>Power-ups just "exist" and let you do stuff
>they come out of floating ? blocks that are found everywhere
>what are ? blocks
>not important
I don't like how this was all presented.
>Power-ups just "exist" and let you do stuff. >they come out of floating ?
it doesn't matter as long as it makes sense within its own world
Also who pumps the batmobile's tires?
NO, THIS IS NOT THE SAME SITUATION.
This is an attempt to adapt and make sense of something that is is made less noticeable by the medium it originally came from (? blocks in a Mario game just hold things, this requires no introduction or explanation because it can easily be identified as a game mechanic).
Harold Allnut
He was a character introduced in the Silver Age
A deformed quasi-modo like tech genius that Bruce keeps chained inside the batcave creating gadgets for him in return for food and shelter
No he was introduced in the 80's....
Point is Bruce rapes him and in return he changes the wheels on the Batmobile
those are the rules of that place, they always have been
agree, this is a false comparison
the Batmobile is presented as a car in our universe and has all the requirements thereof, you can't have Batman saying shit like "I tracked the bad guy's movements through his ECU logs" and also "I drive a magic car that kind of just works bro"
It's not that different. The Batmobile is just Batman's car, so you can assume that either Alfred or Robin or whoever pumps the tires. If you can get a decent story out of explaining who pumps the tires, that's fine, but it doesn't ruin all the other stories that didn't explain who exactly pumps the tires.
I don't think it's the same. That's inconsequential, the blocks are interesting and could lend themselves to a lot of different storytelling avenues, feels sort of lazy to handwave such a neat and strange concept.
Why is movie Mario so cute?
>no monitors for Sonic to smash
>not even a reference
Disappointing.
Has any Sonic adaptation ever used the monitor forcefields? It's not like they were ever as iconic as any of Mario's powerups.
I do. Adaptations always tend to try too hard to explain, rationalize, or justify the weirdness of the source material, so it was nice to see one that just rolls with it.
in the original game, those blocks were Toads transformed by Bowser
So Mario murders Toads every time he punches a block
Sort of makes sense. When you get a mushroom that's like...the soul of the thing that was in the block.
It's a magical kingdom in an alternate universe, what more explanation does it need?
WHAT THE HELL IS A ? BLOCK? For whatever reason this is what plagues me the most.
It seems like people can put things into ? blocks deliberately (Bowser knows to find the Super Star inside the ? block at the start of the movie and Cranky puts several around his battle arena, more or less knowing some are helpful and some are not) so they're not necessarily mystery boxes.
>WHAT THE HELL IS A ? BLOCK?
natural lootboxes
Tsk tsk tsk anon, you don't seem to ha e done your homework, or else you'd know "?"Blocks are storaging devices manufactured in the Bean Bean kingdom there is even a research lab for them in the Woohoo university
>they produce them in SMB1 and SMW variants
GAWD, THE DEPTH.
what the hell is anything in mario universe? there's all kinds of abominations walking around and nothing would make sense in the real world. Stop being autistic you autist.
Why do people want "lore" in Mario? This insistence is so tedious and weird.
fun
Lore a bit of a double-edged sword. Done properly it can make your world seem more cohesive and alive, like with some of Tolkien's worldbuilding for Middle-Earth or Howard's for Conan. Middle-Earth in particular almost seems like a place you could visit.
On the other hand, you also get ridiculous Star Wars crap like Midichlorians, which sucks some of the mystery and wonder out of the universe and makes it more mundane.
You can also easily overdo lore and thus waste the audience's time with dumb irrelevant crap like Aragorn's tax policy.
>On the other hand, you also get ridiculous Star Wars crap like Midichlorians, which sucks some of the mystery and wonder out of the universe and makes it more mundane.
For me personally that wasn't a huge hangup. It doesn't change what the Force was to me, it just explains what the living world is in relation to it. Midichlorians are a conduit to an unexplainable mystic force that exists beyond the realm of the living. Those who ascend beyond the mortal plane who connect well enough with it get to see it for themselves.
you know how clams have sometimes pearls inside of them? It's the same thing
the 1993 movie was better
It's too cheap to even fully commit to the "Advanced dinosaur civilization" premise.
what, were you expecting jurassic park?
No, Jim Henson's Dinosaurs. The film we got can barely even get on Adventures in Dinosaur City or Theodore Rex's level.
Personally I would have liked them to be more unknown to the wider world. Like the citizens know they exist but they don't interact with them much.
Then Mario shows up and in a moment of desperation opens one and discovers they contain objects that can grant power. Something like that.
isn't that how the DIC cartoon also does it where powerups and coins are just in floating blacks and nobody questions it because that's how the world functions
Never watched it, honestly. Sowwy.
I bet you're one of those people who constantly makes "why didn't they just do [thing that renders the entire plot null and void before it even begins]?" threads over and over and over again. I bet you have to sort your Froot Loops by color before you can bring yourself to eat them. I bet you have an absolutely batshit insane meltdown when you see your peas and carrots touching.
isnt there a big fire flower field in the movie too? its not hard to imagine powerups occur naturally in the world and they're put in blocks because they're useful
>but why are they in the blocks? why jump to get them?
same reason the rest of the mushroom kingdom looks like it does, making everything an obstacle course is just how it works there
You must fricking hate Mario and all fantasy. Kys shit taste.