Fox McCloud Blasts Into The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

Okay, this is actually pretty rad

What is wrong with you?
Stop spoiling the movie!

Spoiler warning, guys! There are people who want to see the movie.

For half a second there I thought a new Star Fox game was coming...

I do think this should be spoiler tagged, despite nintendo themselves being so open about it.

No idea why Nintendo have decided to announce this now though. Not like a cameo from this guy will attract anyone new to the film.

Do you guys want to spoil the movie any more? Come on now, this is getting silly at this point.

Yeah, Nintendo should not have spoiled this.

I wish they wouldn't have released this spoiler, but Star Fox would probably make a better movie than most Nintendo franchises.

We're complaining about "spoilers" over an image posted to an official social media account.

Get a grip, people.

So... Now we'll have NCU – Nintendo Cinematic Universe? Lol.

As much as I love Pikmin and Star Fox... I feel like a Mario movie needs to be a Mario movie, not general Nintendo fan service. I don't want to see Kirby and Pikachu in the Zelda movie, for example.
If you want to make a Nintendo universe Smash Bros crossover movie, then do that. But don't call it a Mario movie.

Sorry, probably overthinking this.

@Kiz3000 On the same page as you, can't see the point in revealing it now. If having Fox in the movie will get more bums on seats then why hasn't there been a new Star Fox game in the last 10 years?

Holy...... f***ing s**t.............. This is huge. This can potentially result in Super Smash Bros. movie down the road, and if it does, and it is good, they can take all my money

Thanks for the spoiler.

All for clicks I guess.

Are you going to give away the whole plot in detail on Wednesday then straight after you have seen it? Or have you not got your tickets yet?

I'm glad I'm able to watch it on the 1st in the morning.

Please, please, please, Nintendo, I beg you, give us a new Starfox game!

Well. At least the chances of a new Star Fox game are higher now I suppose.

I hope Mike West voices him.

@N00BiSH Or just a Star Fox movie.

Wonder if Samus' ship will fly past in a scene too.

If Nintendo freely posts this online, you guys can't seriously get upset with NintendoLife for posting it without spoilers. It's like getting upset with your friend who tells you what is in a movie trailer. It's not a spoiler if it's intentionally not kept secret.

@dazzleshell ugh, don't put the thought of an Illumination Star Fox movie in my head. I don't need to have a conniption in the morning.

@dazzleshell

I wondered the same thing (about Samus). That would be super rad if so!

I like how the Dragon Ball scouter is proyected this time, though.

With that said, I'm glad he doesn't look like he came out of Secret Life of Pets or Nick Wilde from Zootopia. However, I hope he has as little screen time as possible, I can accept R.O.B. and Pikmin being there because they have appeared in Mario games and in the latter's case it could be implied they traveled from the real world to the Mushroom Kingdom, but Fox?

Having said that, I hope his inclusion leads to more people knowing him (I know my best friend, her sister and her nephew will), which eventually leads to a new game.

WHAT EVEN IS THIS FILM

Everyone going "SPOILERS!" as if Nintendo didn't post about it themselves? It's legitimate news, NintendoLife is pretty much obligated to report on it.

Haha, that's a pretty convincing fake! Posted... by the... official account.......?

What?! 😯
What is he doing in the movie?

I thought a new Star fox game was finally announced.... hopefully this means a new game is coming.

Thanks for spoiling it.

You know, this makes sense. Why separate Nintendo characters into their own universes? Star Fox, Pikmin, Starfy, Kirby, and Mario can all exist in the same galaxy. Zelda and Metroid should be separate since they're more mature, but the cartoonish Nintendo characters should live together.

No, freaking way! But why spoil such a great Easter egg? But this really confirms that Illumination and Nintendo want to build a full Nintendo cinematic universe at this point. It seems quite likely that Star Fox will get his own film, or at least a short, eventually. Maybe even Pikmin as well, which would be neat.

I’m not counting out this is the accidental early release of an April Fools post…

Be the change you want to see. You had all the power and control to not post this spoiler… and then you did. And for what?

Wow why would you spoil this? I was already seriously deciding not using this site anymore and this "article" has made my decision for me.

EDIT: I see this was a Nintendo blunder (having Fox as key art on a poster) so no blame to this website) however I feel a warning would have been nice (not mandatory though since who can really determine what constitutes a spoiler when it is front and center in marketing). It's just when it comes to movies in particular it is sort of common for people to purposely not watch trailers or look at marketing leading up to it to avoid things like this.

