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That would be amazing

That would be so good

My thoughts exactly

Maybe he will throw his own shell

I imagine the puppet bouncing up and down and panting

**Muppety Flailing**

A possessed mop

@@char5285 what's a puppet?

Me too

Was wondering why he was acting like this was news, I guess he didn't watch any analysis videos lol

lmao yeah. went back to check after this video and I remembered correctly. Not really new information here

I said the same thing XD

Yep, also Spiny shells tend to be smooth in between the spikes, whereas the blue shell from Mario kart is segmented.

He does have wings though.

Add him to the games.

disagree, I believe because of the smugness he will be hated

The Spiney Koopa will end up as popular as Boba Fett calling it.

He will be in the next game also.

@@gooburt everybody in first place will hate him

That's why I hate that Nintendo insists that it's called a Spiny Shell. Yeah, it's a shell with spines, but it's not the shell of a Spiny. Plus, everyone calls it the Blue Shell, it just makes sense given how the other two shells are called Red Shell and Green Shell. Spines aren't even its most distinguishing feature; loads of other shells have spines - all of the koopalings, Boom-Boom (sometimes), Bowser - whereas the only other blue shell was a powerup that only appeared in one game 17 years ago. It's just stupid.

@@alfo2804 I mean as a Mario fan and kinda loreist I think I understood Spiny Shells as just spiny Koopa Shells, especially when Spinies the species have kinda spherical like structures rather than ovalish, IMO - I do agree maybe making it just Blue Shell removes confusion, although it does beg the question why SMW's Blue Koopa Troopas have no spines on their Blue Shells hehe.

Well Blue Shelled Koopas are not new. They Exist since Super Mario World. They are rare but they are Enemies. What is new about that Guy is that he is a Blue Spiny Shelled Koopa.

@@lookslikenik6931 that is what I was thinking. It is also the one shell that gives all Yoshis the ability to fly

furblox50- "...lore." *MatPat has entered the chat!*

you mean 10 minute and 1 second video duh

Oh you don't give the theory people enough credit they can make 30+min videos on a single pixel lol Unless you mean only arlo can make a 10min and 1sec video on spiny shell lore and it be entertaining. Then I'll give you that lol

The item's official name is "The Blue Spiny Shell" and spinys are just the enemies that Lakitu throws, and the reason they're blue in Mario Kart is just to differentiate them from the Red Shell. It couldn't be yellow because it could be confused with gold, and purple usually means poison, so that'd probably be confusing as well, so assuming they wanted to diverge from the Red Shell, Blue is the only color they could've gone for. (Spinys never had wings tho!) Yeah, and the Spiny Shell didn't either, that's something that was added after the fact in later games, along with the Koopa stripes, but the original design was smooth and narrow, as opposed the bulkier and stripped Koopa Shell. They can obviously just change whatever they want and say that the shell now belongs to this koopa, but back when Mario Kart 64 released, this was "The Spiny Shell" and Spinys are established enemies in the Mario Lore. So there's that.

Remember when he made a 10 minute video on Mario eating a watermelon? 😂

Maybe that's why Chris Pratt said something about "stomping koopas".

Hearing about a spiky koopa just makes me wish we got the Koopatrols from Paper Mario

✨evolution✨

Koopatrol: 😔

I mean isn't that what a spiny is to fair. Bowser too I guess. They're all types of koopa

The Poster is really good!

Also the captains from Mario and Luigi remake side modes are cool

i hope a lot of iconic bosses show up in this movie

Weird call: I think we're getting a Wart cameo.

@Matthew Pimentel I’d be down for a Wart cameo, would be pretty fun to see

You're naive if you think they'll include anything from the RPGs

You were right

Or Donkey Kong :/

@@cornjeebus oof

The movie isn’t canon to the games so probably not

I kinda hope we see Thwomps and/or Whomps.

@@RomanSimkins in a way, Miyamoto being as involved as he is means this is likely the closest thing to an actual canon we will ever get for Mario.

just like how lumalee was important enough to be in mcdonalds

Yea

I feel like we kinda already are entering the marketing phase. I mean, McDonald's is already doing Mario Movie toys

The movie's likely done, usually animated films are finished far before release compared to games.

