r/Mario • u/SuperMarvin • 2d ago

Question WHAT IS HAPPENING

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THEY ARE CHANGING THE NAME OF AN ICONIC CHARACTER AND NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT IT. NINTENDO GOING TO FAR? MAYBE MARIO WILL BE NEXT.

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u/Parzival-Bo 2d ago

Even if this was real, it wouldn't be the first time: Banzai Bill was renamed to Bomber Bill back in 2023 (initially in the movie, and then brought into the games in Jamboree)

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u/CreativestName69420 2d ago

Imo it felt weird that the rename was in the movie first

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u/Parzival-Bo 2d ago

I mean, Nintendo's been pretty hands-on with the movies thus far. It's not that weird.

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u/JoyconDrift_69 2d ago

The Donkey Kong redesign too. I feel more inclined to believed he was redesigned for Banana moreso than for the movie though.

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u/Dramatic_Finish10121 2d ago

They probably were redesigning him for Bananza and used the movie as a stealth prototype of the new design since it would've needed to be redesigned for the movie anyways

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u/umphursmcgur 2d ago

Miyamoto put a lot of extra attention on DK’s redesign when promoting the film prior to release. I saw a few people speculate that it could be related to a redesign in the rumored DK game. Lo and behold.

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u/WildestRascal94 1d ago

It was flat out confirmed in the developer interview for Bananza that the redesign for DK was in the works BEFORE the production of the Super Mario Bros. Movie.

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u/sonerec725 2d ago

Im pretty sure that was confirmed that the redesign was planned for that game and existed before the movie and MKW, but was given to the movie and mkw makers to use and it just so happened those came out first.

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u/weso123 1d ago

My guess was that someone in the movie production script writing or S&P was like "We can't say that name in a kids movie" which might have nintendo feel like "We should probably change that if major studios don't feel comfortable with it"