Super Mario Galaxy Movie Gives Away Big Cameo Days Before Release

With less than a week to go, big news regarding The Super Mario Galaxy Movie came out today. We weren’t sure if we should conceal spoilers ourselves, but why bother — it’s everywhere. We’re not sure why Universal, Illumination, Nintendo, or whoever is at fault would do this…but a major surprise cameo was just revealed, and it wasn’t due to a leak. It was a move by the marketing team itself.

A new poster was just released showing off another new character in the Mario universe: Fox McCloud. As in that guy, of StarFox fame…and a completely different Nintendo series. Ordinarily, the worlds of Mario and StarFox do not mix unless it’s a Smash Bros game. No one saw this coming and we would have preferred not to.

There were just five days before the release of this movie. Why not just wait the five days and let people discover this on their own? It would have made for a cool surprise, but nope, here’s the poster of Fox:

We did get a hint ahead of time: ROB is in the film. As in the Robot Operating Buddy that was sold with the NES on its US launch. ROB was later made into a canon character in the Star Fox series. His presence in certain screenshots would have stoked up salacious fan theories that would have kept interest until launch day, when surprise…it’s Fox.

I’m gonna be in the theater anyway, and no doubt a lot of other people who aren’t as Internet savvy (parents and kids, I anticipate) will give surprised reactions. ….I mean, I HOPE kids today know who Fox is; Nintendo hasn’t given them a reason to gain that knowledge lately. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie opens April 1.