I also stand by my statement this site has a quality issue as far as the writing and content goes, however that is less relative to this instance.

see now THIS is hype

Ugh, anything to not give the poor guy a proper new entry. The first Mario movie had an insane amount of references and was overall pretty good for what it was, but that novelty is gone for me with subsequent films. I'll give this a pass, but hopefully those that do watch it have a good time. New Star Fox, please Nintendo 😞

Nintendo with the Mario Galaxy movie is like when you plan a surprise party for someone, and you get really giddy about it, so you keep dropping hints to them about what the surprise could be, having them guess and guess until you eventually just tell them yourself and ruin the surprise.

Woooah, so that WAS fox in the corner of the trailer. Wowza.

A shame Nintendo (don’t blame NL, they are reporting official comms) let it out of the bag early. But it IS cool and makes sense considering the space theme.

I do wonder if this is Nintendo and illumination trying their dab hand at an MCU approach to drip feed multiple IPs existing in the same universe for future animated projects.

A Smash Bros style Avengers Movie event seems like it might not entirely be off the cards after all…

This would have been such an amazing reveal in the film. WHY NINTENDO?! WHY?!

Why do they ruin Hype with Spoilers?
Oh wait they are doing the "30mins of the gameplay so you dont have to play it" model that Nintendo seems to do nowadays

@AnnoyingFrenzy we are annoyed that Illumination is spoiling their own film, not that NL is reporting on it

This makes me wonder if the next 3D Mario is a crossover game. Like Bowser does something which causes all the Nintendo universes to merge and Mario has to journey across them in order to defeat Bowser.

This would have been awesome to experience without knowing. I don't know why they (not Nintendolife) want to spoil such surprises

Ok, the chances of a new Star Fox have risen exponentially now.

It's funny, I'm so used to Fox's design being so angular that seeing his edges softened and rounded makes this feel like the work of a very skilled 3D furry artist (endearing).

It's also kinda frustrating because if this movie really will have a similar runtime to the first one, there's not gonna be any time for ANYTHING, man! It's also a wonder what they could possibly be holding back when they're giving so much away up front?

Honestly, not sure I love Fox's design here. Despite all that game's flaws, I thought his look in the Star Fox Zero promotional art was pretty much perfect. Wish they had stuck to that.

I've never been a big fan of the on-rails arcade gameplay of Star Fox, but I've felt for a long time now like the characters would lend themselves very well to a movie adaptation. Hopefully, this is is a sign of things to come. A movie about anthropomorphic animals in space is seldom touched upon in kids media but has a lot of potential, I feel. Like Guardians of the Galaxy but targeting a younger audience (and the adults who grew up with it). I think such a movie coild succeed where the Ratchet and Clank movie failed and pave the way toward the future success of the Star Fox IP.

Such a self-serving post with no care whatsoever towards those that really don't appreciate such spoilers several days out from the release of the film. You could've titled it "Surprising new character revealed for SMG movie", but no, of course not.

I am now even more worried about this movie tbh. I just think there's going to be waaaaay too much packed in and nothing will have a chance to breathe. The first movie was guilty of this as well. This could've been saved for the third film imo.

@Grumblevolcano 🤞🤞

I've never been a big fan of Smash Bros, but I do love the massive crossover event style it's got going. To implement that with a 3D Mario game would be so much fun.

As if I wasn't going to see this movie. I can't wait!!!

In the words of Star Wolf, WHAT THE HECK!?

They had better keep Kirby out of this! His lore is too precious.

I intentionally have not read the article above, but the headline, the thumbnail are huge spoilers! C’mon, why would you do this NL??

I’ve avoided all the Mario Galaxy movie trailers because I’m trying to preserve some surprises when I go watch the actual movie. Must I avoid your top page as well?

Normally NL is careful to hide spoilers inside articles, not plaster them on the top page!

Edit: ah, I see, Nintendo and Illumination are the ones promoting/revealing. I have to focus my bewilderment at them. Sorry, NL!

I've managed to limit my exposure to official movie news, and appreciated previous vaguely-titled Nintendo Life articles. This headline felt like a spoiler. Sure, I may have found this out before watching the movie, but hoping a few genuine surprises will survive.

Fox McCloud, look at that vest and name Fox Mc/Cloud, MJ Fox,/Marty Mcfly from back to the future. I never put those together until now. I think it was the pose. I do not think MJ Fox will voice Fox, but you never know.

It's not a spoiler if put out by Nintendo. It's marketing.

Perhaps we'll be treated to something more than a cameo?

It's the sort of announcement where you just have to go, "Well, I'd rather find out through official routes than if some **** leaked it".

Time for a barrel roll, me thinks.

Could the next Mario movie be in the Smash Bros. style?

