Easter Eggs And References You Missed In The Super Mario Bros. Movie

One of the most iconic parts of the mainline "Super Mario" games is the world map. It takes different forms in different installments, but the idea stays the same — a visual representation of the various lands, kingdoms, or galaxies Mario must traverse. The world map is fun because it showcases the diversity of the different areas in each game. There's almost always an ice world, a desert world, a jungle world, a sky world, and so on.

In "The Super Mario Bros. Movie," we get multiple instances of the world map. One appears in Peach's throne room, composed of voxels — 3D pixels used in certain retro-aesthetic video games. Another, more traditional map of the same kingdoms appears later in Donkey Kong's house.

Even though the movie doesn't spend a ton of time in every one of these areas, we do get glimpses of most of them. Mario, Peach, and Toad journey through several in a single montage, visiting the floating inverted pyramids of a desert land, the foggy cliffs of a sky kingdom, a grassy world with a "Super Mario 64" cannon, and even Yoshi's Island (which, as you might expect, is filled with Yoshis). Of course, the true capital-Y Yoshi is saved for the film's post-credits scene, which shows a green egg cracking in the New York City sewers. That scene could be read as an homage to the ending of 1998's "Godzilla," though that might be a bit of a stretch.