Nintendo Fans Believe The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Features Time Travel or Some Kind of Age-Reversing Spell

Last night's Super Bowl teaser for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie featured an extended look astatine Mario and Luigi being chased by a T-rex. But wherefore is it really Baby Mario and Baby Luigi we spot here? As ever, the net has immoderate theories.

Nintendo fans got a archetypal glimpse astatine Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, Toad and Yoshi encountering a T-rex successful past month's The Super Mario Galaxy Nintendo Direct. The dinosaur, which looks akin to its quality successful Super Mario Odyssey, roars astatine our heroes, sending them moving distant scared.

Now, we've got a somewhat longer look astatine the aforesaid scene, with Baby Mario adjacent shown waking up the sleeping dinosaur by drumming the classical NES Mario taxable connected its teeth. Still, the jury's retired astir what's truly going connected — and wherefore we're seeing the plumbers' babe forms astatine all.

Don’t aftermath the dino. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is lone successful theaters April 1. pic.twitter.com/34vjqImsBf

As fans volition retrieve from the archetypal Super Mario Movie, Mario and Luigi question to the Mushroom Kingdom for the archetypal clip arsenic adults, suggesting this is improbable to beryllium a flashback to their youth. (We besides spot the brothers arsenic Baby Mario and Baby Luigi, confirming they are their past selves, though precise overmuch surviving their puerility successful Brooklyn.)

Could we person been misled, and the brothers really visited the Mushroom Kingdom arsenic children? It seems unlikely. Instead, the brace look to person been reverted successful age. Perhaps this is thing to bash with the information they're successful a prehistoric environment? Or possibly this is the enactment of Bowser Jr., oregon his minion Kamek?

"I'm definite Kamek made Mario and Luigi babies," wrote Nintendo instrumentality Delbianco27 connected reddit.

"There is simply a anticipation that they either hid the information that they erstwhile ventured into the Mushroom Kingdom arsenic babies, oregon immoderate weird clip question shenanigans," countered josh_winnnnnn.

"I consciousness similar determination successful an country that 'takes them backmost successful time' hence wherefore Mario and Luigi are babies," suggested GoldenGirlsFan213. "I truly anticipation they aren't babies for astir of the movie origin that would beryllium awful."

"Could perchance beryllium a comparative of the present-day Toad," agreed josh_winnnnnn again. "We'll find retired successful respective weeks..."

Other fans person suggested this country is simply an homage to Yoshi's Island, Nintendo's 1995 classical for the SNES wherever Kamek attempts to kidnap Baby Mario and Baby Luigi, earlier they're saved by Yoshi. Speaking of Yoshi, past week gave america our archetypal look astatine the beloved dino eating idiosyncratic (Kamek) and pooping them retired arsenic an egg.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie stars Brie Larsen arsenic Rosalina and Benny Safdie arsenic Bowser Jr., alongside the returning formed from the archetypal film: Chris Pratt arsenic Mario, Anya Taylor-Joy arsenic Princess Peach, Charlie Day arsenic Luigi, Jack Black arsenic Bowser, Keegan-Michael Key arsenic Toad, and Kevin Michael Richardson arsenic Kamek.

As for the enigma down Baby Mario and Baby Luigi, each volition beryllium revealed erstwhile The Super Mario Galaxy Movie lands successful theaters connected April 1.

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