This is cool. Fox looks great. I can't wait to watch this. I do think this would have been better as a surprise though.

What happened to being surprised? This would have been so cool to see live, but now it's a disappointment because they ruined it by announcing it.

People saying this is a spoiler seem to be a bit unaware what the term means. They are clearly openly promoting he will be in the movie, that isn't a spoiler it's just an announcement. Chances are if you go and see it in the cinema he will be on the posters as you walk in so unless you plan on walking in blindfolded I can't imagine how you would miss this.

Star Fox is one of Miyamoto’s pet projects, that might have played a role.

Omg, ok. Look, if this is what it takes to get a new StarFox game, go for it.

@PtM All these Miyamoto-pandering things going on recently - wonder if he's about to make his own announcement ...

why is Nintendo actively spoiling the movie?

Trailers always spoil everything nowadays . SMH

This would have been an awesome surprise THANKS EVERYONE!

Those of you complaining, the official twitter account posted it.

You would've found out eventually.

Awesome to see! Does this mean a new Star Fox game is on the way?

@Dr_Corndog Not everyone goes on social media, or even avoid social media altogether to avoid spoilers like this.

They could very easily have handled this more tactfully here start nintendolife. Use a different, non-Fox image, use the title "New Surprise Character Announced for the Super Mario Galaxy Movie", and presto, spoiler avoided, while those who don't care can look at it anyway.

But nintendolife knows this brings in the clicks and I guess they're due for rent. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Not even kidding, I shouted "WHAT?!?" at the top of my lungs when I saw this.

.....sorry to my coworkers if I scared you.

People avoid social media for a reason! Spoiler tag, guys! WTF.

@MegaVel91 Implying everyone is on Twitter or social media in general. </sarcasm>

Not everyone doom scrolls, some people avoid the cesspool that is social media. News site should be better than this.

@Mando44646 because they know people are going to see this either way

It's a whole galaxy out there! Although it has to be said, we know so much about the movie at this point... It's going to be hard to be surprised any more once I go to the theatre...

Guys, they are absolutely building an NCU.

@Zenszulu it still sucks and it was dumb of them to announce it. It pretty much completely ruins the fact that he's in it.

Had to check the date for a sec, then remembered the film comes out on april fools ... wait, is it all a joke XD

This is absolutely AMAZING, WOW!! I was really shocked by this development, I'm so excited to see Fox McCloud on the big screen. Gives me hope for another Star Fox game one day!

Imagine if he isn't though and this is just a massive fake out to everyone seeing this on release day (April 1st).
Ngl, It's made me much more curious, but I'm still fairly sure this film is going to be a mess of empty calories.

Nintendo is setting up their own avengers movie with all their characters teaming up against a universal threat.

@sketchturner It’s a spoiler if it’s spoiling the movie for some.

Star Fox would be a pretty good fit for another animated film from Illumination, wouldn't be surprised if this is used to gauge interest for it.

“this is the first official non-Mario character appearing in the movie”

So Pikmin are Mario characters now?

This is going to be a horrible adaptation of the Galaxy games, isn't it

People complaning about Nintendo Life spoling the movie is a bit over the top?
The fact that Fox McCloud is in the movie is not a leak.
This is an official digital, possibly also physical, poster for the Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
This news will be all over the place.

@Kilroy You still would've found out eventually even if NintendoLife didn't spoiler or report on it. Don't be thick.

@PikaPhantom GEE, YA THINK?

@Yosher You know, it's one thing to have a grievance with what they decided to do.

Entirely another to imply desperation when you don't know anything about how they run as a publication. Good grief.

Come on guys, would it be so hard to put a spoiler free image and text on the home page? You're usually pretty good with that...

Starfox game for Switch 2 confirmed !!!!

I think the point is not whether the inclusion will get more people seeing the Mario movie, it's more about the appearance bringing a new audience to the Starfox franchise.

I am imagining some Itchy and Scratchy focus panels in my head: 'so little girl, what did you think of the fox in the gilet with the spaceship?'

@Dr_Corndog
I don't use or have social media

It's exciting if this is some kind of marketing technique for a future Starox Game announced this year, but Fox has nothing to do with Mario's Universe...nor Pikmins.
I dislike crossovers, it's always incoherent...
I don't want the just being publicities.
Yes, a Nintendo "MCU" without crossovers would be nice, for a lot of series, a new manner to expand Nintendo's universes and maybe giving more ideas for games, and attracting people to them, making some series survive despite disappearing cause they have small audiences.

@Damo
Absolutely not!

NintendoLife and Alanna constantly post spoilers in article headlines!

