super mario bros.: peach-hime kyushutsu dai sakusen!

Award-Bait Song: The ending theme, 'Adieu, My Love', which also plays during a dream sequence where Mario dances with Peach.

2, but his color scheme is a bit different from his later look (in the film, he wears a yellow shirt with a blue hat and overalls).

Art Evolution: Luigi is designed with the taller and slimmer look he sported in the games since the U.S.

And Now You Must Marry Me: The entire plot revolves around this.

Instead, she ends up with Haru, who was really the dog traveling with Mario and Luigi.

All Love Is Unrequited: King Koopa is a Yandere and Mario is a Dogged Nice Guy.

The Goombas come across this as well, with all their laid back dialogue with the Mario brothers.

Heck, at the end, he is seen working with Mario and liking it.

King Koopa seemed a pretty nice guy, albeit a bit too jealous when it came to Peach.

Unlike other variations of Bowser, this one is clearly a Stalker with a Crush with a very kind and almost innocent personality.

note In fact, on the cover, he wears a red shirt with blue overalls, an attire most often associated with Mario. Interestingly, this is one of the few times Luigi doesn't wear green.

This movie's version of Luigi acts a lot like Wario if he was on Mario's side.

He also wears a blue hat instead of green. Most notably, Luigi's outfit is blue over yellow (blue over red on the VHS cover) instead of blue over green. Unlike the rest of the games, Mario and Luigi have black hair instead of brown.

Adaptation Dye-Job: Very small change, but still noticeable.

The Mystic tells them that they've been brought to the Mushroom Kingdom to rescue Princess Peach, whom King Koopa intends to marry on Friday the 13th, and save the people whom King Koopa has turned into useless objects. give chase after him and wind up in the Mushroom Kingdom, where they meet the wise old Mushroom Hermit. The next day, a little dog called Kibidango shows up at the grocery store owned by Mario and his brother Luigi (yes, they're grocers in this movie) and takes the jewel. King Koopa then shows up and kidnaps her, leaving behind the pendant that she always wears. One night, while playing his Famicom, Mario gets an unexpected visit from the lovely Princess Peach, who is on the run from evil tyrant King Koopa. Both preceded the American Super Mario Bros. While this film is very obscure, it's notable for being one of the first two full-length film adaptations of a video game, the other being Running Boy: Star Soldier no Himitsu, released on the same day: July 20, 1986.

Before The Super Mario Bros Super Show!, but after his run on Saturday Supercade, Mario starred in this obscure Japanese film, titled Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen! (translated: The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach!), a loose Animated Adaptation of Super Mario Bros.

Super mario bros.: peach-hime kyushutsu dai sakusen!