Nintendo Originally Planned to Include More Cameos in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Including a Character From Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Nintendo originally planned to include more cameos in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, including a character from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Freshly-discovered storyboards from the development of Nintendo's 2023 blockbuster show how an earlier version of its Peach and Bowser wedding sequence would have unfolded — with even more guests than seen in the final film. Visiting dignitaries such as Whomp King would have made an appearace, as well as Wart, Mouser, and Birdo — a trio that ultimately turned up in this year's The Super Mario Galaxy Movie instead. Of all the cut cameos, however, perhaps the most surprising is Rawk Hawk — who veteran Mario fans will remember from the GameCube classic Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Seems like more cameos were planned for the wedding scene for the first moviehttps://t.co/T6FalfJ7zc pic.twitter.com/pQvMlaX4MC Part man, part eagle, all wrestling champion, Rawk Hawk appeared as an antagonist in The Thousand-Year Door's memorable chapter set in a WWE-style fighting arena. And in an early draft of The Super Mario Movie, fans would have been given a proper glimpse at the papercraft character in 3D — something which sadly was left on the cut