Some people don't follow movie studios or have social media, so we wouldn't even know about this stuff at all.

NL needs to do better with headlines and images, regardless of where the news, spoilers, or rumors come from.

Some people also go out of the way to avoid seeing spoilers.

@premko1

Yep, Star Fox Zero switch 2 edition... Haha

Let's just get to the ending at this rate.

All characters are chill for a moment, then, off in the distance is a bright light and flash.

...Kirby lands in front of them gasping for breath. He's holding some object...

It has the Smash Bros. emblem...

Cut to black and the a sinister laugh.

April Fools joke. I’m calling it.

@Teksette

NintendoLife NEVER hides anything that could be a spoiler!

@MegaVel91 It's called a joke. Believe it or not I'm capable of making those sometimes.

...even if it apparently didn't hit the funny bone of the good people of Nintendolife since that comment got removed. They're the ones spoiling people but somehow I'm the bad guy lol.

Edit: wait I made a third post before but I forgot what it was and now I see the post I thought you were referring to is still up and I'm confused as heck now, I don't know what my third post said.

@Spider-Kev singling out writers and harassing them isn't the solution to your problem.

@Bunkerneath
No, I'm annoyed at NintendoLife.

I don't have social media, I don't watch trailers.

Many other people also, apparently don't.

@N00BiSH
I'm not harassing anyone.

@RiasGremory you mean Sega, right? Wink. Wink. 😉

@Spider-Kev the fact that you directly replied to one of the writers to complain to them and called out the writer of this article by name seems contrary to that claim

Ya know that’s something they should have left for fans to find out about in the movie.
Nintendo foul for spoiling this

@PikaPhantom a horrible Galaxy movie or maybe, a potential set up towards a Super Smash Bros movie

This basically confirms the Nintendo Cinematic Universe or the Miyamoto Verse if we wanna get technical.

@N00BiSH

That is not what harassment means!

@Damo again, many people don't have social media, many more actively avoid marketing, many avoid trailers.

Posters are not always out for movies, nor do people study them.

I don't understand why you can't just say, "Hey, sorry, we'll do better from now on."

Most of the comments here are upset with NL right now!

You even got two saying they won't come back. Way to lose revenue!

Fox is becoming for Nintendo what NiGHTs is to Sega,cameos and guest appeareances,but no new game.

@Damo He should go on that movie theater's review page and raise hell!

alright y'all, I hope you're pulling legs on the "spoiler" thing...this is literally a movie poster. They hang these in the hallway of movie theaters. You wouldn't walk through the theater and say "that poster is spoiling the movie!"

calm down.

Nintendo Cinematic Universe? 🤢

Also, the comments section? 🤢

There may be a "Fox McCloud will return in Star Fox: Lylat Wars" screen during the Mario Galaxy Movie credits. It's also pretty much certain that there will be a Super Smash Bros. movie by 2030.

I hope General Scales from Star Fox Adventures is featured in the Mario Galaxy Movie, as he'd be a good fit alongside the Koopas and Wart. Fingers crossed that we get a Star Fox movie as good as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Don't people want to be surprised anymore while watching the movie? There's been too much information given on this movie already.

STAR FOX BEING ACKNOWLEDGED IN BIG 2026 IS SOMETHING I NEVER EXCEPTED TO HAPPEN

THIS BETTER MEAN A NEW GAME IS IN THE WORKS
Love the Star Fox 64 game is one of my favorite games in the series and one of my favorite games in the N64 library

@Teksette you will literally see star fox on a poster when you walk into the theater

ohmygoodness ! this is aawweessoommee !! 🥳

What exactly is the Mario Galaxy movie about, at this point?

@Spider-Kev you're acting like this is some radically controversial act when all they're just doing is relaying information that was already available - something they've been for this film since it was announced.

And if you didn't want to be spoiled so badly then why are you here on this site to begin with. This is a problem that's actually pretty easy to solve but you'd rather be doing this instead. Spoilers, it's not helping and you're not happier for doing so.

@N00BiSH
I'm here for Nintendo GAME news on release dates or titles coming to systems.

That's pretty cool. I like the notion that Starfox and Mario exist in the same universe.

@Spider-Kev You can bookmark these nifty Switch-focused pages, avoid movie news, and live happily ever after.

https://www.nintendolife.com/nintendo-switch-2

https://www.nintendolife.com/nintendo-switch

Are those the monkeys that spit watermelon seeds in Yoshi's Island? Or Kiki the monkey from the Eastern swamplands in A Link to the Past?

As someone who didn't grow up playing Star Fox games: okay.

