Topic: The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2

Friends,

It hasn't even been a full year yet, and we have already gotten an announcement for the second Mario movie. Now we've got a long time before this movie comes out on April 3, 2026, so that means we have plenty of time to predict what to expect.

So without further ado, in your opinion what will "The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2" look like?

Definitely will be about Yoshi if you watch the last scene from the first movie after the credit roll.

The original is great for Nintendo's first movie. However, I really do hope they improve things in the sequel, like a better story and better worldbuilding. Now that the Mushroom Kingdom and the main characters have been properly introduced, there's no excuse for Nintendo and Illumination to make the stakes more interesting next time. The movie teases many locations that don't get shown off nearly enough. Locations like the Sand Kingdom and Yoshi's Island are just begging to be featured in the sequel. With Yoshi, it seems like a safe bet the latter will be featured.

Bowser will likely still be the villain, but hopefully Junior and the Koopalings finally appear. Maybe they could be the ones to bust Bowser out of his birdcage? The movie could explain why they were absent before. Wario and Waluigi both need to appear for sure. They could be worse rivals for Mario and Luigi than Spike ever was.

I'm cautiously optimistic Daisy will appear, especially after concept art of the first movie has recently been shared with her in it. She can be Luigi's love interest and maybe he and Waluigi can get into a rivalry over her like Mario and Bowser over Peach. I still want to see Rosalina, too. The morbid Lumalee needs to be reunited with its mama!

I'll be ready for the next wave of Easter eggs, but I hope for ones from spin-offs like the RPGS, sports games and Mario Party.

I'm kind of glad an early storyboard has already leaked and essentially put to bed the idea that this is a spinoff instead of an actual sequel. Originally, I would've guessed the second movie would be a hodgepodge of elements from the mainline games again, with an emphasis on World due to the Yoshi tease. Not entirely sure what they'd do otherwise, but I liked the idea of introducing Wario and Waluigi as plumbers ripping off the brand of the Bros. in Brooklyn, winding up in the Mushroom Kingdom, unwittingly freeing Bowser, and kinda going along with him for a while. It'd be more difficult to justifiably introduce Bowser Jr. or the Koopalings despite the nod to Ludwig in the first movie, so I think it might work best depending on where the sequel picks up from. I could also see them adapting the plot point from NSMBU where Bowser takes over the Mushroom Kingdom and corrupts it into a lava world as a means of raising the stakes. Lastly, I think basing a prospective third movie mostly around Galaxy would be a good call as well, given it has especially high stakes and a more mature and somber vibe.

Of course, the leaked storyboard kind of flies in the face of all that and might be suggesting they're unironically tapping into Super Mario Bros. 2, given it showed Mario and Luigi wearing hoods in a market that reminded me of Shy Guy Bazaar, and it even got a copyright takedown to boot, but it's ambiguous.

There are lots of obvious locales they could visit -

In the first movie we've seen the starter world/plains, lava/darklands, jungle (sort of) , ice (sort of), water (sort of), and airship (sort of). Sky, desert and star/special worlds are obvious ones we haven't seen yet. Or castle. or Cave/subworld or island/beach. And it would be fun if they grabbed giant world from smb3. I assume the movie will show off lots of things in one or more of those.

As for plot? Honestly don't know, but I would love some more lore after the teaser they gave us for Peach's background. And I also want them to to be on a boat at least once so the main Toad who is clearly Captain Toad can have a Captain reference.

It seems like Peach's background relates to Galaxy, but I can't imagine they would go fully to space yet in the second movie.

@FishyS Ooh a airship would be very interesting.
Space would be cool, I like space... (no kidding bud)