopa king Bowser, accompanied by his army, invades the Snow Kingdom, captures its penguin inhabitants, burns their palace to the ground, and steals a powerful Super Star. Meanwhile, in New York City, brothers Mario and Luigi have started their own plumbing service: Super Mario Bros. Plumbing, a small business servicing the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. At Punch-Out Pizzeria, the brothers proudly watch the commercial for the business that they spent their life savings to produce, but they then encounter their antagonistic former boss Spike, who derides them for leaving him to start their own business. Undeterred, Mario and Luigi go to do their first plumbing job at a Brooklyn couple's house, but due to the interference of the couple's dog Francis, this ends in the destruction of their bathroom.

The Mario brothers return home for a meal with their family, most of whom mock their plumbing business and commercial, with their father in particular disapproving of Mario's decision to leave their stable job to start the business; only their mother is supportive of them. While they are disheartened, the brothers see a newscast reporting about a significant leak in manholes throughout the Brooklyn streets. Mario promptly sees this as an opportunity for them to prove themselves and he and Luigi go to fix the broken water main. However, while exploring the sewers, Luigi stumbles into a mysterious Warp Pipe and disappears, with Mario being pulled in soon after. The two end up in the Warp Zone and are separated in the process, with Mario finding himself in the Mushroom Kingdom.

Upon arriving, Mario meets Toad, who informs him that his brother has landed in the Dark Lands, which are under the control of Bowser, who Toad calls "the most evil, wretched creature" he knows of. Toad suggests asking for help from the kingdom's ruler, Princess Peach, and takes Mario through the kingdom's town to lead him to her. Meanwhile, Luigi briefly searches for Mario in the Dark Lands, where he is chased by a swarm of Dry Bones and tries to escape, only to end up being captured by a group of Shy Guys. During this time, he remembers that Mario has always been there for him, recalling a moment in his and Mario's infancy when Mario stood up to protect his brother from a bully who was abusing him.

In Peach's Castle, Peach explains to her Toads that Bowser is coming to invade her kingdom. Knowing of what happened to the Snow Kingdom, Peach reveals that she plans to form an alliance with the Jungle Kingdom to stop him. The princess and Mario meet shortly afterward, with the former being surprised to encounter another human. Seeing how determined Mario is to save his brother, Peach tests his skill with a Training Course full of obstacles and agrees to take him with her if he can finish it. Mario fails the course on many attempts, but eventually comes close enough to completing it that Peach takes him along anyway, with Toad joining as well due to his desire to protect the princess.

Meanwhile, Bowser rallies the Koopa Troop to announce that he has become the world's most powerful creature by stealing the Super Star and plans to arrive in the Mushroom Kingdom to marry Peach; he also states that if she refuses his hand in marriage, he will destroy the kingdom. He later sings a brief song secretly expressing his obsessive love for the princess, but is interrupted when Kamek comes to inform him about Mario's arrival in the Mushroom Kingdom. Other members of the Koopa Troop alert Bowser of Mario's association with Peach, causing Bowser to see him as a rival for Peach's affections. Afterward, he has Luigi brought before him and interrogates him on Mario's whereabouts. Luigi resists at first, but eventually confesses after Bowser loses his patience; Bowser subsequently orders his Shy Guy guards to imprison him in order to blackmail Mario, and he is placed in a cage above a pit of lava, where others, such as the penguins and a demented Lumalee, have also been caged.

Mario, Peach, and Toad journey through several locales, such as Bob-omb Battlefield, the Desert Area, Yoshi's Island, and the High Cliffs, on their way to the Jungle Kingdom. At one point in their trek, the trio set up camp in Fire Flower Fields, where Peach shares her backstory: she discovered the Mushroom Kingdom by walking through a Warp Pipe as a baby, then was taken in by the Toads and eventually crowned as the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom. However, she has no memory of where she is originally from. This leads Mario to speculate that Peach may be from the same world as him.

Upon arriving at the Jungle Kingdom, Peach consults their king, Cranky Kong, and asks for his army of Kongs to support them in fighting Bowser. He initially refuses to join Peach's cause, but the princess tells him that if the Mushroom Kingdom is destroyed, the Jungle Kingdom will be attacked next, and Mario insists that he and his friends will not leave unless the Kongs are on their side. Cranky accepts on the condition that Mario defeats his son, Donkey Kong, in a duel at the Great Ring of Kong. Mario struggles at first, but after remembering what Peach said about power-ups, he uses one of the boxes in the arena to transform into Cat Mario, and successfully defeats Donkey Kong, at which Cranky agrees to help the Mushroom Kingdom.