Okay. I am upset with both Nintendo and NintendoLife.

It is not a spoiler since Nintendo revealed it, but it feels like a spoiler because it’s one week away from release. It’s the equivalent of early-screen viewers spoiling others online by posting “OMG METAL SONIC AND AMY SHOW UP IN SONIC 3” everywhere just days before the movie release, except Nintendo did it first, as if they wanted to get ahead of anyone looking to spoil it.

I am also upset with NintendoLife because I don’t have twitter or reddit, and if not for this article, I wouldn’t have known Fox was going to appear in Galaxy. You know this movie comes out in 6 days. You knew that a reveal like this would be a sizable deal to your NL readers. You could have easily created a spoiler free title with the captain falcon challenger approaching thumbnail. We know you’re just doing your job as a reporter, but think about how your readers will react too, yeah? Thinking about them goes a long way.

He's got a cool vest on

You have got to be kidding me. They're doing a shared universe and Fox Mccloud is involved

Why is everything spoiled and revealed ahead of time nowadays? Genuinely zero surprises anymore. 😢 😢

@MegaVel91 Likewise. I successfully avoided damn near all Metroid Dread spoilers, all Metroid Prime 4 spoilers, all Tears of the Kingdom spoilers because I avoided social media. It's not hard to not see spoilers unless someone completely disregards courtesy like Alana did with this article. NintendoLife has protected spoilers in the past by making you click the article, btw, so I had no reason to think I wasn't safe here.

Stop making excuses.

@Game_n_Watch_it_pal This is a really good idea. Thanks.

@Spider-Kev Do you normally walk into the cinema wearing blinkers just in case the official posters give something away?

@Aki77 You know that you can just not look at the posters, right? Lol.

I'm not surprised that this spoiler was released as there are almost never any real surprises in movies anymore. They do this to drum up hype, but wind up taking half the fun out of seeing the movie. This really should have been kept a secret, because the pop from fans when they saw the movie would have been tremendous.

@Scposteel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATcaQYh0wPU

Then this would happen

I'm shocked they've announced this before people got to watch it, but as I said before the last Direcr, they've been posting waaaay too much in terms of footage so I'm not actually that surprised. They're very loose with what they're giving away, I will be surprised if there's anything big we don't already know about. Which imo is a bad thing. This movie won't score well with critics so needs fan appraisal...if we already know most of it's secrets and have seen much of the scenes already, well...

Those saying NL shouldn't have posted this without a spoiler, sorry to burst your balloon but within minutes of the Nintendo reveal I saw it reported by about 3 other accounts so many more by now. You absolutely won't be able to escape learning this reveal unless you don't use social media of any sort.

I just hope this means they're going to bring back Star Fox games, finally. But also it could be preparing us for possible Star Fox animated movie/series? More likely though, this is soft-launching a Smash Bros movie down the line. Because let's be honest, how many more Mario stories can they actually adapt onto screen without it getting a bit...meh? They've already jumped right into space for a Galaxy movie. Where do they go from here? Smash Bros, that's where.

@Baker1000 "unless you don't use social media of any sort."
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2026/03/fox-mccloud-blasts-into-the-super-mario-galaxy-movie#comment9087457

My comment above, this was exactly what I was thinking. News sites are NOT social media and this is where the problem lies. People should be able to feel safe at a site that has historically protected spoilers before.

@Kilroy The posters that are likely to be absolutely everywhere when you walk into the cinema?
I'm genuinely interested in how you avoid looking at them, do you just look at the floor until you get past the foyer, escalators etc.?

@Aki77 Uh, yes. Or my phone if I want to look like an oblivious idiot walking. Either way, I'm not looking around me. If I'm walking straight, I can look straight ahead and won't need to look around. It is not hard to do.

@Aki77

I very rarely go to the theater anymore.
My home theater is better than the two closest ones.

When I do go, I don't look at the posters, I wait about 5-10 minutes before even entering the screening as I don't want to watch the trailers.

@YoshiTails Quit screwin' around, Fox!

@Kilroy It's probably not, just seems a bit weird to me.

It's all a little TOO big of a spoiler to be revealed this widely.

I'm on-guard for April 1st shenanigans, but thrilled if this is true.

@Spider-Kev Fair enough, each to their own.

@HatesCheese
Yes glancing at the comments, I see NL’s not to blame here. The movie’s marketing team just threw the news right out there and revealed all.

I wonder what other surprises the Bros. will encounter in space?

