Nintendo showed a new trailer for the new Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer starring Chris Pratt via a Direct on Thursday. The trailer surprised fans by showing an army of penguins, so we decided to explain their possible origins from Super Mario 64.
Nintendo debuted a new trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie as part of a Direct on Thursday. In it, we get to to finally hear what Chris Pratt’s Mario voice sounds like, but the trailer also had a cameo from an relatively unknown set of characters. At the beginning, it shows Bowser and his Koopa army going up against a kingdom of penguins. The birds put up a good fight by flinging snowballs, but it’s no match for Bowser’s flames. The inclusion of the penguins comes as a surprise, mainly because they aren’t the most central Mario characters in previous games. However, they are a regular fixture in the franchise series so we decided to explain what the deal is with the penguins.
According to a Mario Wiki entry, penguins appear in the Mario series as early as 1984 as part of the Mario Pinball game.