@@Hero_of_Storms actually I believe that's just because the movie was supposed to come out December. You can delay a movie but you just can't delay the mcdonalds toys lol

That wasn’t a fake Bowser, that was just another member of Bowser’s species.

that was Bowser's brother. and the shell woulda been huge, just like Bowsers is. so i would have to throw that theory out

I hope they at least make a tiny nod to Bruce within the movie, even if it's for like 1 frame

@@bionicseaserpent That wasn’t Bowser’s brother.

@@RomanSimkins some manuals state is is

But the blue spiny shell had exisyed 13 years before Ludwig's shell was made blue in NSMBWii. Before then, he (and all the other koopalings) had green shells just like Bowser. Not to mention, his modern shell still doesn't even match the spiny blue shell from Mario Kart, as his has orange rings at the base of his spikes, but the blue spiny shell doesn't.

@@LordLemmysLabs Not exactly true, Koopalings had different colored shells in SMB3 and SMW. In SMB3 and SMW, Ludwig had a teal and yellow shell respectively. However, Iggy actually had a blue shell in both SMB3 and SMW. So, maybe it would be more accurate to have said back then I thought it was Iggy's shell. The point being, the blue shell was a Koopaling shell all along, hence its rarity and power. But Nintendo kinda forgot about the Koopalings in the N64 and GCN days anyway, so it was always a long shot. Hence, just my headcanon.

koopalings have smooth shells between their spikes, unlike every other type of koopa

@@chaoticcranium that's due to the limited color palettes a sprite could have with the hardware limitations and should not be considered canonical, the official artwork had always depicted all the Koopalings with green shells during that period.

but then comes the question: How are they going to replace Private Goomp and Sergeant Guy?

@@cav33ra Not sure about "replace", but I reckon that a Goomba or Snifit of similar attire might show up.

@@Mac14329 I wish it was actually the Elite Trio, or even the Koopa Bros. But I think it's worth it

@@cav33ra Not sure about "actually". I think it might be the movie-equivalent to it.

@@Mac14329 man, I think the Koopa Bros have a great chance of appearing! Like, it's Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, they kind of love throwing references to forgotten characters.

They r just toys

Super Smash Bros would be the only way to have a fully connected Nintendo universe

Ah, yes; a post-credits scene where a giant floating right hand appears before Mario and tells him that he wishes to discuss the "Smash Bros. Initiative". Then the next Nintendo movie is a Zelda movie with anime graphics, then a Metroid movie, then a sequel to Detective Pikachu that ties into the Smash Bros. Cinematic Universe, and, finally, a mixed-animation Smash Bros. movie.

@@matthewmuir8884 There’s definitely talk about potentially doing a shared universe behind the scenes.

Smash Bros. isn’t canon

Imagine having a story so deep as Mystery Dungeon in Paper Mario. Arlo wouldn't complain.

@@ivanzoneBR I mean Super Paper Mario's is pretty "deep" although I haven't known much of PMD stories to compare.

@@zjzr08 Not wanna ruin PMD to you, but basically... ...in almost every game, there is a sad scene in the end, when the player leaves the pokemon world. I genuinely dont know what is more emotional, a couple that spend hundreds of years separated, finding again love but having to vanish from the world in order to save it or you, the player is the one gone from the world of Pokemon, leaving plenty of friends behind. What do you think?

Haha. I did the exact same thing.

No, that’s Foreman Spike from Wrecking Crew. Most likely, he will appear in Brooklyn in the intro before Mario and Luigi get sent to the Mushroom Kingdom.

@@PowerGem3000 I don't know anymore. Thats what I thought originally, and then... the movie poster came out.

@@Houndlock643 go watch the cast reveal trailer again. The symbol they use for Spike is clearly Foreman Spike from Wrecking Crew.

Yeah people needs to get over it already.

@@SpidermanFanatic4293 it's not bad. It's just.... Meh I love Chris Pratt as Star Lord, but he's simply not a great mario.

Oh give me break.

Why does everyone hate Chris Pratt?

Chris Pratt in my opinion is a good Mario his Brooklyn accent is awesome.

I want him to appear in the next Bowser course based Mario Kart Tour campaign to be launched after the movie. No one will spend the more generous amount of in-game currency each Tour gives players on Karts and Gliders over player characters in that hypothetical Tour, that’s for sure.

The movie isn’t canon sooooooo

@@RomanSimkins _Sooooooooo_ what!? Tour has included so many alternate costumes and weird out of place looking things like 16-bit kart racers, that including simplified movie models as alternate racers like “Movie Mario” or “Movie Peach” wouldn’t feel at all out of place. There are already rumors Nintendo is going to include *just that* in future Tours to cross-promote the movie, so why not introduce this Spiny Blue Koopa Commander or Seeker?