It’s probably way too much to hope for a new Star Fox game now. 🙏🏻

And at the end Mario is just playing Starfox, since in the first movie he had the Airwing of it in its room. ^^

Still not amused. -.-*

"A new foe has appeared! ... in the Mario Galaxy movie."

would have been a more likely headline than mentioning and showing the character.

Guess this is as close as we get to an actual Star Fox movie for now.

There's obvious reasons for Nintendo/Illumination to want people to know about Fox before seeing the movie. If anyone expects it to be a faithful Mario Galaxy adaptation, this dispels that. And now when wider Nintendo characters show up in the Mario universe, you're not bewildered. It could be a confusing moment for some, as Fox is not as popular as most Mario characters.

But beyond that, the broadening of what people consider "spoilers" is getting ridiculous. How is your engagement with a piece of media so shallow that the mere presence of a character ruins the whole thing? Is basic surprise all you're getting out of the experience? We know nothing about how Fox ties into the story, what he says, how he acts, etc.

@Kilroy 😆

@Spider-Kev can you share your post with the same drama when Rosalina was officially revealed, on this site?
And since you supposedly avoid all movie news you never watch the Nintendo Direct for Mario Galaxy?

Calling it: slippy is revealed as a nephew of Wart. Film revolves around him being in trouble and Fox enlists Mario to help. Two hours of chasing after him.

All of the other stuff (Rosalina, Bowser Jr etc.) is just distractions and what’s in the trailers is all there is.

Screenplay analysis says 90% of the lines are “Fox! Get this guy off me”.

Oscar is in the bag.

@Yosher But it's not just some rando on Twitter; it's the official Mario Galaxy Movie account. @Damo made a great point: complaining about this is almost as silly as complaining about the what appears on the poster at the theater.

@Aki77 Of course people don't look at the posters! What were you even thinking?

Sarcasm out of the way now, the direction this conversation has gone makes it clear that continuing to follow it would be a very, very poor use of my time. Cheers.

And to the others, touch some grass. Please.

As someone who grew up obsessed with Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2 back in the day, I would LOVE Nintendo to finally make a Star Fox Battlefront, and utilize some of that TOTK engineering for seamless field to sky or even space battles! If a wild appearance like this somehow helps build just a small amount of momentum for the franchise, then I'm all for it!

@hcfwesker
As it is a galaxy based movie, the assumption was that she'd be in it.

No, I did not watch the direct.

In fact, I stopped watching the directs, I only check the game title reveals after they are over.

I will participate in the pre-direct discussion though. I enjoy the banter with other members and making wild guesses with others!

It's definitely a spoiler. Stuff can be in marketing material, and still be a spoiler. It's why a lot of people don't watch trailers anymore. It can still be a spoiler if it's on some poster too, although I can't say I'm familiar with that as my local movie theatre doesn't put posters up.

The movie critic in me doesn't really like Mario movies being a shared nintendo universe beyond DK, Wario and Yoshi, leading to a Avengers/Justice League esk Smash Brothers movie. But the Star Fox fan in me is just glad the Pilots are getting acknowledged, and hope full that more will be done with them on this movies .success

So what you're saying is that Nintendo will drop Star Fox Assault on NSO to promote the movie. Sounds good to me!

Wasn’t this speculated about a couple of weeks ago? Someone posted or pointed out a character in a photo that looked like Fox from behind. Maybe it wasn’t NL. Anyways, glad to hear it’s confirmed.

What even is this movie? Every time I hear something about it there's a new character. How are they even going to fit it in unless it's a 3 hour epic.

Okay, I am as opposed to undesired spoilers as anyone ( I'm a Trails fan, it comes with the territory ).

This? Not a spoiler, preciously because it was revealed in the official marketing material. Maybe you can argue it should have been treated as a spoiler by Nintendo. . . but that's an argument to have with Nintendo. Once they stuck the guy on officially released promotional material, he is public knowledge expected to be part of the discourse. It is not reasonable to demand that journalists not-cover public material like that.

"I want to know nothing about a movie other than that it exists" is a valid personal choice, but its also so far beyond the norm that the burden really does lay purely on you for maintaining it. If you wish to pursue such an extraordinary goal, than its up to you to take extraordinary effort. Not demand others rewrite their entire conception of things to facilitate it.

can't wait for the one-hour long scene where everyone from every different game series team up with Mario and friends to defeat Bowser! /j

@metaphysician Well stated. Name checks out.

The Nintendo Movie.

Since you're all busy arguing, you probably didn't see Takaya Imamura's reaction (Google translated)

"I'm overwhelmed with emotion 😭😭😭
Thank you Miyamoto-san 😭😭"

There's really no surprise left in this movie is there?! They had Wart and Star fox and Pikmin....all ready to blow our minds and now what?!

