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Early reviews for The Super Mario Bros. Movie may be mixed (the audience score tells a very different story), but Illumination's animated take on the iconic video game surprises still looks set to be a box office hit this weekend.
With that in mind, we're sure a sequel will eventually become a reality, and there are two post-credits scenes which lay the groundwork for that.
The first comes right in the middle of the credits, with Bowser sitting at his piano singing "Peaches." However, before he can get going, one of the Toad guards tells him to shut up, with the camera panning out to reveal the formidable villain is now tiny. He was shrunken down in the movie's final battle and is left stuck that way.
After vowing to break out, he's ignored by the guard and left alone in the dark with his evil thoughts.
The second post-credits scene comes right at the very end, taking us back to the underground pipe system where Mario and Luigi were first transported to the Mushroom Kingdom.
Those pipes were destroyed in The Super Mario Bros. Movie's final act, sending a number of characters to Brooklyn for a battle against Bowser. While they all eventually returned to the Mushroom Kingdom, something was left behind...a Yoshi egg!
It starts to hatch right before the screen cuts to black, but we do then get to hear Mario's iconic sidekick say, "Yoshi!"
With that, the stage is set for one of this franchise's most beloved characters to appear in a potential follow-up and, reviews be damned, we hope that eventually happens. We've heard rumblings about a Donkey Kong spin-off, of course, but these stingers are clearly meant to set up The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2.
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