Cranky suggests that Mario, Peach, and Toad (joined by the Great Kong Army) use karts to return to the Mushroom Kingdom through a secret passage that leads to Rainbow Road. As they drive back, Bowser learns about their plans from the Koopa General and decides to have his army use karts of their own to ambush the heroes as they traverse Rainbow Road. The Koopa General chases Mario with a bulldozer and fires two Bullet Bills, destroying his kart, but Mario hijacks one of the Koopa soldiers' karts, tosses the driver's shell into another soldier's armored car, and has it explode on the bulldozer. The general then gets up, locks himself in his winged, spiky Blue Shell, and crashes into Mario and Donkey Kong, destroying the latter's kart and a part of the road. The two plummet to the ocean below, much to Peach, Toad, and Cranky's despair, and all of the Kongs besides DK are captured and sent to Bowser's dungeons. Peach and Toad, however, successfully make it back to the Mushroom Kingdom, where Peach warns the citizens of Bowser's imminent arrival. She orders the Toads in the town and the castle to evacuate, but Toad decides to stay at the princess's side instead of leaving with the rest of his kind, wanting to stay true to his desire to protect her.

Mario and Donkey Kong are later revealed to be alive in the ocean, but a Maw-Ray quickly appears and consumes them both. Bowser then arrives in the Mushroom Kingdom aboard his ship and proposes to marry Peach; she initially rejects him, but after he has Kamek torture Toad, she reluctantly agrees to the marriage. Meanwhile, Mario and Donkey Kong, after attempting to bond over their issues with their respective fathers, escape the Maw-Ray using one of the Rocket Barrels from Donkey Kong's kart and hurry to Bowser and Peach's royal wedding. In the process, Mario uses multiple power-ups, including the Super Mushroom and the Super Leaf, while Donkey Kong makes use of a Fire Flower.

At the wedding, Bowser reveals that he intends to execute all of his prisoners by burning them in lava in Peach's honor; Kamek calls this a "ritualistic sacrifice". However, Peach then reveals an Ice Flower that Toad smuggled into her bouquet, with which she freezes Bowser and holds down his army. Despite her best efforts, she fails to save Luigi and the other prisoners, but Mario and Donkey Kong arrive in time to complete the rescue, leading to the Mario brothers being reunited. As Donkey Kong and Toad work together to fight off the Koopas, Bowser gives the order for a Bomber Bill to be fired to finally destroy the Mushroom Kingdom. Mario diverts the Bomber Bill away from Peach's Castle and into the pipe that sent him to the Mushroom Kingdom. However, the resulting explosion in the Warp Zone causes objects from the Mushroom Kingdom to be sucked into the pipe and transported to Brooklyn.

Enraged, Bowser pounces on Mario and nearly knocks him out, despite Peach and Donkey Kong's efforts to protect him. A discouraged Mario hides behind cover, but after seeing a damaged television play the Super Mario Bros. Plumbing commercial, he regains his resolve and runs back into the fray. Luigi manages to use a manhole cover to protect himself and Mario against Bowser's fire breath. This gives Mario and Luigi the chance to obtain the Super Star, which Bowser dropped, and use its powers to turn invincible just in time. The Mario brothers work together to defeat Bowser and his army. Upon his defeat, Bowser is shrunk to miniature size with a Blue Mushroom force-fed to him by Peach, and he is placed in a jar. In the end, the Mario brothers are celebrated and hailed as heroes by not only their new friends in the Mushroom Kingdom, but also the residents of Brooklyn, including Spike and the brothers' father, the latter saying he is now proud of them. Finally, the last scene shows the triumphant brothers commencing a new day of their plumbing business, having moved to the Mushroom Kingdom, with a Warp Pipe enabling them to return to their original world when needed.

In a mid-credits scene, Bowser is shown singing another verse of his love song while imprisoned. A Toad guard interrupts and silences Bowser, who complains before the door is closed on him mid-sentence. In a post-credits scene, a Yoshi's Egg that was originally given as a wedding gift for Bowser and Peach is seen sitting in the Brooklyn sewers. The egg suddenly begins to hatch as the screen to black with the sound of the creature shouting "Yoshi!", closing the film.