Hate that I can't see it in it's first week because every second of this movie will be spoiled rotten because no one uses a spoiler warning! Including Nintendolife!!!

@Spider-Kev then this obviously isn't the site for you, "Nintendo Life" covers everything made by "Nintendo"

It's not Switch Life

@Teksette I'm glad you agree.

I'm definitely believing for a No Mans Sky style star fox game now 🙏🙏

@-wc-

Haha @ #181

@swoose Some people like to go into things blind or with very little information. Why is that so hard to accept? If I know the basic synopsis of a plot, my excitement and engagement with that story is going to be muted because I already have reservations about what's going to happen.

@-wc- tbf he looks more like a fox than Sonic does a hedgehog

I have three burning questions regarding this:

1. Will Fox be playing a significant role in the movie, or will it just be a cameo appearance?

2. Will we see other characters of the Star Fox franchise at large, such as Falco, Slippy, Peppy, General Pepper, Katt Monroe, Bill Grey, Miyu, Fay, Wolf, Leon, Pigma, Oikonny, Andross, and my personal favorite, Krystal?

3. Will this set the stage for Star Fox to be the next Nintendo franchise to make the leap from video games to cinema, especially if this Mario movie (plus that of the upcoming Legend of Zelda film) does well?

The sooner these questions are answered, the better for me. Star Fox is legit one of my Top 3 favorite Nintendo franchises of all time (along with Metroid and The Legend of Zelda), and I long for the day that Nintendo gives the franchise the love and attention it rightfully deserves.

I hope this means we get a new Star Fox game on switch 2 at some point!

Way too many cameos for what's supposed to be a Super Mario Galaxy me.

@-wc- thanks for teaching me a new term!

Also just wanna clarify that I don't necessarily disagree with you here - Fox definitely looks more off here than he does in the games but I attribute that to Illumination's questionable character design choices more than anything

Think we’ll get Shrek and Goku next?

Well that’s surprising. Also Fox looks really good.

@Dr_Corndog 100%

The real spoiler is when Peach kisses Luigi at the end and tells Mario to take a hike.
There's even a sign foreshadowing this earlier on that says Lupeachi is real. 🫠

I am incredibly disappointed to have this spoiled by you guys right before the release of the movie.

Shame on you.

My jaw dropped to the floor, as a Star Fox fan I hope this is a gateway to a NEW game that doesn't ride 64's coattails for the billionth time where it's doomed to fail. The Switch 1 & 2 are seriously overdue for a new Star Fox game.

While I wait for Star Fox Assault on Nintendo Classics, which was my first Star Fox game. I agree that there should've been a lid put on these constant Galaxy movie clip showings because then there will be no surprises left to uncover.

@Dr_Corndog It really doesn't matter who posted it on Twitter, not everyone has social media accounts, and some who do deliberately avoid social media to avoid spoilers exactly like this. It's really a simple matter of common decency, if you ask me. I see zero reason to not simply handle this more tactfully, outside of making people mad and getting them to click on the article because they know people will complain about it.

Like I said before, they could very easily have made the title and image spoiler free and put the actual spoilers inside the article, and everything would have been fine and dandy. Just because Nintendo themselves throw around spoilers because they don't care does not mean news websites need to do the same.

@Kiz3000
<raises hand> ✋🏻

@Spider-Kev couldn’t agree more! Spoilt the surprise for me!

That's cute. Having never played any of the tradition Starfox-games, I mostly know him from Smash Brothers, Dinosaur Planet and cultural osmosis as a Nintendo-fan.

Honestly I was more delighted to see the monkeys from Yoshis Island there, but I'm happy for the people who are amped by this cross-franchise reveal (even if it should probably have been kept hidden/marked as a spoiler by everyone from marketing to Nintendolife)

Massive spoiler! C’mon NintendoLife, be more considerate with sharing these things!

WHAT THE FLIP

You guys let your audience down. Why would you spoil this for us?

Actually pissed off.

Now there's a turn up for the books...

Hhhmm. I don't know, so I love a little Easter Egg cameo. Having the Pikmin statue in the first film was great! Have a shot in this one where an Arwing flies past or is sat in a hangar or whatever, great! But smashing them all together (no pun intended) into the same universe where they interact as part of the story?...I don't know.

Smash Bros is awesome, I love it, but it's not canon for these characters and it has it's own narrative that makes it it's own separate entity again. I guess I need to wait and see, I'll admit, hypocritically I was excited for Pikmin, because they're often little background things that don't talk or engage. Fox feels like he'll be a lot more involved, especially as he's getting his own poster.