@@Popcultureguy3000 All I said was that it probably won’t happen.

@@RomanSimkins You didn’t say anything of the sort, you said the movie isn’t canon like that mattered for a mobile game that’s already cross-promoted other Mario games.

If that’s the cause then we have two different characters named spike on top of the species named spike

Isn't he playing Forman Spike, Mario's boss?

@@mr.exposition He is. That was already confirmed.

No...

@@mr.exposition I thought that was just speculation.

Illumination is about to make BANK with this movie bro. I’m gonna be watching this in theatres 3 times!

@@artagle_14 Oh, without a doubt!

The movie isn’t canon to the games, period.

@@RomanSimkins there's no game canon

@@RomanSimkins Nobody said it was dude.

@@Mqstodon There is a game canon, it’s pretty easy to see.

@@goldenninja9053 “conformation on where the “blue shell” comes from”

... Mortal Kombat?

@@timhaldane7588 Mario Kart.

@@megarayquaza2240 that would make more sense wouldn't it? 🤣

None of these things are "retcons" of eachother, they are just separate canons

Thank you, it annoyed me that Arlo forgot about the first trailer, didn't even watch this full vid just scanned ahead and noticed no footage.

Bowser doesn’t really have a family, just a son.

@@RomanSimkins the Koopalings may not be his biological children, but they share more of a resemblance to him than any other Koopa.

@@BBWahoo ?

It’s weird how Arlo never mentioned the fact that super Mario world has way more corporate variations for koopas. I guess it’s a generation thing and he’s a n64 kid.

@@RomanSimkins I assume they’re referring to the Koopas in SMW that had a flashing shell, where it would alternate between colors and home in on Mario. Also, unrelated, but I just discovered that Dry Bones in the baseball spin-off games has a spiny variant, making this the closest we’ve seen of a regular Koopa with spikes. Since Dry Bones is an undead Koopa, does this imply that spiny Koopas are extinct? Something else to note is that Spiny Shells in Mario Kart 64 were smooth, whereas the Red/Green Shells had hexagonal grooves patterned onto them. This is interesting because Spinies, the actual enemy, are also depicted as having smooth shells. Maybe the original plan _was_ for the item to be from a Blue Spiny, instead of a Blue Koopa. Or maybe I’m just overlooking continuity in Mario of all things

Thought I included this in the original comment but I didn't, whoops! Fun little fact: Bowser was ALSO probably not born with a shell. There's a bunch of tiny little tidbits that lead us to this, but the main ones are that Bowser can buy/switch shells in RPG games, as if they're clothing. And Bowser shells are abundant & disposable in Mario Kart. Like for whatever reason there's just a bunch of full size Bowser shells that can be thrown and destroyed in Double Dash and Mario Kart Tour. Bowser Jr's shell even has less plates than Bowser, implying that when he gets older his old one will stop fitting him. Koopa shell lore is super surface-level but it's super cool at the same time! There are even non-Koopas that just wear shells for some reason. Conkdors wear shells, and Rocky Wrenches used to wear shells as well.

The movies aren’t canon though

I’ve seen you in so many places

He does it to gain control over the mushroom kingdom and to harness her power for himself. This was stated many times in the Mario Franchise , usually in the manuals for the games or by bowser or peach.

@@danielcalk955 In the original game Peach was the only person who had the power to reverse Bowser's "dark magic" which led to Bowser kidnapping her but it seems like most of that magic-y stuff has been abandoned/retconned since then.

@@danielcalk955 I think he was joking. I mean we've seen the moments of kidnapping ourselves like in sunshine and new super Mario bros

Is there even a Canon?

@@wogardrodriguez2671 Exactly. There is no canon and the Mario lore cam be whatever people want it to be. There's no defined timeline.

I'm pretty sure the movie is a seperate canon, just like how the Sonic movies are a seperate canon

@@jackflynn412 I don't know about timeline really but we just know that when games happen those adventures did occur like in Sunshine Fludd sees Mario's other adventures and in Luigi's mansion a character mentions that Mario ended Bowser plus King Boo hates Mario for messing the the boos and Luigi every time he beats him

Separate cannon. Mario games do have continuity but it's not the main focus so people don't think there is a story