I guess I jsut don't want another multiverse where everything gets smashed together into one homogenised grey lump of consumerism.

When it comes to things that have been officially revealed, I've never understood how people get mad at something being spoiled for them, when they are commenting on a site that reports on the very subject they want to avoid!

@Ogbert Unfortunately that is probably exactly what will happen...

I’m just glad Nintendo still acknowledges that Star Fox exists. Maybe we’ll FINALLY get an actual and proper Star Fox game on Switch 2?

@Dr_Corndog exactly. This isn’t some random spoiler being dropped online. It’s official.

Ugh, fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine, I'll finally watch the first movie this weekend...

@progx And Star Fox fans would have been able to find out about it by clicking the article.

I don't see what the issue is with being more discreet about these things. I thought y'all liked OPTIONS. How about the option on whether you want to be spoiled or not.

@Yosher as the song went in The Simpsons "Treehouse Special" over 30 years ago, "Just don’t look, just don’t look." I believe that is an option too, right?

The world doesn’t revolve you my friend.

@progx Did I say the world revolves around me? There are plenty of others who did not want to be spoiled but still got spoiled because websites like nintendolife decided to share the news like this. If I was the only one I would have sucked it up.

And again I do not see the issue with being more discreet and giving people the option. I truly thought options were a good thing. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Can’t wait for new star fox game this summer

@Kilroy lol ok sucks for you I guess. It's being reported absolutely everywhere, the voice actor has been confirmed so you'd see his name associated with the movie popping up places too. There's absolutely no way to avoid this unless you live under a rock for the next week. I wish they hadn't revealed it, especially in the lowkey way they did, but they have. And unfortunately when an official source makes an announcement, it's no longer considered taboo to report it openly like it would be if it was just a rumour or a leak.

@Spider-Kev Why not ? When done right ( no dualscreen nonsence ) it can be a very good game . And now , when Nate " confirmed " new Starfox game everything is possible .

@Baker1000 I'm repeating myself, but NintendoLife in the past has protected spoilers by making people click on the article to see what the reveal is. If I knew there was a good chance I'd be spoiled by something here, on a news site that isn't social media, I wouldn't be coming here until after the coast is clear.

GoNintendo used to protect spoilers as well. I don't know if they still do because I don't go there anymore, their redesign was a severe downgrade from how the site used to work and report things.

Like I said, I avoid social media to avoid inconsiderate things like this. Considering the comments are fairly split 50/50 on who cares and who doesn't, it's pretty clear what the right choice should have been since those who don't care didn't have anything ruined for them.

Really, this just goes to show how selfish and greedy people are (comment section being selfish, NL being greedy). But greed has its consequences.

@-wc- "I might not care this time, but this isn't the first time this has happened, by a long shot."

Do share. People complaining are just gluttons for punishment, I guess?

Loving it! Seeing Fox actually makes me want to see the movie even more!

Now that we know from VGC that a new Star Fox game is coming, I'm even more excited!

Please I hope this means at least the slightest possiblity of something big for the Star Fox franchise soon...
Ratchet and Clank recieved a midly-recieved film in 2016, but then came a much, much better recieved full-bound retelling of the first game for the PS4, which essentially served as a reboot for the franchise. Hmm?

I've been off Nintendo Life since this spoiler, just linking back to this page out of interest with the spoiler debate. Would just like to add I have seen nothing else about this anywhere. The news isn't everywhere at all if you're not looking for it.

Getting to the cinema and seeing a poster would be part of the experience and anticipation. This article was absolutely a spoiler, unfair because previous similar articles were presented carefully. If you don't care or don't think it was a spoiler, fair enough, but to me and some others, it clearly was.

I value Nintendo Life and will no doubt return after seeing this movie. I trust that after some reflection, there will be recognition that on this occasion, the spoiler line was crossed.

@Damo I went to see a movie yesterday and saw just one poster for it. This isn’t the defence you think it is.

@Thomystic Yoshi’s Island.

@hcfwesker What, Rosalina from the Mario Galaxy games is in the Mario Galaxy movie?
You’re not being slick.

@AstroTheGamosian Fox’ leg has been identified in a scene with the Mario bunch.

This kind of spoiler post on the front page, in the rss-feed, without any option to avoid it, is why I have unsubscribe d to SO many websites and never gone back. In my book, Nintendolife is now on thin ice.

Thanks for spilling what would have been a cool moment. I dont follow the official Nintendo social accounts, so this is on you. Im so deeply and incredibly disappointed that you felt the need to spoil it for so many fans who wanted to go and see the movie. Really, truly shame on you.